Have you tried it? Back in my day we would start the record/album at the third roar of the lion. These days, I'm sure it all set up for you. As for parallel universes, sure! Why not!? I mean if you can think of an idea, it exists. Damn, in a minute, moderators will deviate this thread to a new forum: THE UNKOWN…
Yea me and some friends dropped the audio from the movie and turned on the album at the third roar. Such good times. Such great music. I mean, just because I thought of it, that doesn't make it exist here in the now. Sometimes you have to will things into existence.
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." So if the thought has been thought out, it exists in this world (or this universe). @moderators: the clock is ticking…
Yeah I started out with no body around me to teach me and didn't find much tutorials on YouTube except that one video that I swear every person who pays Dama saw in the begging of their Dama life and it as just me and my cousin. But the newer people have all these videos and people to teach than and I feel when you play with someone better than you you get better and you can get the tutorial in person from someon who is more advanced and can tell you in person what u r doing wrong and what u r doing right to accomplish a trick
Yea I feel that compared To a lot of people I'm learning incredibly slowly, because I still have not met anyone who plays kendama, I've only brought people in. But when I find all these videos, it really helps jump start my learning.
Sweets prime solids are the best rn, sticky for beginner balance tricks, new shape with larger cups and under 20
My only problem with that is that personally I would want to get used to this crazy stick and crazy huge cups and crazy good lunar balance and then move onto anything else and you suddenly can't do half of these tricks.
Yeah that's kinda the general CON of the Prime. I'm glad I have a Prime now but I'm seriously glad I started on a RED Tribute, it was ICY like a TK16. It taught me patience and at first I just thought light house was an impossible trick...little did I know I'd one day lace lunar flips.
I have to agree with you on this one. Everyone does say that one should start with a TK-16 or an Oozie, but personally i learned on a half split, and it is much easier to learn spike tricks and hole control on a half rather than a natty.
This is such an interesting topic. I came into the game a little late (Dec. 2014) and started with a Sweets Gold F2. It was a new-ish gen shape ken, but still came pretty slick out of the box, being a glossy solid coat. I've since broken it in and it plays nicely now, but I remember being frustrated with how long it took to get things like house, bird and lunar. I know I may be a little biased, but I have to lean towards the side of starting with a new-gen or painted tama. Since we're only talking about people who start from here on out, (not being able to go back and change past decisions for people through time travel obviously.) they're starting in a different dama atmosphere than the early days. Advanced tricks from several years back are now considered much more normal to accomplish in a shorter time-span from when you begin playing. In my experience, the early satisfaction of being able to start landing things that are deemed "harder" tricks, especially balance stuff like loons, really helps to increase the chances of a person sticking with it (no pun intended) and continuing to play. Even this very evening, I spoke with a kid who saw me playing my @Jake Wiens pro mod, and said: "...yeah, I've got one of those in my house somewhere, but it's all shiny. I can't even do a lighthouse." I've had similar experiences to quite a few times now. Essentially the would-be beginner is saying "the learning curve is too steep right at entry." Shouldn't it get harder as you go on and not start out frustratingly difficult? I understand the value of having core stuff down and really honing in your basic muscle memory, but a person will never get to that stage if they put it down after a week of frustrating failure. And of course most of what I'm saying can be countered with a simple, "well not all people act that way" / "Not everyone learns the same way" / "some people appreciate the challenge early on..." and so on. But may I just submit that from what I've seen, people want challenge, yes, but they also want payoff, and not necessarily 2 years into it. And yes, this is further complicated by the fact that some people come into the game while they're young, some start older, some start in N. America, some are in the east....so ultimately there is no cut and dry, black and white answer obviously. But even with all that said, I'm still lead to believe that the best (albeit somewhat blanket-coverage) approach is to say "hey! Let's start you off on beginner difficulty, instead of launching straight into legendary difficulty with all the skulls turned on." Anywho, that's my long-winded two cents. Get at me!
Disclaimer: I’m old and don’t know how start a new topic. I have a son who has some learning delays and who was introduced to Kendama’s by a teacher. It has been such a blessing to us in many ways. He gets a lot of satisfaction from learning tricks and as he has good physical dexterity it is an area where he can meet and sometimes even exceed, the abilities of “typical” kids. The Kendama kids have been extremely kind to him. Kind people in this forum, too - have been invaluable help in deciding which Kendamas to spend hard earned wages on! My question now is this: he has friends who see him practicing and who would like to try it, too. They are not interested in competition. What is the “easiest” Kendama - for an individual with some limitations - who simply wants to join in the fun?
A great way to start, very affordable, is a sweets prime or a krom pop. Big cups, and rubber/sticky paint, makes new tricks really nice to learn. And they offer some great designs too.
Honestly, the Prime is a solid choice. All of the designs are great for tracking except the solids. The paint is sticky right out of the box and can easily land difficult tricks. The reason why I'm not recommending the POP or any other KROM dama with a similar shape is because I feel that the spike is a bit too thin. Because of that, newer players risk breaking the spike on accident if they drop it too hard on the ground or something just happens to it. Other than that, the POPs are decent enough.
Truthfully, you cannot go wrong with a Sweets Prime from Sweets Kendamas or a Kaizen 2.0 from Kendama USA. Like everyone has mentioned, the Sweets Prime has larger cups to make landing a good number of tricks much easier especially when paired with the sticky paint on the ball/tama. And there are a huge number of varieties you can choose from to get your favorite color(s). The Kaizen 2.0 will have a more traditional-esque shape with smaller sized cups in comparison to the Prime and rubber paint instead of sticky (which some would say is better in the long run as it gets more and more grippy as you play it). Just as many, if not more varieties of Kaizen 2.0 kendamas to choose from but the designs are not as eclectic as the ones from Sweets Kendamas. Just comes down to whatever you, your son, his friends like best. One of the great things about kendama is the variety to choose from, nearly every kendama player out there has kendamas from multiple brands that are all different shapes, sizes and colors from each other.