Zac Miley

Post by **Zac Miley** » 08 Apr 2008 04:41

Posting here before somebody steals the page.

KU won the National Championship.

and thanks Peteypie.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 08 Apr 2008 15:08

Played with Cody today.

The deadline for my AP Art portfolio is the day after GRASS. wtf kind of shit is that. Whatever.

Can't wait to see Jorden and Dave go at it. And to play with them. And Matt. And Pipenberg. And... you know. Everyone else. And Aric, yeah. Aric. He's great.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 09 Apr 2008 14:59

Just played. It wasn't that great, I felt a bit rusty.

- 4/5 on far swirl for strong, 3/5 on flip.
- 3/5 Blender. Both sides.
- I really hate being congested.

I registered for GRASS today. I figured out my sick 3. I have no idea on sick 1. I'm also making a routine.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 10 Apr 2008 15:12

Played.

- Quantum felt pretty good and clean. Especially flip.
- Trevor hit Clipper x 3 both sides (and he can hit butterfly really easily)
- Footed Mind Bender like 5 times for Trevor.
- Ducking Clip>Spinning Clip rpt>DLO>string

Some more clips from today. I'll upload them later, the battery has to charge first.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 10 Apr 2008 16:25

- Blurry Whirl b2b
- Just a clip. Nothing special.
- Carpunch. I was angry. I kept dropping on zooming.
- One shot thing for Barnes.

dazza · Post by **dazza** » 11 Apr 2008 10:30

I love how more and more players give video provided insight into their games, hopefully i can do that too in the near future !

The the run in the second clip was great, i like the effortlessness in the first link and the seal aswell.

The clip for esteban made me jealous of your osis and your bothsided pixie,
but that actually motivates me to get my flip pixie consistent

As for the b whirls, its a bit hard to tell, because i cant slo mo them, but the second on when you hit the drill, looks shooy to the imo .
I 'm not sure which really, but it looks like you can make the second one "fatter", as Matt puts it, in no time !

keep up the progress and thanks for the drills that i shamelessly stole from your blog

Post by **Zac Miley** » 11 Apr 2008 12:20

Thanks for the post and the compliments.

The B Whirl>B Whirl was thin, I think the dex was at my ankle.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 14 Apr 2008 13:32

GRASS is soon.

edit: I think we need a modified census thread, for all active posters.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 15 Apr 2008 14:19

Played a bit today just to test my back out (that I hurt yesterday somehow). Nothing came of it, but it didn't hurt too bad while playing.

Spinning felt good.

I leave for GRASS tomorrow morning.

Heh.

I got a back massage from a hot chick today and I enjoyed it.

Laroche · Post by **Laroche** » 15 Apr 2008 14:57

No audio on the car punch

Love the haircut. Monopoly masters can do whatever they want to their hair, and no one is allowed to disagree. Fact.

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 18 Apr 2008 22:17

this is Zac.

I'm at grass.

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 18 Apr 2008 22:18

This is Matt

I'm next to Zac at GRASS

Post by **Zac Miley** » 21 Apr 2008 14:19

GRASS was great. Like, really really great. I played like total shit the whole time though. My best session was at Paul's on wednesday, which was probably the only time I wasn't being filmed. Whaddya know.

The travelling portion sucked ass though. I will do a write up pretty soon. I'm so fucking tired. I'm glad I actually met Matt. I'm also glad Dave came, but I was disappointed for other reasons.

Again, write up soon.

I advise everyone to go to GRASS. Even west coasters.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 21 Apr 2008 16:03

Write up time.

Day 1: April 16th, 2008

First I wake up and I'm all like... I dunno. Neutral. Not excited at all. I went to my mom's the night before and dominated monopoly. Finished packing in the morning. I dread flying. Really I do. It fucks with my ears so much.

Get to the airport no problem. Get to Chicago no problem. Wait 3 extra hours no problem (which includes a humongous dump I left for the indigenous peoples). I gots ta call Paul since he's my ride from the airport and he says that's cool. Maybe I should have called CiC and shredified or something. That wouldn't have worked. It took me forever to find my gate.

Arrive in Rochester with very few problems. I still hate flying.

Snag a ride with Paul A. We drop by for an errand real quick (shh it's a secret) and then we head over to his place.

It's pretty bachelor-paddy. I love it. There are like 5 bedrooms or some crazy shit like that. After a while of watching Discovery channel and eating Wheat Thins and off-brand Fig Newtons (those are both trademarked you plagiarising bastards) we decide to shred a bit. This was my best session of the whole tournament. I had one lik 15 contact genuine run with barfly>ducking clipper bsos I think. Plus some other stuff. GENUINE! It was really good. I wish we would have had the camera out. Other than that though I didn't play spectacular. Good enough to be satisfied that I would play well for the tournament though. Boy was I wrong.

After a few hours of doing uhh... nothing (actually I think Paul showed me some of his sweet ass music)? Chris Dean came over and we had a little pants session while Paul watched. Afterwards we played Rock Band (also trademarked) which I totally blow donkey asshole at.

Then we went and watched some raw footage of RFA and then I slept. And slept.

Day 2: April 17th, 2008.

Wake up around 11. Chris is in the futon (with no blanket because apparently I was sleeping on it, sorry Chris). We watch some TV. I have no idea what we watched. Uhhh. probably Discovery channel again.

After a bit Chris and I go shred for reals (Paul is off to class I believe). My second best session of the tournament. Once again, no camera. Whatevs, yo.

After that we went and got some huge ass sandwiches and powerade. Which I used for a water bottle for the rest of the tournament. Matt K. got his cooties on it. Maybe that'll learn me some pdx blender.

Chris went off to work while I watched tennis (Serena WIlliams kicked the shit out of Sharapova, which I didn't like

).

Paul came home after a while and we just chilled. And chilled. And ssschiillleeed. BTW I appreciate your hospitality Paul. Very much.

The rest of the day is boring I believe? Wait, no. Paul and I have a session which he films. It was like 45 minutes long I think. Not very good but whatever. Yay! Day 3, where the fun REALLY begins!

Day 3: April 18th, 2008.

Wake up around 10:30 and wait for Paul to wake up (which takes a while

) and we (mostly Paul) clean up a little bit and then head off to the event site to find Colin. We search for a while and then we kinda give up (sorry Colin, you travelled too far for us to care about you!!!)

I shred a little bit (if you can call it that, it was mostly alternating clippers and shit) and then Pat Thomsen arrives. YAY FOOTBAGGERS!!! Uhh, we don't shred right off but we kinda skip around trying head stalls and stuff. We were expecting to help Paul set stuff up but were sorta shuffled off to the side and didn't help at all.

So after a while we just went a shredified outside. It was way nicer than inside. The gym surface sucked (sorry guys). I don't remember much of anything that I hit. I think this was when I started playing bad. Maybe it coincides with my lace breaking. I look down at my shoe and it's all loose and stuff. So I check it out and my lace is just snapped in half. What the fuck. I mean, seriously. My heart just sank. That's sort of overdramatic but I was SOOO pissed. I think I hid it pretty well though. I played barefoot and then Matt showed up.

Matt played a bit in his crappy ass shoes. I think he hit spinning blender in them? He's good. I hope oodles of videos come out of him, for people will be amazed! I think Danny shows up a bit after Matt does. He has really good form, he just needs to snag some more variety from the variety fairy.

I think Aric is modding his climas and I tell him my laces broke and he's like, "Do you want to borrow some?" and I'm like, "REALLLYYLLLYY??!?!?!?!?!" So I put some clima laces on my right shoe. I lace them normally which kinda sucks and makes my strong toe suck the rest of the day.

Here are some highlights from the shred this day (not all footbag-related)

- Johnny. Oh my godddd his style. He was trying crispy whirling swirl I think with a bag Matt just found and picked up and he swirled the bag into the bleachers. Luckily Johnny Superman (pun intended) went in and retrieved it.
- Mathieu getting mad because it was his bag.

- Johnny's style. Good lord.
- Matt Kemmer. He played so well on Friday, you have no idea. Actually you probably will. I think a few people filmed.
- Ianek's awesome fancy moves.
- Danny's form. And his bulging muscles. WTF dude?
- Paul busting his ankle.

Ugh. That's enough for now. I'll do the end of day 3 (which includes the party and food with Will and Matt).

Post by **Zac Miley** » 21 Apr 2008 17:34

End of Day 3: April 18th, 2008.

It's not party time motherfuckers!!! Matt, Will, and I all decide that we are starving so Paul leads us (Will driving after a quick jump start of Paul's car) to the campus eatery. I think I got some Quizno's there. Yeah, Quizno's. Regular size with mountain dew. Good LORD was I hungry. It was unbelievable. I finished the sandwich in like 5 minutes and I was still hungry.

In line for the drinks there were these kids talking about these awesome HACKY SACKERS that they saw and I was like, "Hey, I'm one of them!!!!" and they were like, "Right on!". That's about the end of that... It was interesting at the time though.

Matt, Will and I all head over to the rad seating area. Matt is courteous and he takes a shitty chair (we were really sweaty and gross smelling, maybe even worse than worlds) but I take the huge armchair and just lean back and let the nastiness soak in. My sandwich is obliterated fairly quickly. I already wrote this.

FINISHED EATING. So we're walking back and there's this water fountain right? It's really shitty, don't use it. Quite disappointing. This is when I realize how sore my legs really are. I half-limp to the car, bullshitting with Will and Matt.

On the ride to Paul's (where the party be, bitches!) Will decided he wanted to call my mom. I let him and I think he freaked her out a bit. It was a funny conversation but I don't really remember it. I actually remember how to get to Paul's a little bit though, which I was surprised at. I suck at directions and driving. And stuff.

After we arrive at Paul's we just sit down and chill. I think Jorden and Johnny are both doing crazy handstand and ground-footbag tricks. Johnny came close to Mosher's Tail>Suderman's Tail.

After a bit of watching this I go take a shower. Man did I need one. I guarantee people were holding their breath next to me. It was absolutely disgusting. Then I paraded around without a shirt for a while, I'm not sure people liked it. Matt probably did though. He's such a cutie.

After that I just wasted the shower I took and shredded with Johnny, Zach2, and Bowler. Here's a funny little snippet of our small session (video courtesy of Zach2):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GgIBFuuVV0

After that we just chilled. Waylon was stitching I believe. Uhh, I dunno. Tom is really funny. I slept downstairs with Matt and Will (exactly like it sounds, buddies

).

Day 4 tomorrow. Write ups are hard. Saturday is interesting though, we had a surprise guest!!!

dp · Post by dp » 21 Apr 2008 18:11

"- Danny's form. And his bulging muscles. WTF dude?"

Haha, what??

Nice write up so far. It was cool meeting you, hopefully you can travel halfway across the country for another one soon.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 21 Apr 2008 18:42

I thought you were really skinny, and then you weren't. Here's Day 4.

Day 4: April 19th, 2008.

Wake up around 6 am not being able to breathe. I sort of freak out in my half-asleep state and decide that since I'm not able to breathe I shouldn't sleep downstairs and bother Matt and Will. So I go upstairs and blow my nose (which totally doesn't work at all) and I sleep next to Tom and... man I forget his name... sorry! Dream states are fun.

Sleep in until 10 or so maybe? I'm not sure. I ride with Paul, Matt, Will, Tom, other people, etc. to get some â€œbreakfastâ€

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 22 Apr 2008 05:03

yeah dude, that chick was so ridiculously hot.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 22 Apr 2008 13:07

For sure. Did you see her on Sunday? She was wearing like half a shirt. Yum.

End of Day 4: April 19th, 2008

So after the show Matt and I walk out with our pizza box (where Paul takes my last piece) and go sit down where we were shredding earlier. Everybody sort of congregates over there and then Paul tells everybody to go to his house for the party. I think Matt and Will go off to do something. I forget. They didn't come with me though.

I caught a ride with Chris Dean (who has a pretty fancy car, and a fancy job) and we went to the grocery store. We both got some beer (of the root variety for me). I saw Dave and Mike Anello walking into the store when I was leaving so I said hey a little bit and then chilled, waiting for Chris to head back out.

Skip to at Paul's (the ride was pretty uneventful)

Everybody is chilling and having a good time, you know. I think some of the canadians are the only ones there at the moment, so I kinda chill with them and Tom while I wait. Juggling went down. By the way, I'm really terrible at juggling but this one girl tried to say that she was going to give up because I'm so good, but Skippy (who was right next to me) was doing harder stuff. Sorta confusing but whatever. I thought it was interesting.

I would like to note that I forgot my Brinard bag, which is perfect for 4 square. This pertains to nothing on day 4, but I thought you guys might want to know (for anyone who reads remotely close to this far I applaud you).

Anyways, after a while people start showing up and Feet on Fire gets put in the XBox. It's a great DVD, but there's no way I would pay $30 for that. It seems like it has a bunch of filler and a few good runs (for Vasek, of course). After it finished Matt shows up with his own copy of FoF and we go watch it downstairs. Dave is on the couch, Matt and I are on the floor... uhh... Will is in the chair. Matt got one of my (root) beers for being my best friend ever.

By the way, Montage>Blurry Flurry was super clean. We checked. So was this one Pixie Flurry he did. Jay got a lecture from Dave about how he should think that anything in this video is possible. I kinda sorta stole it and I am now using it in videos and in real life.

After Feet on Fire (which we watched twice, so a total of 3 times for me) Matt and I decided to play Gran Turismo (which was actually God of War at first) which I totally dominated. Matt sucks. After Gran Turismo we played Bully which was pretty funny. It was kind of a pointless game but it got a lot of laughs. Matt patted a little girl's ass and he got in trouble. Pretty funny.

After Bully people started to percolate upstairs (like that word? percolate? I don't think it makes sense but I like it) and Matt C, Matt K, Will and I all decided to sleep downstairs. Matt K turned on the TV and lo and behold! A giant dildo! Matt C was like, "That's totally a sex toy."

It was really funny. I'm not sure if it was on all the time or just during the wee hours of the morning, but it was hilarious. 10" Dongs are only $39.99! Yes, they are really called dongs. Quite a few laughs came of this, if you can't already tell.

Sleep time after that. I got the couch.

edit: My stepmom is already teaching my baby sister religion. That really pissed me off when I heard that.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 22 Apr 2008 15:25

I just had a session. About an hour and a half long with a ten minute break for dinner in the middle.

Highlights (this session was way better than I played at any time during GRASS, which isn't really saying much):

- Ducking PDX Mirage>SS Symple Swirl bs
- PDX Blender bs (hit before, but I couldn't hit it at GRASS)
- Blender>Blender
- Far Swirl>Blender. Almost bs.
- More downtime-y swirls. Matt criticized my uptime swirls a bit at GRASS.
- Torque bsos. I really suck at torques, but Paul gave me a few tips at GRASS and I think they helped.
- My shoulder tweaked on this one far symple swirl. Don't know what happened. I tried to control my arms on them after that though.
- Ducking PDX Mirage>Tripwalk bsos (yaayy)
- Slapping Clipper>Muted Schmoe rpt

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Day 5: April 20th, 2008.

Wake up around 10, with Matt staring at me. I try to ignore it but it's really creepy and I tell him so. Not really, it was mostly just funny. Anyways. I really wake up and go upstairs, where the Canadians are already awake. Paul is still asleep though (as usual.

). We just sit there and bullshit for a while and then decide that we're hungry.

Matt C. suggests Tim Horton's (which I've never been to) so Brian (the guy whose name I forgot), Matt and I all go up there. I get some donuts which are pretty delicious. So was the orange juice that came with it. Yummy yummy.

After Tim Horton's, Brian is driving me and all of my shit to the event site and I notice a disc golf sticker on his windshield. So we kinda just bullshit about disc golf and what kind of discs we use. I think I have way too many discs.

Anyways, we arrive at the event site. Nobody is in the gym! AHHHH!!!! We kinda freak out and then notice a sign that says everybody has moved. So we walk around and I just eat my donuts and I watch Danny and some other people play. Dave had finished for the day (which made me pretty sad) but all of the Montrealers and Bevier were playing. Naturally I joined the circle since it seemed like they were just warming up.

By the way, before I went outside that really hot hula hoop chick was wearing almost nothing and I stared for awhile while I ate my breakfast. Ugh. I say this because I think she was from Montreal. Maybe it was Quebec City, I dunno.

Anyways. I actually warmed up properly this time. I still played like ass, but I got some decent tips from Bevier. Also, Matt and Danny were in the circle. Nothing really eventful went on while we were playing, except I guess that Matt filmed us while he was interviewing Waylon. I thought that was an interesting shot - here it is:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aOvyzJed_2g

After that circle I just sat around and finished my donuts. Matt was still in there though and I gave him a few props on stuff. He's really good.

Then we walked over to the big rusty sculpture thing and watched some more shred.

My dad wants the computer so I'll finish this in a bit.