Jeff-O's footblog

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 30 Apr 2007 18:21

Seeing as i havent posted on my old footblog in about a year in and a half, and i feel since im back to playing footbag again i figure ill start a new footblog.
So about 2 years ago when i met loren baum, evan gatesmen and ben skaggs i instantly became addicted to footbag. I would play for hours a day and progressed fast, but not in the direction i would like. Before i could fix this, i fell into a world all too obscure.
About a year and a half ago i got into a nasty drug called methamphetamines. In a couple months time my life turned upside down, i was homeless for 3 of the months only living off what i sold and my next fix.
My family didnt know what to do, and i didnt care. Until one day 2 rather large escorts showed up at a door of a pretty dangerous apartment where i was staying. Mind you i had been through many rehab inpatient centers and was stuck at a falling action type of plotline thing. From there i went to a wilderness program called Redcliff ascent where i would live out in the desert for 72 days total. I sort of introduced some of the people there to footbag by playing with crunched up pinecones and just hitting stuff like phoenix, couldnt do much more than 1 move so thats that.
Post wilderness i spent my time in boarding school graduating and patching up what wilderness left gaps in. I would shred seldomly there because there wasnt much room and it was a lockdown facility.
Well now im back home! I have been keeping in touch with ben and evan still and have been playing with them alot. I recently bought my plane tickets to worlds this summer, i have been practicing a minimum of 2 hours a day and have been progressing quickly. At this point i believe i am better than when i left. I can do some decent guiltless runs, which i hope to use if i do compete at novice level at worlds.

Anyways, my footblog is always open to comments as long as their positive, please keep stupid out of it

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 01 May 2007 14:35

So went to get a tetnis shot today and was dead tired from waking up at 4 am for work, so i slept while waiiting for the shot. That gave me the energy i needed.

I came home and played for about an hour and some odd minutes. Looked alot better than yesterday warming up, just drilling sets, so i decided to move on to guiltless once i was warmed up. First run was 19 contacts guiltless. I can see much improvement. Then i hit some cool little strings. (pdx dlo > dlo > egg beater) (tap > atomic ss pickup > atom smasher) ( paradon > think its a double over down.. a paradon from same side clipper?)

anyways im pretty stoked so think ill go play some more

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 02 May 2007 14:24

well just taking a break from solo shred. And there is one particular string which i was proud of.
Leg beater

whirl

pdx butterfly

whirl

ss pickup

PLO

DLO

Paradon

pdx mirage

contacted phoenix

Feelin good today

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 03 May 2007 18:24

Ben Skaggs came over today and we played for a good 2 hours. I was mostly drilling, but hit a couple pretty cool combos. I was dissapointed at first because i started out sloppy but figured it was because we were warming up with a brand new sandbag.
After wards i schooled Ben at foosball, couldnt blame him for losing, its like when i shoot the ball goes through a black hole and ends up in my opponents goal

come on guys.. some input. what the frick?

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 03 May 2007 20:21

so i just got back from running with my stepbrother. He tried to jump one of the tall flip lid trashcans and ate shit pretty bad and got scraped up. Then i tried to scale a pretty high wall and got a grip on the top and cut my middle finger as i pulled myself up, i can hardly stretch it now. ah good times

HG · Post by HG » 05 May 2007 04:48

sounds fun jeff. Im glad you are cleaning up and shredding again. Keep at it, and keep clean! Good luck

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 05 May 2007 19:27

thanks henry, finally someone noticed my blog

no shred today, ben called but i was going to get a tattoo, deciding whether or not this is the beginning of my sleeve or not, i like how it turned out, my family doesnt agree with it much though but its about me and my transition from drugs back to myself. Ill post a pic once i take one

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 06 May 2007 19:43

so didnt get to shred too much today since i didnt wake up too early. Hungover from the deeds for beads party last night, it was bumpin

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Just played footbag for about 30 mins and just drilled sets and what not. Then i went for a close to 3 mile run and i am wheezing, such a hard run. The last 2 miles are uphill. but it felt good.

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 07 May 2007 17:12

just played for about an hour and a half and drilled alot of things i have never really worked on.
worked on alot of diving and ducking, tried to get my retarded leg to do a swirl, dont even want to try weak clipper yet. Drilled stepping, im horrible at it

in conclusion, this session showed me what i really need to work on

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 08 May 2007 19:24

just what i need, an off day, i even came home after work and slept 3 hours and still had no energy in my legs. couldnt even keep a guiltless string going above 10 contacts

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 09 May 2007 16:51

played with ben and evan today, and had a rather bad time warming up. When evan went in to get ready for work my left leg finally decided to become one with myself again. Had not so lengthy runs, but some of them were decent, i was more drilling then anything. I did hit 2 datw's mid run though after a bit of pixie shuffling bsos.

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 10 May 2007 15:38

good little solo sessions today. I was mostly drilling and not trying anything big. was doing stuff like dimwalk

whirl

pdx butterfly

whirl
also smear

plo

smear

plo

this week has been bad for shred, think i need a day break cause my legs dont want to cooperate

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 14 May 2007 17:21

havent posted in a few days, been hungover and lazy. Shred today and hit some new things, workin on my right side fairy sets. hit nallegam and fear. also some other new things atomsmasher

paradon , gyro mirage and been drilling osis. I couldnt set a clipper straight if my life depended on it, therefore spinning is very hard.. any advice?

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 16 May 2007 18:29

playing footbag never fails to become more and more fun. Today i was just drilling by myself and i realized im forcing tricks that i just need to let them flow.. and that was just it. Great session, i was pixie shuffeling like it was nobodies business, and was spinning which i was always horrible at. Everything just flowed together great

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 22 May 2007 19:29

So last night was a bit wierd, i have a dream that my alarm goes off, and i never check the time, just always hit my alarm because i have to wake up at 4am for work. Anyways i wake up and proceed to make breakfast wash up and get dressed for work, i finally sitting down right before i go to work and look at the time on my phone and its only 11:50pm wow great, so i try to go back to sleep and its just not gonna happen so i call in sick.

This opens up the opportunity for a few good hours of shred with a swim break in between. I worked on some spinning and alot of atomic. Got a long guiltless run with tap bsos. Hit legbeater and tapdown both sides. As well as those i hit my first 6 add today, fusion

. im nagging my dad to get the camera goin before i go to college so i can film some evan and i footage, i dont know how to edit though. so be oni the lookout soon.

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 20 Aug 2007 10:52

I was beggining to get off track with posting in my blog because it just didnt seem too interesting anymore until i attended worlds.
I stayed in Terra Verde with the rest of the vegas crew ( Evan Gatesman and Ben Skaggs) along with Kyle Hewitt, Zeb Jackson and Louis whose last name escapes me. Very interesting roommates and fun people.
I also met various other people, which is always a pleasure. Henry G was pretty much the funniest person there for sure. Rory's Mickey Mouse socks were whack but probably the coolest socks ever.
I played pretty well somedays, but overplayed on others, I didn't know footbag could make you sooo sore. I competed in shred 30, but i feel like an idiot when i try to play infront of people, i think i only did 2 tricks in my shred 30 i was so nervous, but a good experience nonetheless.
I enjoyed everything about worlds except for florida's humidity and being an open feast for mosquitos. The routines were just great, especially Kevin Crowley's, John Haber's and Tom Mosher when he dropped 4 consecutive clippers and growled at the camera.
Now that i have been to my first competition i have seen everything i need to drill. so time to get to work.

HG · Post by HG » 20 Aug 2007 11:37

had so much fun. can't wait til prague

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 29 Aug 2007 20:23

I finally moved up to Reno for college and am all situated now. I am real comfortable here, i have a big apartment and pretty cool roomate, and its right across the street from the campus. College is awesome, its like a whole different parallel. In highschool you had 1 hot chick out of every 10 girls or so. In college its quite the reciprocal.

I have a real enclose shred spot right outside my front door, so im hoping by playing in this area i can make all my sets straight up so i dont have to chase the bag around. I have been drilling alot. And much more than alot today because i ate some real greasy food and its my day off. I have been drilling alot of ducking and osis. I have drifter both sides now, and can almost spin flipside. Some cool highlites from todays session are:
atom atom
1/2 rubberman
5 ripwalks
sidewalk bsos

In my math class i was sitting next to this real cute girl and the professor started to take roll out loud so i was thinking to myself god hes gonna butcher my last name, and as im thinking this im hearing him butcher this other kids last name "lube, luby, how do you pronounce it?" he says and i laugh at this cause im completely zoned out. So the girl does this real sarcastic "Ha.. ha.." and i explain to her what i just typed out. Anyways we get to talking and i tell her i have my own place and shes like good im gonna come over and your gonna tutor me. And im like alright thats cool. College rocks!

HG · Post by HG » 29 Aug 2007 20:43

Tutor... more like.... neuter

professor · Post by **professor** » 29 Aug 2007 21:41

I hate you Jeff. You don't even try and you get girls. Oh well, you can't hit montage and I can. I guess we're even.