Just the Skills - Tricking Tutorials, Articles, and Knowledge
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January 05, 2009
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 Tutorial
December 30, 2008
I didn't want to make a Jacknife tutorial without a better example video. But the people have been calling for a new tutorial! So I finally delivered, and now there's a Jacknife tutorial. It's still good enough to use as an example, but not quite as good as I'd like. Once I get a better video I will substitute, I may also have to tweak the tutorial a little and add stuff here or there.
I've been going over a couple little concepts I could write articles about in my head, so hopefully within the next few days you'll have a new one of those as well. :) Take care!
I've been going over a couple little concepts I could write articles about in my head, so hopefully within the next few days you'll have a new one of those as well. :) Take care!
How Different Are Vertical and Horizontal Spins?
Dated: 12-26-2008
Not very different at all actually.
This is a very basic and somewhat obvious principle after you think about it, that can be applied to many things. And make some things a lot less difficult. Often times, people new to tricking fall under the misconception that horizontal or even flip twisting tricks like B-Twists, Corks, Cheat 720 Twists, etc have some sort of special 'horizontal twisting' technique, and they have to be done like 'horizontal twists' or whatever else. But it's not true. People will try to do their twists by aligning themselves horizontally, then doing some awkward circular upwards swinging side to side motion in their side. It can work sure, but if you're thinking about that in your head, and telling yourself to do that motion, it's just not as efficient.
Horizontal Twists/Spins are just Vertical Twists/Spins. The only difference is that the body is horizontal for "Horizontal Twists." What does this mean? Approach the spinning components of any twisting trick the same you would for any other spinning trick, like a Pop/Cheat spinning kick or just jumping in the air and spinning haha. The same arm/shoulder/body motions and coordination can be applied. And isn't it easier to just do regular vertical spins than to try to force some horizontal spinning mess? So just visualize the technique of a vertical spin when doing the twisting part of any horizontal trick.
Remember though, you need to make yourself horizontal still. They're vertical spins (after all, you always 'twist' around the same axis, no matter your bodies orientation) while the body is horizontal. So do whatever motions make your body horizontal while you spin vertical. The emphasis here is to NOT try to use the twist/spinning motions to get horizontal. Getting horizontal or flipped is a result of different motions in general. So do the twist of a trick like you'd do any other twist or spin vertically, and rely on the other aspects of the tricks technique to get your horizontal or inverted or whatever. Get what I'm saying? Yay!
This is a very basic and somewhat obvious principle after you think about it, that can be applied to many things. And make some things a lot less difficult. Often times, people new to tricking fall under the misconception that horizontal or even flip twisting tricks like B-Twists, Corks, Cheat 720 Twists, etc have some sort of special 'horizontal twisting' technique, and they have to be done like 'horizontal twists' or whatever else. But it's not true. People will try to do their twists by aligning themselves horizontally, then doing some awkward circular upwards swinging side to side motion in their side. It can work sure, but if you're thinking about that in your head, and telling yourself to do that motion, it's just not as efficient.
Horizontal Twists/Spins are just Vertical Twists/Spins. The only difference is that the body is horizontal for "Horizontal Twists." What does this mean? Approach the spinning components of any twisting trick the same you would for any other spinning trick, like a Pop/Cheat spinning kick or just jumping in the air and spinning haha. The same arm/shoulder/body motions and coordination can be applied. And isn't it easier to just do regular vertical spins than to try to force some horizontal spinning mess? So just visualize the technique of a vertical spin when doing the twisting part of any horizontal trick.
Remember though, you need to make yourself horizontal still. They're vertical spins (after all, you always 'twist' around the same axis, no matter your bodies orientation) while the body is horizontal. So do whatever motions make your body horizontal while you spin vertical. The emphasis here is to NOT try to use the twist/spinning motions to get horizontal. Getting horizontal or flipped is a result of different motions in general. So do the twist of a trick like you'd do any other twist or spin vertically, and rely on the other aspects of the tricks technique to get your horizontal or inverted or whatever. Get what I'm saying? Yay!
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