Into The Shoes Of- Joe "the shredder" Kulacz

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Into The Shoes Of- Joe "the shredder" Kulacz

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Hey everybody ive been here for a while reading these blogs and figuared ide start one.
My name is Joe Kulacz I am 14 years old and live in a small state maine. Ive been freestlyin for about 5 months now and am really happy i searched for " hacky sack tricks" on the net and found all these great sites. I first started out with these 2 circle kickers and was amazed when i saw one do a shoulder stall to an op shoulder stall. I wanted to be like them. So i picked me up a crotced sack and just started kicking it and somtimes if im lucky do a neck stall infront of my idols. It got to the point where i didnt like ti anymore and I tossed my sack somewhere. Then like a half a year to a year later i was like "hmmm i wonder where my old hacky sack is" I looked and looked and finally found it and started up kicking agian. This time i searched the web for tricks and fount atw,mirage,clipper those kind and i was amazed when i saw a atw executed. It got to the point where me and my freind john were the masters of kicking and wanted to take it to the next level. I got the rod lavers before him and also a mr. sandbag. he got the rods and i think instead he got a kanga bead footbag. We started leaning simple tricks and i really dont remeber what happens from there. Well thats my story and i will keep you guys and gal's informed on all my sessions.
~joe~
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Saterday- july 17th 2004

I had a great shred today

Tricks I hit For the first time-
1.dlo both sides
2.Swirl
3.butterfly swirl
Stuff I practiced-
I practiced my threes because im learning them to go guiltess, I also practiced gyro diving and almost got gyro diving clipper. I practiced some titless runs the most i got was like 15 contacts.I just got some shredding shorts and some new insoles so maybe that will help so my shins dont kill from doing symp stuff.I am also working on some 4>4's and seeling my other ones. I am practicing a little string symp mirage>butterfly>blurry legover>dlo and maybe ill get that by the end of next week so i can show it off in massachusets for some of my shredding buds. Well im out been playin all day and am pretty happy with what I accomplished today L8ter
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Hey for now on im gonna post my new tricks I hit or strings on here so all you people can see. Comments and tips appreciated.

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/joesblogvids

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Sunday- July 18th, 2004

Had a pretty good session today

New tricks-

torque

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/joesblogvids

I was practicing my shuffling a great deal of the time an dalmost got 3 ripwalk's in a row. Ive been noticing I can step/blurry higher than I used to so im pleased with that. Not much really happened just lots of schooling. I was going for blurry legover>dlo and had it off my foot once so hopfully maybe tommarrow after work I can try. Yeah work :( hey sombody's gotta do it. Im painting a couple sides of this house and getting paid 350$ so im gonna put what I have now into that and buy I higher quality dv camcorder. I serached around and figuared ide go with
sony dcr-hc30 its a nice little camera and had good reviews so im stoked about gettin it. I also was tryin for ps whirl I came so so so close. grr...... well im out l8ter gator
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After my session today i rested a bit and thought ide play some more. And it was a good idea. I can get my blurry sets ducking heighth and I can hit ripwalk everytime. Then I decided to try to hit a good 3>3 combo ive been tryin to hit stepping op legover>dlo and I hit it!!!!!!!! I was so excited and I got it on vid. Well here it is

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/joesblogvids

~joe~
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Monday- july 19th , 2004

Had a pretty good session today mostley schooled my stepping sets.
No new tricks for me today I was to lazy to try to move my legs where theyve never gone before 8O . Just last week I hit my First 4>4 ripwalk>ripwalk and now i can hit it with ease and am working on trying to get 3 or 4 or them back to back. Also i almost hit ripped warrior when i ducked the bag from the stepping set the bag hit my freakin arm :x what a coincidence. Well im takin a few days off been playing around 3-4 hours a day for 4 days strait my legs are sore gotta rest em up. Well im out.
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tuesday- july 20th , 2004

hey i cant go without a day shredding its a drug sombody help me I need rehab 8O

Hit my first 5 today I am so stoked about that You dont even no. HM... what else schooled stuff starting to add three's to my titless strings gonna go guiltess baby. I think i need to not hit any more big stuff till i get ym game under control. Well im out later.

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I havnt posted on this for a while I thought I would.

ive been working on guiltess stuff as you can see in the new video I posted. Ive been having a lot of fun making videos ill try to get one to you guys and girls once a week. My longest guiltess string is 8 tricks so far and I made a goal to my self that I would get ten by the end of the month. hopfully when i get back shredding ( my legs need rahab) ill work on some guiltess string like spinning clipper>pdx mirage>smear>symp mirage>butterfly>sidewalk>ripwalk>blur>tapdown>blur that would be a super sick string I dunno im dreaming right now but I no soon ill have it. Im savin my pennies to go to funtastics im hoping so I might see some of you down there.

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hey im comeing to meet you thats one the biggest resions im going, ;) get some buffing in there :) sad to hear about your leg.
Hope ya heal up fast an good.
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Hey it's been sooo long since i wrote in my blog and Tom mosher incouraged me to do a write up about Chilly Philly. well here it is

I went with John Fitzmorris. We left on our 10 our drive with his dad on the thursday and stayed over night in conneticute and arrived in philly around 11 am friday. The city is sooo different to me because i live in the woods and its so different than the city. Well anyway we checked in and took a rest in the hotel. Then me and john went and looked for some shredders but NO LUCK. we went back to the hotel room and watched a few movies and then went and on the volly ball courts. Lots of people stopped and watched me and john play. We played about 2 hours then went inside for a rest.

Later after resting we went down to the lobby to see if anyone was there yet and there was this kid and he was like are you here for the footbag tournament and i was like YESSSS A SHREDDER. It was alex strassmen he was like your joe right and hes john from the videos :D hehe i guess videos are good for getting your image out.We talked for a while and john is shy so he just listened to us then we started kicking like we started a little circle right there in the lobby. Nobody cared so it was all good i just did small tiltess in pants and alex had his skateboarding shoes on so he just kicked and stalled and stuff. Then this girl came over and joined out of no where and i busted small tiltess and it was like if i did a triple backflip she was like WOAHHHH. and was like thats awesome and wished me luck in the tournament.

Then ii talked to dave clavens for a sec on alex's phone and alex was trying to get intouch with steve goldberg but no luck then like all of a sudden , soooooooooooo many footbaggers showed up at one time it was SOOOOOOO AWESOME. The rochester crew, steve, ales, felix and the canadian crew it was soooo awesome. Then we followed felix and ales and alex up to there hotel room and they got things squared away. Then a whole bunch of us went out for supper at this place downt he street it was , me, john, ales, felix, steve, alex, emily, erggg i cant remeber the rest the names are on the tip of my tounge. Me and felix had the american wrap and felix had an omelet and steve had ummm i forgot. Then tom mosher and mat cross showed up and they sat down up near the counter and i went and visited and talked to them. Its SOOOOOO cool talking to people in real life that you talk to on the internet all the time.

Then A bunch of us went and hung out at the hotel rooms and kicked inside there just trying tricks and stuff then we went and kicked ohhhhhh yeah there was a shred session going on inside the hotel room in a blank cooridor it was pretty sick. Jorden was busting it big as usual hes sooo good. Umm and some other good shredders were there also. Then I asked tom if i could have some water and he gave me some and i put his brand new expensive like water holder in somone elses back pack. God i felt so dumb . Finally the hotel people kicked all of us out and we found The SUBWAY.

The subway was pretty grubby but they lighting was good and there was a lot of space. Josh B had a boom box for some good tunes. Sooooo many Bap's there is was like so over whelming to watch what you only see in videos. i kinda forgot a lot of this but ill try to remeber. I was shredding like shit the time i was in philly , meh it happens. I kinda forget this stuff so ill move on to day 2 - saterday

DAY 2- SATERDAY - I got up fairly early and went outside to see some of my friends i talk to on the internet streching and warmng up by the volly ball courts. i went and said hi and told then i would be there later so I went back inside and just chilled and waited for people to start getting up . I dont really remeber when everyone started comming to shred. But a lot of them went to this awesome cereal bar called - cereality- pretty cool place. It was really windy out that day but it was still warm so that was good. Me and dave and yax had a little kick in pants and that was pretty fun. Then i shredded for a bit and watched some , So many good circles its sooo awesome seeing all this stuff. Then ellis showed with his footfighter bags. OHHH YEAH . the night before I bought a Blue/ bright orange felix Bag :lol: well anyway I bought one of those footfighter bags it seemed like a lot of people bought them. Then I heard there was some good shred goinng on up above the street so i took a little walk up there and ellis, caleb, ales, and i think dave had a circle and there was some other little ones going on . I shreded there a little bit and then went back down to the volly ball courts and just watched in awe. Then i went back up to the hotel room and ate some chines food and came downstarits and some of the west virginia crew was sitting by the fireplace eating pizza. i went and joined the talk, it was john mahood and some other guys and emily. oh yeah and matt cross. then we just talked to a while and had a good time. And chris dean and zach hoffa showed up and said they were gonna go shred down in the subway I told them ide join them later. Then we just shared out bags. OHH YEAH earlier in the day i bought another felix a green and cow pattern one. That makes 2 :)
Then all of us kinda condregated to the subway and shredded down there.

Me , john and mosher played a game to see who could hit the longest tiltess. Then me and mosher played a game to see who could hit blizzard>dlo first , hehe i got it first . ahhhh yes Tom Mosher is by far the coolest shredder I have ever shredded with His, humor/personality/soo much happiness mixes to gether and gives you a reallly awesome guy. Then I think we Just shredded and stuff. Then it was me, jon shneider, chris dean, josh gayheart and umm some other and we were shredding. Jons tootsie roll tricks are soooooooooo cool. And josh's symp bubba set it so unlreal he had symp bubba butterfly off his foot a bunch and he hadnt played in a long time du to his injury. Then Nick laroche joined us and was busting big and he gave me tips on whirlwind and eveytime he hit it I was like 8O Then like everyone left exept for me and jon and zach we shredded for a bit and then jon left and just me and zach shredded and thought we better get going because two people in a subway in philly isnt very safe.

Its was like 1 am then and zach was staying with me and I didnt have a key but john did and he left a while ago :? and we had to wake up him and his dad to get in. Then we crashed on the floor and here is day 3.

DAY 3, SUNDAY- This place was freaking so hard to find it sucked when me and john and zach were walking a shredder with his parenets picked me and zach up john couldnt fit and he didnt want to come. Then we finally found the place it was soo cool inside like a little stage on top over looking the courts. Then i got warmed up and it was so cool gorden ( flash) came up to me and was like hey joe wanna shred i was like 8O :) yeah sure. So we had a little sesh then we stopped ( my legs were sooooooo sore due to like 10 hours of shred a day) Then lot of people started showing up and shred was getting done. I was in a circle for a little bit. I only hit one new trick that weekend and it was sunday it was simple spinning legover ( simple merkon i think ) it was a really cool feeling trick though. Then I went in a cirlce with cheebs and dave and played with them for a bit then i went and took a break. Then the novice comp started and i forgt how many kicks the wnner got it was in the one hundreds I think it was his very first tournament also and he won it


:D :D :D how exciting for him . Then there was shred in between the comp and the intermediate came. And there was a lot of really good runs bennys and justins were the best i think justin lost by only one add. Then more shred went on inbetween and i was watching felix shred for a bit and saw him hit surging barfly bsos !!!!!!then he was trying like surging quasi and was comming super close 8O Then the open came and I got that all on film. It was really good . Everyone was was really doing good it think dave dropped a couple times same with chris dean and same with ellis and some other but there runs were still really awesome. Chris's and felix went dropless and that was pretty sweet. Felix ended up taking the titlle away from the pope of philly town but theres always next year for him to reclaim his title :D oh yeah I also forgot my tripod at tthe volly ball courts and was hoping sombody would have it there. Then it was time for me to head out. And i said my good byes to everyone and Then i went up to the little stage and said goobye to ales and alex and felix was like i dont think i got to shred with you . so we got a tennis ball and had a little circle witht that AND LISTEN TO THIS . He hit nemesis with the tennis ball in between bounces 8O it was soo cool looking . Then as we were leaving john said he saw matt carring what looked to be my tripod and he went inside so i ran to see if it was and sure enough matt saw my tripod in someones car and they said they found it and matt was like that must be joes and i was like THANKS TOO MUCH . That was a good ending for my journy. Then i said my goobyes once again and we were off back to maine.

Philly 2006 here I COME.
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Man, that was such a good weekend. Thanks for the write up. :-)

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that broght back some really good memorys, thanks alot joe! was a great weekend!


2006 here i come.
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Thanks for writing this - it was a pleasure to read about this tournament.
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That was such a great in depth writeup.

Thanks for taking the time to write all that out, all I had to do was force you! :wink:

Can't wait to shred with you someday soon Joe!
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I had a pretty good shred today

guiltess: 10-15 contacts

a bunch of symp whirls midstring

and alot of other stuff
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dont lie joe, they will figure you out someday
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joes lies are worth lieing about tho ;)
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Im a fake i have a imposer who looks just like me

well ive noticed a considerbly jump in my guiltess like its 20 cotnacts and such i almost hit ps whirl and blurry whirl in same run , jorden moir is my coach and has been pushing me to school my flip so thats what ive been doing. My mom told me i couldnt go to shredmonton jam and i found some tickets for 475 round trip so you people will probaly see me there and i will tear it up like jaws , rawrrrrr :D
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I havnt posted here in forever so I figuared ide start posting here again.

I had a good shred today , Davids new video got me really pumped to shred , so I started just doing bops and such , I got some nice guiltess runs ,

New stuff:

- blur>legbeater>ripwalk rpt.
- spinal tap
- sooo close to rubberman , I didnt get the last legbeater
- fog footed bs
- bedwetter footed one side


SHREDMONTON is next week , I leave next wednesday sooo 5 more days WOOT , I will be sure to get some sick footage.
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footjoe wrote:I havnt posted here in forever so I figuared ide start posting here again.

I had a good shred today , Davids new video got me really pumped to shred , so I started just doing bops and such , I got some nice guiltess runs ,

New stuff:

- blur>legbeater>ripwalk rpt.
- spinal tap
- sooo close to rubberman , I didnt get the last legbeater
- fog footed bs
- bedwetter footed one side


SHREDMONTON is next week , I leave next wednesday sooo 5 more days WOOT , I will be sure to get some sick footage.

HOWWWWWW...the time you've played to the stuff you hit makes no sense!!! Props! I think the only thing on there i've come close to is fog one side footed. Half rubberman...geez, keep going. You'd definatly surpassed me in skill, and I was hoping the day would never come :p Awesome job.
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