friday: no shred today.. itwas rainy and no gym class till monday...
but instead on Sunday i'm going into the city to meet up with some NYFA and shred it up at union square... i'm taking my friend w/ me. should be sweet considering i hopefully won't be sore from my soccer game on saturday.
Sunday = the most amazing shit i've ever seen in person!
got up sunday morning... friend calls to tell me he's bailing on the trip to the city... which arouses the concern of my family.. , "bryce, u can't go into the city by urself!" and i'm like... zomg... so my sister was gonna go w/ me.. which would've been eright.. but they got into this whole... its her last weekend here, she should do wut she wants... so she decided to go sailing w/ my dad (before she gets sent off to exeter in england for 2 semesters) and my mom takes me on the train/subways...
so i get to union square.. finally.. its 1:30... i'm 30 min late. i meet Bruce, and i feel kinda bad that i stood him up for 30 min... but in 10 min i didn't feel so bad cuz other players started showing up. by 2:30 we had 3 circles, 5 people each. at the same time there was a band playing on stage, so that was cool and helped w/ the shred. during my shred, highlights = butterfly, legover, and (clipper) mirage... i also learned a new way to do mirage/illusion. 3:30, my mom drops by, after studying for like 2 hours in barnes and noble 3 blocks down... and decides its time to go... i didn't have much choice so i say my farewell to everyone, take some pics and skedaddle. we decided to, instead, go down to seaport and see the BODIES exhibit. my shoes have no arch support, so my feet are killing me... i run through the exhibit in 1.5 hours, my mom takes here time... an hour and half later... we meet up outside the giftshop... i'm listening to music on my ipod/watching vids on it, and she casually strolls out and says, wow now that was interesting!. I find the body interesting, which is the only reason i went to the museum in the first place... but all the topics they had, i have already learned... nothing was new... just the really cool actually preserved organs and bodies. other than that, after about a half-hour i was like... its all the same kinda stuff, i'm getting bored and i can't keep standing like this (note: for the prior 3 hours i'd been playing footbag, standing). so occassionally i'd take breaks on the little benches... but w/e... i recommend the exhibit, and the coolest thing i saw must've been the little fetuses with their bones all highlighted through their skin... so cool.
after BODIES, ate some dinner outside the museum at a resaurant... > subway to penn station > train to home... omfg the train took forever to get to penn first then was an additionaly 20 min. late at arriving home. the ride was an hour and 20 min. the ride in was only 55....somebody doesnt' know how to drive a train *COUGH COUGH* anywho...
i'm glad i went on this trip, and met all the cool NYFA members at Union Square. I learned alot and had alot of fun. I plan on doing it again, and taking some friends to get them more involved in footbag.
session highlights, again:
butterfly (stall), legover, (clipper) mirage, new mirage, new illusion, +EXPERIENCE
It was a nice visit from you Bryce. Definitely shred HARD!
GO TO KICKASS!!!
Waylon Lew - maker of Wasabi bags
NYFA represent.
"Footbag can be pretty frustrating when it's supposed to be fun. I was partly driven by this forum - practice, practice, practice... As that is true, I think someone can be too focused on progressing and training that they miss the fun aspect of it." - Bander87
i'll tell you agian... i can't go... i'll be in Jersey, and its Yom Kippur!
i gotta go to temple for like 6 hours, and fast all day, there is no way i can do it... plus i already tried and couldn't get a ride up (would be like 10 hour drive...)
but i'll be in jersey... with my friend Jeremy... who is friends with Troy (troyson) so taht'll be cool and we'll do some shred.
MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
butterfly (i'm getting realy good at these, just hit more n more)
mirage
illusion
(clipper) mirage
clippers... duh
and like 3 heel stalls
not much... i only had like 10 minutes in gym to play... then i was off to the weight room. plus i'm still sore from Sunday, THAT WAS SO SICK!
gym again today... more bench press... i'm really fealing the burn! HELLS YA!
shred today: butterfly, butterfly (kick), pixie, fairy, mirage, illusion, the cool new mirage, and I HIT ===== toe> same in [dex] >> clipper [del][xbd] (pixie clipper) FUCK YA!
no shred this weekend.. was Rosh Hashana... basically just went to temple for like 4 hours... listened and did jewish stuff, then went home... did howework.. went out to cousin's house and ate dinner together... twice.
sunday night i plan to relax... shred session on monday after i go out and buy shots... omfg the scuba shop didn't have any
get home from school>get gas, get filler...sure>tutor at 4-5>orchestra thing at 5:30-5:45>elias' house, taping and getting picks of footbag>maybe some shred w/ elias>home, 4 tests friday