This run for me was about the bounce and the construction. I like the narrative aspect of the first half of the combo building up to the breakdown as an ‘intro’. It’s really easy to forget and skip over more drawn out phrasing’s in your tricks when your trying to just ‘do something dope’. Its very much beneficial to spread out ‘the way’ you introduce your showcase elements of a trick from time to time. Gives you more options to tell a more dynamic story with your trick or combo.
The bounce in the first half is more of a string loading style of play, where as after the beat breaks down, the bounce takes on more of a literal ‘in and out’ kinda phrasing that mimics both the ruff kick drum and that low alert drone sound well (to me). Let the music impact your element and flow choices and you’ll legit always have element and movement options that you can enjoy 👍🏿
Really feelin the ‘bounce’ this run had. Starting to rreeaalllyy see the benefits of varying trick ‘density’ use according to your music complexity. Simple track sounds and arrangement pair well with simpler density. Aaalllssooo noticed that just like on drums or bass, if you can maintain a pocket to always fall back in with any trick/combo your doing, loss of control or mistakes are generally more salvageable. Catch that GROOVE lol 😂👌🏿
As mentioned in the previous post, this trick means a ‘lot’ to me; it pretty much re-ignited my creative juices at the time of creation. That being said, prepping to film this trick was nerve wrecking 😂 It’s hard to hit AND it’s difficult to film right.
So it’s finally time to film the trick last night...lights on, camera on and throw in hand. Slowly walk up to my target spot and just...’think’ for a moment. I think the thought was... ‘damn it I really don’t wanna go through the hassle of filming this’ lol. But aannnyywwaayyysss I give it a shot. I think my primal thrower instinct kicked it deep inside my soul with a convicted voice and exclaimed: “FIRST TRY KING!!!” LMAO.
Next thing you know....on 1st cam take and on my 1st try...hit it. Wwwooooooo man LOL. You gotta CHERISH the moments that that happens because they are rare 😂 Had to share that little story with y’all first LOL
This trick is all in your timing and laceration (slack) technique. Think of your trapeze mount as the same hand posture you’d have driving an old flat school-bus steering wheel. When you pop the throw up like an Eli hop, you wanna wait until the yo-yo reaches its peak, then very swiftly, throw a laceration with your throw hand in a counter clockwise steering a flat bus steering wheel rotation (if righty) motion. Get the whole loop segment and arm fully over and around the throw while it’s still in air. Try and kinda ‘aim’ the direction of your laceration movement to land its string on your other front mount positioned inward hand fingers. Then catch - simple 😂👌🏿 String Formula used is 65. This formula plays similar to Rebby but with a bit more ‘crunch’ to it. I would put this right in-between DRAKEN and Rebby in terms of play style and characteristics. It binds vvveerrryyy well and like Rebby, has a really good felt spatial relationship when throw is on string or even just slacking. I could talk for a good while just on it’s binding characteristics but alas, I’ll keep it brief for now 😁 Stay tuned for more details on 65 Formula 👍🏿 Full ‘slightly longer’ video version available in profile link.
There’s an oval like motion that’s goin on with how both the throw and the accompanying elements holding the throw move in this run. Sometimes when you really lock into either your motion or pocket, it can really do double duty and act as some nice coloring book ‘guide lines’ for what your doing. I think my favorite part was seeing the contrast in motion that happens around the half way mark when I kinda mount into the underside chopsticks hold and tug. That pulley affect is my jjjaaammmmm 😂👌🏿 String Formula used is upcoming MF Copernicus. Copernicus has a ‘ridiculously’ bouncy feel to it. Almost like rubber at times even. The softest formula in the full line but still maintains a serious amount of structure hold since it’s of the DRAGON ‘genome’. Also yes like DRAGON, last for over a year. Handles humidity legit better than any string I’ve tried ‘ever’ (hollar at anyone from Nationals that tried it in that humidity to support this claim 😂). Def looking forward to dropping this formula 👍🏿 Also yes - mini update/announcement. 1st class shipping rates on Markmont. Shop have now been reduced. Thank all y’all for the continued support and appreciation thus far on this and all future endeavors 🙌🏿
This throw/formula combination is super technical feeling. Metallic Pink MC on MF Draken. Something about the vibrancy of this color makes everything when throwing look ‘crispy’ 😂 Then the pyramatte finish on the crisp structured #mfdrakenenables a lloott of intricacy and feel. Would be most wise if you ‘not’ sleep on either 😁👌🏿 This run for me was all about the waviness of the flow in the first third. I’ve thrown to this track a lot, so this time I tried a different approach to the flow match. Instead of going more in line with the track, I tried to kinda weave into it. Similar musical thing is when you put triplet rhythm on a 4/4 time signature.
Also yes the entry ‘into’ the timing of the flow, the way it kinda ‘locks’ in right when the throw mounts the trapeze - diggin that. After the recovery I pull the strings with my thumb - ddiiggggg that as well as how the throw proceeds to ‘travel’.
Man...starting to rreeaallllyy see the benefits of what happens when you loosin up your element ‘phrasing’ to let the throw take its own course. It can feel at times as if the everything is going to get too wild/chaotic, but as long as you still maintain some semblance of area zoning (ie your imaginary box the throw stays moving in) then it’s all good. Think of it like drumming. When you drum with a tight grip vs a loose grip, you get way diff results. This run was much more in the range of loose grip - but there was still a fixed area that I tried to keep the throw inside.
Was feelin how those some of the hops traveled - lot of left/right movement vs just staying straight linear up/down. That little saucy green triangle juke came out of nnoooo where LOL 😂👌🏿
