Determining My Escape Stroke With Certainty

Technique Critique
#1

Hey everyone! Just wanted to have you guys help me with my motions. I’m a completely idiosyncratic learner, so I learn by doing, and while I love CtC, and suspected my primary motion to be DSX, I also found out if I focus my picking like Miles Baker does in that Miles Baker interview, focusing on my thumb and index finger of my picking hand moving, I get a USX motion, or feels that way.

Some insight will help!

Video for reference. I don’t have the Magnet as of yet, so we had to make do with open strings.

Any help would be appreciated!

:metal: :slightly_smiling_face:

#2

Downstroke escape, reverse dart motion.

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#3

You’re definitely a RDT DSX player as your primary motion. When you do the thumb thing it looks like you flip between DSX and USX a bit, but that doesn’t seem that useful. If you want to change to USX just use downward slanting a bit more (but keep the motion the same)

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#4

It could be something I just found out, and it’s unrefined. I’m trying different things to get USX motions as a helper motion.

Once I saw that as a possibility, and it feels easier than rotating my whole hand, for some reason.

Just something I’m experimenting with.

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#5

Looks like my hunch got confirmed by everyone!

Thanks!

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