Greg's Challanges

[PacLoc]

I've been playing since the beginning of 2008 (with about a 9 month standstill of inactivity in the middle) and I can do the following:

2 Adds:
atw bs in and out
mirage/near/ss bs
illusion/near/ss bs
legover/near/far/ss bs
pickup/near/far/ss bs
clipper bs

3 Adds:
osis bs
butterfly/ss/infinity bs
swirl bs
whirl bs
rev whirl bs
pdx mirage bs
pdx illusion bs
eclipse bs
Ducking clipper bs
Diving clipper bs
Zulu Clipper (stong side)
DLO/near bs-weak
DATW (Strong Side)
Drifter bs weak
Smudge (strong side)
Smear (strong side)
Pixie Clipper (strong side)
Spinning Mirage
Spinning Legover
PLO (strongside)
Magellan (stongside)
Spinning Clipper bs
Flapper bs
rev swirl (stongside)
zooming clipper bs
gyro clipper bs

4 Adds:
dyno bs
Ducking Butterfly bs
Ducking osis bs
Pixie Osis (strong side)
Spinning Osis bs
Spinning Butterfly bs
Butterfly Swirl (strong side) super weak
Ripwalk (stongside)
Dimwalk (strongside)
Sidewalk (strongside)
Parkwalk (strongside)
PDX whirl bs
Symposium Rev Whirl (stongside)
Blender bs
blur (strongside)
pixie whirl (strongside) weak
diving ss butterfly bs
spinning pdx mirage bs
zooming butterfly bs

5 Adds:
Phoenix (stongside)weak
Spinning Ducking Butterfly (strongside)weak
Tomahawk (flipside)weak
Spinning pdx whirl(strongside)weak


Some Challenges that push me to try to develop longer strings and incorporate a good variety of tricks would really help my game advance.

Challenges Completed:

mirage > ss mirage > RPT
butterfly > pickup > RPT
clipper > pickup > legover > RPT
Butterfly > near mirage > legover > RPT
butterfly > infinity > infinity
butterfly > osis > mirage > RPT
Clipper > Osis > RPT 8 contacts
Clipper x 2 > near mirage > mirage > RPT
Butterfly > PDX Mirage > RPT
Mirage > Legover > RPT for 8 contacts
Clipper > SS Butter > near Mirage > RPT
Illusion > Legover > RPT
Ducking Clipper BSOS
Mirage > Pickup > RPT for 8 contacts
Illusion > Pickup > RPT
Clipper > Bubba > RPT
Toe SS Butter > Infinity > near legover > RPT
Butterfly > PDX Mirage > RPT for 8 contacts
Spinning Clipper BSOS (set from clipper)
Mirage > Legover> Mirage > Legover > Illusion > Pickup > Illusion > Pickup
spin clip>ducking clip>rpt
Eggbeater

Challenges not yet Completed:

miragex5>ss miragex5>rpt
illusionx5>ss illusionx5>rpt
spin clip>gyro clip>rpt
gyro clip>diving clip>rpt

[Iron Clad Ben]

Welcome Greg. I see you are in Corpus, that's cool! If you are ever in Austin and want to shred send me a PM. Also, BTW we have a rule on modified that you need to put your real name in your signature.

Some challenges for you to start off:
Mirage > Legover > RPT for 8 contacts
Mirage > SS Mirage > RPT
Butterfly > Infinity > Infinity (infinity is clip set op butterfly)
Clipper > Pickup > Legover > RPT
Butterfly > Pickup > Rpt
Butterfly > near mirage > legover > RPT
Butterfly > Osis > near mirage > RPT

[PacLoc]

Ben,

Thanks for the challanges, I haven't done any of those strings yet except for the mirage > Legover > RPT but only for 5 contacts I think. I am pretty sure I can do the mirage > ss mirage > RPT but it's a good one to try.

As for the other ones it might take me some time, I can osis from a butterfly, but I cant really control the set off of an osis very well yet or a butterfly for that matter. I guess it is setting off of a clipper that I have problems with once I have already performed a trick. I'm getting a little better at setting it straight, but right now I have to think about it too much. I will try Butterfly > Pickup > RPT after the mirage ones.

Tonight I'll try until I get them down, or I won't sleep.

[PacLoc]

I just did the mirage > ss mirage > RPT

I must have tried it like 50 times before I got it. I just need to get it consistantly now.

[PacLoc]

Last night I modded my g units and then got another challenge.
Butterfly > Pickup > RPT. I still like my lavers more, but I need to do the trick with them still. I am getting a little better at the Mirage > ss Mirage > RPT.

Next I will try the Butterfly > Infinity > Infinity and Clipper > Pickup > Legover > RPT.

Too many mirages make my shins and knees hurt because I play every day for about an hour and a half to two hours.

Thanks for the challenges, They really give me something to shoot for and are making me able to connect tricks together.

[PacLoc]

I've almost completed all of my challenges. I just need one more contact on the two I have left. Some more challenges would be cool. Thanks.

[Iron Clad Ben]

Hi Greg,
Ok here are some more I think you can hit:
Butterfly > PDX Mirage > RPT
Clipper > Bubba > RPT
Clipper > Osis > RPT 8 contacts
Illusion > Legover > RPT
Illusion > Pickup > RPT
Clipper > SS Butter > near Mirage > RPT
Toe SS Butter > Infinity > Far legover > RPT
Eggbeater (basically DLO with first dex as illusion instead of mirage)
Clipper x 2 > near mirage > mirage > RPT
Spinning Clipper BS (set from clipper)
Ducking Clipper BS (maybe you hit this already? If so, BSOS)

[PacLoc]

Challenges completed updated. Today I thought I hit 3 new combos, but really only 2, because I had remembered a combo wrong. I got the clipper > osis > RPT and Butter > osis > near mirage > RPT. I also did clipper > near mirage > mirage > RPT. I had forgotton the clipper was supposed to be x2, but whatever. These are cool drills, thanks for the help Ben.

[Benzilla]

mirage>pickup > RPT (8 contacts)
Butter>pdx mirage> RPT (8 contacts)

those two drills i like to hit.

[PacLoc]

I got two more drills completed yesterday. The clipperx2 > near mirage > mirage > RPT and Butter > PDX Mirage > RPT. I am getting a little better at illusions. I got illusion > Legover one side and can hit flip illusions now too, so hopefully I can get the illusion drills pretty fast. I was wondering about this drill:

Toe SS Butter > Infinity > Far legover > RPT

Do you just do a toe stall after the far legover to the other foot, because you will end back on the same toe otherwise. Or do you do a normal butterfly the second time? Or should it just be a near legover?

[Zac Miley]

do it with near legover, ss butterlfy, toe butterfly, and add a legover on the end.

[PacLoc]

Three challenges completed today. I hit mirage > Pickup > RPT for 8 contacts on my second try. I also hit some illusion challenges, the clipper > Bubba > RPT and the illusion > pickup > RPT. I haven't dedicated a session for challenges in a very long time, and when I finally do I get 3 down, it was cool.

I am still working on the remaining challenges, but I would really like some more, maybe with rev whirls and osises.

Thanks for the Contributions Ben and Ben.

[PacLoc]

Nobody has challenges for me? I have made a personal challenge of doing 20 tiltless. I have only gotten 15 so far unless you count pure same side clippers which I think I got higher. Edit: I got a 26 contact tiltless run yesterday, so I guess I will go for 30 now.

On another note, for some reason my paradox mirages are very weak. I think I am worse at them now then when I learned them. I never try to incorporate them into my freestyle because I know there is a huge chance of a drop. If anyone can offer some advice for this trick that would be cool too. I think my problem lies with pivoting right off of the clipper. On my flipside clipper, it makes it hard to set it high enough and straight enough. To top it off after pivoting, even with an ok set, my ankle feels all twisted in and makes the trick feel real retarded.

But anyway please give me some more challenges or I might have to steal some from others.

[Benzilla]

drill clippers, do them consecutively both sides back to back, and one side repeatedly.

And for the paradox mirage, practice is what you need to get done, try startign off every freestyle run with a paradox mirage(switch to incorporate both sides) for a day and see if it improves. If it does, then you just need some more practice in, if not it may be something else that is throwing you off.

[TheLast]

Mirage > legover > Mirage > legover > Illusion > Pickup > Illusion > Pickup > rpt as many as you can

[PacLoc]

Thanks for the new challenge. I will try to do the 8 contacts first then try to get more.

Completed 2 more challenges today: Toe ss butterfly > Infinity > near Legover > RPT and Butterfly > PDX mirage > RPT for 8 contacts. I think I'm getting the hang of PDX mirages, I wasn't turning my hips toward the bag on the butterfly.

Anymore challenges would be great.

[PacLoc]

I haven't been playing as hard as I was a couple of months ago, so I haven't really gotten better, but I still haven't become worse. Learning spinning finally, mainly strongside, but flip is coming around. Please help me out with possible single move challenges or strings. Either would really help.

[PacLoc]

Trick List updated. I have been learning a ton of new tricks within the last couple days. I got my first 5 today. It looks like I am becoming onesided by the way the list is, but my flip spins and ducks and even pixies are coming along. I've come up with a few challenges for myself, but please add on if you got some.

Whirl > Dyno > RPT
Rev whirl > Infinity > RPT
Learn Twirl
Flip Stepping

[Sporatical_Distractions]

-miragex5>ss miragex5>rpt
-illusionx5>ss illusionx5>rpt
-spin clip>gyro clip>rpt
-spin clip>ducking clip>rpt
-gyro clip>diving clip>rpt

[PacLoc]

Bumpity Bump, and i'm gonna try to do some of Kevin's challenges today, we'll see how that goes. And tricklist updated a little bit.

Damn eggbeater, maybe i'll try that today too. It's been on my list for quite some time.