- Blubberman twice, once with blubbermans
- The best feeling plasma I've ever done (or seen from someone.
)- Blender>Spinning Butter bs
- Phoenix>Blurry Whirl>Good stepping set but my knee twinged and I sorta collapsed.
- Tripwalk>Blurry Whirl bsos
Isilwar wrote:Two year post.
It's my footbag anniversary tomorrow. June 3rd . I'm really not the kind of person to write super long posts about what footbag is to me, but I feel like I should. And I have the time.
3 years ago, June 3rd would just be another summer day spent playing video games. Or chatting to hawt babes that are 5 years older than me online. But 2 years ago, I went to my first footbag tournament. I sincerely thought I was hot shit and that I was just going to dominate this tournament with my awesome New Balances and butterfly kicks. As Cody's mom drove up to the pavilion that had a bunch of hackers and Jose Cocolan, the first real footbag trick I saw was DATW. I probably turned white, and I got really nervous.
Jose was cool though. We signed up and did the competing thing. I think Cody and I spent the whole tournament trying to hit clipper, and feeling sort of successful when it would kind of roll from our ankle and magically appear back in our hand. Jose was encouraging though, and I think that if he would have blown us off and played by himself or something, I wouldn't be playing now. It was inspiring, and after the tournament I was seriously hooked.
If you haven't already noticed, I joined modified on June 4th. I learned about fizzied there (the Kansas Open) and I was so excited to get on a forum for people just like me. I think that was the Runescape player in me, wanting to interact with a bunch of people who did the same thing as me all day. Ugh.
In one of my school papers, I cited footbag as my anti-drug. I sincerely guarantee you that if I didn't play footbag, I would be a stoner like half of my school. That is sort of ironic, since footbag tournaments are the most that I have been around drugs.
Worlds, NYJ, and GRASS have been the best times of my life. By far. Worlds was 10 days of pure awesome – what a first tournament. It gave me that fuzzy feeling, you all know it. NYJ was the first time I really truly met Dave. The sauna room was great. That sounded sort of gay, and it sort of is. GRASS and NYJ are a tie for my favorite tournament so far. Matt really made GRASS special I think, he's become sort of like a best friend or something. If you read my GRASS write-up, you'll understand.
Footbag has really impacted my life though, and I owe a lot to it. When I get a real job, I promise to donate some of my money to the IFPA or something. There aren't a lot of things in most people's lives where they just wake up thinking about something, and then fall asleep at the computer talking to somebody about that thing.
I remember one night talking to Dave on AIM, and he commended me on staying at it (footbag) for so long. That felt like a weird thing to say to me, since 2 years really isn't that long, and also because I've never even thought about quitting.
It's hard to express how much I love footbag. It's a lot though. Onto a few thank you's:
Jose C. - THANK YOU for coming to Wichita 2 years ago. It was a great experience and I wish you still played regularly – you are good.
Cody C – Thanks for being my shred partner. You've really pushed me. Sometimes I get really mad when you hit something that I can't. You quantum ducking freak.
My School – For either completely rejecting footbag or completely loving it, I appreciate it. It inspired me a lot to get better. Impressing my friends, while it is a sort of shallow thing to say, is one of the main reasons I played (not so much anymore)
Cleaver – Oh man. You're such a huge inspiration. I almost cried at Worlds when you went dropless and screamed after your final routine. Thank you for playing, thank you for putting up with me ceaseless fanboy-ness, and thanks for being and awesome dude on top of all of that. You're one of my favorite people I've met in footbag.
Jay – Thanks for being so nice Jay. You're really good at footbag, and it makes me jealous when you hit shit like 104 ducking clippers or 64 contacts of Smear>PLO. When you figure out how to just throw that stuff into runs, you're going to just explode all over the scene, I guarantee it. Plus that patching tape has been pretty useful.
Aleksei – Thanks for being from Estonia and playing footbag. I sort of compete with you in my brain, I'm not sure if you knew that.
Matt K – I hope you have the biggest paragraph. I really do think you are my best friend. I hope that doesn't soun too gay, but I dunno. I look forward to talking to you every day, and almost every one of my highlights are influenced by you somehow. You're really good at footbag too. I hope you just completely take over the east coast scene, and everyone bows to you or something. You'll get a hug to make up for the rejected one at GRASS.
Done. 2 years, yay.
