Yes.
Cornell Jam was real good fun. I'd expect nothing less from Ken Somolinos. Big thanks also to Luis Lipchak for all the good hook-ups. Our living/party arrangements kicked some serious butt. Shred was good. Party was good. Environment was real good. Wingz were over-rated, and perhaps the Blue as well, though neither really disappointed. I made it home alive. Now I've got to eat. Out.
Cornell Jam 2: Thank you for coming!
Here's the write-up from the local newspaper:
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pb ... 90340/1002
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pb ... 90340/1002
Awesome event, awesome writeup!
regarding the johnny blue... it was nice, but I'll take a laphroaig at a quarter of the cost any day. Thanks for expanding my pallette, jon. I'm glad to have sipped it and now have an opinion. You may just have saved me $200 in the future
I had a great time, seriously. I hit a new move or two, played with some of my favorites, saw paul a. blow up a concept practically upon my mention of it, and had my overwhelming amazement at peter irish renewed. Being his buddy for the past few years made me kind of forget what a mind-blowing individual he is.
So, thanks Ken and Luis. Luis, keep the ball rolling! sorry about your frat brothers not being too happy. I always feel kind of responsible for that. Tell you what, if you want to do this event next year, I pledge to do all the helping that I can / that you need to make it go down, including doing everything that requires talking in a loud voice, gathering prizes, MCing, judging, etc. Just don't let it die! it's way too easy to have a footbag event tagged on to a juggling thing. anyway, I think that's it...
regarding the johnny blue... it was nice, but I'll take a laphroaig at a quarter of the cost any day. Thanks for expanding my pallette, jon. I'm glad to have sipped it and now have an opinion. You may just have saved me $200 in the future
I had a great time, seriously. I hit a new move or two, played with some of my favorites, saw paul a. blow up a concept practically upon my mention of it, and had my overwhelming amazement at peter irish renewed. Being his buddy for the past few years made me kind of forget what a mind-blowing individual he is.
So, thanks Ken and Luis. Luis, keep the ball rolling! sorry about your frat brothers not being too happy. I always feel kind of responsible for that. Tell you what, if you want to do this event next year, I pledge to do all the helping that I can / that you need to make it go down, including doing everything that requires talking in a loud voice, gathering prizes, MCing, judging, etc. Just don't let it die! it's way too easy to have a footbag event tagged on to a juggling thing. anyway, I think that's it...
BRICK!
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This was such a good time. Best shred I've witnessed yet by far. Jorden hit a new set with one of my Mosher bags 
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It was soo awesome meeting everyone there. Everybody was just so genuinely nice, and super cool.
I just wish I didn't pass out so early
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Ken and Luis, you guys are the shitsnits. I'm really glad to have met the both of you. I hope to chill with you guys again soon.
. It was soo awesome meeting everyone there. Everybody was just so genuinely nice, and super cool.
I just wish I didn't pass out so early
. Ken and Luis, you guys are the shitsnits. I'm really glad to have met the both of you. I hope to chill with you guys again soon.
Cornell! I'm not in a very 'creative' fun loving writing mood, so this will be a very bland writeup. It is also taken directly from my Blog, so it is more of a "personal" and less, event, describing writing style. Anyway, I figured I'd put it in here.
First, I get to Tom's house at around 8:00 AM, and get to go inside and watch Chad Peng and Tom finish up breakfast. After loading up the car with all our stuff, we start the car ride to pick up Jorden at some gas station and we discuss stitching and how girls "cat called" tom when he was biking from work, and then proceeded to stalk him. It sounded funny.
We pick up Jorden, and then have me in the middle back seat, with peng and chad on either side. Peng began to stitch a super-sweet-super-vibrant 32, which looked about 2* better than the previous Peng I had bought. I had over-compensated and paid Tom way more than just gas costs because I wanted to thank him for driving all of us, and Peng decided that that kind deed was enough to give me that bag, which I am now in love with! The middle seat of a car ride really makes your body go numb, but with the comedian Tom played over the speaker-system of the PT cruiser I hardly noticed. Tom sang along to "Its too late to apologize" in a very "its too late to apologize" tone, which now makes me laugh everytime I hear the song.
After 5.5 hours, 1 of which was spent at the border, we make it to the hilliest and most-movie-like university in the mountains of Ithica New York, where "daniel" our very-pretentious-british GPS system guide didn't let Tom miss a turn. We made it to the event site, where the plush green astroturf made it very bright for the hundreds of jugglers and dozens of footbaggers alike. I saw Peter Irish first, said hello and then was blessed by a string where I saw Dave Clavens busting out, I think he hit Nemesis and alpine Fog that string. Damn. I was told I was in "circle" with jorden and Tom since we were late, and obviously jorden won. I am not sure if Tom or I beat eachother, but I am happy to say that since that means that I am almost on par with the Mr.Tom Mosher (during that day, during those 10 minutes anyway).
Afterwards I greeted Matt K who felt like some sort of "long lost" friend, and Matthieu Soucey who was similar. We played in a "triangle" with a crusty bag, where we showed eachothers progress off. Matt K has incredible style, I can't wait until he can play at a world-class level, because he will be so much fun to watch, even if he didn't turn out to be creative at all. I imagine he will though. Dave Clavens stretched and cooled off for a bit, and played with us, with his super-red-green Clavens bag, which has a (in my opinion) completely different feel than his bags I bought/played with at worlds. I bought one immediately, gracing the very opportunity with my life, as I knew it would be one of the best bags I ever would play with.
We got kicked out (politely and expected, so not really kicked) at 5:00 I think, so we went out for dinner. We met up somewhere in the middle of College Town, and it was Tom/our group and Flash Gorden/his group. Dave Jorden and Pipenberg split up, and Peng/Chad/Tom split up, and I was sorta in the middle. Not knowing what food I wanted, I decided that I might as well go with Tom, as I hear Dave call out 20 feet behind me "Where you going?" or something, as in a polite way of saying "come with us". At that moment I truly remembered how awesome Dave was. Anyway, we went for some deep dish pizza, which was delicious. Ordering Pizza with Dave was comical, as he asked the waitress in a completely casual way the exact ratio of cheese/crust/topping ratio, as he needed to know if this exact size of pizza would fill him completely up. Jorden made a few jokes with him, and I am not sure if he noticed it, but you can really see how compatible / what good friends / Dave and Jorden are, because Jorden seemed like a slightly different person around Dave. Not boisterous or more outgoing, just, more comfortable than with, anyone else. Jorden and Dave discussed some high-level-über-top-secret (kidding) Shred stuff within the community, and at that moment was it really the only feeling of "superiority" from both of them. The reason I say this is because it makes me so happy to be in a community where the top shredders in the world not only invite you to eat pizza with them, but are so down-to-earth that you completely forget that they are you and 1000 other beginners Idols' from around the world.
Jorden has the biggest appetite I've ever seen. After eating the entire quarter pizza (we split it 4/4) where Dave, Nathan and I were full, he goes to a Burrito place and eats an rather-large size mexican delight. He didn't even flinch at the thought of that much food. Tank.
We then went to the juggling show, where I discovered yet again how cool Dave was, because he is ALREADY a master magician. He will probably laugh at me calling him a master, because he has only played for a month, but it is likely like a kid at school calling a "Mirage->legover->pickup" link the most INSANE thing ever. Either way, I was completely fooled at the dozens of tricks Dave pulled off, all with extreme Clavens' style. He is so confident and smooth with his tricks, which probably made him about 10* better than his "trick" level actually was.
The juggling show was, I can't think of the word. So many new concepts I had never thought of were performed, and I think the most impressive was Cigar-Box juggling. The performer would push 3 cigar boxes together end-end, and then with the force take one box away, and flip it around somewhere and then press it back together, so that the two remaining boxes seemed unharmed. That description probably made no sense.
We walked back to the parking lot, which was blocks away, where Tom jumped over just about every surface there was, just like all of those "parkour"/"free runners" do. He is so, spontaneous.
There was a party at Luis' MANSION OF A FRAT HOUSE! Biggest house I've ever been too, mainly because it was built into the side of a hill so it was illusive in size. The main floor provided area for juggling and 4 square, sleeping and Billiards. The highlight of the night was finding the "oasis". We were all hungry at 12:00 or so at night, and then we walked into another room, where we found a table completely full of cake, fruit and well, more cake. Delicious, carrot cake was "the bomb". Eventually we fell asleep, which didn't take nearly as long as I thought considered 5 feet away there was a full party. At this time I almost stepping on Dave Clavens, which, in a sleeping bag looks mysteriously camoflauged with hardwood floors. Sorry about that Embarassed .
Waking up was hilarious, groggy but yet energetic footbaggers make multiple jokes which probably wouldn't be funny if you hadn't of just woken up. I massaged my new clavens bag, and then we went to a Diner where Matt Cross/Waylon/Chad/Tom/Peng/Jorden/Will Digges/I played 4 square as we waited for our tables to be ready. We then tried, seriously, playing 9 square in about 2 square feet of room. We actually had a few rotations. Disgusting.
The food was something I couldn't pass up on, seeing as American Food>Canadian Food ANY day of the week. Milkshakes, cornbeef hash, buttersweet. Anyway, Matt Cross was the center of attention at my Table, because he is just such a confident guy. He perfectly illustrated a man with two children whining and screaming walking down the street, sincerely telling him "Use (pause), use protection". Tee hee hee.
We went to the event site, where I played, ok, nothing special but nothing horrible. The main reason this paragraph exists is Dave Clavens and Jorden Moir, doing groundbreaking stuff, which David kindly *crushing dreams* refered to "Alpine blurry whirl->Double blender, Bsos" as "baby stuff". Their level of shred just multiplied in intensity everytime I saw them. I requested Gaunlet from Dave, so that I could see how it was done because every time I do it I really have to swing on the osis. He just did it in perfect style (midrun...) and my solution was that my torques just need about 1,000,000 more seals and then I'll do them well. Chris Dean is fucking good at footbag. His paradox Torque is textbook. Dear god.
As everyone left, we played in a hallway. This was my first circle with Nathan Pipenberg, (burg?) who just makes footbag look like nothing. It is almost as if it is, just, casually walking down a street, and them stopping to look at a shiny penny, when he drops.. That is seriously the only way I can describe him ending a string. It is just so natural, and confident.
This inspired me to drill the crap out of Paradox Drifters.
When Tom and others decided smoking weed was more fun than sitting down in a hallway, Jorden, Paul Agostonelli *sp?* and I played with random concepts here or there. I asked for advice mainly, and both were very good at helping me. The main highlight of this was learning the difference between hopping, and having a "quick switch of the feet". I was thinking at the busstop about two weeks ago why I have been doing the move "whirl" for over a year now, and why it doesn't feel as "undroppable" as something like pdx mirage. This "quick switch of the feet" Jorden described solved that very issue.
Jorden hit inside set surging butterfly. First try. Jesus christ. I had imagined that move a week earlier as I was playing with Surging, and then mystically it was as if he had known this, practised it, and then suddenly invented it on the spot. Does telepathy come with 5+ years of footbag? I sure hope so.
Anyway, the drive back was a little bit stressful for me, because we had stayed a little too long and I my Dad still had to pick me up at Tom's house and drive me home after we got back. Turns out I am grounded this week, because of it, even through Halloween. The drive itself was good, everyone was in such a different state than when we were driving to Cornell just a day before, and it reminded me exactly of worlds, except our legs weren't completely dead. Jorden has a black Pomeranian dog, which well, out of all the dogs "The Destroyer" could own I wouldn't expect it to be that. I love how casual and ''normal'' footbaggers are. I have repeated this point and beaten it down today, because I am still just so flabbergasted that "superstars" are actually quite normal people, at least the ones that Hollywood doesn't produce.
Thanks Ken and Luis for hosting this event, it was a real treat.
First, I get to Tom's house at around 8:00 AM, and get to go inside and watch Chad Peng and Tom finish up breakfast. After loading up the car with all our stuff, we start the car ride to pick up Jorden at some gas station and we discuss stitching and how girls "cat called" tom when he was biking from work, and then proceeded to stalk him. It sounded funny.
We pick up Jorden, and then have me in the middle back seat, with peng and chad on either side. Peng began to stitch a super-sweet-super-vibrant 32, which looked about 2* better than the previous Peng I had bought. I had over-compensated and paid Tom way more than just gas costs because I wanted to thank him for driving all of us, and Peng decided that that kind deed was enough to give me that bag, which I am now in love with! The middle seat of a car ride really makes your body go numb, but with the comedian Tom played over the speaker-system of the PT cruiser I hardly noticed. Tom sang along to "Its too late to apologize" in a very "its too late to apologize" tone, which now makes me laugh everytime I hear the song.
After 5.5 hours, 1 of which was spent at the border, we make it to the hilliest and most-movie-like university in the mountains of Ithica New York, where "daniel" our very-pretentious-british GPS system guide didn't let Tom miss a turn. We made it to the event site, where the plush green astroturf made it very bright for the hundreds of jugglers and dozens of footbaggers alike. I saw Peter Irish first, said hello and then was blessed by a string where I saw Dave Clavens busting out, I think he hit Nemesis and alpine Fog that string. Damn. I was told I was in "circle" with jorden and Tom since we were late, and obviously jorden won. I am not sure if Tom or I beat eachother, but I am happy to say that since that means that I am almost on par with the Mr.Tom Mosher (during that day, during those 10 minutes anyway).
Afterwards I greeted Matt K who felt like some sort of "long lost" friend, and Matthieu Soucey who was similar. We played in a "triangle" with a crusty bag, where we showed eachothers progress off. Matt K has incredible style, I can't wait until he can play at a world-class level, because he will be so much fun to watch, even if he didn't turn out to be creative at all. I imagine he will though. Dave Clavens stretched and cooled off for a bit, and played with us, with his super-red-green Clavens bag, which has a (in my opinion) completely different feel than his bags I bought/played with at worlds. I bought one immediately, gracing the very opportunity with my life, as I knew it would be one of the best bags I ever would play with.
We got kicked out (politely and expected, so not really kicked) at 5:00 I think, so we went out for dinner. We met up somewhere in the middle of College Town, and it was Tom/our group and Flash Gorden/his group. Dave Jorden and Pipenberg split up, and Peng/Chad/Tom split up, and I was sorta in the middle. Not knowing what food I wanted, I decided that I might as well go with Tom, as I hear Dave call out 20 feet behind me "Where you going?" or something, as in a polite way of saying "come with us". At that moment I truly remembered how awesome Dave was. Anyway, we went for some deep dish pizza, which was delicious. Ordering Pizza with Dave was comical, as he asked the waitress in a completely casual way the exact ratio of cheese/crust/topping ratio, as he needed to know if this exact size of pizza would fill him completely up. Jorden made a few jokes with him, and I am not sure if he noticed it, but you can really see how compatible / what good friends / Dave and Jorden are, because Jorden seemed like a slightly different person around Dave. Not boisterous or more outgoing, just, more comfortable than with, anyone else. Jorden and Dave discussed some high-level-über-top-secret (kidding) Shred stuff within the community, and at that moment was it really the only feeling of "superiority" from both of them. The reason I say this is because it makes me so happy to be in a community where the top shredders in the world not only invite you to eat pizza with them, but are so down-to-earth that you completely forget that they are you and 1000 other beginners Idols' from around the world.
Jorden has the biggest appetite I've ever seen. After eating the entire quarter pizza (we split it 4/4) where Dave, Nathan and I were full, he goes to a Burrito place and eats an rather-large size mexican delight. He didn't even flinch at the thought of that much food. Tank.
We then went to the juggling show, where I discovered yet again how cool Dave was, because he is ALREADY a master magician. He will probably laugh at me calling him a master, because he has only played for a month, but it is likely like a kid at school calling a "Mirage->legover->pickup" link the most INSANE thing ever. Either way, I was completely fooled at the dozens of tricks Dave pulled off, all with extreme Clavens' style. He is so confident and smooth with his tricks, which probably made him about 10* better than his "trick" level actually was.
The juggling show was, I can't think of the word. So many new concepts I had never thought of were performed, and I think the most impressive was Cigar-Box juggling. The performer would push 3 cigar boxes together end-end, and then with the force take one box away, and flip it around somewhere and then press it back together, so that the two remaining boxes seemed unharmed. That description probably made no sense.
We walked back to the parking lot, which was blocks away, where Tom jumped over just about every surface there was, just like all of those "parkour"/"free runners" do. He is so, spontaneous.
There was a party at Luis' MANSION OF A FRAT HOUSE! Biggest house I've ever been too, mainly because it was built into the side of a hill so it was illusive in size. The main floor provided area for juggling and 4 square, sleeping and Billiards. The highlight of the night was finding the "oasis". We were all hungry at 12:00 or so at night, and then we walked into another room, where we found a table completely full of cake, fruit and well, more cake. Delicious, carrot cake was "the bomb". Eventually we fell asleep, which didn't take nearly as long as I thought considered 5 feet away there was a full party. At this time I almost stepping on Dave Clavens, which, in a sleeping bag looks mysteriously camoflauged with hardwood floors. Sorry about that Embarassed .
Waking up was hilarious, groggy but yet energetic footbaggers make multiple jokes which probably wouldn't be funny if you hadn't of just woken up. I massaged my new clavens bag, and then we went to a Diner where Matt Cross/Waylon/Chad/Tom/Peng/Jorden/Will Digges/I played 4 square as we waited for our tables to be ready. We then tried, seriously, playing 9 square in about 2 square feet of room. We actually had a few rotations. Disgusting.
The food was something I couldn't pass up on, seeing as American Food>Canadian Food ANY day of the week. Milkshakes, cornbeef hash, buttersweet. Anyway, Matt Cross was the center of attention at my Table, because he is just such a confident guy. He perfectly illustrated a man with two children whining and screaming walking down the street, sincerely telling him "Use (pause), use protection". Tee hee hee.
We went to the event site, where I played, ok, nothing special but nothing horrible. The main reason this paragraph exists is Dave Clavens and Jorden Moir, doing groundbreaking stuff, which David kindly *crushing dreams* refered to "Alpine blurry whirl->Double blender, Bsos" as "baby stuff". Their level of shred just multiplied in intensity everytime I saw them. I requested Gaunlet from Dave, so that I could see how it was done because every time I do it I really have to swing on the osis. He just did it in perfect style (midrun...) and my solution was that my torques just need about 1,000,000 more seals and then I'll do them well. Chris Dean is fucking good at footbag. His paradox Torque is textbook. Dear god.
As everyone left, we played in a hallway. This was my first circle with Nathan Pipenberg, (burg?) who just makes footbag look like nothing. It is almost as if it is, just, casually walking down a street, and them stopping to look at a shiny penny, when he drops.. That is seriously the only way I can describe him ending a string. It is just so natural, and confident.
This inspired me to drill the crap out of Paradox Drifters.
When Tom and others decided smoking weed was more fun than sitting down in a hallway, Jorden, Paul Agostonelli *sp?* and I played with random concepts here or there. I asked for advice mainly, and both were very good at helping me. The main highlight of this was learning the difference between hopping, and having a "quick switch of the feet". I was thinking at the busstop about two weeks ago why I have been doing the move "whirl" for over a year now, and why it doesn't feel as "undroppable" as something like pdx mirage. This "quick switch of the feet" Jorden described solved that very issue.
Jorden hit inside set surging butterfly. First try. Jesus christ. I had imagined that move a week earlier as I was playing with Surging, and then mystically it was as if he had known this, practised it, and then suddenly invented it on the spot. Does telepathy come with 5+ years of footbag? I sure hope so.
Anyway, the drive back was a little bit stressful for me, because we had stayed a little too long and I my Dad still had to pick me up at Tom's house and drive me home after we got back. Turns out I am grounded this week, because of it, even through Halloween. The drive itself was good, everyone was in such a different state than when we were driving to Cornell just a day before, and it reminded me exactly of worlds, except our legs weren't completely dead. Jorden has a black Pomeranian dog, which well, out of all the dogs "The Destroyer" could own I wouldn't expect it to be that. I love how casual and ''normal'' footbaggers are. I have repeated this point and beaten it down today, because I am still just so flabbergasted that "superstars" are actually quite normal people, at least the ones that Hollywood doesn't produce.
Thanks Ken and Luis for hosting this event, it was a real treat.
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oy, if only my name was agoSTONElli, how incriminating that would be
sweet tiny bit of the event i was able to attend, it was a muy fun sunday session for me, getting to vibe with jorden is always a highlight of events for me and it was good to see everyone, however briefly it may have been.
sweet tiny bit of the event i was able to attend, it was a muy fun sunday session for me, getting to vibe with jorden is always a highlight of events for me and it was good to see everyone, however briefly it may have been.
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