3x3 BLD (Pochmann) tutorial

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So I don't think there is a tutorial on Pochmann method on YouTube yet so I've made one over the last week. I think its the easiest method by far and requires no new algorithms if you know a few plls.

link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xT2UBYhX5uM

To cover everything I had to make it 30 minutes. I know it sucks. I cant think of a way to condense the information without leaving out stuff or assuming some knowledge :(

It seems like my YouTube "fanclub" once again thinks this is an amazing video, but I've had the impression over the last few months that I could roll out anything and still get the same comments :s I was hoping I could get some actual feedback from people here - good or bad. If you could skip over the video and get a sense of the approach, or general style, or something. I dont think you want to watch all 30 minutes, lol.

If necessary I'll redo the tutorial somehow, or maybe someone can try too, but I hope we can get at least one decent BLD tut up on YouTube of the Pochmann method.
 
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Is there an example solve in there? In my opinion they're the most helpful (This coming from someone who has yet to get a successful BLD, close though :P)

It seems your video is pretty thorough (I'm like 10 minutes in). It's covering nearly all the cases I've been coming to (and you explain how to do them correctly, where I was thinking to myself 'Oh, just do F L' ", then you explained why my way was wrong :P)

Hopefully with this I'll get my first success :)
 
I think it is a realy nice tutorial, I watched all 30 minutes, also you got all setupmoves written down in the description, the only thing about it is that they are colour fixed, you could have made them pointing out the position, like YO is UF, but that's ok people can do/have to do setup moves intuitivly at least once I think and you also said that they are not hard to figure out also.
The other thing is that I personally don't like cube rotations during blindfolded so it is a personal thing that the R and Ja perm got rotations and you can also do U instead of y.

You didn't rush over things too fast but also didn't talk about some minor things for minutes, in my opinion it is all well done and I like your listing after edges to make clear what people have to think about.

Greet Cerb

P.S: for GY I like L2 D l' Jb l D' L2 more since I got confused once and didn't know if I done L d' L or L' d L'
 
You cant explain everything in 10 minutes on youtube - and BLD belongs to that I think. 30 mins is ok for this and it is even shorter than the 2 days of searching and reading i spent 2 weeks ago when I wanted to learn any BLD method. Those are well spent 30 mins, i assure you :)
Hmmm when I watched your video yesterday, there was one thing i missed in it, but it doesnt come to my mind now ^_~ But - everything to solve a cube blind is covered, the rest of the effort should be to the viewer.
 
Very good tutorial/video, I like it a lot. Only parity was described badly. You show an unsolved cube, solve an edge, then a corner, then proclaim "whoa wait it should be solved now". But it's completely unclear *why* it should be solved. It would be better if you first showed that you need to solve just one edge and one corner, and solved them only after making that observation. Also, you make it look like the parity fix is done at the very end of the solve, rather than between solving edges and corners.

Two days before you published this I ordered my new computer which together with the camcorder I'll buy will finally enable me to make that high quality blindcubing tutorial video I've been envisioning/planning the last two years or so. After watching yours for a few minutes I thought mine might be obsolete now, but I have a different structure in mind and it should still be worthwhile. Anyway... I'd like to copy some of your style, like superimposing algorithms/diagrams/text. What editing program do you use for that? (And did you use the same for your recent "grid solve" video?)
 
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Very good tutorial/video, I like it a lot. Only parity was described badly. You show an unsolved cube, solve an edge, then a corner, then proclaim "whoa wait it should be solved now". But it's completely unclear *why* it should be solved. It would be better if you first showed that you need to solve just one edge and one corner, and solved them only after making that observation. Also, you make it look like the parity fix is done at the very end of the solve, rather than between solving edges and corners.

Two days before you published this I ordered my new computer which together with the camcorder I'll buy will finally enable me to make that high quality blindcubing tutorial video I've been envisioning/planning the last two years or so. After watching yours for a few minutes I thought mine might be obsolete now, but I have a different structure in mind and it should still be worthwhile. Anyway... I'd like to copy some of your style, like superimposing algorithms/diagrams/text. What editing program do you use for that? (And did you use the same for your recent "grid solve" video?)
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Thanks! I agree with you that parity explanation should have been described differently. I should have "planned" to solve that edge and corner and then show how things went wrong. (like you suggested). And it seems to suggest parity is fixed at the end too. But in the example solve at the end I do the parity correctly in the middle, and explain why it has to be done there, kinda... the fact that the corners need to be swapped back to what they were memorized as. So whoever had the patience to watch that part and still pay attention could maybe pick that up. But yea its thrown in there randomly so, not sure :) I will place in an annotation to clarify that point. But yes that should have been handled a little differently.

I definitely hope you still make your tutorial :)
I use Sony Vegas 6.0 for my videos. I find it to be quite intuitive and nice... you just drag things around most of the time. Its definitely not free, but of course... that doesn't ehm... stop things... if you know what I mean.

And yes I've used that for my grid video too. I just had to resize each video to third on height and width, and then manually drag them into correct positions to form a grid. If you do decide to use it and run into some problems dont hesitate to ask me stuff, you know how to contact me.
 
badmephisto...I recently 'got' Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, but I am having some difficulties...
It seems to make videos that are WAY too large(in size(MB), I mean; not 320x240 or something like that)

Could you perhaps make a video on what all you do to prepare a video??
It would be great if I saw how you worked out lighting, angles, editing, and stuff like that!

By the way, I have the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000

Do you record your videos with the software that came with the webcam, or do you use Vegas for recording, aswell?

Thanks badmephisto!
You've helped alot over the past few months!
-StachuK1992
 
Is it for the old Pochman method. It seems so easy the way you explain it I can't tell which one it is.....
 
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