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hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 11 Apr 2007 20:47

Well after a very long footbag hiatus, it's finally time to get back into it, pain-free this time, and just as motivated!!! i'm busy with my final exams at the moment, but as of april 20th, it's full footbag steam ahead. I'm going to be working with a personal trainer in the next few months to help me get back into my old physical shape, but leaving my footbag progression up to me, sooooo....

i'm looking for some challenges to work towards. let's start off easy, like really easy, and progress it from there. At present i'd like to work on easy shuffle combos, i love repeats, and throw in some downtime components here and there to play out of, just to make it interesting.

here's the run down of what i can hit, and how well i feel i can do them...
(ranking system as follows, from solid to weak: Excellent, Great, Good, Mediocre, Poor, i can't do it if it's not listed (but i might have just forgotten so feel free to ask) but no surging or other such insanity thanks)

sets:
-stepping (excellent)
-stepping ducking (good)
-pixie (great)
-pixie ducking (poor)
-fairy (mediocre)
-atomic (good)
-quantum (poor)
-furious (poor)
-spinning/gyro (poor)
-ducking/diving (poor)

down time:
-mirage (excellent)
-legover (excellent)
-pickup (great)
-illusion (great)
-butter (excellent)
-drifter (great, pdx good)
-whirl (great, pdx good)
-osis (great)
-dlo (good, pdx mediocre)
-egg (mediocre, pdx poor flip)
-blender (good, poor flip)
-dyno (good)
-paradon/ barfly (strong good, flip poor)
-dso/ reaper (great/ mediocre)
-torque (good, poor flip)
-swirls (poor)
-symple swirls (good)
-butter swirls (good)
-whirling swirl (good, poor flip)
-datw (good, mediocre flip)
-barage (poor)

so, i'd really love some longish (10-15 contacts) of shuffle heavy challenges with some downtime stuff inbetween. feel free to toss in a 5 here or there.

here are my favorite hard 4's, 5's and 6's:
-ripped warrior
-spiked hammer
-fog
-blurry whirl
-blurry drifter
-flurry
-haze
-bedwetter
-ps whirl
-pdx blender
-blurry torque
-food

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 11 Apr 2007 20:50

I'll keep track of challenges here.

Achieved:

-Ripped Warrior>Ripped Warrior (x2)

-spinning butter swirl

-Genesis

-riptide>riptide

-blizzard>dso>tap>atom>atomic legover>pixie whirl>stepping ss clip>drifter>ducking butterfly>blurry whirl>tombstone

-ripped > flurry > atomic op osis

-pixie muted same (foot) clipper > pdx egg [rpt]

-Pixie Whirl>Bedwetter rpt

-Pdx dlo> dso> ss butter swirl> rpt

-Pixie whirl + Pixie ss Whirl BS in OS

-Tapping legover>Quantum Legover>Rpt

-Tapping Pickup>Legbeater>Blurry Drifter>Pdx Whirl>Pdx Drifter>Pdx Dlo>Pixie Whirl

-Fog> atomic drifter (both sides) had it bsosed a bajillion times but could never seal the last one.

-Merkon> pixie clipper> rpt> gyro mirage> paradon> rpt

-Blubberman>(rubberman+)>Blur>Smear>Dimwalk>Rpt>Any 5

-pdx blender > gyro dlo (bsos)

-any furious trick set from any swirl trick (whirling swirl> jani/ ss sympl swirl> fury)

-Spinning Whirl>Ripwalk rpt

Challenges:

-Zulu osis>fog>ss eggbeater>legbeater>ripwalk>ripwalk>vortex>ss butterfly swirl

-Flip PS whirl > infinity > flip superfly > infinity > flip pdx blender > infinity > flip flurry

-spinning blender > food BS

-Stepping ss pickup > fairy ss whirl > pogo far clipper > backside blur > atomic clipper > sidewalk > stepping ss pickup > fairy ss whirl > tombstone > stepping mirage > tapping clipper

-fairy ss illusionx2 >pixie ss illusion x2 >atomic opp illusion x2 >quantum opp illusion x2

-Atomic Legover > Omelette > Atomic Pickup > Atom Smasher > Parkwalk > Sidewalk > Blur > Smear > Smudge > Magellan > Pixie ss Pickup > Dimwalk > Stepping ss Clipper > Blizzard> rpt

-Pdx Whirl > Pdx Drifter > Pdx DLO > Eggbeater > Drifter > Bubbabeater > DLO > Whirl > Pdx Eggbeater > ss Butterfly Swirl> rpt

-Paradon (Pixie Paradon? Blurriest?)>Janiwalker

-riptide>ripcurl>rpt

-scorpions tail>ps whirl rpt

-gyro butter swirl

-pigbeater>fairy ss dlo>rpt

- double spinning clipper bsos

- food>tombstone repeat

- blurry whirl>mobius>ps whirl bsos

- spikehammer>pixie paradon repeat

HG · Post by HG » 12 Apr 2007 04:31

blizzard>dso>tap>atom>atomic legover>pixie whirl>stepping ss clip>drifter>ducking butterfly>blurry whirl>tombstone

max · Post by **max** » 12 Apr 2007 04:37

[rpt]

max · Post by **max** » 12 Apr 2007 04:41

haha forget that last one, just poking fun at peopel who post 45+ long tripless combos as challenges.
Anyway you've probably hit these before but yeah:

pixie muted same (foot) clipper > pdx egg [rpt]
spinning blender > food BS
ripped > flurry > atomic op osis
pdx blender > gyro dlo

if those are too easy I'll find some harder ones

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 12 Apr 2007 09:33

max wrote:if those are too easy I'll find some harder ones

no, max, those will be plenty hard. i think i've only ever hit spinning blender once or twice flipside, so stepping out will be quite a challenge. i can't zoom so the last one will give me trouble. i think i should get the ripped>flurry> crispy flux first or second try, and i've hit the first challenge before, but i'll hit it again.

thanks for the challenges folks.

thanks henry, that's perfect!!!

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 13 Apr 2007 00:00

That pdx blender > gyro DLO sounds like a swet combo.

Stepping same pickup > fairy same whirl > pogo far clipper > backside blur > atomic clipper > sidewalk > stepping same pickup > fairy same whirl > tombstone > stepping mirage > tapping clipper
(or slapping clipper is you want -- that would be cooler, but I put in some kind of tough links as it is...with no break...)

(I tried so hard to be creative!)

I'm trying to integrate stepping same pickup -- what a cool, obscure trick!

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 14 Apr 2007 18:39

got henry's. took me many many tries. the first time i hit it with blurry whirl> blurry drifter because that's a combo i do alot. at first i was like "Swee- ... aaw crap, that's not right!" and look me like another 6-7 tries to get it right. also got max's ripped flurry combo.

HG · Post by HG » 15 Apr 2007 15:06

Nice! Here's another:

Zulu osis>fog>ss eggbeater>legbeater>ripwalk>ripwalk>vortex>ss butterfly swirl

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 15 Apr 2007 17:54

HG wrote:Nice! Here's another:

Zulu osis>fog>ss eggbeater>legbeater>ripwalk>ripwalk>vortex>ss butterfly swirl

i have hit vortex maybe a dozen times and my zulu's not too good, so this could take a while

Post by **Zac Miley** » 15 Apr 2007 18:47

Pixie Whirl>Bedwetter rpt.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 15 Apr 2007 23:27

Isilwar wrote:Pixie Whirl>Bedwetter rpt.

you all seem to think i'm much better than i actually am.

max · Post by **max** » 15 Apr 2007 23:48

hacksterbator wrote:
Isilwar wrote:Pixie Whirl>Bedwetter rpt.
you all seem to think i'm much better than i actually am.

Welcome to the challenge threads!

Post by **Zac Miley** » 16 Apr 2007 04:02

hacksterbator wrote:
Isilwar wrote:Pixie Whirl>Bedwetter rpt.
you all seem to think i'm much better than i actually am.

Sorry.

HG · Post by HG » 16 Apr 2007 04:26

i usually just ignore isilwar's challenges. he gave me a few like that too.

pixie ss pickup>atomsmasher>dada curve>spinning clipper>stepping whirl bs

Michu · Post by **Michu** » 16 Apr 2007 06:02

hey andrew,
what did you meant with your personal trainer? Are you going to a fitness center because you have huge legs, I don't think you got them from footbag. Nice drills!!
schred hard
Michael

Post by **Zac Miley** » 16 Apr 2007 12:26

HG wrote:i usually just ignore isilwar's challenges. he gave me a few like that too.

Gee thanks.

Sorry I try to be helpful.

(and also sorry for clogging your thread)

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 16 Apr 2007 14:30

max wrote:Welcome to the challenge threads!

lol, yeah i get it.

Isilwar wrote:Sorry I try to be helpful.

(and also sorry for clogging your thread)

i'm not ragging on ya, just gonna have to give me some time on that challenge.

Michu wrote:hey andrew,
what did you meant with your personal trainer? Are you going to a fitness center because you have huge legs, I don't think you got them from footbag. Nice drills!!
schred hard
Michael

yes, my legs are big and strong, but my muscle endurance isn't what it used to be. also lacking the power i used to have. I'll be working with my Advanced Resistance Training professor at her gym. She specializes in working with high performance athletes and took a bit of an interest in footbag (in a conditioning sense, she's not interested in the playing, just in the moving) because of what it demands from the body. i designed the program my self in class as my final assignment (got a 98 on it) and she's going to fine tune it a bit and bring in her knowlege. Mostly she will be supervising, monitoring my progress, heloing to keep me motivated, etc, etc. alot of what i'll be doing is working my anaerobic lactic system, trying to get me back into shred shape and getting prepped for worlds. also going to be working on pylometrics, core stability, and other proprioception stuff. i'm really looking forward to it.

henry, i refuse your challenge because i hate dada's and i don't care to work on them. i'll do it with a drifter if you want.

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 16 Apr 2007 16:01

Tapping legover>Quantum Legover>Rpt

Tapping Pickup>Legbeater>Blurry Drifter>Pdx Whirl>Pdx Drifter>Pdx Dlo>Pixie Whirl

Pixie whirl + Pixie ss Whirl BS in OS

Blubberman>(Blur>Smear>Dimwalk>Rpt)>Any 5 you want...just tack it on once you hit this challenge.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 16 Apr 2007 20:44

YES!

Now those are some really cool challenges. i especially like the last one, because i get a choice, and a bit of ownership.