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Hardest Trick To Learn

Discussion in 'The Sesh' started by dama.hon, Dec 26, 2016.

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Hardest Trick? (Beginner - Advanced)

This poll will close on Dec 26, 2026 at 10:38 PM.
  1. Airplane

  2. Kenflip

  3. Whirlwind

  4. Juggle

  5. Borders Balance

  6. Tap To Lighthouse

  7. Other

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  1. dama.hon

    dama.hon Member

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    Hey! I'm back with another thread! What was your hardest trick to learn? As a beginner? Or right now? I'll make a poll putting some tricks down from Beginner to Advanced
     
    Dec 26, 2016
  2. bonerkid

    bonerkid Honed Member

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    Slicetown, Denmark
    I still have a lot to learn, but I am currently dabbling a bit with stilt-flips. They've made me a bit frustrated, not gonna lie
     
    Dec 27, 2016
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  3. Nathan Cabell

    Nathan Cabell n00b

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    Border balance for sure. But once you get the hang of it, it is really easy.
     
    Dec 27, 2016
  4. Chad Covington

    Chad Covington Slayer

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    Sep 30, 2016
    Location:
    Lexington, KY
  5. Aloysius_hung_

    Aloysius_hung_ Honed Member

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    Earth
    Juggles used to make me super cofused and i felt that they were super complicated but after really long, i learnt it. I still have a gard time being consistent in jug spike tho
     
    Dec 27, 2016
  6. Yourdy

    Yourdy Honed Member

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    Sep 21, 2016
    Location:
    Pittsburgh
    Lets get real, learning stilt was such a battle back in the day! I actually learned airplane-flip to stilt before figuring out how to directly pull up to it.
     
    Dec 27, 2016
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  7. Ben Lowe

    Ben Lowe Slayer

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    Location:
    Port Angeles, WA
    Lunar has been my biggest battle so far from what I've really attempted. Seemed way too hard for way too long, but I'm finally getting a bit more comfortable with it!
     
    Dec 27, 2016
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  8. Nathan Cabell

    Nathan Cabell n00b

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    That's a tough one
     
    Dec 27, 2016
  9. Blake W.

    Blake W. Honed Member

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    Figuring out the tech of juggles is up there. Timing...
     
    Dec 27, 2016
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  10. Reece Takayama

    Reece Takayama n00b

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    Nov 15, 2016
    Location:
    Oahu, Hawaii
    Juggle to spike for me.


    three years in and I still have trouble with them
     
    Dec 27, 2016
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  11. htimSxelA

    htimSxelA Moderator Staff Member

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    Vancouver
    Kids always ask me if I can do tightrope. I tell them there are only a few players in the world that can actually do it, and they always look disappointed. I've tried it a little, but haven't landed one. Its hard af, and I'm pretty good at Boarder's haha
     
    Dec 27, 2016
  12. James Hoang

    James Hoang Slayer

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    San Jose, CA and Milpitas, CA
    This is why we need Cooper Eddy to do a tutorial on it!

    -checks YouTube and sees that yotricks uploaded a video about tightrope with Cooper Eddy-

    Oh wait, never mind. But it's still hard!
     
    Dec 27, 2016
  13. Dwesty

    Dwesty Honed Member

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    Murrieta, California
    I could do juggle late kenflips and stuff like that at only 6 or so months in but it took me a whole year to learn pull up inward lunar. Lunars are still tough for me.
     
    Dec 28, 2016
  14. htimSxelA

    htimSxelA Moderator Staff Member

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    Vancouver
    I could land 1 turn up to lighthouse like 75% of the time, before I had even landed on lighthouse -> 1 turn -> lighthouse.
    I dunno why o_O

    @Dwesty pull up inward stilt is like that for me. Its a weird one, I'm not very dialed on it
     
    Dec 28, 2016
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  15. Instagrom3

    Instagrom3 Honed Member

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    Pull up stilt still eludes me
     
    Dec 28, 2016
  16. Joel Clayton

    Joel Clayton Honed Member

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    St. George, UT
    juggle ken flip juggle is a PAIN to learn it took me soooooo long to learn this trick

    I would be grinding on a level 8 kwc trick (ken-jug-ken-jug) spike. And I just got better and better every day at late kens.
     
    Apr 21, 2017
  17. kory_witha_k___

    kory_witha_k___ Member

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    Boarders still elude me for the most part.
    ...but one trick that I've been trying to hone is inward Lunar flip...got regular lunar flips, even multiples on lock but that inward is a tough one for me.
     
    Apr 21, 2017
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  18. goenKendama

    goenKendama Administrator Staff Member

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    Location:
    Metro Manila, Philippines
    When I was starting out just plain ol' Lighthouse was my nemesis (I only had a TK16 at the time). I had already decided that I'd never get it and was OK with that but I kept trying anyway. Then one day I just hit it and the world changed; it took me another long stretch before I hit it again but I already knew that I could do it. I guess for me the "trick" wasn't actually learning Lighthouse but learning patience and perseverance; never give up.
     
    Apr 21, 2017
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  19. Almostgets

    Almostgets Slayer

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    The 'Go
    Is boarders balance even an advanced beginner trick?
     
    Apr 21, 2017
  20. azleonhart

    azleonhart Moderator Staff Member

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    Location:
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    There were two tricks that took me a while to nail down, back then.

    It was lunar flips (lunars were made easier, thanks to Musous) - i had trouble finding out how to catch the flip, let alone how to flip the flip!
    Took me nearly half a year to get it.

    And also, whirlwinds.
    Those slowly came into trend in 2014 (though, the trick's been around for a while), and in one of the competitions i attended in Singapore (by Woofmeow), we were required to hit that in the ladder.
    Needless to say, i was cursing and cursing at myself for not having the trick down.
    Took me close to two months after, to hit it.

    Today, the hardest trick for me to get, is juggles.
    Nearly a year now, still kept hitting the ken against the tama, and getting stuff caught up in the string.
     
    Apr 21, 2017
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