I've been playing some form of footbag since spring '01, just circle kicking for the first few years. After about two & a half or three years one of my hack buddies discovered footbag.org, and we tried to figure out wtf that was all about. Like baby chimps imitating their parents. We started to learn a few things; two-adds, easier dexes. That and a bunch of hacker moves were about all we had, but we thought we were the shit. Good times.
Then after college I briefly lived at my parent's house (Beloit WI, the classiest city in the Western Hemisphere), which mostly sucked. But I got a couple of my friends out of their video-game lairs to play on nice days. But I think they've pretty much stopped playing since I moved away.
In August '04 I moved to Chicago. I found CIC on footbag.org but couldn't find them IRL. I did randomly meet up with some high-school kids in Millennium park one day, and we kicked somewhat regularly for a month or two. After a while I stopped trying to get ahold of them. One or two of them still play, and have come out to a couple of the CIC jams, which reminds me that I was just like "fuck these kids" and makes me feel like an ass. Anyway its cool that they still play. I'm just so fucking inspiring.
May '05 I had just deleted the high school kids phone numbers from my phone, and heard some music coming from Grant Park. So I wandered over there, and saw a hack circle. Man that was nice to find, like a hundred angel's trumpets erupting from my chest cavity. I ran over to the circle in my un-modded Lavers and jumped in ("like I owned the place," as Zeke would later say) and thought I was about to school these fools. Which up until then would have been a reasonable thing to assume. But then this guy in the middle (Zeke) hit a bunch of ducking flyers, and this other guy (Meinard) hit a bunch of ducking flyers, and I shit myself. Metaphorically.
So that's how I met CIC and came to learn how inferior my skills were (are).
In April '06 I was thinking of giving up on freestyle. I had like a week long existential crisis about it. Then I decided that before I could give up, I'd have to actually try. I started doing solo practice sessions, and slowly started to notice some improvement. I guess CIC noticed the improvement, or change in attitude, because in August or September of '06 they invited me to join the club. My first thought when accepting: "I have to get much, much better."
And that pretty much brings you up to the start of this blog.
Original highlights:
- Paradox DadaCurve (Saturday)
- Ducking Far Osis (Sunday)
EDIT: One other highlight - DATW, but wearing pants, unmodded lavers, and using an un-broken-in Sipa Sipa. Then I tore off my Hulkamania t-shirt and body-slammed a security guard.
Longest Strings (not just repetitions of a single drill)
Tiltless - 61 contacts
Guiltless - 47 contacts (all bops!)
Tripless - 3 contacts
Drills - Personal Bests
butterfly> infinity> osis> pdx mirage> rpt - 40 contacts
alternating osii - 48 contacts
infinities - 22 contacts
butterfly> pdx. mirage> repeat - 40 contacts
symp mirage> butterfly> pdx mirage> rpt - 33 contacts
butterfly> infinity> osis> rpt - 26 contacts
butterfly> osis> osis> rpt - 42 contacts
ss butterfly> osis> pdx mirage> rpt - 9 contacts
alternating toe stalls - 143
alternating clippers - 29
same clipper - strong - 31 - weak - 20
ss clipper> op clipper> rpt - 45 contacts
ss clipper> osis> rpt - 68 contacts
mirage - 21 contacts strong, 19 contacts weak
legover - 30 contacts
pickup - 19 contacts
pixie - 40+ contacts
mirage> legover> repeat - 33 contacts
ATW (outward)> pixie> repeat - 42 contacts
clipper> near pickup> op repeat - 39 contacts
clipper> far legover> rpt - 26 contacts
fairy - 12 contacts
pixie ss clipper> osis> pdx mirage - 16 contacts
terrage - 4 contacts
paste - 3 contacts
pixie legover - 15 contacts
ducking clipper - 13 contacts
fairy> illusion> rpt - 20 contacts
illusion> pickup> rpt - 16 contacts
diving clipper>osis> rpt - 10 contacts
drifter - 6 contacts
Downtime
ATW
Mirage
Pixie
Pickup
Symple Pickup
Legover
Symple Legover
Fairy
Illusion
Heel Delay
Sole Delay
Clipper
Wrap
Hopover
Cross body rake
Ducking Toe
Whizz
Symposium Whizz (strong side only)
Paradox Whizz
Paraguay
Butterfly
Osis
Paradox Mirage
Paradox Illusion
Dragonfly
Symposium Dragonfly (strong side only)
Flapper
Drifter
Drifter rake
Paradox drifter
Whirl
Ghost
Whirling heel
Reverse whirling heel (strong side only)
Paradox Whirl
PDX Whirling heel (strong side only)
Blender
Cross-body heel (strong side only)
Legover Heel
Refraction (strong side only)
Symposium Pixie
Symposium Mirage
Paradox Mirage
Paradox Illusion
Double fairy (strong side only)
Double Legover
Paradox double legover (strong side only)
Eggbeater (strong side only)
Terrage
Double Pickup
Barrage
DATW (both directions, both sides)
DATW heel (inward, strong side)
Double Guay
Reverse Double Guay
Dyno
Slice
Torque
Butterfly heel (strong side only)
Double Over Down
Paradon
Barfly (strong side only)
Dada Curve
Paradox Symposium Mirage
Paradox Dada (strong side only)
Motion (strong side only)
Pixie
Pixie Same Clipper
Pixie muted clipper
Swerve
Pixie same xbod rake
Pixie Op Clipper
Pixie Op heel
Pixie same heel (strong side only (?))
PLO
Paste
Pixie ss Pickup
Pixie same side Mirage (also muted version)
Smear
Pixie Whizz (strong side only)
Pixie Whirl (strong side only)
Pixie op Guay
Pixie ss rev Guay (strong side only)
Magellan
Smudge
Pixie ss Illusion (strong side only)
Backside Smear
Backside Pixie Same Mirage (strong side only)
Pixie cross-body heel (strong side only)
Pixie Ducking Clipper (strong side only)
Pixie Same Osis
Pixie op Osis
Dimwalk
Parkwalk
Smoke (strong side only)
Assassin (strong side only)
Smog (strong side only)
Pixie same Dada (strong side only)
Phoenix (strong side only)
Pixie same dyno (strong side only)
Pixie op dyno (strong side only)
Dimmiest (strong side only)
Stepping
Stepping far heel
Stepping ss heel
Stepping ss osis
Stepping ss clipper
Stepping ss rake
Stepping legover
Schmoe
Blurry symple legover
Blurry symple pickup (strong side only)
Stepping ss mirage
Ripwalk
Sidewalk
Blur
Backside Blur (strong side only)
Bluruguay
Blurry Pickup
Blizzard
Crispy Torque
GYBAS (strong side only)
Fairy
Toe ss Grifter
Fairy Legover (strong side only)
Fairy ss Mirage (strong side only)
Reverse Magellan (strong side only)
Fairy Same Osis (strong side only)
Atomic
Tap
Atomic ss pickup
Legbeater (strong side only)
Nuclear
Paradox tap (strong side only)
Ducking
Ducking Heel
Diving Heel
Ducking Clipper
Diving Clipper
Weaving Clipper
Ducking Legover
Ducking Pickup
Ducking Mirage
Ducking ss Mirage (weak side only)
Ducking Symposium Mirage (strong side only)
Ducking Paradox Mirage
Ducking Butterfly
Ducking Butterflier (strong side only)
Ducking Dragonfly (strong side only)
Diving Butterfly (strong side only)
Ducking Osis
Diving Osis
Ducking PS Mirage
Zulu clipper
Zulu osis
Zulu rake
Zulu butterfly
Diving mirage
Diving pickup
Diving rake
Spinning
Spinning Clipper
Spinning Toe
Gyro clipper
Gyro mirage
Spinning butterfly
Merkon
Challenges - Completed challenges in red. Abandoned challenges in yellow. Obviously there is a talent show and I need to work on some of these.
Zac Miley wrote:Atomsmasher, Legbeater to runs on both sides.
Barfly (b2b?)
Every single variation of Legover, Pickup, Mirage bsos (toe near, far, clipper near, far). Add Illusion too if that's too easy.
exudedex wrote:Challenges:
4.Right clipper>far legover> mirage>right clipper> same side legover>left clipper>far legover> mirage>left clipper> same side legover>right clipper>mirage>inout ATW>left clipper >mirage>inout ATW
1.Clipper X26
2.Butterfly X10
2.Ducking clipper X6
3.Ducking butterfly X2
1.legover> same side tap legover> repeat X2(eight contacts)
1.Toe ducking toe X 10
3.Toe ducking legover X 4
2. In ATW> pickup> out ATW > pickup>out Atw>pickup>in Atw>pickup
2. Same as above but legover instead of pickup.
CIC flurry wrote:challenge:
pixie (no plant same foot) clipper
ducking legover
pixie (no plant same foot) clipper >ducking whatever
Chim-Chim wrote:i challenge you:
butter > osis > pdx mirage > rpt both sides
infinity > infinity > osis > rpt starting both sides
butter > pdx mirage > rpt x 4 (10 contacts)
zjeezy wrote: whirl> ducking clipper> rpt
spinning clipper> ducking clipper> rpt