Roller coaster issues.

Spin Tops
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So I have been trying to learn roller coaster and I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice for an issue I am having.

The trick goes fine until I attempt to re-catch the top to regenerate.
I find that the top is always turned to its side, sometimes even almost upside down at the point when I toss it up to go into the re-catch.

Which is confusing as once the top goes down onto the string from the first move it seems to be in the right position (watching Neff’s tutorial video.) but once the top leaves the string, its always to its side or pretty much upside down.

Not sure what is causing this, any advice?

Thanks.

J.

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Here is a link to when I asked the question on the topspinning forum:

Here is another post:

And here is a third post:

I have still not learned it, but I hope you find some answers here.

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The first bit of advice that comes to mind is to concentrate on keeping the tip pointed toward the middle of the “circle,” or at least towards the left when it is on your right and to your right when it is on your left. This is essentially the same as when you are balancing the top in your hand, you have to “lead” the top in a circular motion ahead of the way the tip is pointing. This took me quite a while to learn, and I apologize because my overall shape on that trick is not very constant.

Another tip that Alan Gray is very good at teaching is to be sure to feed the string with your left hand. When he teaches somebody, he holds a top at shin height a few feet way from the person and has them hook the string on the tip and hold the string ends of the string in the right and left hand. Then he has the person sort of pretend to saw off the tip with the string while he holds the top still. The left hand had to go towards the top to compensate for the right hand pulling, and then vice versa, the right has to feed the left. When the right feeds the left, there is less pressure on the tip.

Zat help?