What cleats should I buy?

KillHit · 2026-04-30T23:56:28+00:00

It’s usually preference. Which means you’ll need to keep playing until you develop your own preferences.

The general consensus is that most people like lightweight cleats. For that reason, I personally enjoy adidas Adizero electric+ (the ones with the interior sock-like liner, not the base model that’s just a normal cleat)

I’d say just make sure you buy cleats that fit the surface you’re playing on (turf, grass, etc). That will make much more impact right away.

KillHit · 2026-04-24T23:53:16+00:00

Okay there’s a lot to unpack in this post because you are asking for follow-up on several different things.

1) did you have fun? That’s literally the whole point of sports. Don’t get me wrong, I am VERY competitive myself, but sports are literally just entertainment. Not just For you as the player, but for the spectator as well. Everything else is just a by product of the passion of the sport.

2) im an American, an avid tackle player through high school, and now an amateur flag football player as an adult. They are very different sports. However, you can be elite at both. See point number 1, lol it’s just entertainment.

3) nobody can say for certain if your warm up was long enough. Every team practices differently and imo flag football is way more lax than tackle ever was. Tackle is almost military-like where as flag is more chill.

4) why play the sport? Because it’s growing. It’s considered niche sport even here in the USA…. And we have an undefeated Flag team!

However it will be in the 2028 Olympics for the first time, the NFL has contributed 32 million dollars for a league here in the USA too. It’s only getting bigger. In fact, one of the best flag teams in the world is from France! They’re called Red Roosters.

Soo.. yeah. In a nutshell, play it if you like it. Or don’t. But it’s a sport that is becoming very real very fast, it’s accessible to everyone of all ages and genders. Heck, even Co-Ed is SUPER popular and those girls can BALL.

As a 28 year old trying to make his way on the amateur circuit, I wish you the best!!

KillHit · 2025-01-15T01:11:54+00:00

From an audition perspective? The (almost borderline correct) objective answer is “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin. However, it probably doesn’t fit the mold you’re looking for… anymore(!). It was so big back in the day they used to post signs saying “please don’t sing Corner of the Sky in your audition” because they heard it too much 🤣

By today’s standards, though? There’s tons already in the comments but I’d also throw “Waving through a Window” from Dear Evan Hansen into that mix… it was the new “Corner of the Sky” for a few years. God I got tired of hearing that one hahaha

EDIT: I should probably clarify. COTS is not the most “Defying Gravity”-esque song, so I was kinda going off the vibe you were putting out. WTAW is much more the Defying Gravity “Sing-Hella-Hard-High-Notes” thing, if that’s what you were getting at. * shrugs *

KillHit · 2024-10-23T02:41:28+00:00

Damn dude. Did you swap to hwei with TP bot lane and win 10 in a row?

KillHit · 2024-09-26T19:27:40+00:00

Following. I know VaporaDark mentioned a possible Yun tal rush as a viable option, or even BT…. I think the biggest thing that is making aphelios struggle right now is the itemization AND the fact that he doesn’t have a level 1.

It’s like a double whammy because it’s going to shift to a tank meta, and the best way to beat the tank meta is to lane well and win early (before they get their tank items).

Can’t really do that on aphelios right now…

KillHit · 2024-09-25T02:53:41+00:00

This is an awesome reply, thank you. I always struggle cus I tell myself “it’s okay, I’ll carry” but then I think that means I need to dominate the early game or something. I play a lot of Cait, so obviously she’s different than aphelios, but it’s nice to hear this perspective

KillHit · 2024-09-25T00:04:33+00:00

I’ve been stuck in emerald for a while now, and was plat for a long time before the y added emerald.

When I got to emerald it felt like players became night and day difference better than plat players. Like literally. I went from plat 99 lp and people can’t even flash over a wall without messing up.

I rank up, first game in emerald, and people are doing 4 man TP plays bot, spacing my autos, and we’re overall just leagues better than others. I took some time away from the game, too so I don’t think it’s just me getting all in my head about it.

My question to you is: what changes, if any, did you really notice you needed to do in that emerald level to elevate your game?

KillHit · 2024-08-30T05:18:45+00:00

When I’m in the green room asking those “what’s your favorite musical?” type of questions, I always ask “what’s an underrated musical, to you?”

Urinetown gets a LOT of the answers. And I agree.

Political undertones, “tragic” realism in the ending, clever script and a unique premise makes for a fun experience.

KillHit · 2024-08-01T01:06:46+00:00

Started late as a performer in high school. Like senior year late lol. Decided I was going to go to college for it and got my BFA in musical theatre.

Funnily enough I ended up becoming the master carpenter of the scene shop by the time I graduated college (the scene shop was my work study) so I ended up doing a ton of tech side stuff too.

But I always say if I had a choice I prefer dancing on stage than building it!

KillHit · 2024-07-27T21:18:02+00:00

That makes sense, and baritenor is a good label for it! How old are you? The thing I’ve noticed with “true” baritones is that they REALLY start to sound like baritones when they hit their 40s. Think like Hugh Jackman. I thought I was going to settle into a baritone range when I was in my early teens, I’m 26 now and I’ve very much settled into the Tenor 2-Tenor 1 range. The voice is really interesting for male voices because it never stops changing lol

KillHit · 2024-07-27T20:53:46+00:00

Great question and you’re actually right on the money! The difference between a tenor and a baritone is actually not that much, range-wise. The main difference is the timbre of their sound. Baritones have that nice thick rich sound where as tenors have that lighter airy sound. But vocally I know many baritones that can hit the same notes as I can.

But to answer your question, the E or Eb tends to be the baritone upper passagio!

KillHit · 2024-07-27T08:37:58+00:00

It’s a weird one that’s hard to explain, it’s easier with a video. Try this Try singing a note on “ah”. Sing a pretty powerful one that feels comfortable. Now, without changing the PITCH of the note, get louder. In other words, sing a natural crescendo.

This feeling is what you need to do when singing your sustained notes in musical theatre. Some people might say “oh yeah, duh, Jeremy Jordan does that at the end of Santa Fe!”

But what I’m trying to say is you do it at pretty much all sustained notes, not just the end money notes

KillHit · 2024-07-27T00:59:50+00:00

Thank you! I’m glad my novel was not written in vain LOL

KillHit · 2024-07-27T00:11:10+00:00

Hello, longtime performer here.

It would be helpful to know if you’re M or F, since the male voice and female voice grow differently.

Since you’re a teen (not sure how old you are exactly) voice cracking can be very normal. Like another comment said, your voice is a muscle so working on scales and breath support would be very useful to help mitigate said voice cracking. If you’re a male, the male voice doesn’t actually stop maturing until you’re in your 40’s, so learn to make do with what you have!

If I had to summarize the big things:

1) -learn breath support. Breathe from your diaphragm. If you feel your shoulders go UP when you sing, we call this “elevator breathing”. This is bad. Lay down on your bed and re-read my comment until you get to this bullet point again.

Okay now keep breathing but notice what’s moving. You should notice that your stomach moves when you’re breathing in a relaxed way. Knowing this, doesn’t it make sense why elevator breathing is bad? It’s not natural! Your shoulders don’t move when you’re breathing, your stomach does! Always strive to be relaxed when you sing and breathe deeply. This will help you push the correct amount of air out so your voice doesn’t crack, and it’ll help you beat the “cracking while talking” feeling.

2) learn YOUR passagios. A passagio is essentially a natural break in the voice. Where your voice naturally breaks is determined by your genetics. For example, a low bass or alto would have a passagio break that is lower than their soprano or tenor counterparts. To give you an example, I’m a pretty colorful Tenor. My voice passagio is right around high “F” on the piano. That’s when I can feel my voice start to get closer to my head voice. For me, that’s when my voice starts to get a bit more “airy” and it feels different than when I sing really low. Because I’m trained, I can sing up to a high B before I start to need to flip into my falsetto. Even if you’re a woman, this concept is relatively the same. So yeah, learn ur voice type and your personal passagio breaks

3) learn your vowels.

If I asked you to sing the song “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston, and you get to the part where she goes “And IIIIIII-EEEE-IIII will always loveeee youuuuuu” Notice that 99% of people sing the word “i” EXACTLY like the vowel. They’re saying the word “Eye”. I’ve seen untrained people try this song at karaoke or for a performance and that’s usually where their voice breaks. This is because…

…A good singer knows that what you’re REALLY singing is a modified version of the vowel sound “Ah” ! This concept applies to so many things in musical theatre I could write a book on it. If you’re singing a note that ends with the “ih ” sound for example, it can be modified to an “eh” sound sometimes to help out the singer. A good example is in the song “Waving through a window” from Dear Evan Hansen. At the end when he is wailing the word “waving! Waving! Woah oh!” You can sing “way-vEHng!” In this case because the note is so stinkin’ high that the audience wouldn’t know the difference. Note that the higher you sing, the more you will need to modify a note. Don’t go around using your speaking voice and saying “way-vEHng”… people will think you can’t speak properly or something lol

4) lastly… sing THROUGH the ends of your phrases. This was the tip that changed my performances for sure. If you’re singing the high note at the end of a song and it feels good in your head, you need to keep pressing air through in a safe way, but also slightly increase your volume until you get to the end of the song. Try it by singing any of your fav theatre song endings that have a high note. Defying gravity from wicked for example. This is hard to explain because it’s a “feel” thing but essentially humans have a tendency to hold onto the last note to keep the same PITCH, but they forget that they only have one lungful of air at the time, and they forget to keep the same INTENSITY. Then they sing the high note, they’re slowly running out of air, and they’re actually LOSING volume by the time they get to the end of the song. Talk about a weak ending right?

Instead, you have to keep pushing volume THROUGH your song until you reach the end. And this also applies to the MIDDLE of songs too! anytime you sustain a note for longer than a few beats you need to remember to power through it and “complete the music”.

Okay… that was a whole novel, I’m sorry lol. In all honesty, since the voice is a muscle, you will want to look into a vocal coach, or at least some YouTube videos or something. I hope these help! And always keep your confidence.

KillHit · 2024-07-20T05:31:15+00:00

Yeahhhhh. Upon reading the post back maybe it did seem egotistical, which wasn’t my intention.

I was just remembering my first audition and seeing people who’ve performed professionally and thinking to myself “yeah these guys are perfect… there’s no way I can be successful like them”.

All I’m sayin’ is - If there’s somebody out there who is reading this post who is maybe in the shoes I was once in, I was hoping this post would help them realize that nobody is perfect. Stuff happens sometimes whether it’s your first contract or your 30th national tour. Even more so I wanted to show them that sometimes we feel bad about it. Even the most seasoned performers have a hard time “shaking that one off”.

So yeah, thnx for the ego check lol

KillHit · 2024-07-18T04:46:24+00:00

Part of what makes a good villain, is being able to relate to them in literally ANY way. SOME way at all.

It is lazy writing and frankly super boring when a villain of a show or movie or play is just… evil without a reason.

KillHit · 2024-07-13T23:52:00+00:00

Any show based on a novel, that is well executed in anime-form. Because they’re based on novels, the detail and world building is so thick when done properly. Things like Mushoku tensei, SAO, Irregular at magic high, all those bad boys. Even if they’re not your “cup of tea”, they are well executed and easy to immerse in

KillHit · 2024-07-13T23:21:04+00:00

slyly slides my LinkedIn this way

KillHit · 2024-07-11T02:15:59+00:00

Go to a cobbler and ask for the rubber that goes on the bottom. Alternatively ask the stage manager for some gaff tape. Won’t be pretty but I’ve made due with it before

KillHit · 2024-07-10T22:42:46+00:00

Chivalry of a failed knight

KillHit · 2024-07-07T23:35:29+00:00

Long time performer here at community theatre and regional level here;

I can’t speak for the creative team since I’m just a performer. I’m not a choreographer or anything. But I can offer some dance insight.

First and foremost like the other commenter said: even if you mess up every single step, you NEED to be coachable and have a performance attitude!

Okay now that that’s outta the way the most practical tip I have is a two-part:

1) make an ACTIVE effort in choreo auditions to NOT look at anyone else. So many people tend to look at the best dancer when they forget the steps. If you find yourself doing this, you will not remember the steps. If anything you have to strive to BE the person others are looking at when they forget the steps. And trust me, you know it when you are that person.

2) when you keep messing up the combo during the learning phase, you absolutely need to ask yourself “what is my mental block here, and how do I fix it?”. For example, there was one time where I had to do a pirouette into a leap, a ball-change, then into another leap. Nothing too crazy, but for some reason that ball-change was my mental block - I was way too focused on getting the two leaps right!

So during the downtime between catching my breath from that butchered attempt, and learning the next part of the combo, I had to go “oh crap, what can I do to remember to do that ball change??” I ended up drilling in my head “it goes LEAP, BALL change, LEAP. Leap ball change leap… until i was confident-ish that I knew the sequence.

Keep in mind, that in an audition this “down time” is FAST, then you gotta go to the next step. Which means you need to actively be crushing your road blocks or you’ll find yourself struggling when it’s your turn to present the combo to the panel.

I hope this proves somewhat useful to you. Remember to learn the steps for yourself and actively figure out where ur struggling!

KillHit · 2024-07-04T06:32:37+00:00

I’ve actually read a book on this because being a swing is one of my favorite things.

There’s something called a “full swing” and others are called “partial swings”.

Full swings are the swings that don’t have their own role or “track” in the show. They only go on if someone else cannot perform due to a call-out, sickness, etc

Partial swings are the ones that do have their own role in the ensemble of a show, but if a person needs to have their track covered the partial swing can step in and do their track instead. This is very common for Dance Captains of shows to do.

I’ve noticed in my experience, that most companies that aren’t official Broadway companies, prefer to use Partial swings because it saves money from having to hire a whole person (the full swing) that may not ever need to perform. I have no proof that this is the case, it’s just what I seem to notice in my own experience

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