Ritchie T

Soo close but by a smidgen, IQ.

IQ for me as well, incredible record skill and pure funk.

Gone for Chin...but only just.

IQ for me too. Really like his style.

Nice cleanliness. Keep going.

I wear an elasticated sleeve thing on my arm all the time now when scratching. I also follow the 'don't stretch before' rule. After a good scratch when the muscle is warm the stretch is a good thing though. The doctors said the same thing to me as well though...give up. How can I give up when there's so much more to learn. GP's talk shit. The foam roller really works for the forearm though, as I'm even back practising the snap tears and stuff that knackered the muscle in the first place.

Good tutorial chile

I fucked my forearm extensor muscles on my record (left) hand from practising too much (not from wanking ). I put it down to trying to teach my bad hand to do really small and precise record movements like tears etc. I didn't scratch for nearly a year but it was still fucked. I did all the stretches the physio said for months, but it seemed to make it worse if anything. One day I read an article about foam rollers because I'm also trying to get my knee better after an op. The roller worked wonders on my leg muscles so I thought I'd try it on the forearm. 3 weeks later I was scratching again, although nothing too stressful. Since then it's gone from strength to strength, and I can pretty much do anything I did before without pain. I foam roll before and after every session religiously and it definitely works. I still get pain, but it's nowhere near what it was and it goes after a day. I also use one of these before and after: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Omni-Massage-Roller-Ball-Various/dp/B000ZJ3WEM The roller seemed to get rid of the scar tissue you get with an overuse injury. It's saved my life! Get rolling!

The chances of coming up with the same name for the same scratch must be about 10,000000 to 1. Deserves at least a mention I reckon!

The Eprom vid is dope. I remember him from years ago as well on a vid with Aquasky, the group me and Ian Beale did all our scratching for. Here's the vid:

I remember watching your square flare youtube when you first did it and I coudn't work it out. Jump forward a few years and it's on Q Berts uni as a "square tear flare". I was trying it last night since I've started scratching again after fuckin my arm up, and I realised it's a tug job without the middle click. The fucked up thing is, after I posted my reply earlier, I remembered that it was you who put the Square Flare vid up! He's biting your moves Eric. Demand cash!

The scratch at 1:40 is a tug job without the middle click of the 3 clicks. It's a square flare or square tear flare that turns from a 3 click flare (tug job) into a 1 click (square flare). Relies on good record control otherwise it doesn't work. What the fuck, it sounds fuckin nice Eric!

This guy does a real good slowed down version x2k.

Yes, that click is there when the move's repeated. You had the clicks right the first time by the way. You were just missing that click at the beginning / end.

not quite, there isn't an extra click, the second click is early (flare instead of a chirp if you like) and the overall rhythm is change so there are 4 parts instead of 3 (or 8 in a complete pattern). If you understand these diagrams then it looks like this... That's how I think they are done anyway You're nearly there x2k. There should be 1 extra click at the very start / end of the pattern. In other words, the pattern starts with the fader closed, and ends with the fader closed. That's the slower one from the DVD. The faster version he does is this:

Sup all I stumbled across this thread and thought some of you might be interested in another thread on the same subject on skratchlounge. http://www.skratchlounge.com/index.php?showtopic=4409 Cheers