Freestylin in the Graveyard (Net...)

[funklovesfootbag]

At the end of the session with Emily at the tennis courts, I hit a very beautiful flipside symposium pixie.

i hit both flipside symp pixie and symp mirage at the beginning of the session, so i am happy with those. I'm starting to make them a lot cleaner and less like a scissor kick. The key is the higher jump and setting it lower than i typically do.

I need to set everything lower but my legs dont seem to want to. I kind of figure it will build my legs up quicker if im putting more effort into it but I know it will help my game if i start setting everything lower.

Clippers are still ugly/inconsistent .. i hit a few good ones but still very sketchy. Setting it with the opposite foot helps.. I should start trying right when i get warmed up instead of at the end so im not as tired.

legovers still need better form..

I hit legover-mirage-symp pixie

some semi long strings of 2's, maybe 8 at most with some 4 or 5 trick sets inconsistent still though.

8 mirages in a row on my strong, 4 on my flip

some symp pixies and symp mirages on my normal side, i hit symp pixie-symp mirage once on my strong side.

practiced ducking and a little diving but its still really sketchy. it usually hits my shoulder..

really long session drilled a lot of stuff and fuct around for fun a lot too. awesome.

[funklovesfootbag]

Played with Jeremy today and Emily filmed us a bit.


I hit 15 legovers in a row -- setting it lower and being faster helps.
clipper-mirage twice
5 pickups in a row

mirage-legover-mirage-legover-symp pixie- cant remember what i hit here.. then i dropped it.

some other stuff i think but i cant remember anything of great importance besides getting cleaner legovers.

Lots of drills lots of fun lots of SWEAT and Jeremy threw a hadouken.

[funklovesfootbag]

Playing alone makes things much more difficult I think. You get tired and achey quicker.

Hit 9 pickups in a row (the drop on 10 was agonizing.)
hit mirage-atw-legover-mirage-atw-legover

those are the only things worth mentioning. now, precalculus hw awaits. sigh.

[Jdigges]

ahh calc sucks haha

I know what you mean by playing alone is harder. you definitley have to pace yourself in some sense. Im used to always having a shred partner

[funklovesfootbag]

Played at the courts today with amelia emily and jeremy. long session, it was ridiculously cold I still haven't adjusted to norcal weather.

Best thing i hit was clipper-mirage BSOS
7 flipside mirages in a row
8 normal mirages in a row
some strings of 7 or 8 nothing special
and more of the same. clippers are slowly getting better.

everything is getting better slowly but surely.

[funklovesfootbag]

shredding is good.

Practiced clippers lots.. and schooled them by myself just before writing this. progress. hit some clippers, some clipper mirages, although still mostly ugly and out of control.

starting flipside i hit mirage-atw-legover-mirage-atw-legover-pixie-pixie and dropped

i hit 19 strong side mirages .. personal best. hit 6 flipside which isnt nearly good enough.

legover-legover-mirage-legover-mirage-legover some other shorter stuff

one symp mirage one symp pixie strong side, none flip

10 pickups in a row.. personal best.

good schooling session.. basics are fun but i want to try and bust double legover next session. just have to stop sucking so much.

[funklovesfootbag]

knee sore/ i dunno what i did to it / no footbag for now

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had a sick session today I need to make sure i bring more snacks or eat a ridiculously large meal beforehand..

so

i hit some 8 trick strings (legover,atw,pickup,mirage,pixie, combos of that stuff. Still weak on the pixies and atw but getting better.)

hit 13 legovers in a row,

practiced lots of clippers. getting much better. landing occasional smooth ones on both sides. helps when i concentrate on slowing down and bending my ankle as much as possible. should drill the motion a lot more.

Sat down kind of early in the session, then landed two symp-pixie to symp mirages strongside but none flipside. (weak.)

Thennn after A.J. tried toe drifter for a while, we all started shredding again and i hit some more clippers. i hit clipper-clipper on the left foot and landed clipper-clipper-clipper and dropped on my right. good stuff.

[funklovesfootbag]

Had a fun session at the tennis courts with Jeremy and Amelia tonight. schooled a lot of stuff, made a very large improvement in my clippers; i stalled it without coming back up, which i haven't done until tonight. Now that I can do that I need to practice it and then practice setting it and then practice that motion and then practice practice practice practice....

hit some ok combos like usual, need to work on atws and pixies more.

hit symp pixie-symp mirage off camera... and couldn't hit it again. sigh.


that's pretty much it i think.. fun sesh.

[funklovesfootbag]

Schooled my clippers this morning. I can land them now! Still having a bit of trouble setting them where I want them, but my brain finally stopped being retardedly fast so that I can actually catch them at the right speed now.

Hit clipper-clipper-clipper-clipper on my left foot and clipper-clipper on my right out of about 20 or 30 tries.

and drilled atw on my flipside a little but i was concentrating on clippers. only hit 2 .. weak sauce!

[funklovesfootbag]

Had a quick sesh from 6:36 to 7:43.

Very good sesh. hit a few long strings of the basic tricks, like legover-legover-pickup-pickup-mirage-legover-mirage-DROP and some other long ones with an atw and a pixie..

still weak on atw pixies are getting smoother.

illusions i want to/need to drill for a long while like i did my clippers.

hit butterfly-toe-butterfly-toe-butterfly drop and my clippers are getting better but still sketch, maybe about 60-75% caught but 40-50% set back up correctly.

need to drill symp-pixie and symp-mirage especially flipside.

uhh, yeah, and AJ forgot the cookies.

[funklovesfootbag]

Quick session at the tennis courts with A.J. and Emily today. They both stopped at about 45 minutes to an hour, I kept practicing for a little while afterwards.

Starting to get the illusion motion (I can tell the difference now, and I hit a superclean one on my strong side at the very end,) I just have to be faster and .. be better. got in some good practice though, landed probably 3 or 4 ok ones and one that i was really happy with.

Clippers are getting better constantly. almost hit clipper-mirage-clipper-mirage but my right knee is bugging the shit out of me lately so whenever I clipper on that side it sucks.

Hit a few long strings of 8 - 10 with legovers pickups pixies and one set with some atws thrown in.

hit some symp pixies and symp mirages, one symp pixie on my weak side.

legover = strong
pickup = strong
mirage = strong
illusion = weak
clipper = im not satisfied.
atws = weak

oh, and i hit a few ducking toes. fun stuf, and a sole stall from toe, which i hadn't done before. also fun, need a way out of it though.

AND I WENT BOWLING TONIGHT! it was sweet, this guy claudio got drunk and challenged some girl in the arcade to air hockey and got his ass kicked. I won both games. and i walked home, so footbag bowling and walking that's like a triathlon.

[funklovesfootbag]

Very long fun sesh at frederick street.

played with A.J. Amelia Emily and Jeremy for .. a long time, a few hours. and then Jeremy started playing net, and then we played longer, Amelia went to watch net, Emily and I schooled some stuff, this guy Jacob joined for a while, and then we went and watched net. Ridiculously nice day. I'm glad I have a birthday.

Hit a string of ten 2-add tricks, hit clipper-clipper 9 times on my strong side, maybe 4 on my weak. gotta drill just stalling more, I practiced the stance later tonight.. which is earlier tonight right now.

Hit some more clean illusions, my left is starting to get better than my right, i THINK because I can start the dex sooner off of my right foot.. which makes me want to do it on that side because I think I'll hit it more, but I gotta knock that off and practice both sides like crazy.

hit mirage-legover-atw-mirage-legover-atw very cleanly once which is good because my atws suck hard still.

hit some ugly butterflys on both sides and tried same side butterfly for the first time, which is easier than the other way.

hit clipper-mirage-clipper-mirage but i was way off balance and it was ugly.

uhh thats it i think? oh, some symp pixies and symp mirages im still so inconsistent it makes me crazy. until i can hit everything above clean, im not gonna try anything else. besides that sole stall, and ducking. it's gonna be a loooong time before I can hit all that stuff as cleanly as I want to.

[funklovesfootbag]

long session with jeremy and emily, 2 and a half hours i think.

hit one or two long strings, a few good pixies, 3 or 4 symp pixies and 1 or 2 symp mirages i dont think any flip,

best thing i hit was clipper-legover, which i hadn't hit before, and i almost hit it BSOS i just need to adjust my timing and not suck so much.

hit butter-fly mirage bsos (hadn't even hit that before tonight.) maybe that was better than clipper-legover.. i dunno, they're both cool.

hit simple pickup.. is that right? jeremy had me try that and simple legover, it seems like i could get it in a few sessions if i practiced but i'd rather stop sucking at everything else before i start trying new stuff.

except osis. I hit one ugly one tonight (but i hit it, damnit!) and caught a toe stall after. makes my ankles scream and they'll be aching tomorrow. fun though i wanna start drilling those when i drill my clippers.

and i hit butterfly-toe-butterly-toe-butterfly-toe-butterfly-DROP so that's good. need to school my right foot clipper / butterfly way more.

attempted the stepping motion for the first time tonight (way beyond me.)

also, at the beginning of the session i hit some very clean illusions set around my knees, but so far i can only dex it smoothly with my left foot.

Had a lot of fun playing and taping emily, and i got to see jeremy's section for the santa cruz footbag video he's making. (it's sweet. it owns you.) Which reminds me, i have to pick a song for my section. I've got it narrowed down to 11 songs, but 3 or 4 of them will be the right length i think since my section will be kinda short.. since i can't bust much yet.

AND this is actually maybe the most important part, i can do inside stall to inside stall now.. which i know isn't impressive at all but my right foot was crippled as far as insides go until tonight. i had hit it before but .. yeah, good stuff. ankles are sore im gonna go chew advil.

[funklovesfootbag]

Solo drilling session before class...

inconsistency makes me want to punch grandmas.

hit clipper > legover BSOS
clipper > mirage ALMOST BSOS i keep hitting it with my thigh.
hit 3/4 flipside symp pixies
12 legovers

thats it i think. some ugly illusions and such. still sloppy and inconsistent clippers butterflys and illusions. cant seem to stop myself from stomping on the butterflys.

[funklovesfootbag]

Session downtown from 8:30 to 10. kinda sore from jiu jitsu. didn't really hit anything great, one or two long strings and some good flipside atws towards the end.

flipside symp pixie > toe > flipside symp pixie

don't feel great about my game tonight. illusions are still ugly and inconsistent, same with clippers and butterflys i can only hit ugly on my strong side, not at all on my flip. Still had a good time, A.J. brought cookies and they were really good. and we saw an interesting drum circle and a crackpot dancing with a staff.

[funklovesfootbag]

Played freestyle and a game of net today. very fun.

hit a 2 add string of 15

hit some other stuff.. nothing else great though. drilled clippers for a while and then played net with jeremy and aj and mark.

FUN STUFF. haha, two of my friends are stuck in Santa Cruz for the time being. awesome.

[Just call me hagesy]

Nice tiltless string man, how long have you been playing.

Jordan moir has a little section in trick tips where he gives a stretch you can do to help with your illusions check it out

and keep on shredding everyday if you can

peace
hagesy

[funklovesfootbag]

3 months come november 1st. Thanks for the advice!

[funklovesfootbag]

2 hour session with mark and emily at the tennis courts.

Earlier in the day Mark and I had a warm up session, and I said, "hey, watch me do double legover and tell me if it's clean," and I hit it super clean first try. It was like the cleanest thing I've ever done.

Then in the session later I hit another double legover, though I scraped the ground with my toe a bit. I hit pixie-legover twice, and once on my flip side. haven't hit DLO on my flip side though. My left leg can't get down fast enough and i lead with my heel a lot better on my strong side.

hit some other small stuff (just the usual...) I feel comfortable with strongside illusion now but my flip is still awfully ugly.

WOOT!