Wasabi: M(s)+J = BLAST

[Wasabi]

Alright, I think my sickness is taking a small turn for recovery, but it's still pretty damn inconvenient. I've been busy with college studies for the past few days as well as hanging out with some of my college buddies. A couple of hotties have been chatting with me on facebook and in person, so I guess I'm really becoming a popular person. Maybe showing up for club meetings isn't so bad after all?

Anyway, I haven't been shredding much for the entire weekbecause of these back pains. So far, my grandmother advised me to use this aloevera soothing patch to help regulate blood flow on my back. It has been working pretty well so far. I just need to stop carrying so many books to class, or consistently poicking up my nephew to play with him.

I'm currently stitching a 6 paneled bag with some funkadelic colors. I'm loving it! But, I found the Glover's needle I have isn't so good at punching through regular ultrasuede, but works fine for facile due to thickness. Is this correct? I've been questioning whether or not my Glover' needle is outdated and such.

I hope I get better for some shred with NYFA tomorrow. I have a nice string I want to try out tomorrow (if I remember it that is).

edit: Finished stitching the 6-paneled bag. It looks a bit sloppy on two panels and I placed too many stitches on each side so that it's pretty stiff, but I guess that's alright. The fabric was too thick to begin with as well. However, it looks pretty funkalicious. I might stitch a minimini 32 out of this fabric and put it on a keychain. Pics coming soon.

[Wasabi]

Sorry I haven't been posting in this blog for some time. I've just been a bit busy with fighting this cough and getting some shred into my system. I've been stitching two 6-paneled bags lately, but like I said before they're pretty stiff. I still haven't gotten any pics of them yet because of my busy life, but I'll try to post them in this blog. I'm really satisfied with my stitching with the second one, as it looks a bit more uniformed than my first, but I tend to get a bit confused on how many stitches I used on each side. I keep thinking five when clearly there are six. I guess it's the matter of corners to deal with.

Anyway, for shred, I met Mike Hansen unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon, outside of Hunter College. Definitely a huge surprise to see him. He did some light shred in his dress shoes with my friend's Sandmaster, with a few ducking butterflies and osises. A small chat about atomics came up, and he nailed legbeater and atom smasher right there. Awesome! He showed me his Lavers, which was pretty cool. Also, I've been wearing my red Lavers that day, but not my shred shorts!!! Ahh! I could've shredded with him, but I only had tight jeans on. Bummer. (I guess what Chris Balch and other freestylers mentioned were true: that if you wear Lavers, other people will know that you play footbag. ) At least I made a few attempts on atomics and fairy/fairy swirls. Definitely an inspiration to my game.

I also met my middle school & high school girl-buddy/sweetheart unexpectedly that day. She's attending Pace, but went to Hunter as an Outreach Coordinator to refute Socialist organizations on racial inequities to government practices. Yes, I met her at the Hillel club. It was good meeting her again.

You can say for the most part of Wednesday and Thursday, I had a small dose of euphoria. Well, clearly it's not from weed or anything, but it was all swell.

[Wasabi]

Sorry for the late post in my footblog. I've been in a spiritual trance stitching like crazy. I've lost all concept of time as it is. I just want to stitch more! I just can't wait to stab at a 32 panel!

Here are a few pics.





The two pink 6-panels are my best yet. So soft! I really like the filler I've chosen to use on them, and they play so well! Maybe like a 32-panel? I can't say until I stitch one.

edit: Almost forgot to add, but I'm thinking about doing some jogging when Spring Break arrives, early in the morning 3-4 times a week in the morning. I have the will to exercise more often now since I've been on my ass all this time with college and stitching. I need some balance. I'm definitely going to try to incorporate this routine after Spring Break, and will improve my shred style along with it.

Also, I need some running shoes. Nike Free 5.0? Prestos? I'm going to ebay sometime soon.

[Wasabi]

I just submitted two huge papers early this week and performed at a college literary reading on Tuesday night to be concentrating on anything footbag really. The papers tired the hell out of me, and the reading gave me a social "confident" hype that footbag wasn't the main star attraction in my life then.

However, on Sunday evening I stitched up a bag for Kyle Hewitt who asked for it, and will be trading it for a 32-panel he plans on sending me sometime soon. My first bag trade! I feel pretty ecstatic and have full confidence with my stitching for 6-panels. The filler I'm still tinkering with, and will most likely walk around the bodegas in Chinatown in search of filler concepts, but that's all. With that said, the filler I have built up now performs pretty well, and I have no qualms with it.

When Spring Break began, I spent most of Wednesday night and early morning today stitching up a 32-panel. At first it was frustrating as I couldn't understand the rhythm, but when I stitched up a full pent "flower" and went on to connecting another pent, it all made sense! I love stitching up 32 panels now! If I could do this all day I would. In comparison to my Mosher bag, my stitching has a way to go as some pents look a bit uneven and the hexes wrinkled, but I'm still proud with the product I'm making. I hope this bag turns out spherical! If I ever get to go to GRASS (chances are slim) I'm definitely going to learn more about making my stitching a bit more uniform to make choice bags.

Oh right, I've bent my Glover's needle just a bit, so now I'm going to need to buy some needles off of Tom & Peng sometime soon. I was thinking about waiting for an event like GRASS or Jersey Spike to get some from them personally, but I'm guessing I should just waste that measly $1 for shipping and get those 4 needles ASAP. I think the awkward shape of my needle leaves me guessing on the exact point more in making a uniform running stitch rather than the total opposite. It's frustrating someimes.

Concerning shred, I found my left knee isn't the type to bend at one angle to do a full circling dex for paradons. I guess this is the reason why I feel like I'm "the"ing that move most of the time, and when I try to do it properly I always manage to kick the bag on the second dex. Sometimes I feel the water-bottle training routine is futile as my leg tends to jerk at one point than circle fully when dexing. I'm not saying I want to get a scalpel and cut some ligaments to loosen the stress, but I would like to give this knee some flexibility. I wonder what type of stretches can be used for the knees?

Also, I think my atomics have gotten more hippy and less jumpy lately. I guess doing some footbag in jeans has me thinking just a bit? Handicap? I'm still schooling them and working on my left knee more on a powerful straight set. Jogging has helped my hips to loosen up a bit more, but I think I need more than a few days of jogging to fully grasp on using my hips more.

[Wasabi]

It's 4:10 in the morning now, and I just wanted to add: I managed to stitch up a plausible 32 half-an-hour ago. I put too much of my soul into doing repairs on so many stupid mistakes that I'm both excited and frustrated at myself for making my bag. Excited for actually stitching a pretty good 32, frustrated that before the repairs it looked like a lops-sided football. I'll post pics of her later. The colors on the bag are what looks to be a very light pink and Blue Hawaii according to the Kingston Website's color scheme. I like it for the baby colors on them, and with a bright and pale bag it'll be pretty easy to look at for schooling moves. I'm still considering alternative filler for it, so I'm spending the next three days in search of filler concepts like I mentioned in the last post. The only two things I managed to fill in just now were plastic pellets and copper/zinc? BBs (This is from a stitching pack I bought from Tom & Peng). The hexes used to be Colonial Red I think, but I thought Blue Hawaii and Colonial Red didn't match well so I used my pink facile to replace it.

Anyway, I'm going to spend some time thinking of how to approach 32 panels and stitching them. This was my first stab at it, and of course things will go bad and awry at the first attempt. At least now the bag is feasible and I hope she'll break in well in the future (with the Pink and Blue Hawaii, both of the colors feel extremely soft, so there's definitely going to be a quick break-in). I just wish I had the money to buy more fabric to experiment with.

I'm tired. I've spent too much time concentrating on doing consistent stitches that my mind is fragged, and my stomach caved in. I've spent too much time in this stitching trance of mine that I'll have to put down most of my obsession for footbag (as equipment) on hold.

[Wasabi]

Yesterday Philip (as freshONE here in modified) visited the NYFA crew. I was totally amazed that we had a visitor in 90 degree weather at Union Square! Whoo! It was an awesome shred day. He showed his bags which were all amazing: a couple of Hanias, an Ilja, and the new Abshire t50s that I've been hearing so much good news about. They were all freakin' choice bags it was amazing. Also, his style is really smooth and consistent, something like his own so it was really cool to wtiness.

We also had two more visitors, one I haven't seen in a long while. Ruquaine (sp?) and his friend Danny came in to visit. They were here to juggle, but when footbag came in it was almost irresistable. Danny had some solid BSOS game, nailing consistent clippers, infinities and swirls even. That was awesome, and made me think that I really should work on my flipside.

Oh right, one of our NYFA members Barret came to film one of us individually for his NYU Film. It was a really cool time. I managed to get the hooker scene. Bruce was jealous. Again, great day for shred!!!

I was thinking of new string concepts for most of the day, trying to nail moves that would look pretty clean from both sides of my body. I have a good view on how it will turn out in my head, but it's something I'll really need to look into sometime. Again, longer strings always beat cool tricks. I really should keep note of my strings over and over again in my head as i always manage to forget, but when the time comes that I am totally obsessed with footbag this won't be a problem.

I didn't get to nail atomics well today, except for just one measly set. I was disappointed, but I knew why. I've been having some hip cramps the whole day, and I think it was from stitching and slouching over too much. By the end of the day I felt that my legs were dead and rotting away (not literally) and all I wanted to do was just relax. Thankfully, as I was visiting Barret's dorm, his friend Emily had some Ibuprofen and I jumped to the chance immediately. However, as I type this, I'm thinking whether I should taken an extra tablet instead of two. I still feel extremely sore.

In any case, me and Barret went to accomodate Philip's visit to his NYU dorm, which Barret helped with some cannabis and beer pong from his friends. It was a pretty good night, and I was a bit baked. I need to build up my game soon though: GRASS is going to be crazy, and I KNOW Chris Millzilla is going to start another intense session somewhere in Rochester. I plan on competing and bringing in some 3-point shots.

With that said, I'm going to rest up for Tuesday. I think there's going to be some shred that day. I'll also be purchasing some G-units for David Clavens, so that's going to be cool. I'm hoping the sale is still on, so I'm checking tomorrow.

[shreddaily]

dude. I've been spending so much money on sushi lately... Where can I get a cheap home sushi making kit??

[Wasabi]

Ugh... I feel as though I haven't checked this blog for an eterenity. I can just imagine the dust gathering on it. Still, the reason is is that I'm trying to recuperate a bit from GRASS, as I didn't feel well from the car ride up and back, and the stress of taking train after train to get back home late at night. Anyway, I'm going to type up a detailed story the best I can, of some interesting things that happened in my way to GRASS.

It all began with my visit to Jack's store in Somerville. It took me awhile to get there, as I have a very lousy sense of direction. I was carrying some heavy baggage, so you can imagine the stress I was having from getting out of train and finding a store that had just recently moved. It was a bit away from Davensport by Main Street, and I was relieved to see it. Immediately as I entered, I find a female clerk working the counter. I asked if Jack Keller was here, tired from trip from NYC. We had a small conversation for the most part, and if the timing wasn't more superb, as our small talk ended, she pointed behind me to find Jack holding the door with the nicest smile on his face. He had just come back, lit up a cigarette, and saw me with my bags.

We had a small chat, Jack and I. I told him Jon Schneider wanted me and Chris Balch to rendevous at his store for a car ride up to Rochester for GRASS. He wanted to go, but he had to attend some birthday parties. As I looked at him, he seemed as energetic as always. I had to wait outside for a bit to catch my breath of this peaceful town - it wasn't like hectic NYC filled with busy people and traffic. Tranquil would be a good word to describe it. After 5-10 minutes or so, I went inside and asked if there was any place to put my stuff until Jon comes in. This time I had a good look at the store, and it looked pretty homely. Like Jon mentioned to me before, there was little space for any good shred to begin here, but I had a nice time relaxing. His cat was very curious of me, and loved to be petted.

As good will had intended me to do, Jack wanted me to help him move some of his stuff into the basement. He even wanted to pay me for the move. I declined on the money and moved his stuff for free. I needed a good work-out to get some adrenaline pumped into my body. I was going to GRASS, and I was excited enough to burn some muscle. Also, I was temporarily crashing at his store, so I had to return the favor somehow. There wasn't much that I couldn't handle, but I manage to scuff my knuckle against a wall and bash my head against a wooden plank in the basement. Nothing too severe, but I had no right to complain.

When I was done, I saw Chris Balch had come in as well. Seeing another shredder's face was very nice indeed. We talked about stitching and a bit of shred, compared some bags and had a fond time at Jack's store. He showed me Nucleus which was a real trip to see. Again, Jack's cat was a bit of a star then and there. What an attention whore.

It took a good hour or so for Jon to come and pick us up, but he came in with casual business attire. I haven't seen Jon like this before, but it was refreshing enough to see him again. We immediately took our stuff and went to his car. Chris and I played some rock paper scissors for the shotgun seat, which I lost 2 out of 3. Now, it was time to pick up Dave Clavens from his house and off to GRASS. Nothing much really happened from there.

I'll try to squeeze in more info, especially GRASS from here. The four of us missed out on most of the shred on Friday, but more info will be added in my next post.

[Wasabi]

*I'm sure I can type a long list of what happened in GRASS and such, but I just don't seem to have the patience and consistency to go through with doing so. I'm just going to make a short but sweet post about it, then move on.

**I should be more responsible with my footblog. I'm such a jerk to you!!!

Anyway, GRASS was noice. Met with most of my friends away from NYC. Chris Dean, Chris Miller, Tom Mosher, Dan Skip! Cyr, Matt Cross, Chris Balch, Paul Agostinelli, Arin McIntosh, etc. Meeting up with Dave Clavens, Johnny Suderman, Jorden Moir, Ryan Seath, Hackey Sack Jack and others was awesome. i wasn't in the spirit for shred, but my focus on stitching felt stronger than ever when I was there at Rocester. It was a very chill experience.

On with more updated news, I'm playing more actively in terms of hacky sack outside of college. Spring is wonderful, and just having a casual time with friends outdoors makes it much more cherishable. Lately, my friends and I wanted to kick in consecutives, and thought up the game "Numbers." Freakin' fun and intense. For some reason we can't reach 10 kicks as a group (y'know, 1 person kicks it once, the second twice, third thrice, etc), so it's a challenge. I can do consecutives easily, but it's my friends that have the trouble. Fun times regardless.

There are some new kickers outside of Hunter College. Regular inexperienced hackers. It's fun to see new faces, but I wish I can get some people into freestyle. The general consensus around here is against that notion, but I try to support footbag as much as I can by improving my playing style. Yes, shred shorts (as well as taking my pants off) has made me think of myself as an icon by my close friends. Silly, but it works.

I'm working on pixies, but I'm troubled. I'm guessing this goes the same for my atomics as well. I can do them exceptionally well barefoot, but I can't seem to find my niche for these two moves in shoes (especially G-units). It's a hard transition. The problems I'm having is that my uptime sets seem to be softer when I play in shoes, so the bag always seem to get snagged by my toe walls, or the side of my shoe. Hopefully when I school them this weekend, I'll be sure to find out the solution, but lately this has been my frustration.

Also, I've done several trades with people as well. I've recently gotten a pair of sample Lavers from Benjamin Marquart. They are beautiful! I'll be sure to post some pics when I get the chance. Also, I've been doing trades with Kyle Hewitt with two of my bags (a 6 and a 32), for all of his facile. I'm waiting up on them so that I can start stitching up more bags. I'm excited! And then there is Peng's sample 4-panel bag I'm expecting sometime next week. Summer is going to RAWK for me.

I'm also considering on a new stitching style. I've been questioning why my gather has been inconsistent, and I think it's the method to which I anchor and my needle placement. I'm going to try and work on it. I'm just afraid to gather too tightly. Hopefully this will change by the time Jersey Spike or Funtastiks arrives. I'm sure to make some sample bags for some friends in the footbag community to test out.

Tonight, after I post this, I'm going to make an inventive yet clean Brocka mod on my G-units. I've been in the creative spirit to mod that area on my G-units for some time now. Just debating whether to use floss or black thread to stitching the final product together. Hopefully everything turns out well.

On a final note, I met the cutest girl on facebook and found time to meet with her this afternoon.

Alright! End of post!

[Wasabi]

Just had a nice, hot* shred with some NYFA members on Saturday. It's good to play in Union Square again, especially in Spring weather. I felt really energetic today, so much so that I've regain some of my shred spirit. I guess all of that kicking outside of college has helped me out of my slump, but I guess that's about it. Maybe my seasonal depression is shaking off? Regardless, I was pretty happy to go out and kick in such good weather.

I modded my G-units with a nice and clean Brocka mod. I'll be sure to take some pics of it soon. It's very different from the mod that is found from my tutorial, and is pretty comfortable. As a matter of fact, playing has felt so much better with these mods. My ankle crank definitely feels free, but not so much that you lose support of the shoe. The mod is definitely different to Lavers. I'm satisfied with the results.

Concerning shred, with a few tips from Bruce and Drew, I've nailed a couple of clean pixies and stepping sets! Finally, I can grasp the concept of uptime sets! I can finally see how much fun it is to use uptime sets with normal footbag moves that I feel a world of opportunities for my game now. However, I'm still working on my stepping and atomics, as Drew noted on stepping to be a bit weird (I think so too, as I seem to bend my support leg inward whenever I turn my hip to begin the set). Regardless, I'm sure to school them as my G-units feel comfortable enough to do drills on them. Me and atomics, however, are a complicated relationship. There are days that I understand the set, but sometimes I usually screw it up but having it hit below my dexing leg's thigh or calf. This just means that I need to relearn the set from vid clips on hoodshouse. Oh well.

(edit: forgot to mention, cool styley move I've begun to incorporate - legover heel/refracted heel? Anyway, noice!)

Ken David gave me a few tips for physical fitness and dieting a couple of weeks ago. I've taken my time to follow up on his advice, and I think it payed off. More shredding has influenced it even more. For the past few weeks, I've been doing squats/sit-ups and have eaten a healthier diet to supplement my shredding and exercise that I've seen significant results. The jeans that I usually wear seem a bit too big on me lately, like I've dropped 2 pant sizes, and I think it's because of my fitness regimen. Goodbye 33 waist, hello 30-31? I'm pretty happy with this. Also, because of the work-out I'm putting into my thighs, I feel that my uptime sets have become more comfortable to land straighter and stronger. Barefooted, I can pretty much pixie high enough so that I can duck under it. Pretty amazing.

In other news, I've been infatuating the whole day over the girl I've met on Friday afternoon. I may be exaggerating a bit, but the mere thought of her is just so... heavenly. I don't remember the last time I've ever been so happy about a girl before, or this nervous I might add. Hopefully nothing comes between us for a relationship to start. The only extreme I've found out is that she wants to transfer to a college that is closer to Brooklyn, as it takes an hour for her to get to Hunter College (located in upper Manhattan). A respectable decision, but I was never too fond of distant relationships. Still, I've been reading her moves through our conversations in person and online that she's very interested in me. We share a favorite flower, music interest, general personality and ideals. Plus, we both love to cook, though she seems to be a step above me (she cooks for her family most of the time). She noted that she wants to bake cookies for me as well. Agh, why am I even exposing all of this into my footblog!?!? Whatev. I bet you, the people that read this, eat this up. Anyway, I hope everything turns out for the better.

*Steamy sausage tempering at the Square. That's how hot it was (or we were). Grizzle!

[Wasabi]

Barret dragged me out to kick today. I was shit tired from yesterday, but being the nice guy like I am I did him a favor when he needed some company. Though my legs were pretty shaky, i thought I would do some light shredding with him on such a nice day. Consider it a small warm-up for the coming week, and a short session for me to work on pixies and stepping.

I came in late. Barret was there since 12:30 in the afternoon, and I just showed up at 1:00. The funny thing is, I was taking the NYC subway, which is underground, and I picked up a call from him complaining about my tardiness. Oh snap! My phone got reception underground! Kind of reminded me of my visit in China, and how I could call up family/friends with my cell-phone underground in their subway system. Good memories.

The session was so-so. He wanted to play with his Sandmaster. I did a couple of clipper tricks. Could not pixie for shit! Maybe the bag was loosely filled, big and my legs were shaky. I tried it again with my Mr. Sandbag and a couple of 32s and pixied fine. Conclusion: Sandmasters suck. But I still did pretty fine with my usual strings. Barret nailed Butterfly Swirl without thinking!!! And this isn't really a tiltless player yet! Mucho props to him!

There was some street drumming happening at one point during our session. That was pretty chill. When it came to some pretty hardcore beats, I think my session really shined from there. I was drilling strings like a madman, from mirages to quick butterflies and consistent clippers. I didn't want to delve into atomics too much as I know I'll screw it up in my condition, but knowing that much i felt so alive when there were drums playing. It reminded me of New Year's, and how much fun I had in Bush Mango with all of my buds in the East Coast. Rochester at that time was a huge highlight in my life, and I was glad I could partake in that event. I'm sure to go wild next year.

When the drumming died down, I thought I would just do some weird tricks. Snowcone > Dragon a la Bruce Dole, knee set > blind pinch, toe set > blind x-bod sole, refracted heel, Squeeze > ss heel (Karate Kid, Crane Style!!!) heel-pixie (?), etc. It was pretty fun experimenting some concepts, though I haven't nailed half of what was listed. I'll consider doing these tricks again when I'm in a better shape. But really, the music definitely helped out for invoking my love for footbag even more.

There was definitely a good vibe today. Totally exhausted, since I just took a 3-4 hour nap just resting my legs. I didn't get to do any paperwork for college because of my shape and the fact that my college e-mail went AWOL, but I felt fulfilled for the better part of my weekend. I'll save my assignments, which are revisions, for tomorrow night and Tuesday.

[Wasabi]

Uploading some pictures.



G-Unit Brocka mod. Blurry!



Sick pair of Sample Lavers that Benjamin Marquart traded me for the Blue Twills 8.5 I had in stock. Makes me want to mod the size 9 Blue Twills I wear for walking.



My cute nephew (Tyler) and me from a day of dimsum. I'm teaching him footbag when he grows older. Not seen is him playing with Lewd bag 1, the first bag I ever stitched.



Here's a pic of bags. Lewd bag 1 is the Opal/Blue Hawaii combo on the left. The second bag I made, Maroon/Opal, was sent to Kyle Hewitt. Tyler was playing with the first bag when I was eating. No worries, no lead filler was added.

[Wasabi]

Had a short shred session today. Pixies getting solid. I guess watching a few videos on Youtube of Vasek Klouda and Honza were awesome. I also have flying toe dialed just a bit, but I might need to see Tom nailing some of those from his video of Maneshred. I feel I have the energy to do so many pixies and stepping, it's incredible. Atomics still feel a bit drawn out though. I'm going to need some pointers on that.

My ankle crank for my left foot is a bit disappointing, I found out a few days ago. I've been doing stretches as advised from hoodshouse to increase my ankle strength, and I think it's fairing up a bit. I'm going to need to get some stronger elastic bands though. Also, my knees feel like they're shot from all the squats I've been doing, so an ankle weight may be needed for knee drops.

In any case, not much news about footbag today. I can't wait for all of my shipment from Peng and Kyle to get here. Papers and finals week has me jonesing for some stitching.

In other news, I got several numbers from some hot girls today. Not interested with each of them, but they pretty much imposed their numbers onto me. Creepy.

[Wasabi]

GOT MY FACILE TODAY! WHOO! Cool colors Kyle. I'm definitely going to stitch some bags with these colors. Beautiful!

Typing up a paper and getting late to go to class. Bah!

[Wasabi]

Nothing much concerning footbag, really. During Thursday or Friday, I felt a lot of pain around my hip, and some tweaking on my knees and left shin. I'm taking most of the weekend and most of next/this week to recover so that I can kick it up at Chris Balch's jam on the 20th. And, well, there wasn't any shred on Saturday because of Falun Gong festivities in Union Square. Bastards. However, I have stitched up a bag from Kyle's facile.



Love Blue Hawaii. My third bag made from facile (I've made countless bags out of ultrasuede, even a 32, but I don't really consider them worthy for freestyle). Anyway, this is bag is REALLY small, but I love it. Plays really well with lead shot/plastic pellets and my own secret mix. I'm so afraid of getting it dirty like my first bag, but I can just see how choice this bag is going to be. I need to buy a scale sometime this week to get some weight numbers on this bag. Really nice!

I hate to bring this to sadder news, but one of my more prominent and older bags has officially retired. An abshire a910 standard, maroon/dark green, has gotten its take of holes for some time that I just leaked the filler for better use and put the bag on shelf. In fact, the lead shot I had put in that abshire is now in my Lewd bag #3. Being cliche on the matter, my abshire's memories and footbag spirit has now transferred into my newly stitched bag. Whatever, mock me if you like. lol

Let's end this on a higher note that's not footbag-related: that girl I had been smooching up in my previous posts is really acquainted with me. We had a great telephone conversation Saturday night, and she wants to date me Wednesday afternoon. Score! Last day of classes and a date to boot.

[Wasabi]

Tested my new Lewd bag #3 yesterday. It really reminded me of how my abshire a910 used to play (aka. rolly). I expect a great break-in from this bag, as it is already showing signs to being super-plush. I just wish I can get some heavier filler for this bag. I do have some steel shot somewhere, I think, but lately I hate mixing two different shot fillers. I have no clue, but the idea doesn't appeal to me. If I'm going to use for this bag, I might as well get lead shot or fishing weights. My guess for the filler weight is around 35-42 grams.

Friday, I'm going to shop for an electronic scale. I already bought 10LBs of zinc-plated lead shot from the site Matt Cross mentioned in his Filler Discussion. Hopefully that arrives soon. I want to be making some choice tester bags to bring to Jersey Spike (5 at most). Personally, I think steel shot is a bit light, but I could be persuaded to use it if it can rival the zinc lead shot that I ordered. I don't know, when I go to Chris' Jam or Jersey Spike, I want to have a private talk with some stitchers on the matter.

I'm going to get some sample swatches from Toray because of the recent rise/influence of some forum members here on modified. It seems pretty good to get some free fabric from them. I don't like to suck up to people to get free items, but for footbag and my interest in stitching it's a worthy sacrifice. At least I hope. Plus, I'm too poor to get 1/8 yard facile at fields.

I've been debating about my stitching technique. I'm not satisfied with how I anchor my first hole and/or stitch when I start a pent and closing it. It feels... bulky. And the panel in that certain area doesn't pucker the way I want to because of the anchoring. When Jersey Spike comes (or if any stitchers show at Chris' Jam), I want to talk about that as well.

I've hit it off well with this girl I've been talking about. It seems like all of my recent posts in this blog have had some reference to her. I can't get her out of my mind. We always seem to have so much fun meeting each other these days, and our night conversations on AIM or by phone have become a bit more intimate. Hopefully things go well with my meeting her tomorrow afternoon. I don't want it to rain.

[Robert wojci]

yeahh waylon gettin the babes! lol
those bags ur sewin look really hot, maybe in a few months you'll be on the modified stitchers list hehe anyways i was eating sushi and i totally thought of that awesome sushi bag, but im a vegetarian so then i had the idea of a maki bag with green hex instead of red (so sacriligious!(sp?)) i wouldnt get it of course but i sort of laughed and then everyone at my lunch table looked at me funny so yeah thats my story of the day

Rob

[Wasabi]

I thought I'd add some pics of Lewd bag #3 for size comparison. Lewdbag #1 on the left, golfball right. I'm starting another stitching project once this day is done with. I hate doing papers and wrapping up last minute work for classes. And I need to register for classes for fall etc. Bah.

Shred goal: Just drill on basics consistently, because of my lack of play and injuries. 30-50 toe delays, insides, and hopefully 10 clippers bsos. Once that's accomplished, move onto pixies and stepping sets, then atomics if I have the energy.

Note to self: When really really really hungry, don't OD on ramen noodles and drink Vault afterwards. I have had indigestion and the shiz over the course of the night. And Vault is nasty, especially warm (morning wake-up chug?). I only did it for the caffeine intake for being too lazy to brew coffee and whatnot.

[gdawg8_0]

now its my turn to ask you questions where did you get the planet footbag filler, does it come in less than 10 pounds? thanks dude.

[Wasabi]

My stomach is feeling a lot better from last night, but I got a bit stressed out when I found out my final paper was corrupted, so i couldn't submit it in the last day of classes I have until tomorrow and friday to submit the paper so that I won't incur any more point deductions. First thing in the morning, I'm typing up a storm. The college computer labs better be open for me to print my paper.

I found out that the filler I ordered was zinc-plated steel shot. Whatev, for 10 LBs of shot filler I'm sold for life. It's a bit too small, but I guess I should stitch my bleed holes a little bit smaller and/or tighter now. Although I'm happy to have this on me, I still want to invest on lead shot. So, when I get the money, I'm shopping around at Ballistic Products. I'm thinking about picking up size #6, so hopefully the #7 steel shot I have here will be just be a little bit smaller in size comparison. I don't want shot the size of copper BBs.

Final papers suck, Take-home essays for Final Exams suck, but I'll be going to Mendham this Saturday and Highland Park the day after. My plan is to get a ticket from Newark to Mendham, and a ticket from New Brunswick to Newark. Hopefully that turns out well.

I was thinking about taking it easy and make a visit to Ottawa, Canada for Ottawa day on June 1, but I can't find a good deal online. Too poor. In any case, I'm going around the stores near my college to see if I can apply for a job. I'm thinking about the pet store that's just a few blocks down. Hopefully they pay well enough for me to (re)build my cash flow so that I can use it for footbag and college tuition. And, I'll be able to see this girl I'm interested in over the summer if I work around the area. She's taking summer courses.