Freestyling with weights

[Claudiufs]

Hey guys! Recently I had an idea and I decided to go buy some leg weights ( they look somethin like this http://www.medexsupply.com/images/SMP-515804.jpg ) I train about 1-2 hours a day and every session I try to do at least 30 minutes of freestyle with weights (mostly lowers, of course) Result? after a while you use them, you will gain power and your feet become faster when doing harder tricks and also stronger so you can do longer combos...I suggest you to try this training technique, if you already did, than let me know if it helped you...   

[Tupac]

I used to do this (not the training part with the ball) for my knees. You gotta be extremely careful on how much weight your using. 5 pounds is enough to do some serious damage to your knees.

[alexfs]

as far as i know none of strong lower freestylers have used them
very often people ask if they should go to the gym and work out legs or use a treadmill to get more power and stamina
as oLi said - "if you want to be good in freestyle - do freestyle", but not waste your time on anything besides that
weights can result in serious back injuries - so i would say - searching for easy ways is not a good idea, good thing to do it practice

[Claudiufs]

oh I forgot to mention that i fs with 3 pounds each foot.... and I dont think that this could cause damage, so far I didnt have any problems using them...if I see that it will fuckup my style i will stop for sure cause for me, style is what matters the most... and in the PATW tutorial, german (the russian freestyler) mentions that practicing with weights might be helpful 

[alexfs]

oh I forgot to mention that i fs with 3 pounds each foot.... and I dont think that this could cause damage, so far I didnt have any problems using them...if I see that it will fuckup my style i will stop for sure cause for me, style is what matters the most... and in the PATW tutorial, german (the russian freestyler) mentions that practicing with weights might be helpful 

that tutorial is a joke
i remember reading russian comments to that video, everybody was talking how wrong that advice about weights was
but it's up to you man, i never used them myself

[Claudiufs]

I'll use them for a longer period of time just to see long-term results...

[Miran Pirner]

Good luck with that. 

[TokitoFS]

I started using weights and on day 3 I landed latw with them generally my training with them was khtw and latw.After that my legs were much faster but got problems controlling them . For example in the first minutes without weights I couldn't juggle, every time the ball end up in the ground, but after 15minutes my control was back to normal and my legs were 50% faster than before and done my first ahmatw after 10 tries. :D  But after that my legs was on a slow motion - mode :D for a few days . In the end my legs were at about 20% faster after the training. I think weights are good to train hardcore tricks but with measure and not to use them constantly ask if you don't understand something
heres my video of training session with weights : strani4en efekt.wmv
and after 30 min when my control was back to normal : AHMATW TOKITO

[tbc]

sorry tokito. your videos are hard to watch till the end and your theories are not proven.
maybe if 3-4 guys at the same level, with same amount of total training approximately, tried these methods then maybe we could draw any conclusions. still then it would be doubtful.

[TokitoFS]

sorry tokito. your videos are hard to watch till the end and your theories are not proven.
maybe if 3-4 guys at the same level, with same amount of total training approximately, tried these methods then maybe we could draw any conclusions. still then it would be doubtful.

it's okay, to me weighs helped me I'm curious too to see what other guys will say

[FreeGFreestyler]

Man TOkitoFS, how can you freestyle with such flappy socks haha?

[Claudiufs]

I tried them for about 2 weeks (4,5 times a week) and all I can say it's that it fucks up your style and touch with the ball... in conclusion i don't recomand using them