Is there any film of any persons playing 5A horizontal? If there is can someone out there reply a link! Where are our 5A Champs at? “Cough, cough, John!”
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Google Jake Elliot’s 2015 (I think) Worlds 5A winning performance.
It’s a sight to behold.
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Link please! I watched a lot of Jake’s performance but a lot escapes me!
Here 'tis:
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I remember watching this! We need more! This was the bee’s knees!
Also Jake Elliott I’m still waiting for a “Mighty Ultra Counterweight” for my “Mighty Flea!”
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I’ve just watched that video six times in a row.
I studied every segment of every trick in the entire video.
Based on watching freestyles for the past 28 years, I’ve made some mathematical calculations from my experience in viewing so many.
My calculations indicate, that if I practiced 25 hours a day for 11 years, without missing one practice session, it would take me that long to duplicate the first 30 seconds of that video.
Each additional 30 seconds would subsequently take me less than 11 years each as I gained experience from the previous 30 seconds.
So in summation, my rudimentary calculations suggest that it would take me approximately a half a century to do that freestyle and even come close to making it look like it was the same freestyle.
I am so amped up about the challenge. The only drawback is in order for me to prove my calculations are correct… I will have to live until I’m 125 years old.
Based on that realization, my enthusiasm for success is dwindling dramatically.
Nevertheless, what an excellent 5A freestyle. I haven’t watched the other competitors in that division for world 2025. But it would be only logical to conclude that that would be a tough act to follow. I think one of the most amazing things about such an awesomely executed freestyle is that these guys make it look so easy you actually have to watch it a few times for it to register such a display of high-level talent.
So no matter how good you get at 5A, you only need to watch this video to bring you back to earth and realized there’s still a lot of ladder to climb. But nobody needs to try to be over enthusiastic and figure they’ll ever be that good, because it doesn’t matter.
You only have to try to be as good as you can be and as long as you’re having fun, whether you compete or not, that’s good enough.
Yup…
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Goes to show that greatness doesn’t require perfection. There were a couple times that Ishikawa slipped up, but he still won. The standard wasn’t lowered for him, he was held to the same standard the other 5A competitors were. And he won. Winning something like that doesn’t require perfection, just your best