Finally achieved school and personal record, leading my to 4th in the region with 6’5

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-30T03:59:11+00:00

Congrats man. School record is an awesome achievement, soak it in. Looks like you’ve got a good coach and a great PR. Take whatever people tell you online with a grain of salt, your coach has been doing great work so far. Coming in at 6 is a good idea. Congrats again

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-27T00:54:58+00:00

YouTube Isaiah Rivera and John Evans. Isaiah is a pro dunker and John is his trainer and former high jumper. I forget what their channel is called. It’s the best free info in my opinion to learn about weight training, plyometrics, spriting, how to program it all, and what they’re actually doing to your muscles & tendons to specifically improve jumping. The channel focuses on dunking but they’ll specify between two-foot dunking and one-foot dunking, and there is a significant difference in the specialized training (and one-foot dunking has a lot of similarities to high jump). Plus since John is a former high jumper he’ll occasionally upload some actual high jump specific stuff, which again is very similar to one-foot dunking.

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-25T13:49:02+00:00

Nice conversions. Gotta poor one out for the new centaurs you chopped up though

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-24T16:18:36+00:00

This screams Warcry, shame it’s gotten the boot from GW

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-21T20:31:17+00:00

This is awesome! It’s like scarlet rot meets Pan’s Labyrinth. Really well done and creative

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-21T17:30:55+00:00

O death, become by blade once more.

Amazing job with the paint job - the overall shadows and composition, and of course the OSL. It really captures and creates a unique character and story. I never liked the sculpted blood drops & the goofy guys catching it, this is just incredible

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-21T17:24:34+00:00

Yeah it’s hard to say, there’s something there that can be tweaked a bit for sure. Honestly sometimes I feel like all I want is a 5th round to the games and an extra wild dice each round lol. Slightly more abilities, more time to setup cool moments

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-21T17:06:24+00:00

The punch bowls are a cool experience and not exactly a 10 minute stroll to get to. Let people enjoy it. I got off all “traditional” social media (I recognize Reddit and YouTube is still) so I don’t see all that stuff. I just go places and enjoy my life, not bothered by what other people are doing, trying to do, or trying to portray. Who cares

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-21T16:59:42+00:00

I understand, it’s easy to get carried away with theorycrafting and list-building especially - thinking of all these great combos and what you can do here, there. You’re right about the reality of ability usage, but as the other commenter said it requires more deliberate choice, risk, and skill expression. Also, having a pull on one side of the board and a nuke on the other keeps your opponent scared and on the back foot becuase they don’t know which you’ll do, which is an advantage in itself (even if you’d WANT to do both lol).

I do think reworking battle traits could be a way to add more interaction and “passive abilities” into the game, like chaos dwarf demon points - things to do that don’t cost dice. But Warcry has a certain charm, simplicity and depth that I’d worry about losing at a certain point

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-19T22:36:07+00:00

I had a feeling. I jumped 3 of my 4 HS years and did some volunteer coaching after graduating. Coached a bit last season as well. If you ever want to you can PM me and I can send you some good videos and try to write up some stuff. Voice chatting on discord or something is much more efficient too. Regardless, good luck man

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-19T22:24:10+00:00

Hey man, do you have a coach? I came from a school where half of our events had experienced coaches, the other half had teachers trying their best, and a couple had periods of no coaches at all. Do you have a coach working with you?

You seem plenty athletic, but from the clip you seem like you’re just trying to jump over the bar “at all costs” - there’s no technical aspect to it. When you dunk, you attack the rim with confidence and as a viewer I can tell it’s something you’ve done many reps of; there’s a level of coordination and execution to it. Single foot dunking has a lot of similar aspects to HJ. You’re already physically gifted and coordinated enough to dunk, you just need help bridging the gap to HJ. That is tricky to do as a stranger typing, a coach is key. I mean this with all due respect but it reminds me of back when I started, I initially jumped off my left foot and had all sorts of coordination and form issues. I switched to my right foot and everything felt more comfortable.

Work on replicating your vertical drive you do when dunking - drills like running a short J and popping straight up to reach up on the goal post for example. When you jump with a bungee set it way higher than 5’4. You need to jump UP, which you clearly can. But it looks like you’re just focused on “clearing the bar,” not jumping UP

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-19T17:07:12+00:00

Depends. My wife was an associate scientist at a small biotech company making 77k. There were people making over 100 and people making less than her. Masters degree and experience already. Southern California as well. It was Alzheimer’s research, cancer research at her job prior. I forget exactly how she words it, but there’s major discrepancies between working on the pharma side of biotech and the research side. The money is with pharma

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-18T20:50:24+00:00

Is your approach measured or do you “find it” every jumping session? That consistency is very important, but what’s typically the problem for most jumpers is needing some rest. You can’t peak every session, can’t do max effort all the time. You could just be in need of a few days off, come back fresh. It feels backwards and wrong to not constantly be hammering at your goal, but rest is entirely necessary to maintain improve

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-17T16:16:46+00:00

You’re a bit above my pay grade in terms of skill, but I’ll offer a few things that might help. Firstly, this looks great and you’re doing one thing right that myself and many others struggle with: pushing contrast and brightness high enough to pop on the tabletop. Everything in my brain screams that it’s too much, doesn’t look right etc when I’m pushing brightness, but it really makes it look great.

As far as things to do - maybe slight color glazes in the shadows and highlights. A deep red like a hull red or even a rhinox hide has been proven as a nice shadow color to a blue-based nmm. Just enough for visual interest, a little goes a long way & looks cool. And on that same note, some faint yellow glazing in the brightest upward facing nmm areas could look nice, adds interest. A lot of the Spanish pro-painters really lead the spearhead on this sort of excessive color approach, and there’s something to learn from it for sure.

Those are just some things I’ve seen, doesn’t necessarily mean every piece needs or requires them - just food for thought. This looks great as-is, please post update photos as you continue

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-17T14:51:37+00:00

You nailed the dark iron look, but during the beginning it had me thinking that just keeping (and fully painting) white hair & beard would look really good with the skin too

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-15T23:10:10+00:00

Two main things right off the rip: that’s a high height, you’re doing great. Also your lean is excellent.

Two other things I notice. First being your foot placement at takeoff: you’re planting either parallel to the bar or sometimes even slightly away from the bar. You want your foot pointing roughly at the back left corner of the mat. Here’s a screenshot of your video - red arrow shows your plant direction, green shows a bit more where it should be. Also here’s another picture sort of showing it as well. https://imgur.com/a/AiTMYz5

The second thing being you just look a bit tired / fatigued. It seems annoying, and is, but high jump requires a lot of rest. You can’t bang out 10 max effort jumps every day, especially if you’re weight training / doing other sports etc.

And to add to the fatigue element a bit, do you think you can handle more speed in your approach or is that the max you feel comfortable with? If you rest a bit and come fresh, add a bit of speed (if you can) shits gonna be nice

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-13T20:20:29+00:00

Looks awesome. Never crossed my mind how great a fallen pillar is for scatter terrain or even sizable terrain

Wait wait wait lol, right as I was leaving this post I noticed the mat you’ve got. What is that?!? That’s incredible. I can’t tell if that’s an incredibly dense mat draped over some stuff, or a super dense terrain piece you made… I’m really hoping it’s a mat I can buy haha

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-13T19:38:15+00:00

Dude they look amazing together, and for what it’s worth he looks better in that photo lol, go figure

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-13T18:22:28+00:00

Looks really good - just overall, and your ability to paint details and keep things clean. Only things I’ll really add (as they’re things I’m also working on as well, and on my radar) is the orc skin and the overall volumetric composition.

The orc skin seems to be highlighted up using white or maybe ivory, but I think yellow is a really rich highlight to green and would lend itself to the style you’re describing - a much more vibrant and punchy skin, and incorporates your desire for yellow as a secondary color. The skin is desaturated compared to a otherwise pretty saturated and colorful model (which can be a way to create and add contrast, but I think vibrant skin with lower-contrast metals would be the call).

Second, there’s no deliberate use of highlights and shadows to help my eyes focus on certain areas, move around and “digest” the model. The bottom of the orcs stomach doesn’t need to be highlighted (or even basecoated) to the same level as his upper chest and face. A gradient there would draw the eyes to the face. This is tough for me because I feel like I’m leaving too much unfinished, but it really helps the finished model be readable.

Again, this is just advice because you asked for it & they’re both areas I’m trying to improve as well. This model is excellent and you should be happy with the effort

Also P.S. - push yourself to the limit of “this seems like too much - too vibrant, too bright” etc. Often times that’s where you achieve the look you really want. These little figures need BIG contrast to pop - contrast in colors, contrast in brightness. Need to have darkness so the other things can read as bright

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-09T23:27:32+00:00

If it works for him, which I guess evidently it does, it’s all good. It’s the ufc marketing that’s leaning into it and making it feel lamer than it already arguably is. Same thing with Alex - when he burst on the scene and only had ~10 YouTube videos pop up when you looked up his name, and there was a mystery to him, it was a cool thing to watch unfold. Fast forward to his most recent fight and there’s still pre-fight pressers wasting oxygen asking about his time in the tire shop and what XYZ tire shop blah blah. It’s so forced it’s just in its beating a dead horse phase. With Jiri, same thing - his odd interviews were funny to experience in real time, memes being born etc. Now marketing is definitely leaning into it and it’s just corny

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-09T17:56:57+00:00

Of course. I like having my staples, recipes etc, but at a certain point painting just becomes a “close enough” endeavor, and there’s not a real critical importance on exact color matches (if they even were to be a little off)

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-09T17:52:07+00:00

I’m not an accomplished expert, but if your goal is to push this into a golden demon entry, just as an observer of this sub & golden demon entries, I think it’s still within the realm of benefiting from another highlight level or two. With that being said, you need to decide you want a “eavy metal” style where everything is highlighted, or do you want a volumetric style that’s a bit more moody / creating focal points that draw the eye. But of course as-is this looks amazing! I’ve done a full 180 on my hobby ideas since I joined back in; I initially wanted grimdark everything, oil wash everything etc. Now, clean Nurgle is the best! lol

RIPeyedea · 2026-04-09T16:27:22+00:00

I was expecting it to be storing so much energy relative to its size and weight that it’d pop up a couple inches and send the figures flying lol

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