smokefree's footblog

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 19 Jul 2006 07:44

Butterfly.. i cant stick it to my foot.. it bounces off a lot. I busted out with my abshire for the first time officialy, the other times i was kicking it around, but it was JUST mushy enough to nail a string before dropping it, then doing others and dropping. My left clippers are occasional which before i was happy with.. i need them 100 percent. I cant stick them.. i always try to stall them right on the edge where they are half hanging off.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 20 Jul 2006 10:02

Wow morning practice is hard.. i cant catch a clipper until i get my head on straight. Anyway ive almost got 2atw on command. My practices are funner now that i quit drinking soda and eating junk food.. i feel a lot better, i recommend it to all.. it feels good.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 29 Jul 2006 21:32

Ok Butterflys are pretty easy now but still really hard after a duck. What im really happy about is over the last couple of weeks ive been waking up playing well, i used to wake up in the morning and have to re learn all my tricks, now i got it down at all times

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 31 Jul 2006 07:31

That was too close for comfort .-. My parent's friends came over and brought their dog and then they pulled my 32 panel out of its mouth, thank goodness the dog hadn't chewed on it, just slobbered, which I don't mind since it'll only break the bag in more being a little wet.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 21 Dec 2006 10:37

Had a nice little morning jam after having my tea and a little wake and bake. I worked on symp mirages hit most of them, swirl, rev swirl, whirl, flipside bubba, flipside atws, and normal dimwalk. Dimwalk i almost hurt my ankle on, i had my ankle crooked for the butterfly and i smacked it against the hall tile. My game is getting better though. Alternating clippers im getting ok at also, im finally practicing like i should be, for a while i slacked but for the last month ive been back on it. feels damn good to sweat again finally.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 27 Dec 2006 22:48

everything is getting better except a few tricks which i cant grasp still. Ive gone too far in learning without getting an illusion and catching it on the starting foot. and also whirls are frustrating me as well as leg hopping. i can not grasp them D:

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 13 Jan 2007 10:56

BOOYA. I am this damn close to hitting a Phoenix UNFFFFFFGH YES. Not as hard I once thought either. My flipside is finally kicking in, i can use it in combos and mirages on it now. I have the power!

What a kick ass morning shred. btw i can do illusions now. just have to work on them. HA! I may be able to phoenix smoothly before i can illusion smoothly. can you believe that?

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 13 Jan 2007 11:04

illusions are pretty rad. props. try some same side stuff... like ss mirage, ss pickup, ss legover. those are a lot of fun and you can do some cool stuff out of them.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 15 Jan 2007 10:26

Hmm.. appearantly slower is better. I slowed down my comboing and I didn't miss crap.
Tryed some hop overs and met my friend Mr. Concrete. That hop over trick makes me feel like im skateboarding cause i keep falling.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 20 Jan 2007 21:00

woo yeah on a break from a wicked session right now. gonna keep it goin in a few minutes. im sweatin like a pig, i havent felt this pumped up in a long time. I need to have one of these daily though its hard to reach this stage sometimes. whew im drenched. Training flip for hours and some new stuff on my right.
Im making goals also in my footblog so i have to read them and make myself stick to them. Im finding posting here as well as watching videos is making me want to practice harder and more often.
I will get whirls and phoenix before march 1st.
and i have to remember to keep practicing on guitar.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 23 Jan 2007 12:53

Ooh, im a whirlin muthafucka. Today I officialy hit my first whirls and learned the trick finally. They arent as hard as I made them out to be... then again ive said that after learning half of my tricks lol.

Started class finally too. Economics class was pretty much everything high school taught me, opportunity costs, graphing, supply and demand bla bla bla. I hope History is fun. The other classes im taking are philosophy of religion and intro to film.

Learning a cool guitar version of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, its a semi hard one, I saw easier versions but I thought it was funner to use more fingers and get a more accurate sounding version.

Trying to do lots of ab exercises but I keep getting lazy with that

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 25 Jan 2007 08:40

Today is my day off and I plan on shredding my ass off. Im not stringing that much today, im just gonna drill tricks over and over until I am satisfyed.

Playing at school yesterday really made me realize how shy and self concious I am, I got nervous and fucked up all my tricks and strings. Drill drill drill I will make myself more confident through my game if I have to.
I need to practice at school especially to keep my mind off my anxiety. Felt like having an attack but held it together. When I was sitting there at school I could feel it escalate. Pretty much how the last 4 years of high school went lol.

Fuck it, I will rock school and get all A's. These are the classes I really need A's in. Well... want A's in lol. I love history. Cept the teacher seems like he may be a little dull.

Philosophy of religion class was pretty much what I figured, the most opinionated class ive ever taken lol. Should be easy eh.

Now it is time to eat, slap in some fujifabric in my stereo, and drill.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 25 Jan 2007 19:34

Today was a sweet practice, my leg s really hurt. I did a bunch of whirls, and drilled all my other tricks. I tryed comboing a little bit and managed to work in a few whirls into my combo. Im trying to do pixie> op pickup, i can almost do it but i dont have it down.
Now that I know whirls I wanna try something else with them.. maybe diving, or ducking or something.
I played for about 4 and a half hours today. Tomorrow probably the same. Hopefully longer. I dont wanna slack, i wanna try to get to 6 or 7 hours.

oh i also started watching footbag videos in slow motion I was amazed i had this feature lol. Makes it easier to study.

beenjammin · Post by **beenjammin** » 25 Jan 2007 21:12

Anthony,
Now that you have whirls start working the more basic versions before you start to duck them. I reccomend consecutive whirls as many times as you can both sides one string. Also work on toe whirls, just remember to turn those hips out!

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 31 Jan 2007 13:53

Yeah ive been drilling whirls and theyre getting easier everyday. Whirls are my new favorite trick (that i can do). I played for about 2 hours today, after class ill play somemore. I want to work on combos/links since ive already had a drill session.

hakkpakk · Post by **hakkpakk** » 04 Feb 2007 12:45

You are really progressing since you started this blog. Keep it up

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 07 Feb 2007 22:48

Thanks hakk

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I've still been practicing everyday though I haven't posted in the blog in a few. Im drenched in sweat right now. Im happy about the trick progress but im also happy about my endurance progress

Ive really noticed that short of breath feeling go away lately.

Ow i just got a headache from shredding with my large headphones on that cover my ears. is that normal?

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 10 Feb 2007 22:23

currently working on double swirl. Ive almost hit it a few times so im confident I can do it. Its really hard though.. Im still unsure of how fast im suppossed to try to go.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 11 Feb 2007 20:37

I actually shredded outside today. Shocking. I came in after a session and everything looked green/purple. Im not used to so much sun

Ive been using my left leg/foot a lot more. Adding it into strings. Trying to get whirl bsos. Im having mucho fun shredding lately. Also some frustrations though, my pixie set has gotten weaker, I cant duck them as easily anymore, or get them high enough for dimwalk, I need to go back to drilling them.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 14 Feb 2007 10:56

Ok so I got some new blue lavs, and a new red mr sandbag. At first I was like... why cant i shred with my new shoes/bag well. I had gotten so used to my emptier sandbag I had really bad form. It was easily corrected though, im now busting out better than ever in my new lavs with the mr.

I guess thats what I get for using the same bag for a year.