@ henry: While andrew and steve ARE sticking with it and doing fabulously, it was actually andrews cousin Jeff who started a month after the other two who hit DATW, and the other two aren't even close. Jeff should be officially better than steve and andrew by next weekend if he keeps it up, but I have a feeling Steve and Andrew are going to be working harder now that baseball is over and after today: (yay, I get to talk about today!)
I have been so excited for the past 24 hours beacause I worked as hard as I could to put together an EPIC session, and although half the meeting fell through, it was still stupendous beyond vegas's history (aside from the official events).
First of all: EVAN CAME!!! (we kinda had to drag him, but he enjoyed the day very much and was with me for 5 hours after the 4.5 hour sesh)
Second, Ben was finally healed! at least mostly; he was both sided and very good.
Now, even though there were 14 people who blew me off, and the film student couldn't make it to film it, we had
15 people in attendance including 3 first timers and 4 people never around anymore (5 if you count Evan).
Attendee's:
Me, Ben, Evan, Shawn, Jeff, Steve, Andrew, Mike, Noe, Chris (1st), Travis (1st), and Kalie (1st). And, my mom had come to check it out (more on why in a sec) and kicked for about 25 minutes (she might have hit it twice once too) and had a blast (she did it to help me encourage the other girl and show her she was doing well, what a good sport).
We played net for the first time in at least a year (and steve and andrew did really well, and the other newbs liked it too) and boy did Shawn miss it. And, for any of you who know about my shred mp3 cds, I compiled all the music together to make the best one yet (over 3.5 hours of PERFECT beats, like, I hit every beat to every song every time I had the bag, almost)
And, RED BULL made an appearance (two really hot red bull girls in fact) (hence my mom coming) and we got tons of free product and talked about some possibilities, and I'm sure the executive guy I've been talking to will make it down in the next few weeks (WOO. HOO. nuff said)
About the newbs:
Chris also works for red bull (but didn't help in getting them there, yet...but he's going too) and has played with me on three occasions. He was a seasoned hacker when I met him that was pretty one footed and had the basic stalls all pretty down, and now has clipper pretty good, is more both sided with his kicks, and will soon be dexing (despite being tall and proportionate)
Travis has been trying to make it down since Steve and Andrew came the first time, but this was his first time around us. I was surprised he could clip pretty well (one side), liked his kicks, and loved his inside stalls (both of them). He thought net was pretty cool, and after making sure his dad came down to talk to me when he picked him up, he should be around alot in the future.
Kalie is totally awesome in all ways, and is so stoked on footbag its terrific. In the past she's danced, done gymnastics, and figure skated (what better components for footbag are there? I keep forgetting to ask her if she played soccer or juggled) She had a typical girl start, although (even though she was late and only caught 90 minutes of the session) by the end she had kicked it three times, has the kicking motions good, and was even more stoked. Better yet, her (now former) boyfriend who was going to come didn't.. (even though he's how I know her and I'd like to get him playing too, footbag might be what finally fixes him) so woohoo, lucky me. The only problem is she hits the bong like a pro and I quit smoking... I hope she doesn't pull me in the wrong direction... (I know many of you would say its not the wrong direction, but please don't post it, I need to be sober for a good long while and get really good and learn a bunch...and since this is the only time I've brought up pot on here and the only time I will, I'd like to mention to all you stonies that Vasek's nickname for me [isn't it awesome that he has one] is the czech word for stoner... man worlds was fun...anyway, moving on...[it'll be fun without herb too, I know it])
I hadn't played with Noe, John, or Luke in forever, so it was great to see them, they all did well (especially Noe, he hit pixie ducking symp reverse whirl, which is his dream trick and his first non dada 6 add, and a very styley trick too, go Noe! He was my first official student [padewan] you know.) and it was great to see Shawn get off his ass and do something good for a change. He hit good base four adds a bunch, was mostly guiltless, and did all kinds of pinch and x body pinch shit, it was sick.
Steve, Andrew, and Jeff are doing SOO great. I'm so glad Steve found me. They will change the course of Vegas footbag forever. They'll all be guiltless by the end of the summer. I'll try to get them blogging soon.
(wow, the club seems like the czech image in 2001. A couple old hackers that are pretty good and styley and getting better slowly, a big shredder pushing his friends for the past year and a half (thats me as Ales), a prodigy child that caught up in a year (Evan as vasek), and someone who's close behind who started around the same time and right behind (Ben as Honza). The only thing is I don't know if Evan will surpass me that much now that I'm totally serious again and not smoking (shit, mentioned it already
). And a bunch of really focus newbies. Worlds 06 should be SICK!) [I know this may not be an exact comparison, but it does seem similar doesn't it?]
As for my PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
I played really well, though was definitely not in schooling mode. I hit Bladerunner for the first time finally (atomic eggbeater) on the first try, prefect and easy into a run, hit predator and food proccessor again (which are still hard), hit shooting butterfly and mullet in the same run, lots of blurry whirls, blurriests, s+m smashers, and fusions (first trys in runs), busted my seven add for the fans first try into a great run, and closed the day with a great 33 contact run that ended with 10 tripless into a dropped five add. Got great routine ideas now.
As for the no shows, we should see some of them next week hopefully, and perhaps the guy will film too. Fricken Brian blew me off and DIDN'T EVEN CALL depite him just getting his new Blue milleniums. I want em! There awesome! And so do tons of you guys, I know it! He doesn't deserve em if he is going to miss the biggest session ever ... especially when he promised to be there for at least a bit ... and I worked so hard to get them from Lon for him too, he wouldn't have even known about them if not for me. And he hasn't been playing for months "because he didn't have a good working pair of footbag shoes anymore" and the first time he does, its the biggest session and he MISSES it totally, and doesn't even call. He was doing so well with everything lately too, moving forward and back to the best friend I missed. I don't know what to do about him now. (sorry about the negativity, I probably shouldn't have let it out, and will try not too on here again unless its about Bush or something political, environmental, or socially detrimental and ignored)
But despite all that, the Vegas seen exploded from my energy from the Cali trip and so much back and forth discussion about organization with Steve Goldberg, so thank you to Steve and Sam again, and also Lon and Bryan Fournier...and the others that showed up for freestyle reality. Its been a great week everyone. Thanks for reading. Now time for calc review...
Peace,
Bum
) at worlds. Props again to poland. 
And Net! AND...ANDANDAND...EVAN might come!!!! Yay!!!! 
I'm hopin so hard. Anyone that reads this hope some more for me, please. 
but we haven't been to Finland or prague. In prague, I'm one of the sucky guys remember? The newbs... its hard to take.
I don't know what I did...they're all up on each others lack of nuts! She and I were all cute last week, I'm worried this week the girls will just make out the whole time... oi my head...I don't what to do 
