New favorite vid for sure. I absolutely love it. 
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I cant even do 5a! Nice job!
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That is thoroughly intenseā¦
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One word SWAG
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thanks for all the nice words, Iām so glad yall like it ^^
sorry again for the tricks clumsyness
should I go ahead and do another later on ? maybe with better/more yoyoing ?
say this was the āpilotā
Definitely go ahead and do some more DD videos. Iām still pretty new to 5A and Iām starting my DD journey today. I just need a setup with lighter cwās than 2 Duncan dice. Also, I saw a post on another forum where youāre asking about this style and Iād encourage you to make tutorials as you go along so we can learn it as well. This would greatly help me because of my minor experience in 5A at the time.
Thanks!
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I very much enjoy your videos, with this being the new top I believe! Keep it up! 5A is definitely very fun.
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If you want to learn my first 5ADD trick ātour de franceā, go and check out the āmediapocalypseā video, itās not a tutorial but the trick is easy to figure out from there.
at first I wanted to get into DD, but thereās not really any resource out there to learn double dice, aside from a few old DD vids, Save deth DVDs, where things donāt go that fast so you can figure a few out. Of course Iskandar Shah is also an inspiration.
But the thing with 5A and DD in particular is that the style can now take any direction, itās still very marginal and 5A players in general are very different from one another (at the exception, maybe, of many japanese/asian players in competition, but thatās my opinion, for what itās worth), the styles, the tricks.
we have a common base, which is all the tutorials on YYE and here and there, but these tutorials only go over the very basics of 5A, going back to the early 2000s when Steve Brown just introduced it (I think it was in the late 90s actually).
My opinion is that those tricks, while really important, have lived and 5A in general is bound to evolve more, Double dice being only an aspect of it.
Back on double dice, I wanted to do it for a long time, but itās only recently that I really had the chance to get into it, but everythingās left to be discovered, general principles, basic mounts and moves, and this takes alot of time out of practicing, grinding and smooth things out. Because for one mount or move you figure out, thereās 10 others you spent your time on for nothing (not really nothing because some of them might become useful later down the road).
sometimes in 1A, you see tricks and you think āthis is impossibleā but as you see it done, you know if you work hard, youāll eventually get it.
itās not the case in DD or other āmarginalā styles, because you only have so many vids out there, very different from one another and most of the time, you donāt really figure out whatās going on, so you get an idea out of nowhere, and you first have to figure out whether or not itās possible, which means, grind it out for hours, days etcā¦
the very first move I do, when I send both CWs over the non throw hand then have em wrap around my wrist, catch the small one and letting the middle one hanging. in the vid I catch it right away, but in reality, Iām still figuring out how to do it so I can catch it all the time, Iām not sure itās possible, I think it is, but once I figure it out, I wonāt be sure. and if itās not possible or if I canāt make it happen, Iāll have to let the whole trick go and move on to something else.
same goes for the new exit for that same trick (not showned as I figured it out only yesterday), right now it goes around the elbow and Iām trying to do some 3D stuff with the CW which ends in some sort of ladder-ish mount, I know I can get it right, it looks really cool, but then, Iām with that new intricate mount and I have no idea what to do with it.
So double dice is a lot of fun, no doubt, but itās a heavy grind. Thankfully itās polyvalent enough so you can just play single dice with two CWs, just to have the opportunity to do DD if you fancy so thatās where Iām heading for now, but Iāll definitely put something together about DD basics at some points, but first Iāll have to figure it out myself.
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Thank you! I will check out your trick. I think that the lack of tutorials and exposure to DD makes it difficult to get into, but it also adds to the appeal. I donāt feel anywhere close to āeverythings been done in DDā like some other styles. I know that no style is maxed out to itās fullest potential but this is even more true in DD 5a. What is your recommended setup of CWās for DD? Iām planning on ordering some gaming 12 sided dice for the fixed CW and maybe a slightly undersized 6 sided die for the slider. I will still have to drill holes in them as well. For the time being, Iām just using a yellow Duncan ball for the fixed, and a Duncan die for the slider, but this setup is WAY too heavy!(itās all I got though)
exactly but it also made me realize how much of a difference it makes when you can just go on and learn the basics of a given style, even right now, I pretty much have no clue on what to do to ābuildā tricks and I have only like a couple or three basic elements to work from, without even knowing if it could go anywhere.
about the setup, I have gaming dices of a range from 6 to 8/9 grams for the fixed CW and regular duncan type CW for the slider, itās still nice for the standard 5A stuff and it works great for slider tricks. the fixed CW being much smaller/lighter, it can be tricky to catch when moving around by itself.
definitely get yourself copies of Vol 1&2 of save deth DVDs if you have the chance, and also check out that ādriveā vid from david mellons.
iskandar shah stuff is usually fast and technical so to me, itās a little bit too much to figure out on my own, but itās definitely worth watching.
the thing is, and I noticed it also with regular 5A, people who are already good in 1A seem to have an easier time getting around the general 5A motion, it might also be true with DD
itās frustrating to see that despite the time put it, Iām not even close to the most basic DD Iāve seen around, but wellā¦ what more can I do to work on it and hopefully itāll come together at some point in the future. But Iām falling behind in 1A all while my 5A really doesnāt look that good yet. And Iām definitely too far behind in 1A (or too committed to 5A) to get back to it.
plus, double dice 5A definitely has no tension issues whatsoever, if you happen to get some tension from regular 5A stuff, just hold the slider and let the fixed CW hang for a second or so and the tensionās gone.