Trick Building : Basics

Some basic trick building techniques, and walkthroughs. Stick around for the CONTEST!!!

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Howto & Style

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• Astrojax
• AJ
• 3c
• AJCol
• Kinetics
• Tricks
• Instructional
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[kin3tics]

Well, it's been a while since I've commented here, or posted a video.

Life's been busy. Rebuilt a car, had a couple kids, all sorts of stuff.

As far as the question about 1:05, yes, I'm just catching the end balls. It's a basic juggle.

As for the comments about the difficulty of the tricks on the video, the tricks thselvea were never meant to be the basics, rather, examples of how to implement the most basic techniques (string, rebound, juggle) into a few tricks.

Keep practicing however you

[RoseKindred]

I got to admit, the video was not what I had expected. I was looking for pure basic steps, but I still saved this one as to when i get to more tricks and better skill it is a building point. To me, these look harder then the other steps I have learned just based on speed, your demoing these slow as the tricks are yet I learned faster steps. If you speed up the basic steps your doing will they still turn out the same or do they have to be slow? dumb question I know, but this is all new to me

[kin3tics]

No question is dumb if you don't know the answer.

Let me put it this way:

The tricks are slowed down a bit, and work just fine sped up, to a point. Most of them aren't power play type tricks, so there's a bit of a limit as to how quickly you can get in and out.

However, all of the components of the tricks, except for juggles, can be played as fast as you can handle. Juggles are the exception because some juggles are at the mercy of gravity, and you can only get things to fall so fast.

[yoshicrazboy]

u call those basics!!!!

[kin3tics]

I call those the basic parts to build tricks and combos, yes.

The tricks I used to demonstrate may not be basic, but they are an example of how to use the basic elements (string, rebound, juggle).

Keep practicing ;)

[hamlen22]

is the contest still going on?

[kin3tics]

Unfortunately, no. It ended Dec 31st.

Sorry.

[jmzimprich]

@zsolt0116 It's a song from a band that @kin3tics and i are/were in a few years back. The band was called thyselfdestruction, but we haven't really played or recorded much since we all started having kids :-) The song is called "You've Been Warned", and it is an instrumental that leads into the 2nd song on the album called "By The Hour", which you can kindof hear the intro to under the first section of dialog.

[fhorn4ever2007]

omg I found my astroJax in the basement today - i was SOOOOO EXCITED!! But having been a few years, here I am again brushing up on how to use em ^_^ - thankyou for this video.

[xxyoakemxx]

i made astrojax out of yoyo counterweights they work prett good

[megadan429]

why wont mine light??? i see batterys in them..

[zsolt0116]

whats the 1st music name ? PLS

[TTIIMMWW]

I just got some of these for my kids, so obviously I have to learn :-)

Thanks for the video, but i have to say I'm struggling with, ermm, everything.

[smurfboy294]

im alright at astro jax. thing is i keep on hitting myself with them and keep getting into a knot

[jjdthemoviemaker3]

I give up... :P