I've been playing with sticks for about 8 years now. It's
lots of fun, and I guess I'm relatively good. Certainly not the best on
the net, or even the best one out of my friends, but good enough that I
can show off. Here are a few videos I've recorded. I can't be bothered to
make this page pretty tonight. Trouble viewing the videos? See the FAQ for some very limited help.
The Videos
This is me doing my thing with two
sticks at the same time! Once I get going, I have absolutely no
control over what I do. It takes all my concentration just to split
my mind in two to keep the both of them off the ground. They just sort
of go where they want to while I hang on for dear life.
This is the first trick I ever invented. For reasons that
seemed clear to me at the time, I called it the clockwork. It's simple
enough that I'm sure others have done it, but I was the first person I
knew to come up with the idea. You simply throw the controller into the
air with a 180-degree rotation. The interesting part is timing it with
the stick so that there is very little loss of contact between the
controller and the stick, even when both are out of your hands. I
enjoy it because unlike many controller-tossing tricks, it can be done
very slowly.
I've never successfully explained or taught this trick to anyone. This is probably due to the fact
that it was a complete accident the first time I did it. I just wanted
to see what would happen if I crossed my controllers. This was the first
thing that came to mind when I did that. I never really named it, but
I've tentatively called it a cross-up so that I'd have a name for the
video file. It's not nearly as complex as it looks.