Fair Session #2 write-up: starring myself and Doug Tank.
started a bit later and took some pretty spread out breaks. I think we went to 5 different places to play all around the fairgrounds. We still played entirely way too much footbag.
Chapter 1: The Midway
We played at first in the middle of EVERYONE in the busiest part of the fair. Got a lot of attention. Most of it positive. For the most part we were both off our games. Doug hit a nice long string with near DLO bsos and torque while I was getting some fresh and delicious lemonade (not sure if lemonade is bad for footbag but they didn't have water).
Chapter 2: The BMX/Skateboarding Demo
There was this BMX/Skateboarding expo at one point and we were eating and drinking and resting up before it started. We were going to shred next to the bleachers and see if we can get the attention of some Xtreme people. We were still technically resting but we moved into this tent area where they were about to be square dancing. Like 40 old people sitting in seats just staring off into space waiting to be led in a good ol' fashion hoedown! So I take out my trusty bag and start doing swirls and reverse swirls and the stuff I do when I'm in my civilian clothes (longer shorts). The old people were terribly confused by me and probably wished to write a formal complaint to the owners. I also almost took out a guy with a flip far symple swirl. Oops. So instead we decided to actually shred. Doug was done eating. I was done drinking. So we go next to the BMX show and I started playing the best I played all day. It was my favorite part of the day. The announcer guy was pretty cool. Every once in a while he'd mention us: "Hey we've got those hacky sackers still going at it over there. They're killin' it over there!" Fucking A we were killing it. We were killing the rules of gravity. . . and um. So were they. With their bicycles and wheelboards. We stopped playing and watched the show. They're good at what they do.
Maximum Velocity. That's what it was. That's the name of their Crew.
Chapter 3: Return to the Greek Pillar place
We went back to the place that produced the most money for us. Yeah. We were busking again. Played pretty well. Hit a couple new easy things just for laughs. Very spinny part of the day for me. I had a string with a lot of the spinning tricks I can do all in one string. Spinning clip, butterfly, mirage, pdx mirage, osis, zooming. I didn't include my spinning whirls and reverse whirls, my spinning ducking, and merkon and stuff. Shrug.
Chapter 4: The hacker that was to be King
Like a sniper, I find this circle-kicker hacking alone near the NYS Parks exhibit and I'm like BAM! HACKY SACK! But we were comfortably eating our dip'n'dots ice cream so we couldn't make a move on the kid and show him the shred. So instead we decided to be really sketchy and follow him around a bit with our heads close to our cups of dip'n'dots and our chatter kept to a sneaky whisper. Unfortunately, the dots proved to be colder than we had anticipated and it took us a really long time to finish. So by the time we were done the hacker left.
I spotted him a mile away again about 5 minutes later and we decided it was time to throw down. Our pants. And play footbag. But he didn't get the hint and left with his family and we were left playing for the rest of the night under low light and hardly any energy. Milk was a bad choice.
Chapter 5: Punk Rock, swirling sets, and "Who has a piece of paper?"
For the most part this session wasn't very good. We were both completely spent with energy. Doug's hip flexor (?) was starting to give him pain. But what it lacked in overall string goodness it more than made up for the fact that I unlocked the quantum set and got a pretty solid flipside nuclear set. Incredible display of skill. My quantum set? Sure it took me longer than 90% of footbag players to get, but it's a pretty incredible set I've got. When it gets off, more often than not it's high enough to do most things and it's pretty low energy. So it seems I've just kind of skipped over the whole "Oof it's kinda there. Just gotta push harder! GHA!" And I don't have much of a flipside, meaning it's not that bad. I could probably get a solid flip in a couple weeks. It just requires a bit more wild flailing on the part of my dexing leg. A bit less controlled. But I think I can get it.
And this guy with a mohawk comes over to ask if we had cell phones so he could call his girlfriend. We didn't want to give him our phones but we didn't want to be stabbed so we said we didn't have cell phones. So he proceeds to have a conversation with us for like 40 minutes. Everything between punk rock to his dad being a world champion martial arts expert who drank himself to death after getting the world record for number of people knocked down in a row with a single punch (24 I think it was? Something crazy like that). And he also has a really short temper. He had some nutty stories to tell. We decided we should be super agreeable with this guy. And we were. Thank god I love punk rock music and could shoot the breeze with him about that, earn some trust, and mouth off a bit against emo and goth people. It was fun. We were on his good side. He said we'd be really cool to smoke a bowl with. About five times he said this. Don't get me wrong. We are. But he said it so many times it was just funny to me. He really needed to get stoned.
Epilogue - We bought a tub of cheese fries and ate it. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the cheese was evenly distributed over the whole tub and not just on the top. It sucks to no end when you get cheese fries and the cheese was only on the top 6 fries. Lots of cheese. It was good.
Tips earned through busking - $5 and some change. A lot of change. We were robbed in the beginning of chapter 5 by a bunch of people. I'm guessing if they hadn't stolen some form us we'd be closer to 10 or 12 dollars. We had some really good contributors in chapter 3.
Tricks hit - (me)
slapdown
tripwalk
matador again (4th time I think)
footed flip matador
diving rake
ducking rake
swirling set? It may have been the. . . not sure. low light. Wasn't really looking.
flipside amadeus
Links - Doug won't remember so I'll give him credit where it deserves. He hit double atw out/in and then in/out same foot. And blur > tripwalk > string
super clean and really controlled. Terrage b2b again. That barrage bsos with a torque all one string. Whirl > drifter > whirl > ducking clipper > string. Assassin midstring. Pixie ducking legover back to back ALMOST. He footed the second one. Effortless.
Can't remember what else. So yeah. Doug. There ya go. As for me I can't really remember any strings I did that need to be mentioned. I was playing pretty much at the top of my game during the BMX show and I wish I could remember what I did.
MASSIVE POST. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm off to go to lunch with my aunts.
* > merkon rpt (so close)
So anyway, tonight made me really want to be somewhere else if my crew hadn't finally decided to come over tonight. I was so close to just going home, running my head under the shower head, grabbing my passport, and hitting the road for Kingston ON and crash at my friend Chris' house for the weekend. 
