Your views on shoe modding

Patches O'Hoolihan · Post by **Patches O'Hoolihan** » 02 Mar 2005 13:02

I've been trying to learn pixie sets for a few months now. I can hit them reasonably well barefoot but hardly at all with my Lavers. The bag gets caught on the shoe all the time. What do people think about cutting out the front 2 eyelets on Lavers to make pixie sets easier? Should my pixie inability be overcome by practice alone, or with the help of mods?

lightningbolt · Post by **lightningbolt** » 02 Mar 2005 13:09

If the bag getting caught on the eyelets that mean your not dexing the bag clean. your just letting it roll off your foot so to speak. Work on fully reasleing the bag and dexing it. The bad thing about cutting them off, it's extreamly easy to get a bad style beacause nothing there stopping the roll off in a pixie set. There been a converstory over too cut them off or not. IMO, I liked cutting my off but it's a personal choice.

P.S. You have the greatest screen name ever!

footjoe · Post by **footjoe** » 02 Mar 2005 13:13

I cut off my eyelets along time and it works fine for me, i dont like the walls its all about personal choice.

Patches O'Hoolihan · Post by **Patches O'Hoolihan** » 04 Mar 2005 17:30

ya lightningbolt, I agree with you. I'm going to keep the eyelets on until I learn pixie in its own right. I'm really trying to seperate the motions and things are slowly moving in the right direction. Thanks for the advice both of you.

james · Post by **james** » 04 Mar 2005 20:10

Ahem, eyelets do not affect pixie sets unless you do not know how to do pixie sets, most mods work like this.

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 05 Mar 2005 17:49

back on topic.....
I have played with Ian alot and I have seen how much he struggles with his clippers. He also does a shitload of stretching to try and improve them. This, of course, would be frustrating and you would make you want to shoegoo your shoes. No offence to Ian but...His clippers a very crap, he should do it if it will help.
Go for it Ian

RRendsvig · Post by **RRendsvig** » 06 Mar 2005 05:12

I found that cutting out the intirer inside of the shoe gave me a lot better clipper and osis, but in the end it also made me loose control - I didn't HAVE to focus, so I didn't.
I think it comes back to you - not modding your shoes (I think) will make you a better footbag player.

HG · Post by HG » 12 Mar 2005 06:53

even after adding a clipper rail to my 520s its harder to clipper than with lavers.

Its that simple, if the shoe needs modding, ,it still wont be as good as lavers, but people need support. Dont leave us out, we just neeed to do a little work.

Jdigges · Post by **Jdigges** » 12 Mar 2005 16:22

i have done almost everything i can to my mesh lavers. the only thing i havent done is mod the outside of one of them. i didnt mean to do it on one of them but i was paying attention when i was cutting them haha

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