Ben Skaggs

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 16 Jul 2005 22:05

professor wrote:Also, I'm VERY excited and so will Nic and possibly some of my fellow club members.

Today my parents got a top of the line digital camcorder!

I AM VERY EXCITED!

Ben! If you don't get me atleast 10 sick1 and 10 sick3 videos for this month's competitions from the ZOMBIES, I will sue you for suppressing the amazing skill and potential of your club!!!

Im just kidding

but I do believe you could harvent 20 clips atleast from your awesome club, Travis is keen on entering and so is Loren, bust that baby out at ur next saturday sesion and get everyone to line up and film something man

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*EXCITED*

MegaFighter_X · Post by **MegaFighter_X** » 17 Jul 2005 01:41

Sounds good to me. Good runs from the look of it. My applogies for not making the meeting today... I've been sick all week and was hoping to be compeltely cured by today. Hopefully I'll catch ya around.

travismontoya · Post by **travismontoya** » 17 Jul 2005 12:00

sicknesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

professor · Post by **professor** » 18 Jul 2005 21:47

Today I played with Steve at his house for about an hour or so. I wasn't doing horrible, but wasn't doing too well either. I was hitting normal stuff and I felt like I was back to my normal of balanced style. Well after I went home, I played Vasek's shred 30 video that had been downloading while I was gone.

Well, if you know me, once I see a Vasek video, especially a new one, I have to go out and shred. I can't help myself.

Well this time I was much better and was back to my controlled style. It was so much fun. I almost felt like Vasek for a little bit. I did some nice long runs and then tried to make a string in my head and hit it. Well this is what I hit:

flip whirl > flip rev. swirl > flip spinning clip > flip butterfly > flip blur > smear > parkwalk > drop

I was going for a flip spinning pdx whirl, but never got past the parkwalk, oh well, I'll get it tomorrow I guess. Then I had to end off my session with a whirlwind, so I hit it second try. Everytime I try a whirlwind I almost always hit it second try, I don't know exactly why.

Well good times. More good times to come.

professor · Post by **professor** » 19 Jul 2005 21:19

So, I shredded for about 45 min. by myself before Kaitlyn came over and we shredded together for about an hour. She hit 3 ATW's with her flipside leg.

I was doing really well when I was shredding by myself, but by the time Kaitlyn got to my house, my right thigh was beginning to get weak and sore. It got to the point where I could hardly bend my knee to clipper because my thigh hurt too bad. It's really hard to only use one clipper when you are a clipper dominant player. Your support leg gets killed. Oh well, at least I can still shred.

Also, I can't do any double down moves with my right leg because everytime I do, the inside of my foot/ankle kills. It feels like a tendon snaps everytime I try it and it hurts bad. So unfortunately I have to remove those tricks from my game...at least for awhile.

TheHostAgeSystem · Post by **TheHostAgeSystem** » 20 Jul 2005 00:13

its okay ben..ill give you the power so you are healed okay hehe...

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 21 Jul 2005 12:02

woohoo, I can't wait to bust fat for the new cam!

props on the flip blur>smear>pixie set...thats lotsa shuffle...that stuff plus all your clip stuff = footbag mastery

Peace,
Bum

professor · Post by **professor** » 26 Jul 2005 22:37

So, I shredded today after a lengthy absence. The reason for this break was that I just received the parts for my computer last Friday and put it together on Saturday. It is a BEAST! It can play Battlefield 2 on full, easy.

Anyway, I played pretty well today and filmed it. So I'm gonna try and get the film online soon. I played a total of 2 hours and hit some nice stuff, but you'll see on the video.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 27 Jul 2005 02:51

Props ben! Man i'm jeleous of ur new camera!

Make sure u get lots of sick1 and sick3 entrys from the crew at the shred this saturday man

professor · Post by **professor** » 27 Jul 2005 10:42

Oh ya, I forgot to mention something...

I beat a world record last night and got it on tape.

At the time I didn't know I had beaten the record, but now that I've looked it up, I smashed the record. With my flipside none the less...probably not my flipside anymore though.

Woohoo!

HG · Post by HG » 27 Jul 2005 11:44

Do tell sire. We the people wish to observe this, how you say, rehkoard.

Thank you

-The people of Donut Land

professor · Post by **professor** » 27 Jul 2005 11:51

I shall speakest through the medium of an artistic visual device.

Translation: You'll see on the video.

Hehe.

stva · Post by **stva** » 28 Jul 2005 06:26

Ooh, ooh, I know what record it was....

....but I'm not gonna tell

professor · Post by **professor** » 05 Aug 2005 21:39

Dizzzang!

Today was so awesome! One of the best days I've had in a very long time.

First off it is my birthday...yay! I'm now the brittle age of 19. I already feel my hip getting weaker.

So I woke up this morning and had some corn bread for breakfast....mmm, I love corn bread. Then I started to shred after watching some worlds videos. Today I was playing better than I ever have....ever.

I was hitting stuff all over the place. It was so awesome! 5 days of rest is just what the doctor ordered. I was hitting medium to long strings with big tricks mixed in.

scorpion's tail > spinning pdx whirl
paradon > DDD > scorpion's tail
spinning clip x2 > spinning butterfly > spinning pdx whirl > spinning clip > spinning butterfly > spinning pdx whirl > spinning clip > dropped scorpion's tail (set it too close to my body)

That was just some of the stuff I was hitting.

After that Fedex arrived with my 19" LCD monitor that I ordered yesterday for my new beast of a computer. On a side note: If anyone plays BF2 tell me, I would love to play with some footbaggers. Maybe start a footbag BF2 clan...

So after hooking that up, my girlfriend came over because her, my parents, and I were going to a movie. She brought some gifts over. She got me a new tennis racket because I kinda broke my last one...

I sorta threw it on the ground and the bottom of the racket part broke off.

And if that wasn't enough she also got me a new abshire!!!! It's 2 different shades of green. It's so awesome!

Well, the movie we saw was "The Island". This movie was so cool. I would recommend going and seeing it. It's basically non-stop action. I would go see it again in a heart beat.

Then we came back to my house and ate some homemade pancakes for dinner. And sat and watched Apollo 13 for the rest of the night. It was a great day. Tomorrow I'm planning on playing some more footbag, so look for updates on that.

Peace in the Middle East, yo!

MegaFighter_X · Post by **MegaFighter_X** » 05 Aug 2005 21:50

finally a vegas blog up on page one again...

good tricks, happy birthday, and DEFINITELY see you tomorrow... I'm tired of oversleeping.

Bander87 · Post by **Bander87** » 05 Aug 2005 22:13

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!

professor · Post by **professor** » 05 Aug 2005 22:39

Thank you Ben! Hehe....

HG · Post by HG » 06 Aug 2005 05:19

Happppppppy Birthday!

Cant believe you are 19. you kids grow up soooooo fast.

Nice combos!

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 06 Aug 2005 07:59

Happy birthday man! It's a pity one of those sick combo's isnt in my sick3 folder :p.

professor · Post by **professor** » 06 Aug 2005 09:16

Ya, sorry about that, you can expect entry's from me this month though!