Ben Skaggs

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 22 May 2005 22:59

I have a difital camera video of Brian from two years ago hitting parkwalk>diving clip>ripwalk...so I'm pretty sure it will work.

And hell yeah he's getting good! Between Ben, me, and the newbs (who will all be blogging soon, watch out for it) footbag in Vegas is going off the hook. Just wait til the video.

And btw, I went to Evan's today, made nice, talked to his mom who didn't know her son hadn't been playing, and perhaps we will see him soon. We can only hope.

Ben and I are having a sick session tomorrow, check for details!

Peace,
Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 23 May 2005 15:57

Today was a great session. Loren, John, and I played. John only shredded with us for about 45 min. Loren and I played for 3 and 1/2 hours. It's so great having both clippers.

I hit some nice runs, but we mostly drilled.

4 pdx whirls
pdx torque x2 and flip pdx torque in the same run
barfly > barfly (My barflys were so easy today, but when I do my strongside barflys some tendon in my right foot gets caught and it hurts bad.)
mobius bsos in a run
18 ripwalks!!!

Footbag =

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 23 May 2005 23:57

Ben wrote:Footbag =

This is the best quote I've ever seen on the forum.

Rock on!

Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 24 May 2005 18:16

Today was a short session with Steve. It was pretty windy and I couldn't really get any good stuff going. I worked on my flip pdx whirl a lot. It was making me very frustrated.

My legs were feeling pretty weak from yesterdays session. So I couldn't get a good flow going. Oh well tomorrow should be better.

Only highlight would be 12 flipside whirls.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 24 May 2005 18:40

just read your whole blog and all I have to say is damn. You hit moves that I can only dream of and you've been playing for half the time. Same with EvanG. Where does loren find all these prodigys? Keep it up, I can't wait to see what the future holds for you!

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 24 May 2005 22:19

I went through a lot of crappy unmotivated kickers at first, but finding Ben and Evan was PERFECT. And Steve Andrew and Jeff seem like they will bring similar results. And I have the most dedicated new shredita in the country under my wing, and although she hasn't even been playing a month, I bet ya'll 'll be talking about her soon.

Thanks though Kevin

Peace,
Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 24 May 2005 22:43

Thanks Kevin that means a lot to me.

Loren has talked about you guys in Montana a lot. He always talks about how cool you guys are. I can't wait to meet you all at a competition some time.

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 24 May 2005 23:02

They'll have to come to a VEGAS JAM... i just have to get some dates together and get to work and make it happen. You guys are welcome here any time though.

Peace,
Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 25 May 2005 14:15

Hi!

Just had a 2 hour 30 minute session by myself. I had already planned out my seesion last night. I wanted to work on inspinning osii both sides, whirl > anything spinning, blur > dimwalk > repeat, and my Sick 1/3.

I accomplished all of these and then some.

Highlights:

warmup: legover > mirage > repeat x 18.5 = 74 contacts
4 pdx whirls
inspinning osii both sides
blur > dimwalk > repeat x 1.5
whirl > gyro clip > repeat x 2
symp. whirl > gyro clip > repeat
Sick 1 trick both sides
Sick 3: 5 > 5 > 5 fearless baby!

That's all.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 25 May 2005 14:47

ps whirl>spinning whirl>???

nice blog, you could say you kickass

professor · Post by **professor** » 25 May 2005 16:08

I was going to start my combo with a spinning whirl, but decided it would be better to go with something else. Although you are half right, there is a PS Whirl in the combo.

Thanks for the encouragement.

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 25 May 2005 19:27

ooh, I wonder what the sick one is...

Props on the 555, you rock

Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 25 May 2005 21:29

I wonder...

professor · Post by **professor** » 26 May 2005 16:19

Today my body was pretty sore and beat up from yesterday, so I decided to do some light impact stuff, no PS Whirls or double down stuff today. I worked on my worst 2 fundamental elements. Drifter and Atomic sets.

I only did one drill today:

drifter > osis > osis > repeat

All of these I did both sides:

legbeater > pdx mirage
tap > legbeater
atomsmasher
tapping? rooted toe stall
gyro illusioning rooted toe stall
spinning miraging rooted toe stall
rake > inspinning osis
ducking pdx illusioning rooted toe stall
ducking pdx miraging rooted toe stall

Also:

12 gyro clippers

That's all for today, resting tomorrow so I'll be ready for Saturday.

professor · Post by **professor** » 29 May 2005 07:39

Saturday I had an awesome time. I was shredding hard. I was doing runs that had mostly 4 and 5 add tricks. I was busting PS Whirls, Blurry Whirls, and Tomahawks mid run, easy. I hit a downtime rev. swirl for the first time and a downtime twirl.

I also played 4 square for my first time and I never was interested in playing before, but when I first played I was hooked. It's the sweetest thing aside from freestyle, but what's awesome is you can also freestyle while you play 4 square so you get the best of both worlds.

I'm planning of having a session with Steve tomorrow and we are going to bust phat!

professor · Post by **professor** » 30 May 2005 23:34

I had a 1 hour and 45 minute session today. It was really hot in my garage, I thought I was going to pass out for a while there. It also didn't help that it was 11:00 pm either.

Highlights (not the magazine):
7 spinning butterflys both sides
diving clipper > ducking clipper > repeat x6
11 ducking butterflys
2 spinning osis freeze
spinning osis > inspinning osis both sides
14 flipside whirls
torque > butterfly > repeat x4
stepping clipper > ripwalk > repeat
5 zulu clippers

2 smears both sides ( I added this so everyone can make fun of my horrible toe tricks. Maybe some insults will help motivate me to improve my toe tricks. )

Also on Saturday I forgot to put:
diving butterfly > ducking butterfly > repeat x4

professor · Post by **professor** » 01 Jun 2005 13:15

Mwahahahaha! It works, it really works! I'm downloading the first video onto my computer as I type. There is going to be a lot of editing to be done, but the important thing is that it is working!

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 01 Jun 2005 14:18

professor wrote: 2 smears both sides (I added this so everyone can make fun of my horrible toe tricks. Maybe some insults will help motivate me to improve my toe tricks.)

insult! insult!

professor · Post by **professor** » 01 Jun 2005 14:28

Thank you!!!

I am so angry that you would insult me like that!!!

I now have to show you up and get awesome at toe tricks!!!

stva · Post by **stva** » 01 Jun 2005 15:47

dude....bad news, I can't have a session on friday. My school has graduation and I got to be there for it. sorry aboot that, looks like we'll have to wait till saturday.