UPSB v3
Advanced Tricks / Spinning Smoother - How to Link Better - How to Get Better
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 02:22:34
Well I was just wondering how do you guys spin so smoothly. I mean, I am pretty creative with combos and stuff. But when I watch myself spin, I fell that lava going through a straw is more fluid than my spinning. What should I do to improve?
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 02:54:58
Practice. The answer is pretty obvious since you need to do it to get good at anything really.
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 02:56:06
practice slowly, and increase your speed as u get better at doing combos
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 03:38:12
As my old basketball coach used to say, "Be quick, but don't be in a hurry." Just focus on getting your fingers used to the manipulations, and smoothness will follow once muscle memory builds.
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 03:53:37
smoothness comes with absolute control. If you feel like every trick is being left to chance, you probably won't be smooth
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 03:53:47
That's like asking "How do you run?".
Well, you've got to learn how to walk, first.
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 04:27:12
I'm right at the point where my spinning is starting to get that uber smooth look that I know what you are talking about. I'd say it gets smoother the better you get at the tricks and the smoother you do each trick. Just I guess it's all in practice.
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 09:23:44
Practice.
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 11:07:52
practice makes perfection
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 13:35:17
practicing A variety of tricks daily in different orders
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Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 19:03:03
Same as others, practice.
Share with you my personal experience, my bak fall is kinda slow when I started to earn this trick, but after i can manage to do bak with all my fingers, I looked into the mirror on how I spin, and finding the best angles(for presentation purpose) and I find that my bak fall is really choppy. So I tried to speed up, so now, it's smooth for index and middle bak, still working and the ring and pinky.
Maybe try to learn the trick and slowly speed up like what I did, hope it helps =D -
Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 23:20:49
Speed isn't always the way to smoothness, as the Japanese spinners will constantly prove you.
I've been wondering the same thing not long a go until lately I started reaching that level of smoothness in some of my mini combos. It's all about practicing, and preparing for the next trick before you get into that position. Just continue learning and expanding your trick base while doing freestyles on a daily basis and the smoothness will come on its own. The degree of the smoothness will eventually depend on a lot of factors like the tricks, the type of spinning, some times the speed, your hand and so on... -
Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 23:38:51
Just practice, once you master a trick you can execute it smoothly. So once you master a lot of tricks just string them into combos, practice and they'll be smooth.
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Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 00:43:35
it won't come fast at all
i've been spinning for almost 3 years and i dont consider myself that smooth
i am smooth to a degree
but i am definitely not very smooth
you need lots of patience and if you just keep practicing tricks it will come naturally over time
i fear not the man that has practiced 1,000 tricks 1 time
but the man that has practiced 1 trick 1,000 times. -
Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 01:13:37
Lol every post has been about practice, I guess I should practice, lol
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Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 02:44:46
well, my first advice is of course...practice
but secondly, when you're doing a combo, right after one trick, think about how you're gonna throw the momentum of the first trick into the next
you can't think of a combo as 20 tricks combined, you have to think about it as 1 really long trick
so you can't just do a trick individually, and then do the next trick as if you were to do it individually
a single trick could be initiated through so many ways, it just depends on the momentum of the trick prior to that trick
decided to give some advice other than practice
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Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 02:58:58
it could be your linkage you know
if you have like ... wacky linkage of course it might look good and everything but it all leads down to practice (dang it!)
just keep linkage fairly simple for now and then later on when you mastered easy linkage such as
twisted sonic 34-23 -> sonic 23-12
then you can go for other stuff like
sonic 34-24 -> twisted sonic 24-12 and yea that advanced stuff XD -
Date: Sun, Jan 20 2008 14:52:38
It's a combination of mastering different things smoothly. A big piece broken down into smaller pieces, that is. I think of it like this:
Say there is a combo you want to master. Like shadow 12-23 > twisted sonic bust 23-12. The tricks it includes are a shadow, a twisted sonic, and an indexaround (or bak rev). Besides practicing those tricks to work like a charm on their own, you're going to want to practice them from different set-ups, as well as leading into a different trick.
For example, a shadow 12-23 to a charge 23 to make sure the transition is smooth. I hope you catch what I'm trying to say. -
Date: Mon, May 31 2010 02:22:09
i have a friend who is really good at ps BUT i found out i know much more tricks then him he just knows how to link them together, he says that i use my thumb too much, and my pen spinning kind of looks like more of just a bunch of tricks in a line than tricks linked together... how can i help this? thank u
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Date: Tue, Jun 1 2010 16:05:19
Try not to use your thumb flap to do Charge/Sonic moves.. It's a bad habit I'm also trying to kill
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Date: Tue, Jun 1 2010 16:15:38
I'm newish to penspinning, but just try putting two tricks together, and just practice with putting two tricks together until you can do it fluently, then try putting the two combos together.