Pawel's journal - be strong, LIVESTRONG

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 05 Jun 2005 14:37

Pawel, your English is dfinitely getting better! I mean, I can read what you say and though it is obvious that English is not your first language I can certainly understand what it is you are conveying. No worries!

That first picture of your bag is sooooooo goooooooooood!! I didn't know it was there because I was talking with Joe Kulacz about Pokemon (haha) and when I minimized his window there it was. I was almost ready to reach out and touch it but alas, I can not. It looks very good and I hope it treats you well

:)

Take care buddy! Needles are a pain in the ass

:):);)

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 06 Jun 2005 09:42

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

I want to shred so BAD! Grrr...

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

I saw a doctor today. She prescribed me 4 additional injections

So... it will be 14 together... Aua... Ouc... Auch.... Bleh... 5 to left...

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

I'm free from school until the 10th of June... So.... To the end of this week. Doctor gave me a paper for that.

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

Watched Moir Fierce Session... Amazing... I'm pumped for shred even more. This guy is insane... PS Flux? Spyro Diving Symp. Torque? Whirlygig > Spinning Blender > Whirlwind? Beast? No questions...

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

Watched a vid from Vegas too! Loren shreds like a mad! I saw his shred first time on James's vid from CSS6. And I was like "Who this guy is? He shuffles like a wild!". And now he is even better!

SHRED! SHRED! SHERD!

My ass hurts

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

Thx for the comment Byrin!

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

I'm writing down everything what I think about to hit into my training journal. I'm worry that when I'll be allowed to shred there will be so many things to hit... I'll have to split all stuff to some portions.

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

Downloading vid from Vienna. It will pump me even more...

SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!

Need to eat something for dinner.

Later,
Pawel

Ps. I like when somebody is posting in my blog. Feel free to do it.

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 07 Jun 2005 13:38

3 injections left...

Watched a lot footbag videos today.

My ass hurts like mad today. I lied in bed almost whole day. Slept a lot. I hope tomorrow it will be better with it, but... next injections and it can be worse.

Irridate my hip flexors with BIOPTRON Light Therapy System. If you are interested in this thing check www.bioptron.com ... It really helps. "BIOPTRON Light Therapy can act in a natural way by supporting the regenerative and rebalancing capacities of the body and therefore help the body release its own healing potential". I do it twice a day. 10 minutes each hip.

I think tat I'll wash my lavers tomorrow.

Now I'm going to read some book and go sleep...

Good nigt everybody!

Pawel

PS. I'm sayin' "Good Night" because here it's 11:46 PM right now. And don't know hat is the time in you place! So... You can read it as Good morning, Good evening, or whatever!

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 08 Jun 2005 00:42

2 injections left...

I woke up at 7:30 am, ate breakfast, went to clinic for injections.

3rd day of regular irradiation. I'm after todays first BIOPTRON session. I've a plan.

I'll learn some stuff for school today. I don't want to do everything in the weekend.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 08 Jun 2005 13:46

1 injection lefts... Great. Can't wait when I'll be after it.

After the todays 2nd BIOPTRON session. 3rd day of therapy ended succesfully.

I'm going to bed now, and then fall asleep in a few seconds.

Goodnight!

Pawel.

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 09 Jun 2005 02:51

No more injections

I saw a doctor. She said that with my trachea and larynx everything is ok now. She said too that I have to wait 2 weeks before I star training. Ok... I'll wait... 1 week

After todays first BIOPTRON session. 4th therapy day.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 09 Jun 2005 14:42

After todays 2nd BIOPTRON session.

Actually I'm ending my day with this entry. It's 35 minutes past midnight here...

I couldn't not to shred

I have a greate chance. My parents wasn't at home and my sister went to a pub. I was talking about a week off? Forget it... I can't live without shreding.

It was some short session. Just didn't want to lost feeling with bag. It was 1 hours 6 minutes long. I drilled some BOPs almost all the time. Then wanted to hit some links from my goals. I chose the easier. I didn't want to hurt my hips.

Hit:

Ripwalk > Barfly BS - on my flipside hit it first try

Ripwalk > Blender BS

Spinnin Clipper > Ripwalk BS

Ripwalk > Spinning Clipper BS

Parkwalk > Diving Bubba

Parkwalk > Weaving Bubba

Muted Pixie Clip > Butterfly > Sidewalk > Butterfly > Twirl > ...

I'm happy that I played.

Now I'm going sleep.

Goodnight,
Pawel

Ners · Post by **Ners** » 10 Jun 2005 04:29

It's good that the injections are over! You hit some nice links there, I really like Parkwalk > Diving Bubba - that's hard! And stylie at the same time

It's nice to read that your Blenders are coming along too, it's a nice feeling trick.

Pozdrawiam
Szymon Kałwak (Ners)

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 10 Jun 2005 05:39

Thanks Ners.

I'm after 1st BIOPTRON session, and dinner too. I vacuum-cleaned whole flat today too.

I need to borrow some copy-books to check what was in school when I was sick. Need to learn some stuff too. Especially for geography and history lessons.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 11 Jun 2005 14:50

5th and 6th BIOPTRON therapy days ended succesfully.

Ate a lot today. BIIIG breakfast (at around the noon), then dinner 3 hours later, then strawberies, and the a lot of sandwiches at supper. Ate lots of vegetables too.

Watching footbag vids all the time.

I write down every new goal that I only think about.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 12 Jun 2005 13:24

7th day of therapy ended succesful. I'm changing it a bit tomorrow. I will irridate my hips only once a day. And more stretching.

Did some good stretching while I was watching voleyball game on TV. Poland was playing again Serbia & Montenegro. We won 3:1 in sets. Yesterday we could win 3:0, but we fucked things and lost 2:3.

I have to go to school tomorrow.

Regular sessions are closer and closer... I can't wait. I hope that it's worth to wait. It will be HUGE shred when I will be able to play.

Have some plans for summer holidays. All are related with footbag.

I'm going sleep now.

Night!
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 18 Jun 2005 14:08

I didn't post here for long (maybe not so long acctually).

I'm still healing my hips... Maybe not healing... I'm irridating it every day.

I had a session today. I wanted it to be short, nly an hour and a half. But when I start to shred I just can't stop... It's stronger than me... It turned to over 2,5 hours session.

I was playing on two spots. First hour I played on the sport I never used befor. Maybe it's good. But it doesn't have gooo climate...

Then I moved to my favourite spot, and was shredin' for over 1,5 hours there. Nothing special werer hit, but some good runs, which I don't remember.

Only one new trick, but it's good and I'm happy about it.

Paradox Grifter - only one side, no luck with the other one.

And one oal from my long goal list:

Rev. Swirl > Blender - I didn't need many tries.

Next shred on tomorrow.

Later,
Pwel.

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 19 Jun 2005 10:53

19th of June, 2005

I had so sore legs when woke up. I did some long and faithful stretching after breakfast. I wanted to shred today, and I played!

I had some serious pain in my muscles and in my left hip flexor, so I take some pain-killer before shred. I went to spot with bicycle and started to shred.

I was warming up very slowly and carefuly. Some tilts etc. My hip flexor hurt whole session.

I was just doing some random shred. Many BOP's ... I just wasn't able to put some nice run together. There were a few long runs, but they waren't stisfactioning.

I used two tricks more than other. They were flipside Paradon annd Stepping set. I was starting most runs with flipside Paradon.

Some highlights are:

Parkwalk > Symposium Bubba

Symp. Whirl > Blender - I consider it good

Osis > Gyro Mirage > run - nice zoom, I think.

I feel some improvement on Symp. Whirl. Good.

Wanted to hit some new trick. Tried 3 different many times, but couldn't hit any of them. But it isn's so important.

I'm need to get myself in good shape and footbag form before Euros. I have some time.

I don't know if I'll shred tomorrow. Will see how my legs will feel.

Greets,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 21 Jun 2005 10:39

Some greate day after me!

I went to beach with some friends. Some talks, sun bathing, beach-voleyball. And of course, since we were exactly close by my shred spot, SHRED!

It was some light, chilling shred... but the results don't say this ;]

The friends of mine convinced me to shred on the beach (the bottom level of some concret terraces that lead to the beach) Some photos:

These girls are siting on these terraces

Ok.. I wanted to give you more pictures, but I couldn't find any that show good the place I wanted to present for you.

. Yeah... They were a lot ofpeople. The day was really sunny and hot. People were chilling on the beach.. and you know... Girls and boys that went to beach instead to school, same as we did.. So you know... There were few hundreds people, and I in the middle. It was really hot so I didn't need any warmup... only catch the feel with bag. And after a while it was like all these people were looking at me.. hot babes in bikini... yay... What could I do? The only one thing that I can think about is: I have to do well... And ... I afforded it. Fewteen contacts on average. Some long runs.

Hard to say how long I was shreding. I did some shred. Then chilling with friends, then again shred, again chillout and you know. I didn't wrote down any things so I'll write everything from my head.

Run with Paradon bs + Ripwalk bs + Whirl bs + Dimwalk bs + Atomsmasher + Symp. Whirl + DOD + Ducking Clipper bs + Diving Clipper bs + Zulu Clipper + Blur + Blizzard + Rev-up - I suppose that this was the longest run I ever did. Only the tricks I rememer from it are 19 contacts. So if we will add a lot of bails, and aybe some other tricks, it will turn to abou 35, or even longer. I don't consider it the best I ever did, beacuse of lots of bails. I was doing harder combos, I think. The first time I've hit Symp. Whirl midstring.

Muted Pixie Clipper > Muted Diving Clipper > Gyro Pickup > run

Superfly to handcatch two times in a row, and then after few next tries third one... The first time I've hit three Superflies on one session. Before I've hit it only 3 times on 2 different sessions, and now I've hit it three times within about 10 tries... cool

Really cool session, and everything I did was crowd pleasing, so I'm happy.

My hip is in really bad condition again. I iced it and now it's beter. Tomorrow I'm going to not shred, so it will heal better.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 22 Jun 2005 01:19

It's 11 am now. And I think that I'll spend whole day at home.

I got a cold on Sunday, and I have to take a cure. Don't want it to be something more serious. This day will be good for my left hip too.

I feel like I have enough power for left side Superfly, but I don't know if my motoral-coordination in left leg is good enough. I will not try this left side Superfly untl my hip will be 100% healed.

Summer holidays are 100% started, since yesterday... The only thing I have to do is to go to school on Friday for the "end of school-year" ceremony, and to receive my graduation certificate.

The forecast are pretty good for next week. Warmly, and sun... I hope that they're good.

Later,
Pawel

Maraxus · Post by **Maraxus** » 22 Jun 2005 10:08

Wow, really good stuff man. Props on your last session at the beach! You have to agree that they are one of the best spots to shred. Looking forward to your updates, later.

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 23 Jun 2005 08:58

Session today. It was almost on the beach again. I wanted to do some runs first, but they weren't working. I mean, I could get 10-15 easy, but it was so damn hard to do longer. I did something like only 2 abou 20 contacts runs. Shitty.

So I moved to some tricks.

Grifter > Butterfly > run ... First time I hit something out of Grifter. Wanted to hit Griftert in the middle of the run, but couldn't nail it.

Superfly 7 times to a handcatch - I'm getting noticeable better at them. 7 times on one session is more than I have ever hit (6 - 3 before and 3 on last sesh). I want to link them so mad... I wanted to hit it after some short string, but couldn't catch it. I'm at least very close to hit it on almost every attempt. MIDSTRING! MIDSTRING! MINDSTRING! I want it.

I'm not very satisfactioned with this session. It could be better, and it was kind a weird. I think it's because once I was in sun, and after one trick in string I was in shadow. And it's a little bit windy day, and I really dislike the wind (it's hard to live in this city when you hate wind). The air wasn't too warm either. Sometimes I had the feeling of cold...

Tomorrow is the end-of-school-year-ceremony... Then maybe we will make some party. I don't know.

Today, at night is the NBA final's last game. Maybe I'll watch it. I don't know. It's at 2:45 am, local time, so if the alarm-clock will wake me up I'll watch it.

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 25 Jun 2005 09:21

Today in the morning I went to the shred-spot near to my house with a bicycle. I decided to start some new program.

Some people are joging, cycling in the morning, so I decided to shred instea of these.
I don't do usual shred. I do 1 hour BOP shred. This mean that I'm drilling only BOPs(+Pdx. Illusion, because it's the same kind of trick) for 1 hour, and nothing more. I think that this will make my game better.

So today I did this little shred.
- 1 hour drills
- 20 minutes stretching

I wanted to do some shred in afternoon too, but the weather changed to be worse, and it's raining now so no shred at all

The forecasts are good for tomorrow, so I hope that there will be some shred. Of course morning BOP shred will be too.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 26 Jun 2005 01:49

I'm afterh the morning BOP shred.

It was nice. Some sun, but it wasn't too hot. Again it was 1 hour drilling +20 minutes stretching. This stuff gives me a lot energy for whole day.

I set new records on Butterflies and Osises:

30 cons. Butterflies

24 cons. Osis'

Many reps. on different drills.

Some Butterflies with greate style and smoothnes, I think. Doing Butterflies with the style you want to is much harder than when you care only about stalling and setting them...

Some about 30 contacts BOP runs with easy.

Style is getting much better, same as consistency.

Man... It was only the second BOP session, and the effects are so greate. I'm so positive about these sessions, and I'm so happy that I do them. They should take my game to next level, and they're so chillin and fun.

Later,
Pawel

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 26 Jun 2005 12:56

Hmm... Sometime I think: how does good progress look like? Hmm... Now I know

So I went for second session. This was regular shred. It turned to be really good. I wasn't prepared for it...

I planed to go with girl friends to pub, and drink some beer. But they culdn't go, so I went to do some shred!

I meet one friend with his gf. He was training breakdance. Some talks during warm-up... And...

BOOOOMB!
Rotfl!. I was doing over my skills I think. so...

Run 1: This was 2nd run after warmup... about 15 contacts with some variety... Some smear, ripwalk, duckings, bops... and... I finished it with Superfly.. It was pretty controled, but I was so stoked that I wasn't able to continue... tryied to bail to osis, but too late... This was first try of Superfly that day... so... Superfly to finish run first try

Run 2: after drinking some water, using towel i started next run. About 20 contacts run.Many different tricks. Barfly BSOS (first try on two Barflies) with ease and good controll.

Run 3: few runs later. About 20 contacts run started with Phoenix, then Blurriest, and some tricks... I don't remember ... but I liked it...

Run 4: sterted with Blender, then some tricks, some pixie and fairy tricks, some duckings, and ended with Torque. So ... Blender + Torque One run

Run 5: Some short run to handcatch.. Ripwalk BS, Blur BS... with ease, on first try... I just wanted to hit thse two tricks on bs in it and I did it

Now I don't remember anything more about separate runs. I just remember that they were all long. Were going over 20 (I think) with ease.

Symp. Whirl midstring with ease

Ducking Butterfly BS midstring with ease

shuffle runs - that doesn't happen too often when I shred

Hmmm awesome. I was so tired after 30 minutes, because I'm not used to do so many long runs, one after another, in such a short time... But I was just going and doing well...

New tricks:

Fairy Whirl

Blurry whirl BS

I think that my style is much better now. I can do some tricks realy smooth (at least they feel really smooth), and I can do some fun and experiments with style... something like Dylan Fry style on duckign tricks, some different styles with butterflies, and things like that.

This was the best session ever. Acctually... this waas the second best session ever in one week

Ok.. I don't know what to write... I'm so excited

Later,
Pawel