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CruiseH
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Hi guys! Whenever I practice and can't seem to get a move (and whenever I drop cards too) I always get flustered and fustrated. Can anyone help me with this?
If it were easy, everyone would be doing it! Learning patients and persistence is part of growing up and can happen at any age.
Okay, here's what I try doing--and I've been doing this for my first year in cardistry and it works for me:
Select THREE flourishes you want to learn. Learn them all at the same time in order of precedence of how much you want to learn it.
If flourish A becomes tricky and overwhelming, go to flourish B. Same thing, get flustered? Go to flourish C. Get overwhelmed with that, go back to flourish A.
It's enough to give you variety and keep things interesting, while at the same time preventing burnout by not being TOO many flourishes to learn.
Now while I'm not sure what exactly you're learning, from my experience, the knacky ones are the 'deck droppers' and now would be a perfect time to learn some other flourishes on to of what you're learning now--probably ones that 'stay in the hands'. Again, variety.
But like the others have said, you have to put the practice into it as well.
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CruiseH
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I really appreciate the response, and like you guys said, to learn the resistance and try to deal with it and suck it up. thanks! (more responses welcome)
Also thanks Brett for that tip!
Also thanks Brett for that tip!
well , i will try to assume that the card dropping is not the main source of your frustration but not getting the tutorial or getting confused by it. for me the card dropping tricks don't frustrate me that much but getting confuse or not understanding the tuto really does frustrates me to solve that i suggest watching the tutorial again and again and leave the deck on table and try to grasp mechanics but if dropping your cards frustrates you than above instructions are well accurate i think
If he is learning 'Erdnase Go Round', deck dropping is the name of the game
The mechanics are easy, but once the packet leaves your hands, good luck and godspeed!
You know, just a very narrow example, because 'Semantics' is my favorite board game!
I agree with Brett. Mix and match! Try to work less sleights/tricks, 3 is the golden number. You can't learn everything at the same time, you can't even learn everything sleight there is, there are just too many.
Also, try to mix difficulties. I try to learn difficult, intermediate and easy sleights at the same time. Easier sleights I will pick up faster, but for the more difficult sleights I know I eventually use, the sooner I start, the sooner I will be able to perform them. I would not try to learn just the pass for months at a time while not working on anything else, that would be so boring. But by mixing various difficulties, and rotating them, this gives color to your practice.
You'll get small victories as you succeed on the easier sleights, and it will become more rewarding as you progress to more difficult sleights. Also try to savor your victories, and remember them. They will fuel your motivation. Even partial victories are motivating.
For example, I knew I wanted to perform the pass eventually and I know this one is a life-long achievement, so I got on it as soon as I could, and I practiced it regularly, rotating it with other easier sleights to prevent getting bored/frustrated. Since I knew this one would take me more time to learn, I could be more patient about it, analyzing it more in details, because I knew I could not rush it. I have been working seriously on the pass for a year and a half now, and I was just realizing a few weeks ago how to release the tension in my hands (a small victory even though I am not ready to perform it yet). Well, yesterday I realized what the Professor meant about that left index finger not moving in Revelations (a much bigger victory) and off I am back to practicing... more motivated than ever!
You do not have to like practicing, you have to love it. Make practicing a game, it has to be fun. If you get bored or frustrated, go do something else, and come back to it later. Beware the dark side...
Remember those video games where you just can't beat that boss? And then you would come back the next day, with rest, relaxed, and charged with positive attitude, and you beat it easily?
Also, try to mix difficulties. I try to learn difficult, intermediate and easy sleights at the same time. Easier sleights I will pick up faster, but for the more difficult sleights I know I eventually use, the sooner I start, the sooner I will be able to perform them. I would not try to learn just the pass for months at a time while not working on anything else, that would be so boring. But by mixing various difficulties, and rotating them, this gives color to your practice.
You'll get small victories as you succeed on the easier sleights, and it will become more rewarding as you progress to more difficult sleights. Also try to savor your victories, and remember them. They will fuel your motivation. Even partial victories are motivating.
For example, I knew I wanted to perform the pass eventually and I know this one is a life-long achievement, so I got on it as soon as I could, and I practiced it regularly, rotating it with other easier sleights to prevent getting bored/frustrated. Since I knew this one would take me more time to learn, I could be more patient about it, analyzing it more in details, because I knew I could not rush it. I have been working seriously on the pass for a year and a half now, and I was just realizing a few weeks ago how to release the tension in my hands (a small victory even though I am not ready to perform it yet). Well, yesterday I realized what the Professor meant about that left index finger not moving in Revelations (a much bigger victory) and off I am back to practicing... more motivated than ever!
You do not have to like practicing, you have to love it. Make practicing a game, it has to be fun. If you get bored or frustrated, go do something else, and come back to it later. Beware the dark side...
Remember those video games where you just can't beat that boss? And then you would come back the next day, with rest, relaxed, and charged with positive attitude, and you beat it easily?
Just realized I posted this in the cardistry forum!!!
I think it still applies to cardistry.
Learn a few moves of various difficulties at the same.
Set yourself small goals, and celebrate any small progress you make.
Oh! and repeat, repeat, repeat... that's how I got the revolution and scissors cuts to work.
I think it still applies to cardistry.
Learn a few moves of various difficulties at the same.
Set yourself small goals, and celebrate any small progress you make.
Oh! and repeat, repeat, repeat... that's how I got the revolution and scissors cuts to work.
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