Soloing ... its a learning process

I've been playing EVE since 2006 and for most of that time I have been part of 0.0 alliances,  big fleet battles, territory take over (read shooting POS, Stations, SBU's, ect...) and everything that goes along with that. But about 3 months ago when I was in NC. I started to get very bored with it. Sure NC. had lots of fleets, attempted fights, LOTS of getting blue balled but it just wasn't giving me the fun factor that I wanted anymore. So I left NC. and headed back to empire to do some war deccing with friends and see where it took me. The warring is fun, lots of station camping but enough emo and tears to keep me entertained. In between fighting war targets I have found soloing to be really enjoyable. I had started re-watching the Kil2 / Kovorix and Prometheus Exenthal videos ... seeing what was possible and being inspired so I fitted out some ships and headed out to see if I could do even a fraction of what they were doing. Seeing those guys and with my new found freedom to loose as many ships as I damn well please and not give a shit made for some fun times ahead.

At first it was very rough going, as expected I had a lot of losses as I got to know these different fits and how these ships performed on the field. I finally got in a few efficiency victories which inspired me more because now I saw that it was possible for me as well. All the podcasts and videos in the world are great info but when the shit hits the fan you don't remember 90% of that stuff ... but you do remember it from experience. So I kept going out and recording my fights to watch back after and see things that I missed while in the thick of it. I am now just getting to the point where I am confident enough to pull off some pretty fun, yet risky engagements and not feel like its all loosing. My main goal now for any engagement is to blow up more ISK worth than my ship loss will be.

Here are some of the fights I have had so far:

HAM Drake vs Gate Camp
Armageddon vs Phobos and Hyperion
HAM Drake vs Vagabond
HAM Drake vs Choke Point Gang
Tornado vs Deimos & Hurricane
Tornado vs Random 0.0 Alliance