The BCS footblog

[janis]

props everyone

I might be coming to brisbane in the next month or so, if so gotta arange a shred

[NotHisRealName]

Well, I've started a discussion on the Ausfootbag forums, regarding the forums themselves (does that make sence? Hmmmm.)

So far I'm pleased to see alot of people posting there... especially people like Lotus and Robin.

I honestly don't bother checking the .org forums much anymore. The only thread I've been interested in was the one about a possible jam or gathering around October... but even that's been inactive. There are a few other threads there, but I CBF posting or even reading... so I've no idea who's actually using it.

I'd like to see the Council change it's decision to be so restrictive with posting on the Ausfootbag forums. Sure we had a few blow-ups in the past, but now there's nothing. .Org feels totally sterile in comparison.

The idea was for the Ausfootbag forums to be more of an official face for the Australian footbag scene... but there's been no more opportunities come to us since the change. I feel we weren't totally appreciated by Nestle during their demos - regarding their failure to sponsor or support the Australian Championships in any way... and there's only realy been the soccer thing in the southern states since then (or was that even before?). So 'cleaning up the forums' was pretty much a waste of time.

But then, to be honset, I couldn't give a fuck about any sort of sponsorship or financial support for the site right now. We've made it last this long on our own donations and funding (haven't we?), so why do we even need to worry about getting more? I guess for events and such, but how does our forum community harm any possible sponsorship bid? Hell, when we're at an event, we all piss it up and act like idiots anyway, so what does it matter? How professional is it to play 'extreme hack' on a moving train ffs!?

I would have thought that with the right marketing of the event, sponsorship would be possible... and that the professional nature of the interaction with the event representatives would be enough. Surely the community postings on a web forum hold little weight toward any sponsorship bid.

I think the Council had it's heart in the right place in wanting the scene to grow, but with what it's done... it's only hindered the growth of the sport in Australia.

I'd really like everyone to post their opinions on this issue... I think the current situation with the forums needs to be changed.

Anyway, if you read this and have something to say about the Ausfootbag forums, please go to those forums and have your say!

[BalinorNZ]

Thanks Gareth, I wasn't aware of that discussion as I haven't been to the ausfootbag forum since it was killed.

Played this morn at 6am before going to bed .

Solo Session 26: 1.5 hour (Total since 24/01/06: 55.5 hours)
Drilled: Bops, blenders, blurry whirls.
Notes: I hit a few solid blurry whirls on flipside, but then lost them , hit it first try I think good side, felt solid enough so I left it there. I practiced blenders for quite a while, especially flipside, I managed blender > infinity > infinity > blender which took way longer than it should have, but hey, practice makes perfect .
Tried to hit some torques, managed one unsealed torque both sides DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Flip I hate torques so flippin much right now, they are just totally gone, they take way too much energy and it just feels like I can't him them, even though my osis has improved lately. SCREW YOU TORK!
Ended with some bops, I hit 26 infinity, 14 osis, 26 ducking clips, 28 butterfly > pdx mirage and 26 fairy clip > pdx mirage I think, close to those numbers anyway, all of them were close to first try, wasn't really bothered to push the limits, pretty pleased with how the felt which is the main thing.

Kicking again soon tonight. I'm on 6 days stright now, tonight will be #7.

[NotHisRealName]

Thanks for having your say, Nic.

I could never get the hang of Torque... stupid move, anyway (don't tell Peter Irish I said that )

[*Jethro*]

go nic.

i have played 2 days in row.
played for around 3 hours (two sesh's) on the first
and about an hour and a half the second.

first time i did 2 days in a row in aaages

been schooling whirls and such

hit toewhirl>blur rpt first shot
6 consec pdx whirls
barflies are getting way better
more consistent game.

getting tehre

-Jesse

[BalinorNZ]

Solo Session 27: 2 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 57.5 hours)
Drilled: Bops, pdx whirls, blenders,
Notes: Finally! For the first time in age I hit new moves and felt improvement in my game last night
Started off warming up whirls, I hit merkon > toe whirl rpt and gyro mirage > toe whirl rpt.
Did some blenders, I hit blender > ducking clip > ducking clip > blender, only sealed it one side though.
Then I moved onto pdx whirls, new pdx whirl record: 6
BOPs were pretty average, 15 osis, 24 infinity, 18 ducking clips, all were a little bit off, i'm not too worried though. I hit 18 contacts of osis > infinity > ducking clip.
I decided to school dlo and drifter so I hit pdx drifter > ducking clip rpt from both sides and pdx dlo > fairy ss mirage bs.
Also hit dlo > drifter rpt and 20 contacts of dlo > op toe rpt
New Moves:
Flipside symp whirl
Matador - it was wierd, I have been trying to hit it on my left side and been close for a while, but last night I hit it on right side which i've never tried before and still coulden't hit left side

I've come to the conclusion that learning pdx whirl has improved my:
Nuclear sets
Pdx drifters
Pdx dlos

7 days stright now.

[Uranos]

I've come to the conclusion that learning pdx whirl has improved my:
Nuclear sets
Pdx drifters
Pdx dlos

lol


Props on your shit. Some NZ insaneness there

[BalinorNZ]

Thx Alix

Solo Session 28: 2.5 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 60 hours)
Drilled: Bops, fairy sets, stepping sets.
Notes: I played for an hour longer than intended, and i've forgotten heaps of what I hit but i'll try list some progress:
35 infinities (new record)
17 osis (bleh)
22 ducking clips (bleh)
19 contacts of osis > infinitiy > ducking clip
55 contacts of butterfly > pdx mirage (new record)
Spent the next wee while testing out the video function on my PDA.
17 contacts of fear > fairy legover rpt
8 contacts of stepping clip > blurry clip rpt
sidewalk > ripwalk rpt (man my stepping sets really suck!)
8 contacts of fairy butterfly > blur rpt
blurry whirl > ducking clip > ducking clip > blurry whirl (flip bwhirl improving slowly)
ducking osis > ducking butterfly > ducking butterfly > ducking osis (to finish with)
I didn't even think about new moves, spent way too long playing with PDA, I need to keep pushing my drillls past 4 contacts to get any kind of consistancy.

Continuing slowly to get better, I still don't think most of my game is as good as it was 6 months ago .


I'm thinking about starting my own blog now that i've started playing again... anyone have any objections?

[Canthraxsoldier]

well the fact that you aren't from the same city, state or country as the BCS should give you some incentive to start your own

[NotHisRealName]

Nic, you're welcome to keep posting here... the fact is, though, that you're about the only one who's posting and showing any sign of improvement.

I don't often prop other ppl for stuff they're hitting and posting about... for me this blog is more of a venting session for footbag (as you may have noticed). So don't take my lack of responce personally.

Again, let me say you're welcome to continue posting here if you like.

[BalinorNZ]

No I don't take it personally at all Gareth I just think it would be easier for my own records to have them separated so I can recap my progress mores easily is all.

Solo Session 29: 1 hour (Total since 24/01/06: 61 hours)
Drilled: Bops, whirls
Notes: I didn't have much time to kick and I had been sitting studying all day so I didn't feel like last nights session would be too good, but I surprised myself a few times .
My first string of the night, I did some tiltless to warm up, and broke my record .
New Tiltless record: 106 contacts
It may have been 116, I think I counted from 60-70 twice but i'll call it 106. I'm glad to have finally broken 100, it's been a goal for a while.
Infinities were a withered shadow of last nights record breaking performace, I managed 20 eventually doing over 100 contacts stright off the bat pretty much killed my legs for the rest of the night so it wasn't too surprising.
Osis next, broke my record, not by much though:
New Osis record: 24 - 3 more than previous record I set like 6 months ago.
Next I did ducking clippers, didn't expect much because of tired legs, but first try I broke my record by more than double
New ducking clipper record: 60 - to a hand catch (I was screwed)
Went pretty downhill from there, I tried to do midtime whirls like Vasek does, I hit 3 on my good side and 2 on my badside, I was apauled, I can hit 6 pdx whirls but can't break 3 whirls definatly something wrong but by this stage I was too wasted to fix it, i'll school whirls again next shred.
Jorden Moir once told me, "Never finnish a shred on a bad note", and I always try not to, so I hit a string to finish that had pdx blender and blurry whirl in it

I'll be moving out of the BCS blog after I finish exams on the 19th

[BalinorNZ]

Kicked today with Toby and Axel, as usual spent a lot of time schooling so I will mark it as a solo session:

Solo Session 30: 3 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 64 hours)
Drilled: Whirls, bops, string length
Notes: Well, the session was pretty average really, I find it really hard to adjust to shreding in public after soloing for a long time, and this happened today.
Toby stright off the bat hit like 45 infinitys shattering my record by 10, then he was busting symple swirls all over the place, and reverse swirls like they were nothing, and he hit 2 new moves, twirl both sides , then to make things worse, he hit matador like first try, I hit it too, but it took me longer, I footed it a few times on flip too. Toby also hit some long consistant guiltless strings. The most annoying part of it all is that Toby never shools most of the moves he does, he can just do them
As for me, I played absolutly crap, all my strings sucked and I was dropping basic moves continually. The trouble with warming up doing drills in my solo sessions is that you can't be bothered/don't have time to warm up the same way at a shred which leads to the frustrating inconsistancy I experianced today .
I hit a new 5>5, fairy ducking butterfly > spinning whirl. Worked on whirls a bit, they suck ass, I just can barely do them, tried to hit some long guiltless strings, the longest I got was like 26 which is flippin crap.
I'm back to feeling like i'm not improving at footbag .

On the bright side, turns out me and Toby have a fun club , about 7 girls came up and starting watching while we shreded, they were all saying how amazing it was and one of them said "see I told you they are good!" They asked as all about footbag and we explained it to them a bit, told them where we are from blah blah, turns out they are 3rd year physio students or something like that, lol they said we should be sponsored and if we put a hat out they would give us money haha. Then they got out their cameras and started taking photos of us playing with some of them standing behind us to get in the picture, it was hilerious They were off to have a party or something with their box of wine, they even suggested we come with that lol.
So it turns out Toby has a chance with the ladies after all , I always new they dig footbag!

[james_dean]

dude, 106 tiltless??!?!?!¿?¿ You are intense.... you beat me by a mile.

Props to Toby on being a smartass bitch

I wish I could hit 26 guiltless and say it's crap...

footbag CAN get you laid! Booya!

[*Jethro*]

nice on 60 ducking clippers nic and +100 tiltless is great!

i had a realllllllly good sesh yesterday.
schooled 5>5 links

newbies:
spinningwhirl>blurrywhirl
blurrywhirl>mobius (footed on flip)
blurrywhirl>spinning whirl
spinning whirl>mobius
spinning whirl>spinning ducking butter
bsos spinning whirl
bsos mobius (but there was a toestall in the run lol)
spinning whirl>pdx blender off the heel



i wish i had the camera out for that one
oh well.

thats all the good stuff
the end.
-Jesse


edit: i also hit torqescrew

[BalinorNZ]

edit: i also hit torqescrew

Nice! Toby has been trying real hard to hit that one lately He will be pissed that you beat him .

I had info333 exam today... I might pass the paper, but I might not

Will shred later tonight.

[BalinorNZ]

Solo Session 31: 1.5 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 65.5 hours)
Drilled: Whirls, bops, blenders, dlo.
Notes: Pretty productive night:
Pdx blender bsos.
Spinning blender first try
Ducking blender off foot
New 5>5 blurry whirl > spinning whirl, close to my first 5>5>5 now.
16 contacts of pdx mirage > dlo > butterfly - flip dlo much better.
I spent a lot of time trying to do osis properly, doing osis > spinning clip rpt etc.
I hit over 10 osis, over 20 infinity and over 20 ducking clips - coulden't really be bothered as I don't think schooling consecs is improving my bops.
20 contacts of whirl > alt clip rpt
I want to get a semi consistant nuke set, it will be handy for sick3's.

[james_dean]

I want to get a semi consistant nuke set, it will be handy for sick3's.

booya!

props on the 5>5. I wonder if I can hit one. Damnit I must play tonight... that is an order... my ankle is still weak f$#%

[BalinorNZ]

Thx Jamie

Solo Session 32: 1.5 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 67 hours)
Drilled: Bops, blenders, strings, kicking
Notes: Wierd shred, I spent ages doing some bop drills like infinity > ss clip rpt and osis > ss clip rpt, and just doing blenders both sides.
I hit pdx blender both sides again, flipside was first try.
Unfortunatly I kicked myself in the calf doing pdx whirl, still quite tender but that slowed me down quite a bit, my calves were pretty stiff anyway. So I decided to try to some strings, the longest I hit was 36 guiltless which is my new record I think, it's a bit of proff that my BOPs are slowing getting stronger, but it's not spectacular.
I spent the last half hour just kicking, practicing all the different kicks, it was boring as crap, but I gotta do it sometime.
New Moves: Flipside knee stall, flipside pincher stall - LOL

Summary of my game at the moment:
I decided last night that I like my style except I need to relax more, especially on bops, my butterfly and osis are ugly because I can't do them easily, I need to do more atomic and stepping in my shuffle and my game would look cooler if my ducks were done higher and more consistantly cleanly.
My game could use more drifters and dlos and I should put eggbeaters in more now I can do them, I also could do with midstring blenders to improve string variety. I need to learn normal whirls very well and use them with bops to give my bails more variety.
I need to use a bigger variety of spinning moves (ie not spinning clipper all the time) I would like to include spin osis, merkon and especially gyro mirage.
I need to do more illusions (pdx illusion).
On the bright side, my fairys and spins look good to me, my ducks are pretty consistant, when I do them my atomics look mint and my stepping looks good to.

[janis]

New Moves: Flipside knee stall, flipside pincher stall - LOL

PROPS!!!

[BalinorNZ]

Lol thx Janis

Solo Session 33: 1.5 hours (Total since 24/01/06: 68.5 hours)
Drilled: Blenders, Bops, fairy whirl, stepping, atomic
Notes: My calf was still a bit sore from kicking myself yesterday, but I played nonetheless.
After warming up I did some blenders just because I love them, they are so much cooler than torques.
I hit far osis > blender rpt and blender > far osis rpt.
Both pdx blenders.
Clip > blender > hand catch rpt x5 then I dropped on the 6th clipper
blender > ducking osis bs, (coulden't rpt it )
I then decided to work the old atomics and stepping sets, so I hit:
Rubberman - finally! First try from one side, otherside took a while.
Then I worked whirls: Fairy whirl > pdx mirage rpt
Finished off with BOPs:
74 contacts of osis > ss clip rpt
66 contacts of infinity > ss clip rpt
22 contacts of whirl > alt clip rpt
20 ducking clippers or somethin.
Hmm I can't remember anything else I hit, so i'll leave it there.
New Moves: Tripple switch....... with my hands (Hey it's still hard!)