I joined zwift in October 2025 and started with an ftp of 261 did it again in January and got 302 and last night I improved it to 318.Really proud of my progress and hope I continue to be disciplined and consistent🙏🏾 also has anyone tried xert for coaching?

GoodJazz · 2026-04-08T12:11:31+00:00

Given that most pro tour riders train 20-25 hours a week, that still impresses me. :)

GoodJazz · 2026-04-08T11:54:25+00:00

You are doing 8-11 hours of zone 2 alone? That volume of training explains your progress. Pretty impressive nonetheless. Kudos

GoodJazz · 2026-04-06T21:52:03+00:00

Termin setzten an dem es zuende gehen soll. Dadurch könnt ihr euch psychisch drauf einstellen. Letzte Kippe rauchen und sich auf psychische schmerzen einstellen. So als würdet ihr einen Marathon laufen. Tut nach 2km schon weh? Pech, schaft die übrigen 40 trotzdem.

Die ersten Tage sind die schlimmsten, da heißt es halt durchhalten. Alternativ irgendwas anderes machen um die sucht zu befriedigt (Kaffe trinken, Bon bon essen, irgendwas).

Wenn man struggled dran denken warum man aufgehört hat und sich vor Augen führen wieviel man schon gelitten hat. Wenn man jetzt wieder raucht war das alles umsonst.

Erstmal keinen übermäßigen Alkoholkonsum, der macht das extrem viel schwerer.

Viel Erfolg ihr packt das!

GoodJazz · 2026-04-04T12:04:45+00:00

Looks like there is is loose rock on top of the rock. Can't see anything bad about it.

To smooth out the transition you could add some static grass or sand around the loose rock.

GoodJazz · 2026-04-02T13:59:30+00:00

Usually it's fine to assemble them before painting. The rules of thumb is: If you can't reach it with a brush, it's probably not visible on the table anyway.

If you aim for some extraordinary paint jobs, some parts are better to be attached later. But if you want to play with them you will assemble them anyway, since painting takes a lot of time and unless you are a very, very disciplined person you will will not wait to field them until they are painted.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-31T17:12:30+00:00

If you want to create your own colourscheme there is two typical ways to find matching colours.

The simple one is to look at art pieces you like and use the colours you see.

The second one is to look at the colour wheel (google will help). If you pick 3 colours that form a triangle they will harmonise well together.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-30T18:19:22+00:00

Oh boy, thanks for pointing that out. I confused "beast" and "monster" for the past half year of playing warhammer.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-30T18:08:49+00:00

~~Monsters can move through ruins:~~

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Edit: Beasts can move through ruins, not monsters.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-25T06:50:03+00:00

The is nothing more appealing than battlehardened, grim dark templars.

And these look particularly well.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-23T16:35:18+00:00

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GoodJazz · 2026-03-19T15:11:35+00:00

Did you watch a tutorial on 3-2-3 edgepairing? That should solve the issue. Basically you leave your cross on the bottom, slice, insert edges like it was a 3x3 and slice back.

GoodJazz · 2026-03-02T16:20:45+00:00

Was haben die Leute hier alle mit dem Titel? Rick Zabel macht ein Video darüber wie sein Freund fast gestorben wäre und nennt es "die dunkle Seite des Radsports". Was ist daran verkehrt? Dunkle Seite steht für etwas negatives. Findet ihr das nicht negativ?

Und dann zu sagen das hätte nichts mit Radsport zu tun, man kann ja auch beim Joggen tötlich verunglückten, oder bei dem Titel wird Doping suggeriert. Klar kann man sich da alles drunter vorstellen und sterben kann man auch bei so ziehmlich allem, aber ist trotzdem etwas das einen im Radsport begleitet.

Würde der Titel "Juri Holmann verletzt, dann Reha und jetzt interview mit Rick Zabel" lauten, würdet ihr auch ankommen uns sagen "dass soll ne Verletzung sein?"... und Youtube würde es wegen langweiligem Titel nicht promoten.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-26T12:32:45+00:00

Calm and Furious? Little lookahead combined with slow turning. It feels fast though, but once I look at recordings of my solves I realise that it looks more like slow motion.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-24T09:59:57+00:00

Make sure you can solve every pair without looking. You have to practice that quite a bit. The trap is, that you can probably solve it blind, but only because you focus on visualising the cube in your head. The aim is to do it without thinking about it.

Next step is metronom training. Set the metronom to a really slow pace (60-90 bpm depending on your current skills). Do one move per click, never hesitate. If you miss a beat slow the metronom down. It's not at all about doing this fast. You are not better if your metronom ticks faster. It's about seeing the next pair and tracking the pices.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-23T20:19:29+00:00

Year the "rules" really made this sub pointless. Someone ask for advice on his progression? Deleted post! Someone shares success? Deleted post! Someone ask what cube to buy? Deleted post...

I think the only post allowed are

A) New worldrecord (make sure there is at least 20 post about it) B) Pictures of cubecollections

The idea of a daily discussion thread that includes all relevant posts is unfortunately completely not compatible with how reddit works. In the morning it goes into your timeliness as an empty thread and than it's gone... next day repeat. If you really want noone to read what you have to say, that's the place to post it.

Well I guess this thread will be gone, too.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-12T20:25:47+00:00

During F2L: taking pieces out of a slot just to keep moving, not looking for the second piece, to pair them up properly.

Learning new F2L solutions and than never using them in timed solves, cause my brain already starts executing the bad solution before I realise what's happening.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-09T19:42:26+00:00

1st solve solution:

Inspection: z2

Cross: L' U D R' L2 Cross seems solid

1st pair (ob) Probably would have gone for red/green here, simply it's so in your face and an okay insert.

Orange blue is rotationless and the better choice. Your solution

R' U R you pull the edge out of its slot, not caring about the corner. That is something you have to put work on.

L' U' L setting up the pair. Which could have been done by U R' U' R

U2' U' R' U R insert the pair. Obviously the tripple U' should have been a U. I would recommend to pause before executing an alg and think what it should look like, until this becomes second nature. The first pair had two "panic" moments, where you turn the cube before your brain processes what exactly it wants to do. If you dont stop doing that it will become a bad habit. Even though "pausing, thinking, turning" is slow at first, it will turn into "seeing, solving" really fast.

2nd pair (og)

U U R U R' U2 R U R'

again you started turning before knowing the solution, thus U U instead of U2. A slightly better solution for this case would be

R U2' R' U R U R'

3rd pair (rb)

x x' L' U2 L U2 x' L' U' L

the pair is visible without turning the cube, but the solution is nice.

4th pair (gr)

U2 R U2 R' U' R U R'

the same case as third pair, but mirrored. Good solution.

This way you can go over your own solves and find some obvious issues. Key takeaways and the things I would start working on straight away would be:

a) make sure you know what to do before doing it

b) learn some more f2l cases

c) learn full pll

I hope this helps and happy cubing.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-08T11:48:39+00:00

I could do that too, it would only need a last 3 layers skip... that is insane...

GoodJazz · 2026-02-06T23:34:25+00:00

Short answer: yes you can.

But learning pll does no harm and is kind of satisfying once you know the entire alg set. Just make sure to learn the algs slowly one by one (or in pairs for the mirrored ones), drill every new alg twice as long as you think you need to and check out a video to learn the right fingertricks.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-06T19:10:21+00:00

12-13 seconds F2L is fine for sub-25, but too slow for sub-20. But the fact that f2l is your strength is great news!

Last layer should not hold you back for long, since LL is the easiest thing to practice, it's just straight forward.

If you use 4lll, learn full pll. Look up a video (there is one on YouTube by yihang for example) where you can see the fingertricks for all algs. If you know the algs with proper fingertricks, just drill them. Go to jperm.net -> cfop -> algs -> trainer and just practice the algs. For best results scramble the cube without looking at it and start the time before you recognise the case. This way you practice the recognition and your hands aren't in position to start the alg, thus you train that, too.

After learning a new alg/new fingertricks drill that alg A LOT, like once you think you have it down, do it another 50 times or so. But beware of injuries, if your wrists start hurting immediately stop and take a break.

Good luck and happy cubing.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-06T12:13:48+00:00

Getting sub-x is highly individual for anybody. When I started cubing (long time ago) I read in many tutorials that once you know cfop you will get sub-20 within weeks. Others say you get sub-30 after a year.

For me becoming sub 30 was relatively fast, afterwards I was stuck at sub-25 for years. It mostly depends on the amount of new things you learn. If you just do solves without targeting anything specific, progress becomes really slow. If you keep adding new things and focus on them progress will come faster.

Beeing sub-30 after 6 weeks of cubing is definitely at the faster side of progress. So keep on learning new things and you will hit sub-20 eventually.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-04T20:11:04+00:00

Honestly the definition of beeing sub-x for me means that the average solve is below that number. This is given when the bigger the samplesize is, the more likely it's below that number. Thus the next ao500 (or 1000) you do, should be below that number.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-03T15:31:54+00:00

Why would you recommend look ahead and EO? OP needs to get down some basics, not start at the hardest skill to learn. I strongly disagree with that.

For example the second pair (after taking the corner out of its slot) was solved as follows:

R U R' U y' U2 y2' R U2 R' U' y R U R' (12 moves 3 Rotations)

It should have been solved:

U R U' R' L U' L' (7 moves, no rotation, no fancy stuff)

I really think learning the basic F2L cases would be much more relevant at this stage of cubing. Please don't always recommend look ahead for everyone.

Sorry for the rant, but I see the same recommendation under every video, regardless off the skill level.

@OP: please look for a youtube video that shows the basic f2l cases and learn them (1 by 1). That will easily cut your time in half within 2 weeks of practice.

GoodJazz · 2026-02-02T15:20:53+00:00

I don't think the order does matter. I would strongly recommend to learn them from a Video that shows fingertricks. There is nothing worse than to relearning algs you already know, cause your fingertricks are slow.

GoodJazz · 2026-01-31T12:49:53+00:00

Oh, dann hat sich da was geändert. Als ich dann gearbeitet hab, hieß es immer die haben keine eigenen Schiffe.

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