Back from worlds. Definitely the best week of my life. So much shred, didn't play well except for the first night, wednesday, and friday.
First night highlights
-xbody toe set matador (first to hit it, we thought)
-atomic drifter - mullet first try
-some other stuff i got props on, but forgot.
wednesday (playing with aaron orton and some others, aaron was with me in the first night circle also)
- a run with
dominatrix, fog bs, haze bs, smog, and tapping dlo bs
friday night (the last session i had) lasted for around 5 hours. Played with Rory, Andrew, Mathieu Soucy, Ben Barrows, and others. Was the best I have ever played. Paul A and Chrisdean were there also for a bit.
-a 20 minute period where literally every run was 30 + contacts and actually difficult.
-rubberman with blurry drifters-rubberman extension-atomic drifter-ps whirl
-rubberman with tapping drifters instead of legbeaters first try into a long run ending with blurry torque
-ripped warrior - ps egg first try
I couldn't believe how well i was playing friday, and i think the only people who saw a real glimpse of how good i can be are Andrew Grant, Rory Dawson, Mathieu and Ben. Everyone else i played with may have seen a good run or two, but nothing like these 4 guys got to see. It was ridiculous.
It was awesome getting to know the vegas guys more, Ben, Evan and Jeff, along with there housemates zeb and kyle. The people i spent the most time with and had the best time with were Jeff , Rory, Scott B, but i hung out with everyone a lot. Mathieu G and I also had a lot of fun. 4TH IN THE WORLD IN OPEN DOUBLES! Some of the stuff that happened with those three just really stick out. Rory has to be my favorite person, so goofy and funny. Ben Benulis has an amazing picture of Rory, my arms, and Scotts arms from last night that he should definitely post asap. Rory and I demolished 2.5 quarts of Neopolitan ice cream by ourselves, we utilized the poopstick, we said goodbye to everyone in a funny way. I believe Rory and I also played the most out of anybody at the tournament. If there was downtime, we were playing. We played almost every night for hours, and all day everyday.
So much fun with the vegas guys, and really got along awesome with Jeff even though we had never met before. Ben and Evan are sooo good now. Ridonc.
Kevin r, Byrin and Denton also made me laugh so much. Kevin passed up a turkey sandwich. 5 minute arm wrestling match with denton. Got to meet erik chan finally, such a nice guy. Shreds so hard despite all he has to go through.
Team Japan is awesome! Including ken. I had so much fun with the Japanese players, although the only one who could speak english was Taishi. We communicated very well, especially with the hack circle and the trick gum. So funny, Ken wasn't amused at it though.
Playing net with jeremy finally, we lost to fletch and emily, but beat someone else i think. Got to see all these guys again (Fletch, Emily, Mike Hansen, Kolo, Ianek, Seb, Goldberg, and more) Its so great to just go somewhere foreign with a bunch of awesome friends and just wing it, and do whats fun.
Getting lost with Scott, andrew, mathieu and fletch for over an hour and a half looking for disc golf was hilarious. Oh, and i can't forget the incident with Milan, drunk in the closet !!!!!!!!!! Funniest thing that happened, maybe. Mathieu/Zeb filmed most of it. Kevin Crowley and Jon Haber's routines were amazing. I enjoyed competing in Open Doubles with Mathieu, and knocking the socks off the crowd.
I know i am forgetting so many people. But it was awesome to finally meet Stephen, Sam, Alex Strassman, Ken, Hackrifice, Shredmonton, New Yorkers, Ontarions, great to see Suderman again, Tina is really cool and amazing at shred, staying up late analyzing clipper with dave/jorden, everyone else. Meeting Pipenburg, had some good laughs. Dylan Fry, YOGA! Yoga is so badass, he busked at Seaworld and made $120 in a day, and he's so nice, he wouldn't even ask for food when he was starving to death. Oxana is too nice, and Crowley was just as cool as i thought. Kansas guys were nice, good to see Gray again, meet matt kemmer, will digges, peng, caro, vasek, milan, honza, sunil, CHAD'S BDAY PARTY! Brian and Holly, representing TN to the fullest, along with Lee, whos sooo goood. Thanks to Daryl/Sunny for being so laid back and nice. Great to meet Jim, Lon, Dylan.
Fuck, i keep remembering more things. Seeing Nick L again, meeting red and jake wren, kyle hewitt, ben roscoe, zack forth, always a pleasure to spend more time with ZACH JAHNER, we had a good 2 man sesh outside the 2nd day. Playing 4s with peter irish and getting our asses wooped.
Messing around with everyone was just too fun, Rory/scott/jeff/anyone else who was cool about acting like an idiot with me, especially mathieu for going through with our routine.
this is definitely the longest post i've ever had.