Welcom To The Shred Life - A Van - Canada Footbagers Story

[London]

Hello There Footbagers Alike And Welcom To My Shred Life

This Is My Story And I Welcom Any Opinions On My Writting
And Any Opinion On Myself As A Footbager

FOOTBAG THE BEGINING - MARCH 2005 TO BEGINING OF MARCH 2006


Hi Im London and i may as well get this story under way. If I remember corectly it was April the 20th, 2005 when I truly descovered that footbag was my sport. At that time I was but a regular Vancouver Canadian that had just started circle kicking. "Yes," I remember thinking, "this is truly somehting I could get into." The next day me and a friend from school decided to go to the local Puff weed paraphenalia store. Knowing nothing about footbag, (I called it Hackysck at this time), I accidentally purchased a 16 pannel hemp sand filled footbag. This was a blessing in itself it allowed me to hone my skills and truly begin to enjoy footbag as a sport.

Well it had begun lik the first steps of a child, i was taking my first kicks as a footbager. It imataly became a part of my life, spending any spre time I had kicking. I was never without a footbag; though, it was slow to begin with. By mid summe I could kick a consetuive of 9 and was just learning stalls when i first stumbled onto my first footbag website the old Flipsider and all of its trick Vids. At this time I was whearing a worn out pair of lugs work boots. I began attempting clippers first of corse. I Beleive it took me about a month to even be able to do the clipper right footed. I had become completly right Foot relient at this time.

By the end of Summer and the begining of my grade 12 year at my private school I had worn a hole through the bottom of my worne out lugs. So, I started purchsed a pair of similar shoes a yello stone Lugs work boots. At thius time my trick vocabulare was expanding i was learning my first 2 and 3 add tricks such as miarges and butter flys. I was still mostly right legged at this time, and was still calling it hackysack.

It was the beginning of March 2006 after nearly a year of kicking in a heavy pair of work boots. I was happy and cuntent shreding had become a daily routean, as well as a daily conversation and fight with others i was neglecting(girlfriend). I had lernt and expanded my freestyle into lines of stalls and was just begining to expermint with stringing tricks together. This was when i decided to by my first pair of rod lavers I purchased the whit and green and was awaiting arrival in the mail....

NEXT ENTRY TOMMARO - MAY 17

[London]

Hello again

The lavers Mid March 2006

This next chapter is when footbag starts to absorbe my life (not like it hasent already). I received my Lavers about mid march it was a welcom change. I imadatly began to inprove on of the most nodicable thing when whereing lavers is the weight compared to my lugs boots i could now play solo for nearly 3 houres. I then began what would be my training to become a great footbager.

Since i had already been playing for a year i was able to do all stalls. I decided to start a footbag training regment each and every day.
- 20 min of rotating toe stalls
- 20 min of rotating inside stalls
- 20 min of rotating clipperstalls

It was a month later mid april 2006 when i nodiced how much i improved. i now rairly kicked and i was now doing basic strings of 2 add tricks. My tricks where clippers and mirages, atw, and legovers and pickups as well as a few others. It was a constant sport i spent a minimum of 1 houre a day training, and an average of 3 to 4 houres a day shredding. At this time i was begining to dotice sever pain in my right knee when i was resting and not shredding. i egnored and the pain (though it ristricted sleep), and it eventally stoped.

It was april 20 2006 a year since i knew i was to become a shredder. At this time i decided to increase my training redgment to.
- 20 min toe rotations
- 20 min inside rotations
- 20 min clipper rotations
- *20 min butterfly rotations

Now i have improved a great deal and almost concider myself a advanced freestyler. I had inproved greatly and now do strings of 3 and 2 add tricks.


so my story begins