Modified's Blog

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 24 Apr 2007 16:34

I havent drank caffine a couple months( I think)?
I avoid it because its addicting and useless to me. Its like nicotine without the guilt. There are many other resourceful alternitives to caffine(natural stuff). W/e

Yesterday I lost my brand new Josh raye bag. It was orange and light orange i think. Thats a bummer.
Tommorow I got ACTs then the next day I got some PSAE bull shit, and right after that PSAE shit(same day right after) I got court. Basically this week is gonna lick balls but hopfully footbag at the end it will make me feel alot better, usually does.
I cant wait for my new footbags to be stiched. Right now on my list I got 8 coming. Im almost at the 50(48 bags,all 32 panels) marker. Once I reach that Im done. Ive spent so much money within the past 7 months.

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 24 Apr 2007 19:10

where do you get all this money to buy so many bags? i work and stitch but i cant come up with all that.

youll feel better that court will be over with, granted youll have to pay some money and have things added to your sentence. dont let it get you down though! you still have footbag.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 24 Apr 2007 19:15

Holly your signature is awesome.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 25 Apr 2007 03:27

finally got a good picture to post here, and an incredible one for the next page already.

me at a battle of the bands at the palladium that my friends were playing in.

im gonna post a picture or two here to keep the blog looking fresh, but i'll have to do it later. i have to be at school in 10 minutes and im not wearing shoes yet...
but i wanted to mention before i forgot, pretty good kicking yesterday, but it was in rolled up pants, with my roddies, and with a light 4-panel bag. still, a lot of fun and i kicked off an on most of the day. i dropped on flip toe kick set pickup after landing toe kick set legover bsos and one side of toe kick set pickup all in the same string, first time i had ever bothered to hit any of them, and it turns out they're pretty damned fun. i was also pleased at how easily i could hit ps whirl in rolled up pants and lavers. i need to drill my ducking.
im leaving for bristol, connecticut for a school trip tomorrow at 4:45 am. only until friday night, we're staying in an apparently pretty nice hotel thursday night. lets just say im going to make sure it will be a pretty ill time. but yeah i wont be around til saturday. at least that means i can kick all weekend once i get back.
yesterday i also kept trying inside set gyro pickup or something like that. it felt and looked weird but i liked it. havent hit it yet. plenty more solid ass stalls.
new dude to the boston shred scene (well he's been kicking for awhile but i finally convinced him to buy a pair of my modded lavers like just over a week ago) he apparently can already hit clippers with good regularity. looking forward to kicking with him, try to get him even more stoked on footbag. that would make 5 people at least in the boston area that have footbag-specific shoes. i honestly never thought i'd see the day *tear*
haha. well, 4 minutes to get to school. that'll happen.
dentist yesterday sucked. several cavities drilled and filled. another appt. early next week...

BSC represent.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 28 Apr 2007 08:01

wow im pretty tired. got back from my trip last night at like 11:00. long story short: i went from boston to bristol, ct, then to several towns in that area touring security factories where they make door closers, magnetic locks, pins that go in locks, and of course all types of door locks. the next day after touring 3 more factories i got dropped off in east hartford to meet up with the girl, we hung out for about 5 hours (highlight of the trip) then i took a long bus ride home.
i played footbag in the bus terminal for a bit. i hit haze and fog in one string with a 4 panel, first time ever. then so i didnt feel one sided i hit flip fog on my 3rd try. also probably a first. flip haze is too damn hard...it uses my flip stepping and my flip dlo.
i was pretty tired and feeling out of shape last night...i guess it had been a few days since i played. yet somehow my knee was randomly hurting. im playing again today...expecting much better resluts. its supposed to be at least 60 today (i think its about that warm already) so im gonna go downtown, get high (or drunk (or both)) and play some footbag.
well.
i drank caffeine for the first time in like a week in the hotel room. because i really wanted to drink some sparks. those things are delish. but i decided i'll just make a special case for sparks. maybe drink more of em today. we'll see.
bought new kicks yesterday as well. black with white shell toes, white stripes, white laces. they're p. i. m. p.
yankees are on a 7 game losing streak. hahahaha.
alright well. Boss town rep re sent.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 30 Apr 2007 03:37

stepping same clip>ducking clip>rpt

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 01 May 2007 09:30

wow lame shoe store downtown didnt have my size in the white and red puerto rican g 6's. pissed.

looks like it will have to be internet again.

im starting to think my old g units are starting to hold me back because they're so limp and nasty.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 04 May 2007 02:59

played a lot of bag yesterday. started in rolled up jeans because i forgot my shorts, but i wound up just buying new shorts at marshalls downtown. i hit gyro whirl off a bottom step outside the copley library>butter>pdx whirl>osis>handcatch in the rolled up jeans. later in shorts i hit:
nuke far legover
zoid pdx blender
a few rev swirls, far rev. swirl, and butter rev swirl in OS
pdx blender>pandora's box totally unplanned midstring

i had another incident on my bike. im still not drinking caffeine, still using my old units, etc.

i need to buy my bus ticket to montreal. im missing my girlfriend's prom to go on this trip so i better actually go.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 05 May 2007 08:41

so thursday when i went downtown to play i forgot to put my contacts in, so i had to wear my damn glasses, which puts me at like 85%, and i also forgot shorts, so i just bought new adidas shorts at marshalls downtown for like 15 dollars. haha, definitely NOT a run-on sentence. pretty straight shorts though. but since i had glasses on the sesh still wasnt great, and yesterday i forgot my shorts AGAIN. well mostly i just wasnt planning on playing. but i had to play in rolled up baggy corduroys. obviouslly i didnt play great, but i was doing decently long guiltless shit and i hit my first six in rolled up pants. of course it was:
-food, in rolled up, baggy corduroys
and some other stuff i dont remember. i think pdx blender and ps whirl in os as well.
well anyway, long story short, all that is to say today is finally going to be a good session because im going to make sure i have goddam everything i could possibly need. and im playing with the dude chris from newman (this school near back bay-he's christopholes on modified) so it should be a mad good session, even though im pretty friggin tired now...biking everywhere is starting to take its toll. i'll update with highlights later. i've been trying sumo>leg>blender(or something else) and i should probably try to change that middle legbeater into a legbreaker. its doable, but i better bring my shortest shorts...
right well, im off this.
peace

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 07 May 2007 10:03

yeah im doin alright. im supposed to be finding out today whether or not i got a locksmithing job that i sorely want, but the guy hasnt called yet. im hoping he will soon. im definitely too tired for shred...i decided i need to rest for a few days a little more consistantly.
im considering biking from my house to my gf's house in connecticut, mostly just for the challenge of it. its 93 miles...i could probably do it in a day, or 2 at the most. i have to do it before i get a car or there's no way i'll be able to motivate myself to bother with it.
i forgot like 4 days ago i hit gyro whirl off a step....and oh wait i just realized i already posted that like 2 days ago...haha.
great post!

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 08 May 2007 06:47

you ever try stepping ss and op gyro whirl?
Ive never tried it yet but Il give it a try today

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 08 May 2007 07:00

i've never landed any dex>any spin. stuff like that boggles my mind. i think thats what your talking about, like stepping same back spin to near whirl? i can picture it in my head and it doesnt look too hard but i know when i try it later it will feel pretty much impossible.
i did however foot pixie ss symp whirl about 5 times last night. that move feels SO cool, especially if you really exaggerate landing only on the pixie foot. overall the session i had last night was pretty good. i really dont know what happened to my string length though...i dont get tired or anything i just drop on stupid bullshit.
i need new g units like whoa.
i just did a preliminary interview with a big lock and security company in brookline ma. i definitely have a good feeling about how it went.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 14 May 2007 05:15

most ridiculous weekend ever. i was awake for 36 hours at one point, i went to a pretty sweet punk show (see picture near top of page), and i broke my right pinky falling off my bike. i didnt play too much footbag all weekend, but i did have a couple unproductive sessions, one at about 3-4 am. i footed spinning clipperX5>spinning whirl about 5 times but couldnt nail it. yet.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 14 May 2007 10:02

Is pandora's box the same as pandora? What is that again, gyro lo?

As for tricks which are dex then spin, the secret to them is to not do everything at once. Same with stepping ducking. Try and separate the components as much as you can, and you'll be amazed at how much success you'll have.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 14 May 2007 10:55

yeah i think they're one and the same, and its gyro pickup.
thanks for the tips.

ObArA'BaRs · Post by **ObArA'BaRs** » 15 May 2007 17:41

try pixie muted clipper>pandoras box>pixie muted clipper>gyro mirage>rpt

Its cool looking I guess, but what gyro muted combo isnt cool looking.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 16 May 2007 13:00

if i had a decent flip gyro i'd be all over that.

and also if i wasnt having fucking surgery early next week. they told me footbag wasnt a good idea for awhile. as if there wasnt enough bullshit lately. this huge ass cast isnt helping either.

DTank126 · Post by **DTank126** » 16 May 2007 13:33

Aw shit man, that really sucks. I remember reading somewhere about you recently breaking your pinky, but that cant possibly be the reason your your going in for surgery is it?

Whatever the reason, I hope you you heal quick man, you seem like a really cool guy. Lookin forward to meeting you and gettin our shred on in, what, like 4 months?

Hope your healthy by then.

Peace

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 16 May 2007 14:08

haha yeah believe it or not, its because of the pinky. in fact thats the very reason i have a monstrous, unnecessary cast on right now. im actually still planning on playing some footbag tonight, since i know i wont be able to for at least a week or so after the surgery, which is actually fairly minor. they just have to line up the bones in my pinky and stick a few pins through it that will stay there for like 3 weeks or something. still. its one of the few things in life that i actually fear. i hope the session tonight goes really well, i havent played since early saturday morning (like 3 am early) so my legs feel really good. im hoping the cast doesnt fuck me up though. it will be so good when this is all a memory in a month or two.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 16 May 2007 14:09

check top of next page for injury pictures!!