15 May 2017

Long time no see fam. I typed up a big post but then modified told me to relog and I lost it. Oh well. In short: grad school has eaten up all my time; it's finally summer.

A few highlights:

-BSOS far butterfly
-fairy cloud (new for me)


Bag placement was poor.

2 January 2017 Practiced again today. Still rusty. Drilled: Atw and orbits bs. Clipper bs. Tiltless strings Highlights: -BSOS'd Far Butterfly -19 string tiltless, including a Far butterfly > op far butterfly > op Far butterfly just to see if I could. Fair degree of bs-ness, can do better though. Alm...

26 December 2016 Practiced for the first time in a long time today (over three months). Per advice, I took it easy for the most part. -50 toe op toe (1st try, hopefully not as rusty as I thought I'd be) -worked on some ATW/orbits and my flipside was dismal. -clipper practice. Ss drill, op drill, cli...

Hey everyone. I'm still alive. No footbag to speak of though because of how busy I am. It's killing me and I can't wait for a break so I can play.

In preparation for actually having some free time for once, what's the best way to get back into form?

20 Sept 2016 Thanks Nick! Unfortunately I haven't the time to focus on footbag in any serious way right now but I'm hoping that will change as I adjust to grad school. Practiced today for the first time in awhile. Drills: -ATW and Orbits bs -ss clipper bs -clipper op clipper (best 11). -tiltless str...

8 September 2016 Haven't practiced in over a week, which I think may be the norm now that grad school has picked up. Pretty unfortunate. Today I drilled: -ss clipper -op clipper (best 13) -far legover on flipside -strings (best 11) -clipper near mirage BSOS drill -mirage -clipper near pickup BSOS dr...

Happy almost birthday!

30 August 2016 Practiced today in ridiculous temperature and humidity. 93 F plus humidity plus blacktop is easily over 105F effective temp. Rough. Anyways, I have a new bag from Karibou Footbags so I spent part of practice trying to break it in. Love the colors as they match my soccer team. Drills: ...

25 August 2016 Thanks everyone for the responses! @bob- inspirational; thank you. Practiced a little bit today just chasing short highlights for the collab thingy. Didn't do very well since I wasn't very disciplined. Oh well. I'm going to be really strapped for time over the next ten months and I'm ...

Definitely a cool idea. I can see the name and city thing below each player being a great way to show the abundance of the sport.

I'll try to film one myself though I'll be limited to my phone camera unless I can swing something somehow.

Sometimes I find it useful to force myself to start a string with x > y > z and then freestyle. That way I'm drilling the concepts without the monotony of x > x > x etc. I still drill of course, but I feel like this is a decent compromise.

Congrats on your milestone, I think you've shown how committed you are and getting some good improvements. Will you go to Worlds next year? That's something cool to aim towards. Thanks. Means a lot. Portland, right? I'd love to go and I think it would actually be doable time-wise and finance-wise. ...

21 August 2016 Classes are about to start. Boo. Practiced today at the park. Drills: - ss clipper bs - op clipper - ss op clipper (16 contacts best, had to catch the bag due to bad balance. Seems to be a theme lately that shortens my strings/drills) - infinity op infinity - legover op legover - stro...

Been spreading the sport left and right lately. Was at a picnic with the graduate director and all the graduate students and got to show what footbag was all about. The professors kids really got into it. Future gatesmans and vaseks and Honza's I'm sure. My demonstration was done completely cold and...

18 August 2016 Been a little while since my last practice. Maybe a week or so. I was really sore from playing soccer and moving into my new apartment so I haven't been able to play. The new parking lot is not level so I may need to go to the park from now on. Drills: -ss clipper bs -op clipper -stri...

Your repost on the freestyle footbag Instagram has over 100 likes! Props!

Anz, what are the chances of you including this in your app? I looked into Swift for coding iOS apps and I just don't have the time. We'll see tho

I might actually try to write a super basic iPhone app. We'll see.here's what I'm thinking: Practice log: user presses a button to signify start of session. Adds up time played. User map: drops a pin in maps at every place you've shredded Footbag map: live updated map that shows where others are pla...

Abandoned places are awesome. Cool pics. Did you go through that door?

Also enjoyed the first drop in that song.

No practice this weekend but I did spread the sport a lot this past week. Talked about it during grad school orientation to about 15 people, then played at the park and had a few people's attention, and finally played some soccer in Cincinnati with the FC Cincinnati supporters group I'm a part of. O...