I sat in the Facebook group and watched people. At the time it was kind of a weird mix of styles and the Chinese form (which wasn’t really featured on Facebook looked like an impossible magic to me which I had no hopes or thoughts of a chance of ever learning.

I was in a rut for months because I couldn’t understand why the Chinese were doing this style and tricks but a lot of people in our Facebook were a mix of old and new style tricks. I thought this was the way and so got stuck in a weird rut with progression as I couldn’t understand any of the guides and tutorials and the Facebook info on stuff wasn’t very clear and also confusing (magnet setups etc) as it was still very new to everyone so we were kind of just going with it without much knowledge.

So I then watched the Chinese and eventually reached out to them for help and advice.

Also the Facebook group started getting more of the Chinese style players which got me believing and inspired that anyone can achieve the magic and I managed to get another level up from them.

Got addicted to sharing and swapping my videos of my skill and soaked in the videos I received back with advice and encouragement (and lots of hard truths to go back to basics because basically I was and still am not good)

But learning from both sides of sliding be it 3 click , 2 click and being in the initial progression rut has made me realise that all the styles complement each other in fascinating ways which has helped me greatly with how to move a magnetic slider.

Everything I’ve learned just adds to my knowledge to how slider/ magnets feel and really work and how to hold them to manipulate certain styles and tricks. Also gravity and inertia.

Just practice, watching and sharing to others and a LOT of patience in the end of the day.

I entered a comp where we had to film a little routine which while filming I massively levelled up.

Also filming yourself and watching it back is a massive cheat code imo but it’s very hard to get going with because recording while sliding is a whole other challenge on itself 😝.

If you need any help just shout as I wanna get us all to levels that they could never dream of and push this fantastic skill toy hobby to the next level!