advice: big tricks/long runs [by Jorden]
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advice: big tricks/long runs [by Jorden]
Hey,
Thought this might fit well in Trick Tips. Here is a PM I sent to someone asking how to improve his runs and hit bigger tricks. It gets rather deep, and shares some philosophies I have with footbag training. Hope it helps you on your footbag path:
Jorden's Pep Talk
Unfortunately, there are no secret formulas. You get good at the tricks by DOING the tricks. Again and again. If any trick is giving you grief, STOP and ANALYZE the aspect or component that is messing you up. Correct it. Perfect it. Now is a good time for you to treat both sides as equals. I don't mean 'incorporating your flipside'. I mean complete bothsidedness. Like my sig says, break everything down to its simplest form, the way that causes the least strain on your body and MASTER it. That's why buildings with a weak foundation fall over and collapse sooner than ones with good foundations. For this reason, schooling tiltless is never a bad idea. I still school tiltless every session.
If you can master the basics so they are identical on both sides, you can slowly add elements to them.
Treat each trick as if it were your LAST. This helps with consistency. Eventually, you will treat every trick in each of your runs in this same way. You will drop a lot less.
It takes some serious hard work. If there was a magic formula that everyone could buy to get good, the tricks wouldn't be as meaningful, would they? Footbag tricks are the most rewarding because they are VERY hard. You are fighting against GRAVITY, for fuck's sake!
The big tricks will come when your building is so structurally sound that more and more floors can be added.
See you at the top.
Jorden Moir
Thought this might fit well in Trick Tips. Here is a PM I sent to someone asking how to improve his runs and hit bigger tricks. It gets rather deep, and shares some philosophies I have with footbag training. Hope it helps you on your footbag path:
Jorden's Pep Talk
Unfortunately, there are no secret formulas. You get good at the tricks by DOING the tricks. Again and again. If any trick is giving you grief, STOP and ANALYZE the aspect or component that is messing you up. Correct it. Perfect it. Now is a good time for you to treat both sides as equals. I don't mean 'incorporating your flipside'. I mean complete bothsidedness. Like my sig says, break everything down to its simplest form, the way that causes the least strain on your body and MASTER it. That's why buildings with a weak foundation fall over and collapse sooner than ones with good foundations. For this reason, schooling tiltless is never a bad idea. I still school tiltless every session.
If you can master the basics so they are identical on both sides, you can slowly add elements to them.
Treat each trick as if it were your LAST. This helps with consistency. Eventually, you will treat every trick in each of your runs in this same way. You will drop a lot less.
It takes some serious hard work. If there was a magic formula that everyone could buy to get good, the tricks wouldn't be as meaningful, would they? Footbag tricks are the most rewarding because they are VERY hard. You are fighting against GRAVITY, for fuck's sake!
The big tricks will come when your building is so structurally sound that more and more floors can be added.
See you at the top.
Jorden Moir
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Man, if anything in the world would make me want to shred, it was that post/speech/PM. Right now I'm stuck at work, reading modified, looking at another long weekend spent working 11 hour shifts, and I read Jorden's awsome pep talk. Everything said was relevant, I wouldn't take anything out, nor would I add anything in... it was, in a word, Perfect. Thank you Jorden for giving me the drive to start hitting bigger tricks more consistantly, and over all getting better at footbag.
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Proudly Representing Fourkast Footbag Co.
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Portland Blog
All the ladies love Matt Cross because Johnny Depp + Footbag = Matt Cross
Mastery is the combination of knowledge and practical experience
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Thanks Jorden that's a good analogy. It's funny cuz you were saying it took you a while to become guiltless, so it's nice to know that theoretically we could all reach your level in 3 years or so. Not saying that's gonna happen with me or anything, but it even gives me hope for just genuine guiltless shred someday soon.
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