Hey, there are lots of dedicated shredders in Kansai also!
Some footage from Osaka from our recent sessions. Our club is called Kankeri.
First, some barraging and technical ducking-type stuff from Kenzo, my footbag buddy. Kenzo has a lot of natural ability and he can bust phat! Watch out for this guy!
holy crap!!!! that janiwalker video was SICK. I'm just learning barraging set a bit, and I like how kenzo does it. notice how far his knee moves laterally to go from the whirl dex to the quantum. it puts the tip of the cone of his dex somewhere in the middle of his shin instead of at his knee, enabling it to be a lot smaller and faster.
that was great, kenzo. makes me want to get out and shred.
I really liked that vid because both of you are really smooth! I haven't seen that in many Japanese players so far. So far I've seen a lot of choppy one-sidedness, and this is a very nice change. Rub off on people, and make them smooth, too!
Yeah, I can understand how watching your style would rush someone's play. I doubt the one-sidedness is something they'd catch just from watching someone play, though. That can be broken easily by REALLY driving home the point to be bothsided. Just make sure you enforce good habits and tell them to slow down and relax!
*note* I didn't mean to insinuate anything about your game, Ken, you're bad ass. :-p
Those videos were sick! The Janiwalker one was wicked and the ducking/diving/weaving/zulu one was soooooo smooth!! Adam, you're pretty good too! I liked your ripwalk; it looked wierd but cool at the same time!
adam, sorry I didn't post this with my first review. You have AMAZING style. I love it, man, it's so precise and smooth and both sided. good job, keep the shred up. with a solid foundation and such good style like that, you'll go far.
Thanks for all the encouraging words everyone!
I'm trying to get Kenzo to start posting but he is a little unsure of his English.
Matt>Thanks for the comments and I'm glad that watching Kenzo's barraging helped you out. Kenzo started messing around with barraging one day and the next week I saw him he's hitting sunilwalk and janiwalker pretty consistently on both sides!! He seems to be able to master new concepts really quickly.
Mosher>Yeah, I play regularly with Henmo because he lives about an hour from me. Most of the other players who went to Worlds live near or in Tokyo so I only get to play with them when there is a competition.
X+Y>zehi zehi JFC de kerimashou. X+Ysan no douga wo mitemasu yo. Atomic ha sugoku antei shitekimashita ne. Mata au toki ni oshiete ne!
Nagasake wrote:
*note* I didn't mean to insinuate anything about your game, Ken, you're bad ass. :-p
No worries, I just like to be self-deprecating whereever possible. I actually don`t think I`m all that one sided. I can do all my basic 4s and 5s on both sides, and generally do. I like to think I`ve been pretty good encouraging flipsidedness here, but again, I want to help people develop their own styles, and not force them to do stuff they don`t want to.
Adam and X+Y: katoppa vielä uudet parikytä kertaa!
Hey Adam, I just wanted to add that I really dig your style. You're very very smooth, controlled and unique -- and bothsided. I loved the bothsided pixie moves, the ducks and your smoothness on spinning osis REALLY makes me want to skool osii! I think I will watch your video a few more times now before I go back to bed.
Hey, there are lots of dedicated shredders in Kansai also! 
Adam, you're pretty good too! I liked your ripwalk; it looked wierd but cool at the same time! 
