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[HG]

Well, i injured myself. I injured BOTH knees and my left ankle. I know why also. I have great insoles in my old lavers, and i tried to just warmup in my new ones without switching them out, and that is what hurt me. Too fast of a change and no support in stiff lavers injured me.

So today, after 3 days of rest (much needed), I shredded. It was probably one of the best sessions i have ever had, fresh legs, fresh ideas, freshly washed bags.

So i warmup with my hermey, it is coming along so nice!!! Thanks James, i was wrong to think it wasnt going to. I warmup with about 100 alternating kicks, and them some tiltless shred with clippers and legovers and mirages and easystuff.

So im talking to Cole while doing this, and we just had a quick chat, and we both got to shredding.

Within 10 minutes of warming up i hit Assassin>Butterfly, first time i sealed assassin to anything but handcatch. I also hit Phoenix>Paradox mirage>run of about 6 contacts

Before my session, i watched Late Night Jam, it motivates me so much. It also inspired me to try new things. I learned Xbody rakes both sides! I also hit ducking x body rake, pixie x body rake and xbody rake>smear


I then hit 9 infinities(record ) And around 20-25 alternating clippers(record)

Then i just went all out shred. My longest string was 22 contacts

My average string was around 8-10


This was a great day for shred, as i played for 2.5 hours.


This was by far the most excited i was to play in a long time, i started to not appreciate what i was doing, but my injury saved me.


I am still doing well even though im shredding alone every session, ive only played with other people once in madison. I hope in the summer my parents get away from their thoughts about : Your going to get kidnapped, raped, stolen, beaten, etc. I tell them that everyone is nice and cool, ,but they dont believe me. I guess this is what it is like to have nazi leaders.


See ya later

[HG]

I thought i would give a player profile of myself. I hope you enjoy it


Name: Agent Henry "The Hammer" Griese
Age: 15 and...... 3 months
Height: 4 foot 10 inches
Weight: 79 pounds
Muscle Mass: 60 pounds
Bone Mass: 19 pounds

(joking of course..... just made those up)

Bag(s):Green Hexes and Orange pents abshire
Light Yellow Hexes and Dark Blue pents Lonn Bag
Purple and Maroon pents and orange pents Hermey

Shoes: Green/White lavers, about 6 months old
Mods: Canvas taken out of inside, outside, and toe. Brocka Mod
Cut off 2 eyelets. Ripped out insoles and put in nice supportive ones. Got shorter laces. Colored the sides with green sharpie.

Pair #2: Red lavers. Brand new from Christmas
Mods: None. Tried to cut out canvas, but its not loose enough yet. I laced them my way, and I just walk around in them. I am spreading out the toe walls right now by wedging a floppy disk in between them. (Thanks for the idea Stephen)


Style of Play:

Control:On easy moves i have good control, but in a string i flail my arms and move around a lot!

Level Of play: Strong tiltless, usually 3's 4's and the occasional 5 thrown into strings


I love footbag

[brian relly]

Any time. :) Rob Fuller gave me that tip a long time ago, when he still lived in Denver. And when he still played footbag.

[HG]

yea....


footed pixie whirl

footed atomic ss whirl

came close to blurry whirl


i really dont think that my comments on this board are necessary, and i make far too much posts and waste far too much shredding time on this damned forum.


furthermore, i think because of a few dumb posts i made, many peoples opinions of me (valuable, though not necessary) have dropped.

Sorry to everyone, i will not be on here much anymore.

I think i will only come back to update my blog, ,for my own purposes. I just want to record my progress.


Thanks for the friendships. Hope to shred with everyone here someday.

[HG]

I was pretty pissed off the last couple of days.


Apologies to Andrew Grant and anyone else i yelled at.


I also hit phoenix>whirl last night

[LittleBoy footbag]

so long Henry....happy shreds

[hacksterbator]

Apologies to Andrew Grant and anyone else i yelled at.

man, don't even worry about it. it's not a big deal. i was rather unimpressed with the blender comment, but the germany thing wasn't said with any hostility at all. when you're reading text you can add in any voice you want, and i know what it's like when some one comments online when you're having a bad day. it becomes a personal attack. any way, don't punk out on the forum, or feel nervous about posting and i'm not trying to "fuck with your shit". keep kicking, and having fun.

p.s. pheonix> whirl is dope! flipside? how about pheonix> pdx whirl?

[HG]

The blender comment was extremely rude, and i know no one here REALLY knows me.


I knew i was joking, and didnt think about what everyone else would think. I am especially sorry to Hania because i said such a retarded thing. I was in no way saying anything about you. It was pun, and i said


"Jim you may want to rephrase that to this _______________"

My flip pixies are not high enough for pixie, but sure, Phoenix>pdx whirl sounds very doable

[Posi-Cole]

Props on all your new stuff Henry.

And please don't stop posting less on the forums - stick around. Really, unless I'm missing something, you didn't even say anything TOO rude in that post your pic thread. It's not worth leaving the forum over.

Take care Henry. Keep shredding.

[HG]

These last few nights have been SO fun!

So me and 3 friends built a huge kwinzey, because i read about them on modified. we build one with 1 entrance and we can all fit in very comfortably. So we come up with the idea to throw snowballs at cars.

While digging, we hit a soft spot and it collapsed on us! This rocked, because we had to just push right out of it.


So now we have a big circular wall in our yard. We decide to use that as our fort. Later in the night we find 2 more snowbanks, and hollow those out. So its dark, and we have little caves to throw snowballs from!

This truck approaches, and my friend mikey, chucks this GIGANTIC ice chunk at it! We immediately jump into our caves to hide. We hear sliding tires, and then we see his red lights go on, HE IS BACKING UP!

He gets out, and we can hear his radio now. He walks around, walks ON TOP OF our cave, and cant find us!!!!!!!!!!!


So he gets back in his car and says "Dont care to show your face huh?!?!"

And then he burns rubber and drives away.






The next night


We decided to move from our hiding spot right by our house, and go to the woods.


We find this awesome spot in the woods where there is a "window" to throw shit through the trees. So we build this tiny wall, and the first car we see we PUMMELED with snowballs. All four of us hit it!


It came back later to search for us, it shined its lights into the woods, and we immediately dropped into the foot thick snow.

Then, there is this black honda, with rap blaring and the bass all the way up. We determine that they are probably high schoolers, so we should own them with snow.


We hit their car with snowballs, and the speed away. Later they come back and shine their lights into the woods like the first car! At this point our adrenaline was pumping. We dropped down into our fort and they couldnt see us. later, they came back!!!!!!!

We didnt know they were coming until they were right on top of us. They tried to sneak up in their car, because it was dark out they turned off their lights! My friend luckily spotted them, so we droppedinto the snow once again. After they got passed us, we started to walk farther into the woods for more coverage, and then we realized, ,they had turned around!!!

So we hurry up and just fall right into the snow again. And then we realized that their windows were open so they could hear if we moved. Luckily no one moved, and once they got passed us again, yelled

"THROW ANOTHER ONE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!"

after this we proceeded to run our fucking legs off to the frozen lake, and we ran from the lake to my friends house.

I have never had such an adrenaline rush in my tiny town!

[LittleBoy footbag]

HOLY SHIT@ Henry, you remind me of the good ol days when I didn't care for school you lucky shit. I wish I had this much time and that much fucking snow..........you're a really lucky guy......now, I can't even school footbag for a while because we have a battle of the bands coming up soon and I have to learn Hendrix!! Keep that ass safe from thos high-schoolers!!! Holy shit, that was the best non-footbag blog I've read!!

[HG]

ive been schooling osises and butterflies lately. I think i need great bails and then i can move on from this place. But whatever, I made a video that no one is watching so ill post it in here so i remember.


http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/3720

Its just intermediate stuff. Some cool stuff . I end a run with DLO (first) Hit tap both sides, phoenix, osises.... Just fun stuff.


Thanks

[HG]

My game has been slipping the past few weeks. I have almost no motivation to play, yet i still do. So i guess i have some motivation. I think its because i enjoy playing. This week i have played for almost 2 hours a day, because me, Mike Hansen, and Ted Anderson are playing saturday.

Yesterday


I shredded for about a half hour in the morning just to loosen/wake up. Nothing special. Infinities, bops, etc.

Later in the day i put my kicks on and play for an hour and 10 minutes.


New tricks


Fairy Butterfly
Fear
Flip legbeater
Blur both sides.


This was a great session. I hit fairy butterfly first try! I was amazed. I left my toe walls on these shoes, and since i have such small feet, i have a tiny toe box. This makes for pixie sets to be impossible. I have not hit a pixie trick since i have made the transition from old to new lavers. i fear that i will have no pixie set until my feet grow!



Today


Today i did the same routine as yesterday. Warmup in the morning, play for a little over an hour in the afternoon.

i worked on infinities again, because i dont like the way i do them, and my record is only 11.

After infinities i drilled spinning.

new tricks


Spinning butterfly
[footed]Spinning ducking clipper[/footed]

Ripwalks and blurs all over the place too. Stepping is getting good.


I am so pumped for saturday shred!!!!! Ted and Mike you best be ready!

[zachatree]

i cant pixie hardly at all hen, but i think that maybe your just used to doing the set with ur wall mod... maybe u should just try and drill them till you get the nack of them 8l



till then, ill try makeing a "foot growing potion" for you

[HG]

Well today i had 3 sessions. First one was like, 10 minutes to loosen up for the day. I tend to do these kind of sessions a lot.


2nd was about 30 minutes until my knee started to hurt. I didnt hit much because of the pain in my knee. I have to wear a brace now



3rd session was so SWEET!


First off, i decided to slip on the old lavers. Boy do i love these things. First thing i did was drill toe stalls because these ones dont have toe walls, and my new ones do. So after i got used to the toes (very small compared to new ones. They are a size smaller than my new ones) i started hardcore shredding.

My stepping starting on my left leg clipper was really on today. So i drilled my other stepping too. By about 10 minutes into the session i was a stepping machine!

Then i started to talk to Nick Laroche on MSN. He had no idea who i was My name on MSN is HenryG, and he asks who i am. I say HenryG. I got the feeling he was pissed off So i ask him about whirls, and if he has any tips. He tells me to catch it more behind me than normal. So i try this and immediately hit a flipside whirl! I proceed to drill whirls. And then i get this CA-RAZY idea to hit ripwalk>whirl>blur. Strong ripwalk, weak whirl and weak blur.

After about 15 minutes of trying this i hit it. I was definitely stoked.

After that i hit whirl>infinity>rpt. First time i hit whirl bsos!


And since i was wearing my awesome old lavers without toe walls, i started to pixie again. Boy does it feel good. I used to be a pixie god, but now i have strayed from the zen path of pixies. I hit some pixie based strings. And i also footed smog again. This trick keeps eluding me



On a side note, me and my friends were back into building snow forts this week. We got about 14 inches of snow on...... saturday. We shoveled my friends driveway and piled all the snow into one big snowback. It was about 30 feet long and 4 feet tall. We tunneled ALL THE WAY THROUGH! So we had a 30 foot long, 4 foot tall cave, and we threw snowballs at cars again. I love the snow.

I hope you enjoy my blog

[Laroche]

It was just writing your email address at the top, not your msn name, for some reason.

Good job on whirl.

[B_Man]

Awesome job Henry! You're doing so well!

Why, I remember back in the ole days when you first started...

[HG]

Thanks for the comments everybody!


Well, I rested for a day, then shredded today. It was a GREAT SESSION!


I started off stretching for about 2 minutes, i dont seem to have to stretch much. Then i went into small tiltless stuff. It went great, i havent done many toe tricks lately, and warming up today with them went well. Its like, when i rest, i get BETTER! I love footbag. I could hit every toe trick i have been able to, and with greater ease then before, even though i havent used them in ages.

My butterflies on both sides are very improved. I consistently get around 9 infinities when i do them. This isnt very good, but if i neeeed 1 or 2 in a string i know i can count on them.

I worked on stepping and whirls again tonight. I hit lots of whirls both sides. It was awesome. I completely figured whirl out, and last week i couldnt even foot it 1/10 times.

So after whirls i moved on to stepping. This was very fun. I hit some new flip stepping moves. I guess not new, but they are getting more consistent. Then i moved to doing both sides. My strong stepping side is my weak(er) clipper set, is that normal? Well i hit some ripwalks, blurs, etc. Then i had the idea, from watching Champions league so long, and seeing Ryan hit frontside blur, (pogo pdx mirage). So i get the idea to hit some pogo stuff. I hit frontside ripwalk, and came close to frontside blur! This was great. Thats my.....1......2..........3..................4.............5th 5 add


footbag rocks!!!!!!!!!!!

[mosher]

Props on all your footbag progress Henry!

Make sure you don't kill any people with your snowballery.

I love snowforts!!

[HG]

I made it my goal to hit 20 infinities long ago, when the challenge thread came about. This week i have been drilling butterflies and pdx mirage, and a bit of drifters.


Drifters


Drifters are probably the coolest move i can do. They feel so smooth when i hit them, and they look so cool. Everyone i shredded with saturday drove me to hit them, because they were hitting them so fluidly and nice.


Butterflies

My butterflies are so easy and nice. I get at least 12 infinities every time i try.

I owned my infinity record tonight. It was 16, now its 26!!!!! woot thats a challenge down the drain.

Pdx mirage

These are so easy, yet i have trouble with them. Its not that i cant hit them, its that when i do drills like butter>pdx mirage>rpt I cant get the back end of it controlled. I could easily fix this, and I will. I need to focus on pivoting, and then holding the toe stall a little longer than I normally do. I usually just go super fast in and out of pdxmirages because i know them so well, but i need to relax and actually think about what im doing.


Saturday's Session

I went up to Madison to shred with Ted, Mike, and Rockey. I was so pumped for this shred. And i could stay for 2 hours. It was going to be great. I had never shredded with Rockey before, but i had shredded with Ted and Mike in the summer.

So i get to the Memorial Union, where Ted said to meet them. I walk around for like, 20 minutes trying to find them. He said memorial union right? So i keep walking around with my mom and older brother. (They were up in madison to just walk around and by my brother new shoes) We were just about to leave when my brother spotted footbag movements across the courtyard. We were by a window and we saw a guy with a bandana bobbing up and down. I started sprinting outside, and once i get close to where they were i slowed down, as to not seem too anxious.

Since I got there late, they were already warmed up, so i just stretched for about 2 minutes and jumped into the circle. I did horribly for the first 40 minutes or so, but the others were awesome.

Rockey has such smooth style. He has a huge repetoir (sp?) of illusion tricks, and his drifters were oh so nice. He had 4 or 5 five adds in one run! He was so good. And i had never played with him before, so i was really really amazed.

Mike is a fun guy to be around. He knows what hes talking about in any subject. He has improved a lot since last time i played with him, even though he says he hasnt played in a while. He was doing some fairy things, spinning, ducking, all really styley too. He hit Fairy ducking butterfly first try!

Ted is really really good. He has some awesome shuffle with atomics and stepping and pixie and everything. He said he was rusty but it didnt really show. He had some drifter moves, (as well as mike) and i was just dying to try them. Everyone was really really good and i would love to play with them again.

I have onlyplayed with other people 2 times... in my whole footbag career.

I was doing OK after the first 40 minutes of the session. I had really unoriginal strings because i was so gitty and jumpy, so i didnt like that. I hit some fairy butterflies, and after many demonstrations of the move, i tried toe drifter. I hit toe drifter first try strong side, and 2nd try flipside. Then Ted hit some torques, and i had to try also. I footed it first try. (ive hit it before but i didnt drill it because i couldnt even get close flipside.)
Then i did some whirls after some advice from everyone. My spinning and ducking was really off. They gave me tips on those too, but i was so off that the tips didnt really kick in til later that day in my solo session





Yesterday i hit drifter bsos. And i hit p drifter on both sides.








Today was awesome. I got my infinity record (16) up to 26. And i got lots of drilling in.


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