Hey y'alls,
It's been a long time since I've done a bit of a progress log text style
Tricks wise, I got better... a LOT better at wheels of fortunes... they don't feel hard anymore... I also am able with certain top to interwind from WoF to Hammer to WoF and so forth... This is using the mighty QSH.
One thing I did this weekend was convert my green "unusused" guilia from bearing to fixed tip... Man this top is a walker
I have to play more with it. The Guilia is a nice fixed tip but it's not as easy as the QSH to regen to me. I tried ( and am ) using smaller string for it. Something like 4 ply of 2 thread of cotton 20. It seem to work better. It will yeild a longer string but I do'nt remember the last time I played with a 60 inch string.. I keep one just to throw once in a while for the fun of it. Other tricks I was able to perform was to get the top ( Jospin's one ) to spin on my finger, not my nail, the actual finger
That felt surreal. I also was able to pull off a behind the head wirewalker!!!
I've been working a lot on my komas lately too. Chonkake wise. I've gotten a pair of gloves, man this makes grinding so much possible... Somethign I've figured out this weekend was left hand grind to trapeze... You let the top precess on your hand... looks pretty cool ! I l also understood how to do vertical kind of grind, throw back up and then catch back on the string... Koma wize, I was able to regen a koma for the first time last week. This was a ver5 of spingear with the metal side.. it's pretty pretty hard but possible... I am using what Taka call the pro string. I also was able to pull off my frist 2 way wirewalker with the koma too!!
So much fun... One of the next thing I want to concentrate on is behind the back trazpeze to lasso... That and around the 'arm' kind of combo... they looks cool... ( possibly lemmings too but after
) Chonkake is very relaxing to me theses days, I just play for 30 min while my wife does other stuff at night. I don't really concentrate on learning anything. To anyone that get able to do the basic regen.. I recommend Chonkake, it's fun!
Anyway!
Keep spinnin' y'alls!
paxl
