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PreparationHero

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Yips or the yips is the loss of fine motor skills in athletes. The condition occurs suddenly and without apparent explanation usually in mature athletes with years of experience. It is poorly understood and has no known treatment or therapy. Athletes affected by the yips sometimes recover their ability, which may require a change in technique. Many are forced to abandon their sport at the highest level.

The yips manifest themselves as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks. The condition occurs most often in sports which athletes are required to perform a single precise and well-timed action such as golf and darts. The condition is also experienced by bowlers in cricket and pitchers in baseball. - Wikipedia
TL;DR Essentially the yips is referred to something that you do so many times over and over that you don't have to think about it, and then one day its completely wrong and you don't know why. And this applies to vaping too.

I've been mixing for around three years now. I've learned from my mistakes, as I've made plenty, and most of that time I've avoided forums and Reddit because a lot of people are stupid. Which has created some strengths and weaknesses for me. It may have taken longer for me to learn certain enhancers and chemistry by trial and error, but I also don't have to follow a template because unlike some closed-minded mixers I learned that there is more than one way to skin and mix a cat. And then vape said cat.

But every once in a while I just hit that wall for no reason. Forgetting how to use a flavor properly that I've used a hundred times. Forgetting a flavors notes completely. Confusing one concentrate with another. Basic crap.

Anyways, I'm wondering who else has had this happen and what they've screwed up. I'm sure I'm not alone.
 

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Yips or the yips is the loss of fine motor skills in athletes. The condition occurs suddenly and without apparent explanation usually in mature athletes with years of experience. It is poorly understood and has no known treatment or therapy. Athletes affected by the yips sometimes recover their ability, which may require a change in technique. Many are forced to abandon their sport at the highest level.

The yips manifest themselves as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks. The condition occurs most often in sports which athletes are required to perform a single precise and well-timed action such as golf and darts. The condition is also experienced by bowlers in cricket and pitchers in baseball. - Wikipedia
TL;DR Essentially the yips is referred to something that you do so many times over and over that you don't have to think about it, and then one day its completely wrong and you don't know why. And this applies to vaping too.

I've been mixing for around three years now. I've learned from my mistakes, as I've made plenty, and most of that time I've avoided forums and Reddit because a lot of people are stupid. Which has created some strengths and weaknesses for me. It may have taken longer for me to learn certain enhancers and chemistry by trial and error, but I also don't have to follow a template because unlike some closed-minded mixers I learned that there is more than one way to skin and mix a cat. And then vape said cat.

But every once in a while I just hit that wall for no reason. Forgetting how to use a flavor properly that I've used a hundred times. Forgetting a flavors notes completely. Confusing one concentrate with another. Basic crap.

Anyways, I'm wondering who else has had this happen and what they've screwed up. I'm sure I'm not alone.
Ding!

Yep, has happened to me on numerous occasions. When I first started mixing, I could hardly wait to sit and grab random flavor and toss something together, keep notes on what did work, what didn't, and TRY to learn from that. More times than not, I didn't go back to them to put more work into it, because there were more and more good recipes being posted.

Recently I had an idea in mind, went to grab a flavor I've used in the past, numerous times, and had no idea how much, what did it actually bring to the mix, but I knew I needed to use it....... for something.

I've relied on other people's mixes for so long, what very little creativity I might have had, at one time, is completely lost. I've gotten bored with it, but I still mix. I won't buy juice.
 

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Ding!


I've relied on other people's mixes for so long, what very little creativity I might have had, at one time, is completely lost. I've gotten bored with it, but I still mix. I won't buy juice.

I think your recipes are awesome btw. And I don't really trust other peoples flavor notes because they might recommend 1-2% when I need 3-4%, so I put it in a recipe at 1-2 and I get nothing that I needed out of it. The best I can get from someone else's notes is either agreeing with them, or disagreeing with them. Either way I still had to make my own.
 

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I think your recipes are awesome btw. And I don't really trust other peoples flavor notes because they might recommend 1-2% when I need 3-4%, so I put it in a recipe at 1-2 and I get nothing that I needed out of it. The best I can get from someone else's notes is either agreeing with them, or disagreeing with them. Either way I still had to make my own.
I've picked up a couple flavors based solely on your notes. Wanna know what I did with those flavors? Nothin'. :crazy:
 

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It is easy to get into a rut in this hobby. I have 6-7 ADV's that I mix all the time. I keep adding new recipes to my list to try, but it seems like I hardly ever get around to actually mixing any of them. I guess part of it is always having to add a flavor or two I need to make them and hating to make an order for just a few flavors because the shipping is expensive without a big order. I gotta work on getting those together and trying some new stuff.
I've not had the problem of forgetting what flavors work well together, but I've been DIYing for just under a year.
 

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