Ollie's footblog

Scott · Post by **Scott** » 02 Jun 2005 00:02

Good luck with the Assembly performance,
keep shredding hard Ollie
I might be able to pay you a visit at the end of this year.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 12 Jun 2005 01:51

9/06/05 0:30 I am doing the performance next week. I will train every day from now till then. My fitness is really poor - im not getting enough exercise. I must become fitter and be able to play longer amounts of footbag. I have decided on doing "Axel F" by Crazy frog as my song.
11/06/05 1:00 My session was going pretty unsatisfactorily - until i hit ripwalk back to back! I was doing drills and working on basics. Totally struggling with infinities. Towards the end of the session I just tried a few ripwalks. I hit ripwalk flipside and from that clipper I hit it normally. Very, very clean.

Also made a poem (dont laugh, its for english):
Frustration
Painful exhaustion runs through my legs
Sweat from mental and physical anguish runs down my face
Holding back embarrassing yells that would otherwise resonate through the gym
The bag's destiny the ground... unavoidable
Refuses to land on my feet
as if fleeing from a predator, it rolls away
With my consistant hands i imprison it within a clenched fist
and hurl it towards the gym floor

I feel like giving in...
retiring to my room...
giving up...
I feel pointless in trying to acheive it

I sit down and stretch my inflexible legs
contemplating my next moves
I stand consistently kick the bag with the side of my 1974 Rod Lavers
Then I catch the bag behind my leg, then alternate... once...twice... three times
the bag drops at ten
with the uttering of slight satisfaction I pick the lead filled bag up

I tense my body, from my legs, up, through my back
maintaining strong posture
I catch the bag on my foot
maintaining an intensly strong posture I hurl it up
the small, dense object hurls quickly up, crossed by my right leg
velocity changes as gravity counterracts my force, it begins to fall
faster and faster...
the bag fails to escape
I cross now with my left, catch with my right
my body sinks like elastic being stretched, the bag safely on my foot
Furiously the bag is hurled up again
now crossing with the left, then the right
now the left foot catches the precious object

I fling the bag into the air with an expression of intense joy
I grab the footbag and make an energetic cry of happiness
"Yes!"
'Ripwalk' twice consecutively - my goal - completed

My session concludes at that
I leave the gym clutching the soft bag
feeling motivation spread through my mind
enabling me to return in later evenings to that gym
continuing session after session of footbag

Darkshredder · Post by **Darkshredder** » 13 Jun 2005 13:44

Good so I'm not the only one who wrote a poem in English class about footbag. . Yours is better. Mine was a haiku

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Back to back ripwalks, man. Excellent. Keep the new stuff rollin' in.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 21 Jun 2005 08:25

15/06/05 0:30 Tiring... couldnt play long... had to do some work... Barely could do anything...
19/06/05 4:00 Day shred! just worked on butterflies and trying to get my mirages going.. im working on stringing and being able to delay

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 25 Jun 2005 01:56

21/06/05 1:00 Similar to last session. Worked on butts especially hard

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 25 Jun 2005 03:25

props ollie, youll get better at butters in no time

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 21 Jul 2005 01:02

July Holidays 7:30 While in Paris I met up with the French footbaggers and played a lot. Over 3 days a 2:30 session each night. I hit ripwalk almost 3 times in a row. I did 6 osis’s in a row. I played a lot better than normal. I also hit phoenix! It is amazing the effect other players have on you. I also got a Charles Dupey Bag on the last day.
20/7/05 0:40 Without getting to my condominium I dropped my bag at the entrance to the “Caribbean” and changed into school sports gear and had a fun shred. I consistently got 6 or 7 Butterflies in a row. Although not hitting DLO once in the session my DLOs were good. The technique and timing was excellent. It just didn’t land on my foot…

Leuch · Post by **Leuch** » 22 Jul 2005 13:24

and how was the rest of your trip in France Olie???
Did you see Vasek on TV the good day???

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 22 Jul 2005 19:09

yes the rest of france was awesome

thanks
the first week after paris was spenton a boat down canals -fun
the last week was in a car travelling all around and back to charles de gaulle airport where i flew back to singapore from.

unfortunately, however, i had no access to a tv when vasek was on, did someone record it

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 22 Jul 2005 19:16

Ollie, there is a thread on shred symposium which shows a bit of what happened on tv, but it wasnt the record breaking section

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 24 Jul 2005 02:17

First attempt for butts I got 20!!! That’s like almost double the previous record. I hit ripwalk b2b twice… Those are the main good things about the session. I enjoyed it.

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 24 Jul 2005 03:56

yeah go Ollie!!

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 25 Jul 2005 01:24

I feel my DLOs are getting heaps better, today while waiting for everyone to change in PE, me and Otto shredded, he did pretty ok too. Yea well i hit DLO, but thats not the good thing, it was the way i hit it, my timing and all, yea im happy.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 07 Aug 2005 01:14

1/08/05 0:35 Session by the pool again… didn’t get the 20 Butterflies or anything good.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 07 Aug 2005 06:35

Hey Ollie, I just saw an awesome travel show about Singapore - looked very cool - it looks like a really fun place

Sorry to hear you had a bad session but I'm sure things will improve for you. The bad sessions make the good ones even better

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 11 Aug 2005 03:01

8/8/05 0:30 These little nooblet girls kept making comments and coming and asking me questions, some of which, made no sense. I felt like telling them to go away. Anyway nothing decent happened. I didnt even get over the 7 butterfly mark

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 17 Aug 2005 05:35

17/8/05 0:30 Tonight I played pretty ordinarily… Managed 5 butterflies. Ripwalks on both sides (not same string) generally stringing was slightly better.

Something awesome happened today however. I checked my email and I got an email from someone interested in playing footbag. This person lives in Singapore too! Apparently looking for a footbag she chanced across my site and contacted me. I will hopefully play this weekend with her and Otto. Give them good training. The prescence of others will make me play well too!

Scott · Post by **Scott** » 28 Aug 2005 20:27

Hey Ollie,
i will be in Singapore for 2 nights in December would be good to meet up and have a shred.

I will let you know what dates once my flight is booked.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 29 Aug 2005 02:45

cool scott. Im looking forward to it. If you dont know I am coming down on like the 23rd of September so we can all have some shreds.