Jamieson Hickingbotham

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 30 Jan 2006 20:58

BalinorNZ wrote:he [Hagesy] looks uber sexy now

Thanks for your words Hagesy... it's a bitch but I'm sure I can push through it

Gonna go shred now... will blog when I return... I am really pumped for footbag right now

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 30 Jan 2006 21:51

james_dean wrote:Jan 30th

Drifter > Pdx Drifter rpt

Was waiting for you to hit that. Super Props

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 30 Jan 2006 23:13

Jan 31st
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total hours for year: 9 hours 40 minutes

Drilled: Legover, Pickup, Mirage (+ pdx), Clipper, Butterfly, Drifter (+ toe, pdx), Guay, Osis, Tiltless

Butterfly > Pdx Mirage rpt - 28 contacts. Anyone seeing a trend here?

Osis > Guay > Guay rpt - 35 contacts

Much better than I anticipated... obviously my recent drifter work has made guays much easier.

Inside set Drifter > Drifter > Guay rpt - 10 contacts. Also very happy, tiring drill.

Drifter > Pdx Drifter rpt. Twice. And once starting on flipside.

Much harder because I have to have a good enough set out of my flipside pdx drifter to seal a controlled drifter.

Osis - 30 consec.

Tiltless - 28 contacts.
Tiltless is really pissing me off... can't get past 28. Really pissed. Thought I was going to break 30 a week ago, and I'm still no closer. gah.

Drifter - 6 consec. Although the number isn't as high as before I'm still consistently getting 4-6 so that's good.

Am going to the movies now, but will most likely shred again tonight.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 30 Jan 2006 23:59

Good stuff dude! If you want to get long tiltless strings, school alternating clippers, alternating legovers, alternating pickups, legover > mirage rpt, pickup > illusion rpt. I couldent get over 10 tiltless a year ago, then I started those drills and now I can hit 70 contacts easy

Good luck!

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 31 Jan 2006 04:22

Narnia was the bomb. Don't try and tell me it was corny. It's a corny story. What did you expect? I really liked it, and I thought it held true to the book very well.... except for that father christmas sh!t what the hell were they thinking.

Yeah Nic, that's what I do

I drill illusion/mirage/pickup/legover/clipper/butterfly etc all day long but my tiltless still laughs at me. Although lately I've started doing 10 or so legovers then switching to pickups then clipppers then mirages etc etc. So we'll see how that goes.

RATM are the bomb

I'm not going to shred tonight, I'm going to be lazy instead. It's so much easier.

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 31 Jan 2006 04:28

I felt that Narnia (the Chronicals of) was a very Christian story. Especially the last few stories in the series. I dunno, being a non-christian (not exactely an agnostic, but close... I dunno. I'm messed up.

), I found the last story (especially) left a sour taste in my mouth.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is an excelent, stand alone story, but the saga as a whole.... I didn't like.
I think this has put me off the film (which I haven't seen).

I'm going to see 'Munich' with my dad on the weekend.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 31 Jan 2006 18:40

oooh I want to see munich... and the producers... too many movies... not enough dollars.

um, yes, it is very christian. If you didn't notice, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is actually the gospel repackaged. Aslan is Jesus. Jadis is the devil. Edmund is the human race.

I would still reccomend the movie, it's done really well and some of the characters are adorable. I have only read the first 3 books of the series... I got bored... what can I say they're kids books. I'd like to read the whole series but I get bored, oh well. Back to Terry Pratchett

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 31 Jan 2006 19:04

Lol Gareth, you do realise C.S Lewis is a famous Christian theologist right?

Narnia was a great movie IMO

Very very cool.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 31 Jan 2006 20:55

Feb 1st
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Total length for year: 11 hours 25 minutes
Drilled: Mirages (+ pdx), Legovers, Pickups, Illusions, Clippers, Butterflys, Drifters (+ toe, pdx), Osis, Guay.

Butterfly > Pdx Mirage - 27 contacts
Osis - 26 consec

Osis > ss Guay > Guay - 24 contacts
- This was really annoying me... my flip inside delay sucks major, and I kept dropping my flip guays.

For this reason I changed my drifter drill to include pickup instead of guay. My consistency went up straight away.
Toe Drifter > Drifter > ss Pickup rpt - 12 contacts
That was my one month goal

(with pickups instead of guays)

Osis > Pdx Drifter rpt - 6 contacts

Drifter > Pdx Drifter rpt - 6 contacts

Illusion > Pickup rpt - 16 contacts
- really happy with this

And... and.... wait for it...
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Tiltless - 37 contacts

About time hehehe. I know I was just being a little sook yesterday

All in all a kickass session. started on stepping but couldn't be bothered. Started on whirls but couldn't be bothered. The whirls were giving me shin splints, I think playing a lot more footbag is hurting them... must get those insoles, and do those exercises.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 31 Jan 2006 22:33

Hey dude, good stuff! My gosh your drifters are awesome :O I'm furiously jeleous!

Your tiltless game is coming along so fast! I hope you don't beat me in our race to 100 contacts

.

Keep it up bro

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 01 Feb 2006 12:45

My highest is 99. It is funny because my mate was on the camera and it was my first run of the session. We counted it later and it was 99. If i fucking knew i was up to 99, i would have doubled my efforts to get to 100. Anyway once you boys get up there, your bodies will be screaming at you not to do it again. I think that was the last time i tried for it.

Nice work jamie

I give u props for how much time you are putting into footbag. Dedicated, that is good.

peace

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 01 Feb 2006 17:48

Yeah, footbag is the best. Still not as much as you play but I'm getting there

Saw Carl Cox last night.... ohhh man.... so freaking awesome. Best night of clubbing ever. About time Bendigo got some good music to dance to

seriously rad night, and they had pots of Becks for 2 bucks... how freakin' awesome is that?

Now I'm slightly hungover... which is going to make shred harder, but it aint gonna stop me

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 02 Feb 2006 06:02

Feb 2nd
Length: 50 mins
Total Length since 19/01/06: 12 hours 15 minutes
Drilled: Legover, Pickup, Mirage (+ pdx), Illusion, Clipper, Butterfly, Drifter (+ toe, pdx)

Sooo stuffed tonight. Hard session. The recent excess of footbag (woo!) has taken it's toll... I'll still shred tomorrow though I reckon.

Drilled tiltless a lot, mainly because I didn't have the energy for lots of energetic shred... although I quickly lost energy for tiltless too. Got 32 so I'm happy with that

Only other things of note were -

Drifter > Pdx Drifter rpt (starting BS)
Toe Drifter > Drifter > ss Pickup - 15 contacts

That is all. Adios.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 02 Feb 2006 14:29

james_dean wrote:Toe Drifter > Drifter > ss Pickup - 15 contacts

Props dude! Thanks for an awesome drill! I am going to start doing this one but with pdx mirage because I don't like pickups lol.

Do you think toe drifter or clipper drifter is a better exercise for working on improving drifters in general?

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 02 Feb 2006 19:16

I like toe Drifters better... I guess they're more useful for pdx drifter, blurry, smoke, void, etc. Whereas clipper drifter... helps with... vortex... what else does it help with?

toe Drifters are more fun anyway

Pdx mirage... hmmm... that would make the drill even harder aye... I might try that tonight.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 05 Feb 2006 05:39

Feb 5th

45 mins

crap. No energy. just, crap. pssh.

Tried Toe Drifter > Drifter > Pdx Mirage rpt
Not many contacts due to having no energy, but I really liked it as a drill and it didn't feel like a whole lot more effort. Most of my trouble was in my subconscious going for a ss pickup, which will take all of 5 minutes to eliminate.

Total hours since Jan 19th: 13 hours

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 12 Feb 2006 08:00

Feb 12th

Length: 3 hours (Total length since 19/01/06: 16 hours)
Drilled: Mirage (+ pdx), Illusion, Pickup, Legover, Butterfly, Clipper, Drifter (+ toe, pdx), Tiltless.

Good session, and the first in about a week (I've been super slack

)

Put some extra filler in my Toby bag, to make it the weight I wanted, so it plays a whole lot better now. It's still not broken in, because I've barely touched it, whoops! But the GOOD thing about that is, it forces me to catch it the right way. My O'Wheel is a little too easy to catch, and sometimes I catch when I should have dropped. So tonight almost the whole session was with my Toby bag... a little harder, but I know my form is better

40 Tiltless

Yeah, super stoked about that. That's my 1 month goal a week early... and I havn't played for the last week either. So I'm pretty happy with that. This was with my O'Wheel, everything else is with my Toby.

only 28 contacts of Butterfly > Pdx mirage, but still happy. also got 63 contacts of Mirage > Legover

wasn't even stuffed at the end, which is a good sign.

Toe Drifter > Drifter > ss Pickup - 18 contacts

Another goal acheived, and way ahead of schedule too! I've also worked out why Drifters are so freakin' tiring. From the second my foot leaves the ground, to get ready for the dex, I crank my ankle. So all my calf/shin muscles are flexed, for the whole dex, and then the delay. Too many at once = paaaain.

Got Drifter > Pdx Drifter rpt a few times again, starting both sides. Best was 5 contacts, tried for ages to get 6 but was too maggotted by that stage, end of session.

Also hit 4 tripless.
Fairy Butterfly > Pdx Drifter > Ripwalk > Blur

Also Nic challanged me to hit some tricks I hadn't before... thx mate

Flip: Blurry Whirl, Torque (clipper and toe set)
Strong: Tapping Drifter, Pdx Torque (twice, w00t!)

Real happy about all those. They were with my O'Wheel too, I really wanted to seal them

super super session. My mouse is totally screwed. I hate all technology and I wish it wouldn't keep butt raping me.

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 12 Feb 2006 12:45

about the music bro. A mate came up to visit us from the gold coast a while back with 7 days worth of all sorts of genres of dance music on his ipod. So i burnt alot of it like that.

I think he got it from www.globaldjbroadcast.com, i will double check tonight, i am pretty sure you can download all the live sets etc from there.

Or you can go on ebay enter in a djs name like tiesto, or armin Van Buuren, or just put in trance or whatever and people a selling dvds for 10 bucks with hours and hours of dance music.

Good luck.

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 12 Feb 2006 12:53

or i could email you a list of djs that you could check out and download.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 13 Feb 2006 15:24

Hey thanks man, that would be swet

And I'll definately check out that website... at the moment I just have my cd's (mainly commercial) and I listen to "Mix up" on triple J which is live DJ sets. I tried to download some Steve May but haven't had any luck yet. I was sory to find out he hasn't released a full album yet

Tried to shred yesterday... just some tiltless... only 20 mins I was a bit buggered from the night before.