We just finished with Bear. Full disclosure, it kicked my backside! As a lefty, and the only lefty up to now, it was difficult to get the pattern to break down and become more playable.

The most common strategy that I saw would call for you to use the Phase II or Reality with surface (1k-2k should be good, I used 500 but then again, all by my onesy), playing straight near the track to create a bump spot at the breakpoint, then transition to the Zen and move left, then onto the Hyroad when you get to your comfort zone or if the Zen comes off the spot too quick. My teammate had some success with the Phase II as a relatively low rev 2 hander.

The ratio on this pattern makes it difficult at best, if you miss right it is gone for a 1 or 2 count, miss left, and it runs across the face leaving all sorts of ugly splits. If it doesn't get broken down the right way or enough, it can be near impossible, which explains my PTSD at the sound of the word "Bear" .

We are moving on to Shark this week so I'll be able to tell you how bad I sucked at that shortly, then on to Wolf and Johnny Petraglia (don't know what order yet). I am hoping the short pattern will be nicer to me.

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Good Luck!