Carlos B. Footblog

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 07 Nov 2006 09:42

I'm not really much for blogging but I figured this would be the best way to communicate and learn about different tricks and chart my progression as a footbag player.

Let me start off by introducting myself, Carlos Bermudez and I currently live in Indianapolis, IN. I have a wife and two children, Jocelyn(wife), Cadence(first daughter 2 years old) and Willow(Second daughter 4 months old). I'll be 24 years old on November 17th and I'm currently going to school for my BS in Computer Science and I work for the Defense Finance and Accounting Services for the Department of Defense.

Now lets get back to footbag. I've been playing for about 2 years now but I'm only going to say that 6 months of that time has been seriously playing.

Also, I don't mind people posting in this b/c I want the advise from the community.

These the tricks i currently know(mind you I don't have these down yet but I'm trying)

SS Toe (50)
FlipSide Toe (50) 50 back and forth
SS Inside (10)
Flipside Inside (10) 10 back and forth
SS Outside (10)
Flipside Outside (8) 4 back and forth
SS Clipper (10)
Flipside Clipper (6) 10 back and forth
SS Butterfly (2)
Flipside Butterfly (2) 2 back and forth
SS Whirl (2)
SS Osis (1)
Flipside Osis (1)
SS Legover (2)
Flipside Legover (2)
SS Mirage (8)
Flipside Mirage (4)
SS Illusion (2)
Flipside Illusion (1)

Ok, first question would be whats the number of times I should hit these before I start to feel comfortable with the move, or when I stop drilling the move and go on to the next?

I'm having problems with my Osis for some reason when I'm try to catch the bag behind me I'm spotting the bag on my other side but it's going to far foward for me to try and hit that second flipside or SS Osis. Any suggestions would help.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 07 Nov 2006 09:54

You don't get to stop doing the easy tricks EVER!

It's always good to keep practicing even the easiest tricks because you will continue to get better at them and lay down an even stronger foundation.

Have fun!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 07 Nov 2006 09:59

mosher wrote:You don't get to stop doing the easy tricks EVER!

It's always good to keep practicing even the easiest tricks because you will continue to get better at them and lay down an even stronger foundation.

Have fun!

Thanks Mosher

I'll be practicing tonight so I'll post my next blog tomarrow. Can't wait to see you at XJam in Chicago, maybe you could help me out on my game

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 08 Nov 2006 04:52

Last night was a great time. I hung out with my guys from Indy that were into moderately new to the footbag sport but were very excited about wanting to start becoming serious about the sport. Also a guy from Michagan came to the session and he had a great concept of fundermentals Legovers and pickups where on point and he even hit a couple of blenders.

I on the other hand am still learning the sport but ofcourse they know about Footbag.org but I refered them to this site b/c it's the even more helpful.

Ok, last night I was hitting some pretty good concept moves and such did the usual worked on clipper stalls, but I started getting my ducking and driving moves down pretty well now so I'm feeling more confediate about hitting those on my SS. I'm stilling working my flipside though and I almost hit Barfly and reverse whirl so, I'm feeling pretty good about myself today

I'm going to get a ditial camcorder at the begining of next year so that's when I think that I'll start really progressing, also b/c the month before I would have been at XJAM!!!!!!! I'm so excited about Xjam can't wait to meet all the peps I always talk to!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 09 Nov 2006 06:19

I didn't play last night b/c I'm going to shred tonight and I figured I needed a break from the shred session two days ago, but I've been eating a lot better since I became a vegitarian(been about 2 months now) so my diet has been nice.(it's not all carrots and lettace). I'm starting to lose weight and also been working out at lunch time at work, I'll do cardeo three days a week(M/W/F) and light weight lifting 2 days a week(t/t). also I've schuduled my shredding to break downs so on Mondays I'll do drilling, tuesdays I'll do endurance, and Wesnesdays I'll do learning new moves. I'll mix it up each week so I don't get bored of the schudule. I've seen a noticable difference in my playing since I've been working out a long with shredding. I'm not out of breath so easily and my leg move faster.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 09 Nov 2006 08:50

Yo man, cool blog. Props to you on raising and a family and being only 24. I just turned 25 and I'm definitely not responsible enough to do that

And you manage to play plenty of footbag too, that can't be easy.

How are you liking Indianapolis so far? It's probably a really good place to raise a family because taxes are low, it's clean, there's almost no crime... the only thing is it's gotta be boring sometimes

I lived there for a year, what a snoozefest. Glad you are finding people to shred with!

Props to you on going vegetarian. I've been one for almost 2 years now. It's awesome. I'm never going back

Oh btw, a few drills for you to help improve the consistency of your basics and improve you string length:

Mirage > Legover > rpt 8 contacts

ss Clipper > Near Mirage > rpt 8 contacts

Illusion > Mirage > Legover > rpt

Butterfly > Near Mirage > Legover > rpt

Enter the Novice Sick 1 / Sick 3 online comps at the end of this month!!

Keep shreddin

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 09 Nov 2006 09:15

holy both-sidedness Batman!!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 14 Nov 2006 11:56

hey all sorry about that didn't get a chance to up date my blog. Ben thanks for all the props man! I'm still mad I didn't get a chance to make it to the San Marcos Shred!!!! I'm going to try what you said for drills. I was up in Chicago this weekend for the IFPA workshop, that was awesome, I got to shred with Scott Davidson which was cool as hell. I kind of like Indy, more stuff to do then in Oklahoma(no offense Okys) and Chicago is only about 3 hours away. Scott also gave me a little tip to make sure I'm working on my Infinities and osis'.

Ben we are going to have to get together next time I hit up D-town to see my friend Gabe(I'll take the extra time to shred with ya).

I'm shredding tonight so I'll give you guys the break down tomarrow morning.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 15 Nov 2006 06:06

Last nights session was great, Ben thanks for all the great advice man I'm hitting infinities, legovers, pickups, ss clip, flipside clip all pretty well now, also was hitting DLO, Sweet! At the end of the session I was working on infinities a little bit more and I accidently put my ss leg down faster than normal and did a decent stepping set! then I realized that if I could do that then I should be able to hit rip walk! I spent the next 20 minutes trying to the hit just one rip walk(ss to flipside), but the closest I could hit it was that the bag landed on my flipside clip but bounced off!!!! Jorden Moir was right you should try a new move at the end of a session b/c that made me feel great! I need to get better quickly for the NYJ in December LOL

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 16 Nov 2006 05:11

11/15/2006 1.0 hours(sorry for ripping off of you Ben but you have a nice setup for this)

Last night was a quick and down session for me, so I was working on spinning both ways, ducking, and diving.

clip ->Spinning clipper x2

ducking clip->op ducking clip x4 new personal best!

ss diving clip-> clipper x1

Moves Tried:

clip->ducking ss butterfly

clip->in-spinning mirage

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 16 Nov 2006 08:04

Wow, looks like your dexless game is pretty good dude! Probably better than mine. Try spinning butterfly, it seems easier than spinning clipper because you can hop to the bag at the last second to snag it in a butterfly where as with clipper you're kind of rooted once you spot the bag. Inspinning? Awesome, work that shit.

Well props to you. Superstylie drill would be spinning clip > ducking clip > rpt.

Oh btw I stole the date/session length header thing from the Australia and New Zealand guys, so it's cool. Rock on.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 18 Nov 2006 06:53

11/16/06 & 11/17/06 1 sessions

Sorry I forgot to post on the 16th. Wasn't really that interesting was a lazy day so I was working on drills.

SS Clip x10

flipside Clip x8

inside x9(back and forth)

The 17th(my b-day) I was hitting good shit. it was try new moves day!

I hit
Pdx mirage
DLO
DPickups
ducking mirage.
Infinity x4 contacts(sweet)
DLO>Mirage>Clip
DPickup>butterfly(I like this one alot!)

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 18 Nov 2006 14:44

when you say DPickup do you mean double pickup or ducking pickup?

Happy birthday!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 19 Nov 2006 08:09

Sorry about that ment double pickup.

I also practiced a couple of the new moves last night also got DLO on both sides now still working on pdx mirage on flipside and double pickup and flipside.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 21 Nov 2006 07:19

Last night wasn't very interesting just hit a couple of strings together and started off with 10 mirages to warm up, not bad also getting better at osis and infinities so thats a plus. Other than that didn't hit anything new just get a good grip on the moves I know now.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 22 Nov 2006 06:25

Wasn't really a big night for hitting anything but did some drills and strings. I'm going to rest my legs tonight and hopefully have a very nice session on Thanksgiving day! Anyway here is a run down of what I did last night

Infinities x4

insides x10

toesx56

outsidex10

ss clipx10

flipside clipx9

ss miragex10

ss illusionx8

flipside miragex2(need to definitly get better on flipside for these)

flipside illusionx2(need to definitly get better on flipside for these)

legoverx4

pickupsx4

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 27 Nov 2006 04:53

11-26-06 1.5 hours

Last nights session was great! I had taken a couple of day off to rest my legs a bit more b/c I was losing the mojo. This session I concentrated on refining my moves to hit them easier than before. I was making sure that my posture felt right and I wasn't moving to fast. I think I'm going to try to do this more often b/c I was shredding with longer strings and less engery being spent trying to move for the bag faster

Anyway nothing big to put up with the session but it felt good to be playing again. Man! I'm such a footbag fiend! I can't even go two days before I start to miss playing LOL!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 11 Dec 2006 06:53

12-10-06 3 hours

Haven't written in a while but still playing hard. had a session last night with some of the guys here and I've gotten legovers pretty well and I've hit Rake for the first time two days ago. Got two small videos on youtube that one of the guys there recorded with a digital camera. I know I favor my left toe stall started working on that more when I seen the video LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUQ7CiSCUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nc44V189R4

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 12 Dec 2006 03:24

Yo man. I just found your blog. Those videos are nice! Your style will be nice.

See you in less than 3 weeks.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 13 Dec 2006 10:05

Had a nice session last night. Hitting rake more consist now so I'm feeling pretty comfortable with the move strong side, but I was mostly practicing flipside this session. Felt nice, getting the movements more fluidly now and feeling more comfortable with my flipside. Man, I was thinking back at when I started playing and I've come along way since then. 3 more weeks until epic footbag session! Found out today to that I don't have to work on Saturday the 30th so that gives me one more day to shred with all those awesome peps! Can't Wait!

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