Random Blindfold Cubing Discussion

Is there any good way to warmup for Multi BLD, it seems a painstaking task to just sit and start memorizing so many cubes right away(especially when >10 cubes)
 
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rollerking321 said:
Is there any good way to warmup for Multi BLD, it seems a painstaking task to just and start memorizing so many cubes right away(especially when >10 cubes)
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Smaller attempt that is done quickly. I sometimes do attempts of 4 or 5 cubes (because I memo in sets of 4 while doing real multi attempt. So 4 cubes is natural and 5 is the last set because the last one is done like normal 3bld...)
 
So last night at about 1 am I tried to do a 2 cube MBLD just for the heck of it, and I literally fell asleep during execution. Big pause while trying to recall a letter pair, and I dozed off.
 
So, I think the BLD curse has finally hit me.

After some weeks of extremely promising 5BLD practice, in terms of both accuracy and speed, my most recent attempts at WGC ended in another DNF DNF DNF. The first was supposed to be a safety, which ended in a 5:26.xx with some x-centers off (which were the easiest part of the whole memorization). The attempts that followed were a 5:5x.xx and an 8:xx.xx, which could well have been a success if I didn't feel physically sick with the disappointment of messing up in comp again. It was (partly) why I came home mid-comp, since I couldn't bear the idea of going through it all again with 4BLD and MultiBLD like I had originally hoped. It is a psychological nightmare and an uphill struggle to overcome.

With this, I came to the realization that the stress of these high pressure events are just not fun for me anymore. I would much rather come to comps to see my best friends, have fun in smaller events and have enough energy left over to go out afterwards and enjoy the whole experience. The fact that my results in 5BLD almost ruined my whole experience is not a healthy sign, and that I am not as cut out for BLD as I used to be. Perhaps it is finally time to throw in the blindfold!

I would like to thank everyone that inspired me to learn BLD (Daniel Sheppard, Marcell Endrey, Gabriel Alejandro Orozco Casillas and others), challenged and raced with me (Noah, Iggy, Roman, Grzegorz and others), and to anyone in the community (especially the UK ♥) that followed my achievements and gave me kind words of motivation and encouragement. I am looking forward to seeing my records be taken from me from the likes of Cale, Kaijun or even Maskow so that I can finally achieve my legend's status x)

I will always have links on how to improve one's BLD events in my signature and I hope that people have and will find them useful in the future.

Quality.
 
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Ollie said:
So, I think the BLD curse has finally hit me.

After some weeks of extremely promising 5BLD practice, in terms of both accuracy and speed, my most recent attempts at WGC ended in another DNF DNF DNF. The first was supposed to be a safety, which ended in a 5:26.xx with some x-centers off (which were the easiest part of the whole memorization). The attempts that followed were a 5:5x.xx and an 8:xx.xx, which could well have been a success if I didn't feel physically sick with the disappointment of messing up in comp again. It was (partly) why I came home mid-comp, since I couldn't bear the idea of going through it all again with 4BLD and MultiBLD like I had originally hoped. It is a psychological nightmare and an uphill struggle to overcome.

With this, I came to the realization that the stress of these high pressure events are just not fun for me anymore. I would much rather come to comps to see my best friends, have fun in smaller events and have enough energy left over to go out afterwards and enjoy the whole experience. The fact that my results in 5BLD almost ruined my whole experience is not a healthy sign, and that I am not as cut out for BLD as I used to be. Perhaps it is finally time to throw in the blindfold!

I would like to thank everyone that inspired me to learn BLD (Daniel Sheppard, Marcell Endrey, Gabriel Alejandro Orozco Casillas and others), challenged and raced with me (Noah, Iggy, Roman, Grzegorz and others), and to anyone in the community (especially the UK ♥) that followed my achievements and gave me kind words of motivation and encouragement. I am looking forward to seeing my records be taken from me from the likes of Cale, Kaijun or even Maskow so that I can finally achieve my legend's status x)

I will always have links on how to improve one's BLD events in my signature and I hope that people have and will find them useful in the future.

Quality.
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Respect. <3
 
Berd said:
Ollie Pls. Be my BLD senpai! Please just come to comps and meets, just for the people if nothing else. Do what Alex L. does!
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Doesn't look like he's giving up on comps though.
Ollie said:
I would much rather come to comps to see my best friends, have fun in smaller events and have enough energy left over to go out afterwards and enjoy the whole experience.
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I kinda expected this to happen, though I was hoping that you'd get a decent official 5BLD success before quitting :(

Thanks a lot for being a huge inspiration to me, you've really pushed the big BLD limits :D
 
Ollie said:
So, I think the BLD curse has finally hit me...
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When you aren't enjoying it and the pressure is that bad then stopping looks like the right decision. You have already achieved plenty.

I had wanted to ask you about the upcoming 5BLD while you were judging my 4x4 but figured it might be a bit much.
 
Also, does anybody listen to music while they solve or does that mess up their memo? I feel like that if you can memo while listening to music, it will be easier to memo with a lot of background noise, and whatnot, but it is also harder to concentrate. I don't listen to music, but I don't really hear anything when I solve because I am concentrating too hard to "recognize" that there is even noise around me, but I'm wondering what other people do.
 
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