"New Cube Confidence" & How to Setup GAN XS (feat. Feliks Zemdegs) — Transcript

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1. 0:00before this video starts we're gonna be
2. 0:02referring to my last video about the gun
3. 0:04excess why the again excess is too fast
4. 0:06for me a few times in this video so if
5. 0:09you haven't seen that I recommend you go
6. 0:11check it out just for some context it's
7. 0:13always the case but like I just need to
8. 0:15trust that dad knows what's right like
9. 0:18even though I've been cubing for so long
10. 0:20and they're like the basement at about
11. 0:22how they're like I just need to trust to
12. 0:24this cube is metal and it is gonna be
13. 0:26well back in the day the cube would come
14. 0:29out and it would be so much better than
15. 0:30the previous one if you'd like instantly
16. 0:32switch now it's like it's so precise and
17. 0:35it's everything so fine-tune that you
18. 0:39can't instant instantly switch mains
19. 0:42anymore hello everyone welcome back to
20. 0:44laser monkey and today I'd like to talk
21. 0:45about new cube confidence practicing
22. 0:48down Felix's solves and how to set up
23. 0:50the gun access because this is a pretty
24. 0:52challenging cube to set up after Felix
25. 0:55broke the 5.5 3 world record average I
26. 0:58challenged myself to recreate the solves
27. 1:00I practiced them down I memorized the
28. 1:02solutions I tried to memorize the
29. 1:04execution and then I tried to recreate
30. 1:06the solves to learn more about Felix's
31. 1:08turning style and his execution style
32. 1:10what I found that he has a pretty light
33. 1:13turning style a pretty interesting grip
34. 1:15on the cube that I can't quite do I
35. 1:17don't know if it's because of my finger
36. 1:19length they're just my habits the way
37. 1:21I've grown accustomed to turning and
38. 1:23holding the cube but I found that it was
39. 1:26extremely difficult to get even the
40. 1:28times that Felix got in the competition
41. 1:30what I found is that my cube setup just
42. 1:32simply wasn't good enough to do that
43. 1:35kind of TPS to do that 11 10 12 TPS and
44. 1:39I had to change the settings a lot I
45. 1:42tried every single setting every tension
46. 1:45every spring tension everything on this
47. 1:48puzzle
48. 1:49I saw your video on the the XS how you
49. 1:52used it in competition and oh what's
50. 1:54your like what's your setup because with
51. 1:57one of the things when I was doing this
52. 1:59like practicing down yourselves is I had
53. 2:01a really hard time getting a cube set up
54. 2:04that actually like didn't lock up when I
55. 2:06was trying to do those moves right you
56. 2:09set up I believe is four clicks on me
57. 2:12elasticity
58. 2:13the tightness is the light blue light
59. 2:17blue decadence 93 hitting it what's a
60. 2:21part of setting on the light blue I
61. 2:22think that's what I ended up with
62. 2:24actually I think I did I did three
63. 2:27clicks on the tightest setting away blue
64. 2:30I tried every setting and it it's very
65. 2:33hard to set up and yeah yeah that's what
66. 2:36I thought I've had as well do you spend
67. 2:38even going into this competition I was
68. 2:40like okay I want to experiment with this
69. 2:43because I'm definitely like faster at
70. 2:45home with a cube like like you are but
71. 2:47you know if the round one doesn't go
72. 2:50particularly well and yeah I'll just
73. 2:52switch back to the X because I know I
74. 2:54can you know I can get lower seven
75. 2:56averages with X but after the first
76. 3:00times like no this is great it's just
77. 3:03like keep it going yeah but yeah it's
78. 3:05always like a little bit nerve-racking
79. 3:07using a new cube or like you're not sure
80. 3:10how it's going to go in competition I
81. 3:12mean and I still feel like I wasn't I
82. 3:15wasn't very nervous at all for this
83. 3:16competition but so I was able to turn
84. 3:21like pretty effortlessly and like there
85. 3:23weren't many lock ups but I'm not sure
86. 3:26how it would go under like extreme
87. 3:28nervous situations which is again like
88. 3:30that's like you know ten percent of the
89. 3:32time but that's probably like the more
90. 3:35important component of the official
91. 3:37cells but I feel like yet going into
92. 3:43that with the new cube and then doing
93. 3:45pretty well with it
94. 3:47I regardless of the times just like
95. 3:50feeling confident with the cube it's
96. 3:51like it's massive the thing that's
97. 3:54always happened with me yeah is that
98. 3:57I'll get a new cube when you release
99. 3:59from Dan and I'll be like mmm like it's
100. 4:04okay like I get the same times with it
101. 4:06and then two months later I'm like I
102. 4:09cannot go back to the old cube like I
103. 4:11love it so much it's faster and lighter
104. 4:13and better and it's yeah it's so good
105. 4:17but it always takes a little while and
106. 4:19especially especially it takes a little
107. 4:21while to like use it in a competition
108. 4:22and then like become comfortable with it
109. 4:25in a competition
110. 4:26but under hopefully like this confidence
111. 4:29v-cube confidence which is a definitely
112. 4:31a thing will like continue and that's a
113. 4:33little bit and I've had the exact same
114. 4:35experience yeah when I got the X it took
115. 4:38me like two months and then I was like
116. 4:40oh I guess it's like trying to figure
117. 4:42out how to set it up and then just
118. 4:43practicing a lot with it and I just the
119. 4:47first comp I used the X in I got like
120. 4:50there 591 average and it was the exact
121. 4:52same thing it's exact same thing like
122. 4:54I'd had some other competitions during
123. 4:57that period of traveling I was like
124. 4:59using the SN but I had the X with me and
125. 5:01I'm like it was really nice but I don't
126. 5:02think I can use it in competition and
127. 5:04then finally I just got like fed up I'm
128. 5:07like okay let's just try it and see how
129. 5:09it goes
130. 5:09and then it was similar like the first
131. 5:11year and I was like you know I feel like
132. 5:16I'm solving really well I'm not getting
133. 5:17like that right time and then in the
134. 5:19final yeah it works
135. 5:22it's like the exact same process but
136. 5:24just a year ago so I feel like I would
137. 5:29be tweaking a web be switching back yeah
138. 5:31there's good marketing like access comes
139. 5:34out Felix new world record is like first
140. 5:36comics
141. 5:39yeah well then I thought the plan oh
142. 5:43then if you're looking to set up your
143. 5:45own gainxs I recommend using a
144. 5:47combination of this angstrom Lube silk
145. 5:50and DN m37 these three loops together
146. 5:54really will make any cube feel really
147. 5:56good and I recommend adding DN m37 last
148. 5:59because you're gonna need to remove this
149. 6:00cube with dnm pretty often
150. 6:02maybe silk once in a while and probably
151. 6:04on very rare occasions you need to
152. 6:07relive with angstrom because this cube
153. 6:10on this tight setting does need a fast
154. 6:12lube and a smooth Lube so I recommend
155. 6:15the combination of angstrom and silk for
156. 6:17the smoothness and the dnm to be
157. 6:20reapplied every once in a while just to
158. 6:22give that quickness I'm not a
159. 6:24professional cube setup er but this is
160. 6:27what I found works and I hope it works
161. 6:29for you if you find a different set up
162. 6:31definitely leave it in the comments but
163. 6:33yeah thank you so much to the cubicle
164. 6:35for sending me to gain access thank you
165. 6:37- Felix for
166. 6:40joining me on today's episode and thank
167. 6:43you to you guys for watching okay that's
168. 6:47it is lazy monkey out
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