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David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 09 Mar 2006 10:57

Moxie wrote:Watching Fletcher play footbag makes me happy.

Serious, yo!

Fletcher..read the first page of your flog.

I'm so proud

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 09 Mar 2006 13:14

my first blog entry:

I played the best I ever have, hit legovers, mirages, pickups and some around the worlds very consistently in 5 to 6 trick strings and I think 15 in the best one, I hit the clipper back to clipper stall, hit 2 pixie-legovers, and a butterfly on each side (which I havent been able to do since.. that pisses me off,) and I attempted double legovers but didnt hit any that day. Attempted illusions but landed only maybe one out of .. a lot of tries.
It was very fun playing with them because I landed a few tricks that I'd never even thought about trying before.

yeah.. wow.. looking back at this really makes me feel good.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 11 Mar 2006 19:07

played for a little under 5 hours with jeremy, about the last 40 minutes was solo.

27 infinities
pdx eggbeater
diving clipper>ducking clipper>diving clipper>ducking clipper both sides
ducking clipper>osis>pdx mirage bsos
diving clipper>osis>pdx mirage both sides
p whirl bsos (felt clean not positive though.)

ripwalk>buttefly>buttefly>ripwalk>butterfly>butterfly>drop
ripwalkX3 lots of times.. footed 4 once or twice.
consecutive ducking clipper X4
butterfly>ss butterfly>opp butterfly 10 contacts

ducking far legover bsos
ducking pdx mirage>atomsmasher
atomic far legover and stepping far legover both sides
several +20 tiltless runs
four 4's in one run i think..

pixie set same side legover a few times

those are all the highlights i can remember but jesus... so much footbag. i love it.

David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 12 Mar 2006 00:03

Close to 5 hours is a shitload of footbag.

I already gave you props in real time, but I must submit the same encouragement in flog-form. 27 infinities! That's just ridiculous. You are blowing up, man.

Fat fucking props. I love that you love footbag.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 14 Mar 2006 19:53

played at stanford with steve goldberg, emily, and like 5 new people im kinda sketchy on the names. Dat was there also, helped me with a few things.

toe drifter>ripwalk
27 infinities (why the hell do i keep dropping on 28..?)
ducking pdx illusion
ducking pdx mirage>legbeater
almost hit nuclear mirage and nuclear butterfly.
tapping illusion! (though it probably was a little dirty.)
and double switch over twice for the first time.

uhh.. uhh... i think that's about it. big circle most of the time so it wasn't a very serious session but it was fun. Tomorrow will be fatty drilling.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 15 Mar 2006 22:07

2 hour session with emily, played about the last half hour solo.

consecutive ripwalkX5
78 alternating clippers (switching off 10 each side) im gonna hit 100 next time.
consecutive whirl X5

tapdown>ducking pdx mirage>legbeater
symp mirage>legbeater
legbeater>ducking osis

ducking osis bsos
osis>ripwalk
ducking osis>ripwalk

crazylegs32 · Post by **crazylegs32** » 15 Mar 2006 22:25

Your progress is sick. I think it is kicking with senior grommet brecause he seems to have good advice.
JK Good job on practicing and getting better.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 15 Mar 2006 22:42

Thanks!

Really though, Emily and him have helped me quiiiiite a bit. If I hadn't come to Santa Cruz.... well, I wouldn't be as good.

acxel22 · Post by **acxel22** » 15 Mar 2006 23:23

I would kill to have shred partners, especially some with as good advice
but the first things that helps someone become a good player is motivation and practice, and more motivation and more practice!

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 17 Mar 2006 14:59

I definitely agree. I'd be nowhere without lots of motivation and practice.

hit clipper>pickup and clipper>butterfly a few times with barefeet and pants... I remember maybe 8 months ago i could barely stall a sandmaster on my feet at the beach.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 17 Mar 2006 15:00

you suck. Im better than you are.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 18 Mar 2006 03:19

jeremy does nothing but belittle my skills. I think he's jealous of the all the ladies I get.

4.5 hour session tonight with jeremy and emily.

new move: Matador!
stepping mirage bsos
ripwalk>blizzard
9 osis in a row
almost ate shit trying pixie set ss whirl
almost hit spinning clipper>spinning clipper
put a little effort into inspinning.
hit other good stuff too.

David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 18 Mar 2006 18:53

FunkLovesFootbag wrote:jeremy does nothing but belittle my skills.

That's why you're so fucking good.

Allow me to boost your ego a little more..fat props on matador! I didn't know you were delving into nuclear..especially with such sick components.

Keep eating shit, and keep working those osii.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 19 Mar 2006 23:21

Thanks Davey. Had a fucking ridiculously good time this weekend in San Francisco with Emily, Joe Crane, his girlfriend Liza, and Ahren Gehrman. I'm only 19 but I got into this bar with them. Really awesome people; Joe fed me guinness all night..ended up getting to Ahren's about 3:30 I think, and then session the next day, then kickass thai food with jeremy afterwards.

sessioned with: jeremy, emily, joe crane, dustin rhodes, ahren gehrman, cameron kennedy, brian fournier, and carol wedemeyer! So sick. I hit a bunch of good stuff, I was really inspired to push my game watching everybody bust. had some great tiltless and guiltless strings, some good ducking stuff, torques, drifters, whirls, p drifters, p whirls (though on one side only) etc. all my usual stuff. one particular sick 3 which i think im going to get on film and submit I hit clean, which was muted tapdown>blur>atomic symposium butterfly.

got a lot of sick footage today, and had a fucking great time hanging out with everyone. looking forward to posting a vid of it.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 23 Mar 2006 00:21

played with dave today at mark's house. played for.. about 3.5 hours? i think.

whirl>drifter>whirl>drifter>osis
whirl>drifter>osis>.. something something blur clipper blur legbeater
ripwalk>ripwalk>blur
p drifter>ripwalk
a couple of long tiltless with a few 3's around 20 contacts
stepping mirage bsos

uhhhhhh i dunno, lots of good stuff. got some footage, gonna take footage of some portion of every session i have while im out of town and put it all together. it'll be sick.

David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 24 Mar 2006 14:43

this is fletch... just got done shredding at dave's house.

tapdown>ducking butterfly>footed ducking pdx mirage
legbeater>blur
smear

lots of the same stuff i've been hitting.

meh. seems like im bothering to remember specific stuff i hit less and less. some ok runs. kind of a lazy session, it was hot outside and it was just dave and I... and i am a lazy sonofabitch. Been smoking too much lately. I'll play harder tomorrow.. session with dave and chad.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 25 Mar 2006 18:11

session at hb pier with dave chad and sam.

ducking butterfly and ducking pdx mirage in the same run
blur bsos, and some atomic i think like four 4's in the same run
dyno for the first time but it was heely.

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 25 Mar 2006 18:54

Nice stuff, Fletcher! And yay for dyno.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 26 Mar 2006 18:31

thanks emily

today i played with chad and dave at the hb pier.
i hit symposium whirl a few times so i thought i'd try PS Whirl, took me about 10 tries and I hit it.

backside blur
a shitload of atomsmashers, tapdowns, and legbeaters, blurs and ripwalks
toe drifter>p drifter
spinning butterfly both sides
tapdown>pdx mirage>tapdown>pdx mirage
toe diving butterfly and toe ducking butterfly in same run

symp pixie>symp mirage>symp pixie>symp mirage>butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>whirl>butterfly>pdx mirage

it was a really good session. OH, and i hit clipperX10>opp clipperX10 for a total of 101 alternating clippers sealed with osis>hand catch.

*edit* also hit fear and dimwalk, and last post i meant fear when i typed smear.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 29 Mar 2006 15:17

played last night with chad and dave at hb parking lot.

though i didnt hit anything new, i feel like progress had to have been made.

hit flip p whirl pretty clean a few times, footed p whirl to p whirl and ripwalk to p whirl

ripwalk>drifter
butterfly>osis>pdx mirage and butterfly>far osis>pdx mirage in same run

same stuff, ducking butterflies both sides, ducking pdx mirage both sides, ripwalk bsos, blur both sides, legbeater bsos, tapdown bsos,
eggbeater>dlo

tried the challenge combo of crispy eggbeater>toe whirl>pdx illusion rpt and failed miserably.. i hit the first trick both only

came close to blurry whirl at the end of the session.