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    Suggestions For Improving Footwork

    Hey guys, I've recently been discovering that my footwork has become the weak link in my game. If anyone could prescribe any drills or routines to help me out I would appreciate it.
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    try reading the training section?
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    If you don't have something specific to work on, I'd think that just general footwork practice, combined with other excerise, would be your best bet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhipLash
    try reading the training section?
    Ah, touche'. Yeah, Calculus has officially fried my brain.
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    wait till you try quantum physics! schrondinger's eqn? wave particle duality? and more more more! best thing is.....i'm studying BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE!!!!
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    wave particle duality wasnt too tough, but schrodingers cat makes no sense at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raymac
    wave particle duality wasnt too tough, but schrodingers cat makes no sense at all.
    well its just a simple explanation for an unpredictable event.

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    I'd say pay close attention to your form. Practice a lot of repetitions at low speed.

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    Schroedinger's cat just simply ment that before you opened the box there were two possible realities at that moment: 1) The cat was alive 2) The cat was dead. Once you opened the box and saw what happened then one of those realities was destroyed, so in essence there were two realities going on at the same time in the box before the outcome was found out.
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    also try and focus on distance control as well as good basic footwork.

    often 'bad footwork' is bad reading/control of distance rather than a technical problem with the footwork. So mix in distance control drills as well as working on the basic smoothness of your footwork and tempo transitions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RebelFencer
    Schroedinger's cat just simply ment that before you opened the box there were two possible realities at that moment: 1) The cat was alive 2) The cat was dead. Once you opened the box and saw what happened then one of those realities was destroyed, so in essence there were two realities going on at the same time in the box before the outcome was found out.
    but there are only two states of cat because the state is controlled by a quantum event.

    For any given cat in any given box there are not two possible states (unless the lid was on to tight, poor kitty, but that is not a quantum event and can be worked out with a stopwatch).

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