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agentsac

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new personal record!
« on: October 04, 2009, 01:57:46 PM »

i just did 15 joker chokers in a row!

also, i'm back.

also, this board is awesome.
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Pulpowsky

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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 05:15:36 PM »

Congratulations. Six is my consolidated record.

Joker Choker is a very visual trick. Very impactant.
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the Earl of Whirl

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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 08:25:04 PM »

Welcome back, agentsac.  And congratulations on your new personal best with the joker chokers.  You are making great progress!!!  Keep up the good work.

Yes, this is an awesome board.
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 05:05:34 PM »

If you are counting each string catch, that is very good. If you are counting each completed joker-choker (30 catches) that is excellent!  The way you are going you may have to skip ladder  ;)
Congrats!
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agentsac

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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 08:09:08 PM »

it was 30 total catches with a sidewinder (plastic tip), but i'm sure it was just a fluke. i can usually manage only half that.  :(

then again, records (like rules) are made to be broken!
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 10:38:24 PM »

Well, congratulations!
Joker -choker is a diifiicult trick!
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2009, 09:11:38 PM »

Excuse my ignorance,  I have been spinning tops for 61 years and do not know what a joker chop is.
Please help. ???
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2009, 09:17:42 PM »

Joker choker is alternating roller coaster and drum beats. You have to move very quickly.
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2009, 09:43:31 PM »

Joker choker is alternating roller coaster and drum beats. You have to move very quickly.
For some reason I thought that what you just described was Sewing Machine, and Joker choker was sort of a horizontal roller coaster.  I'm notorious at being wrong at this kind of thing though.
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2009, 09:47:05 PM »

Jorge is so humble about his great videos and descriptions at ta0.com

Check out these tricks at http://ta0.com/tricks/tricks.html
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2009, 12:49:21 AM »

Well, I don't brag too much about those tutorials because they are old and the videos need updating, as well as some of the explanations.

I think Chris you have sewing machine and joker choker backwards. It is funny but when I first learned the tricks I had to kind of guess which trick was which and how it should be done.  I was learning by myself before encountering any other player in person and those tricks are not in the Spintastics or Duncan videos ("How to be a player" doesn't even have drumbeat, I believe). I only had as reference the short clips of Herman Lau on topspinning.com, filmed in some sort of restaurant. So when I posted the tutorials I was afraid someone would say: that trick is not sewing machine . . .
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2009, 02:47:41 AM »

DOH!  Such a great resource right underneath my nose.  Thanks, guys.
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2009, 10:53:47 AM »

c'mon jorge, quit being modest. when i learned regens i learned them from your videos!

i believe the restaurant was/is round table pizza. before my time, but i believe it was a local yo-yo hang out back in the day. any old ppl here remember this?
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2009, 09:13:05 PM »

Yes!!!  Now I can share a new joker choker personal record.  It is with my preacher top.  It has taken me a while to get used to the longer string (rope) but tonight I had a couple runs in double digits and even had a run in the 20's (counting each catch as one).  With some more work I think I will be able to use the joker choker as a regeneration move I can count on with that top.  Yippee!
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Re: new personal record!
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2009, 09:26:15 PM »

congrats, Mike. nest time I see you we will have to have a Joker Choker competition. Just you and me...to the death.
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