Kyle's footblog

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 17 Aug 2015 10:25

Kylescook wrote:I'll give spinal tap a try sometime,

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 17 Aug 2015 13:20

Derek wrote:Please release a more full length video

I'm not sure when I'll have time to spend that many hours at the computer editing. Get on Instagram though, lots of footbag players are on there, its so convenient to just snip 15 second clips together when I have 5 minutes.

Edit: in fact heres a few links,
Far symp whip>Pdx Torque
Part one of a run
Part two of the same run

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 29 Aug 2015 18:21

Fall school semester started on Monday. I'm taking Calc I and Chemistry I. I've cut my work schedule back to 4 days a week so I should still have time to play three days a week and get my homework done. Played for about an hour an a half today. The battery on my phone was close to dead, but I managed to capture a couple of runs.

Ryan_Morris · Post by **Ryan_Morris** » 29 Aug 2015 20:12

Awesome runs. I'm curious: is stepping a "low-energy" trick for you? You make it look effortless and I'd like to emulate that.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 30 Aug 2015 04:43

Stepping has started to take less energy over time but I wouldn't call it effortless. The most helpful thing i've noticed lately with stepping is getting your dex foot back to the ground a quickly as possible so you can get to the next dex faster. other than that I would say drill stepping ss clipper.

Add Block · Post by **Add Block** » 30 Aug 2015 06:04

Shred harder! I need more friends in BAP

Nice Tripwalks by the way, I wish mine could look like that. Seems consistent and effortless, but I guess that depends on the amount of tries it took you to get the combo.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 30 Aug 2015 06:18

It took several tries, but it seems the quantum's are turning out to be much easier and more consistent for me than atomic.

On an unrelated note. I was looking over some of my YouTube statistics last night when I realized that 87
-90% of the views I'd had were from a single video and then I remembered that was the only video I'd posted to reddit. My second most watched video was toe blur b2b, which I posted to fb and my footblog here; it reached 67 views. The video I posted to reddit wasn't even my best video and has 800 views. Reddit seems to be an under utilized marketing space. Today i'm posting a link to Joulu-Jupe 3.0 and tracking the view count to see how many it generates over the next few days.
Edit: at the time of posting Joulu-Jupe 3.0 has 4,554 views 74 likes and 0 dislikes.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 02 Sep 2015 05:03

Had a pretty unreal session yesterday. after a nice long warm up I started working on flipside Blur and legbeater. I hit a few rubberman themed drills and combos. Blur>Legbeater>rpt. Blur>atomsmasher>legbeater. near mirage> legbeater>rpt, pdx mirage>atomsmahser. I should be comfortable and relaxed enough with them to hit rubberman through all 6 contacts sometime in the next month. I also hit stepping ducking clipper for the first time yesterday. I managed to Bsos it after only a few more tries. My stepping set is really starting to feel more controlled. Hitting it from osis and torque is hard but ripwalk is an easy one for me now.

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 02 Sep 2015 05:07

Great highlights! Props dude!

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 02 Sep 2015 05:22

Thanks Asmus. Taking footbag seriously might be one of the best decisions i've ever made. Its certainly the most rewarding form of exercise, so much fun.

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 02 Sep 2015 06:00

You are really on the improve! Great stuff!

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Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 07 Sep 2015 13:46

Spent the weekend at the lake of the ozarks with my family and Cory. Shredded for a few hours on Saturday. My legs were pretty sore so I didn't film.

Recent highlights
Went for quantum Whip, bailed to quantum whipping rake (new trick for me)
Quantum Whip BS
Torque>Ripwalk BSOS
Gravedigger (stepping near torque) second time hitting it.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 13 Sep 2015 05:07

I'm pretty sure the worst part of my game is toe stalls. So i'm gonna have a tiltless toe training session next. Quantum is super easy for me, If i have a good toe stall to start out on. But hitting it from any variety of tricks is hard, pixie and atomic are similar. I also want to put a lot of work in on flipside rev whirl as well. In march I hit stepping Near Whip for the first time, it has become one of my favorite and most consistent compound tricks, but i'm not great at stepping out of it, and its much more unfamiliar feeling on flip, so i'd like to iron that out.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 13 Sep 2015 05:15

I watched two hours of footbag on the clock yesterday. I'm expecting another slow day today so I thought i'd leave this playlist here to be easily accessed later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jp9bF0 ... PlrGgaFOI0

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 13 Sep 2015 16:48

As expected it was a slow day at work and they let me go a few hours early. This was good news since it meant time to go the gym before they close.

I often go to the gym and then can't convince myself to leave until i'm unable to walk, the footbag desire just burns too bright. So today I decided to ride my bike to the gym so that I would have to leave with at least enough strength to get home.

After the ~2 mile ride to the gym I ran a mile on the elliptical. This wasn't a normal mile. This was one of the best miles i've run in months. I continuously had to turn the resistance up in order to slow my legs down. It was one of the best exercise "highs" i've ever had.

After a few minutes of warming up with kicks and stalls I worked my way through the following drills 3-4 times
All Basic Legovers (butterflies instead of clipper)
All Basic Illusions (butterflies instead of clipper)
All Basic MIrages (butterflies instead of clipper)
All Basic Pickups (butterflies instead of clipper)

After warming those up I decided to get to work on Quantum. I'm not sure what all the combos were but I know I hit Legover, Illusion, Mirage and Pickup BS near and op (clipper and toe) into some quantum trick . I also hit Quantum near and op Legover, Illusion, Mirage, Pickup, Clipper, Butter, and Whip. The only combo I didn't get on both sides was toe near pickup>Quantum near whip (I managed the single trick on flip but not the combo).
Some of the other combos I had difficulty with but managed to hit once or twice bs were Toe set ss Illusion> Quantum near mirage and Pdx Mirage>Quantum near pickup

After drilling out all those Quantum combos I was pretty tired but hadn't really freestyled much. So I threw together a combo that didn't have quantum it in and bsos'd it before heading home.
Dyno>Ducking Clipper>Spinning Osis

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 14 Sep 2015 13:04

I'll probably have another one of these Quantum based sessions later this week or this weekend; If anyone has any drills or BS combos they want to challenge me to that would be cool.

Add Block · Post by **Add Block** » 14 Sep 2015 14:19

Level 1:

Mirage > Toe Blur > Repeat
Illusion > Toe Blizzard > Repeat
Legover > Quantum Legover > Repeat
Far Legover > Tripwalk > Repeat

Level 2:

Open Mirage > Toe Blur > Repeat
Open Illusion > Toe Blizzard > Repeat
PLO > Quantum Legover > Repeat
Stepping Far Legover > Tripwalk > Repeat

Level 3:

Toe Blur > Quantum Legover > Repeat
Toe Blizzard > Quantum Legover > Repeat
Toe Blur b2b
Toe Blizzard b2b
Slapping Mirage > Toe Blur > Repeat
Slapping Illusion > Toe Blizzard > Repeat
Blubberman with Pdx Mirage instead of Blur
Blizzardman with Pdx Illusion instead of Blizzard
Tripwalk > Near Drifter > Blur > Repeat
Tripwalk > Ducking Clipper > Blizzard > Repeat

Level 4:

Blubberman
Blizzardman
Quantum Silver
Toe Blur b2b x2
Toe Blizzard b2b x2
Toe Blur > Quantum Legover > Repeat x2
Tripwalk > Ripwalk > Blur > Repeat
Quantum Osis BS
Quantum Whirl BS

Level 5:

Blubberman x2
Walkman (Dimwalk > Ripwalk > Blur > Tripwalk > Ripwalk > Blur > Repeat) (12 contacts)
Quantum Drifter BS
Boulderbeater BS
Frenzy BS
Alpine Toe Blur BS
Alpine Tripwalk BS

Level 6:

Frantic Drifter BS
Beta Symposium Quantum Toe Blur
Quantum Grifter

Pick whichever you like. Have fun

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 15 Sep 2015 04:00

Thanks for alll those!
I'll stick with level one this time. My pixies are next on the list so level two will be a good challenge next month.

Add Block · Post by **Add Block** » 15 Sep 2015 05:00

Replace Open with other tricks where needed. Open Mirage can be Eggbeater or DLO and so on.

Kylescook · Post by **Kylescook** » 19 Sep 2015 06:55

Day 2 of quantum drilling. Shredding with Cory and an old friend of his that used to kick tomorrow. Should be dope.

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