Hi! Christian here, I posted an hour or two back in the introduction thread, so feel free to look there if you are wondering who I am. Regardless of that, I am happy to be here. I just started glowstringing about 24 hours ago or so. Unfortunately, due to studying abroad in Europe (I'm from Atlanta, attending Georgia Tech), I'm not able to practice as much as I would like to. Classes and weird schedule for this part of the study abroad trip. I can 'do' a 2/3 beat weave (although the 2 beat has been giving me trouble since I've learned the 3 beat, my hands automatically do a 3 beat haha), forward and reverse butterfly, but none of these are clean and I often mess up.

To the point, I have a couple questions, and I know the answer is going to be 'just practice', but I was hoping some others have had similar problems and might possibly know a trick or two. I'd love to hear some exercises possibly that I can do to work on my problems.

I've been having trouble with planes. Specifically with my offhand. My offhand has trouble getting into the plane correct. So it might be hard to get the rotation parallel to my side, or parallel to my front. With both hands, I have trouble transitioning between planes. I can usually do it, but takes effort, is not smooth, etc. It seems with the faster rotations that the momentum of the glowsticks, they resist change, as with a gyroscope.

If you have any suggestions, or just want to introduce yourself, do so!

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Modulos

You're going to hear this from everyone.

Practice
Practice slowly
Practice SLOWER

You want to go so slowly until your muscles burn. That's when you're starting to learn. When you can do all you moves so slow they are barely completing their rotation, that's where the muscle memory will train. So go through a set/routine/ training excercise. Then slow it down until it takes you twice as long to do it. Does it take 5 minutes till you start repeating? Try getting to ten. Then close your eyes and do it. Then, when it starts looking good, speed up.

All practice.

HI! welcome to GS.c i just joined too like 2 days ago lol but ive been stringing for like 5 weeks i think now i practice ALOT lol like 4-6hrs a day when im not producing or djing im stringing lol

what i did to clean up my planes i just spun my strings to my side and kept spinning and at first my left would start to bend inward then hit my leg but keep doing it look up meenik on youtube and he has a tutorial on plane control that helped for me what he did was he trys to get you to learn how to bend your planes inward then back to straight when i learned to do that you will automaticly be able to fix your planes without even thinking about it pretty much

also like what he said up there ^^^ just practice nice and slow and keep on doing it till its in your muscle memory then blam you can do it like nothing also work on the 2bw and 3bw cause even though no one uses the 2bw after you use the 3bw you can do alot with them.

so if you have time to look him up his name is meenik on youtube his tutorials really helped me and also nathanialeverest on youtube his stuff is just as good >,< good luck with stringing and i hope to see some great stuff from you!

I had alot of trouble with my planes, what i did to correct this was stand in a tight hallway and string.

Thank you all for your help and suggestions, I'm definitely taking all of them into account! I'm definitely going to slow down all the time and really focus on what I'm doing, where the sticks are going, how my body is moving, etc.

I knew I had another question yesterday, but just couldn't remember it. Once again, this is one of those 'just practice' questions, but once again, I just wanted to share my experiences and difficulties so that I am others can learn.

Another thing I've been having trouble with is doing different actions with both hands. I have a hunch that the main problem with this is my uncomfortableness with my offhand, which I plan I aggressively working on. If I try to spin in parallel to my front with my left hand, and do some arm wraps with my right, I'll usually stop spinning my left stick as I concentrate on my wrap.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. For now, I'm just going to apply the advice given prior to these circumstances as well.

One again, thank you for welcoming myself to the community and I appreciate everything the community has to offer for newcomers like myself. =)

Awesome to hear you say this! If it helps, stand next to a wall or against a wall and try keeping the sticks flying as close to the wall without having them bounce back.

As for wraps, once you start on a wrap, let it go. You know it'll hit your arm, so let it flow (IMG:http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Welcome bro

I'm pretty terrible with planes too.

Practice around mirrors.

Helps you gain a better understanding of exactly where you're at. Just don't stand too close xD

I'm way behind on practicing myself but I hear that focusing your eyes on a certain object or spot helps with cleaner planes as well.

ALSO you'll hear this again and again here but practicing with one hand at a time helps a lot as well.

It's pretty easy to just plain get distracted concentrating on doing something complicated with one hand...and having the other stop what it's doing altogether...

but practice practice practice!

Any advice on doing different gestures with your different hands. If both of my hands are doing something different, usually something goes wrong, and it's usually with my left hand. I've been working a lot on plane control and doing different exercises, and I've been having a lot of trouble with split time. Also doing wraps with one hand while the other hand spins has been giving me trouble.

My suggestion for split time is to rock your body in split time. It'll throw you into it easier. It feels weird and you look silly, but if you move one side of your body ahead with the strings, and then the other side, and go slow, split-time will come.

I'm trying to not clutter the boards by keeping my questions here, hope that is fine =)

I've been trying to do a spiral for a bit now, but I keep running into the same problem. Whenever I get the string to wrap around my hands, they are both starting the wrap from the same place. Let me explain. I'm using a clapping style, as a point of reference. As an example, the left string will, incorrectly, go up the center of my left hand and then start going around, counterclockwise. The right string will, correctly, start from the center of the right hand, but go over my left hand, once again in a counterclockwise fashion. The left string should not be going up and over my left hand, it should be going down and over my right hand.

I've tried getting into this from a 3b weave, from spinning in front of me split time same direction, as well as spinning in front of me in opposite directions, then doing an arm wrap to get into split time, and start from there. Each method has given me the same results, so I'm unsure of what I am doing incorrectly. I've been trying with one string at a time, but when I put the two together, problems arise.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRKINA8FPM

=D Im a stacker myself. Hope that helps, and welcome to GSC