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November 17, 2008
Just the Skills is a website to help you learn, understand, and perform various Skills in the field of Tricking. These Skills, Moves, Tricks, etc all have much technical value, and physical principles behind them. I hope the information provided here can help you understand some of these concepts, techniques, and principles. And hopefully you'll also think the site is pretty.
Always enjoy yourself learning these tricks, all these moves are very fun! And the more you can do, and the more you can do right, the more fun it is! There are many sections on the site to look over to gain knowledge that you may desire, so feel free to take a gander at the entire collection of information presented here. The website is in a constant state of being updated, because every single one of us is always learning! So stop back whenever you feel like and see if there's anything new to glean from the pages. Enjoy!
Always enjoy yourself learning these tricks, all these moves are very fun! And the more you can do, and the more you can do right, the more fun it is! There are many sections on the site to look over to gain knowledge that you may desire, so feel free to take a gander at the entire collection of information presented here. The website is in a constant state of being updated, because every single one of us is always learning! So stop back whenever you feel like and see if there's anything new to glean from the pages. Enjoy!
New Official JTS Logo
November 14, 2008
As you can see in a couple places on the site, we now have a logo! A brand spankin' new designed by me logo. Nice concept, hmm? You like? I hope so! I'm somewhat proud of this design. I might put it on a few shirts, don't know if I plan on selling any yet.
Hopefully you'll be seeing this at the start of some new videos soon to come. What will it look like at the start? Here's a preview!
Hopefully you'll be seeing this at the start of some new videos soon to come. What will it look like at the start? Here's a preview!
Why Does the Butterfly Setup Help Aerials?
Dated: 10-16-2008
While it's usually recommended that individuals learn Aerials from a standard, stepping forward setup, or even a straight side to side setup, many try it from the Butterfly Setup, that they do their B-Kicks from and such. And yeno what, this works! Ha! Sometimes they can do it from a B-Kick setup well, but not very well from a regular Aerial setup. Why? (Also, note that the B-Kick position generally is just pivoting into what would be the side to side setup for an Aerial. Important? Not really, but just noting this, so one can draw up similarities.)
Simply enough, the Butterfly Setup helps people with Aerials simply because of the dip. Many beginners try dipping as they takeoff into the Aerial, or just dip at a point that's generally bad timing for the technique. I talk about this in my tutorial for Aerial and a few guides: the fact that in an Aerial, the dip needs to come only during the setup.
And, obviously enough, the Butterfly Setup features a (often times exaggerated) dip, done well before the jump. So when people do the Butterfly Setup into an Aerial, they're doing the sequence of events that they should be doing in an Aerial Setup: dipping earlier, then jumping up into the trick. So, if you fall under this circumstance where you can't do a straight forward Aerial well, but you can do it from a Butterfly Setup well, what do you learn from this?
Of course I'm not gonna just throw that question out there and not answer it, haha. It means for your regular Aerial setup, emulate the key components that make the Butterfly Setup work so well for Aerials: emphasized dip during the setup, body jumping up during the takeoff, no dipping at all during the takeoff. Maybe you don't have a problem with this, but it's a nice little tidbit to know why anyways, take care!
Simply enough, the Butterfly Setup helps people with Aerials simply because of the dip. Many beginners try dipping as they takeoff into the Aerial, or just dip at a point that's generally bad timing for the technique. I talk about this in my tutorial for Aerial and a few guides: the fact that in an Aerial, the dip needs to come only during the setup.
And, obviously enough, the Butterfly Setup features a (often times exaggerated) dip, done well before the jump. So when people do the Butterfly Setup into an Aerial, they're doing the sequence of events that they should be doing in an Aerial Setup: dipping earlier, then jumping up into the trick. So, if you fall under this circumstance where you can't do a straight forward Aerial well, but you can do it from a Butterfly Setup well, what do you learn from this?
Of course I'm not gonna just throw that question out there and not answer it, haha. It means for your regular Aerial setup, emulate the key components that make the Butterfly Setup work so well for Aerials: emphasized dip during the setup, body jumping up during the takeoff, no dipping at all during the takeoff. Maybe you don't have a problem with this, but it's a nice little tidbit to know why anyways, take care!
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