Train> Work> Sleep> Rpt x 7 - Over and Done With

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 25 Apr 2008 10:58

I think it would be hilarious to get Kyle Hewitt to counter-stalk her and creep her out

congrats on finishing another year of chool

The Rhino · Post by **The Rhino** » 25 Jul 2008 09:59

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 25 Jul 2008 10:58

Andrew's street is actually off of a "Grant Avenue"! (Well... technically off of a street off of a street...)

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 24 Aug 2008 18:47

Worlds memories (from memory, i didn't write any thing down) in no particular order:

-getting drunk in luzern the night before i was supposed to leave
-missing my train the next morning
-having to take regional trains for 14 hours to get to prague
-not being informed that my train from cheb to prague was not running and that instead i would need to take 2 busses to get to plzen where i could catch a train to prague
-the nice slovakian woman who spoke enough german to inform me of this change
-carrying the slovakian woman's bags from bus to bus to train in exchange for her telling me WTF was going on
-arriving in prague at midnight, hungover, confused, scared, and hungry
-missing the last metro on the line i needed to get to the hostel
-aimlessly wandering the streets of prague at 1 am trying to flag down a cab
-arriving at the hostel and seeing tons of partying footbaggers
-The woman who worked the desk at the hostel continually shushing us untill 4am
-max and paul being extremely fun and funny all week
-the woman at the desk cutting all the footbaggers off from the beer
-my first circle at worlds being with olav, gielnik, and honza
-getting the beat down in said circle
-drinking a concoction off beer and redbull, because i didn't know they had coffee
-serge telling me they had coffee
-coffee being more expensive than beer
-trying to check-in 3 times
-checking-in the next day only to learn they were pretty much out of every thing
-learning that our free hot meals were actually cold sandwiches
-learning that those same sandwiches wouldn't be available untill the next day
-arriving to get my free baguette the next day only to find out they wouldn't be ready untill dinner time because they didn't have knives to make the baguettes with
-learning that in czech "free beverages" means "water from the tap in the men's room"
-having them run out of snickers bars on the 3rd day
-the Italian restaurant down the road dreading 9:30pm every single day
-arriving at the italien place down the road a half hour before close almost every day
-the cute waitress at the italian place that totally had it bad for me
-not being able to speak enough czech or german to capitalize on it :s
-dining with the french team and all of us smoking like chimneys
-the french team in general
-shred smoke breaks with serge
-seeing serge win circle
-"Champion du monde, champion du monde!"
-being totally in the zone and blocking out every thing during shred 30
-doing my shred 30
-hand catch, and yelling at the stands in excitement (i hope some one has that on camera!)
-later learning i came second
-Trying to speak polish (i couldn't even manage to say hello properly)
-trying to speak finnish
-foreign tongue twisters
-a water goblin is hissing in a elavator
-tuli, tuuli, tulli
-not buying tram tickets
-Ben, jamie and kevin's story about fake controllers on the trams
-stories about legging it from the fake controllers
-stories about getting the beat down from the fake controllers
-being glad i never ran into the fake controllers, but also sad that i wasn't able to kick some ass in the fight
-being shit scared of riding the trams for the rest of the week
-buying tram tickets
-grischa bugging us about riding the trams
-not finding any one to go to the party with one night and taking the tram by my self at 1 am
-the tram 22 not going the right direction
-getting off the tram and walking to the party
-holding my knife in the pocket of my hoodie and preparing to stab any one who approached me during me walk
-seeing ken arrive at the stadium
-getting him a beer as soon as he walked in
-dr. mike is not a doctor.
-dr. mike is not a doctor?
-dr. mike is a doctor!
-"double punked"
-playing doctor for ken
-drunkenly playing 2 square with ben
-having our game interrupted my max who was gushing blood from his eye
-drunkenly playing doctor for max
-Die "Old Skool" fahren!!!!
-yves to caroline: thank you very much for the ride back to the hostel. By the way, do you have any NWA?
-burning rubber down the streets of prague at 4am with yves and caroline pumping "straight outta compton" as loud as the stereo would go, flashing gang signs at the cars we passed and squeeling the tires.
-Nathan
-Beer o'clock?
-your shout? what? your SHOUT? What? YOUR SHOUT? NO, you're shouting AT ME!
-discovering "your shout" means its your turn to buy
-My shout
-"Nathan where you staying?" "with one of the czech guys" "so why you walking this way?" "i have to get my bag from the venue" "dude, it's 6am. the venue is closed!" "oh really?" "yeah man" "well... shit" "dude, your bag is totally gone now" "really? you think?" "yeah man" "well... shit"
-nathan immediately after this exchange tripping over a chain and us understanding just how wasted he was
-trying to get into the finals venue at 6am to find nathan's bag
-"Hey Nato, did you ever get your bag back?" "yup" "really?" "yeah, apparently i put it in caroline's car that afternoon" "...aHAHAHA!!!"
-taking 2nd in my pool even though i had 9 drops
-apologizing to those who didn't go through but should have
-every one who came up to tell me how much they liked my routine (thanks guys)
-redemption
-Team N.A.U.
-Talking with big JD
-the North american cheering section
-the polish cheering section, aka The crowd
-Jay going dropless
-grabbing jay and hoisting him to the sky immediately after
-the wave of canadians that swarmed him
-the semis pool of death with 3 dropless routines
-vasek's random solo show
-judging simply so i could have the best seat in the house
-getting rained on while judging circle
-kevin and i and our reversed wet shorts
-the rain venue
-shredding with serge and flash to warm up for routines
-getting high praise from seb on the last night
-"hey steve, have they started the awards ceremony yet?" "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-" "so i guess that's a no then?" "-HAHAHA"
-the awards ceremony at 3am
-getting a silver medal at worlds, even though in the record books it will always have an asterix beside it
-serge and i saying "well, too bad for them! hahaha!"
-seeing the crowning of a new world champion
-gielnik getting tossed to the ceiling
-discovering that we're all human
-Really wanting one of tom's "I survived worlds 2008" tshirts
-"Worlds 2008: Could have been worse..."

jon · Post by **jon** » 24 Aug 2008 20:16

Why the * ?

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 24 Aug 2008 23:01

hey man, are you still planning a trip to Australia next year?

It does kinda bum me out and also make me smile when I read about the two people i regularly kick with getting up to adventures in Europe.

Anyway, if you don't make it to Australia, see you in Berlin!

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 25 Aug 2008 06:27

no sense living in the past.

qphox · Post by **qphox** » 25 Aug 2008 07:32

Andrew wrote:-Nathan
-Beer o'clock?
-your shout? what? your SHOUT? What? YOUR SHOUT? NO, you're shouting AT ME!
-discovering "your shout" means its your turn to buy
-My shout
-"Nathan where you staying?" "with one of the czech guys" "so why you walking this way?" "i have to get my bag from the venue" "dude, it's 6am. the venue is closed!" "oh really?" "yeah man" "well... shit" "dude, your bag is totally gone now" "really? you think?" "yeah man" "well... shit"
-nathan immediately after this exchange tripping over a chain and us understanding just how wasted he was
-trying to get into the finals venue at 6am to find nathan's bag
-"Hey Nato, did you ever get your bag back?" "yup" "really?" "yeah, apparently i put it in caroline's car that afternoon" "...aHAHAHA!!!"

Oh man. I loved Nathan.

At one point during the awards ceremony, (probably 5am?) he comes up to me and says, "Hey! Hey Kevin, come here. Come here. Look at this. *pulls out phone* Look at this. This is where I live. *shows me photo of ocean/hillside on phone* That hill right there. This is in Australia. Wow, look at that. Beautiful. Hey Kevin, look at that. WOW. That's where I live. You see that? Right there, on the hill. See? Hey! Kevin! Look at this! That's where I live, mate. See that? Beautiful, eh? Just beautiful. That hill, there. That's my hometown. This is where I live, right there on that hill. Kevin! Yeah!"

It should be noted that I was giving him my undivided attention the entire time, and I am not exaggerating at all.

I'm glad that he eventually found his bag. That's too funny.

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 25 Aug 2008 16:44

hacksterbator wrote:
jon wrote:Why the * ?
no vasek
no jorden
no jim
no dave

Who cares bro! Major props!

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 25 Aug 2008 20:17

i forgot a couple good ones:
-ice cold showers for 3 days. nothing like that to kill a sexual appetite.
-our sketchy door set up so that the last person in at night (read: morning) could still get into the room even without the key
-"hey nathan, how come no one from australia pronounces the "a" at the beginning? they always just say " 'stralia" ?" "What you want to waste your time pronouncing the "a" for when there's beer that needs drinking?.... Your shout."

Yeah, nathan did the same thing to me that night! Awesome stuff. that guy is tops!!!

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 25 Aug 2008 23:15

The L is also silent. It should be Straia (strayia).

Great write up, cheers.

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 26 Aug 2008 02:26

man, how good is Copey.

I miss that guy

ps, the photo would have looked something like this

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 26 Aug 2008 06:41

It was cool meeting you.
Look forward to see you in Berlin next year

Did you get my mail?

Your routine was great. I was talking about it with somebody and I said "It would have been a really sick routine if it wasn't for the more than 6 drops." and he said "Wasn't it more like 3?!".. I think that's a nice compliment.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 26 Aug 2008 08:51

no sense living in the past.

jon · Post by **jon** » 26 Aug 2008 09:16

What was the feeling and discussion at worlds relating to those guys not competing/being there?

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 26 Aug 2008 09:19

no sense living in the past.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 14 Oct 2008 20:10

This blog is dead and done with, but the new one is going live!

I'm not on modified much these days for many reasons, but one reasons is i have been more concerned with our club and the tiny corner of the footbag world we inhabit. So it only makes sense to keep my, and all the other hackrifice blogs, there.

i'll be posting in there more frequently, and i promise to make the posts atleast informative, interesting and insightful even though i'm not playing a whole lot right now and vids and combos will not be in high numbers. Keep in mind that that will be changing come january when i'm in Oz...

Stay friends, shred hard.

max · Post by **max** » 14 Oct 2008 23:49

Keep in mind that that will be changing come january when i'm in Oz...

So that's still the same ETA? sweet!
Well Benoite and I have a spare room in our flat at Bondi Beach (Sydney).. hehe so yeah, be sure to use it!

Catch you soon!

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 16 Jul 2009 20:49

no sense living in the past.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 31 Jul 2010 09:48

Just re-read some old posts. Bit of a trip down memory lane, but there's no sense living in the past.