2nd Freestyle Reality Filming Event

[Senor Grommet]

Seconded. I got to meet Maraxus and Luis for the first time! They were awesome, both as people and as shredders. I got to see a whole shitload of people I hadnt seen in ages (Richie, Brad, Reile, Loren, Mike etc.) which was super awesome as well. The level of shred at this infoirmal jam was crazy. There were four BAP members there, mad numbers of guiltless players, and some up and comers too. Ive never seen so may goats and horses at a shred event!

[QuantumBalance]

Oh my god! The best weekend of my life!!!!!

I have to do so much homework so I can't describe it. But in a nutshell:

I noticed that when Lon sleeps he breathes in and out at the same time (almost).

Everyone is in love with Emily (cuz shes so amazing).

I FELL DOWN A MOUNTAIN. It happened in slow motion. I didn't know if I would survive, but when I when I hit the ground, I was okay. AND I WAS HOLDING CHAD's camera!! And it survived.... me falling down the mountain.

A single misstatement from Justin Council changed the course of HISTORY!.. in a positive manner.

I made a great desicion that made me stronger.

I have become the best film maker in footbag (eat it ellis!).

LOL SO HAPPY.. more later

[Moxie]

Sam,

Thanks so much for having us all over. Thank your mother for having us all too, please. What an awesome weekend. The first filming weekend was great, and this one was unbeatable.

From seeing some clips from it which are already done, and seeing the filming being done I can say for sure that this movie is going to be fantastic. (Chris rocks.)
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Emily Kulczyk

"What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being." --George B. Leonard

[QuantumBalance]

gonna resize luis

[brian relly]

Luis!!

[ShredOnLawn]

An epic Event with nearly 2 dozen Great Players.

Loren Baum hit Squeese set Ducking tricks.

I hit 7 Superfly's.

Eric Reille hit Fairy Far Symple Blender

Emily hit her first Ducking Clipper.

Luis Monhollon hit many links with Curve and a bunch of smooth drills new to him.

Sam directed many scenes with great success.

No broken bones or sprained ankles or major injuries that I know of occured during this get together.

Brad Nelson hit 69 BSOS on Friday at the Beach session wiht Chad, Reile, Brian, Luis & I.

Sam hit a bunch of Double Ducking Clippers in the same session on sunday. BSOS!!!

Loren Baum hit Atomic Curve I think. NEW MOVE if he did.

Brian Fournier hit the best Symposium Flury EVER!

I can't think of anything else right this second, but man, it was great fun.

[ShredOnLawn]

$5 YOUR MOM

What's your address?

Paypal?

I'll send it ASAP.

You should have mentioned this in person while we were all there.

[Maraxus]

You forgot that you and I ate a whole pizza!!!!!!!










Oh yeah, 902

[ninjo]

Sam,
Thanks for being such an awesome friend.This past weekend was deffinatly one of the best times of my life.

So many amazingly fun things happend.I cant even come close to typing them all.

I saw the ocean for the very first time ever! it was so amazing,I just could'nt fathom it.

Shredded with Chad first time ever at the beach.He's super cool and super nice,and deffinatly one of my favorite players of all time.

Bryan Fournier took me,Brad,Lon,and Erik to a Thai restuarant and I had some of the best food ever!!!

Super fun session with Emily and Loren.We were doing all kinds of drills.I love drills. We got like 20 to 30 hacks, we were all totaly in the zone.MAN i love hackysack!

Jeremy Mirken hit Whirring swirl IN MY FACE!!!

Met Richie first time ever,he's awesome.

Lon changed my life with some of his ducking runs. I learned so much good stuff from him.Another favorite player and super cool to hang with.

Sam, thank your mom for letting us all stay there.
Thank You , Thank You , Thank You!!!

Can't wait to watch Freestyle Reality,It's gonna be great.

I'll try and think of more later.

[The Actual Sized E]

I woke up at around 7am every morning, trashed my legs, fell in a pile of shit, caught the flu, and missed Brad's 69 bsos string cause Lon pulled a Traumeel on me. In other words: best weekend I've had in a long time

[FootbagginBum]

@ Eric: Man, I wish we could describe the rest of our fun; I bet Luis would have some funny shit to say about it.

@ Luis: What about the trees man; that climbin was the shit!

@ Lon: Damn right I hit atomic curve, but you might want to explain that curve is original legeater; lets hope that doesn't cause problems.

@ Sam: You're right man. (I'll leave it up to the imagination to figure out which statement I'm refering too)

After I make my blog entry, I will edit it in it here, but until then, lets just say it was the best non worlds event I could ever imagine, and very probably the best weekend.

Bum's Blog Entry

HOLY SHIZNIT THAT WEEKEND WAS OFF THE HOOK, I TELL YOU WHEN I SAY IT!! BETTER THAN THE SHRED SYMPOSIUM!!

Where to begin...I think this post is gonna kill me because I usually type to much and now I've got more to say than ever.

First, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH SAM, FOR EVERYTHING! YOU'RE THE MAN!

Now for a quick timeline from this perspective:

I tried and tried to get there on Friday, but got shit done, got a cool ride, and arrived Saturday at about 2:30 after going to Penny lane to find out everyone was up in the mountains. Mike (Taber, founder of the Zombies, my first teacher, and my ride to the event) was all pissed at how far up this road we had to go, and then we had to drive straight up a dirt road that he thought was wrong to the top of this mountain, but once we got there, he thought it was the coolest place he'd ever been and walked around for hours. Anyway, so I jump out of the car and see Lon's big ole smile and new the weekend was gonna rock. I greet everyone I know, meet Ted and Jeremy's girlfriend (ugh, why'd I go and forget her name), and re introduce myself to Blackjack, who I came to realize was as awesome of a guy as a shredder. I jumped straight into shreddin since everyone else had been going for hours and got some decent stuff out, but even if I hadn't, playing with Lon is always just heaven. Even when it's just full hacks. (Highlights of what I hit at the bottom) Luis is our next Lon, and the first person to hack drunken style as his default (everything smooth and plantless, except the rare shuffle contacts which blow you away cause you don't expect them; he says he's gonna encorporate more, but meanwhile I'm going from fours and fives back to threes to look like him). Chris is always a pleasure to play with cause he's so unique in style, and so positive and energetic to be around, to bad he doesn't live here n e more. It was great to see Reile kicking again, I think we've inspired him to start anew. Overall though, the session was sickness. That night we went to get Pizza and went back to Sams, where I crazily decided to start shredding again and got Luis and Chad to join in, even though I was already hurtin. Did some cool stuff, and Sam had to make me stop at 1:30am. Next morning (like, 7AM) we all got up and went to cool spot number two which didn't have too much shred, but Luis and I competed for the world record of "curve"s, aka original legeater. I did two (the record) and then he did three (the newer official record). Then I went and became ONE WITH NATURE. There was this tree that grew up parallel to the ground about 6 feet from it, and then got higher. I couldn't climb the tree I wanted to yet, so I tried and failed to get passed the paralell part of this one, and then realized I could lay down on the trunk completely balanced. I got totally comfortable and relaxed, with the only sounds being the multitude of birds, the slight wind in the trees, and the beautiful trickle of the stream beside me. The only things in view were the green leaves and the scattered blue behind. And the temperature was perfect. I reached a total Zen extacy state and was loving it until some mexican kids had to come running and screaming to the spot right next to me (even the they had the whole stream) so soon I got off and joined Luis now that we could climb the super tree. He got all the way to the top, and I was at least two stories up, and we both found places to lay down and enjoy ourselves once again, how perfect. Then, as some of the group went to awesome spot number three (of which I'll only get to appreciate when I see the movie) The rest of us went to shred at the botanical gardens with my famous shred beats. It was good fun working with Mirken, and eventually it dwindled to just Luis, Emily and I for about 2 hours of painfully enjoyable shred. Emily was off the hook busting every drill we could give her, I and I was doing as Lon and Luis suggested and working Butterfly>pdx mirage>osis repeat for as long as I could. Then, after we were dead tired, the rest of what was left of the group came back. I got to re warm up and shred hard with my music with Fournier, something I had been long awaiting and enjoyed to the max. We were hitting every beat of the music and my runs were nice and long, which is my weakness in shred. We went back to Sam's place and said goodbye to Lon and Emily, where Reile and I stayed up half the night and had a bonding type of time we'll never forget. He is definitely on the list of my close footbag homies now. Woke up early in the morning for my only day of filming, which went superbly I must say, although not what I expected. The trip was sadly over, and after a few great goodbyes and being officially made honorary OOPS, Chris want kind enough to drive me to the greyhound, help me kill the hour, AND buy me lunch, at the stupidest McDonalds either of us had ever been to. What a great guy. The weekend was so great...I would be a profession poopsmith for a living if I was promised an event of this caliber every 6 months, lol.

Trick highlights:

I hit and believe I evented atomic curve (toe>op out>op in>(simple) op in>same toe.

Spinning vetus/wauspin...which is like a firefly drag caught on your toe.

Unveiled my pinch set phoenix

Pixie barrage>pixie torque>nuclear drop

Busted bap drill sooner that anyone could, and dominated rubberman.

Hit atomic merlin into a sick run (I mean, anything starting with a 7 is sick, but this was like 15 contacts strong guiltless after)

And my favorite combo of the event, asked for by Luis and now one of my favorite drill:

Stepping mirage>tapdown>blur>atomsmasher>legbeater> repeat all into a great run. This felt so awesome. If somehow we can ask the community to find out if this has been done, I would like permission to name this the Baumerman drill.

Thanks for the shoes and the granny bags Lon Miss ya already I can't wait to see you all again, your all welcome to stay at my house free whenever, as long as you promise to shred hard I think I have more to say, but its late...so thanks to everyone for your part in this awesome adventure. We'll thankfully get to remember it for a lifetime when the film is finished.

Sorry for the length, but I censored my self and warned you, but thanks for reading it anyway. As Chris said, "Long live California [footbag]"

Peace to all, especially the shredders.
Bum