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Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 22 Oct 2007 18:54

Keep working on legovers! You could post a vid and ask people to give you suggestions-- that might help a lot.

Next time you have a session you should keep track of the number of _____(each trick you can do) you can hit consecutively and post it here.

pips · Post by **pips** » 22 Oct 2007 20:32

I gotta buy more tapes. I still gotta post my old video...I'm a little behind.

I've been meaning to write my records down, but every time I go to work on them, I lose interest and work on other stuff.

Will do! One day.

pips · Post by **pips** » 27 Oct 2007 13:43

Man. I just got done buying 4 more CDs. Akon, Nelly Furtado, Best of Manson, and an older Avenged Sevenfold. Ha. What a mix. I have been buying lots of Cds lately. I also bought Sick Puppies, Flyleaf, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Hinder, and Bad Religion within uh, since summer? Good stuff, though.

pips · Post by **pips** » 29 Oct 2007 15:35

Well...I played for like 10 minutes. I am REALLY frustrated at today. I was supposed to work 11 to 2. Short day. Looking forward to it, cuz I had no schoolwork due today either. Nice, easy day. Hey! Maybe I'll play footbag when I get home. RIIIIIING! Oh! It's my boss. She wants me to stay til 4. Ok. Fine, I'll play after that. Work was nuts today...in short. I get home. We eat. I chill for a bit, and then I'm all dressed to play, and the phone rings. I didn't hear it and Kayleigh did and answered it. She's been doing that, so I make it a habit to answer the phone if she has it just incase someone is there, cuz I hung up on my godmother a couple times.

Anyways, guess who's on the other line??? Psycho chick from work that won't leave me alone and caused so many problems that I stopped talking to her! So we argue...it's getting dark...she finally got so frustrated with me that she hung up on me (there's no reasoning with this girl). Thank god! I go play footbag. It's too fricken dark to see. Thanks a fricken lot. Plus it was too cold for Kayleigh to be out long. Way for my day to go. Atleast I got my heart rate up for a bit, though.

pips · Post by **pips** » 30 Oct 2007 04:10

I just had some funky dream. We (a bunch of footbag ppl) all gathered at someone's house partying. Uhhh...my mind is going blank about it the more I try to describe it. All I remember now is that it was fun, and there was a huge blow up pool we were swimming in.

pips · Post by **pips** » 01 Nov 2007 16:15

Played some footbag today. Worked on the challenges Chris gave me. I completed about half of them. Can't do the longer string challenges, yet. Heh...I got dizzy doing the osis>infinity drill. Video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRlqDlDHyc

I wanted to put a clip of the Dizzy song from Orgy in it, but it was from a burned CD and kept skipping. I will make a real video when I complete all of the challenges.

pips · Post by **pips** » 04 Nov 2007 14:47

Copied and pasted from my challenges thread. Lazy.

Challenges completed as of today:

Infinity x 10 (Anz style

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30 clippers bs
30 clippers b2b...first try
20 legovers not b2b but I'm getting better
20 mirages bs...could have done better (dropped too much)
20 atw bs (10 out to in, 10 in to out)
osis x 13 that shocked me but cool!
ducking clipper bs
ducking clipper b2b
spinning clipper bs...I'll have to show this on video...dunno if it's right
drifter bs I actuallt hit drifter x 2 bs
clipper>ss pickup x 3
butterfly>ss pickup x 3
far legover>ss clipper x 3
near mirage>ss clipper x 4
atw out to in>legover x 2

I would have tried the rest, but Kayleigh was getting cold and being bad. Good session. I hope I can keep this up and get better fast.

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 04 Nov 2007 17:00

you will, props.

pips · Post by **pips** » 06 Nov 2007 16:19

Brr! It was a bit nipply out there today. I warmed up pretty quick, though. I worked on more of my challenges again. I doubled my clipper>ss pickup>rpt record to like x 6. I got excited and lost count. Um, I hit ss butterfly>osis>pdx mirage>rpt once. While doing this, I realized how to control my osis swing better so that I can actually link a trick from it. So that's progress. Ha. I worked on far pickup>butterfly>osis>rpt...nothing. Haha. Looks like a fun string, though. Um, as far as working on my real legovers go, I hit mirage>lo>rpt x 3. I also hit more legovers back to back. Hmm, I worked on osis>infinity...nothing much. No getting dizzy this time.

Then I worked on whirl>osis>rpt, mixing it up with Chris' whirl>infinity>rpt challenge. I wondered why it seemed so much harder this time. Anyways, I think I footed the end of the string...atleast got 3 of the tricks down. Same with whirl>infinity>rpt. I didn't reach my back to back osis or infinity records today. Blah. That's about it. There were others but nothing worth mentioning. Okay session. Could've done better but whatever. I'm real excited about actually playing more often and seeing more progress in my basics foundation from the challenges. I wish I was told about all of these essential strings back when I started. I'd be awesome by now!

pips · Post by **pips** » 24 Nov 2007 21:48

I wanna go to NYJ. I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. My mom said she'd watch Kayleigh, so that's out of the way. Plane tickets from Pittsburgh are less than 200 bucks. That shouldn't be a problem. I wanna chill with my family and friends in PA over this break, too, so driving to Pittsburgh isn't a problem. I'm kind of scared to go on a plane alone with my panic attacks, and then to be out in a place I am not familiar with with people I am only familiar with through the internet. That would be tough, but I'm a big girl. Then I'd have to figure out hotel stuff, or I have a friend that I never met that I could possibly ask to crash at. We met over the internet a bunch of years ago over hacky sack interests. How cool is that? We could finally meet, and I could introduce her to footbag. I hear this jam is awesome. Is it worth it???

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 25 Nov 2007 01:08

Chicago NYJ is the best.

Edit: BUT, you have to introduce yourself to more people this time!

Generally, footbag players are nice people.

pips · Post by **pips** » 27 Nov 2007 20:31

But I'm so shyyy. Hehe. If I go, I should be able to talk to more people, since it's a smaller jam, right? The only thing I'm really scared about going is my anxiety. Will you guys take care of me and keep me occupied if I get any bad attacks???

Anyways. I have been wanting to play footbag real bad again. I was close to trying, but my chiropractor wanted me to chill 'til Friday to see how my neck is. So blah. I was fooling around in the kitchen in my socks, hitting little tricks. I managed to hit clipper>ducking clipper. Then I tried stepping for the fun of it...almost slipped on the floor and cracked my face. Kayleigh woulda got a kick out of that. She was laughing at every trick I tried.

pips · Post by **pips** » 01 Dec 2007 17:11

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... =508082141

pips · Post by **pips** » 25 Dec 2007 10:00

Merry Christmas everybody who reads my blog! Mom got me new Lavers, bags, TOTT 2, and a shirt (Hall of Fame) for Christmas. Now I gotta find time to play.

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 25 Dec 2007 10:15

You should come while NYJ is in its prime.

pips · Post by **pips** » 25 Dec 2007 10:51

I really wanna come, and I hate to say it, but maybe next year. There's just too many things for me to worry about right now. One year I will make it. I can't keep saying maybe next year. No.

Not that it is quite the same, but I was also thinking I might just come visit Chicago some other time. You guys seem fun all year 'round.

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 26 Dec 2007 09:49

pips wrote:You guys seem fun all year 'round.

That's better than any Christmas gift I've gotten this year

pips · Post by **pips** » 26 Dec 2007 12:19

pips · Post by **pips** » 04 Jan 2008 18:23

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6hbhASlVVgQ
Video of Kayleigh and George howling ^^^

More should be coming.

pips · Post by **pips** » 06 Jan 2008 22:09

Remember when I said I would work on a video a few months ago? I made three videos out of my footage tonight. They are uploading on my youtube account right now, but I'm going to bed. I'll officially post them tomorrow, but you can get a sneak-peek if you want (youtube.com/pips3404). I got more videos I plan to make out of this footage, too, but I need sleep. Goodnight.

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Hi.

To go or not to go to NYJ. That is the question.