Simple Tricks

Maximus came up with a varient of one of my throws a while back that i really like.

Reverse fig 8 at your side. Stall just behind your shoulder. Drop. Catch with same hand (in a gunfighter stylee - is this making sense to any one?) BTB at approx waist height.

Good with doubles cos you can stagger it slightly and get a good bounce going.

Thanx Maximus for that one. Love it. Use it all the time.

nice, should be possible spinning i guess....

N

Speaking of contact staff, I just saw some sort of baton twirling competition on TSN. Sadly I do not posess the vocabulary or techical skills necesary to even begin to explain what they were doing, um think of Nix?'s clip in col3 on crack. And alot of it. 'twas insane (no offence Nix?, your clip is one of my favourites).

Now I just need to find a gymnastics school that'll just teach me how to spin, don't realy want to learn the gymnastics to go along with thier competitions though.

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Oops, not realy simple tricks

[ 13 October 2002, 08:54: Message edited by: Jaeden ]

hmmm... charles, can you try an explanation of what you mean by hold them more vertical?
it seems to me they;d fall..... i just must be confused.

i have a good one that's comparitivly simple (much easier in rev i just discovered!) basically, if it's in reverse yu are just doing a rev figure eight and turning ur waist but not your body to do a rev figure eight behind you. simple and kinda cool even with one, but the point is to do it with two, now taht's pretty, throw some actual turns in there too and it's so yummy, can only do it well with one tho, i'm always tripping up wit both, but then i have no skills wit doubles. it's a little weirder with fwds, but still easy enough.

yeah man, that baton stuff is incredible, Minero has built an entire spinning style on it, just looking for and XXL lycra bodysuit and he'll be sorted.

first time I saw it my eyes popped out on sticks, but im begging to figure some of it out, we have our own tricks specifically for firestaff, and I dont fancy doing the high school acro either.

have fun y'all

T

Charles!!!! *whimpers* Plz?

kyrian, senore inferno refers to palmspins that are diagonal to the vertical plane. kinda like off horizontal, and off vertical, but i find it cooler to call 'em vertical palmspins. Have the palm in the same direction as one were waving at the police whilst walking around with no pants.
yipes.

Sorry Kyrian, I'm flat out with performances and trying to deal with Ramahdan at the moment. (I never can spell those Arabic words).

Benders got it right, instead of holding the hand flat an dpalm facing upwards (walk like an Egyptian type thing), try tilting the fingers up so the palm is facing about 45 degrees instead.

The staff tends to push against the palm bit that is under the thumb and the bottom of the palm by the wrist, and it seems to be an easier way to get started.

Thanks Bender, for jumping in before me, not that I could undertsand much of your post

yayess!! thx u both. sorry to be buggig u charles hope u havin a good time and bender, ever te inspiration, good to here from ya again mate an many thx!

Peace & Love, Kyri

okay simple tricks, mine arent really serious though, i have dont them in front of crowds, its good for a laugh even if you are the only one laughing!! yeah, did you ever ride broom sticks around the house pretending they were horses? like in the holy grail? just place the fire stick between your legs and ride it around making clippit clop noises!! or jump around spinning and kicking in the same manner like your a rodeo rider, its good for a laugh!!! looks full random! another good one is to stand there and paddle like your in a boat and sing row row row your boat!!! yeah sorry i took your post off topic but i could not help it!!!

yap quite cool thread

could u tell me one more site where you can see more moves like this animated or in a video format ?
would be great

mfg | max