Jamieson Hickingbotham

Tjuggles · Post by **Tjuggles** » 22 Jun 2006 18:51

Awesome stuff man! Atomic vortex?! That is sick.
Looking foward to shreddin with you at WORLDS...

T

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 22 Jun 2006 20:44

Thanks guys

worlds? oh if only... one day... one day. Next year hopefully but might take me two years, who knows.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 26 Jun 2006 01:49

June 25th
Length: 1 hour

Drilled BOP's, hit some random strings, tried to beat drifter rec but equaled my past pb at 23. Started to drill whirls but got pissed at them. Footed ducking PS whirl a million times, this feels like a flukey trick so it doesn't bother me that much.

New trick: ripped warrior. about time

June 26th
Length: 2 hours 30 mins (Total since 19/1/06: 103 hours)

Shred at Fed Square with dan alex and janis. Drilled toe whirls with Dan alot, he helped me major and I went away with much better whirls than I came with. Still a ways to go though.

Shuffle was oooon. Really good today

Hit stepping whirl > blurry whirl, tombstone bsos a bunch of times, almost bsosx2 once. Tried so hard to get it b2b but no cigar

Hit whirr > run > footed double dyno

but got double dyno later on

still really not happy with string length. And doing easier tricks doesn't really seem to help it

bah oh well. it will come.

oh yeah, shrednie was rockin it today, his barraging and double downs are hothot.

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 26 Jun 2006 05:56

james_dean wrote:Hit whirr > run > footed double dyno but got double dyno later on

Nice!! Double Dyno and whirr are AWESOMELY HARD! U da man

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 26 Jun 2006 19:17

Thx Nic.

Forgot to say, the other day I hit pdx tap bothsides and torquescrew, thx to nic and toby for inspiration

June 26th
Length: 1 hour

Didn't feel that sore last night after the melb shred and had just bought a gorillaz 'g-sides' album so I thought hmm... shred with gorillaz? hell ja. Found the song for my next solo video too, it's so cool

listening to it right now mmm yeah.

What quickly became aparant is that although I wasn't sore, I was fatigued

still good sesh though.

Drilled illusions and whirls. Also spinning on one side, saw heaps of improvement. I decided to just do one side for the moment to minimise confusion, the 'adjustments' I have to make to have a straight spinning set are complete opposites on the different sides of my body so, yeah.

rubberman first try. I shit you not. Couldn't believe it... apparantly my atomics are better than I thought

footbag rulez

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 08 Jul 2006 17:49

Wooo big week. hillsong in sydney was amazing, such a good wek, and has helped inspire me to make some changes. good stuff.

Shred:

Sunday 2nd July
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes.

Sesh with Ian, Dyalan, Jas and Guido. We stayed as one circle so it was pretty laid back, hardly broke a sweat

But my legs gave in earlier than I expected which was weird. Anyway hit some good stuff, blurry whirl > tombstone a few times, tombstone BSOS plenty of times, pretty much in love with this trick. I think I hit rubberman again, if not I got reeeally close. That's all I can remember.

New move: Backside Blizzard

Monday 3rd July
Length: 1 hour.

Solo drilling sesh. Drilled Illusions and whirls and spinning. Plus some other random stuff probably. Spinning got heaps better, 3x spinning clipper a few times.

New moves: Alpine Atomsmasher, pdx Tapping Drifter, finally

cool move.

Wednesday 5th July
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Sesh with Ian and Dyalan at the Monster skate park. Tis a cool skate park. Made some good attempts at tap > atomsmasher rpt but no cigar.

New moves: Predator (

), pdx Barrage.

Friday 7th July
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes. (Total since 19/1/06: 110 hours 30 minutes)

Sesh with Dyalan and Dan. Ian was a n00b and slept in after too much boozy booze. Total lack of leg strength/mental creativity. So I mostly drilled. Again got really close to tap > atomsmasher rpt, it felt so easy and casual sometimes, even through the tiredness, so I can't believe I didn't get that last stall. Pretty much hate this combo for teasing me so much. Dyalan started to race me to hit it but neither of us got there. Oh well. Also got crispy torque > ripwalk rpt. Should do this more, it's way harder on my flipside than it should be.

All in all a pretty good week. Really happy with shuffle, I think my run length was better this week too. Also Dyalan and Ian gave me some help with proper form on spinning, thx guys. Whirls were also feeling way better this week. I can't wait till I can feel proud of them

I'm really happy with my style/form at the moment, and glad that atomic is just getting easier and easier. It's not taking the energy it used to which is good, as it's an underused set. Now I've got a week to finish my short film for worlds... can I do it? Tune in next time, for Days of Jamieson's Life.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 09 Jul 2006 22:51

Monday July 10th
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Illusions, stepping, atomic, BOPs, DLO

Felt a bit yerk and took me ages to get going. Hit some good stuff once I did though. Finally hit tap > atomsmasher rpt, should have hit this soooo long ago. Also 5 consec atomsmashers. Really happy with atomic, feeling so easy and casual now. When I hit tap > atomsmasher rpt it didn't feel like a stretch at all so I'm really happy with that.

Stepping a lot better too. Can't wait till I have this down. Flipside, mainly, strongside is pretty good already (always room for improvement of course

)

Don't really feel like stoping but have stuff to do. Might shred again tonight. I don't know if I will be able to finish my shortfilm this week, which would totally totally suck. *sigh*

janis · Post by **janis** » 10 Jul 2006 00:55

Props on the atomic stuff

tap>atomsmasher rpt. is the ownage !

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 12 Jul 2006 16:18

Oh well. No short film for worlds challange. *cries*

Tuesday July 11
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Atomic, stepping, BOP's, some other stuff I don't remember.

Atomsmasher x7. i <3 atomic.

Wednesday July 12
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Illusions, whirls, BOP's, Osis links, atomic.

Bit of an unfocussed session. Got tap > atomsmasher rpt again though.

New trick: Morpheus (spinning ducking pdx drifter) oh hell yes that felt good. Sweet move name too.

Uranos · Post by **Uranos** » 12 Jul 2006 17:19

PROPS Jamison, your getting real good man

See ya

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 12 Jul 2006 18:09

props jamieson, maybe one day i will be as good as you.

janis · Post by **janis** » 13 Jul 2006 01:10

Props on all the atomic stuff and spinning ducking pdx drifter is mega ownage !!!

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 13 Jul 2006 01:36

Morpheus? Holy fricking crap man! PROPS!

HG · Post by HG » 13 Jul 2006 11:35

james_dean wrote: Sweet move name too.

Is that in your professional opinion?

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 13 Jul 2006 20:30

HenryG wrote:
james_dean wrote: Sweet move name too.

Is that in your professional opinion?

Yes. Yes it is.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 15 Jul 2006 05:25

I stitched a bag, woo!

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 21 Jul 2006 01:13

Thursday
Length: 2 hours

Session with Dan and Janis. Started off well but I got worse and worse, oh well. got tap > atomsmasher rpt again which was good.

Came super close to atomic eggbeater, sweet sweet move! Hot some omelette's and tapping illusions. I like tapping illusions

they feel sweet.

new: merlin. Ilike this too. Tried voodoo a couple of times but was tired by that stage and couldn't be arsed.

Friday
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Illusions, pickup, stepping, atomic, DLO.
Shredded at fed square on my own while I waited for dad to pick me up. Reeeally good session.

Improved stepping a bit which is good. Came close to mini rubberman with blizzard instead of blur, want to work towards rubberman with illusions instead of mirages. Dan tells me I should make legbeater reactor to make it truly reverse (and then hits it)

I'll get to that later I think...

Hit rubberman again though, into a run. Also tap > atomsmasher rpt into a string with blurry whirl, tombstone, and footed the other side, almost bsos'd! damn that would've felt good.

DLO's slowly improving... they were taking too much energy out of me though.

Drilled illusions > pickup rpt for the first time in aaages and I kicked arse, as opposed to last time I tried when I sucked

Playing solo in a public place is weird...

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 21 Jul 2006 17:34

Props on your radness jamie.

is dan still studying big words.

I might move to melbourne when i am qualified.

how rad would that circle be.

dan, scott, jamie, alex, janis, hagesy.

Anyway not for a couple of years yet.

peace.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 22 Jul 2006 19:24

Thx hagesy. Yeah that would be rad

I guess dan is still studying words, although I haven't noticed it particularly lately.

Saturday July 22nd
Length: 1 hour 30 mins
Drilled: Illusions, DLO, stepping, atomic, tiltless, osis.

Illusions were good, worked a bit more on smoothing out blizzard.

Got real close to rubberman with sidewalks thrown in, footed last trick

DLO is tiresome

Atomics were good.

Finally drilled tiltless again

got 53, I... think that's a pb? not sure, close anyway. And I'm happy with it. Next session: 60

Double over down > Double pickup. cool link ja?

another cool link from the other day was toe drifter > pdx DLO, I like it.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 24 Jul 2006 09:10

Monday 24th July
Length: 1 hour (Total since 19/1/06: 119 hours)

Drilled stepping and atomic. Atomic seemed to take it out of me too much tonight, and stepping was just annoying.

My flipside stepping sucks so much

Got stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt a couple of times though, so seeing improvement.

I think I figured out a better way to do clippers but it's hard to tell. Solo playing sucks sometimes.

Started tiltless but got lazy

Next time hehe.

Was having real trouble with mini rubberman with blizzard instead of blur. Flipside blizzard sucks major. Then I started it on ripwalk instead of blizzard and got it first try hahaha. Score. Seriously though, something has to change with my flipside stepping.

I read an old post by Yacine today with stepping advice, I think it may help a lot, and it sounds like my new way of doing them could be good. but we shall see.

I need to spend less time on modified and more time doing more productive things... like shredding.