Begin Phase 1 again

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 19 Jun 2008 06:20

Congrats Ben!

btw, in the geography building on campus, there's a picture of a guy who looks just like you, only a little more built...

his name is Benjamin Growley

I tried to take a phone picture but there wasn't enough light

Reid · Post by **Reid** » 22 Jun 2008 21:17

Hey sir, I'm glad you enjoy the FTB videos. If you are ever in the Chicago/Champaign- urbana area we would be more than happy to hang out with you, and put you up for the nights. Props on osis ducking clip> bsos. Getting a good set out of osis is tough. Some advice on osis (and every other move for that matter) would be to work it from every set (Clipper set, toe set, opposite toe set, osis>opposite osis, osis> far same osis, osis with a plant osis without etc...).

Anyway keep it up. I'll be watching.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 28 Jun 2008 18:21

Thanks everyone.

Had a session for the first time in a week and a half. Work has been kicking my ass big time.

Drifter BSOS unsealed in a run with eggbeater and flip ducking butterfly

Spinning Ducking clipper, confirmed clean (not new)

Flip PDX DLO > run

Merlin

new

Cut short by work bullshit calling me on my cell phone. Got some days off next week, hoping to have some sessions then.

Reid · Post by **Reid** » 29 Jun 2008 09:39

merlin is a sick move congrats

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 05 Jul 2008 13:41

Thanks Reid

Bought a bike a few days ago. Did my first ride to and from a session today. It's about 30-35 minute ride each way. Great warmup but when I got home after having a session and biking each way I was riggity-rocked.

Highlights

Zulu PDX mirage BS, new on both sides

hit within 2 tries each side

Flip Weaving legover and flip weaving mirage

both new

Ducking clip > ss clip > rpt 16 contacts

19 infinties, need to do these every session

Drifter and whirl in the same run with ducking clipper BSOS in the seal, easily 20 contacts

Weave > Duck > Weave

Dive > Gyro BS, close to getting the drill

Spin > Duck > RPT > pdx mirage for teh seal!

Cody hit some great runs too, including lots of contacts of rubberman, lots of pixie, lots of spinning, a flurry and 2 enterrages.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 06 Jul 2008 00:06

Great Hilights Ben!

I've never even thought of zulu pdx mirage before. That's a really cool trick. Props!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 16 Jul 2008 20:07

Still playing when I can.

Decent session tonight with Cody 7/16/08

Several ~20 guiltless runs, mostly BOP

SS Butter > Infinity > Spinning clip > PDX mirage > RPT > run twice

Dimwalk > Ducking Butterfly midrun totally randomly.

Spinning Clipper > Spinning Osis BSOS (unsealed)

Ducking Clipper x 6 (PR) > sealed with a few more contacts

Drifter BSOS, not new but yay

Slapdown, Ducking PDX mirage and Spinning PDX mirage are easy 4's for me now

Body feels good.

Tentative dates set for Texas Statewides Oct 11th-12th more info coming very soon.

I was in the newspaper for footbag. I need to scan the article and post it.

Disappointed that I missed US Open and will miss worlds too. I really would love a big jam or tourney to get my footbag motivation back. That may have to wait until October.

Hope you are all doing well. Modified is boring but y'all are cool people. I don't like talking about footbag online or watching videos that much anymore. I just like to play.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 04 Aug 2008 09:30

It's time for an update

Texas States tournament in October announced!
http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?t=19111

Been playing a fair amount of solo which has actually been really good. It's a great escape from the stress of life.

I've been shredding guiltless lately. I don't think I *AM* guiltless, not that I care that much, I just want to work on linking 3s. I've gotten sick of bailing to pickup/mirage/legover all the time, and wanted to challenge myself to bail less. That being said I'm not hitting very many 2's or 4's. It's been a fun challenge to play this way.

Stuff I've been hitting lately:

Lots of ~20 contact guiltless runs, mostly BOP but with dexless/DLOs/eggs thrown in

Some ~30 contact BOP runs

SS Butter > Spinning Clip > DLO > RPT >> SS Butter > Diving Clip > DLO > RPT

Diving Clip > Gyro Clip > Diving Clip > drop on gyro clip attempt both sides, so close to this drill

Stepping clip BSOS in some guiltless runs

Spinning Clip x 2 > PDX Illusion BSOS in a guiltless run

Dive > infinity > RPT > Spin > Infinity > RPT > Ripwalk x 2> run

Drifter and whirl (strong side only) starting to appear in runs

Butter > Ducking Clip >DLO > RPT

SS Butter > Infinity > Spinning Clip > PDX Mirage > toe DLO > RPT

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 28 Aug 2008 13:12

Hi Footblog!

Been playing pretty well lately last couple o' sessions. I haven't hit any new tricks in ages really, but my guiltless foundation is really coming along nicely. Enjoying footbag a lot.

Various highlights and cool shiz hit recently

From this weekend:

Spinning Clip > Gyro Clip BSOS... I want the repeat!!

From last night:

Zulu Clip B2B > run

Spinning Clip > Ducking Clip > Spinning Clip > Ducking Butterfly > run

Ripwalk > Ripwalk > run (probably not new)

Spinning Ducking Clip BSOS!! on tape, you can be the judge of cleanliness later mmkay

SS butter > Infinity > Osis x 3 > Infinity > PDX mirage > RPT

SS butter > infinity > PDX mirage > eggbeater > RPT

Flip Zulu PDX Mirage (1st try) > run ... not sure if I've hit that on flip yet or not, it was pretty nice to get it first try

SS Butter > Diving Mirage > RPT a few times, drill is getting easier

Ripwalk > drifter > run > drop on flip drifter

Plus probably more stuff I can't remember. It was a good night!

Ben

jay7 · Post by **jay7** » 28 Aug 2008 14:51

Dear Ben Benulis,

At this worlds, your presence was greatly missed. I'm going to make it out to some deep American Tournament later year to compensate for this,

In other news, you CAN hit spin-gyro*rpt, and the solution to the matter is just doing it. You can bsos the components, so just watch the bag hit your foot, wait a split second of complete still-time, and then set, imagine the bag an inch off your foot, and then twirl like a school-girl, and then get the clipper that you know you can do. Get this in video, please, this drill is so fundamental I'd love to see you hit it for the first time.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 07 Sep 2008 20:07

Thanks Jay. I'm sad I didn't make any tournaments this summer too. We sure did have a heck of a great time at Worlds 07. I will certainly never forget that, buddy.

I need to actually take a session to school flip gyro. I hadn't done strong gyro mirage in a while, but found it was very easy today. I've fixed my flip clipper form quite a bit, but under pressure mid string I revert to the shitty way a lot. From there flip spins/gyro are much harder than they should be.

Played a lot this week, again

Thursday Greg was in town from Corpus. He is making great progress every time I see him. He can now hit whirls both sides with really really good form. I am jealous. He can also hit blender, almost BS.

Stuff I hit this week:

Ducking Butter x 2 > run with diving butter and osis > flip DLO in the seal, all for about 25 contacts, GUILTLESS.

Butter > Blur > RPT 10 contacts, starting on flip

SS Butter > Diving Mirage > RPT > run > SS Butter > Spinning PDX Mirage > RPT > bails

Atom smasher and Legbeater, atomic still kinda leggy though

Ripwalk > Ripwalk > run with DLO BSOS

Drifter BSOS, although flip is still miserable

Spinning PDX Illusion mid-run randomly, felt good

Ducking xbd rake BSOS... FUN!

Fooled around with Pixie, hit Smear, PLO and Dimwalk all both sides fairly easily. Also hit a crazy sloppy magellan. I think I'll start schooling this concept more.

FOOTBAG FO LIFE SON!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 13 Sep 2008 14:48

Curtis came for a session on Wednesday. He hit his usual crazy 5's and 6's like Plasma and Superduperfly. Unreal.

Pretty good session today. Worked on guiltless fundamentals

-Butter > PDX Mirage > RPT 35 contacts
-SS Butter > Osis > PDX Mirage > RPT 18 contacts
-15 inifinites

-Butter > PDX Illusion > 14 contacts ("strong" side catching up to "flip").
-SS Butter > Infinity > Osis > Infinity > PDX Mirage > toe DLO > RPT

About halfway through the session I decided to work on rakes since my legs were getting sore.

-SS xbd Rake > Far xbd rake > RPT

(took probably 30 tries but such good practice for rakes!)
-Butter > PDX Mirage > Far xbd Rake > RPT
-SS Butter > Osis > PDX Mirage > Far xbd rake > RPT

-Ducking xbd Rake BSOS

That was a lot of fun. In just one session I got considerably better at them. Especially flipside. I think I'm going to keep drilling them and get them to the point where I can hit a lot of them mid run. I think they make a really nice guiltless bail. Plus it will be fun to be able to hit ducking and spinning versions regularly mid run.

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 14 Sep 2008 07:13

Your getting good man!

I'm diggin on all the rakes and spinning ducking clipper bsos is sexy.

Your blog is inspirering.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 08 Oct 2008 18:40

Hello footblog! It's time for an update.

Haven't been playing all too much, been busy with life and trying to put together something that will look like a footbag tournament here...

Well you'll never guess who showed up to a session today...

Kyle "Kung Fu" Crawford (BAP '98 ). I'm serious. I never thought it would happen in a million years. When I first started on footbag.org 3+ years ago I would email him once a month begging him to come to play footbag with me (before I could even clipper stall) but the consensus was that the guy had disappeared. Well he showed up and shook the rust off. Hopefully he'll make it to one day of the tournament next week.

I played pretty darn well for not having kicked in over a week. Hit a couple torques which was cool and came darn close to flip atomic and flip whirl. I hit atomsmasher first and only try into a run. Eggbeaters and DLOs were feeling on, hit quite a few including a strong PDX DLO.

Biggest highlight:
-Footed Spinning Ducking PDX Mirage BSOS. If you have a good memory I hit this horrendously crowny on the online comps a while back, but since then I've cleaned up the concept a bunch. Both spinning ducks felt good and were verified clean by Cody. Hit it first on flipside, did a few bails and hucked strong side, it landed on my toe but just could not hang on to it

Ordered some Quantum 3's on Monday. W00h00! Down to about 1mm of sole on the toes of my Q2s.

Texas tournament in 10 days. Hope everyone who said they're gonna come is showin' up! YEEHAW!

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 11 Oct 2008 15:02

Iron Clad Ben wrote:
Zac Miley wrote:and is that chick getting karate chopped in the vajayjay?
Ahh young Zac you have so much to learn...

pissing my self laughing!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 23 Oct 2008 08:18

Update time!

Well Texas states was a blast. Thanks to everyone who made it out. Especially Outsider for coming all the way from NJ. I did a small write up, plus results and shiz here:
http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?t=19111

New life has been breathed into my footbag game because:

I got a new pair of Black Q3s. whatwhat! These things are the shizNITE!

I got some patching tape and am in process on fixing some of choice bags that were put on the bench because of single holes.

The tournament was tons of fun and very inspiring. I played really well, and for the first time DIDN'T choke in competition (even though I wasn't really competing except in circle).

Had a session with Cody last night. It was good. He is getting pretty darn consistent these days. He had to leave early, so I played solo for another hour or so.

Highlights:

Spinning PDX Mirage and Ducking PDX Mirage BSOS in the same guiltless run

PLO > PLO > run. Never hit that before

Flip paste and flip smudge. New

Near DLO and bubbabeater BSOS in the same run

Dive > Duck > RPT > run with DLO BSOS

Zulu Butter > Zulu Butter

hand catch

Then I decided I was going to school whirls, since I've never hit one flipside and strongside is sketchy. I told myself "OK I'm going to attempt 20 on each side, and I'm not going to stop until I've tried 20 on each side. I'll start on flip". Toss to toe> set to clipper > flip whirl on first attempt > hand catch. I was stunned. It was so easy. After spending a good while doing various celebratory moves (front handspring, jumping off stuff etc.) I attempted it again, but in 19 other tries could not hit it again. Strong whirl got more consistent, I need to stay over the bag more, that makes it much easier. I almost came crazy close to strong PDX and toe whirls.

Pixie and DLOs were really on this session. I need to keep a mental note to school those some more to get them consistent. Who knows maybe I'll hit a triple dex one of these days.

Pyroman924 · Post by **Pyroman924** » 27 Oct 2008 05:42

Good call on those Whirls dude. Glad to see they are giving you less grief!!!

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 27 Oct 2008 06:05

From the stuff you've hit here, I'm sure you can hit pixie dlo!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 02 Nov 2008 19:34

What a great footbag weekend!

Saturday session with Cody:

Lots of flip pixie

Flip Parkwalk (new trick) into run with Parkwalk BSOS

Flip Phoenix! (new trick) I still haven't hit in on strongside yet.

Lots of PLOs both sides

SS xbd rake > xbd rake > RPT 5 contacts

Sunday Solo session:

Ducking Clipper X 10 (footed #11) new record

Triple-BSOSed PLO in a run

Butter > Ducking PDX mirage rpt for 9 contacts

Infinity x 22

Dive > Duck > RPT to start a few runs, getting easier

Footed Ducking PDX DLO a few times

Dimwalk BSOS in several runs

Flip Zulu legover (new trick?) into run wth zulu legover BSOS

So www.austinhack.com is under construction and will hopefully be up by next week

Reid · Post by **Reid** » 23 Nov 2008 12:37

Iron Clad Ben wrote:What a great footbag weekend!

That was almost a month ago. Where you at?