my tweeking lesson....

[Pirate Rick]

today my eyes were opened to the wonderful world of base tweeking and i learned alot, and also had some myths dispelled right in front of my eyes.
I was invited over to Vincent Peotros house for a tweeking lesson today and spent about 5 hours learning, going through his vast collection of figs, boards etc, and have to say WOW !!
I learned alot of things today on tweeking, proper pliers, how to "burn off" flash , strength, speed and inbetween. but the thing that blew me away most, having seen it with my own eyes, and having created one myself, was the now to me proven fact, contrary to popular belief that a tweeked base can NOT hold up against a boiled base is just not true.
Vincent took out a boiled base he had from an old team. placed it onto his board, grabbed one of my bases and WOW, it blew my base right off the board, no supprise right? WRONG.... he then took my unboiled base, and within 5 mins not only had it pushing back with EQUALL strength.. but on a few attempts it actually out-pushed it !!!
we also weighed one of the figs i made with a base, it was 4.0 even, we took another that was 3.0 even, within 5 mins he had the 3.0 outpushing the heaver fig even though the bigger figs base was also tweeked!
Now...short of hocus pocus voodoo or something, i am now really confused as to why people say that certain figs will always beat others just because of thier size/weight when i had shown to me just the opposite ?
the point that drove it home for me was the fact that with very little experience, i was able to not only tweek bases, but i was able to re produce the same resullts he did using his techniques!
so thank you Vincent for teaching my son and myself how to compete with the big boys, and for helping to clear up for us some of these on going questions we had.
hope to play ya sometime so i can get my next "LESSON" lol
take care Rick G.