footbag-vienna's footblog

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 20 Jan 2006 06:30

OOOOHHHHH NOOO!!!!
Shit. I hope it's not too bad. I wish you a good and very qick recovery!!!!!

btw, here's my new bag

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/6778

verena · Post by **verena** » 01 Feb 2006 13:14

haven't posted in here for a while.
good news is that my ankle is fine again. actually the sprain didn't turn out too bad, but then i fell off a ladder and landed exactly on my sprained ankle again.
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today's session was

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don't know. somehow my whirl-tricks aren't that good anymore.

also my runs sucked.

i footed ss smear>pixie double legover at least 1000 times, but failed to hit it.
i finally hit fairy double legover though. felt nice.

verena · Post by **verena** » 04 Feb 2006 02:38

yesterday i had a training session with the footbag-vienna-crew. denise, bernhard, philip, christian, patrick, dom, alex and i showed up.
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recently i feel like i suck a lot. like i don't progress anymore. actually i feel like i played better in october than i do now.

that's seriously very depressing.
alex was playing so well. hitting two new tricks and finally the most awesome drill. i'm sure he will post about it!
however. i hit two new combos that are easy (pixie (no plant) clipper>dlo and spinning clipper>dlo) and two new combos that were nice:
-ps whirl>torque
-strong reverse swirl>flip pdx torque

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 04 Feb 2006 09:13

footbag can sometimes be a little bit depressing, but I'm sure your feeling of no progression will go away and and a lot of new tricks will come

nice session for me yesterday! some godd stuff i hit:

- RUBBERMAN DRILL!!! starting on flip atomsmasher
- datw > double switchover
- spinning osis bsos
- gyro drifter
- pixie diving butterfly

busted · Post by **busted** » 05 Feb 2006 11:44

Props on RUBBERMAN, I know you were trying that for awhile!
-David

verena · Post by **verena** » 09 Feb 2006 03:13

it sucks being so busy all the time.
last and only time i played footbag this week was yesterday. actually i think i would have played really well yesterday, because my legs felt great, if we didn't have to practise for a footbag-show we (hanna, alex and i) are going to do on the 25th.
however. i think i kind of have to take a break for a month. after this my exam will be over.
yepp. originally i wanted to have a short session this morning, but this didn't work out.
good thing is that i'll leave to go snowboarding for 8 days in two hours.
aufwiedersehen, modified.

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 11 Feb 2006 09:13

Everybody showed up quite late to yesterdays session. So I wanted to set some new records while being alone. I only got this one, because afterwards I was soooo exhausted:
- legover x70

Shredding was quiet good. Hit ripped warrior 1st try

and one new trick:
- alpine blur

nearly got alpine fear. well, next time!

verena · Post by **verena** » 22 Feb 2006 12:58

ss smear>smear>magellan>ss smear>fear>ss fear>fear>ss fear

haven't been playing a lot lately. huge exam in 12 days.

Hania · Post by **Hania** » 22 Feb 2006 13:18

verena wrote: haven't been playing a lot lately. huge exam in 12 days.

dont worry me neither...

good luck with your exam!!!!!
I should write you an email! maybe now!

dazza · Post by **dazza** » 22 Feb 2006 13:46

spike hammer and ripped warrior are both so nice, big props for
hitting these beauties Alex

Verena your toe shuffle sounds wicked too - i'm waiting for moreshred news !
Viel Gelassenheit und viel Erfolg für deine Prüfung

machts es guat ,
d

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 20 Mar 2006 10:52

BUMP!

What's up Vienna??? No blog entry for 1 month???

Thanks Daryl. Cannot hit spikehammer anymore. Maybe because of less training and more party

No, actually the winter doesn't want to stop and my motivation is quite low at the moment.
Want to stop smoking, or at least smoke waaay less. Doesn't look so bad as of now.
Sunshred footbag open in györ was cool. I got 3rd in routine

My qualification was so bad that I thought i didn't make it to finals, but finals were quite okay, I guess. Didn't hit my sick 3 and rewind combo. Rewind would have been nuclear legover > pixie drifter

Still waiting for results of shred 30 to be put online.

So that was basically the news from my last month.

busted · Post by **busted** » 20 Mar 2006 11:12

Hey,

Don't feel bad, the whole *.ca -> *.in really threw a lot of people and confused many things. Perhaps there are still people in the Vienna scene that don't know? (I doubt it.)

Anyways, I'm also writing to ask you or Verena about the insoles that you guys use in your G-Units...

Thanks,

-David

DoctorJay · Post by **DoctorJay** » 20 Mar 2006 11:35

Just read the last few entries and Alex these tricks are superb!!!

Rubbermann, Ripwarrior, Spikehammer --- holy shit.

verena · Post by **verena** » 01 Apr 2006 08:28

dear footblog,

i'm still alive and playing footbag.
the last months i hardly played, because of demotivation and university, but this week i played fives times!

it's getting spring and i'm motivated to get good again.

my old g-units died on tuesday and i'm shredding in new ones now. now i can set the bag straight again. feels a lot better.
university is keeping me really busy though. so much to study...
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however. yahoo! i'm motivated again!
my flip pixies are getting so much better.
smear>ss smear rpt.
ss smear x4 (pretty embarrassing, i know).
flip pixie ss whirl.
pixie ss drifter.
fairy ss drifter.
fairy drifter midstring.
pixie whirl>drifter>pdx whirl>pretty long run.
barfly's getting better.
ripstein felt really easy today.

pips · Post by **pips** » 01 Apr 2006 17:17

Nice to see you back. I was wondering where some of you girls have been.

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 01 Apr 2006 17:34

verena wrote: ss smear x4 (pretty embarrassing, i know).
ripstein felt really easy today.

Firstly, ss smear x 4 isnt embarrasing!

And ripstein felt easy? How do you do them, do you do it rolly style or set > dex style?

Awesome work.

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 09 Apr 2006 07:17

Some nice sessions lately. Highlights:

Sumo > atomsmasher bs
blurry whirl > blurry drifter
pixie eggbeater
fairy eggbeater
bedwetter

scorpions tail

and David, I still use the standard g6 insoles and verena uses the spenco cross trainer insoles (I think) and she hasn't comlpained about them.

verena · Post by **verena** » 10 Apr 2006 13:50

i´m in la gomera right now.
the most awesome place i´ve ever been to. it´s such a beautiful island.
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just really short update.

1. thanks for letting me take your felix bag with me, mr.alex.
2. thanks for the comments.
3. -ss smear x7. -barfly>ps whirl. -pdx whirl>barfly>pdx whirl>barflying drop
4. you´re crazy, mr.alex.

freshONE · Post by **freshONE** » 14 Apr 2006 11:34

Hello vienna!!

Right now I am in san diego california!I tell you thats the place to be.So nice weather,wonderfull beaches but less footbagplayers then I thougt.
Nevertheless I was playing 3 times in the last5 days.Its so nice to have warm temperature again.This years winter was way too long but now everythings fine:)
I met jason from the san diego crew,he is the roommate of richard abshire.Unfortunately richard was not playing cause he has had 22sessions in the last21 days.But he showed up for shoure and now I am the proud owner of the brand new 2006 abshire model t50!
Yesterdsay I played with sam another SD local and he is damn talented.He is just playing since less than half a year and can do very nice pixie set with both feed and a lot of other hard stuff.

My game was quit good the last days.I did like 14consecutiv butterflys
and after a long time I did hit 2new tricks.
I nailed adouble-down and I did eagbeater.I am happy about that. I had some quiet long and nice runs as well.The location here is just so motivating.We played just aside the beach.Tonight I go to NYC where I hopefully will meet some footbag guys.We will see.

So far so good I hope in vienna everythings good!
greetings philip

P.s.: Big props alex!! and for shoure verena as well:)

verena · Post by **verena** » 26 Apr 2006 14:09

actually i'm very unhappy with my game at the moment. i feel like i'm not improving at all and maybe i'm even getting worse which really sucks.

however, podersdorf is coming up and i'm really looking forward to that. unfortunately the weather is supposed to be not that good...
i know that nevertheless it will be fun for sure, but we need to make some money too (to cover all the expenses)...

yepp. so bad game for me. i totally suck.
just practised my routine and the show with alex today.
my routine's quite good. the music is nice and perfectly cut (by a dj). now i've just gotta do a good routine. my best routine i've ever done was three drops and finished with pdx torque at the austrian champs. two drops would be very awesome, but i don't think i can do that. so four drops would be okay too.
yesterday i showed a few people from my footbag-course my routine. two drops (first minute was dropless).

no new tricks since a long time.
i can do the outside stall now.

hit outside stall>opp whirl.
pixie ss whirl>pdx torque.
and the only half decent personal new record: 13 x fear.