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Had nice sessions the past 3 days.

I remember hitting 2 new drills.

clip set dlo>ss dlo>paradon>rpt>run

tripwalk>pdx whirl>step op lo>plo>rpt - (first try)>run

Pixies are feeling better!Alot better.I dont step much nowadays, i dont know why.

Trying to get inspinning set, cause inspinning osis is plain sexy.

Cool weekend, rested well.Chilled out at my parents summer house today.Barbecuse n stuff.Toke a little dive in the sea.It was cold, i think the water was around 10C.

Going to shower/sleep.Just came home from training.Footbag>breakdance - 4 days in a row? Or was it three,anyways im liking this,getting slow but steady progress this way.

Oh yeah.Im signing for Yoga classes when im back from Saint Petershburg.Leaving there on thursdays.Ill take a footbag holiday there, no sessions for 5 days! This happens rarely.
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Had a cool session with Fedja today.It was a bit cold, but it was okay while we played.

I've hit quite a few cool tricks/combos.

pdx whirl>spin osis>torque midstring

pdx whirl>spin osis>torque>handcatch on my flip(in a few tryes).

magellan>plo>rpt>smog>string

fog(first try)>string

janiwalker midstring.

Trained our synchro combos with Fedja,practisec string>flying clipper pass too.

Oh yeah i've hit sumo bsos, havent hit/worked on flipside nuclear for ages.Seems to be working.

Tryed to hit DSC didnt get it.Hard trick.
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Had a 2 and a half hour session with Fedja.We run through probably all of our concepts, circled a bit too.

I've hit the following drills:

ss btfly>double pick>ss btfly>barrage>rpt
btfly>pdx dlo>btfly>dlo>dlo>rpt
ss btfly>dlo>smear>dlo>rpt
pdx whirl>symple swirl>rpt
ducking osis>dive clip>dive osis>dive clip BS
duck clip>gyro clip>duck clip>spin clip>rpt
smudge>smear>magellan>plo>rpt
dimwalk>step ss lo>magellan>rpt
osis>far swirl>osis>symp swirl>rpt
more ducking/diving drills, spinning drills.
reaper BSOS, first time ever.
quantum,atomic,fairy drills.


Productive session.Feelt really good.
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No footbag today.Maybe ill chip in a session tommorow, cause im leaving to russia at night.

A little video for the blog readers.

http://video.bec.ee/Braavo/footbag-MPEG-1%20.mpg

This was on estonian television.

3/5 rank from me and Fedja,not our best show.I personally think it sucked.Oh well, promotion!!!

Im going to yoga class when im back from Russia.This should be awesome!

Ill probably shoot a new video mid June.Oh yeah i need to send aaron money, i hope i wont forget it tommorow.Worked 3 days in a row, forgot about it.
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Im back from Peterburg.I enjoyed the trip, fell in love with the city.Id love to live there.

Me and Ksenia spent quite alot of time with street musicians, just chilling.I dont get it why footbaggers arent busking there.Id sooo street perform there i think it would be a good income.

We randomly met an old man he was drawing a picture, we were sneaking to see what he is drawing, he started talking to us.He said alot of wise stuff about life, about yoga.Like he knew that we seek answers to these qeustions.Its not the first time i randomly meet a person like him.


I played very little footbag there 20 minutes barefoot at home while Ksenia made food for me :P.I've hit symp quantum legover BS, very fun move :D and miraging symp mirage(merlin?) BS quite a hard trick.A few downtime DSO's bs, messed around with pixie/fairy ducking.

Im at work right now, gonna read my massage book which i bought in Piter.Session at 8pm.Maybe solo, maybe not.A new footbagger should come train.I wonder if i should go to High School or become a pro massager and train train train

Oh yeah i bought a harmonica too ill be trying to play.If anyone has any tips go ahead and share them.I want to buy a tamtam too.
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3 sessions since last post.2 of them were mediocore, well i mostly explained stuff to 2 new baggers.One is 15 years old n the other one is 12.Both are making awesome progress!

Evening session with Fedja today kicked ass.Good strings,good flow.

Highlights:
pdx barrage BS - new trick
footed blurry barrage bs, doubt if they were clean.
pdx miraging symp mirage (pdx merlin?)
blender>step ss osis BS
step ss osis b2b from both sides
dso>barrage>rpt
dlo>atomsmasher>rpt
toe set whirling outside delay>ss whirl feelt stylie.


plo>pixie clip>flap>symp whirl BS want to repeat it with blender>mirage>rpt or osis>dlo>rpt, blender>dlo is hard.


Fedja is hitting flurrys all over the place both fucking sides, insane.


Im inspired to play the guitarre after watching street musicians in Petershburg, pumped on harmonica too! Making it all a dream would be - guitarre + beatboxing harmonica.That should sound awesome :)


Oh yeah i forgot to mention that im going to Madrid this June! 16-26, ill be on a youth leaders camp training.Ill be representing our local organisation and ofcourse ill chip in footbag :D.Im going together with my gf and the trip will be 200$ for it all? Isnt that fucking nice
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Had a crazy weekend.Sanja came for a visit and stayed at my place.We played footbag and chilled in the evening/night.Well our chill turned into a breakdance madness atleast for me :D.Me ramil sanja and ilja puffed quite alot of greenie.

I totally lost control.That was cool :)

Im at work now.I dont know if ill play today.Im gonna work on my basics more, going for strings with tilts, yes 1 adds but trying to make them 2-3 min long all the time.
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Played with ramil, had long strings,good combos.Feeling good.

Hit pixie ss osis>pogo op lo>run BS

paradon>dlo>whirl>torque>osis>mirage>rpt

fear>flo>rpt>run a few times

fear>flo>rpt>smear>plo>rpt>magellan>plo>rpt droped on the last plo!


Just ate, gonna drink tea relax a lil bit and play the guitarre.
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Had a session with Vlad and Fedja after work.

Vlad is a new player.Very motivated and talanted! Finally i true footbagger showed up!

I had some decent stings with good difficulty but mostly i went for long runs on my basics since i was feeling weak.

rev walkover>ss whirl>rpt - new drill
flying clipper(2-3 meeters)>clipper>ripwalk BS.Love this shizzle specially when i hit the music with that, feels awesome.
flapper>symp whirl bsos

My stepping set is feeling alot better and my knee isnot bothering me! Yay!

Chilled with my girl after the session.Then played the guitarre at home and went on a solo b-boy session.Just came home.It's 1:12 am here.Gonna drink tea and play a browser game.Might play the harmonica a lil bit.Yesterday i figured out how to do a single beatbox/harmonica rhytm. One kick>one note>rpt :) Pretty simple but hard to get nevertheless and sounds cool ;)

Waiting for my bags to arrive :) 2 big buskingb bags and a bunch of starbursts from Austria!

Funny drill atw in>pixie(downtime)>atw out>ss outside delay>atw in>mirage>rpt.Basics are fun and dont take much energy and actually some of the drills can be challenging.
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Didnt work today.

Cleaned my room today, nice and tidy now.Played footbag with Rene (12 years old bagger) seems to be well motivated.A bunch of his friends girls and boys in the age of 10-13 chilled with us while we played.3 boys showed interest and said that they would like to train too! I might get a group there.

I will try to form a popping group too.I showed them today a little bit.Im not that good, but! I know enough to teach them the basic stuff.Oh well anyways i do it for free so no bitching from their side.

If i manage to get a group of 10-12 kids it will be awesome.They will hang out together and train.Thus sessions will become fun and exitment for them and they will play the role of the club foundation when my project gets finally accepted by the city!

Im definatly sure that ill be a breakdance/footbag coach in the future.

Schooled my basics today, well i do it everyday.Trying to do long strings need to work on that more, ill be busking alot when i get my Aaron bags.Hopefully i will be able to save some cash for Prague.

Had a b-boy session with Ramil.A little bit of everything: toprock,popping,footwork and powermoves.I need to train break regulary thats the key to progress and i fucking need NEW MUSIC damn it :( i know all the songs by heart now.Well they will make good footbag routines in the future ;).

Playing the guitarre everyday for the past week, cool! Progressing there too.I found out that my harmonica has a stupid tone(if thats the right word) its key E and i need key C beacause all the tutorials are for key C and its major n mine is minor basicly its for blues.


I have doubts about highschool this year now.Since i've got into a mood practicing all my skills everyday.Would be cool to keep going like that for a year i would get a good level.Hopefully my project gets accepted and ill have a good excuse for my parents :lol:
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Had 2 footbag session today and one solo breakdance session.

Morning footbag session sucked i was too rusty.I did pull off a few ok strings to the end.

The second session was great, feelt good.Too bad i had to leave early since we decided to watch Shutter with Xenia, i liked the movie :).
Drilled basics today.I feel lazzy to go for shuffle or hard combos, i dont know why.Tiltless shred rules :)

Work tommorow, good thing that fedja works too.So we can chat and stuff.

Going to my first ever yoga practise at 7pm too.

1:28 am.Gonna make tea,play a game just chill a little bit.A bit of harmonica practise too.
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Kljopa wrote:Tiltless shred rules :)
For sure.

I think it's time for a new Aleksei vid.
Jay (8:06:01 PM): Bu-bu-buu-buug--Looks up, and the feeling goes away like a sneeze-bu-buuuh-BULLLSHITTT
Jay (8:06:14 PM): *wipes bellybutton*
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Im actually lazzy to make a vid.

I might though.


One thing i planed is to make a "skills" video capturing the stuff im working on.That might happen in september/october.

Tiltless rules for sure.Trying to bring up my string lenght up and just adjust the basic moves.Like illusion and pick up for example.I suck at them :roll:
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I need new fucking shoes, these 1 size bigger quantums bug me quite alot from time to time.

twisted my ankle today, it hurt about 30 mins and doesnt hurt anymore, i stopped playing though.

I had shitty strings, well it was 11pm and i was tired.

I've hit whirlx20 BS though, 1st flip,second try strong.

Jester>inside>walkover>flap>symp whirl.Almost bs.

Gonna order new quantums soon.B-boyed today too.Oh yeah and the yoga was weird but i liked it.
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Cool session today.Cool strings, cool combos.

step whirl>b whirl>rpt 5 contacts>hand catch.Fuck yeah! :D

close to blazing lo(midtime)>ss whirl>rpt , missed the last ss whirl.

step op symp rev whirl>pdx flail>op symp whirl, same combo without the whirl on flip (missed the delay on it).

infinity swirl + ss btfly swirl bsos.

blender>symp whirl>far swirl.

Had a yoga practise today too.

Gonna shower,cook and chill
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Session with Fedja and Vlad.

Low energy, mainly tiltless.Had some power runs though.

blurriest>whirl>rpt>run with b whirl>ss btfly>rpt i think i dropped on spinning jester>clipper delay(drop).

had a few long runs, well not too long maximum 1 minute.I should double that.

Went to the lake nearby today.There was a canoe competition.I myself rowed for 7-8 years in the past.There was a competition for so called veterans.I took part in it :) havent rowed for 4 years! It was fun.I came in 4 out of 5 on 200m.I nearly went overboard at one point.

Hit rev swirlx5 in the of footbag session.Flap set symp whirl bs and rev swirl>flap>clip>ripstein bs.

Oh and clip set dlo>dod>rpt - new one.
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Very low energy morning session with Ramil + my knee feelt sore so i didnt play more than an hour.Came back home and had a nap.Went to the yoga practise it was supposed to be outside, i didnt find the guys at the meeting point it was an area near the sea.So i chilled a bit by myself on the sand.

Played the guitar at home, same for harmonica and beatboxed a bit.Mixing harmonica with beatbox is fun.Chilled with my girl for an hour or two.

Had a solo b-boy session.Drilled freeze combos and handstands.I feel progess, slow but still.In a few years ill be a decent b-boy.Trained robot moves too.

Now i dont know if i should go to sleep or make tea and play my game a lil bit.

Gonna get my Aaron bags this week( hopefully).Ill start busking then.Madrid in 9 days, i really dont feel it.No exitment or something.Well ill get the feeling when we will fly towards amsterdam.
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I definatly need to take a break.My biggest problem is that i cant take a rest.
Played a bit of footbag today, had an awesome session just circlin with Fedja and Ram.I quit early they still played.

Practised breakdance moves while they shreded.The dancing lasted quite for a long time.A few local guys joined us today, a company got formed.They are interested in footbag, and want to start playing! Thanks a bunch Alexander Trenner for the starburst bags.

I juggled them too today.Learned how to juggle 4.Juggling is cool i should do it more often.Maybe ill do it during my night shifts at work.

I feelt really open today, going loose is awesome.The summer has just begun .It will be an awesome summer.
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Try Poi its cool ;)

busking rules also.
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Ordered new quantum shoes ;) size 7 this time.

they might be a bit small but im fucking sure they will stretch out :D

Playing solo lately just having fun with the bag.Practising poi and juggling, breakdance too ;).
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