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Posted: 17th Mar 2003
It's hard to know your current echnique without a bit more of a description, but here is a few tips that may help.

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1. Use moves you are comfortable with. If you aren't already, simply bring down current moves so they move through your legs, rather than having a specific BTL (between the legs) path that may take a lot of time to feel natural.

2. Crouch your legs and bend your spine to put your hands (and then, ergo, your staff) lower down so you don't need ot lift your leg.

3. For sideways BTL, lift the leg closest to the side the staff is coming from (IE from your left lift your left leg). Whilew you are lifting your leg, it looks much more natural than raising the opposing leg. Also, try to have the staff's motion end up about waist height or higher.

Some people keep the staff down below the waist level, and this can sometimes look wierd (sometimes it looks great too!)

4. Experiment with holding the staff in different positions, not just in the middle. It's often easier to have the leading end (the end that goes through the legs first) longer than the following end when getting used to BTL moves.

5. Do as many different BTL moves as possible. Figure8 forwards, figure8 sideways left, figure8 sideways right, etc etc.

Make sure you have different starting position too, from behind, from in front, from the side, from up high from down low.

Try 'scooping' the staff in a wide circle like an airplane, rather than spinning it around it's own axis (like in a finger spin).

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As for what 'looks cool'...That's really for you to decide.

Perhaps it may be better to do what feels good first, rather than worrying about what others are thinking.

If you are doing staff soley to be 'cool', perhaps a rethink on your reasons for doing it might be worth pursuing.

Just my genenral comments, they are not directly aimed at you, but for anyone else who is also thinking along the same lines but hasn't posted it.

And, as always, it's all my own opinion, and doesn't count for much anyway

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Posted: 17th Mar 2003
ok you missunderstood why i said the whole cool thing...but not to matter
i meant that it just looks ridiculous...to me...he he he...but anyways
thanx a lot for the tips

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Posted: 19th Mar 2003
You should bare in mind that Charles is old and married and forgot long ago what's cool and what's not....


He's just happy with being fashionably short.

Meh

Posted: 18th Mar 2003
You just wait you young whippersnapper, I'll show you COOL...

You should see my incontinence bag, it's got a picture of Eminem on it!!!!

(shakes his liver spotted fist at C@ntus from the old folks home)

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Posted: 19th Mar 2003

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Originally posted by Charles (INFERNO):

(shakes his liver spotted fist at C@ntus from the old folks home) [/QB]

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lol

A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words...

Posted: 20th Mar 2003
so MickeyD, hows the practice going??

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