not a new set, but cool concept: pendulousish nuclear

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 18 Jan 2009 15:13

Hey, it's bear again, this time with a legitimate set i'm pretty sure hasn't been done yet...
I hit pendulous matador muted super clean at steve's house yesterday and thought people would like to see it!!!
but my legs are super sore and i couldn't warm up properly, so you will have to wait til my next vid to see cool shit out of it: butterfly, dyno, and sole/ solesis zooming. i really only have time for tiltless/ guiltless to music, and working on sick ones/ threes, soo this set is pretty big for me

hope some people try it to see how crazy difficult x-bod toe to nuclear is,
mainly a hip motion!!!! don't use your knee or it will hurt, trust me.

shred on and i'll have my first pro vid done in a bit: runs and combos and single tricks, because the rest of vids have designated one of those components.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cCU4uhbF0

g00d33 · Post by **g00d33** » 18 Jan 2009 15:18

I must say, that is pretty rockin. Good job

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 18 Jan 2009 15:47

Very hard set, and very cool. When I read about it though, I thought it was actually a crossbody pendulum to nuclear, whereas it appears to be more of a half pendulum to get into xbdy toe position, and then a nuke set from xbody toe. So really, this is a xbody toe set nuclear, which is set up by a half pendulum (like, the opposite of a rake). Xbody toe set nuclear is a set that was hit at Worlds 2007. I believe Mosher invented it, and on Worship the Sack Henry Griese hits a matador out of it?

So yeah, very cool combo there, but I wouldn't say that's a new set. Still, very stylish and hard way to play into it. Good work.

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 18 Jan 2009 15:53

once again, my lack of history with the sport has gotten the best of me...
Thanks for the info about the set and the performance of it, i guess i'll have to duck or dive it to invent something

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 18 Jan 2009 16:03

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-YXgfXUJU[/youtube]

It sounds like we get to xbd differently, but from then on it sounds like you're doing my toe nuke set that I made up at the Florida Worlds. I could hit it for that week and haven't touched it since, you can have it!

Oh, but I DID hit it in competition! That clip is the very last trick I hit in the circle comp that year.

mc · Post by mc » 18 Jan 2009 17:14

who hit it first?

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 18 Jan 2009 17:17

hehe, well that set-up is quite a bit different, as i'm pretty sure i can hit it out of fairy x-bod toe butterfly as well, but awesome!!! i wish i would have seen this earlier

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » 18 Jan 2009 18:09

Firstly, great innovation!

I'd call the first component a toe wrap rather than a pendulum, as the bag is wrapped around your body horizontally before being released, rather than vertically around your body. So a toe wrap into a crossbody toe set nuclear. Two tricks, one nice combo

WRAP: TOE > [DEL] > [XBD]

TOE NUCLEAR: TOE > SAME OUT [PDX] [DEX]

First time I have written any jobs notation in years - go easy on me if its wrong

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 18 Jan 2009 18:15

Yeah, now that I think about it, that first component looks a lot like something Jon S does, which he calls a dustpan. Jon?

Paul Agostinelli · Post by **Paul Agostinelli** » 18 Jan 2009 18:21

didnt chris balch invent this set 2 or 3 years ago?

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 19 Jan 2009 04:49

How soon you all forget, I invented it in 2005.

footbagi · Post by **footbagi** » 19 Jan 2009 07:49

I remember a conversation that I had with Yanek at Wakahacky. He stated that pendulous can't be a set because the bag is still on your foot while moving from front to back, and technically a trick starts once it's removed (launched) from your foot. So it starts as a cross body toe or where ever it's launched from.

Oh and uhh, I hit hit this like 10 years ago.

mc · Post by mc » 19 Jan 2009 10:36

could we have some serious answers on who hit this first? (paul, that's not directed at you)

i saw henry g hit toe matador firsthand at worlds 06 before tom did. that's the only reason I bring it up.

Paul Agostinelli · Post by **Paul Agostinelli** » 19 Jan 2009 14:43

i wasnt trying to start some kind of joke (this is directed at those who didnt take my comment seriously)

i really do think that chris balch was the one who invented this, i thought he was doing them at spike and shred 2

Max Power · Post by **Max Power** » 19 Jan 2009 17:10

It might have been Chris Balch, but it also could have been Even Lovely. I think Chris was the first to hit opp mirage off of this set and i think Even was the first to hit butterfly off of it. It was named nucleus (like pendulous and Nuc.). I'm not sure that i have the whole story straight but that's what I remember to the best of my knowledge.

jay7 · Post by **jay7** » 31 Jan 2009 17:40

Upon trying it tonight, I discovered this is a pretty fun set. Thanks for bringing it to modified's attention Mr.Bear! I definitely can't do it "pendulous" rather, what Tom did in the above video. Yours certainly looks more interesting.

Toe nuclear legover->frankenstein, and toe-nuclear-bag rolls across neck like-a-duck-clipper were the only things I hit out of it though. Ducking it cleanly is definetly possible though.

You are also right, use your body and not your knee for this set. I found it easier to get a good set, when I have my set foot cross body, but having my toe point towards the heel of my support foot, so that they are not parallel but perpendicular, rather.

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 02 Feb 2009 10:45

yay jay! i'm glad you tried it out

i like the nuc to legover. the coolest thing i've done with it is a dyno after, kind've like a wierd motion. i'll have to try ducking it some more!!! props.

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 02 Feb 2009 14:44

Paul Agostinelli wrote:didnt chris balch invent this set 2 or 3 years ago?

My thoughts exactly.

Xain · Post by **Xain** » 08 Feb 2009 16:21

When I posted about it a few years ago, no one said anything, so I assumed that I "invented it." I never really got great(read: consistent) at it, but I hit the equivalences of atom smasher and sumo.

edit: my post is on page 314 of "new moves"