Stuff n Junk w/ Crowley

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 30 Jun 2005 12:03

Man, my shredding yesterday sucked again. It was pretty good at first, though. I'm just glad I hit tapping mirage and pdx mirage. I want to try pdx illusion again sometime. I'll do that once I hit illusion more often. I really want to hit my damn parkwalk! I think I'm also going to start drilling my flip dimwalk some more, too.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 01 Jul 2005 10:24

kicked for a half hour yesterday with evan, jere, and seth. my legs were super sore from kicking the day before so I went tiltless. tried to emulate luis mullhollan's (sp?) bubbas with super styley swoopy illusions and now my groin kills! had to physically lift my left leg into the car in order to get inside today. some pretty long tiltless strings though trying every combination possible that I could think of whilst shredding. one that felt cool included string>fairy>fairy>fairy>toe whirl>near legover>toe set ss rev swirl>osis>string

non-footbag related:

had a crazy dream. an ice age was forming and I was on the streets with my family and friends. we were covered in fur coats and layers when an icy front moved in. my family and friends all died and I was seconds from death when I suddenly woke up to find my cat pissing on a pair of my shorts on the ground!!!!!

i get paid today. YAY!

bought some more mate today. hadn't had it in quite awhile. my mateine(sp?) tolerance got really low but now i feel great and am at work. get off at 5:30. the earliest I get off in all six days a week of working

edit: mateine is the chemical isomer of caffeine and exists in that form in the tea yerba mate

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 01 Jul 2005 12:04

Kevin, when I got to the part when your cat pissed on your shorts, I laughed my ass off. Maybe you should kick him in the nads. Uh huh huh.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 01 Jul 2005 13:32

no nads....neutered

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 02 Jul 2005 12:02

I HATE FUCKING WIND! Wind pisses me off so bad, especially when I'm kicking. I guess someone's house burned down when we were kicking today when the fire engine drove by. Sucks for them. I stayed for a little bit after the rest of MFA went to Taco del Sol and I kicked around for a bit and hit a couple of clean zulu clippers from toe, then started to suck at it. Worked on parkwalk some more, hit dimwalk (again!), worked on symp mirage > corpse grinder > pdx mirage for a bit. The hardest part seems to be the damn symp mirage (for some odd reason, I'm starting to suck goat balls at symp mirage). The corpse grinder > pdx mirage is working fine. Worked on leggy illusions some more. Now my chili is done, so I'm going to go eat it and have a beer.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 03 Jul 2005 15:18

kicked yesterday morning. was super windy and the only heavy bag we have is an unbroken-in 32. did alright. i've been avoiding tripless for the past few months and working basics but tried to start some strings with lots of 4's (lots for me anyway). had one that started ripwalk>ripwalk>blur>dimwalk>blur>paradon>dyno>string. my most since around the end of winter/beginning of spring (16 consecutive ripwalks) Linked drifter>pdx whirl for the first time. it felt pretty cool. hit flip fear for the first time shortly followed by strong fear in the same string. a couple ps whirls midstring.

kicked last night as well. drilled flip pixie. got bsos dimwalk, bsos magellan, bsos smear, bsos parkwalk, and bsos plo. mostly worked on dimwalk>pdx mirage>rpt. HenryG inspired me to try pixie refraction and I got both pixie ss refractions and opp refractions. worked on spins. got both spinning osii. my strong spin is my weak gyro and vice versa. I don't get it

it bothers me.

non-footbag related:
looked at houses with my buddy nick yesterday. we are hopefully going to get one mid-august. some of those places were complete shit holes. one was 8x20 ft and had a dirt yard that was being watered

there's a really nice one right by where i live now,. hopefully we can get it. here's hoping.

peace

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 03 Jul 2005 15:23

Kicked some drunken hack last night at a party about a block and a half from my former apartment. I had a really funny case of deja vu when this one chick I met asked me if I did footbag to get chicks (some chick asked us if we did it at the People's Market yesterday morning

) Of course, I said yes. Hey, it worked. Also kicked some hack with Kevin today at Pattee when we were waiting for a couple of lady friends to show up (typically, they didn't). It kinda sucked barefoot.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 03 Jul 2005 15:31

Blackend wrote:I had a really funny case of deja vu when this one chick I met asked me if I did footbag to get chicks (some chick asked us if we did it at the People's Market yesterday morning )

ohhh yeah,

i need to elaborate a little bit on this: we were kicking at the people's market and this group of six or so girls were watching us the whole time. one of them walked up and asked if we did this to get chicks. we said no but here's the best part. she then walked off to her friends and yelled "Ha! you owe me five bucks!"

HG · Post by HG » 03 Jul 2005 16:14

i am glad i inspired you to hit pixie refraction.

A really fun move is blurry refraction. Like a ripwalk but with a tiny twist at the end. And stepping ss refraction is cool. I have a challenge for you AND me. Wanna race to it?

blurry refraction>stepping ss refraction repeat!

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 03 Jul 2005 18:16

Sporatical_Distractions wrote:
i need to elaborate a little bit on this: we were kicking at the people's market and this group of six or so girls were watching us the whole time. one of them walked up and asked if we did this to get chicks. we said no but here's the best part. she then walked off to her friends and yelled "Ha! you owe me five bucks!"

This blog is a real fun read. Good shit Montana!

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 04 Jul 2005 18:58

HenryG wrote:i am glad i inspired you to hit pixie refraction.

A really fun move is blurry refraction. Like a ripwalk but with a tiny twist at the end. And stepping ss refraction is cool. I have a challenge for you AND me. Wanna race to it?

blurry refraction>stepping ss refraction repeat!

challenge accepted. prolly won't kick till wednesday so i'll have to get it first go to beat you

p.s. also hit both ducking and diving refractions thanks to your inspiration

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 05 Jul 2005 15:23

kicked some last night. was coming down pretty hard and was gonna eat some ice cream before i hit the hay. i told myself that i had to hit a spinning clipper on each side before I could eat my ice cream. took about five minutes to hit one on my right side but ended up doing 5 in a row from hand catches. took about ffifteen minutes to hit one on my left. I didn't want to end on that so I ended up working on spinning clippers for about forty minutes. ate my ice cream and went to bed around 4:00am

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 05 Jul 2005 19:44

how could I forget to talk about shooting fireworks off of sole stalls last night!

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 06 Jul 2005 13:17

kicked at out-to-lunch today. was really messing around with bops. i was just trying to minimize the windows and use as little leg movemen as possible. I tried keeping my thighs pretty close together or dangling my arms or doing osis without going just on the toe of the support leg at all. It was pretty fun. messed around with lots of atomic opp clippers. those feel great. started lots of strings with ripwalk>sidewalk>rpt. tried blur>torque>ps whirl a lot but was struggling with ps whirl out of the torque. Regaining my old skills at tripless. started a string with sidewalk>ripwalk>rpt>blur>dimwalk>blur>legbeater>torque>drop on blurry whirl. Am shooting for torque>blurry whirl>rpt. haven't pulled it off yet and prolly won't for a couple months. hit spinning clipper mid string on my flip!!!YAY!!!!

jere hit spinning whirl for the first time and stepping ss whirl. his toe shuffle is off the hook!!!

forgot to try henryg's challenge. DAMNIT!!!

looking forward to portland. need to play more for it.

QuantumBalance · Post by **QuantumBalance** » 06 Jul 2005 14:04

nice combos! i was surprised when u said u hit a spinning clipper tho - i guess u focus more on dexes?

one time at worlds i was SOOO tired but still wanted to shred so all i did was spinning and gyro clippers for 3 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i got better at them that day

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 06 Jul 2005 14:13

just really started trying spins within this last month. need more downtime components. i can shuffle fine and duck fine, but I suck at spins. hopefully that will change by the end of the summer

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 09 Jul 2005 13:39

kicked at the people's market today. All of MFA sucked ass today until about the last hour or so. drilled the hell out of warriors today. They felt great. The majority of my strings had at least one set of bsos warriors. almost got through the ducking one touch drill. The hardest part is ducking from toe instead of clipper. I don't know why. it seems like pixie ducking is easier than toe ducking sometimes. kept missing the last move on diving butter>ducking butter>rpt. And I did it so the last move was my strong warrior

went home from the session and drilled flip fairy, flip pixie, dlo, drifter, ducking bops, flip whirl

hilights:
-tons of ducks and dives (mostly warriors)
-a really deep down double down (had so much time after the 2nd dex)
-one string w/ bsos clipper torque, bsos toe torque, and almost bsos pdx torque (rolled off the osis on the last pdx torque)
-one string w/ bsos toe and clipper drifters (I usually suck at drifters)
-some midstring bsos tapdowns and bsos legbeaters
-bops, bops, and more bops
-double over down midstring (usually only hit it to start a string)
-meant to do a toe whirl and did toe symple rev whirl (felt styley)

non-related news:
going to take a hiatus from drinking and smoking till portland next week, and then continue the hiatus after portland. Didn't realize how used to hard Alc. i've gotten (was chugging from bottles last night, never done that before). gonna start lap swimming to work the upper body so i'm not such a puny man

tonight: taking it easy. already took a long soak in the bathtub and gonna take a nap, watch some movies, do some yoga, and go to bed.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 10 Jul 2005 09:53

no footbag is in this entry

last night was too crazy to start my hiatus so i'll start it today. i was chilling w/ 4 friends and we decided to drink on the roof because we'd gotten drunk everywhere else in my buddy's house

he pulled his volvo a little out of the garage and we put an empty keg on top of it for a stepping ladder and carried five chairs to place on his roof. that was pretty sketchy cause if you lean back too far you'll roll down the roof and mess yourself up

while drinking we saw a guy that attatched metal plates to the bottom of his shoes and was hanging on to the open door of a truck burling down the street at about 30-35 with his shoes sliding on the ground creating mass sparks

we then got more beer and created a drunk pusher (a wooden T that is used to push drunk people out of the house. It had rifle-esque handles too). some more people came over and we climbed back on the roof for an hour or so. we decided to go down and use knives to assist us getting fucked up and wandered down the middle of the street in a huge drunken posse all the way to the grocery store for more beer yelling and falling all over. Eventually when I finally made it home I took ten steps into the door before I passed out on my parents kitchen table for a few hours

but hey, at least I didn't pass out before 10:30 this time

that was a good note to start my weeklong sobriety on.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 11 Jul 2005 12:43

messed around for 15-20 minutes:
-phoenix from a heel stall
-legbeater from a heel stall
-spinning clipper bsos (yay)
-ducking clipper>rev. swirl>rpt
-kept footing toe set ss twirl but no dice
-lots of pogo blurs/blizzards

found out that if I huck my footbag at the ground really hard it bounces up and I can do moves out of it (stole the idea from an older james randall vid)
-warrior bs
-lots of strong dod's, flip still feels akward as hell. I need to drill it.
-torque bs

was wearing long basketball shorts and I rolled up the waist band to play but didn't unroll it until two hours later when I showered. When I unrolled it, a fatty hobo spider fell out and ran across the bathroom floor. I HATE SPIDERS!! I wonder how long he was in there

am kicking tonight with jere after work. don't get off till 10:30 so the session won't start till 11 or 11:30. I hope work doesn't wear me out

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 12 Jul 2005 10:19

kicked with jere last night in his living room. hit eggbeater bs when just messing around b4 the shred even started (yay, rarely hit it bs in one session). It turned into a drill session which was sweet. came sooo close to whirl war 1 so many times but no go. this was the best flip whirl day for me ever. hit legbeater out of heel stall again. lots of ducks and warriors. practiced ducking clip> div clip> rpt a bunch. hit ducking clipper>spinning clipper bsos for the first time (not b2b though). got clean dexes on nuclear set bs. had some of my longest strings. flip pixie started out well and died later on. hit barfly more than any other session. came ridiculously close to fairy ss and fairy opp eggbeaters the majority of attempts. hit gyro clipper bsos. had lots of midstring atomic moves. crispy blender>pdx blender rolled off my heel. finished the session with a 25 -30 contact boppy run with ducks and dives.

jere started a string with sumo

where did that come from

his double overs are really fast and tight. he tried his first 5>5 (phoenix>sumo) but didn't get it.