…And I’m feeling MUCH more confident with Magic Drop. I’ve landed at least 50 of them today (on the back string).
And I’ve now hit Kamikaze twice…except the second one I failed to land it in a trapeze at the very end of the trick lol. But the second time was smoother than the first (though still very bad and choppy).
I’m feeling really confident in this trick for this week!
I’m not going to attempt to film myself yet, I’ll wait till this weekend. Hoping to capture myself pulling the trick off semi-smoothly!
I’d love to hear other’s progress!
Congrats to those that have nailed this trick already!!
Welcome @gomanual!
Great to see lots of people benefiting from a little fun thing @twitch77 & I set up for our improvement.
Let’s all get better together!
Also, today has been a non-stop day for me…and now that I’m finally home and can relax…I don’t have it in me to get up and practice!
I’ll get to it though. Think I’m going to try to take a short ‘power’ nap then grab a yo.
Today will be the 37th day I’ve practiced for at least 30 minutes in a row! .
Magic drop, I actually don’t seem to have an issue with the string rejection.
But do have issues with landing on the back string only. Don’t really land on the front one. But I would say roughly 50% success rate between landing on both vs just the rear string.
Magic drop mount I have about 25% success rate still.
Landing only on the rear string after the magic drop mount before the finger curly hooky thing. About 25% too.
I actually have done zero practice past the magic drop yet other than this time on video.
The extra twist is from curling your finger in palm down. Do it palm inward, so that when you do it it curls to the right. This way there will be no twist
I only got about 30 minutes of practice in yesterday…man it was a busy day!
I’m making some serious progress though! I got through the entire trick 4 or 5 times up through the Magic Drop…but I’m still struggling with getting the very end of the trick down and landing in on a Trapeze.
Still very happy with the progress I’ve made these past couple of days!
You can do it man! Magic Drop isn’t too hard once you start getting the feel for it. It’s easy to screw up though.
There’s a bunch of videos posted here and in another thread, all helpful, except the one with the kid who does it kinda upside down so the rejection happens after the landing; don’t do it that way, it’ll just screw you up.
The hardest part for me was the transition from the end of the Kamikaze mount part when rolling it around your hand straight into the magic drop. I had to pause there until I got really comfortable with magic drop.
Haha yeah that’s the frustrating thing about Magic Drop: it feels like one of those things that just eventually sticks for you but before it does, it just feels incredibly frustrating. Maybe I’ll work on that tonight.
The pop into Kamikaze was also giving me issues. I started getting it but then I stopped working on the trick.
And yeah that roll feels awkward or something when you’re first learning it.
