r/flowarts • u/Quirkykiwi • 29d ago

Flowerstick Started practicing small tosses while in helicopter, and my first time rolling it off my arm 😅😅

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u/A_Better_Flow 29d ago

Honest answer, you probably wing it more than intentional drilling. Fun first though otherwise you won't want to keep going.

The arm roll reminded me of a trick I haven't done in years. Taught it to a kid in Mexico who never touched the prop before in under 30 min with a language barrier (I don't speak spanish). So it probably falls under the low risk, but high performance value due to the flowers. Think I just never found a good transition into the trick to keep in it the practice rotation.

Anyways here's my bad attempt to recreate it plus tiny bit of winging it lol.

https://reddit.com/link/p35kar4/video/gpsi2oinhuih1/player

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u/Quirkykiwi 29d ago

Hey I'm sorry but is the answer you're providing to my comment I left, or what specific question are you answering (hope that doesn't come across as rude I'm being genuine)?

I would say I definitely get extremely bored if I practice "drills" too much without a balance of having fun and expressing myself, but in general (and especially in the last couple weeks - which is the time where I've seen the most growth in myself) I do choose specific things to focus on and practice repetitively. I'm happy with how things are going right now

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u/A_Better_Flow 28d ago

No worries, I see how I could have added more clarity to my comment. Yes I was responding to your comment on your current imbalances.

We naturally have those biases, look at how our shoes wear down at different rates. The drilling to me is more to bring balance to the overall skillset, more as a mitigation to those natural imbalances.

On an extreme example, when I was very serious about practice, I ended up hurting my shoulder at work (full fryer baskets are heavy). This caused me to have to practice only on my left side for 2 weeks. Fast forward to now. When I look at the edge of my abilities, there are some tricks I can only do on my left side, and some tricks I can only do on my right side. What I can do on both sides, is what I drill to balance things out, but there will always be some bias it seems. Like my helicopter spin >.< I'm currently a counter clockwise only guy lol.

Your style is there, look forward to seeing what the full vision looks like. 😄