I didn't shred with him, his phone was dying and he forgot shred shorts and all the signs were pointing to no. I should try those stepping clips again soon.
went to mammoth lakes hot springs this past weekend. lots of naked old people :/ but also amazing views of nature and the hot springs healed my legs up very nicely. the stars are incredibly bright there and i even saw 3 shooting stars over the weekend. hot springs and shooting stars, they are magical.
Still focusing on pixies pretty hard though today i took a break from that to just shred. I had an intensely long and dense string, like 125 or so with tons of 5's some 4 sequences, lots of non bop. mobius ->pblend ->mobius like 60 deep. too bad i only filmed for 7 minutes which only caught 3 of my strings today. they were all decent so i will share them:
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Back to the write up!?
Well there were many things that I do not feel the urge to write about because so many other blogs covered it. So I will just be spewing a few things kind of in order:
- routines were amazing. ken and evan are machines. both had the best routines i have seen them do, evan's first round and ken's second. I was happy with my results, this was a good way to practice my routine for worlds next year. I just need to get out of the 2 drop curse!
- circles were also pretty awesome. i played like poop, but that is ok I was shredding super hard that day and pretty exhausted from routines as well. The finals circles were pretty great though, evan had one amazing string and ken had some good ones i remember more-so awesome combos. it was also cool to see dean and greenwood duke it out for 3rd, both had some really nice strings and greenwood had some sick combos.
- party night on saturday was off the hook! I went way harder than I had planned but hey i can't resist jaeger being put in my face.
*The fact that we finished evan's bottle of jaeger without him and then bought another(?) was pretty freaking nasty. on top of that the tequila, oh boy.
*Had some great talks with tons of people, too many to describe
*The 4th floor bathroom was epic. So much coach and drinking and pasta bowls flying and people just hanging out in there after coach without realizing hey we don't need to be in the bathroom anymore. I had a lot of fun in that bathroom this weekend lol.
*Me and Hogan both not remembering the conversation april was confused by...something about flying toes and we were probably just being absurd.
*Did I mention the intense amount of coaches meetings?
*Sleeping next to an awesome person.
-Sunday morning there was a hilarious moment. anton was sitting on the bed and johnny was standing with just next to the bed with a banana... dun dun dun... as johnny peels the banana, anton says he wants it and BOOM! johnny aggressively shoves the banana into antons mouth, except he kind of misses and his finger just ends up sliding right though the banana and straight into anton's mouth. i guess it doesn't sound so funny maybe i was still drunk and high.
-Sunday, i got to finish a few bags for some people and arranged to send some out to others which was nice.
-$50 prize money woot! that's $200 in my last 2 tournaments, niiice. also got some really cool stuff from bruce, including the 3rd place engraving, an nyfa keychain, and a 6 add button. also more experimental templates/panels for bags. he is da man.
-Thanks to chris dean for letting me use his bag for routines. I never come prepared with choice bags which is kind of ironic but i guess i like training with not super juicers.
-Missed saying goodbye to the psu kids, which was sad
but i will see you all again soon!! said goodbye to pretty much everyone else on sunday, hoagie gave me 3 straight coaches tips as he was leaving a very generous way to depart. Sad to see soo many people leave, but awesome times were had with pretty much everyone (a few i didn't get to spend much time with :/ next time)
-sunday night bowling with ken haley barrett derek evan and cassy was fuuun. tequila shots with cassy, how could one go wrong? the actual bowling was fun though i sucked compared to normal, and pool was cool. i am horrible at it but enjoy playing slightly. free donuts mmm. thanks to ken for treating the bowling and planning the whole thing. quite glad we didn't stay in on sunday night.
-derek's pizza struggle was too real. i knew the second he got on his phone to look for pizza on the way back from bowling it was trouble. i felt his pain though we had been talking about pizza since that afternoon and stoked on it. after what seemed to be an endless effort to find a place to order from, the pizza took forever. as you may have read, it arrived like 2 hours late at 3am or something. and on top of that was delivered by a murderer mutha fukka, who had a passed out chick in his pizza car or something weird like that. cassy and i had some serious laughing fits over the matter throughout the night.
-thanks to ted for not getting too upset about coaches meetings, finding us some privacy, and letting us (me evan cassy derek adam, and some net fools) stay an extra night without pay (and i really hardly cleaned anything, sorrry about that!)
-shred house was amazing. nothing beats being around awesome people footbaggers, and the house was full of em' for 2 days!!! just a really cool spot with some memories i will not soon forget.
-monday morning cuddles were great. tried to soak in the cassy time as i knew i would be saying goodbye soon :/
-traveled on over to barretts with derek adam and cassy. evan was helping ted with something and was going to meet us there. he ended being quite late because of a car accident. some crazy shit where they got hit or hit the other person 3x!?!?
-goodbyes to adam, erik chan, his gf, and cassy
. it never hits me at footbag tournaments how much i am going to miss people, and how far away most of them are. just gave all the hugs i could to comfort cassy, lots of good hugs were had
-video games at barretts were funfunfun. he had my favorite multiplayer game of all time (an xbox classic), FUZION FRENZY. i had clearly played too much as a child/teen and conquered the game. also the noodles we ordered hit the spot, mmm food.
-shred at central park was siick. evan and i had some beastly strings, derek had some sick shred as well, and barrett was getting the rust off. evan had one attempt at circling the fountain that was like 3 minutes of slow travel before he did the one where he made it, brutal. many stopped to film and watch, and i had like a minute run that got these british (or something) soccer girls to stop for a while. they tried to freestyle a bit with evan and i, and i managed to get clipper bsos along with some around the worlds stall style. fun. ken and haley joined us at the end of the session. ken, derek and i were too tired to walk so we just chilled while the others did a litttle central park tour. glad i got to hang out with ken on the last 2 days, but not glad i didn't get to shred with him :/
-back to barretts and said goodbye to evan, ken, haley and barrett. it was really cool seeing barrett again though i do not know when i will see him next (at the worst next year!) i hope to see ken soon on one of his business trips and i hope evan will visit the bay area soon (or perhaps i should just plan a vegas weekend eh?)
-Derek and i spent our last night with bruce, i really liked having the trip start and end there i felt like a complete crazy awesome circle. i like circles. bruce ordered us a proper new york pizza from his regular place, mega cheesy style mmmmm. still not as good as steves saturday pizza but that is some next level sheeit.
-Peace out to derek on tuesday, glad to have double cali reppin' - footbag bros for life!
-Sad but peaceful flight home. Thanks everyone for an awesome time in New York City.
Evan had clearly leveled up again, which is freaking crazy cause he was already godly. Nice to see him pretty much literally the day he left for europe and the day he got back to the USA. Shred bros for life.
Stoked to hear that Ripwalks are getting a lot easier for you. Bob Riefer told me that Stepping ss Clipper is the key to high level stepping tricks. I think he was right. It takes a solid stepping set to get it straight enough to hit a ss Clipper from it. A Ripwalk can be rushed/fluked, but Stepping ss Clipper is almost fool-proof. Try consecutive Stepping ss Clippers. That will polish up your Stepping sets, for sure. Good luck dude.
