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

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 03 Mar 2006 00:36

I think clippers are the reason 90% of people who quit footbag quit.

For me, the things that were or are 'hard' to learn, are things that I have been able to 'hit' for quite a while (atleast 6 months) but still can only hit by luck, despite hours of schooling, these include:
Swirls/rev swirls (mainly swirls).
Torques!
Any gyro move (but spinning is easy!)
Flipside atomic (randomly just came right one day though

)

The one basic that I have struggled in getting to grips with is osis, I still can't do it right and my osis is less consistant than my blizzard

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habitat · Post by **habitat** » 03 Mar 2006 01:41

flip gyro/spinning, still kinda blows

flip atomic sucks, my leg is longer so it's hard getting it over the bag

my hip hurts now thinking of it

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 03 Mar 2006 02:54

Ripwalk and Swirl.

Well practically everything with stepping. I hit Ripwalk a year after starting freestyling :S And Swirl much more later.

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 03 Mar 2006 07:42

Fairy sets and blenders!

And flip osis has never seemed natural even though i've been schooling it for YEARS.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » 03 Mar 2006 08:37

Last week I JUST started hitting superflies. Yeah I spent about a year of casually trying them. Haha!

dazza · Post by **dazza** » 03 Mar 2006 10:08

It took ages to understand whirl...i'm completly with Hen on dis one ,
also paradon was entering the realm of possibility quite late .
I hit dso like half a year before i hit paradon

Atomic and quantum i both learned pretty fast - as for more quirks, i can
sail at times, but i cant do fairy at all .

I'm still waiting on eggbeater, flail and barrage to complete my repertoire
of basics...well basically i wait for my ankle getting better, so i can get back
to skool

Rieferman · Post by **Rieferman** » 03 Mar 2006 13:31

Oh god, the list is so long.

To pick the worst though would have to be Whirl or Atomic anything. I've been trying those two things since 2000.

The Rhino · Post by **The Rhino** » 03 Mar 2006 15:07

dude...

toe stalls, i miss toe stalls a rediculous and embarrasing amount of times. now that I can bust 4 and maybe some five adds, ... toe stall still gives me trouble

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 03 Mar 2006 19:21

Erik Chan wrote: Oh! Osis! Hardest bloody move ever.

Amen.

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 03 Mar 2006 19:25

Erik Chan wrote: Oh! Osis! Hardest bloody move ever.

No way!!!
Osis probably came the easiest to me out of everything in my game.

I have trouble with flip atw, in out. lol

mc · Post by mc » 03 Mar 2006 19:42

gyro

and... flip double ATW... and montage... still can't get it... isnt' that supposed to be the easiest move these days?

Colin · Post by **Colin** » 03 Mar 2006 19:43

I hit several double down variations before I ever hit whirl (just a few days ago, in fact, the first time I've tried them since recieving shockingly brief advice on them from Derrik Ogden). My flip swirl is now about 4 years behind my strong one, and believe me, I've tried. I have no idea why I can't get it.

Guest_2 · Post by **Guest_2** » 04 Mar 2006 18:11

Osis

I have no ankle crank and haven't even begun to hit it-despite footing Pheonix the other day

Also, I've not hit spinning anything

Faco · Post by **Faco** » 05 Mar 2006 07:11

Spinning and Osis just came naturally to me. Double dexes with one leg also pretty fast.
But Whirl...man, Whirl (and Blender) is right now the thing that botheres me most in my game. Next comes Ducking/Diving and Stepping flipside.

I will make a big party for my friends when I will hit PS Whirl

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 05 Mar 2006 16:33

Osis. We used to call it the Sydney Nemisis. I only really sorted it out a few months back.

David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 05 Mar 2006 16:40

BalinorNZ wrote:I think clippers are the reason 90% of people who quit footbag quit.

That's definitely where I'm at in my game..

Ugh.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 05 Mar 2006 17:44

hippy atomics. i used to leggy all of the time until I realized i'd end up hurting myself. a year and a half

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 05 Mar 2006 18:21

Sporatical_Distractions wrote:hippy atomics. i used to leggy all of the time until I realized i'd end up hurting myself. a year and a half

Yeah, I'm trying to go hippy on atomics too. I always end up flailing my legs to do that uptime set.

professor · Post by **professor** » 06 Mar 2006 14:49

Atomics!!!!

And fairy

skoxn · Post by **skoxn** » 08 Mar 2006 05:42

definately OSIS!!

that superb trick is soooo hard!!!

well now over 3 and a half years of playing, i´m still not able to hit it on command on my flipside.