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If doing it with your feet makes it a feeterfly, then what's a butterfly?

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hehehe.... ....Butt

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xD

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I thought Briney had established is was a handerfly.

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Hello to Jason Isaacs

Did you guys see what Kyle did in that new video of his...legs can be arms

I was also thinking, what if legs could be monkey legs?



Still in the, I need to work on it stage, but it think with a bit of flow thrown in it could work!

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monkey legs?

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Yeah, you know, they are able to reach up to your head so you can feed your self with your feet...or create new loops where the ball rolls from foot to hand directly, and then potentially once you have super monkey ninja balance you can revers the rolls so the ball starts on your foot and rolls in a weird loop to your hand and back to your foot again!

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That's how I've been trying to do the hand to foot rolls since I started practicing them, raising up my leg (not monkey-height, but to about crotch level) and twisting it; it made more sense to be able to go from my foot to my hand rather than kicking it back up there. I only have the hang of it on one side yet, and because of that still can't do one with my leg straightened very well.


If you're talking about the video with Kyle and Cyrille, then yeah...I'd thought I was about as high on the OCCJD charts as you could get until I saw that video, but I seem to have reached a new stage since.

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I know theres a better video with more foot iso's but.. Janine beat you to it by a few years... [@ 4:50]

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I figure by this point I've been beaten to everything...but I still like trying to imagine/attempt it all anyway!

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The more you do that, the easier everything will be because if you can learn it on your own, I think you understand it better because you have to eliminate all the ways not to do it yourself, rather than having some one show you the way. Invent your own tricks and your style will be all your own, even if you invent the same tricks as everyone else!

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I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker, to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

And without internet access at home it's a lot easier to feel like I'm inventing everything, too...kinda nice to have that "EUREKA!! Discovery!!" moment with a move every once in awhile...Like this morning when I realized that if I do start doing the hand to foot straight down the leg & stall the ball instead of twisting it, then I've got a great starting point for the Brunn roll!

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Seriously.

Points for Grateful? ANYONE?!

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^^ YES! Points to GJ

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I had wrote an answer to this post, but because of a bad internet connexion it didn't go further than my computer, then this went out of my mind ... So here it is again, maybe longer (and I type it sperately, so I won't loose the result of my intense reflexions to write in english !)

Actually, there's no reason why the ball could'nt roll on legs as well as on arms, except that we usually stand on legs (at least one), and that we are more at ease with fine control of hand than foot. (this isn't a too big problem for the roll from foot to leg, but it is for the other direction).

I you ever have worked seriously foot catches, you know that half of the problem comes from the floor foot and balance. For legs roll, you have to keep balance longer than for an instant catch.

But there's a way to keep more relaxed, and to practise legs rolls even without flexibility : sit down on the floor.

Here are a couple of advices for the hard direction (toward the foot) :

Practise first foot catch in this position (sit on the floor). Then put the ball on the leg just after the knee, give it a tiny impulse to let it roll half way to foot. The path is along the bone, on the external side. Then finish the move as to do a footcatch.

For flexibility, the only thing I can say is don't wait to be old to work on it : it's usefull (necessary ?) in the daily life ... The first time I saw Lady Orange( EJC 2003 I think) doing a beautiful legroll, I thought it's only a women's thing (or F. Brunn). Now I lift the leg easily ...
If you find time to practise, find time to warm up before and stretch after your session. If you're not too sure about how to do, try nevertheless, but keep it easy and breath ! And find someone you can ask to. The more you'll do it, the more you'll fell how to do it and why you need it.
For muscles, the way I worked it out was relaxation : stand on one foot, and lift the knee (bend your leg : it's lighter !) Play with your foot ; open the hip and do the same in this position ; come again with leg leg in front of you and extend the leg while trying to keep the knee at the same place (breath, relax), .... You'll soon see that you're working the right muscles. Work what you need to fell your muscles tired, with duration rather than with intensity. If you do this eyes closed, it's furthermore very good for balance. Be careful with muscles : don't hurt yourself, let the time to the body to adapt to this new contraint you ask him daily.

For Garneta and antipodist work : everything is possible ! You can find here the 2009 christmas video I did (too quickly and too lately) to show some tricks I was working on. Ther was no iso at this time, but it comes slowly, and the feet circle I tented (you can only see a quick throw before I cut) is sometimes real now !

http://www.compagniedecalee.fr/bruno/coupleofdreams.mp4