Thought this might fit well in Trick Tips. Here is a PM I sent to someone asking how to improve his runs and hit bigger tricks. It gets rather deep, and shares some philosophies I have with footbag training. Hope it helps you on your footbag path:
Jorden's Pep Talk
Unfortunately, there are no secret formulas. You get good at the tricks by DOING the tricks. Again and again. If any trick is giving you grief, STOP and ANALYZE the aspect or component that is messing you up. Correct it. Perfect it. Now is a good time for you to treat both sides as equals. I don't mean 'incorporating your flipside'. I mean complete bothsidedness. Like my sig says, break everything down to its simplest form, the way that causes the least strain on your body and MASTER it. That's why buildings with a weak foundation fall over and collapse sooner than ones with good foundations. For this reason, schooling tiltless is never a bad idea. I still school tiltless every session.
If you can master the basics so they are identical on both sides, you can slowly add elements to them.
Treat each trick as if it were your LAST. This helps with consistency.
Eventually, you will treat every trick in each of your runs in this same way. You will drop a lot less.It takes some serious hard work. If there was a magic formula that everyone could buy to get good, the tricks wouldn't be as meaningful, would they? Footbag tricks are the most rewarding because they are VERY hard. You are fighting against GRAVITY, for fuck's sake!
The big tricks will come when your building is so structurally sound that more and more floors can be added.
See you at the top.
Jorden Moir
