Your training style

[zwiggelbig]

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If thers not a tread about this one already.

Whats your training style? Like you grab a diabolo you go to the garden what do you do?

Do you just  try to lurn 1 trick? Do you try to figure out new combos, just do all your tricks you can already do.

Do you just speed up do a trick speed up do a new trick?

I'm just wondering how everyone over here diabolo's

[aaro]

I don't know if people really show their training methods on videos, at least video of my training would be quite dull. I use the system that i heard from Maxim Komaro at a lecture at 531 festival few years ago, i have modified it a bit.

Warming up (especially wrists and shoulders, also neck and hips etc.) about 20min
Old tricks once clean, then moving to next one. New tricks 4 tries, then to next one. From 1 to 4 diabolos with the exception of 1d vertical i do after 2d. When training numbers, i.e. 3d high i try to(right now) make 50 catches with clean finish then move tricks like 441 etc.
With new number like 4 diabs now, i first try to do 8 throws and catches. I usually have some tricks that i try to manage to do every day when i train.

This was a simple explanation of my training style, it of course changes when i feel that some trick is ready to be moved from category new to old Sometimes i also have a specific day for jamming, fooling around with old tricks and trying to come up with something new.

At first i thought that having a strict training method would kill motivation and everything good in juggling, but i have noticed that it is easier to follow my own development, and also it is easier to train on "bad" days when i know exactly how much stuff i have left. On a good day I'm through with my routine in 1,5h on a bad one it might take 2,5h. 

[Aaron Z]

I myself get straight to the practicing, but until I get my new Fly's (Next week) I'm still rehearsing old tricks, trying to get them consistent and polished enough to eventually personalize them, and develop my own style.

Until I learn and polish what I consider a satisfactory amount of tricks, I'm a "Style-lacking number whore" 

But I'm getting there 

To make this thread a bit more interesting, did you guys go about learning the same way as myself?
That is, did you only stylize and combine your tricks after learning a bunch of them, or did you hop straight into personalization?

[Crackers]

I throw the diabs in the string and fool around for a while 
I can stand more than 1hour in a row (except in juggling clubs and conventions)

[Niark]

I try to do at least once every trick i've learnt (i've made a list of them)
Then, all the combos
Then, with stuff like 2d anti shuffle etc, I try a stated number of catches.
Finally, i try creating something new (trick, combo, whatever).

[Marco]

Usually i just grab my diabolos and start doing some tricks. If i figure something new out, i start making new combos of some kind.
In summer i grab diabolos too and go play outside. I may be there for 10minutes or an hour. Depending on motivation.

[Conor]

Just pick one up and go really. Do abit of everything, whatever i feel like. If im learning a routine for something I'll set a number of drops im allowed (usually no more than two and then eventually none) and keep going till i hit that goal. Mainly just mess about tho. if there is a trick i really want to learn i'll just keep trying the same trick until lit happens or the diabolo is launched across the room... whichever comes first.

[Pete]

Generally I start with 1 and work up, that way by the time i've finished failing at 4 i'm either too tired or too frustrated to continue, which makes it a good time to stop. But if i want to work on something specific i just start with that straight off, no "warm up" as such. I often get distracted when working with multiple diabolos. I'll drop from 3 and hold two, do some stuff with that just for fun, then drop one and do some 1d, and then having wasted a few minutes remember what i should have been practicing.

[Squiggle]

I just pick up a diabolo and stuff around for a few hours, probably not the most productive. But I find practicing over old tricks, then drilling new tricks pretty boring, so I end up practicing a new trick maybe 4-5 times tops.   Probably the reason why I suck so badly, but that's how I train

[sasha]

i just pick up my diabolo when motivated and go until im bored or angry.
then i check out new tricks, vids or just lurk around the forum till im motivated again.
if i get bored after that i pick up my bass guitar and practice

[Matt?]

If you need a tip, use a notebook for everything, i find it very usefull.

[Crackers]

if i get bored after that i pick up my bass guitar and practice

Good boy 

[Adamer15]

Well for now im working on my integrals and my new Top Secret combo (Top Secret is the name of the combo)
But when im bored of those i usually do mini gens and normal genocides and all other suicide tricks

~Adam

[monkiatzu]

i just jump outside and diabolo, if its not too cold or hot, i have a special spot at a special time so that its sunny but im in the shadow of a tree:)
and if not outside i just much around with small tricks inside

[jacky]

for me i train at least 50 hour per week..and that will make me very happy and tired...

[relic]

I just mess around until I get bored of dropping it or hurting myself 

[Roy]

I turn on my music, and i got practicing.
If there is forming a knot that i dont get out in 10 seconds i drop it. 
And i watch diabolo movies for more insparation for more tricks.
Movies like diabolo.ca collaboration movies.



-Roy-

[juzooboy]

I training diaboloing about 12 or 14 hour per day... i started my day watching to diabolo videos... and then i go outside training tricks what i can do and what i cant do... i learned about two tricks per day... 

[JJesse]

diaboloing about 12 or 14 hour per day

How the hell? Don't you never get bored

[juzooboy]

How the hell? Don't you never get bored

I like to diaboloing    i didnt have many friends, diabolos are my bestiest friends but sometimes i REALLY get bored and then i go sleeping or juggling to balls and clubs ...