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crazygeminirider · Post by **crazygeminirider** » 21 Nov 2004 16:48

ok, so thanks for the info everyone...greatly appreciated. so, i need help on ordering some stuff, i cant really buy anything due to the fact i dont have a credit card, thats why i bought the geostatic from shaggyhack.com its jsut a money order. i am going to buy the rod lavers, but i dont kno how, and i also would like to buy a abshire, how should i go about doing this,and should i get a mini? i also need alil help with terms?..DEX? PIXIE? and some other general terms would help....

how can i go about working with my other foot, cause i didnt practice on it..and im gunna force myself to...

how can i work on ATWs and other leg overs, i jsut cant seem to get the speed to get around it..

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 21 Nov 2004 17:03

1) abshire contact info is in the stitcher contact info thread in the Bags&Equipement forum
2) go check out www.flipsider.com for all the basic naming stuff like dexterity and pixie and such. Other good resources are www.hoodshouse.com and www.hackrifice.com
3) to catch up your shitty foot work it harder than your good foot! if you find yourself always starting a drill on one foot try starting it from the other instead. I don't want to preach but IMO being bothsided is very adventageous when learning the building block tricks like mirage and legover and clipper.
4) your leg speed will increase as the muscles build. Logically you probably don't have the muscles required to whip your leg in a circle - why would you? so with time they will grow and get stronger and correspondingly your legs will move faster!

Hope this helps.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 21 Nov 2004 17:22

for ATWs, find a device around your house that is similar in shape to a pole, an orange cone like you'd find at a road construction side, etc. and stand it upright. Then stand on 1 leg and do "dexercise."

Start slowly, circling the pole thingy with 1 leg in-to-out about 30 times, the stop and do it with the other leg in-to-out 30 times. THen switch again and do it out-to-in 30 times, and switch legs again out-to-in.

Then do the same thing again faster. the key is to have leg movements around your object that are shaped circularly and fairly tight around the circumference of the cone. The wider your "dexes" (leg mvmts) are, the slower they will be.

BainbridgeShred · Post by **BainbridgeShred** » 22 Nov 2004 22:09

how can i work on ATWs and other leg overs, i jsut cant seem to get the speed to get around it..

Keep them relitively close to your body so its more your entire leg going around it as opposed to your ankle. Also like Tom and Senor said, just build up the muscle strength, work only on ATW's both side for like 1 hour and I guarantee you'll have it schooled.

crazydwarf · Post by **crazydwarf** » 23 Nov 2004 12:58

Start slowly, circling the pole thingy with 1 leg in-to-out about 30 times, the stop and do it with the other leg in-to-out 30 times. THen switch again and do it out-to-in 30 times, and switch legs again out-to-in.

Does everyone do there dex's like this. I always do mine kind of up and down instead of side to side... Like you circle yours horizantal, and I do mine verticle. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about, if someone knows what I mean and can explain it better that'd be great.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » 23 Nov 2004 14:09

Its cleanner if you dex horizontally

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 23 Nov 2004 20:53

crazydwarf,
I know what you mean. For the speed of a dbl ATW, it is best to have a good and fast circular motion. For a single ATW, you can get away with more of an up and down style dex, but even then, it is not comsidered as clean as a horizontally circular dex.

crazydwarf · Post by **crazydwarf** » 23 Nov 2004 21:16

ok thanks guys. I am pretty profiecient at ATW and can almost hit DATW going up and down style... I just tried out the more circular motion you guys are describing and that seemed to help. It felt much better doing them like that and I kind of hit DATW for the first time.