cameron
August 16, 2010, 7:54pm
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d4rqk0n3:
I’m with Icthus, Steve Brown is the father of 5a, Gordi Morey MAY be an old school player but I highly doubt that Steve Brown undercut Gordi and stole his style of play. As for the “Shoot the Moon with a Pencil” statement, I hope it was a joke, as we all should know that 5a tricks do not incorporate looping tricks like shoot the moon. So even if there was some guy “Shooting the Moon with a Pencil on a slipknot” They weren’t doing 5a, they were doing some bastardized variation of Single Hand Looping which is NOT 5a.
Note to others: I am in no way a Steve Brown-Noser (w00t), nor am I easily offended so, keep your flames to yourself. So, for those of you who would flame, thanks for wasting your time.
I’m not saying they invented it. He was telling me how he had a lot of credit for giving him the idea for 5a.
d4rqk0n3
August 16, 2010, 7:57pm
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Ok, that is understandable, I may have gotten the wrong meaning from the posts
cameron
August 16, 2010, 8:19pm
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Me, hating on Steve Brown? LOL
[quote=“d4rqk0n3,post:20,topic:17995”]this video :
Yeah. There was a fair bit of messing around with that back in 1999/2000. I actually came up with a handful of looping 5A tricks that were intended to be two-handed tricks, but the problem is that looping while holding a counterweight is just way too unstable for it to ever be more than a novelty. Like 9A…funny, kinda nifty to yo-yo players, but ultimately it’s probably never going to be anything more than a funny video trick.
Freegens out of Shoot The Moons look amazing though.
…and in response to a question regarding the inventor of freegens:
Unless someone else was doing them in April 1999, I’m pretty sure it was me.
I didn’t really do anything with them until a fair bit later, as the yo-yos I was using back then were way too unstable, and I didn’t really understand the mechanics of what I was doing until much later. The first freegen was just a breakaway, freegen, swing to trapeze. Then the Shoot The Moon freegen, then I started working on looping freegens because I thought I could talk Matt Harlow into putting some into one of his 2A routines (Hey, if Matt Harlow does then maybe I can actually get people playing with this freehand thing that no one but me and Neff care about! Yeah, that’ll work!) but he didn’t give much of a rip about them.
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d4rqk0n3
August 17, 2010, 1:57am
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Fair Enough, I stand corrected. Thank You Elephark!!
I just figured this was another hater thread not unlike the many others suddenly popping up this past week.