Allan's Footblog

[Allan]

And this is just a follow up test post written from tapatalk itself ...


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[F[uns]tylin' Eclectic]

Thanks a lot Allan! This is my first tapatalk post btw I digg this

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[F[uns]tylin' Eclectic]

PS.. More videos dude! love your style, have always loved your style.

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[C-Fan]

Thanks for all your work on improving the forums.

Also, love that nuke symp twirl. Very cool trick.

[Outsider]

Thanks for all your work on improving the forums.

Also, love that far symp reverse swirling dragon rake. Very cool trick.

[Asmus]

Sweet video! Very enjoyable to watch and made me wanna shred. Looks like you have a lot of fun when you kick.

[Allan]

Got a call out of the blue today from a social worker who said she knew a kid really interested in footbag, and would pass my information along to him.

First outdoor session! No video. matador > blurry whirl both sides; footed BSOS.

[Allan]

This is an image of where all of the visitors are on the board, as of a few minutes ago



I'll be posting about it in the policies forum at some point soon, but I'm moving the site off of Google Analytics to Piwik ...

[Muffinman]

East Coast represent

[Asmus]

Copenhagen is completely killing it.

[akprice]

finally stumbled on your blog and got to see you rip. love your spinning sets and the ledge work was cool as shit. good stuff man!

[boyle]

There's a big chunk of the world missing. Wonder who the person in Brazil is...

[max]

yeah who took Oz off the map?

[Allan]

Those of you who are seeing the map image cut off just need to refresh your browser window once or twice as you've got an old version of the CSS cached; I added a line to make sure images never go outside the post box anymore. (img {max-width:100%}

Matt & I played last night. I was feeling really good until I tweaked my knee about 15 minutes in I don't think it's serious, but at my age, and after having learned the hard way, I called it a session instead of trying to play through any pain at all. I'm hoping it's just one of those tweaks that hurts for a day or two and then goes away. I've taken a couple ibuprofen this morning, but it still hurts walking down stairs... I'll be fine

I've not been working on the forums much over the past couple of weeks; other pet projects have stolen my interest temporarily. I've got plenty of stuff on my to do list. Hopefully I'll get inspired this weekend.

[Muffinman]

Heal up, Allan

[Allan]

Thanks @Muffinman

The knee is feeling better. I've not played on it yet, but maybe tomorrow.

April's stats:

[Allan]

My new Units:



They're in Los Angeles at the USPS sorting centre and should be here soon I'm stoked.

$130 after shipping. Yikes.

That being said, I've really been liking the Nike LunarGlide 4+ shoes that I've been rocking for the past 10 months or so:



They're super-duper light, and I actually love the instep; because the bottom of the sole has a wider footprint than the top (pyramid), it creates a sort of scoop. The toe-box is just two simple cuts and standard lacing, and it works dreamy for me.

Support-wise, I feel a lot more ... upright ... in these shoes. And bouncy When I first tried them on (Matt got a pair on a lark, and he liked them, so I tried his), it was almost like strapping on my first pair of New Balance CT300's. The very first two strings I did in them felt decent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 7vhk#t=134

But they're a lot lighter than the CT300. As light as you'd expect a modern running shoe to be. My legs almost always feel just fine after playing in them. I used to get terrible shin pain after an hour-long session in Lavers. I still get fatigued (Captain Obvious), but the "feels like its in the bone" aching is a thing of the past

Because they're lighter, they're also not the most durable shoe I've ever shredded; they seem pretty good for indoor use, but now that winter is over and we're back outside, the asphalt is ripping the ball of the sole up pretty quick.

I paid $160 for these suckers (yes, really), but that's when they were the hype new model. I bet they're reasonably priced now. I also bet that they're getting harder to find by the day.

With my last pair of Units, I actually had a bunch of great sessions with the leather intact. I'm thinking that with this pair I'm not going to cut the leather out of these ones at all in an effort to make them last as long as possible. I really, really hate paying so much for shoes that barely last a year. I also have a feeling I'm going to change my mind ... I'm betting the weight will be my reason.

We've not been playing much recently. My knee was a setback, but that's been feeling better for ages. A couple of sessions I didn't record, and one session I only recorded for 20 minutes and didn't get a single good run out of it That's not happened in, like, since ever. Last nights session was pretty cool though; only played for about an hour, but I felt good. DSO > Blur, both sides. Paradox Drifters felt on-point, and I was throwing in paradox legbeater mid-string. Several 50-ish contact runs with a fair amount of BOPs. Toe Blur > Toe Blur mid-string a couple of times ... no video

I've been seeing a lovely new girlfriend (Rachel) and we've been spending a lot of time together, so that's fun

I've been doing a lot of server juggling these days (like server computers, virtually juggling--with this bunch I feel compelled to clarify). A few weeks ago I felt inspired to finally go back to running my own VPS. I stopped running my own show a few years ago, and have lived on a shared hosting account. It's worked. Mostly. But "the cloud" has changed a lot of stuff since I've been "gone," and I've also learned a buttload about server admin (and general gnu/linux). AND modified needs a better home than I've been giving it. And so it's time My new boxes are SSD based and I can easily scale resources. Hopefully modified will soon be running from a dedicated IP with 2GB of RAM and 2 cores, with virtually no other sites on the box taking up resources (just a dozen or so of my low-traffic, mostly static sites). It should be smoking fast and more reliable

As much as I've learned with server admin, there's still a bunch of stuff that I don't know how to do well enough; Email is hard (and I'm not even trying to do anything complicated). As a result, a lot of development on the badges page and props feature has taken a back seat to me learning a bunch of stuff about that. I think it's a lot more important to get the server issue out of the way, so I'm prioritizing it for the time being.

One thing that's holding that all up is that I'm having a really hard time getting Mike Hansen to respond to me. He's in control of the registrar info for modified.in, and I can't get him to log in and transfer it away to me so that I can do stuff with it. It's been, like, 6 months since I asked. It's a longer story than I want to type, but we played chat-tag a couple of weeks ago, so I know he knows I need access. He's just ignoring me It's all good I'm not in any hurry. But I'd really like to be able to get that issue out of the way...

Wow. Epic-ly long post I'm out.

[Allan]

This might be of some use to some of you.

Download YouTube videos to your computer:

http://modified.in/ytdown/

Oh, and as a reminder:

http://modified.in/images/

I'm planning on integrating the image hosting into a button/dialog in the post-create form ...

[Muffinman]

Waaat. Love these last two posts, Allan! Thanks for the life update, detailed shoe review, and crazy work on Modified! Im on my phone now, so i cant check, but these services sound amazing


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[akprice]

yea, cool write up on the nikes. hopefully johnny and tom will get this kickstarter program going and we can finally have a dedicated shoe for footbag. congrats on the new chick as well