2006 May Online Competitions - Official release.

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 26 Jun 2006 21:00

I haven't hit Phoenix since and I don't plan to for awhiile

but thank you for the comments people!

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 26 Jun 2006 21:20

1. Aleksi Airinen - Nemesis
Hold up, the big boys have arrived! Double down was thin but still there, other than that it was awesome

Props.

2. Anssi Sundberg - Pdx Fluxscrew
Damn that's nice! Super hard trick, unfortunately very hard to see if the illusion is clean

Pretty sure it's there though.

3. Michal Biarda - Quantum Ducking Symposium Mirage
Damn nice

The duck looked like it could have been more with the neck, less with the head, but that's getting nitpicky

props.

4. Jamieson Hickingbotham - Atomic Vortex
Nice set, but not enough spin, meaning the drifter was rushed, meaning you could have caught it better. Also you're a n00b. But you have sexy abs. baby.

5. Josh Gayhart - Blazing Dyno
Ahhh, beautiful! Unique and very well executed, props.

6. Riku Ahola - Blurry Reaper
Very nice move

Well executed too, maybe reaper dexes a bit deeper but again, nitpicking

7. Toby Suggate - Torquescrew
Very clean! Nice nice, props.

8. Bjoern Seifert - Pixie Ducking Symposium Reverse Whirl
Nice. All clean, just a little more control needed

9. Gray Chadwick - Voodoo
Sweet move

Clean dexes, delay could have been better.

10. Serge Kaldany - Nuclear op Muted Swirl
Daiimn, cool. Nice nuke set, hard to see cleanliness of swirl from that angle but it looks like it's there

No seal

11. Matt Coffman - GYBAS
Nice execution, nice trick.

12. Samu Ahola - Marius
Spin and dex were clean, but osis needs improvement.

13. Tuomas Riisalo - Blurry Symposium Torque
Sweet move, but the osis is bleh

And no seal

14. Nic Bathgate - Gangsta Party
Duck very thin

Hard to see if the blender is clean or not

Clean spin though, and the no sealing doesn't really bother me, it was a high straight set and you fumbled it, so what? This is footbag not handbag.

15. Tony Whitney - Phoenix
Very well executed, but easy trick.

16. Kyle Hewitt - Phoenix
A deeper pixie set and a little more control.

17. Phil Morrison - Pendulous set Spinning Blind Pincher
Hehe, nice! Cool to see some different stuff in there, Janis would be proud.

18. Lee Van Sickle - Pixie Ducking Symposium Swirling Osis
Awesome unique trick! Probably the coolest in here, unfortunately the swirl was very thin, maybe not even there at all. Osis could have been a lil better too.

19. Ben Rinowski - PS DLO
Sorry man

Massive turn on that, I'd say it's closer to 180 than 90, can't say that's very clean.

Some real quality this time around, props to all. Hopefully I'll have a chance to check out the other comps, but mighty busy the next two weeks

caseyweed · Post by **caseyweed** » 27 Jun 2006 00:32

So I take it that none of the Novice Comps are going to be judged?

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 27 Jun 2006 01:06

caseyweed wrote:So I take it that none of the Novice Comps are going to be judged?

I didn't even use a bag for my entry!! Lol, jk but you can't see the bag at all in my vid. I tried to get Nic not to submit it, but alas. Can someone at least tell me if my form is decent in their judging comments, I don't mind being last at all. Oh, and good job everyone else!

Cod · Post by **Cod** » 27 Jun 2006 01:24

Nic, I put unsealed tricks at the end of my list because for me it's not a valid entry for the competition. People have 2 months of trying and sending us an unsealed move is kinda lame. I'm not saying unsealed Gangsta Party is easier than Phoenix, though.

About this Pendulum thing. Pendulum is a one trick and Spinning Blind Pincher (in my opinion there are no Spinning there but whatever) is the second one. It's a really nice combination but this is a Big One Competition, not Big Two. Remember Henry's Stepping Inside Kick Torque or something like that?

janis · Post by **janis** » 27 Jun 2006 01:26

Really good tricks guys! props to all

james_dean wrote: 17. Phil Morrison - Pendulous set Spinning Blind Pincher
Hehe, nice! Cool to see some different stuff in there, Janis would be proud.

props Phil

edit: Cod I see what you mean, but I reckon this is 1 trick, pendulous blind pincher.

max · Post by **max** » 27 Jun 2006 01:30

About this Pendulum thing. Pendulum is a one trick and Spinning Blind Pincher (in my opinion there are no Spinning there but whatever) is the second one. It's a really nice combination but this is a Big One Competition, not Big Two. Remember Henry's Stepping Inside Kick Torque or something like that?

yeah but you did:

toe > bs alpine toe blur.

That's two tricks. I think that's lame. It's a Big One Competition not Big Two. You should set your quantum sets from your hand.

Cod · Post by **Cod** » 27 Jun 2006 01:37

Someone create this rule that Pendulum is a separate trick and we can't say "Oh, I think it's a one move so I rank it high". Imagine Pendulum > Pendulum > Pendulum > Spinning Blind Pincher. If Pendulum wasn't a separate move the combo I wrote would be a one move! Still props for Phil for this nice looking and hard thing.

max · Post by **max** » 27 Jun 2006 01:41

Cod: of course Pendulum is a move, so it a toe stall.

Cod · Post by **Cod** » 27 Jun 2006 01:42

Max, a trick starts with a delay (sometimes with a kick), so I hit Toe set Beta Alpine Toe Blur and he hits Behind Your Body Toe set Spinning Blind Pincher

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PS. I'm not an official judge

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PPS. Max, imagine that I catch the bag from hand on Legover and then hit Beta Alpine Toe Blur. Looking on it like you're looking on Phil's "move" will give us a Legover Quantum Ducking Symposium Mirage!

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » 27 Jun 2006 02:18

knee set tobius is harder then toe set one.
pendulum set spinning blind pincher is harder then toe set one.
two separate moves?!
stop using your head only for ducks.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 27 Jun 2006 03:41

Although a valid discussion, this is not the place for it. Make a new topic.

I was unsure of whether to place unsealed tricks last or not, I decided to look at the merits of each. Nic's: a fumble, the lack of seal had nothing to do with the set from the trick itself. Some others: just plain unsealed.

Ranking something like this is so hard

Note to self: Never be a judge.

Cod · Post by **Cod** » 27 Jun 2006 08:46

MadMax wrote:two separate moves?!
stop using your head only for ducks.

Hey, that was only my opinion. You don't have to be an ashole if someone didn't agree with you

. Are you cleverer than me because you think it's one move and I'm not? Sorry, but that's kinda chlidish...

I wrote already all what I wanted to write on this topic here. If someone wants to discuss, feel free to send me a PM or make a new topic.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 27 Jun 2006 11:46

I thought I submitted sick 1 and sick 3 entries for myself and bluntobject, but they weren't included

so here they are.

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/8844

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 27 Jun 2006 14:27

funklovesfootbag wrote:I thought I submitted sick 1 and sick 3 entries for myself and bluntobject, but they weren't included so here they are.

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/8844

Props yo! The execution was really good on all of the moves. I've seen a few blurriests in the time I've played footbag and that was definitely the cleanest one I've seen. Perhaps that's why they didn't make it into the comps, I think they were only accepting sketchy unsealed stuff

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 27 Jun 2006 14:30

Pirate Man wrote:Will these be posted on the .org video gallery? Cuz I can't access modified.in at my house for some reason, and while I'm at a friend's house right now, I can't download anything over here. Please, please, please put these in the .org gallery!

www.footbag.org > videos > modified online competition archive (bottom of the page)
Or... http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/ ... n-modified
That is where all the competition vids are stored

. (May is at the bottom of the page)

funklovesfootbag wrote:I thought I submitted sick 1 and sick 3 entries for myself and bluntobject, but they weren't included so here they are.

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/8844

Really sorry about that bro, I was pissed off because you had an entry for Emily too and we almost never see girls enter these competitions, I was looking forward to that changing. For some reason, I when I finally manged to download some media from your email, nothing I used could read it or recognise it as video, and I have a lot of conversion utils/media players so that is wierd

- Very sorry about that one.

Another user PMed me (Joshua Rose) about his entrys not being included, I haven't had time to investigate this yet but will asap! All I can say is i'm sorry and I tried my very best to get everyone in, but the system this month wasn't as through as other months as I didn't expect to be editing any events myself and it's quite a complicated task for the editors to download every entry from the email address and be sure not to miss any!

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 27 Jun 2006 14:35

caseyweed wrote:So I take it that none of the Novice Comps are going to be judged?

So far there have been no official judges post their ranking, everyone is just posting what they think it should be!

I encourage the novices to rank the novice competitions! It's good experiance at recognising which moves are harder than what etc, I will make an effort to have some of my projections up about novice comps toward the end of this week

everyone else should too!

Watch the novice comps! They are cool too

EDIT:

Cod wrote:About this Pendulum thing. Pendulum is a one trick and Spinning Blind Pincher (in my opinion there are no Spinning there but whatever) is the second one. It's a really nice combination but this is a Big One Competition, not Big Two. Remember Henry's Stepping Inside Kick Torque or something like that?

The differance is that stepping knee bump torque has a contact in the middle of it making it 2 moves. Pendulous spinning blind pincher has no contact apart from during the pendulum set and the pincher catch === 1 move.

If you don't think pendulous is a set go talk to Evan Lovely

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As for unsealed tricks not being counted... in my opinion (probably noboday else agrees) a trick should be judged on the set out of the move and NOT the seal.

Why?

I can do a really bad set out (Like josh gayharts entry last month) and still seal it if I run after the bag, and in your opinion that counts more than my gangsta party (for example) which had a high stright set out and a missed handcatch (from unexpectedness).

I think saying "oh he sealed it so it must have been a good set out" is complete bollocks, you should just hit the problem at it's core... judge the set out?

Right, lol ive probably missed my bus now!

DOH!

Tripp · Post by **Tripp** » 27 Jun 2006 14:44

As for unsealed tricks not being counted... in my opinion (probably noboday else agrees) a trick should be judged on the set out of the move and NOT the seal.

Tru dat.

There have been plenty of new tricks I've hit but missed the hand catch just because the bag fell out of my hand. Oh well.

funklovesfootbag · Post by **funklovesfootbag** » 27 Jun 2006 15:45

oh yeah, forgot to post that sick 1 i submitted for emily, i'll post it in my blog.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 27 Jun 2006 15:50

skool your hand catches guys!