"Easy" tricks that took you a LONG time to hit

HG · Post by HG » 02 Mar 2006 17:23

i FINALLY hit eggbeater bs today after.... 21 months of footbag.

and it took me like 16 months to get whirl so i can hit it.... sometimes

BUT

some people have trouble learning consistent spinning and ducking and i had that down in like 8 months. Anyone else have any weird quirks to their repertoir?

Troyson · Post by **Troyson** » 02 Mar 2006 17:41

mirage and clipper

These two were by far the hardest tricks for me to learn, and now they are no problem for me. It took me like 3 weeks before i hit my first mirage, and clippers took me like 3 months to get consistent. Those two tricks were a bitchhhhh to learn, but im glad i stuck with it.

And now whirls are giving me a hard time. Ive hit them a bunch of times, but i rarely hit it midstring, and i cant hit it consistently whatsoever.

jake · Post by **jake** » 02 Mar 2006 18:00

Clippers i still cant do them

dp · Post by dp » 02 Mar 2006 18:05

Mirages are rediculously hard for me. I started actually practicing them about three weeks ago after I had clipper, butterfly, pixie set, legover, and pickup down pretty good. My mirage consistancy is pretty crappy, however, just a two or three days ago, I tried Illusion for the first time. I'd heard they were harder than mirages so I wasn't excepting to land it. I landed it. Well, now my illusions are actually a good deal better than my mirages, in just two or three days.

Will Digges · Post by **Will Digges** » 02 Mar 2006 18:07

My torques took me a long time to get and I still think they are horrible, but i just recently started doing them both sides in shred.

Matt K · Post by **Matt K** » 02 Mar 2006 18:18

doesn't take me very long to learn something, but i hit Pdx Whirl before reverse mirage

Matt_mcfarland · Post by **Matt_mcfarland** » 02 Mar 2006 18:31

2 add tricks never realy take me a long time to learn, but its consistency afterwords that gets me, i learned and then all the sudden couldnt do mirages,clippers,legovers, or pixies. i can do them all now, but i still have problems with pixies.

freestyler4life · Post by **freestyler4life** » 02 Mar 2006 18:32

lets see here, I have always been working on whirl the whole time Ive been in to footbag and still suck at it, its impossible. smear-, I feel like I have a good enough pixie set and mirage but it still gives me problems. Pickups- I have never even tried to learn them because they always hurt my hip when I first started so I dont do them. Fairy sets- also hurt. Drifters- always hits my leg, always. Most of all- DLO: I work on it every session and I am convinced I will never hit the trick.

Bander87 · Post by **Bander87** » 02 Mar 2006 19:08

Gah, mirages took me at least 5 months. I could just never get the "hop" concept. I was doing every two add before I hit mirage. Now they are one of my easiest tricks.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 02 Mar 2006 19:12

I can baaaaarely spin!!!

I try and I try and I try but it's just not natural for me.

I can shred genuine guiltless but I can barely force out a fucking spinning clipper.

sampotter · Post by **sampotter** » 02 Mar 2006 19:33

It took me forever to learn atw, but since then I haven't really had a hard time figuring anything out. Flip datw is probably my biggest point of embarassment.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 02 Mar 2006 19:49

oh man sam, me too

i decided i needed to drill flip ATWs once i could hit atomsmasher back to back 4 times...still suck at it.

fucking torques and drifters...torques and drifters.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 02 Mar 2006 20:17

Henry, eggbeaters and spins are totally both huge, tough things to learn, I think. I've noticed tons of people have trouble with eggbeaters, and the same with spinning. I think spinning is the hardest thing in the entire sport to learn.

I had big trouble with basic illusion moves. Like, doing the 2-add illusion > fairy [repeat] drill made me happy when I could do it more than one rotation! Blizzards and smudges were hard for me... Regular swirls (hit once on each side).

Fairy sets...though I think those may be generally difficult too? Who's to say what should be easy, though?

Oh! Osis! Hardest bloody move ever.

janis · Post by **janis** » 02 Mar 2006 21:10

clipper tricks, can do lots of toe set tricks but have heaps of trouble with clipper, so I decided to focus on my pinchers which are rock solid compared with clipper

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 02 Mar 2006 21:14

It took me 6 months to understand that doing pixies and fairies require the straight set then dex, instead of comprising both at the same time.

Bagira · Post by **Bagira** » 02 Mar 2006 21:14

I've yet to land clippers with a consistency greater than 1%ish.

My legovers are pretty much cake now. Barefoot at least.

Mirages took me a while to learn. From what I've been told, I ams till doing them wrong, but at least they work. At first I tied to pull my leg over the bag for a while...Didn't work. Neither did leaping sideways over the bag work.

And that evil 'hop'. I still don't have it!

I'm such a newb!

jake · Post by **jake** » 02 Mar 2006 21:16

im a noob with you mikhail

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 02 Mar 2006 22:00

When I first started my style was very hoppy with 2 adds. I would just do a little hop for every single move and then it would just already be there for the ones that I actually needed it for. It's kind of hard to describe. It looks really silly, but it helped...

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 02 Mar 2006 23:31

fairy set.

mitko · Post by **mitko** » 03 Mar 2006 00:32

PDX Whirl - it took me realy long time to learn it
flip pixie
torque of course