Well, can you please elaborate on what the basics is?
Sure dude. What you are doing is similar to a kid watching F1 racers on TV. He sees em zooming around the course, and gets very excited! Imagine that kid was able to immediately buy a F1 race car and go try out a track! he'd either freakin crash that thing in an instant, or probably not get a good time on the course. What the kid should have done, is gone and got a Go-Kart! learn to race... then work his way up to a bigger go-kart... then a smaller race car.... etc. etc.
This is why we see little to no originality from the "theory 11-year-olds" as I call them. They get uber-excited to see a very advanced cut, and just want to buy DnD's material and go straight to learning crazy sybils! But they don't take the time to even learn the very simplest foundations, of what DnD's material is built on!
Before you learn the "jackson 5" I would recommend really training the basics, starting at Charlier cuts. yes, I know a "madonna" looks a lot more impressive than a Charlier. yes, I know you can do a Charlier cut already. But can you do them in both hands? smoothly? Then, learn the scissor cut... then the revolution cut... then a hindu cut.... I've been flourishing for almost a year and I still haven't learned how to Sybil! I'm still too n00b for that, but I am excited to one day learn it when I have reached that level. my brain fell out of my head the first time I saw "spring jam" which was basically my first exposure to sybil cuts.
EVERYONE is excited as you are when the first time they saw flourishing. it's freakin amazing looking! But it takes a lot of discipline to start with the basics rather than going straight to the "leno cut".
For example let's take "west coast chaos" or whatever off "The System" since that's what you're thinking about buying. All it is, is a freakin revolution cut in one hand, a scissor cut in the other, and then interpolate the packets! Why in the hell does this even deserve proper noun status? Does this mean that every variation needs to be named... okay if you do a Charlier instead of a Revolution, then that's a flourish i INVENTED... I call it "East Coast Chaos!" don't forget to credit me !!!!
If you learned the basics, you'd be able to freestyle jam all sorts of flourishes that you'd be inventing on the spot. like an improvisational Jazz musician, there wouldn't be NAMES for all the variations you're doing, there would just be an awesome flow of creativity! but INSTEAD, we get tons of kids posting up webcam videos of their 6-packet WERM display that they have named "Epsilon Rhinocerous" or something random. or a "genesis" variation where they flip a packet one extra time, this could be named "Lord Farquad" or maybe "000.X5LZ.mmmmmsandwiches"
basically, you want to be a stone cold flourishing bad ass right? you have options:
1. start by copying DnDs stuff, in 3 years you'll be able to rock like Hestnes' video:
http://media.theory11.com/991-the.system
2. start by buying the Encyclopedia of Playing Card flourishes and learn the basics:
www.flourishman.com
It is WAY less glamourous, exciting, whatever to start off with such basics. But if you want to be hella awesome, learning the basics from the encyclopedia will give you a foundation to make your own flourishes, and who knows you could maybe one day make a DVD, and lots of little kids will want to copy YOU, and you can tell them "I started by learning the basics and you should too", lol
edit: holy crap that was way more than I thought I was going to write. sorry for elaborating too much! lolz
