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Location: Galway/Ireland
*edit*
so i reckon this thread will hold a record of the new things and stuff im learning along the way, all input of any kind is welcome...
*edit*
*where was I? oh yeah here, The elbow, arm, arm elbow roll*
Its simple really, I cant do it.
I've seen some real nice clips of this move (Thankyou MCP/Glass) but I still seem to be missing somthing fundamental.
So I take the staff in my right hand, bring it accross my body under my extended left elbow and roll. extend left arm and let staff roll onto right arm. Bring staff back towards body on right arm
Now here is the problem, it just stops working there, I think i might be missing an extra beat/spin or something. Or it it could be the position of my wrist. Dont ask me what my wrist is doin, it goes all wonky in a natural reaction to the feeling of the staff falling off when i start bending my right arm on the way back in,
Any ideas?
If I can get this I'll move onto to trying to combine it with a shoulder rool and a turn to get it across my back and other shoulder.
I'm hoping to put up a clip soon, not of what i cant do but of what I can, after six months it's be cool to get some HOP feedback.
Love is the law.
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
Oh bugger!!
Grow old but never grow up
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Written by: ado-p
Yeah how do you think I felt? I had to see the belly hair every time he tried it...
Still it's a damn fine move.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
Written by: ado-p's for the girl with the hurty halo hoop.
it is not a stick molly
and there I was thinking it was just a stick trying to hug itself
silly molly
Mr Cat, you crazy
do you need illusion legs to illusion kick? Or just an illusion dog?
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
Written by: Fear-Tine
Nice work lava, sounds like there going to be something to see in edinburgh.
Thank ya, i try me best (not that brill but still :P)
i just wanna see every one else play, cuz i havent seen any real life good contact done b4....*wates till saturday till he gets to meet nate*
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Living it up
363 posts
Location: Brisbane/Berlin, Australia
Heya Blue
Written by: bluecat
i learnt the mostest badassest move yesterday.
That sounds disturbingly American. (not that there's anything wrong with that
)But
man! Sounds like a very *good* move indeed! Is the kick the kind where you make your whole body go in a vertical circle, bar the leg you are standing on? or is that something else?
:runs off to start strecthing for a couple months:
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
yeah it is...
Can I post what I've been working on? It's fun, and girly!
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
post away
ooo i learnt how to do halo turns yesterday from nate
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
ado-p for cripple you pulled of a sweet jesus the other night!!
Grow old but never grow up
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Thanks to Ben-Ja-Men's evil influence, I've been working on fishtails, dual and single.
Reverse fishtails: Is there any limit to the different hand positions you can do them in? Apparently not. You can do them on the back of your wrist, on the back of your hand, on the back of your fingers, on the underside of your wrist, on your palm. With your hand in a fist or fingers all splayed out. You can do them on the side of your hand, (Thumb side.) Or you can do them on the side of your hand underneath the thumb on the side of the first finger. Hmmm.
Dual fishtails: The obvious ones. Plus I discovered recently it's possible to do 1 beat butterfly weaves. And well since fishtails are just one beat, it must be possible to do a fishtail weave. Haven't found a good entry to it though. But practising in my room prohibits a lot of the obvious entrys. (Like out of dual reverse fishtails)
Doing 1 beat parralel spins then doing reverse fishtails in one hand and trying to keep them parralel is fun.
I did try continous halo rolls out of reverse butterfly figure of eights, but I need an extra beat before the halo somehow. I think this is why bluecats martials work.
Managed same direction continous doubles neck wraps, which was nice. Might try them with little throws.
With much enthusiam, starting doing a lot of funny 1 beat doubles patterns, where the staff moves around almost in contact with your body while doing one beats. I think this is what knoxious refers to as: Australian Style Girly Doubles. (But it's actually more dangerous cos they keep the fire really close and do it with matchsticks) It's good fun. And there seems to be a load of different patterns to explore. It's like nunchucks, but better.
While practising isolations, I discovered some things: Isolations are fun and [censored]. Sometimes it looks like the staffs are circuling each other, but I think it's an illusion created by keeping the staffs on opposite sides. It probably also perfectly possible to make the staffs circle each other. Each direction can be done with 4 hand positions. (Kunckles up / palm up etc. ) So eight variations in total. I've completely forgotten to practise palm up/ palm up. Oh well. Also, one staff can do a 1 beat while the other does a total isolation. Also keeping the staffs apart is well hard to isolate but would probably help with mo-seph idea of your body going through the isolation. Also it's only possible to do translations with knuckle up / palm up. I'm not sure if that's strickly true but it's a hell of a lot easier.
That's about it.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
im tha devil
maybe try 2 beat fishtails for your weave? i shall have to play with that tommorow. meeeeeeeg do a new video
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
no the weave is definately one beat. Well it's just having the two staffs close together and them not hitting.
Two beat for an entry? Or a two beat weave?
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
2 beat entry
are ur 1 beat butterfly weaves with fishtails?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
they're gonna be.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
mmmmmmm, see i still cant get bastard double fish!
meg your gonna have to teach me some stuff in ed.....please!!!!!!is this stuff gonna be up on your site?
ben you havent gone then????
oh any chance of a video of 2beat fish tails??????????
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
your reverse fishtails have to be totally solid.
I don't use the ben-ja-men looking at yourself technique, I use the bluecat looking at one stick then other other very quickly alternating technique. Soon I want to learn the looking forward through the move technique.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
ah that will be my problem, i suck at reverse, nate did show me how, so i am practicing, i should have em soon, does double foward tails work? cuz thats what im trying to get till i get reverse, seam to go paralell, which looks pretty, but every time i look at it, it messes up
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
meg u need to work on not looking at either and focusing on the whole movement then forgetting u are watching then closing your eyes, i got 5 beats with dual last friday with my eyes closed
feel the sticks grasshopper
lava yeah im hanging around waiting for my stupid experiment to finish le sigh
double forwards works but its stupidly hard, when u can do the move with one hand with your eyes closed thats when u have it solid enough to be able to get it with two imho
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
double fowards i get about 6beats out of(if im lucky and relaxed), and the body stuff for that is hard!!! but i do know where im going wrong with it, i just cant put it right....yet.
one had both sides with my eyes closed.....there goes my weekend.
whats your experment?
must get off HoP and do A level maths
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Finally tried dual fishtails with long doubles last night, surprisingly different to short ones. It's both easier and harder.
I'm not going to do it with my eyes closed till I can do a few more full beats. I'm on 4 or 5 right now, but it's too forced. I have to use my arms more and lock on my wrists less.
Bluecat was showing me weird fishtail crosses last night. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
Fishtail cross explain please?
Grow old but never grow up
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I can't. I don't understand the move, I just look at it and drool.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
We need to get an A-Z encylcopedia of spinning footage. Can you explain what a cross is?
Grow old but never grow up
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I kinda thought it was self explainitory. It involves doubles not being parralel...
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
enthusiast
227 posts
Location: dublin Ireland
d'oh sorry thought you were on about single staff. Now it makes sense and only one thought
Grow old but never grow up
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
crosses with singles would be
The only thing they could cross really would be your arms. There might be something there, but it would be contradictory to name them crosses... Hmmm.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
mcp, what would you call long sticks?
ok this evening, got dual's goin well, not forced, and looked nice in the reflection
(didnt last that long tho) both left and right hands can do eye's closed and go on and on and such like. managed to get 2 complete turns from a jesus thats about it for mestill cant get damn reverse fishtails
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
you crazy kids
cant wait for ed uberstaff
my fishtails still suck
i got the jesus though
's for fear-tine Love is the law.
Flying Water Muppet
5,276 posts
Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
long is 1.5 metres (five foot) or over.
Short is less than 1.5 metres.
matchsticks are 1 metre or less. (ickle)
This is not an opinion a relative judgement or a subjective view, IT IS THE TRUTH!
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
its true ya know
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
old hand
834 posts
Location: Wellington somerset, UK
ah so i only use short and match sticks then :P
Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars
Kyle Mclean-
Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling.
A) it does feel as good
B) it does not look as good on film
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