Thursday, September 13, 2007

Thomas Dietz Alert!

I know I have been mostly blogging about 5A yoyoing... but I saw this and just have to say WOW! I think this might be better than Thomas Dietz 6... During the 4th scene, the one with 4 clubs (after 3 ring pancakes) I was thinking: Hey, I can do that! Then quickly that changed to, whoa... I guess I'll never be able to do that!

I would totally dress up as Thomas Dietz for Halloween, except I was Thomas Dietz last year.






Wednesday, September 05, 2007

OW OW OUCH!

Matching Higby Yodel Freehand Zeros (front)

Okay, so I am definitely switching to one of these rubber bouncies tonight. I moved my die from Lyn Fury to my Kick Side. I really prefer the Kickside, plus I'm getting smoother in my 5A yoyoing with a responsive yoyo. A few times now it has snagged and come back unexpectedly. Okay, nothing new there, BUT a few times it was because the counterweight string went into the yoyo and caused it to bind and my hand ended up smashed between a yoyo and counterweight at insane speeds. My right index finger and middle finger are still smarting from a nasty snag earlier when I was practicing this Nunchuck Combo. I can make it thru the combo about 10% of the time now, but no where near as smooth as the video, and he is kind of slow.

I learned to bind poorly left handed. It is easier to bind on a left hand throw since I'm more used to the motion, but on a right hand throw I bind from a left handed trapeze as long as Lyn Fury is spinning fast enough. (Lyn is very unresponsive.) Now that I swapped to my Kick Side, I'm learning much faster left handed since I don't have to wind so much since I don't have to bind most of the time, and can bind it when it is going quite slowly.

Unless it snags. Ouch! My fingers still hurt.

Definitely need to switch to a bouncy ball, the sparkly one in this picture should match my orange kickside.