Hey guys, today was a pretty sweet day! My friend Kyle picked Dane and I up at around 1:50 and we went down to shred with some CIC guys. When we got there, I was a little disappointed because there were only 3 people there and I was expecting many more to show up. Once we started shredding though, it was all good again!
The first thing we did when we got there (we shredded inside a mall!) was stretch and that was the first time that I really stretched since the tournament over winter break. I hadn't really kicked much since the tournament either, so today was a real treat.
Well, the first thing that happened to me after stretching was that I hurt myself (again dammit!). I was still in my pants and I was just kicking the bag around and went for a flip clipper (a freakin' flipside clipper!!!!) and I kinda kicked myself, landed hard on my bad ankle, and went down to the ground!!
It sucked because I had to sit out for about 10-15 minutes to stretch out my ankle and get the pain to stop. Although my day started out pretty badly, it got a lot better. The CIC guys that were there were Jon Nagela, Kamil (a.k.a. quadgun), and Tom (I don't know his last name, sorry). These guys were real fun to hang out with. We started out just kicking a bag around in a circle without really doing any tricks and then, slowly, we went on to do some tiltless stuff. We had two circle with 3 people in each one. The circle I was in first was Tom, Jon, and me. This was a great circle and soon, Kamil joined us because Kyle and Dane started playing HORSE (one of them does a trick and if the other doesn't hit the same trick, he gets a letter, and so on).
Tom was just totally mackin' it out!! He is sooooo freakin' good. All his moves look so nice and smooth too, not choppy or anything. Also, he somehow saves many of his moves. I don't know how he does it but it would look like he would drop the bag after trying an awesomely hard move, and somehow he would save it and continue on with his run. The cool thing was that even when he had to save the bag from dropping, he would hit the move he was going for still without breaking his style!!
Then, later on, Jon tried to hit fairy muted swirling dragon and he was really close to hitting it. That was also one of the coolest moves I saw today. I got the hang of drifters a lot better today and they became more consistent. Then, Tom and Kamil got me to try a double legover and I almost had it on my first try. I kept on trying (both sides of course
) and eventually hit it both sides. So, I was really happy about learning a new move today. Kamil was bustin' out with some nice, smooth tiltless runs with some 3 adds in them. His knee was still hurting him so he didn't try anything too hard (although he did try pixie double legover!).
Dane and Kyle were doing pretty good today too. Kyle was butin' out with dimwalks and getting really close to reverse whirls. He tried a pixie reverse whirl and came really close to it (he tried this before but I was surprised he was this close to hitting it because he hadn't kicked in a while). Also, Kyle had a couple of tiltless combos, so it was pretty cool. And, in my opinion, Kyle has a really smooth style, so he was just doing real nice today with his tiltless combos. Dane had some nice long tiltless/guiltless runs so it was pretty sweet watching his combos. Once he gets his flipside better, he will be really awesome! Once again, I need to reiterate how freakin' amazing Tom is at footbag. His runs were so long and filled with hard tricks, it was soo cool. I think I want to take my camcorder with me the next time and make a video on Tom!!
We got him to try pixie double legover (smog?) and he nailed it in about 3 tries!! Later on, he was trying flurry and hard stuff like that and was really close to them too. His runs had all sorts of moves including paradons, barrages (bsos most of the time), torques, atomsmashers, smears, a lot of double dexterities like double switchovers and double atws, and just so many hard moves. It was great watching Tom's runs.
So, at around 4:40, Jon, Tom, and Kamil said their goodbyes and left. Dane, Kyle, and I were still kicking when the others left because we were in the middle of an awesome game of HORSE. After that, my friends and I left and we stopped by Sam Ash because one of my guitar strings snapped yesterday while I was playing it (man, that felt good!!) and I needed new strings.
So, overall, today was wicked fun and I hope to have an awesome shred session like this again real soon!!
I'm seriously thinking of taking my camcorder along with me the next time to make a CIC video. That would be pretty cool, I guess. Hope you guys enjoyed reading this!
But anyways, it was cool of you to post all the happenings at the tournament. You're a good shredder, and we should definitely get together some time for a session. Eric, Reid, and I might be kicking with Scott Davidson some time next week, and I'll send you a message with all the details.
Hopefully I'll be able to shred again sometime soon. Later.
