space is the place - the astro travelling blog

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 02 Oct 2006 13:11

hey everyone

finally I have started my footblog.
to me:
Im 20 years old and live in Moers, Nrw, Germany. Im playing footbag freestyle since 1 year maybe litte more.Mostly I shred alone. I have Started with a friend, but he stopped shreddin because his broken bag and his work as zivi... but now after ca 4 month he ordered a new bag.
Before 4 weeks another friend has started with quantums and a marco hartig bag his freestyle game.

I hope i can improve my footbag skills, also my english language skills and that I can meet up new people through this footblog.
Of course Im intermediate, I can do mostly all 2' adds, a few 3' adds like butterfly, osis, pixie legover, pdx pickup, pdx mirage, whirl and two 4' adds: ducking butterfly and dimwalk. I have to work at my flipside and my consecutive, my strings are not very long.

chris

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 02 Oct 2006 16:26

Hey cool name.
Spread the word of footbag everywhere you go

Drill both sides as much as you can.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 04 Oct 2006 06:08

thx for your post
you have also a cool name

Yesterday I had actually a shred session with DoctorJay (Jochen B.) and buko, but I came one and a half hour to late because this fuckin traffic jam
(damn holiday). So Jochen called up another player but he was on the way to Netherland and so I decided to shred alone in MÃ¶nchengladbach.
This shred session wasnt really good, focused only on whirl.
just drilled whirl and strings like butterfly > whirl.
But the positive thing is that I got some filler from Jochen for my allmost empty docbag.

Now I have two bags for shreddin, the docbag and my new one marco hartig bag.

Today is a horrible weather, its raining all the day.. maybe I make later a shred session in my room, I have changed my forniture, that I have more space for shredding.

DoctorJay · Post by **DoctorJay** » 04 Oct 2006 06:32

I was checking the docbag sweep thread and hugh hugh - what is that - after clicking your profile I found your blog.

Nice ! I will check it regular.

Anyway sad to hear that you had to shred on your own.

Next time dude.

Great that you took the trip to Moenchengladbach.

Keep it going

Cu

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 16 Oct 2006 11:44

Yesterday I had no boring soloshred, I had a shred session with Mark from Viersen. He visited me and we
drove to the park for the shred. This year the autumn is very pleasant in Germany, the sun is shining, no clouds to see
and there is no wind. So the Shred session with Mark was really cool.
Mark got finally his lavers, the last time I saw him he was shreddin in some modded skater shoes.
Mark hit a few times paradox mirage, ducking clipper and symposium Mirage. The last time we had a shred, was
at the worlds and in this weeks he has improved himself.
Mark was really close to hit whirl, I think when I see him next time he will hit it.
I hit a few times stuff like ducking butterfly, ducking mirage,dimwalk and whirl.
Both of us had also a few good long strings, maybe 15 contacts or so.

Today feel my legs are a little bit sore, but that was it worth.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 25 Oct 2006 10:41

Yeeha
Today I got post from Marco, he sent me 2 new bags.

One for me and one for another friend.

The left one is mine

unfortunely I couldn't play very long with the new bags, because yesterday I had a little
accident while i was doing a smyp. mirage. After the jump I landed with my right feet on my other
feet and therefore is my left feet a lil bit sprained. It's not serious, I think in a few days I can
play as usually.

Today I read that the german championchip take place in Berlin from 16-17 december. DAMN Im from 12-18 december
in Turkey. That sucks :/

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 14 Jan 2007 15:38

even 3 monts past since i've posted here.
I was a little bit lazy, therfore i didnt post something in my blog.
In november I was at the dexdo jam in dortmund to celebrate the second birthday of dexdo e.v. I drove alone to the jam, the shred was very cool and the funk party later was cool too.

after the jam weekend I stopped shredding till january because of my sprained ankle.

Since january now, I have startedplaying again. 2 friends of mine started also shreddin and we meet us twice in the week for shredding.

One of them plays not very long and hes training the basics. The other guy jascha started with me but he did a long break because of his work as zivi. today he hit his first flipside clippers and his first ducking clipper.

a few things i've hit in the last week:

clipper x5>opp clipper x5

clipper b2b x14

ducking clipper>whirl

butterfly>osis>whirl

dimwalk>whirl

whirl x5

infinity x5

pixie ducking butterfly, my first 5 add

DoctorJay · Post by **DoctorJay** » 15 Jan 2007 16:42

Great to hear that you are back on track.

whirl x5 sounds quite good to me!

Props on your first 5 add trick. Phoenix was my first 5 add trick as well.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 19 Jan 2007 17:13

On thursday I drove over the highway to the netherlands and got into a construction area where a speed limit of 60 km/h where, but I had no time and on this day, there was this fucking hurricane which should boost over whole netherland and germany on this day and therefore i was driving 100 km/h. It's actually the normal speed if u wanna there overtake a car. unfortunately there was a police coper behind me far away but they checked my speed and fished me out.

actually I had lost my driver license, because I'm still in my "try-out" time and I was 5km/h to fast for it. Luckily i knew the guy who catched me up and so the guy was really friendly and I have only to pay a punish payment of 20â‚¬. very less for 25km/h to fast. (-15 because it was on the highway)
For a half year I got into a radar trap in Netherlands and I drove 23 km/h to fast and had to pay 70â‚¬.

friday shredsession: 1.5 hours

On this week there was no shred meeting because monday had nobody time and on wednsday I had to work, yeah I got a job, I'm now a pizza driver.

today i had a really good solo shred session. At first i changed my shoes and switched to my old mesh lavers, but after 10 min I recognized that the quantums are much better or I'm only used to it and so I switched back.

Yeah I think I will be loyal to the quantums and buy also the next version, they are great shoes.
today I trained a few flipside tricks which I've hit today for the first time.
I have improved my pixie set, but my flipside pixie is far beyond that i could hit it.

highlights:

flipside osis 3 times

flipside symp. mirage also 3 times

ducking clipper b2b

paradox mirage bs x2

clean phoenix

dyno>whirl

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 22 Jan 2007 12:39

monday shredsession: 1.5 hours

Today I had a solo session and I'm really satisfied with this session.
For the first time I hit drifter from toe and clipper, even with my flipside. Have to work on this.

Also drilled clippers, I got a new clipper drill. I play clipper b2b but add by every switch a clipper to it. Got 20 clipper in one run, new clipper record.
My flipside osis is getting better and better.

highlights:

osis>osis

clipper>pdx mirage>clipper>pdx mirage rpt. x3

legover rpt. x10

drifter bs

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 10 Feb 2007 13:53

2 weeks gone since my last post. Time for a lil update and shame on my that I don't write much more in here.

I had a few shred session, all were solo shreds, but there was only one amazing session in the last week.
The remaining session wasn't very long, I wasn't in the right mood to play.

I had in the last week my best run.

pixie clipper>pdx mirage>clipper>pdx mirage>butterfly>whirl

unfortunately it's tiltless because I bailed on clipper instead I hit flip butterfly.
But I didnt hit so much 3 add's in one run like this one. That's good.

I'm coming more and more closer to flipside whirl,
I got the dex motion now but the clipper after that is to slow. Have to work on it.
Additional I hit a bunch of new tricks/combos:

near dlo bs

datw on first try

parkwalk

spinning clipper bs

pixie symp mirage (ps mirage?)

pdx symp mirage>butterfly> whirl

symp mirage bsos

I was last week at footlookers and bought me a new pair of spenco insoles,
because I wear now my lavers for walking now and therefore I needed new insoles for my quantums.
I got a new version of Spencos, they are now GEL insoles. They seems like to be better than the other version.
But they are blue and not green like the old ones. Damn I like green so much more than blue.
And then I bought also "fresh twist" at footlookers, the shoe deodirzers.

Yeah my shoes stink very much after shreddin, so its a good solution.
Hm, I dont wanna end my post that my shoes stinks.
So I go now watching the last episode of Lost again 3x07 not in Portland.
Yeah the break is over and now the season goes on, finally.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 25 Feb 2007 15:13

had a mini session before I had to work.
Got my first pdx whirls and hit also ducking clipper>spinning clipper, but my spinning clipper was really the...
yeah my spinning clipper suxx, I'm to often off balance

I wanna participate at the sick 3 online competition and maybe sick 1, but I'm not sure which tricks I should use.

For the sick3 I got some good combos in my mind, but all are to hard for me to get it in sick3 and there is not many time and sick1 I dunno what I can use.
I wanna hit a creative sick1 not only such a normal trick like whirl or osis... and phoenix, my only 5 add trick has been hit in the last sick1,
which i got on tape. gnar!

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 21 Mar 2007 08:46

almost one month past since my last post.
But there isn't much to write. Have to work alot and the exams are coming closer and closer, so I have not so much time for footbag.
But last week was so good weather that I had to go to the park where all my friend were chillin and played bball and football. It was maybe 15Â° C, really good weather for shred, not to cold and not to hot. But the fuckin weather has changed in this week. But I think you know that, because almost everywhere has the weather been changed (if anybody reads my irregular blog

). Really weired, last week I was shredding outside shirtless and now its so cold that I have to wear a jacket and comforter...

some highlights of my last sessions

clipper>near dlo>butterfly>infinity>whirl

pixie ss osis on first try

infinity>whirl>ducking clipper

ducking clipper>spinning clipper

25 strongside clipper, new record

7 flipside atw's

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 16 Apr 2007 14:48

hm correct me my blog isn't so irregular. One post per month

Whatever my holidays are over and I can look back to a great Footbag event where I was, yes I was at the Todexon 8 with Jochen(DoctorJay) and his girlfriend and the sister of her gf. Actually it was cool, I saw many good players and I've meet many new peoples and saw good shred circles.
My Videocam was also on board and I got ca 1 hour on tape, but I have to wait for an cable for the PCand then I can start to cut a video from Todexon. My shred wasn't really good, I played maybe half an hour, not really good and then I had this pain in my chest and I couldn't shred the whole event.

I dont know, maybe it was the bed or something...
I couldn't shred but 4square was ok and I won maybe 2 games. I played 3 times with steve goldberg and he won every game, he's an incredible cool guy. ^^

Today was my first schoolday after 2 weeks. It was okay, the weather was great, almost 30Â°C and I got a few
marks back from different subjects. I got 2 pre conclaves and 1 Netherland vocabulary test back.
As first I got my BWR conclave 79 %, in germany its a 2, It was the best conclave in the class.
After that I got my vocabulary test back and I was exciting because I did a competition with a friend, the deal was who has more % in the test as the other wins 5â‚¬. So I got the test as first and I saw that I got 100 %, I was totally happy and laughed because I thought I won 5â‚¬, but unfortunately my friend had also 100% in the test and so its was draw.

Last but not least I got my english conclave back, it was a 2- and also the best conclave in my class.

Actually I'm really surprised that I got 2 best conclaves because I didn't learned so much.

Now I'm chillin at my computer,It's 0.40 pm here in germany, my ears are hearing the sounds of Miles Davis and I'm sweatin, Its very hot in here and now im smoking my last chonic cigarette and after that I will go to bed and hope that I dont wake up 2 late.

good night.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 31 May 2007 04:26

hy again my blog

some highlights of the last weeks which I remember.

diving clipper

ripwalk

flipside whirl

whirl>clipper>flip whirl>osis>whirl>clipper>flip whirl

diving clipper>osis>whirl

ripwalk>infinity>whirl

midstring phoenix

12x butterflies, new record

yea this was my footbagshit, maybe i write later anything about my current life. But now I have to clean up my room

Not really finished with cleaning up my room but now is half time.
Its 00pm and tomorrow I will get my final examination marks back.
I'm a lil bit nervous about it, I think I have to go in the verbal examination in math but I think I have my graduation.

At the end of the month are the german championships in Aachen which is only 100km away from my place. I will be there.

Maybe one of my lazy friends are coming with my..

cya later mr aligator

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 31 May 2007 14:59

Wow your learning fast. Good job!
Welcome to the club

I wish one day to go to a european jam. Your so lucky to live so close
What are you majoring in?

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 02 Jul 2007 13:39

haha I wrote a long text about the german championships and then I closed unfortunately my opera. DOH
hm now just short words.

- It was my first tournament and I got second place in intermediate routine

- I was there with a friend and the whole event was great.
- thanks jochen for the advices after the qualifications.
- My final routine was much better than my qualification.
- the crowd was amazing, they flipped out during some open routines

- Yves Kreil is german champion, I was really suprised..
- Stefan Sieger second and Max kerkhoff third

Today started my life as a zivi, very nice start because today was just a formerly day.. I had to sign a few paper etc. and tomorrow I have only to go to the doctor and then I have free because the cars has to been fixed.

and wednsday I have to work from 2-3, I like my work as zivi.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » 02 Jul 2007 20:45

Props on second place

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 02 Jul 2007 20:54

nice job.

Seems like you've accomlished alot in a short amount of time.

chris- · Post by **chris-** » 03 Jul 2007 05:55

@ObArA'BaRs
my majors were german,english,math, business studies and logistic.
my diploma was really good, I had a grade point average of 2,6, my goal was to get under 3,0 and with success.

and after my civil service I will study logistic management in the netherlands in venlo.
btw thanks cassy and chris.

Yeah! I'm going to vienna to the european championship in 16 days.
Tomorrow I will know if I get the vacation for the euros, but I explained it to my chef thats "sportsvacation" is and it looks good.

The weather here sucks at the moment.. all time rain

I had yesterday a lil shred session, though I shouldnt play because of my legs are really down.
anyway I didnt play bad
lots of:

pdx mirages bs

pixie mirage

double legovers

one midstring pixie ducking leg over, but the leg over was very the

whirl bsos

datw