Jeremy Mirken's Footbag Blog

setman · Post by **setman** » 23 May 2006 21:15

pdx torque > janiwalker
holy cow, i've tried this shit, but i thought that's impossible, huge props, Jeremy.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 24 May 2006 16:23

Jeremy, the footbag I bought from you at css is incredible

word

SandWraith · Post by **SandWraith** » 24 May 2006 19:51

Hey Jeremy, I sent you a private message about getting another one of your 12 panels. I hope you got it; if not, pm me back. And if you did get it, a pm back would be good too. :/

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 25 May 2006 11:15

Totally forgot that last session I broke my infinity record with 106! Thats so cool . . . it used to be 83. So I didn't just beat it, I smoked it! My osis record is 110. Its good that they're so close IMO, shows balance.

Also whats harder a paradon swirl or a toe set whirling swirl? Which would be better in a sick 3?

David Morawski · Post by **David Morawski** » 25 May 2006 11:20

I heard Jeremy Mirken is hung like a centaur.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 25 May 2006 11:29

Like a Minotaur my humble friend!

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 25 May 2006 21:14

lazy sesion, didn't want to work too hard.
still hit some cool stuff though.

pdx blender>blurriest (new link)
fairy ss eggbeater and fairy op eggbeater (neither new?)
bladerunner (bs)
flip jani practice a bit
vortex flip again (will keep practicing this)
vortex bsos
vortex>vortex

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 26 May 2006 22:00

jani>blurriest>flurry>paradon swirl

12 dexes in 4 tricks, fucking sweet

cammel · Post by **cammel** » 26 May 2006 22:53

Senor Grommet wrote:jani>blurriest>flurry>paradon swirl

12 dexes in 4 tricks, fucking sweet

Damn thats awesome. In response to your question i think paradon swirl would look better.

setman · Post by **setman** » 26 May 2006 22:59

HUGE!

sidekick · Post by **sidekick** » 02 Jun 2006 05:00

I'd go with paradon swirl because:
1: it looks like you can hit it more consistantly (due to that sick 4 trick combo)
2: It gets more adds... (even though that doesn't matter in a sick 3 sometimes)
3: it's harder IMO, just because of the timing.

I guess I'll find out wich one you choose at the Pajammy Jam!

sampotter · Post by **sampotter** » 02 Jun 2006 07:04

I would go with toe whirling swirl just for uniqueness. I think it's an ugly trick, but NO one does toe whirling swirl. Everyone and their momma can do paradon swirl these days.

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 03 Jun 2006 06:56

I would go with toe whirling swirl too. Its not that hard and i think its a bit overrated but its definately more original that paradon swirl. Props on your insaneness

SandWraith · Post by **SandWraith** » 03 Jun 2006 07:15

I agree. Paradon swirl is definitely hard, but toe whirling swirl is a lot more unique (and still hard). Also, I think toe whirling swirl is actually cooler looking.

Props on the 4 3-dexes. That's ridiculous.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 03 Jun 2006 22:42

Well . . . I just had the longest day of footbag I've had in a couple of years. 8 hours of basically non-stop kicking-not all shred tho. It started out with 5 hours of Footbag Net with A.J. nd Angel and then morphed into an impromptu "hack" session down in the village of Capitola for about 1.5 hours, followed by about 1 hour of light shred and teaching the fundamentals to Angel. In Capitol, I had the good fortune to meet E.J., who is a new addition to the Santa Cruz Footbag Club, Paul, UCSC's juggling club mentor, Chad from Emily's communication class, but no Yokonon. "Yok" as they call him is this cool brazilian guy who does mad athletic flips and moves with a footbag and has been jugling soccer balls for years. Side note:I hit janiwalker with a sipa sipa 'n baggy shorts today first try!

Net today was the best session ever, apart from the last sessin which was equally of the frikkin hizzook! Im getting really good and so its getting a lot more fun. Today I easily had about 20 spikes and my legs incrased their flexibility by a great deal (temporary tho?). I was high flying today, trying a lot of aerial stuff that Im norally a bit too squeamish to attempt (no bicycles or anything, but quite a bit of body laterality in the air. Oh man, the rush from a great spike is just asgood or better than landing some freestyle moves. I definitely see myself playing a lot of net in the future.

EDIT: these two *hotties from the Aptos Academy recognized me from doing the assembly at their school about a monmth ago and they came up to me and said: Hey, are you Jeremy? Do you do shows at scxhols and stuff?" AndI was like "yeah, why?" They said, "cause you came to our school and showed us footbag." "Oh, haha, cool," said I. Then I invited them to come out for the tourney next weekend and they were excited about it. I think I'll go drop off a coupl of fliars for the event at their school in case some of the upper gders want to learn mor about the sport.

*They were most likely in 7th grade or something

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 05 Jun 2006 19:13

So . . . i think i invented a new move a few days ago. However, it was unintentional and I probably couldn't reproduce it if I tried 1,000 times.

Here is the explanation:
While going for anchor with my left leg, I stalled the bag on the outside portion of the lower left leg (i.e., several inches higher up the leg) rather than on the outside portion of the left foot. I was able to hold this position for about 4 seconds before i linked it to > "holy shit, that's insane!"> a prompt drop. I am naming this move "cankle" because I can!

To get a visualization of the portion of my leg on which the stall occurred, check out portion of leg between the "70" and "71" on this picture of lower-leg anatomy:

Clearly, this was a freak of nature stall that may never be reproduced. I have about 5 witnesses to attest to it however.

In other news, I poached another serve playing footbag net on Sunday using a flying sole push. But that asshole AJ promptly batted it back over my head so my team ended up losing the point.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 07 Jun 2006 23:08

Uh . . . blog slipping to page 2 is evidence of 12 days w/o serious freestyle. Hope I'm not too rusty for the Jammy Jam. It's giving me time to think anyway.

In recent news, we got the tourney t-shirts. They're pretty bomb and I think most people will love em. I went to an MC Battle tonight in downtown Santa CRuz, where I watched my buddy Matt Marks (a footbagger who wil be in attendance at the Jammy Jam) rip MCs like college-ruled paper. Im in the process of uploading some vids from the night including the final two battle rounds ("Tantrum" vs. "Mizzo") and an MC with so much style he makes Ales Zelinka looks like a street bum. Please stay tuned. There were some dope lyrics slung, and they're be up in dis biatch shortly.

EdIt:
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/Cruz
Here is the link to my .org gallery, which now contains 4 or 5 vids from the battle. Watch em!

burma · Post by **burma** » 08 Jun 2006 22:06

Jeremy your tricks and links are always ridiculous.
props to you Jeremy. I get inspiration from reading your blog

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see you in Russia.

Matt K · Post by **Matt K** » 09 Jun 2006 12:41

Doing moves by accident is awesome isn't it? Like going for a Pdx Torque and doing a Pdx Miraging Heel Stall

. Well, that'll never happen again.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 17 Jun 2006 22:10

37 drifters
whirr pdx trque pdx blender
ripstein to whirr, thin whirr tho