Cheering during a routine

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 25 Jul 2007 13:06

I was wondering what everone else thinks about cheering during a routine.

I dont know how vasek does it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=62cFYR2MO0I

To me, it would really distract me.
The only time I wouldnt really mind it would be when I dropped during a routine, but afterwards It would distract me.

What do you guys think about cheering during a routine?

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 25 Jul 2007 15:51

Man, the crowd sorta disappears and you are in this bubble all by yourself for your routine. I have no idea if the crowd has reacted to anything I've done on stage, so I don't think you should worry too much about it.

janis · Post by **janis** » 25 Jul 2007 18:30

I don't think I even noticed during my last routine.
Then again there was hardly any crowd interaction

Wumbo · Post by **Wumbo** » 25 Jul 2007 20:05

lol the girl sounded like a sirene. i wouldnt like that, but clapping is ok (nice support) imo

BenRea · Post by **BenRea** » 25 Jul 2007 20:26

i like when people cheer me on, it motivates me.

i kninda remember a thread being posted just like this...

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 25 Jul 2007 22:19

i like cheering people on. whats the point of performing in front of an audience if there were no cheering? might as well just make videos if you dont like cheering.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 26 Jul 2007 02:16

Well usually it's at the end of a good segment, so it'd be like "yeah, they saw it, sweet". Or when you drop. Which is cool too. Cheering spurred me on the (one) time I competed, but I thought I sucked hard so having people cheer me really helped.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 26 Jul 2007 06:21

I really like being cheered on. Nothing creepier and weirder feeling than doing a routine and getting no vibe or love from the audience.

I think one problem with routines is that the audience often doesn't know when its "OK" to cheer for the performer. I think a good rule of thumb is for the audience to cheer any time the performer makes eye contact with them. This covers most choreography cues (when the player is essentially asking the audience to cheer), and helps you decide which drops to cheer. Sometimes, a player will stop after a drop and ask for applause by looking up. Other times, they will just try and recover from the drop immediately, because they dont want to break the flow of the routine, or they are racing towards some choreography point and don't have time to wait for applause. In these cases I find it better not to cheer.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 26 Jul 2007 06:36

Definitely love it.

There's a Vasek routine (forget which one, and not going to look though to find it), where early on people start cheering, and then they just keep cheering the whole way through the routine until the finish (for like 1:40 of the 2 minutes). That's awesome. When people are making noise like that, you know you're doing a good job.

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 26 Jul 2007 18:55

I also wouldn't want footbag to be like tennis or golf, as if those dudes wouldn't be able to perform with cheering, I'm sorry but I don't see how those activities require absolute silence.
I remember playing high school basketball. I used to suck at free throws. Part of it used to be that it was the only time during the game that the whole crowd would go silent. It felt really wierd and pressured. I'd prefer it if there was lots of noise.

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 26 Jul 2007 23:05

Well, I don't do footbag anymore, but when I'm doing a Flair competition and I hit a really cool trick I want the crowd going bananas.

max · Post by **max** » 26 Jul 2007 23:17

dyalander wrote:I also wouldn't want footbag to be like tennis or golf, as if those dudes wouldn't be able to perform with cheering, I'm sorry but I don't see how those activities require absolute silence.
I remember playing high school basketball. I used to suck at free throws. Part of it used to be that it was the only time during the game that the whole crowd would go silent. It felt really wierd and pressured. I'd prefer it if there was lots of noise.

I seem to remember that in the NBA it's the other way around for free-throws: the crowd goes mental just to throw off the guy trying to score.

As for golf: I can assure you that it's a mental game. You have to be in that mental "zone" for over three hours (THAT is really what is so bloody hard about that sport). Unless it's hole-by-hole format like matchplay or something.

Footbag? Yeah I cheer a lot at comps and like it when people cheer when I'm on stage too..

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 29 Jul 2007 19:42

I agree that golf is tough mentally (we'll definitely have to go play a few of the courses in Sydney when you come out here) but I still don't think it requires silence on the part of the crowd - I think it depends though - a huge crowd all making noise is different to one guy yelling out, or a single phone ringing, etc. I don't think heaps of consistent cheering from a big crowd would put my swing off but one big noise out of the silence would do it.
In high school bball some of the schools including ours would make heaps of noise when the away team took free throws but stay quiet when the home team shot, - unfortunalty the silence actually put me off more than if they'd make some noise.
I don't know what NBA crowds do, but with that many people in the stadium there's probably enough away fans to make a fair amount of noise to try and put the shooter off.

Benzilla · Post by **Benzilla** » 21 Aug 2007 08:12

i get nervous and drop the footbag like hell.

I'd appreciate cheering after, but not during, way too much of a distraction.

Bringerofpie · Post by **Bringerofpie** » 21 Aug 2007 10:22

I don't like people cheering when I do stuff, throws me off. I wouldn't, however, mind clapping to the beat, as long as it's to the beat.

sNale · Post by **sNale** » 21 Aug 2007 11:30

The crowd should cheer as much as possible. That's a sure sign they like your routine. And cheering creates a great vibe.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 22 Aug 2007 05:16

Yeah cheering during a routine roxx, so you know that ur routine impress the people. They Shall not cheer all the time, but if you do a good move or a long run then they should cheer. I dont know why some of you dont like it? Hell Yeah im also fucking nervous before im on stage but when I hear the crowd cheering, it makes me less nervous.
Routine hasnt only the sports element, theres also the entertainment element in it and I think this is why you have to life with it.

During The german championships it was awesome, there were maybe 300 people in the club and they even cheered at the intermediate routines.
They are freaked out when I did a ducking clipper. It was cool, directly after that ducking clipper I heard the crowd and had instantly a smile on my face.

At the routine of Stefan Siegert and Yves Kreil the crowd gone crazy.

bustinjustin · Post by **bustinjustin** » 31 Aug 2007 08:49

Sometimes when I shred on the street I'll get some dude (usually black) that's like a hype man to an mc. He'll start yellin don't drop the bag, or how filthy it is, I always thought footbag could use a hype man someone to bridge the gap between audience and performer. You know like Jay-Z has. Just someone to grunt when you do good, actually we need Little John to come MC footbag tournies. YEAH, WHAT, YEAH!
I also always thought it was weird that as the footbag audience we applaud when ever their is a drop. If I wasn't into footbag and was in the audience I would be really confused, like why are they emphasizing/promoting the fact that he dropped, isn't that what we don't want. I think audiences should stop giving praises on drops, It makes me feel horrible when doing a routine, while also making the routine seem less smooth and together becuase the audience is breaking it up and exagerating what would be a nominal pause on a drop. They should only give praise when the performer has it coreographed in their routine, as when they make eye contact or gesture at the audience.

Frank_Sinatra · Post by **Frank_Sinatra** » 31 Aug 2007 10:39

I like your hype man idea. And we should go straight for the best - not Lil' Jon - I'm talking Flava Flav. Yeah, boyyyy. We'll get VH1 to make a reality tv show about it, and then sit back and wait for the cash to roll in...

EoghanMcDowell · Post by **EoghanMcDowell** » 05 Sep 2007 20:02

Cheering doesn't seem to bother me very much. Like was said earlier, if you get really into the game you don't really notice whats going on around you. I would think that would be the best state to be in to. This sport takes immense concentration and technical skill to execute the harder tricks, so thinking about whats going around you would just make it harder on your mind to process the complicated moves of freestyle footbag. Thats what i think, cheers.

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