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Yay! Congrats, Congasious!

Yeah, I really enjoyed seeing everyones moves they submitted also.

@Elsie - Thanks for the possibility of opening up to going in the direction that would be easiest. I have to decided to stick to clockwise. My videos may look quite shaky and off for the time being. I know in the long run, I'll be glad that I was "forced" to practice by bad direction so much from the beginning. I'll probably work out the move each week in my good direction and then translate it to my bad direction and practice it twice as hard and just keep doing the best I can! I appreciate that everyone is being very understanding of beginner's abilities!

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That looks like predictive text has changed my name! Honestly, you guys will do anything to get out of calling me Elsie

Funny how this still happened even after I corrected it. My phone must really not like writing Elsie.

Good job, Yorgos! I really liked your move!

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Thanks!! (i thought i replied some minutes ago but i guess i didn't press submit...) thanks again!

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I'm so hyped. My first batons are on theyre way to my house!
In a week or 2 I'll join in.

I dont fully understand the rules.
Do we just copy the last person? or the leader? who I prusume is Nik?
I dunno. Im new to this FTL thing.

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I was a bit slack last night, I was watching I Am Legend

So, this week's leader is Congasious, yaaay!

This is the series of moves that we are all following this week:



Notes (from the performer's perspective, not the viewer's)

Move 1 - Elsie's move - Both batons clockwise - Smooth movement, well isolated balls, both hands making perfect circles right next to each other.

Move 2 - Grateful's move - Use the horizontal line that the batons create at the end of move 1 as a base line, and do not let any part of the baton go below it.
Bring batons up to meet each other in the middle, then back down to base line again. Your hands draw a quarter circle each, making a semi circle.
If you are doing this correctly, on the move up to the middle you should find a ball naturally isolates itself on the left hand baton, then on the way down it will be on the right hand baton. At the same time, on the way up to the middle, on the right hand baton a ball will travel in a straight line upwards above to iso'd ball, and likewise on the way down, a ball will travel straight downwards on the left hand baton.

Move 3 - Pilolip's move - When I first saw this, after I'd stopped salivating I tried to analyse what was happening. I got all muddled when I was watching the balls, so I watched Pilolip's hands instead, and there was my answer - it was the same move as Grateful's except with the bottom part of the pattern added. If you watch his hands you'll see that they are both doing a semi-circle each, thus making a full circle.
Do the same thing making the 'base line' horizontally, and when you do the top part, don't go below it, and when you do the bottom part, don't go above it.

Move 4 - Ryan's Clocks - The easiest way I found to remeber what was going on is all in the name. The right baton goes from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock, just as a real clock hand would. Then the left baton goes from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock again. Aim to keep the movement of whichever baton is just travelling the straight line in as straight a line as possible, but I'm sure you knew that already

Move 5 - Cory's box pattern - With this one you are drawing the shape of two boxes side by side. After the last 'clocks' move, when the batons come to rest in the upright position, they are already making the "inner walls" of the boxes you are about to make. Isolate the upper ball on each baton, and move the batons until they make the "upper walls" of the boxes (i.e. in a straight horizontal line), then isolate the outer balls and move the batons to make the "outer walls" of the boxes. Next, isolate the two lower balls and move the batons to make the "bottom walls", then isolate the two central balls and move the batons back to the first position, the "inner walls". Good hints to make this look clean is to try and define each 90 degree switch by almost jerking the baton at each transition.

Move 6 - Pich's big box - Very similar to the last pattern, but instead of making just two small boxes, you are making two more directly underneath the last ones (or one big box if you like) (or two tall rectangles if you also like). If anyone wants this explaining some more I'll do a slowed down video so you can see it clearly.

Move 7 - Congasious' move - From the bottom section of the big box move, just before both batons would move to the lowest horizontal section of the box, they do a half antispin upwards. The balls at the bottom travel in a straight line upwards, while the balls at the top do a straight line accross the middle where they meet, before they return back to their starting point. Then you isolate those balls and spin the batons through 180 degrees back to the start of the move. "Half antispin, half spinspin". Rinse and repeat!

Move 8 - Whatever you want it to be!

We've got until Thursday 24th to get our video submissions in, and the Congasious will choose who the next leader is.

Does this clarify things for you, Mr E. Baconjuggler? There's a lot of work involved

It's definitely a good thing to read the whole thread, it's full of useful hints and tips.

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Me and mine - I went for a simple orbital isolation thing



I wasn't very clean on this round, I'll try harder next time

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My first entry will be on the 31st

Which also happens to be my birthday!

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One week more, please ! Even I vote for LC once again.

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So unless anyone submits anything very soon I might win by default! Maybe we could do a rollover

The problem with doing it the new way is that it makes it twice as awkward for the person choosing to choose themselves...

What was your plan, Congasious?

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Totally forgot to film last night! If we push it another day Ill get mine up tonight.

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O right, I guess winter is here now.

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omg how have we not covered targets yet? its all spins and isolations, we are missing out on a whole set of cool sliding and translation tricks.
andre and pich might be away on a gig i think. I dont have a camera today.
baah.
soon.. targets. its the new clocks.

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oh, i was carried away doing other things and totally forgot to film... i will give it a try right away and in a couple of hours Elsie's move will be voted
No matter what i suggest, i could never vote for myself
hope to come up with something cool though

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here is my submission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptxANzl ... e=youtu.be

I say we wait for Cory and anyone else may enter at last minute, and decide in around 15 hours from now

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I like that one, Congasious, sweet. You forgot your half antispin half spinspin
I'm happy to hold off for Cory, shall we then?

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oops.. indeed i forgot that move...
so, we call it for tomorrow

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