ill do demon in a second
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gas drawls: pretty standard replay, it was good but did not blow minds. my only major-ish complaint is how often you hit your head on uke; i believe it might have been avoidable if you tried harder
knight: i really like this opener. there were minor movement flaws, but to your credit they were only due to how difficult it was to carry the momentum from and to those positions. i found the decap slightly underwhelming, maybe because your opener consisted of all these cool setups and spins and the decap was a simple spin. at that point, i would have personally either gone for more of those elegant spins or for a very fast, straight forward decap.
with the mouth cut out: i was a little disturbed by the joints that were suddenly held at 455. it was particularly off putting because your left hip was smoothly and slowly extending naturally because it was relaxed, and so was your right knee, and by holding these joints you sorta abruptly stopped this movement that was somewhat noticeable, since almost nothing else was moving (it was just your whole body spinning), as if you suddenly remembered that you had to do it mid-spin. huge nitpick, but it deserves an explanation for being a weird nitpick, and because this is a pretty good replay that deserves commentary this insightful.
i really don't mind slow movements, although i know some people do. but, in this replay, i believe the overall quality is brought down by the fact that you went for a very simple split afterwards. simple and slow are not inherently bad on their own, but the combination of both can be a bit boring in my opinion. for example, you can have a replay where slow movement works better than fast movement because it might draw more attention to the intricate movement, or the accuracy of the hits. however, in this replay you don't have intricate movement, it is pretty simple. it forces us to watch something that is not that interesting for longer than we would probably like. for that reason, i got slightly bored while watching the last part of the replay
my decision is no for now. most of these are nitpicks, but that is because your replays are high quality. your movement is pretty damn good, save for a few things that are probably just me being too demanding. my only major problems with your replays were caused by your ideas, and not how pretty the replays looked, because your execution is great. i think you could use wilder ideas to make that great execution really shine. it is only a matter of time until you join ormo, so good luck in your replays.
Last edited by pusga; Dec 31, 2015 at 08:20 PM.
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