Block 13

[AMax 0]

Hey all

I am curious how different teams take the 13 out, especially in the ways Intermediate teams lunch and spin it without using the slot switching.

Would greatly appreciate if you guys share your experience

[rehmwa 2]

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I am curious how different teams take the 13 out, especially in the ways Intermediate teams lunch and spin it without using the slot switching.

First, our continuity has the 13top with point as the head and tail as the tail with OC at the head of the cat.

We used to launch an odd slot meeker that unfoled nicely (put OC in the typ IC slot, IC in the typ tail slot, and tail in the typ OC slot). But it unfolds to a c-hammer and takes a second to get to the slightly cheated straight hammer we need for intermediate)

After watching this year's golden knights DVD we went with a P (or even modified P) launch. Very nice and quick to the top with easy grip switches. The resultant cheat from a straight hammer leaves us in our slots and avoids the slot switching issue. A real nice cat spin just over 90 degress to the catches, in slot.

But nothing stops us from just launching the hammer. The c-hammer launch is fun (lots of storks and odd grips), but doesn't gain you anything. - consider that the tail is in the typ OC slot facing backwards with a stork on the IC in the typ tail slot. The OC is inside storking for the IC and the point has a cheater grip on the tail. It's not very comfortable, but it lauches really nice.

You could just stack everyone outside and pull it off kind of like a snowflake or long cat launch goes facing uphill. It's clean as long at OC and point are patient and bit late. It's fun.

Or, just stack up as usual with storks on OC and IC, and again OC and point need to be patient to let IC out and down before going. It'll come right off. OC really needs to present left side high like a 4/A exit and point just wait until the last instant. Tail would be critical to stay low and get that stretch before the key

Right now, we have so many other things to work on so the P with some grip switching is nice and consistent. My eventual preference would be the italics above, but I like to mess with exits.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[AMax 0]

I was also thinking about lunching E with Tail as OC, IC as a tail and OC as IC (exactly as you said) but P sounds like a better idea since we need to straighten it up to avoid the traffic issues between IC/OC at the bottom of the block. I am running out of patience - cannot wait till next training camp

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Hm ... If we want it to look straight and righteously with Pt at a head and Tail as a tail, why not lunch a G? ....... just a thought

[SpinDoctor 0]

We launch a fully gripped up side body (P) and grip switch to the 13.

Tail keys the first part of the 13, so that with this exit, he knows that OC has his grips on Point and only needs to make sure that himself and IC have grip switched before keying.

It may appear slow, but like I said, tail does not need to wait for the front piece to build before keying.

Hope that helps

Rgds, Phil
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[rehmwa 2]

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Hm ... If we want it to look straight and righteously with Pt at a head and Tail as a tail, why not lunch a G? ....... just a thought

It's an option and just two bits short of what I think is best. I think a sidebody grip switch to a cat is easier than a compressed grip switch to a sidebody (it puts the grips in control of one person). It's all about who has the longest move, not how many people move simultaneously. And a P is much more consistent for us than a G which is most important - consistency.

Also, I think it's 'safer' to do the grip switching down on the bottom of the hill than on the top. At least for us. The rear people can see stuff better and that helps.

And in our case, our tail is still working out issues launching a cat, so we have a lot of work on G, C and strangely, NOT 8.

The knights (in the DVD seem to) do a sidebody, with the tail already storked on the right hand in the correct cat grip - so he beats the IC to grips every time. They only wait for the IC to finish which is a nice cue for the OC to go since they are plenty good enough to trust a simple cat launch for the tail to be automatic. It's a nice compromise and takes the harder timing bit out of the equation completely. But this is all second hand from watching that DVD over and over and over - I think the GK's are cool.

I don't put much thought into this stuff.....

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[rehmwa 2]

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Tail keys the first part of the 13,

That odd. How's it been working? I just can't see it. Maybe it's time to start those neck flexibility exercises. I don't have a 'point man neck' to be able to see or feel a tail key on 13. It would simplify things.

For us, the OC keys, but in reality, the IC controls it. I'm OC and I wait for either a shake or a 'big energy' pull in feel from my IC and then I key (release - big for now). Only then do we actually start any rotation for any piece. The tail looks for that and goes with the rest of us. Since OC in our cat move is medium passive, I can do a big flash for the tail (and the judges) on release. It works nice. Now we just need to clean up our finish. We're not consistent, but it's over 80% and getting better.

We don't think of 13 as a block, but as a precise random move. It's helped us with placing the finish quite a bit and that's cleaned us up a ton.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[SpinDoctor 0]

It's about a plan - and that's ours

It works ok for us.

OC takes his grips and looks back, this is the sign that he's on. Tail can see that I'm on the cat. Our tail has HUGE arms (he's about 6'18") so OC can see the key just fine. It also means that there's no 'tug tug' pass it on kinda stuff going on.

The problem we do have - is that OC keeps keying the bottom of the 13 - when he shouldn't - as he can't know whether Point is catted on me correctly. That's my job

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[rehmwa 2]

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Our tail has HUGE arms (he's about 6'18") so OC can see the key just fine.

So he just breaks, reaches up and taps the OC on his helmut.
COOOOOOOOL

- What's your team name? I'll watch for it in the NSL/ESL rankings.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[AMax 0]

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... a sidebody grip switch to a cat is easier than a compressed grip switch to a sidebody (it puts the grips in control of one person). It's all about who has the longest move, not how many people move simultaneously. And a P is much more consistent for us than a G which is most important - consistency.

our G's are pretty consistent, but your point about aswitching from compressed vs switching from SB is right on target. I haven't considered that.

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Also, I think it's 'safer' to do the grip switching down on the bottom of the hill than on the top. At least for us. The rear people can see stuff better and that helps.

good point again

The knights (in the DVD seem to) do a sidebody, with the tail already storked on the right hand in the correct cat grip -

[rehmwa 2]

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The knights (in the DVD seem to) do a sidebody, with the tail already storked on the right hand in the correct cat grip -

bingo ... I am going to try that

[SpinDoctor 0]

Team is called South Parc

We just organised and competed in a local comp... we used the NSL draw, and got an official BPA judge...

Write up and photos of the RAFSPA 4 way competition can be found on the NSL Skyleague site here:

http://skyleague.com/pages/news/showArticles.php?story=143

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[AMax 0]

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IMO - Get the DVD from Skyleague, it's worth it. I think it's still free with orders, if now, it's only a few bucks.

I will! thanks!

[AMax 0]

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Team is called South Parc

We just organised and competed in a local comp... we used the NSL draw, and got an official BPA judge...

Write up and photos of the RAFSPA 4 way competition can be found on the NSL Skyleague site here:

http://skyleague.com/pages/news/showArticles.php?story=143

We already know who you are J))

[rehmwa 2]

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Team is called South Parc

Nice meet. Your round 2 looked freakily like ours in round 2. I wish we had the M in there though. It was worth a couple extra points in time to have that extra random.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[dgskydive 0]

Launching a P is a real easy transition. Oc and point are in position. Just a grip switch for tail and IC. Our A 13 works the same as Rehm's

Dom

[dgskydive 0]

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We launch a fully gripped up side body (P) and grip switch to the 13.

Tha is because PAt coached you on it. it seems to be the simplest transtion. People are talking launching a G. To much going on.

The P is much easier.

Dom

[AMax 0]

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Our tail has HUGE arms (he's about 6'18") so OC can see the key just fine.

So he just breaks, reaches up and taps the OC on his helmut.
COOOOOOOOL

This reminded me some hilarious video of my first coach when she moved form IC to Pt slot and tried to control the skydives form there

Thank you guys for the input

[rehmwa 2]

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LOL ... last night I spent almost half an hour visualizing taking out an E with switched positions between IC/OC and Tail and grip switching to 13 ... what a waste of time

only tail has grip switching, just closing the other grip for the other two......

It's just the hammer all rolled up. If you want to do this, and don't want to change the straight hammer at terminal, try this. 1 - open up to the curved hammer and catch grips - everyone can see it fairly cosmic but the tail (OC launch) has a great picture for the flash; 2-spin the cat about 90 so that the OC meets the tail for the catch - no more than that - don't make the tail move other than away a bit, just spin the cat in place and let the OC be agressive enough to make the catch, the point will finish last.; 3 - the point does a clean 180, actually a little less, and drive straight forward to the cheated cat finish as the IC hips come out to straighten the cat on finish.

All it does it leave an extra bit of translation for the point just a little more than he's used to, no translation (less) for the tail, and mixed up meeker on launch. It isn't that bad and pretty quick to key and you just have to be careful of the OC coming out of it in the right direction as the visual will pull his eyes around extra to his left and he'll might WANT to go the wrong way (or is it just me 13 used to be my nemesis this way). (Still I like the modified P launch, but this isn't as bad as it seems, but turning a bent 2-way cat can suck.....)

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[AMax 0]

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only tail has grip switching, just closing the other grip for the other two......

I got that Still like the P exit better. It would be nice to try both but we don't have much time and jumps to do that. Need to focus on more important staff. Thanks again!

Anton