Many people have different ways of learning new tricks, what is a good way to start learning more of the high difficult tricks?
Think of a trick, and try it! Okay... thats too simple. So how about this: - Cut a piece of paper up into little squares - Write a different trick on each square. Keep it simple: Bird, spike, bottom cup, lighthouse, airplane, lunar, candlestick, handlestall, etc. - Mix up all of the pieces of paper in a hat or whatever. Draw two of them - Try to go from one trick, to another. Examples: Bottom cup to lighthouse. Airplane to spike. Handlestall to lunar. Sometimes you might draw some easy / dumb tricks. Sometimes they might be really hard. But no matter what, you'll be forced to try some new things.
Practicing the easier version of it. If you want to do insta lighthouse flips, you gotta get lighthouse flips down first. Do multiple single lighthouse flips, and then work on doing multiple single flips faster back to back. Eventually you'll get comfortable with the motion and it'll start to click. I have been practicing juggles a lot, and I've started to get comfortable enough with them that I decided to mess around and throw in some late flips at the end lately. I found that doing so was easier than I had originally thought. I'm a "do the basics first then the hard tricks" kind of guy so that's just my take on it. If you really want to, you could just tackle whatever hard trick you're doing straight on, but I find its just a lot more frustrating with that route. It is possible though
I always start with visualize the whole trick i like to do, pull it appart in steps and build it up, like i show i many tutorials i made, for example a single trick wing, hold the ken how you want to land it, put the tama on the wing by hand to feel what is the best way to hold the ken that the tama stands stable, the do the pull up to wing , this count for every stall tricks you can imagine like bird stilts lunar axe ect.
Start practicing that trick non stop, take a break then practice again... and again....and again and you get the point lots of PRACTICE
Take the seemingly complex trick and break it down into simple parts and forms. Ben Herald likes to say that there are only about 15 tricks in all of kendama because when it comes down to it, there are! For example, a wing is pretty much just a handlestall, which can be executed/thought about like a bird. Ergo, wings are birds! You can do anything, just don't let the perceived difficulty of a trick daunt you