Wrist Mount Project
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Introduction
The Wrist Mount Project is my effort to create a teaching video (with separate text notes) detailing many mounts, dismounts, and tricks involving the Wrist Mount. It runs 35 minutes long and is available for download completely free of charge.
Why start this project? Well, I feel that the Wrist Mount tends to be one of the first real "complicated" mounts that many people learn. As such, it tends to be a bit mysterious, and after you learn it, you may not be sure what to do next. Spirit Bomb and Superman are the most well-known combos using it, but they are tricky to learn. You may not realize just how many easy tricks that can be done in a Wrist Mount.
Also, people tend to get way too locked into specific combos sometimes. Except for a couple of exceptions, I've tried to break everything down into small chunks so that you can mix and match them as you'd like. Even the well-known combos are presented as parts.
What can be done with the Wrist Mount is pretty vast, so obviously this video is not totally comprehensive. I'd like to think I've gone further than just scratching the surface, but there is a ton more out there. I already know of several things that didn't get included, but after a certain point I just had to stop, or else it'd never get done. Maybe some addendums can be created in the future.
Instructional Text
The video has no audio or on-screen instructions. However, each mount, dismount, or trick is labeled by number and name. These correspond to the accompanying instructional text page:
- Wrist Mount Project Text (Sections 1 & 2 Complete)
Download
For those that had problems, the downloads have been restored!
It is currently available in three different versions. To download, right-click on a link and choose Save Target As (IE) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save it to your hard drive. Don't just click on one, because it'll probably try to stream and take forever to come up.
- H.264 (100MB - 720x480) The best quality at the smallest file size. I'd recommend trying to get this to work, since it'll only get more and more common (and will save everyone some bandwidth). You can also get it from this link (thanks to Ricks!).
- XviD (200MB - 720x480) Equivilant to DivX, most people should be able to play this already. About the same quality as the H.264 version, but the file size is twice as big.
- MPEG-1 (350MB - 320x240) The old standby, just about anything should be able to play this (you could even burn a VCD from it). However, the file is very big and the smaller resolution means it'll be blurrier than the other two formats. Use as a last resort.
Many thanks to the Internet Archive for hosting these videos. It may be something to consider for your own videos if you own the rights to the content (or use music with a license that allows reuse). You can see the hosting page for this project here.
Having Trouble Playing the Video?
If you're having trouble playing one of the videos, please see:
Translations
If anyone is interested in translating the onscreen text or separate instructional text to another language, I'd love to see it happen. I could grant access to this wiki for translation purposes, as well as give the subtitle file used for all text in the video itself. Please contact me if you're interested.
Contact
If you have questions or comments, please e-mail me:
