currently: 27 years old. Pro Footbag Stitcher. US Champ. Stanford Club.
This is my new footblog. I guess I'll start off with some general information about myself. My name is Brian and my dj/producer name is dj mr bear, hence BrianBear. I make beats and am getting an AA in Music Technology right now. I attended UCSC for my general education, but realized they had no major in my interest. I am 21 at the moment, but my birthday is coming up very soon!!! woot. 22 is gonna be a good year for footbag. It also marks the third year of my footbag career. I pretty much got my first lavers for my 18th birthday. The first tricks i learned were mirage, around the world, pendulum (of course), and sole stalls. Then, about 6 months after the first lavers, I went to a shred in Santa Cruz where I met a bunch of cool people: Steve G, Emily, and a bunch of the Stanford footbag club, along with a couple of net players form the cruz. They were trying to teach me clipper stalls, and I had minor success. Shortly after, I began seshing with Emily and Dustin on occasion, and then on a regular basis with Dustin between classes on UCSC campus (awesome place to shred). I got a lot better with clippers and my toe stuff was getting pretty solid. It was awesome to play with him because looking back, he was improving a lot, hitting new stuff all the time. I think i also learned butterfly on my strong side then. The next step in my footbag progress was thanks to emily. We started playing on a regular basis a couple of times a week and she had the best drills for me. I can't quite remember all the stuff I learned during this time, but it was a lot!!! Sadly, I was still a very one-sided player. The next phase of shreds were up on UCSC campus at college 8 and these were great too. I really started getting my pendulous set from strong side down, and I could bust some tiltless for a while. I was also getting really good at sole stalls during this time. One epic highlight shred, was when I was working so hard to learn stepping and pixie... i asked emily and dustin what this was called, and i busted fairy no problem. They were pretty impressed and i hit fear that same sesh, along with fairy diving clipper soon after. Sometime around spring break Emily gave me call and said some footbaggers from Eugene were stopping through and wanted to play. Emily had a hurt back, and Dustin was out of town, and the net players are net players. So I got to rep the Santa Cruz footbag scene for Aaron Orton, Shawnell, and doh, i forget his name. Anyways, it was awesome seeing Orton bust some big tricks, and we had a fun shred on a tennis court. The time frame for this is kind've fuzzy but, I stopped shredding on a regular basis with them after second quarter junior year. Emily gave me my first 32 panel
but it only lasted a month 
i was learning rakes during this time, and popped a couple panels scraping eek. I had bop, ducking and sometimes diving, fairy strong side, pendulous and pendulum strong side, spins, and probably a couple things i'm forgetting. no whirls or swirls or stepping or pixies or illusions though. I attended the Green Cup and got to have a one on one session with Lon Smith! This is before I had seen any videos of anyone at the top levels of the sport. It was amazing. I also got to shred with Nick Landes a little bit which was fun and watched Dave Clavens do some crazy stuff. I then started playing with the Stanford footbag club on an irregular basis. I was not shredding too much, just making beats for a while. Then, about 5 months ago, I started playing all the time!!! I was taking all online classes over summer and had loads of extra time, so I played footbag. I attened sessions at stanford every tuesday, and seeing so many styles has helped me a lot. Last July, I bought my first 32 panel, an abshire It's pretty awesome. I started attending saturday sessions at steve's and got infinitely better. I just had an awesome shred today where I hit my first double spinning trick--> inside stall pendulum-->frigid to double spin toe. pretty silly. I just got to play with Ryan Mulrouney and was very impressed!!! CRAZY even though he doesnt play on regular basis much!!! I also got to see Cale play for the first time and purchased a bag from him. my baby right now, i just let out a little filler cause i like em floppy, and its yellow and red atomics. That's where I am at now.
That first post was a really fun read, you have a good memory. That's right, you totally rep'ed Santa Cruz when the Eugene crew was in town.
