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[Sven van Leeuwen]

Well, I managed to keep practicing. Not as much as I liked, but the reason were birthdays, so that's not a bad thing .

Here's my third video, I got the feeling that it was a bit off compared to previous video.

https://youtu.be/ls8kVVxRlUc

Sven

[Ben Varsek]

Sven, your practice video doesn't look bad at all in my opinion (quiet the opposite )!
Your technique is very fluid and a fluid, good techique is the main purpose of this exercise.


All the best
Ben

[Ron May]

That really does , like Ben said, look very fluid.
I would watch out for creating limiting habits in working in a limited space. The only one I see is not extending your arm like you probably would in a larger space.
As stated before you would benefit greatly with more room or a little shorter whip.
You go really good with the space you have though.
Great job.

Ron

[Jessie Edwards]

hmmmm...speaking of next videos...

[Russell Jones]

Nice job Sven. To me it looked like you maintained your calm and relaxed demeanour very well

[Sven van Leeuwen]

Thanks everyone. I know about the limited space. I'm in the process of building a 6 foot whip. Thank will help.
I'm always looking for other places to practice .

Sven

[Russell Jones]

Sorry Jessie I missed your post, did you say next video?
Looking forward hearing more!

[Russell Jones]

On the odd occasion i've tried this I seem to mistime bringing down the circus crack when doing it with my opposite hand and the whip ends up in a tangled mess.
I'll be putting in a more sustained effort in the coming days, it's a good exercise

[Jessie Edwards]

Russell, due to Robby being extremely busy with some other important projects, we set up the opposite overhead horizontal crack in the 10/10 area until Robby has time. He's a movie star, so he's busy starring in movies right now. Since he needs to earn his bread and butter, we are gonna handle the training in the 10/10 this time around. I don't think its been 10 days??? HAS IT? If so, Ill think of something else we can do, no problem.

[Russell Jones]

Sorry Jessie I do not understand what you mean exactly.
I'm working on a few different exercises as well as the overhead horizontal in order to catch up and also improve my whip cracking in other areas too.
Maybe I was laboring under a misapprehension. Is there a problem contributing to the thread?

[Jessie Edwards]

Sorry Jessie I missed your post, did you say next video?
Looking forward hearing more!

Sorry, I was replying to this. I didnt realize it was form the 10th. carry on with what you are doing. I'm sorry.

[Russell Jones]

hmmmm...speaking of next videos...

No worries, I should have quoted your post to save confusion. Apologies for my poor etiquette there

[Jessie Edwards]

I was the one that didn't read it through. It's all good.

[Flemming Bo Christiansen]

Here my best for the day on this one. My whip is so short, that I have worked on sloving the first part down. Now when I see it on video, I see that the cattleman is too looks hysterically uncontrolled. That is not the "normal standard",so I have to revise on this one.

https://youtu.be/jG7FUHexkEw

[Robert Gage]

Flemming, can you slow down and use less force for this? (To me, it looks quite jerky....) But you're on the way!

[Flemming Bo Christiansen]

Thank you Robert. I get a lot of help from the whip and in my case it is mostly a matter of "with or agains the Curve".

If I try to do it the wrong way it don't work

[Flemming Bo Christiansen]

Sorry. This comment belonged in another thread

[Ben Varsek]

Flemming, thank you for sharing your video!
You are doing way better than me when I joined this challenge, good job!

One of the the many, many good things about this challenge is the we can observe and analyse our whipcracking sessions after we've shoot a video.
Just like you, I was very surpised to see what my practice sessions looked like from a "distant view".

What has helped me to reduce my bad habbit of using too much speed and force was to forget about the crack. Trying to do a technique with just enough force and speed to prevent the thong from falling down and without intendently trying to crack the whip worked wonders for me.

All the best
Ben

[Flemming Bo Christiansen]

Thanks Ben. I try to do the same but someway or another it seem that the whip try to crack "as loud as a gunshot" when it have tried it once

[Ben Varsek]

You are right Felmming, I've heared that those Sui Generis Whips just won't listen when you tell them to stop cracking

All the best
Ben