Eclipse

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 03 Nov 2005 15:09

Eclipse
SET > FLYING WRAP [BOD][BOD][DEL] >

Just wondering if anyone had pointers for eclipse. I figure skooling hop over is a good idea. Any advice is welcome.

Swirl help is also greatly needed and would be appreciated.

And now, the waiting game.

*Twiddles thumbs*

Troyson · Post by **Troyson** » 03 Nov 2005 15:33

i cant help you out with eclipse but this might help you out for swirl. i found that learning inside swirls in both directions help alot..they help you get the motion down. when im trying to do swirls if i do it from inside first, when i try it in clipper i get the dex much easier. hope this helps.

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 03 Nov 2005 15:47

Can you thread the needle?? Its when you grab your foot with your opposite hand and jump your other leg through the hole. When i could do this, i learned how to eclipse.

dazza · Post by **dazza** » 03 Nov 2005 15:59

Matt Cross advice on "swirl sets" helped me a lot - i think the topic
is still on the first page of "trick tips", check that out and good luck !

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 04 Nov 2005 10:14

Troyson wrote:i cant help you out with eclipse but this might help you out for swirl. i found that learning inside swirls in both directions help alot..they help you get the motion down. when im trying to do swirls if i do it from inside first, when i try it in clipper i get the dex much easier. hope this helps.

It's not really a swirl if it's on the inside. That's just an around the world inside stall. Thanks for the advice, though.

qphox · Post by **qphox** » 04 Nov 2005 10:40

He's trying to say it's the exact same motion.

ie: learn clipper by getting your inside delay down.

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 04 Nov 2005 10:41

Yeah, I'd figured as much. After reading it again.

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 30 Jan 2006 19:50

If your ever going to land the eclipse i recamend to start bringing the support leg over the delaying foot as soon as possible. I recamend to school your hop overs first, then move slowly to doing it mid air. The key to geting the trick is to stand up in an upright posture and lean a little foward.

Lazytowner · Post by **Lazytowner** » 21 Feb 2006 08:58

I've been able to do the hop-over since I was 8 yrs. old...but I remember what kept me from doing it was the fear of busting my ankle in half if I screwed up in the worst way - made me instinctively move my setting foot out of the way of my support leg, murdering the hop over. What I'm saying is maybe the main reason the people that can't do it can't do it is because of the instinctive fear of BREAKING something hehe.

Troyson · Post by **Troyson** » 24 Aug 2006 10:58

i have been trying to do eclipse lately, but everytime i try it i feel like it just ends up being a symp butterfly...dfoes anyone know how to solve this problem?

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 26 Aug 2006 11:58

Start the catch farther toward the clipper side on which you're going to end......it will make you jump over your catching foot as opposed to around it (like a symp butterfly).

I hope that helps.

footymatt · Post by **footymatt** » 08 Sep 2006 09:53

I know this is late, but to readers herein...

I used to do these tricks, and when I did the biggest thing was skool hop overs, wraps, insides, and clippers (clippers are not as important as the others). Think of the move as a way to skool clippers. Doing the different inside > clipper transtions helps big time. A good tip from me would be: Catch on the inside>hop>when in the air, drop your stalling foot close to the ground without touching (lowers jump height), and try to keep your inside foot where it started make the jump move your body not your foot> and now you can set out from clipper.

WARNING!! I busted both my ankles really bad back in march 2006 doing flying hop overs. I lifted my stalling leg to early and landed my jumping foot on the inside of my shin, thus twisting my jumping leg on my other leg, then because my stalling leg was already turned it got slamed to the ground twisting it too. And to let yall know.. two busted ankles at the same time really really sucks. Oh and I weigh 210 lbs, that helped suck too.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 28 Jan 2010 05:56

Nearly a 4 year bump.

Anything more on this? hopover is easy but eclipse seems impossible.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 28 Jan 2010 21:20

Maybe practice flying inside stalls.
Where you stall and then set the bag all while you're in the air. It's basically an eclipse without the "dex". I think that's the hard part, 'cause most of us never do flying stall tricks, or flying tricks at all. I've actually been playing with eclipses too. Hopovers definitely help.

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