Your diabolo goals.

[Squiggle]

Hey, I searched and didn't see a thread about this and I was a bit curious.

What are your goals in diabolo? (If any) besides having fun

Bit of a general question - but I'm curious to the answers.

Some of mine would be

- Create a nice performable routine, Using no sticks or string. Just diabolos
- Create alot of new 2D tricks and hopefully one day inspire people to explore more. (If that makes sense...uh)
- 5 diabolo back to back passing (A distant dream..but I can hope)

That's it for now, if this thread sucks delete it.

[Funty]

I'm pretty sure there was a topic on this but i can't find it either.

My goals (other than fun) include
- meet as many like minded people as possible and spread the funt around (be it conventions or home visits/tours etc.)
- steal as many styles/tricks from those people as possible whilst hopefully imprinting my things onto them.
- try to consistently learn and progress.

[mellowscholar]

My goals are:
- get smoother with all my tricks,
- start developing my own style and tricks.
- and of course, continue having fun.

Jake, what do you mean by no sticks or string? Do you mean contact, or have i completely misunderstood?

[Squiggle]

My goals are:
- get smoother with all my tricks,
- start developing my own style and tricks.
- and of course, continue having fun.

Jake, what do you mean by no sticks or string? Do you mean contact, or have i completely misunderstood?

Yes, I'm working on some contact and sort of toss juggling with diabolo...a bit weird. But it's interesting trying to create cool tricks    Perhaps a video if I ever get really good at it, lol.

[mellowscholar]

Oh cool! I hope we can see that sometime soon. I can't say I've seen contact explored that much.

[redchina]

My goal is to learn 3D low because I want to do it SO BAD!!
I also want to become very proficient at 2D.

[Duncan]

I was thinking about summer goals with some other jugglers on MSN the other day and thought about posting a 'summer goals' thread. I guess this can work too .

Just a thought for some of you if you're thinking about training up to your goals, set some deadline to push yourself to learn what you want (Ex: by July, I want blah throws of blah blah). Also, there's all sorts of little training tricks you can use on yourself - I think Aaro mentioned a long time ago that he would try to land a trick a certain amount one day, and when he felt confident he would try to land it more and more each day till it was consistent.

Short term summer goals:
-3high at around 30-40 catches minimum by the end. Anything more is gravy. Gonna be fun trying to learn in the good old windy, rainy city of Edinburgh.
-Possibly work on a street routine for the Edinburgh Fringe Fest in August.

Longer term goals:
-4high would probably be the max I would want to do with diabolo. I'm a numbers juggler at heart.
-Have a solid routine for diabolo that I can break out when needed.
-Suck less (because juggling is simply a progression of sucking less than before [any guesses on who I stole that from?]).

-Duncan

[spinnin pig]

ok my main goals are-
1D-i need to work on some body stuff (monorail, unwrapped inf. suicides etc)
2D-transfers (i think theyre called vortex by some) double sprinklers, any type of fan

[Darragh]

Ever Living
Ever Pure

[dyabolo]

my goal is to keep getting better( 'til i explode)

[William]

3 High with more siteswaps solid.
More originality with 1-2.
Something with Vertax that doesn't look terrible.
All the basic 3d tricks solid.

[Shaun]

Soild 3 high
More 1 & 2d combos
Long-term goal: 3 low, 3 high sideswaps.
This topic could help shine light on the view Wes expressed and show what direction diabolo is moving toward.

[JimmyCords.]

Short Term goals
- Vertax: Get good at it and start learning some tricks
- 2D: NEED 2ND DIABOLO (hopefully it will arrive tomorrow )
- 1D: Generally improve and increase my trick repertoire (? is that how u spell it?)
Long Term Goals
- Become the best diaboloist i can
- Have as much fun with diaboloing that i can.

[Ken]

There's been some really interesting posts here. I like it.

Short term goals:

learn more body combo's.
get more creative with the moves I can already do.

Long term goals:

becoming more confident with 3 low.
to create a performance (diabolo) that when performed I can say I'm happy with.

Most important to me though? Just keep enjoying what I do...

[Diabolo88]

Short term goals:

Getting better with, loopdiabolo,
stringtricks (slacks etc), 4 high and 3 low
Keep having fun.

Long term:

Being able to shift between different styles and props and still be able to do cool stuff effortlessly. Be able to do many different tricks both quick and slow. Be very solid AT ALL THINGS .
Keep having fun.

^Ooh, and create my own stuff and teach it to more people when I get a bit better maybe.

[Jesse]

I'm hoping to finally get my 3high consistent and thinking about maybe practicing 1d a bit more than usual.

[zwiggelbig]

I want to learn 2d corrections and speeding up.
And after that I want to learn 2d tricks of course..

Also 2d high. Thats it for 2d for a while.

With 1d I want to learn smooth continuous mini genocide, Integrals and some body moves.
And also some combos.

[Adamer15]

Short term goals:

-MiniG to Integral to infinite suicide
-2D fts


Long term goals:

-3D Sun
-2D miniG

[Marco]

My goals on fast thinking is...

With one diabolo: Get long and even longer combos that i some day be famous of them and more solid tricks.
With two diabolo: Learn to do more difficult tricks and have good looking tricks. And also learn to do good 2d high tricks.
With three diabolo: First of all i want to learn to do 3d low. And also want to learn passing with 3d with my mate. That is under work now.

Theres some of my goals.

[jwockydwb]

wierd ... I was just thinking earlier today that if I had a better idea what I was aiming for, I'd be able to practice with purpose, instead of just taking props and messing about. Eventually I'll sit down and write something out for myself with a little more detail, but in the meantime ... in no particular order I want to -

expand my repertoire of body style tricks
figure out some of langerz's tricks
suck less