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janis · Post by **janis** » 16 Aug 2006 23:37

Circle kicked today at uni, that was fun

There's definately enough people interested to get a club happening which will be a great excuse to have bbq's and play footbag. After circle kicking quite a bit recently my outside kicks are getting better again, not as good as last year but coming close, now I can't wait for net on the weekend

janis · Post by **janis** » 17 Aug 2006 00:07

yet another barefoot session

hit osis> pdx mirage
filp osis

note: FYI, I still don't bop in my shred

Canthraxsoldier · Post by **Canthraxsoldier** » 17 Aug 2006 18:38

put some shoes on hippy!

janis · Post by **janis** » 18 Aug 2006 20:54

lol

Played barefoot

drilled pixies and did more datw, now I've hit datw with all my footbags

some highlights of this session included:
pixie x35
plo x3
flip smear

smear bsos (bsosed in the same run that I hit my first flip smear)
flip pixie pickup
pixie pickup bsos (bsosed it in the same run that I hit my first flip pixie pickup)
flip smudge (pixie illusion?)
smudge bsos

edit: hit clipper set butterfly

janis · Post by **janis** » 20 Aug 2006 01:21

really eventful day today
started with some shred at federation square, lots of people turned up: Scott, Dan, Yuuya , Boyall, Brendan E and Alex

shred was good for me, some highlights included: merlin, fairy swirl bsos, fairy ss rev whirl, datw to inside (missed hand catch), flip paradon and double fairy. Two really good runs one had pixie mirage and pixie illusion bsos and the other was illusion x4>eggbeater> illusion > eggbeater.

after that me, Boyall and Brendan played 'old school' circle style, which was very cool. Some mega hacks, many with pinchers and flyers. I did some spinning outside kicks for fun.

Then we all went to Alexandria gardens to play some takraw which was awsome, when we got the rattan ball out, me Brendan and Boyall got 4 hacks using only headers

We played a lot of takraw which was great

as I got off the train coming home from the city I saw a neighbours house burn down. Surprising how quickly it went up, very suspicious, I'd put my money on arson.

new moves:
double fairy

flip paradon

new links:
pixie mirage and pixie illusion bsos in the same run

edit: I hit toe gyro mirage right after we were talking about Lynton style moves, lol.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 20 Aug 2006 01:48

damn man, sounds like your pixie/illusion game is going well, props

I'm sorry I missed today... sounded like fun.

janis · Post by **janis** » 20 Aug 2006 02:14

james_dean wrote:damn man, sounds like your pixie/illusion game is going well, props I'm sorry I missed today... sounded like fun.

Try to come next week as it's going to be even bigger as Brendan E, Lynton, Scott, Dan, Yuuya , Boyall, Pat, the other Pat, Alex from UK and Alex Urano will be coming. If you came that would make a definate 12 people

+ there's about 3 mabyes too

thx for props Jamie, I've been drilling the crap out of my toe game.

ednie · Post by **ednie** » 20 Aug 2006 07:25

hey everyone
that was a great kick
it was too hot
me and alex had headaches later
it was a great turn out
next week will be better as well i'm thinking
we had the big return of music thanks to scott
i was very happy to have boyall back
his clipper game is just beginning
its exciting to think how his game will develop this year
he played alot of afl earlier
this year
so now he is goign to play some footbag now that hes all done there
yuuya was still too shy today
ppl should talk to him more to make him feel less nervous
scott and i will play some footbag this week tuesday and thursday, scotts game is picking up agian which is good to see
i was happy to see janis hit a flip paradon today
shows good dedication to his flip clipper which i know he works on more and more i hope
i was probably most happy that brendan came
been a long time since i kicked with him last
so it was nice to see him again
and he did a very good mobius >>> props
alex continued to rip it up
we worked on double spinning and some other things today
so that was very good
okies
dan

Boyall · Post by **Boyall** » 21 Aug 2006 01:10

Yeah, it's good to be back boys.

A bit shocked at how rusty i've become over the year, cheers Dan for the kind words.

Janis that circle brought back a lot of good memories from my total n00b days. And net totally Rawks!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1

Def in for next Sunday,
Boyall

janis · Post by **janis** » 21 Aug 2006 05:34

Boyall, It was sooooooo awsome that you came back

This sunday is going to be massive

potentially 15 players

The Melbourne uni club is looking good, got most of the signatures in 30mins. Also played in 2 hack circles toady and met 3 new people which was cool. Spinning outside kicks are the ownage

I had another barefoot session at home. Drilled double pixie, hit terrage bs, bsos was close and yet more datw drills.

new moves:
flip terrage
paradon (barefoot strongside)

new links:
datw out-in > plo

woot first set out of datw
datw out-in> datw out-in
plo > datw out-in
datw out-in > eggbeater
datw out-in > dlo to end the session

janis · Post by **janis** » 22 Aug 2006 00:44

The uni club is looking good, I've almost got enough people signed up to get affiliation.

I went to the physio today which was good, apparently I have an inflamed meniscus in my right knee and my quadrecept muscle is putting pressure on my knee because it's tightened up. They massaged some of the muscles and ligaments and showed some good stretches that I'll do on a regular basis. Also no more symposium or whirl/rev whirl moves on my right leg, meh.

janis · Post by **janis** » 23 Aug 2006 05:20

More barefoot shred at home, my right knee is kinda fucked up, it hurts doing osis/clipper, so mostly left foot stuff

new links
datw in-out bsos

janis · Post by **janis** » 23 Aug 2006 22:20

Was in the city today and decided to check out a shoe shop or 3

me: Hi, do you sell shoe insoles
shop attendant: Yes
me: yeah I play footbag, it's pretty high impact so I'd like to get some insoles that absorb lots of impact, the ones in the shoe are kinda crappy.
shop attendant 2: footbag? is that like "hacky sack"?
me: yeah
shop attendant 1: (pulls out hacky sack) give it a go
--hit symp mirage bs and datw (pain free)
shop attendant 1:

didn't realise there was that much jumping around
me:

ok I'll buy them

Insoles are great, should have got them earlier, never really knew how crap the stock insoles were until now.

Had a short barefoot session at home, my knee just isn't feeling good and my sets are shit, anyway managed to hit atw x10 all directions and terrage bsos but flip was thin.

janis · Post by **janis** » 27 Aug 2006 02:27

Awsome day today, had 8 people: Scott, Dan, Alex, Lynton, Brendan E, Jamie, Pat and Myself.

Firstly there was some shred at fed square, Lynton was hitting witchdoctor and neutron smasher like nothing

Impressive considering he hadn't played since March or something. Dan and Alex were also playing well.

Then we moved to Alexandria gardens and got the old net out, I shredded a bit then got the camera out and filmed everyone else for a while, there was some good stuff hit for the camera, Jamie filmed me for a bit but I couldn't hit my sick 1

Net was awsome, some good rallies and everyone got into it. Good to see Pat make a return, I first played "net" with him a few years ago.

There was a bit of fucking around at the end, Pat tried the old doof stall, Jamie hit inside set symp rev whirling swirl and Lynton hit datw to heel stall.

My knee is mega fucked, I don't know if I'll be able to continue freestyle, well at least not for the next few weeks. I'm going to see the physio again on tuesday, hopefully I'll get an MRI scan to see how extensive the damage is. This will be my last post in this blog for a while, perhaps for good as it kinda depresses me now, I guess we'll see. In any case it has been good knowing everyone on Modified, I'll probably still post occasionally.

ednie · Post by **ednie** » 29 Aug 2006 06:44

hey everyone
i talked to janis today
and his knee is goign to be a-okay
its going to take some months of not playing clipper or dex on one side
but good job on the non-operationness!!!

we had a good turn out again
8 people in total
this was even though we had some cancellations
yuuya
boyall
pat (posse)
and the british guy who i still havent met

it sounds like the kick in two weeks is goign to be another big one
with pat (janis), brendon E, and lynton S, coming then

next week will be the return from korea of brendan grinsberg
so its not going to be one to miss either

melbourne uni footbag club
is one signature away from completing
janis and i will be meeting tmw to work out the best spot on cmapus
its looking like we will have a regular meeting time
tuesdays at 1pm

funnilly enuff
with all the activity that acutally goes on at mfc
now that janis has left the blog, i'm not expecting there to be much going on on this blog
but no matter
i will keep weekly updates on footbag in melbourne
dan

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 29 Aug 2006 18:35

Thanks Dan

ednie · Post by **ednie** » 31 Aug 2006 05:35

hi everyone
its come to my attention (today)
that its father's day on sunday
so i wont be able to play footbag on that day
janis has said that he doesnt really want to come, and will give it a miss
i assume most ppl wont want to come
but i am going to try to get the word around that it wont be on, and i thought i would start here
the week after brendand and lynton are confirmed as coming
okikes
dan

janis · Post by **janis** » 01 Sep 2006 00:13

Yeah, this weekend might be a bit quiet.

As of yesterday the first lot of paperwork is done for the club, hopefully we'll be affiliated on the 14th september.

Physio sucks, but my leg is feeling a bit better now, also I hit toe set barrage today, woot.

janis · Post by **janis** » 02 Sep 2006 02:43

Brendan is back in Australia now, and keen to get back into the footbag

janis · Post by **janis** » 02 Sep 2006 23:06

hit a few swirls on flip

tried to get rev swirl, over 300 attempts later, footed about 10 times, no seal. Pissing me off badly.
edit: hit barefoot swirl on the 182nd attempt, woot!