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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 26, 2011, 07:45: PM »

=)

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 24, 2011, 07:48: PM »

ok cool man! thanks again! and i might as well just ask 1 more question: youve mentioned luki and turkalov; but who else is great at uppers? like i wanna watch loadsa upper legends, so if you could just put some more names here who are amazing at uppers that would be great 

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 22, 2011, 07:39: PM »

Couldn't really tell you how long it takes to get to intermediate or hardcore, since a lot of people confuse rollers with "hardcore uppers."

You'll be able to tell when you are good, you will have a fast flow.

To train, I usually start by just doing every trick I know how to do. Unlike lowers, we do not have a mass amount of tricks, so style/speed is what we aim for.
When training try to get:
1. A really low around the moon ------ don't throw the ball 100 feet in the air like most people, the lower the around the moon, the better it looks.
2. A flow ----- it takes time to achieve a flow, but basically, try and do all the tricks you know in one combo as fast as you can --- do not sacrifice style
3. Incorporate body tricks --- try to get really good at going into chest rolls FAST. Study 1:14 in the luki video, speed is a must in body tricks
4. Long hair --- you want to look like turlakov so people will think you are amazing!

long hair haha! but what do you mean to not sacrifice style? oh yh, and what is considered a "good" style in uppers? like in lowers it would be juggling smooth, with toes below knee level, so in uppers...? thanks

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Help and Advice / Re: how to grab the ball tightly in footstall??

« on: May 22, 2011, 07:33: PM »

try pointing your toes towards your shin as much as you can, and have as small as hole as possible between foot and shin (the hole is the small gap that there is, if you dont know what i mean take a photo of yourself doing footstall)

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 19, 2011, 07:40: PM »

gr8 advice man, thanks a milllion! i owe you man! now i just gotta improve my uppers and get fluid. 1 question actually; how long does it usually take for one to get to an "intermediate" or even "advanced" level of uppers? i mean, how can you tell once you get really good? and how long does it take?
oh yh, also; how do YOU (tupac) practice uppers? just go over everthing you know how to do in uppers? i dont know if you understand or not, i hope so. i mean to say that how do people practice uppers? like when dudes do lowers, they like do atws htws hatws crossover combos etc, so how to do uppers?
thanks again man! peace

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 17, 2011, 06:28: PM »

gee thanks a lot man tupac. but ummm, yh. i sound like a real big noob here but could you pls explain to me what pavel roll is? yh i know, me=noob. i dont know what it is. haha

and also im having trouble with the moves neck stall to side head stall and as well shoulder stall to side head stall. any tips? thanks a lot man =D

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 14, 2011, 08:01: PM »

hmmm... i dont know how to move on tho, ive tried to do some fluid movements but dont know where to start... any recommendations?

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Help and Advice / Re: Training 30 hours a day....

« on: May 12, 2011, 09:52: PM »

What about if you take a ball to school like I do?? ;)

Play at recess and lunch!!

Peace

lol the only bad thing is that, people might ask you if you wanna play football, and if you tell them nah this ball is only for freestyle that might think you're a cocky bitch.

smae here!!! lol i just say that the ball i have breaks really easily if you start to play footy with it and if you kick it hard and stuff it will soon break... they dont play football, but they do try to do keepie uppies tho lol not good tho  :lol_hitting:º

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Help and Advice / Re: Improving Stamina?

« on: May 10, 2011, 08:09: PM »

The best way is to do it gradually. A slight increase is much better than to train until you can't move.
Think about it, does a football couch tell you to run 10km on the first day, does a power lifter start off on 200kg bench press?

you mean coach, right?
so how do i start then? i dont understand

you mean breaks for like 5-10 mins in your session, or breaks like days were you don't freestyle?

srry for failing the quote thing lol

i mean breaks of 3-5 mins

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Freestyle Chat / Re: Is freestyle fun?

« on: May 09, 2011, 06:10: PM »

fun isn't a word i would ever use to describe freestyle, so no in answer to your question no freestyle is not fun (for me).

but...i can't think of anything more satisfying/rewarding than freestyle. When you land a trick/combo you've been training for its undescribable. anybody who has reached one of the milestones in fs will know what im talking about (your first proper nt, your first patw etc).

So when i compare the amount of training time vs the amount of satisfaction, is it worth it? YES YES YES

same

i have the same years in freestyle ass blazej and i´ve been in situations were my level picks up and then something happens or my interest isn't the same but from all those years i  know that freestyle for me is beyond a sport and is beyond of having fun do in it, is the only thing that make´s me relax and realise  stress, and I will keep on freestyling in till the day I´l die,  and the good part is that im taking my lowers to the next level.

it will be cool to see a 80 year old guy freestyling haha

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Help and Advice / Re: Improving Stamina?

« on: May 08, 2011, 05:28: PM »

Yes I want to be a fitness trainer when I am older and from what I have learned you should always choose water to hydrate. Good job man

haha. i think the best way to get better in stamina is just to practice until your very last breath, until the point where you really cant move your legs. and also have a lot of breaks 

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Help and Advice / Re: Uppers-moving on?

« on: May 05, 2011, 05:31: PM »

ok cool. i just dont know how to train hard in uppers, if you know what i mean. like in lowers and in sitdowns, its easy to train combos, but in uppers, i just dont know how or what to train. i suppose i should try and combine all of these moves in fluid movements. maybe i should try to start to learn top head stall?