by oggy » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:09 am
My 2 cents, caveat emptor. Yes tipping is what you need to do (don't we all), but tipping needs some prerequisites, such as being in balance. Which you're unfortunately not during many of the turns; most of in the middle of the turn, just before the fall line (when you're supposed to add more tipping to finish the turn), you're out of balance, in a wide stance and a wedge. It's hard to tip from there. I can think of two ways of getting yourself into trouble:
1. Not distributing your weight correctly, by leaning in. Feel your weight distribution with your feet and adjust; it's called a 2FR for a reason. Try some OFRs as well.
2. An idiotically simple revelation that has struck me recently: even in a 2FR, the relative length of the legs needs to change. At the beginning of the release, your soon-to-be-free leg is longer than the soon-to-be-stance leg. In the middle of the turn they need to be equal, or even in a slightly reversed relation. There are two ways of getting there: flexing the new free leg, and extending the new stance leg. Guess which one of these pillages your village, eats your babies and throws you out of balance?