The ever popular "Today I..." thread

[The Void]

Restrung a freshie today.

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Filmed a few quick tricks with it to. Will post those soonish.

[HansNickmans]

I've never really clicked on lunars, sometimes I would think that I have it and then I would completely lose it again. Until last year when I kinda got inward lunars solid, actually based on Sweets' tutorial (which is short but very good).

However, yesterday on a new natural Zen, it started clicking again. And I landed lunar after lunar. Apparently I've been doing it wrong for all those years (which is more than 8 years). I thought the catch was as I learned with lighthouse, a small upwards push to stabilize. However, I found that for me just cushioning the catch as much as possible (with knees of course) really makes it that much easier.

A lot of talk about what is just "a lunar" these days, but I got that same feeling again as when I just started playing. [insert emotional statement here]

Now on to lunar somersault, the next one on the list....

[BKA]

[insert emotional statement here]

[Jedi_man]

I concocted some nice setups, including a fake dave mateo pro model
Left: Krom Red oak half split tama, TK16 sarado, Cherry kaizen sword.
Right: Unknown (Most likely Sweets) purple sticky tama, Cherry kaizen sarado, TK16 sword.
It's good to know that kaizen and tk16 swords/sarados are interchangeable!

[BKA]

@Jedi_man You can only embed images here if your link is a direct link to the image *file* itself. You can usually tell, because the url will end in .jpg or .gif or similar. Your url...

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[Jedi_man]

Just now I got downspike earth turn fast hand airplane! I'm so hyped right now also got a few lightning drops, lighthouse trade spike, and an airplane trade spike.
Also, I found that if you're doing cold pizza, you can use your thumb instead of index and go straight into a butterfly when you grab the ken.

[donald grant]

Nicely done, Jedi_man, sounds like some solid progress!

Surprised myself the other day (on a freezing sunny beach) by hitting baton twirl to small bird, in, and then a couple of minutes later bird over the valley nodding on both sides.  Cold hands obviously focus the mind

[The Void]

Nice work fellas. Today I briefly brushed the dust off my knees to try to work out what I might go for in the 7toSpike next week...

[rhys_goes_peace]

Today I landed my first ever stab, both from revolver grip and sara grip. It is so satisfying! 

[The Void]

Nice one @rhys_goes_peace ! Now try
Stab > Base Cup > Stab (> repeat as often as you like)

[rhys_goes_peace]

Nice one @rhys_goes_peace ! Now try
Stab > Base Cup > Stab (> repeat as often as you like)

Will do!

[The Void]

Here's this:

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[shalafi]

Here's this:

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Nice one!

[rhys_goes_peace]

Here's this:

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Creative and cool! I love to treat myself to some tea after a trick.

[The Void]

Thanks guys. Here's another:

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