New here, toe stall problem

nuke0063 · Post by **nuke0063** » 27 May 2008 16:23

Hey, New to the site and I would like to say This place is very informing.

I have had a a mr. sandbag for about 2 weeks now and I practice everyday.

No matter what I do, I can't get a consistent toe stall. i mostly stall randomly without knowing what I did. I have been on hackrifice a lot and read some posts made here. The footbag just doesn't stall for me.

any help?

i am using flat top shoes too (emerica francis)

gMoney · Post by **gMoney** » 27 May 2008 16:35

2 things that will help:

1. Lavers! Those really help if you want to get real good and learn a lot of tricks.
2. Overexadurate the motion. Make sure your entire leg is doing the motion, not just your ankle. It helps when you first learn stalls to bring your leg up almost as much as possible with your knee bent and your toes pointed up and to follow the bag all the way down. Don't even worry about consecutive toe stalls yet, just worry about the motion. As you get better, you won't exadurate the motion as much.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 27 May 2008 18:04

Grant totally butchered the word exaggerate and I love it.

Along with bending the leg that catches the bag, be sure to bend a bit in your support leg. That is key for all tricks, including clipper tricks.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » 27 May 2008 20:53

yea... Lavers will really help. especially if you take the canvas off and mod the toe box...

and to be honest, the Mr.Sandbag is one of the easiest footbags to stall...

so im thinking you just need new shoes...

AND REMEMBER!!!! BEND THAT KNEE!!!!

gMoney · Post by **gMoney** » 28 May 2008 12:12

I wrote:Overexadurate

Shit. I just.... I mean, I didn't even....

nuke0063 · Post by **nuke0063** » 28 May 2008 12:55

I figured it out after reading your feedback.
Jordan was right.

the shoes were the problem

but since i am low on money, I just modified the shoes i have now.
i used the lacing technique used on footbag.org and some other basic modifications.

Now i can stall consistently with BOTH FEET

and thank you for the bending the knee tip, it really helped

-thanks everyone

HippieTom · Post by **HippieTom** » 28 May 2008 13:15

honestly its great that you modded the shoes and such and can get the stall with both feet but really it isnt the shoes, with proper form you can toe stall easily in any shoe or even without shoes haha barefoot shred rocks...congratz though haha

calemccoy · Post by **calemccoy** » 02 Jun 2008 23:01

HippieTom wrote:honestly its great that you modded the shoes and such and can get the stall with both feet but really it isnt the shoes, with proper form you can toe stall easily in any shoe or even without shoes haha barefoot shred rocks...congratz though haha

wrong.

lavers, ftw.

mc · Post by mc » 03 Jun 2008 11:23

you can get a hockey puck from point A to point B using a branch, but that's no substitute for proper equipment.

Lavers +1

search ebay in your size, and make sure you're getting the mesh model like what they have on www.worldfootbag.com

nice emericas, super styley.

HippieTom · Post by **HippieTom** » 03 Jun 2008 11:44

wow, excuse my inexperience here but really i wasnt meaning that anyone shouldnt get lavers just saying

Matt Cross wrote:Remember, shoes don't make the player. The player makes the player.

and yeah proper equipment is still the way to go

ChrisW · Post by **ChrisW** » 05 Jun 2008 08:12

Stalls are easy with the 'Magic Hop.' Check it out here: http://www.freedomfootbags.com/blog/tri ... -magic-hop

Benzilla · Post by **Benzilla** » 05 Jun 2008 18:01

every sport has specialized equipment, and if you are not willing to purchase that equipment you have to question how much you are going to dedicate yourself to that sport.

janis · Post by **janis** » 05 Jun 2008 19:31

calemccoy wrote:
HippieTom wrote:honestly its great that you modded the shoes and such and can get the stall with both feet but really it isnt the shoes, with proper form you can toe stall easily in any shoe or even without shoes haha barefoot shred rocks...congratz though haha
wrong.

lavers, ftw.

If you can't do a toe stall barefoot then something is going very wrong.

but yeah get lavers if you want to play in shoes

TheLast · Post by **TheLast** » 06 Jun 2008 09:55

lavers

nuke0063 · Post by **nuke0063** » 09 Jun 2008 14:51

Benzilla wrote:every sport has specialized equipment, and if you are not willing to purchase that equipment you have to question how much you are going to dedicate yourself to that sport.

i really took into consideration what you said. And what you said is completely true.

having said that, i am ordering a pair of lavers