The Darkshredder's struggle

[Darkshredder]

pre-project modified posting.

After the trip to the bus station this morning I just decided it wouldn't be worth it to stay at GRASS for sunday when I haven't slept and I'm worn and a mess. So I just drove home. I pulled into my driveway just after the sun rose and went to bed.

it's been a strange day.

Saw the forbidden kingdom. It's cool, but it's another victim of Hollywood - there are a few meaningless love/death sequences in there that could've been left out.

Anyway as I was saying to Roscoe in the lobbey of the Radisson at 3:30am this morning GRASS was definitely my favorite jam so far. I played pretty well, met a lot of new people, had a lot of fun with others I've already known. It was amazing.

All that said I'm now a little behind in work, a little sore in the knee, and two bags richer thanks to the handywork of Ian and Waylon. So a huge thanks goes out to them.

and now? some apologies:
- to the radisson room we barged into at 3:45am so that we could get Zack up and Waylon's keycard so that Ben could get some 7up.
- the people I didn't say goodbye to. I wish I could've stayed for some of Sunday.

some thanks:
- the RFA. Gods among men. Mike and Paul ran things seamlessly and made the whole thing great. Thanks a lot, guys. Aric gets one for housing me and giving me pancakes. Huge help. And it was good to see him again.
- everyone who came. There was a bunch who showed and it was really fun.

so I'm off to do some projects. . . probably going to be pulling another almost all-nighter. But first I leave you with a video to a song Tank, Bowler, Ben and Jamie know well. The song's called Handlebars and it's by a group called the Flobots. It's really really good. Watch it. And watch Feet on Fire. But don't watch it as many times as we did last night. We had it going on two sets for about 3 hours.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=afX6VYn48KE[/youtube]

[Darkshredder]

I'm calling my waylon bag The Evil Skittle
I'm calling my Ian bag Scout

Had a session to break them in. They're both roughly the same. I found my toe game was at 70% with the evil skittle and I thought that scout set a little nicer and I could BOP more confidently.

So I've kicked a lot with them since I got them. Before class, after class, etc. They're being pocketed as we speak.

But as they're not fully broken in it was a chance to just do some skool work and mess around with some form. So here are some stuff I did:
gyro symple pickup bs
osis > torque bsos with The Evil Skittle
beta blur bs with a sandman
fairy ss whirl . Not sure if this is a new trick so I'm just going to point out that it was so very flowy and nice - for a fairy trick done by me
ss DLO. I never do these but zach4 made them seem so cool so I had to give them a try. So yeah after a handful of lame attempts I muscled through both sides. I need to get better at them. Very nice transition trick.
a cleared flip fairy set Ben Roscoe has inspired me to buckle down and learn flip fairy once and for all. Pretty sure he's been able to do them consistently since before Wakahakee but it was the first time I really noticed them since he really was limited with what he could do, what with a rolled ankle and all.
lots and lots of datw on both sides going both ways. I'm pretty pleased at how I'm coming along with these. My flip is actually catching up/has caught up to my strongside when it comes to out-in dex datw. Strange. But a welcomed weirdness.

I need to finish stitching this crazy bag. Maybe some time this week. Not sure how much work is ahead. At least one test. Won't be that bad, though. "Intro to Religious Thought" pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffootbag

[Asmus]

gyro symple pickup bs

I wanna try that today. Thanks for the inspiration.

I look forward to buy games for my kids one day made by "Symple Paradox" .
And play them excessivly, secretly at night.

[Darkshredder]

hello.. I'm on modified. thought I'd post.

I have my webcam cleaned and reinstalled and now it works.
I'm sick of being in videos where I BOP all the time and/or am just warming up (like the old Dark/Rea shred video). I know I BOP a lot. But I'm definitely getting better than that.

Knowing I'm improving my toe game considerably is good enough for me, but I can't help but answer the call to my ego that's lashing out with battle-ready katanas, saying, "THESE PEOPLE DON"T KNOW THE REAL ME! I'll show 'em!"

SO

As soon as my bags break in (which should be considerably soon) I'm going to see if i can film myself on my webcam. I know I've said this at least 6 or 7 times now but I finally have a camera of sorts and time on my hands. And I also have something to prove. To who? Not sure. All of you, I guess. I respect people's opinions of my game and, as that's the case, I want people to understand that I'm not shitty at this game I love so much.

so the video will be released so that:
some issues on form can be reviewed by me and everyone who watches it. I still don't know what I look like when I do a few key tricks.
Vengence. . Getting myself known as someone who has a guiltless to tripless game that can be given a thumbs up to.
a chance to see myself play on camera

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=cu4SpNzuY4I[/youtube]

[Darkshredder]

filmed today. Everything works fine. the quality isn't that bad really. It might make for a huge file but we'll see what youtube can do with that when the time comes.

So it's been a while since after a session I wanted to break something expensive. Always an interesting experience. Needless to say there won't be any footage shown from today. Sorry. It really was just awful. Man I was so ready for footbag. This game is nuts. It can take you up so high and then throw you back down harder than the hounds of hell.

No worries though. I'm over it. But now I've gotta shake off the bad and get focused on some work. I have a ton to do this week and it's going to rock my socks.

I'm 90% sure I'm not going to come back to Siena anymore to get a degree in comp sci. Not here, anyway. I'm going to go to SU or LeMoyne and do some schooling there. Not sure what I'll be doing for work. Probably not a whole lot of good but we'll see.

I downloaded a new editing software today. One of the three they used in Grand Theft Auto IV (which comes out in two hours). Its physics are so funny. I had a huge box fly out of no where and hit a guy in the legs and it took him out so fast. It was glorious. I'm going to download a few tutorials with it and see if I can learn how to actually make scenes with figures.

[BenRea]

Isnt that like your fourth transfer in college?


goodluck by the way...

[Darkshredder]

I'm unconventional

no footbag today. I gots loads to do. I wish I could, though, because I'm going to need the stress-busting of smooth shred.

alas I have a few holes to dig myself out of.

[century264]

Yo Pat, glad to see you like the bag. Which pattern did you get? Can't wait to see the video

[DTank126]

you should do less hw, and more mobius.

aaaaaaaand go!

[Darkshredder]

I'm going to do so much mobius you'll want to make a thread requesting it be renamed The Trick That Reminds Me Of Diarrhea

but first I need to throw back some coffee and get back to work. ugh Why do I keep coming back here?

[Darkshredder]

hey gentlemen (and ladies, if the 3 or 4 ladies are reading this). So this is my last day of classes. I'm pretty happy about this. I'm surfing the fizz before my last class, a Religion class in which I'll just be sitting and watching people do presentations. My group and I had the good foresight to have ours go the first day. And I had my first final this morning and a presentation in another class. For my presentation I got up in front of the class and played a song about Game Theory on my Nintendo Dual Screen (using Jam Sessions). People thought it was pretty groovin', and I got a few laughs out of it.

in other news I'm beating Kirby's Adventure on the NES again. I'm about 30% done with it and I just got owned on the fourth boss. Big time. It was actually pretty insane. Not sure if I even hit the guy(s) at all before I was destroyed. so that's a fun game.

so it's a nice day out today (first day all week, ironically) and so I figure it's time to celebrate with a little shred after my class. I haven't played in a few days so I doubt I'll want a camera focused on my sorry ass warming up n' shit so don't expect a video yet. Yet. I'm going to play a lot now that classes are over and I just need to chill and study for exams. I have this entire weekend to just hang out and shred and game. And I intend to do both IN FORCE. So maybe I'll turn on the webcam tomorrow or the next.

I promise I'll put something up. In fact if I'm bored enough tonight I might compress and put up the one string I thought was worth the 1hr 45min I played that day a bit ago.



that question mark IS > >> > FOR > > > > YOU> > > >

[slapdash21]

hey gentlemen

cant we at least pretend we're not all dudes?

[century264]

I'm gonna be home saturday night but my next final is friday so it's really lame I'm just kinda stuck in doing nothing land right now. Especially since I've been playing footbag and skateboarding way too much lately and my legs won't work right anymore so I have to take a break from working out at least for today.

I'll work on the diving stuff. It's definitely an area of my game that needs a lot of work, I just keep thinking I need to get conventional BOP string length and tiltless string length up to par so people will see I can actually keep a kickybag in the air.

When are you out/when are you going to be playing and I can get over there with doug?

[Darkshredder]

so much work

[Darkshredder]

I don't know what's up with my footbag playing lately. I'm kind of stuck somewhere and I'm not sure what kind of rut I'm in. It doesn't feel like I should be learning anything new. It doesn't feel like I'm lacking in string length. I'm not going to make any push for fearless WHAT SO EVER.

just kind of drifting.

and it's been a while since I've posted some actual things I've been hitting so here ya go: some stuff between a good session yesterday and a not so good one today

frigid torque bsos
weaving butter > osis > zooming far legover > dimwalk > run with loads of symple stuff and drifters linked to stepping. It's as if Suderman was just dicking around and Munsterman was having an off day and decided to skool drifter>stepping.
matador midstring
smog midstring
pdx eggbeater > pixie whirl
new form doing dyno
ripwalk > infinity swirl > bubba inside which was supposed to be a bubbabeater but I had a brain fart and botched the second dex
a lot of midstring datw bsos - I'm really trying to do these more so I can get sl double dexes more comfortable. . . still.

ugh. I feel like those aren't very good. Sorry if you were expecting any big new tricks or something. I was attempting ducking DLO yesterday and marius and stuff. Flip fog is tearing my hip apart somehow. I must have bad form when I do it or something. It feels really weird.

Back to studying. Peace.

[BenRea]

so much work

You can say that again.

[Darkshredder]

awesome session. I knew I should've brought my webcam. Damn.

Well I can't remember most things I hit but here's what I was doing:

half of rubberman on both sides
very few BOPs - meant for a few mostly tripless runs that lasted for 10 contacts or more.
loads of pixie shuffle. It was so good today.
smoke bsos
crazy run with loads of ducking pdx mirages, drifters, stepping, and spinning osis. If there were a few BOPs that snuck in there I'd be surprised. I was berserker raging.

Don't get me wrong. i'm still in a general rut. But I can enjoy a good day now and then and I kind of like the way I'm attacking tricks now and then slacking off. Not quite as seamless as the higher level players but I actually kind of would enjoy that more. slowslowslowslowFASTFASTFASTslowslowFASTFASTFASTslowFASTdrop.

[BenRea]

Im still stuck on FASTslowdrop.

Props on the links and trics, your gettin' nastayyyy.

[Darkshredder]

well you can simplify my string to about slowFASTslowdrop on clipper.

this was sweet:
sidewalk > ripwalk > rpt > whirl war > string
pdx tap > footed pixie muted swirl (I've only hit this once by fluke)

oh and just as a heads up. I need to cut my hair for job hunting this summer (temporary, I assure you) but I've decided to wear headwear when I play because it's gotten to be too out of control when I play and it gets all poofy and distracting. But I don't like headbands. So? I took to it to a new level of ridiculosity. I went to the gym, cut a piece of rope off a longer hanging one, frayed the ends, and now I tie the rope around my head like a gollllldarned muai thai boxer!

it works like a charm too, when the ends that stick out don't get in the way of the bag when I duck. AND it makes people laugh a little. I think they're starting to realize I don't take myself too seriously when I pick the most obviously in-the-open places to play. I think for a while people thought I was showing off or demonstrating or some shit. But now after two years they just realize I'm just playing because it's my game. And the entire basketball team now calls be the Kung Fu Hacky Sacker.

[DTank126]

Haha, a piece of rope, thats sick dude, it prolly looks badass too. Last summer, when my hair was ridiculously long, I used an old tie to keep my hair back.... I didnt use it in public.

Hurry up and finish your stupid schooling! There is mucho dexing, spinning and ducking to be had! Oh, and unusual surfacing.

Peace

p.s. Lilac festival starts today and goes til the 18th. Many hackers to circle kick with and crush their dreams of being the best hacky slacker there is.... Just puttin it out there.