Hybrid Can't Breathe

Fu Xi · Post by **Fu Xi** » 26 Jun 2004 07:10

Well... here is my best of 2 days of shred. I believe my strings are way too short. Or maybe i believe they should be longer even tho thats pushing myself too much?

http://freecache.org/http://www.footbag ... reathe.wmv

Please... tips... please...

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 26 Jun 2004 08:02

Nice stuff!
I think your style looks good, and I didn't really see anything that looked like a problem.

If you want to hit longer runs I would suggest long hours of drilling the one move. As far as I know this is the only thing that works. If you find doing the one combo boring just hit runs, but focus on a particular move and try to hit it as often as you can. For example today I was working on ducking butterflies so I was hitting runs like: Dive butterfly>ripwalk>duck butterfly>butterfly>dive butterfly>pdx mirage>dimwalk>dive butterfly>spin clip>dive butterfly>duck butterfly> etc.

Drilling some combos will also help. Do something like ripwalk>butterfly>butterfly>ripwalk repeat and keep going till you drop it. Also set goals for how many contacts in the drill you want to hit.

But anyway good work - you've improved a great deal since the last video I saw!

mc · Post by mc » 26 Jun 2004 08:02

first off, I think you've got the potential to have really smooth, even style. You're off to a good start, there's just a few things.

as per your request:

stand up a bit straighter for better balance. find a beat that works well with the speed of your style, and practice playing right on the beat. start off just doing alternating clippers or infinities or alternating toes. This will help you get a feel for playing with the bag at an even speed, which really encourages smoothness.

Your arms and body look like they're pretty relaxed and controlled most of the time, keep that up. school alternating ducking clippers hard; this will encourage your legs to build up that quick twitch that you need to do a high clipper set with minimal motion.

that's all I can think of right now. Good job, Rob. keep working.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 26 Jun 2004 08:42

That was great. I don't have any tips as you are better than me.

Thank you for posting this video.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 26 Jun 2004 09:31

You've gotten a lot smoother and fluent through your moves, props to that. No tips, just keep playing and have fun.

ReavenK · Post by **ReavenK** » 26 Jun 2004 13:26

Better than what I can do and like everyone else is saying, you do the movies really smooth.

What song is that thou?

ShredStylez · Post by **ShredStylez** » 26 Jun 2004 19:42

you totally remind me of brad nelson.

Shredxor · Post by **Shredxor** » 26 Jun 2004 23:11

schnikes man. good stuff very very good stuff. you have such a great style. You make it look really easy.... it's really awesome to see people with such fluencey.. i for one am not one so props to you... major props

Fu Xi · Post by **Fu Xi** » 27 Jun 2004 16:49

thanks jeremy and matt for the help. ill be sure to use it next time.

and thanks to tom, john and ricky for the compliments...

this inspires me like always to make more videos and shred harder

marc · Post by **marc** » 27 Jun 2004 18:17

Great job. The only tip I could offer is to keep it up and keep practicing.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 28 Jun 2004 00:07

I finally got around to watching this video. I'm so glad I did. This is one of the most fun videos I've watched in a while. The music was really good, the shred was really good (GREAT balance of guilts trips and fears -- your style just looks really confident and not complete (because I know you will grow out of the leaning and things that other people mentioned that I didn't even feel needed mentioning).)
The bothsided pixie sets made me really happy. So did the bothsided butterflies and osis' in the first clip -- I was so afraid you wouldn't osis on the other side and it was soo relieving to see that. I shouldn't say relieving, but it really made it more enjoyable for me to watch (the bothsidedness

Thanks for the video Rob!

Andersen DK · Post by **Andersen DK** » 28 Jun 2004 00:36

Hey Rob
I really don't have any tips for you. Have the same problem see....
What i would like to know is, who made the song, I think it's nice.

Søren Andersen, Denmark

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 28 Jun 2004 03:44

dashboard confessional - the places you have come to fear the most

I just re-watched it. superb.

Fu Xi · Post by **Fu Xi** » 28 Jun 2004 03:51

yea thats right... i should have posted that earlier

thanks again guys!

Juice · Post by **Juice** » 28 Jun 2004 04:26

I quite liked that. Well done!

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » 28 Jun 2004 05:20

Hey Rob, I've got to agree with everyone else about how good your style is.

Your video insipred me to hit some longer strings, and I think I'm gonna do just that! Keep up the awesome work!