So i just got Al-2 Longboards and im having setup problems.

i maxed out the springs and the beater distance is around 18 cm's but the VDL is killin me.

when I have a lot of beater distance i can do stage three drumming easily, but stage two drumming is so hard with all the bounce from the pedal.

when i shorten the beater distance, i have the exact opposite problem.

any suggestions???

haahahahah YES MAN...THE EXACT SAME THING here...absolutely..ive been trying to say it but you got it instead of me...well...i dont know...i guess we gotta learn to do it...

hahah glad to know someone else shares the pain

we need kollias' infinite wisdom for this one i guess

Well I'll suggest that you turn down your springs a bit for the start cause the Axis pedals's springs are waaayyy tighter than any other pedals. You can turn them up by 1 turn every week till you are at full tilt once again.

About the VDL.... try it out more or less in the middle at first & once you get used to it go forward with it to about 3/4 of the way & try it for a week or 2 & then change to 1/4 of the way & see which of the 2 you prefer the best. Hope this explains what you guys are asking.

Stage 2, 3? stage 2 being leg/ankle & stage 3 being only ankes? You need serious power in your ankles to do astroke on the Axis A pedals with the VDL all the way close to you & obiously alot less effort makes the hit when the VDL is all the way forward & makes ankle only hits easier. Again you can start all the way forward & move the VDL backwards by 1mm per week till you get "the-right-feel" for your style.

I'm not all the way there yet, but still digging-hehe

Good luck.

Jacques

fuck man..at one point i had VDL all the way down, AND max spring tention hahahaahaha NO FUCKIN WAY hahahah ....they were gonna throw me up in the air fuck.....now VDL is about 1 CM up form the bottom and im good like that....but i dont think the pedal is the problem with my STAGE 2...its just me...when i learned double bass i jumped right into the FAST stuff of stage 3...that is what fucked me up most...so now i cant really do stage 2 with any pedal...I SUCK!!!!!!!!!

yeah my stage 2 eats cock

Haha. I had to go back from 180 to about 140bpm when I changed from my old Tama camco to my Iron Cobras. That was fuckin irritating & I did it untill it was tighter that a nun's fanny. Then I moved up a bit & I got frustrated alot & tried to do the faster stuff almost straight away & I fucked up of course. So I went slowly, but surely up the ladder.

When I reached stage 2 it was a bit harder for me to do the strokes & my shins started burnig heavily. I was stuck on the 190-200bpm for a looonnnggg time & it suddenly happened to me that I got faster & within 2 months or so (without practising as much as I should) I went up to where I'm now. I'm inspired to hit 250bpm before I turn 28 (on the 19th of may)


Luckilly I did the stage 1 first & then stage 2 & now I'm getting stage 3 down. I hit 234bpm last night so I'm very proud of myself. (250+bpm would have been waayy better of course)

Danny Brit once said something that I try to remember whenever I want to go faster than I can without having the technique + the idea down.

" The SLOWER you go the FASTER you'll learn"

Remember this & I promise you it will help when you try to push too far into untapped valleys...

I had that problem, but then I switched back to heel down! My VDL is all the way back, and my beaters are all the way out!