The BCS footblog

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 30 Jan 2006 13:20

Injury feels much much better today. could rub dencorub on it and play but we all know what happens then.

hoping to play tomorrow.

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 30 Jan 2006 16:15

Footbag does a fair amount of damage to your joints. The insoles in Lavers do NOTHING to minimise it. I have never spoken to anyone who has regretted changing their insoles. Better insoles do not solve the problems related with the high impact levels of footbag, but they significantly help to minimise it. Gareth, I'd recomend getting a solid insole and perhaps added heal support for the sake of your knee, the gel insoles are supposed to be really good. Jas and Jamie, it won't solve your shin problems but it will help. Given the permanent damage that can be done to your knees especially, and also given the limited costs involved in footbag I would have thought $30 every 12 months or so isn't that much in the scheme of things.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 30 Jan 2006 16:46

I know of one person who regreted getting insoles, but that's because Toby got arch support and arch support wasn't what he needed lol.
I think Toby found he was actually getting his shinsplints from walking long distances, but footbag was ofcourse related to the injury.

Once he got some decent non-arch support insoles, he was just fine, and has been ever since

.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 30 Jan 2006 21:05

pssh, 30 bucks? My knees and shins aren't worth that, I'm gonna go get wasted, and kill my liver as well.

errr

Yeah that sounds like a good idea... I have no issues paying for insoles if they are beneficial enough, which it would appear they are. Thanks guys

Footbag is so cheap, I love it.

Great to see you here Dan... don't be a stranger!

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 31 Jan 2006 00:18

Wow, what a day!
I called toby at like 1pm to ask him to come shred, he said he would be over in an hour, and he arrived at 3pm :p We started shreding by 3:30. I will count thisafternoons shred as a solo session because we just drilled together all afternoon. I did like 1 string and it was 39 contacts (for run length competition to warm down).

Solo Session 7: 4 hours (Yearly total: 16 hours)
Drilled: Legover, Pickup, osis, fairy, atomic, ducking butterfly, infinity, whirl, bubba, atw, eggbeater, switch.
Notes: Toby hit like 17 pickups and criticized my flip in-atw, so I hit 42 pickups

, then I hit 33 legovers first try and coulden't be bothered trying again, i'm surprised I didn't get more than pickups.
I hit 42 contacts of legover > out-atw rpt, and toby hit 37, which infurated him. Also 40 contacts of op clipper > ss legover rpt was a pleasent surprise.
Somehow 76 contacts of osis > ss clipper rpt, but only hit 17 osis today.
Hit 12 contacts of fear > fairy ss mirage rpt, need to work on flip fairy ss mirage.
New atomsmasher record... 8

. Also tap > atomsmasher rpt for the 2nd time.
I hit 27 infinities, my new record. Also ducking butterfly > infinity > infinity > ducking butterfly from both sides, and ducking butterfly b2b

.
Whirls were next, whirl > ducking whirl rpt, then I tried tapping whirl and hurt my knee, end of whirls for the day

.
Stopped for half an hour to shower (in an attempt to subdue the horrible chaffing! Damn those lined shorts!).
Toby hit whirl war 1

that was super cool. He also hit ducking butterfly > whirl rpt :O.
I hit 18 contacts of bubba > ss clip rpt, and then a few eggbeaters on each side. Flip eggbeater is feeling much better.
I hit like 10 switchs and a few double switchs on my good side, still no cigar on flip out datw, or flip dbl switch

.
Highlight of the shred was probably my second ever 5add bsos, F***ing butterfly

. (The first was fairy ducking osis).
Things I didn't do that I should have: Blender, torque, butterfly > pdx mirage, flip spinning, GYRO!

Yay

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 31 Jan 2006 03:12

I had a shit night, last night.
I didn't hit anything of note and there's almost no point in posting other than to say I had a shit night last night.

ednie · Post by **ednie** » 31 Jan 2006 05:56

dw gareth
its okay
sometimes it happens
footbag made me cry in year 10 and 11........
not heaps
in year 9 too, but only once
but it was tough sometimes
but nothing comes easily
unless you are ryan mulroney
who looked me in the eye and said
'every thing sorta came naturally to me'
which totally contradicts lyntons theory of 'ryan practices more than anyother person on this planet' but he said that pre-vasek
sometimes its easy to ditch tricks and stuff
other times not easy
if you get bitched by a trick
and it isnt even that important
like x body rake
or nuclear set
just dont worry about it
i know i cant be screwed learning a few things
thats probably more laziness
but i only learn tricks that i like
but then again
its not like i have a huge list of tricks which i dont like
okies
end of post
dan

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 31 Jan 2006 12:23

godamn ryan is the man.
Chin up gareth.
fantabular work nic.

I have spent the last 3 days injured. I was so close to playing last night but held off. Woke up this morning and my leg is feeling great, there is the tiniest niggle still there but i am going to shred so hard tonight.

peace.

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 01 Feb 2006 12:37

Session: 11

Length: 60 minutes

Music: Chris C, Yves Darude

Drilled: Pixies

Assessment: Pleasantly surprised, consistency was good.

New Records: pixie legover rpt (13 contacts)
smear>magellan>pixielegover (equalled rec : 9 contacts)

Played footbag last night for the first time in 3 days due to hamstring injury. There was no signs of life from my injury at all. Really happy with the way i played, my new training method is really going to help my game along. I guess it is all about disclipline. Really working on one concept until you have got it down. I have squash tonight, still wanna play footbag but, so it depends on how tough my match is.

peace

total footbag time since (19/1/06) 12 hrs 15 mins.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 01 Feb 2006 13:55

Solo Session 8: 1 hour (Yearly total: 17 hours)
Drilled: Butterfly, osis, whirl, double atw, tiltless.
Notes: We played with Toby's new wonder bag yesterday, and today I coulden't play with my own bag because it sucks compared to that beast from yesterday. So I got like 10 osis, and after ages of trying (and a random call from Alex lol) I hit a pathetic 13 butterflys

.
I managed to get 37 contacts of butterfly > pdx mirage, which was disapointing, I got over 30 a few times which meant a lot of wasted energy, and I wasn't feeling to hot because I had just eaten a lot of asian food

.
Had flipside fairy ss whirl off my foot, coulden't get 2 whirl in a row on flip though. Got 4 whirls in a row good side

. Whirls are improving.
I'm finally getting the dexs right for out datw on bad side! I footed it a bunch of times but tired myself out too much to hit it. Flip double switch will be mine soon!

A pretty lame session all up. Shreding with Toby today, should be good (get to use that bag again

).

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 01 Feb 2006 18:23

gah, you beat me on butterfly>pdx mirage! And that's not wasted energy, it means your consistency is good. I'd rather be getting over 30 consistently and not a massive record, instead of in the 20's and one really good run.

Great to see you're back shredding hagesy

Hope the injury is settled now.

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 02 Feb 2006 00:10

Good work everyone
bad news about the injuries
lots of randoms posting in blog

I have had two sesh's since last post

first was 70mins

other was on and off for like 2 hours. So im just gonna say 1hour.

Drilled: butt>pdxmirage rpt, toedrifters, dlo's, double switches and swirls

broke my toe again thismorning. (not answering "how?")

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 02 Feb 2006 01:41

*Jethro* wrote:broke my toe again thismorning. (not answering "how?")

Did your brother beat you up again?

I hope you don't mean me when you say random

I am an official member of the BCS!

What's ur record for butterfly > pdx mirage mate? Got any good drills for drifters and dlos?

Ok today's session:

Solo Session 9: 3 hours (Yearly total: 20 hours)
Drilled: Butterfly, osis, whirl, ducking butterfly, drifters, ducking osis, tiltless.
Notes: Today was the first really crap session i've had this year. I would discribe it as gut renching, I achieved some things, but I had to try so so hard and battle my body and the weather to succeed.
Me and Toby had another team solo session, we played in town because we were waiting for Katie to finish work so we could go eat buffay (unlimited spring rolls, sushi, desert and coke! WOW).
It was a bit windy and cold, and we were playing in public, and I never like schooling in public. For some reason, my infinities totally went to crap since yesterday, it took me all day to get them back, and I still only hit 20, Toby hit 30

.
I don't normally try very hard on osis, because I don't like it, but I hit 17 alternating, and I hit ducking osis > ducking butterfly bs, ducking osis > infinity > ducking osis, stepping osis > alt clip x5, stepping osis > infinity rpt. My spinning osis still SUCK.
It got pretty windy and my legs were totally dead and my moral plumeting, so we moved round behind the library, this was also a good excuse to escape the 15 year old groupies that kept badgering me and Toby. First they came up and asked me if I would come into the clock tower with them to 'ring the bell', I ofcourse said no, the door will be locked. They disapeared into the tower, and returned minutes later to tell us that the door was indeed locked. They then proceeded to asking us continually to change the music we were playing. They saw system of a down writen on Toby's tshirt and she said "I like system of a down!", and we happened to be playing a system album. She then proclaimed, "this music sucks! Can we change it?"

ahh 15 yearolds.
Right so back to the shred, I tried for literally over an hour to hit as many 4adds in one string as I could, but I had no energy, and my legs wouldent go past the first few contacts, I kept hitting the first link and then dropping on a pdx mirage or something

. I finnally ended up hitting fairy ducking clipper > ducking butterfly > spinning pdx mirage into a string with both blurs, both blizzards, both atomsmashers and one side ducking osis

That's 10 4's in one string.
Toby hit his first reaper, it was massive, I was jeleous.
The highlight of the day was my FIRST ever 5>5 link! Fairy ducking butterfly > pdx blender Totally random, but such an amazing feeling.
At the very end of the 3 hours, I thought right, I am going to try mobius ONCE on each side and then stop. I ended up trying it 4 times, and I hit it on the 4th

YES MY FIRST MOBIUS! That move has evaded me for like a year. Still no flipside

.
Typically, I didn't stop when I said I was going to, I went for tiltless record (also typicaly I did this when i'm totally screwed :s), I got 64 2nd try. I can only do better tomorrow!
Edit: Oh I also hit 36 contacts of butterfly > pdx mirage, damn it! Every time I get that far (most of the times I try) I am too stuffed to try again after

.

Damn this blog thing is adictive! If I keep writing such long entrys nobody will read them anymore... I better ask my mum if she will read them, atleast she cares

.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 02 Feb 2006 03:41

hehe, it IS addictive, isn't it? i'll rad your posts nic

5>5! Props!

Big string full of 4's! Props!

64 tiltless!! Props! (I will nver beat you to 100

)

Everyone seems to be getting 15 yr old groupies except for me

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 02 Feb 2006 04:41

james_dean wrote: Everyone seems to be getting 15 yr old groupies except for me

Same here. But I think that's a good thing.

24yo groupies... now that's a different matter.

Oh, and last Monday I met a girl named Silvia, from Germany. She's studying here and would like to learn more footbag tricks. She was even carrying around a crochet bag in her handbag!

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 02 Feb 2006 05:02

BalinorNZ wrote:
*Jethro* wrote:broke my toe again thismorning. (not answering "how?")

BalinorNZ wrote:Did your brother beat you up again?
lol, not funny.

BalinorNZ wrote:ahh 15 yearolds.

yes, 15 yearolds are good.

my toe is sore, all I want to do is shred.

im gonna try.

adios.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 03 Feb 2006 00:01

Solo Session 10: 4 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 24 hours)
Drilled: Butterfly, tiltless, DRIFTER, osis, whirl.
Notes: Apart from the warm up and the last half hour or so, this session was almost exclusively drifters (inspired by Jamison). To warm up I hit 73 contacts of mirage>pickup, 42 of illusion>legover, 45 contacts of butterfly > pdx mirage and 32 infinities (Toby later took the infinity title back from me with 32, the blighter

). Also hit a lame 12 osis

, this was at the end when I was stuffed.
Drifters were a (litteraly) painful experiance. I started off doing some drills, I hit toe drifter > drifter > pdx mirage rpt, pdx drifter bsos and pdx drifter > ducking butterfly bs also pdx drifter > ducking pdx mirage bs. Then I hit my new drifter record (4 consec) and finally moved on to fume. By this stage I was pretty exhausted and my stomach ached because I hadn't eaten since 10 hours ago.
First I went for fume BSOS, I hit it with toe stalls in between and it took quite a while, and Toby said "do it in a real string" so I did, first try

.
I decided I would go eat as soon as I hit fume > ducking butterfly, which should have been easy, but in my state was impossible. I tried so hard it hurt, I would not give up, I finally put everything I had into trying to hit it, and as I went for the 2nd fume it felt like I tore a hole in my side

owwww. I staggered and sat down and decided to forget the fumes and go eat.
After eating I came back and played another hour, drilled butterfly, osis, and hit 16 contacts of osis > butterfly > ducking clipper, everything was feeling pretty pathetic at this stage, so tired. I hit some whirls on each side, tried to work on bad side, and with a hell of a lot of effort hit 5 whirls on my good side :s. I hope I have a good session soon, because the kind i've been having lately are going to kill me soon!

Sweet i've spent roughly 10% of my time playing footbag recently. I have missed one day since I started soloing again after Australian nationals. I think I should have another day off tomorrow perhaps... or not

.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 03 Feb 2006 03:59

dude. You are insane. How do you keep busting out these mammoth sessions?? You have really good consistency too!

nice work on the fumes

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 03 Feb 2006 04:52

You're all aware that I don't read anyone elses posts?

Reflection time.

Today was my last day at Bunnings, Browns Plains.
I've worked there for about two and a half years, but now I'm transferring to another store - one much closer.
I was supprised by the sentements expressed by some of the people I've worked with. Most were all kind, and touching. Some were merely a handshake and a goodluck wish.
I got more hugs today that I've ever had, and I actually feel sad about leaving the place that has caused me so much stress and distress in my life over the last few years.
Right now I'm wondering if I've made the right choice. But I know I have.
I know I'll go into this new job, and end up hateing the first few months. I've no clue as to what fully awates me.
My only releaf is that I'll be working in a section that will enable me to have contact with everyone in the store, so I'll be able to make friends with people much easier. The fact that there are four people there who I've worked with in the past, that'll help too.
I'm leaving behind some good friends. Not the kind of people I've hung out with, or gone out with, but people who've I've connected with. They're people who I've looked for help from when I'm down. I've talked with them about my fears and my joys.
It's so sad to think about what I'm leaving behind, but the future is a challange that I've set for myself. I look forward to it because it's going to give me an opportunity to change myself for the better.
I'm scared about what I'm going to face.
But, right now I'm in a rutt that I'm about to leave. I get stuck in rutts far to easily.

So now, when I submit this post, I'm going to go to the fridge and crack another bottle of Johnnie Walker Red & Dry, and drink a toast to the people I've worked with and the life I've lead.
And I'll drink to the future ahead.

And I've also got to go back in and see those people, to say hi.
(...and to ask someone out

)

But I'll end on this note...

Today, my two pairs of Lavers arrived!
I'm going to try to play footbag this weekend.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 04 Feb 2006 03:17

sweet post. Good luck with the new job, and good luck with the babe