I mean we all have some of these right? Little things that you can do to spice up your movement or get more power or something. I figure it might be good to share some of the stuff we've discovered.

Here are a few that I use every once in a while. I'll put some example replays up, but you don't have to if you don't want to.

• Moving my pecs in the opposite direction of my chest rotation. This looks kinda neat (imo) and it allows you to get 2 small rotations instead of one big one. Ex: Opener of this replay
• Contracting both pecs during a punch. I'm sure most of you have figured this out, but if you contract both pecs when you punch it goes way faster. Ex: First punch here
• Relaxing the chest in my openers. This is situational, but sometimes its really effective I've found for continuing spins. Ex: I'm like 90% sure I used it in the opener here.
• Extended abs (in general). I think this looks super cool and it took me forever to start incorporating it into my movement. I used to always keep them contracted, now they're almost always extended. See previous replay.

thank you

Dscigs: In conjunction with your last one, I've recently learned that you can press ctrl+z after messing with some joints and it resets the joints to whatever state they were in going into that frame. Somehow I never knew this until like this week but I bet that would work well with the relaxall strategy.
Also I like how my tip is to always extend abs and yours is to always contract them.

Mrjingles: I'm happy I'm not the only one who's done my toribash moves IRL

That's a fairly new feature though, like 6 or so months old


When making small movement, such as trying to express emotion or when posing, I find it very important not to move separate joints. If you have to contract your abs to keep balance while posing for instance, relaxing your hips, glutes and, if possible, the lumbar, makes a big difference. But I am sure you all are aware of that.

When landing I like to extend my ankles just before I hit the ground and then hold them, especially in -30

Also relax-shspace-hold-shspace-relax-shspace-holding- can make a big diffrence sometimes when making petty details

Thanks for good thread :)

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