Super Seaths Shreddin Spectacle of Stupendous Stunts & S

[Seath]

Hi my name is Ryan Seath, I was born in 82 and I live in Ottawa Canada, the Capital of the country and proud host to a weak footbag scene. Luckily Ottawa is very close to Aylmer Quebec, which is host to a footbag scene that is a little better than Ottawas, unfortunately they keep quiet in the cyber scene. I tend to shred with them most of the time.

So i suppose anything footbag related happening in Ottawa has something to do with me. Since I started playing, back in December 03 the month I received my first pair of Adidas Rod Laver tennis shoes, I've established a few protege's, one being Dan Wax, the one who shows the most potential. The rest are still waiting on lavers so they are more behind than they really know.

I guess my ultimate goal right now, aside from improving my game, is to establish a footbag scene that doesn't need me to be there. I'm planning on moving out of town this September to go to school, so I have exactly 11 months left to acomplish this task.

Enjoy my footblog, thanks for reading it, and please feel free to reply to it!

-Seath
(written September 26, 2004 with thanks from the brand new edit button, thanks admins)

[Seath]

Ryan Seaths Footbag Records

Drills
(each number equals number of contacts not full runs of the string)

toe>toe - 97 (10/24/04)
legover>legover - 60 (04/14/05)
pickup>pickup - 58 (03/14/05)
o-to-i atw>legover - 57 (03/02/05)
mirage>legover>ss butterfly>ss pickup - 50 (03/08/05)
mirage>legover - 47 (03/14/05)
inside stall>inside stall - 46 (10/19/04)
clipper>clipper - 38 (11/13/05)
legover>butterfly>far legover - 37 (03/14/05)
illusion>pickup - 36 (04/17/05)
legover>pickup>pickup>legover - 36 (03/02/05)
mirage>illusion>legover - 33(03/08/05)
right (i-to-o) atw - 32 (11/15/04)
butterfly>pdx mirage - 30 (12/02/04)
right clipper - 30 (11/15/04)
butterfly>ss clip - 29 (03/03/05)
pixie toe>pixie toe - 24 (03/01/05)
left (i-to-o) atw - 23 (03/01/05)
inside pickup>inside pickup - 22 (03/01/05)
butterfly>butterfly - 21 (11/02/04)
pixie legover>pixie legover - 19 (05/09/05)
left clipper 17 (03/01/05)
left set atomic toe 15 (03/08/05)
right set atomic toe 15 (03/08/05)
butterfly>pdx illusion - 12 (03/08/05)
pixie legover>smear - 12 (03/01/05)
magellan>plo - 11 (03/31/05)
Smear>Parkwalk>Pdx Mirage>Dimwalk>Pdx Mirage - 10 (09/28/06)
paste>paste - 10 (053/09/05)
dimwalk>pdx mirage - 10 (12/26/04)
smear>smudge>plo - 8 (06/05/04)
ss butterfly>stepping legover - 8 (03/01/05)
legbeater>blur>atomsmasher - 7 (03/31/05)
Butterfly>ss osis - 7 (09/10/06)
ripwalk>ripwalk - 6 (03/08/05)
pixie ss mirage>pixie ss mirage - 6 (03/31/05)
parkwalk>stepping ss mirage - 5 (09/28/06)
Atomsmasher>atomsmasher - 5 (08/11/06)
tap>atomsmasher - 5 (08/11/06)
ducking clipper>ducking clipper - 5 (03/01/05)
atomic legover>atomic ss legover - 4 (07/29/06)
dimwalk>blur - 4 (05/09/05)
tapdown>blur - 4 (03/08/05)
parkwalk>stepping legover - 4 (09/28/06)
osis>osis - 4 (12/26/04)

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[Seath]

So I met Mat... Mat's last name is still unknown to me. He lives in Aylmer, right over the ontario/quebec border, and FINALLY I've met a shredder better than me who lives close by! We had our first shred today and it was awesome! Just watching someone else shred helps me so much! I hit my first whirl today, also BSOS pixie legover, and ducking clipper>diving clipper also pdx illusion and BSOS symp mirage. It was one of my best sessions ever and Im all extra stoked for worlds. Im leaving hopefully monday!

[Seath]

So i bought my bus ticket to montreal today, Im leaving at 2 on monday! IM SO STOKED!! Not only is this my first worlds, but my first tournament ever! I was kicking by myself today and had some good long strings.. i hit butterfly>butterfly>ducking mirage>plo!! that was when I stopped to eat.. and im still eating.

[brian relly]

Dicking Mirage or Ducking Paradox Mirage?

[Seath]

actually I guess it was pdx.. haha

[Seath]

I wrote a list of a bunch of moves and small strings that I want to hit in the near future.
It looked like this:

Moves:
Diving pickup flipside
Smear flipside
osis flipside
atomic legover flipside
pixie pickup flipside (hit it bsos after I got home from work)
atomic mirage flipside
DLO flipside
diving osis flipside
swirl flipside
whirl and clipset whirl flipside
drifter flipside
ducking and diving legover both sides
parkwalk both sides
magellan both sides

strings:
Diving pickup>diving mirage
Dimwalk>pdx illusion (i hit this after work)
smear>dimwalk
atomic legover>plo
pixie pickup>dimwalk
diving mirage>whirl>pdx illusion
magellan>parkwalk

also could anyone tell me if there are fancy names for pixie same side mirage, stepping pickup, and atomic same side legover

[Seath]

today I hit double switchover both sides, dimwalk>smear.. some other stuff

[zachatree]

pimp shit man! Keep shreding, an posting.

[Seath]

thanks man

oh ya, yesterday I also hit diving pickup>ducking mirage>pixie legover

[Seath]

yesterday I hit paradon on my strong side and double switchover bsos again. and I did a long drill of inside legovers it was fun.

[Seath]

Today I hit:

mirage>pixie legover>butterfly>ss pickup>dimwalk

symposium mirage bsos and then another like six 2adds and maybe a 3 add in there too.

ripwalk bsos

set a new drill record for inside pickups at 6
set a new drill record for alternating clippers at 9 (crazy eh!!?!)

also hit atomic legover and smear bsos
also butterfly>ss butterfly>butterfly>ss butterfly

[Seath]

uh that ripwalk bsos should be dimwalk bsos.. I still cant hit ripwalk

I also forgot to add i did butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>pdx mirage twice

[mosher]

YES!

GO SEATH GO!

SHRED SESH SOON!

[Seath]

Today, I had crazy long strings outa nowhere

some highlights of today.. at least what I can remember:

dimwalk>pdx illusion>double switchover

smear>dimwalk>whirl

symp mirage bsos

clipset ducking osis

parkwalk for the first time
magellan for the first time
both of those only strong side

clipset zulu clipper

diving pickup>ducking butterfly>whirl

whirl>whirl>ss butterfly>ss butterfly

[Seath]

Oh I forgot to mention, the previous post is from a sesh today with Matt Larocque and three of his friends at cegep college in Gatineau Quebec and it was fun, cegep has alot of really nice looking girls for sure.

My game is coming along so much more smoothly ever since worlds, shit's just falling into place now. And im going to kingston later this week to shred with Mosher, just gotta find out which day will be prime for the shrisit (shrisit = shred visit, use it, it's gold). This week is turning out to be huge for me!

[Seath]

Just got back from Kingston last night, I was shredding with Tom thursday evening and we each hit an ass load of new shit!

My memory sucks but I'll try to remember what I hit:

smudge both sides
tap bsos
parkwalk bsos
magellan both sides
refraction and far refraction on my strong side
barfly roll off my foot!
mirage on the rocks
I even did a couple strong side rakes
atomic ss butterfly (any cool name?)

dimwalk>pdx illusion>double switchover
butterfly> osis>outside far legover>osis> far refraction
diving osis>far refraction
plo>plo
pixie pickup>pixie pickup

new record for mirage>legover repeat drill - 14 contacts
standing record for butterfly>pdx mirage repeat drill - 6 contacts
standing record for alternating clipper drill - 9

I can't really remember what else, or other strings, mosher help me out!
Im going to clean up my kitchen and then try to smash these drill records

[Colin]

Atomic same butterfly = tapdown

Awesome stuff man. Onterio is becomming the new Czech Republic. Or maybe the new Finland.

Either way, it's exploding. So many young players either open level or approaching it quickly. Good work guys.

[mosher]

Oh man, we shredded so hard and hit so much new stuff.

It's really too bad (not really) that we were so drugged up or perhaps we could remember more of what we busted.

Either way it was SO much fun having you at my place man.

I will have to find my way up to Ottawa for some more MAX HEIN SHRED!

[Seath]

So I'm going to write about the folks I play with but aren't on modified

I didn't really drill at all today, but I did convince my buddy to come outside and kick, his name is Steve. Steve is like the pro hacky sacker hehe, me and him played hacky sack all through high school and college. He's got crazy control but no footbag training! He's been hearing, and seeing, about my progression but he's been a little late to get on the footbag.. ball, or bag or whatever.

Slowly but surely he's coming along though, in the last two weeks he's been practicing mirages and legovers, but he still doesn't have lavers, he's procrastinating about buying them so in the mean time he's kicking with crappy vans skate shoes. I pester him constantly about buying lavers.

Anyways, we kicked today, I gave him some good tips on his mirages and how he was shifting his weight between his two feet and I really noticed an improvement in his mirages, and so did he, he got all stoked about footbag just a little more. Still no sign of Stevo getting lavers soon though, I suppose I'll keep the blog updated.



Theres this other guy I kick with from time to time, He's been at it for about 5 months now, he's got the lavers and the mr. sandbags and he's obsessed with footbag so it's just a matter of time. His name is Dan Wax, he's a 20 year old soccer player and at the moment he just hit is first datw, he's drilling far legovers and osiseses. I'm trying to get him to start frequenting modified but he hasn't really caught onto it yet.

He's stoked about getting footage too so there very well could be some video of him soon, who knows.


The other guy I play with, some of you know already, Matt Laroque, is from Gatineau, in quebec. He's about a 20 minute drive from where I live. He's been playing for about two years now. He checks modified out from time to time to see the videos and such but doesn't post at all, I want to try to convince him to start a blog, that would get him talking for sure.

I seshed with him the other day. Wednesday I think. I drove out to his school and shred for about four hours while he was on break from class and to my suprise when I arrived at the school, Matt was playing with three other guys who definitely had some footbag practice. I was blown away to realize that here is a circle of four shredders all within twenty minutes of my house! It was pretty crazy, before I know it we may be able to get all these people together for quite the Ottawa session.

Tomorrow (Monday) I'm going to be having a session with Dan and Matt, I'll tell ya what everyone hit.