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Kids that age learn by absorbing everything around them. When he gets older and his own personal style and taste becomes more defined, he'll be unstoppable.

I try to avoid the parts of the songs with other people's scratches in my mixes to not seem like I can do better scratches than I can actually achieve. Although in gigs I will prefer to air scratch during the dope parts of songs

Kids that age learn by absorbing everything around them. When he gets older and his own personal style and taste becomes more defined, he'll be unstoppable. Kids that age need to get off my lawn!!

Judging from the photos on Facebook, it looked like a mad good time, with plenty of people. Damn, really surprised on the turnout for a skratch event. Props to everybody involved.

That's Reminise's son, his dad was a NZ DMC champ I think. Crazy good...

It's pretty rough Vocals are recorded on a podcast mic so sound shit! (Fayc smashed it though)

Such an epic build up, so much anticipation...

Smashing day out all round chaps. Good music. Good cuts. Good company. Good times. Hype man Gary was on top form, as were sets from Dubba, Simiah and Jon.

I am getting back into it with new inspiration. My sound system is state of the art as you can hear😜

There's a few main things that will greatly improve your scratching. #1 - Hand *flexibility* exercises rather than *strengthening* exercises. This is especially true with record control and within that even more true when it comes to more complex movements. #2 - Visualization of scratching while AWAY from your turntables. Progress of skills in sports has been shown to improve in studies where participants spent time thinking of their technique (scratching in your mind) rather than just rote exercise where you are just developing muscle memory and not actually developing an actual conceptual understanding of any technique. #3 - Slow and steady wins the race...meaning start with your most comortable SLOW tempo beat you can cut to and only increase tempos if you can EASILY achieve a pattern/technique at your current tempo you are learning at. Speed comes over time...dont expect this to happen quickly...takes months/years and is always a constant battle of refinement. #4 - NEVER compare yourself to others! Progress in any art is personal and the only person you need compare against yourself when it comes to progress is...YOU. Progress can halt or regress if studying/admiring others too often...make your goal to be better than the version of you last week/month/year. Some people have natural adeptness in learning or executing scratching...for example I'm left hand dominant on the record and have always had to work harder at fader speeds than control for this reason...but you may have a different path or level and that is PERFECTLY ok! That's all for now...just try to keep it fun and progress will just seem like play rather than work and happen faster in the long run.