To hit a torque, you have to really focus on making the footbag go under the first leg but not under the second one; the difference is just like the difference between osis and refraction. It's hard to teach osis with words, or torque for that matter, but the key is to put your stalling foot's knee pointing *in* towards your other knee and avoid going over the bag with it. Watch the footbag just as you'd watch it for osis (i.e., try to see yourself stall the bag on your foot before turning your head to the other side for the cross-body pick-up).

I find it easier to do the "crispy" style. This means that you do a blurry set and then bail to osis. If you are hitting blur or stepping butterfly, a crispy torque should be easy for you. For the Blur-set method, you set the bag with a good solid flick up and under your support leg (planting your setting leg immediately as the bag is in the air) to a good height right smack dab in front of you (i.e., belly-button height or slightly lower). From this point, you just do an osis since the bag is already in front of you. There are two deliberate parts to this style of the move.

For the all-in-one "original" method, you set the bag up and slightly across your front, but not too high, and then *wait* for a split second before jumping off your support leg and onto your other leg pointing directly behind you, forcing the spin. And in the middle of all that, in the single jump, your original support leg goes in-out over the bag as your catching foot (knee pointed into other knee) twists out in the osis form to stall the bag. The difference between this and the "crispy" style is that you pause after the set ever so slightly and you do most of the rest of the move in the air. (In a crispy torque, there is a plant and then an osis; two deliberate motions with one leg or the other on the ground almost entirely throughout the move.)

Either style of torque essentially involves the same thing - a far osis with a mirage in between clipper contacts. By "far osis", I mean an osis set from the same clipper. This is in contrast to alternating osises which require very little spin between the two contacts. So, to get ready for torque - whether crispy or original - you should practice consecutive far osises. This will force you to spin in one direction and teach you how to keep your balance while spinning. As always, you should practice this on both sides.

If you choose to do the crispy torque, you should really practice your blur sets and your osises. Once both of these components are easy for you, the crispy torque should just fall into place.

To execute the original torque, you should practice clipper set mirages and osises. A bit more of a jump is involved in this style, so perhaps a good cross-training regime of jumping rope or any other good leg exercise would help.

Consecutive Torques - do as many torques as possible on either side. Experiment with the different styles. Try a crispy torque to an original torque. I find it easiest to link crispy torques, but consecutive original torques looks really nice - just watch Peter Irish.

Alternating Torques - since a torque begins and ends on the same clipper, you can't actually alternate them. Try throwing in an osis or an infinity between torques so that you can get both sides. Try torque > infinity > torque > infinity > torque > osis > torque > osis. Keep it going and see how many you can do.