Fishtails

Alrite, i say this come up OT on another thread and i've been trying and trying but i can't seem to get it going. Can it be done with a staff? has anyone tried or can anyone do it? Starting with a roll over the wrist, the staff keeps going when i try to do the fishtail. or am i starting wrong?

anyone have any idea? can anyone help me? AIIIEEEEE!!!

Heck

i was told that eating the fish was the way forwards... hehe.

fishy business thread

I should really practice them a bit more. hmmm.
siesta first methinks.

bulldozer posted some links to good videos a while back which i found good

http://www.interq.or.jp/mars/tom0503/taiikukan/adbyce/vtr/fish.rm

http://www.interq.or.jp/mars/tom0503/taiikukan/adbyce/vtr/r-fishtale.rm

heckler, you're in luck mate, there's a fishtail example taking up the entire video for a few moments in the COL 4 trailer!
yipeee!

btw i am still no progress on this Uber move!

Ali-bird doews perfect fishtails.

glass does great fishtails

simain can do fishtails

I cant, therefore logically, i am a fish.

Jon! if yer a fish, then are ya...
this big?
:stretches palms an arbirary distance away:

Yes.

Yes i am indeed.

oh dear, you should have it looked at.
underwater.

yo, dats my hand, and its not the best example of a fishtail, but will do to get the idea, thease are just mental torture, but get going on them now anf next year you might have it.

T

a year?! i could be old by then!!
:worries:

Yes!!! I can do fishtales, and lots of them in row. The size of your staff really matters when you do them, the shorter the staff, the more the fishtales. I can not do fishtales with a staff longer than 4 ft!! Depending on how good I've got it going I can do 10-20 fishtales. The movement of the hand during a fishtale (bare with me as I try to explain):
It is like doing a figure-eight, but instead of it being from side to side, it is in front of your body.
Pretend you are washing a window outside. Put your hand up against the window (kinda like you are motioning a "stop signal". Now rub the window back and forth from side to side in front of you (remember there is only a spot on the window you are trying to get off, you are not cleaning the whole window!) Now let your hand go into a figure eight motion to clean the spot really good. Now take your hand of the window and just do it in front of you. That is what it feels like doing them. Now the staff is placed over the back of the hand for this movement. Each time you sway your hand to the left, that staff end should feel like it dips down and up, then the same on the other end.

I WISH I COULD JUST SHOW YOU GUYS, IT WOULD BE SOOO MUCH EASIER!!!! THIS IS SO EASY TO DO!!!

If I had more time right now, I would explain more, but I have to go work. Later.

GOOD LUCK TRYING!!!

errm, shes right, but that now how id have described them,

oh and me and glass and steve (the latter two can *really* do fishtails) all do them with 5' staffs, so dont wory about length, Tennessa is too used to Batons I think

T

Ok I'Ive managed to get this backwards (a bit scruffy at the moment, I can get about 5 one after the other with my 5ft but hell it's just not happening forwards YET.


HELP NEEDED BEFORE I SCREAM

Bammy

Well I'll tell you what! we can do an exchange coz i can do them fowards just not back!

See ya laters!

ADs

You've got a date honey

Spank you

Bammy

Oooooo really? a date!

Does the spank come free or is that extra?

Ads xx

The first 's free but you'll have to pay after that young man

*Snuggles*

Bammy

Ok....... just let me know what payment you want.

Ads

well, i hear a big bunch of flowers gets you nowhere these days so i would imagine you'd do okay with bam's standard currency of just the smokable bits of certain plants...

I re-built my staff last night - putting the old metal ends onto a 4 foot Chinese Fighting staff (red oak) and I was so chuffed with the results I went strait out and did 5 fishtails in a row. Which is odd, because I can’t do them.

So even more so than the other stuff, I advise “forgetting you can’t do it”.