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ta0

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Collision Course !!!
« on: December 30, 2010, 06:50:06 PM »

I was trying to film some tricks with two fixed-tip tops, Giulia and Enzo, for the S8 contest and I got a little frustrated with the tops colliding. Really, these tricks would work better with smaller tops (or bigger hands). But I found that I kind of liked the clacking sound of the tops banging together, something like castanets. I finally decided to have fun with it a do the banging on purpose and a new "trick" emerged.  I hope you have a laugh.

http://ta0.com/tricks/videos/collisioncourse.swf]

(Place the mouse over the black video window once it loads for the controls to appear).

Do not try this with fragile or anodized tops.
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2010, 07:00:44 PM »

sweet! i like the sound that is created by the 2 tops
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2010, 07:15:15 PM »

 ;D
The four-up clip is especially fantastic!
Very cool trick.  I am guessing you were first trying to get them to walk around each other?
They are both spinning CCW, yes?
I love how resilient these tops are, they give more confidence to the player (though ta0 has plenty of confidence already) and more confidence = more tricks!
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2010, 07:23:20 PM »

Very cool trick.
Very cool indeed!  8)
Beautiful ta0!
Thanks for bringing this to us!  ;D
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2010, 07:53:50 PM »

Good one!
now can you do it twice on one throw (or one set of throws)?
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2010, 08:19:20 PM »

Thanks!

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I am guessing you were first trying to get them to walk around each other?
One of the tricks I tried was walking pass each other on different strings. But the most frustrating part of a trick was landing both tops in the same hand.

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They are both spinning CCW, yes?
Yes and that is a very interesting question. I occurred to me that eventually I needed to try it with the tops spinning in opposite directions, but I did not have time to do it and my left hand boomerang is very bad, anyway. As you can see on the slow mo, the tops when they collide spin around each other, like in Synthetic Tangler. On the one I land at the end the tops revolve a full turn around each other but the trick would also work with half a turn or one-and-a-half turns, so you would end with the tops swapping hands (you can see it in many of my near misses). But if the tops spin in different directions this may not happen and the trick might be easier to complete (but less spectacular in slow mo).

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now can you do it twice on one throw (or one set of throws)?
No way!
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Re: Collision Course !!!
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2011, 03:00:25 PM »

Awesome--I love the slow motion clip!
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