Jamieson Hickingbotham

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 24 Jul 2006 15:41

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

Good call!

Thanks for the drill ideas! Props on mini rubberman with blizzards!

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 24 Jul 2006 20:57

Tuesday 25th July
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Stepping, Illusion, Tiltless, Osis.

Stepping getting better. Drilling Stepping clipper > Sidewalk > Ripwalk rpt. Alhough I didn't hit and longer contacts today my flipside felt a lot better, I feel like my body position is improving so I'm happy about that. Soon.... soon it will pwn...

Illusion feeling pretty good too.

Tiltless was going good until I dropped at 50 contacts flipside osis. It seems like osis > osis kept dropping today, my flipside just wasn't there to catch it, just missed it. Really weird and annoying. Especially seeing as how when I drilled osis I got almost 60 contacts. Maybe I just need to concentrate more when doing it in strings. Anyway tiltless is a lot better right now

How do other people do tiltless when going for length? mine has a lot of BOP's in it.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 26 Jul 2006 23:22

Tuesday 25th July
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Stepping, BOP's, flipside clipper, Illusion. Random shiz.

Woo. sick session.

Stepping kicking ass! Well, uhhh, it's not kicking ass yet, but it's improving quite well, which makes me feel cool

finally got stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt x2 and sealed it with another flipside stepping clipper > ~15 contact run guiltless. That is possibly one of the best ways to end a session.

BOP's good. practiced 'lazy osis' which consists of... well... doing osis as lazily as possible.

but got 47 contacts butterfly > pdx mirage rpt which I'm happy with. Also did some rpting flip clippers... not for too long though. but I got 23 I think which isn't too shabby. Must do this every session: it will help my flipside a lot. thx nic, I'm a tool.

Drilled Illusions, getting better. My flipside set on bubba/pdx illusion was bunk which was making them more hard than they should be... but I'm fixing it now.

Hit dellusion a few times but by everyone's accounts that's really hard. Clean? Don't ask me... need to film that one. Also got Blurrage (Blurry Barrage) a couple of times, clean? same deal.

my game feels so good right now.

janis · Post by **janis** » 26 Jul 2006 23:38

Props !!! get some of those crazy moves on video

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 27 Jul 2006 01:14

james_dean wrote:I got 23 I think which isn't too shabby.

Good stuff

You will know if it isn't too shabby if you compare it to your good side... if you can hit more than 10 more consec clippers on good side then flipside needs work

.

I think I have hit at least 50 on each side, it's more about how controlled and easy the feel (which equates to how good your body position is) wile ur doing them though.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 27 Jul 2006 02:31

agreed. I started rpting strongside clippers but got bored before I dropped so moved on. I was concentrating on a really small sharp set and they felt fairly comfortable on both sides.

Finally the new carpet is in yay. It looks awesome. Except mum told me I can't play footbag in my room anymore... dodgey!! Oh well, there's a school just down the road where I can play at night, and mum just said we might put in some good lights out the back so I can shred there, that would be cool.

She also asked me today "If you had money, what would you buy?" Which is ALWAYS a good question. Here's hoping.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 27 Jul 2006 21:58

Quantums are HOT!

janis · Post by **janis** » 27 Jul 2006 22:03

LMAO

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 28 Jul 2006 23:04

Went searching for a new shred spot last night and there's nothing viable anyway near my house

Mum said she'd pay to get lights for me to shred out the back, which is cool. I hope they're not too expensive.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 30 Jul 2006 05:35

No. of shreds missed because of stupid carpet rule: 2, possibly 3. I feel like shredding right now

Sunday 30th July
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Drilled: Stepping, Illusions, Tiltless, BOP's.

Started working on pixie today. Really can't be bothered with it, but I should do it. Left leg is retarded :/

stepping still annoying on flipside. But I did get 8 contacts of crispy torque > ripwalk rpt so that was pretty sweet.

Blizzard > Legbeater > Ripwalk rpt. yay. Flipside blizzard is disgustingly terrible. Damnit stepping

Might film some more this week. Don't know whether to finish that short film now, or make another shred vid, or what. Will film something probably, anyway.
And I want to start playing a lot more. I want to progress faster than this, much faster. Time to discipline.

"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works then it works"

Snow Patrol are cooler than you.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 01 Aug 2006 00:21

Tuesday 1st August
Length: 2 hours
Drilled: Tiltless, BOP's, Illusion, Drifter, Atomic, Stepping.

I realised that the reason I'm having shorter sessions lately is because I have about a 10 minute warm up then shuffle drilling. Tires me out. Duh. so I left the shuffle drilling till the end today and doubled my session time

ripwalk was screwing up a lot of drills today, not sure why, just kept missing the catch. Driving me crazy. but still:

stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt x2 (8 contacts) > ~7 contact guiltless

I tried to get mini rubberman x2 for ages but no cigar...

tap > atomsmasher rpt.

I still suck at tiltless. Most of the session I was stringing tiltless and I still only managed 40 something contacts >< Friggen retarded, I should be getting 50+ easy by now... sigh...

Also I found some of the old carpet and I'm using the underlay as a shred mat

It's 2-3 meters square so it's perfect size.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 02 Aug 2006 21:10

Thursday 3rd August
Length: 2 hours
Drilled: Tiltless, BOP's, Illusion, Fairy, Stepping, DLO, Spinning.

Good sesh. It rained today... rained, here! what the?! It never rains here... so I cleared out the dining room and shredded there

lol

Stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt x2 again

Feeling more and more consistent. Did some other stepping drills too.

mini rubberman sucked today... eventually managed once through but bleh...

My flipside clipper set is still screwing with my bubbas and pdx illusions... ghey!!

Started drilling fairy bs properly. got some good sets out. I seriously, seriously can't be bothered with pixie. Screw that. Maybe I'll learn it one day.

DLO's got a bit better which is nice.

Spinning finally started working

I concentrated on setting then spinning and saw great improvement. 3-4 consec spinning clippers strongside, 5-6 flipside (It's more consistent but not as clean... I think I got more because I was setting across my body)

also got spinning clipper > spinning clipper bsos a number of times. At least one run it was clean both sides so that's good

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 03 Aug 2006 13:29

The way you feel about pixies is the way i feel about fairies, at the moment.

Like i wanna learn fairies, but there so much other stuff i have to learn first.

Props on all the tops drills you are doin.

are you goin to sydney

Do you know what the date of that is again. Is it 8-10 of october.

peace.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 06 Aug 2006 00:41

Sunday 6th August
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes (I'm so weak!!

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Drilled: Tiltless, Illusion, BOP's, Fairy, Spinning, DLO, Drifter, Stepping, Atomic

Siiiick session. Was shorter because I was drilling stepping a LOT but a busted some siiiick stuff.

stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt :: 12 contacts
crispy torque > ripwalk rpt :: 14 contacts
drifter > pdx drifter rpt :: 16 contacts!

So, stepping + drifters rocked the shop tonight. I'm really happy with how my stepping is going, it's feeling really tight at the moment

Illusions went OK... they don't really seem to be going anywhere, they're just... OK... and that's all... I'm sure I'll get them tight one day, so I'll just keep persevering.

Fairy's improving, got some real good sets out. Just concentrating on a quick set and having the bag in the same spot as if I just toe set it. I want to be able to string some low energy fairy shuffle relatively soon.

DLO sucked major. Just wasn't on. Atomic was... OK... but I didn't do that for long.

Spinning getting better and better... hit 4/5 consec spinning clippers a number of times today, and they were fairly straight sets. That's the point where I start getting dizzy...

Also got 20 consec drifters. Haven't skooled drifters for ages so that's alright.

I started mixing (djing) and I'm freaking addicted. I am going to take it up properly... I love it, and I took to it like a natural because I've listened to so much dance music since I was in high school. luurrve it. also bought Nelly furtado and Pharrall William's albums today. Damnit Nelly is cool now!! Love this new brand of hip hop.

janis · Post by **janis** » 06 Aug 2006 02:55

james_dean wrote:stepping clipper > sidewalk > ripwalk rpt :: 12 contacts
crispy torque > ripwalk rpt :: 14 contacts
drifter > pdx drifter rpt :: 16 contacts!

Nice!

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 06 Aug 2006 19:00

edit: don't worry about this post.

oh and thx janis

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 12 Aug 2006 08:34

Had two sessions through the week but my shins really held me back. 1 half hour and 1 hour session.

Sunday 13th August
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes (total this year: 130 hours 30 minutes)
Drilled: Tiltless, BOP's, Stepping, Spinning.

11pm I'm like, yeah... I should shred. midnight I'm like ok, shred now. 1am, finally start shredding 1:20 - decide I want to have a mammoth session and take down the clock. 1:40 - get hit by a wave of fatigue... damnit! 2:15 - head starts spinning and stomach starts turning, I think I have to stop...

So that sorta sucked. I had dreamy visions of still shredding when it's light or something... I can see it happening. I so don't want to stop... anyway highlights.

Spinning kicked ass. Fixed the posture on my flip clipper which sent my spinning cleanliness through the roof.

spinning osis bsos
spinning clipper x4 both sides
spinning clipper x3 bsos

sooo happy with that. I shredded a bit incorporating spins and it's soooo much more fun haha. Gonna drill these like crazy.

Stepping wasn't doing anything special, but I didn't have the lasting power to drill it properly.

Right now my eyelids are drooping and I'm craving the comfort of bed... mammoth session another time.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 14 Aug 2006 23:03

Tuesday 15th August
Length: 1 hour
Drilled: Illusion, BOP's, Stepping, Spinning, Atomic.

First of all: 266 osii. I kid you not. I've never felt so in control of the bag in my life. It really did feel like I would never drop. I wasn't even getting tired at all. To be honest I kind of expected to break the world record (303?) I felt so in control. That's a hell of a way to start a session

Also stepping went well but still not much improvement. Got a couple more contacts of the drill but not much really. :/ feels like the slow boat to china.

Atomic was just bleh. My flip set goes forward a lot which makes it super hard gay. Must fix that.

Spinning kicked ass. Had to concentrate a lot on flipside body position again, but it yielded good results.

Crispy Torque > Ripwalk > Spinning Butterfly bsos. I'd never hit this combo before either side so that felt good

Also got 12 contacts of Crispy Torque > Ripwalk... I *think*. Can't verify that one...

Beer rules. So do osii. My mate elft his dj equipment at my house for me to play with... he's the best. Except I want his girlfriend... bastard...

janis · Post by **janis** » 14 Aug 2006 23:41

Mega props on the 266 osis, thats insane

and stepping osis> ripwalk is hot

you really have to come down to Melbourne soon, we all need to witness the consec osis insanity

Canthraxsoldier · Post by **Canthraxsoldier** » 15 Aug 2006 03:47

266 osis, that's insane.

don't steal people's girlfriends, it's not for the best