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Yesterday I had a good session, my control was pretty good. After a couple of tries, I've hit legbeater BSOS, and like 20-24 contacts of ducking clipper>ss butterfly rpt. and pixie legover>magellan rpt. I also practiced ducking&diving clippers a lot. There was a short shred too, but my strings were short and I used the same 4-5 moves every time, so I went back to drilling :) I'm going to practice a bit more than I used to, 'cause I don't develop as fast as I want to.
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Haha, barefoot session at the evening (ca 1 hour long). Some good stuff:

-flipside quantum legover
-flipside quantum butterfly
-flipside quantum mirage
-flipside quantum illusion <--- new trick, with the flip quantum set :D damn, it's easier than quantum mirage on my flipside :D
-flipside double switchover... perhaps not new, but this time totally clean. I was also very close to b2b double switchover... my strongside is clean and easy, I love it.

Looking for good sessions like that was :P
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After a few days of break, I really wanted to shred, I was inspired :) . In the last two or three days I had a bad feeling, 'cause I knew that I need to practice to develop, but I just hadn't the inspiration, the energy and fun to shred, I had sessions like 10-15 minutes.

BUT! :D

Today I had a really good solo session. I listened to some good drum 'n' bass music, and shredded like a freak 8) It was sooo good :)
I had some good runs with bsosed blurs, ripwalks, sidewalks and blizzards. I think I have hit the cleanest and most beautiful blizzard in my whole life :) My ambition was to hit ripwalk, sidewalk, blur and blizzard (and perhaps stepping same legover, but that's easy) BSOS in one run, but after like 20-25 minutes of shredding, I felt a bit tired. I also came up how to hit whirl, which is a bit weak on my both sides. After I noticed, that I'm in a really good form, I have broken some own records:

legover: 140
flipside ss butterfly: 20
and as I remember 12 ducking clippers, but some of them was really ugly, I will make this one better :wink:

My whole day was so good:) I call this kind of emotion "natural high", cause it is a bit like beeing high :D For example, I came home by bus in the early afternoon, and I was so happy about the shining sun, warm air and green plants and trees, that I was just starring out the window, smiled and rarely laughed :) Ohh my, that feeling was soo amazingly good, I wish that every of you guys experience it one time :)

Love like Jesus, play like Vasek :D
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I had a small feet injury that kept me away from shred (on the first day, I couldn't even walk). Now it is much better, and I had a great session. The weather is beautiful now, it's about 28 degrees, there is no clouds on the sky :)

I have learned blenders very good:D I've hit it few times before, but now they were so easy and clean :D I just find out how to do it, I'm am so happy about it :) I've hit it also midrun.
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Some updates:

Today morning I had a good solo session. It was about 2 and a half hours long, and I have hit some really good stuff.

I have broken my strongside ss butterfly, flipside whirl and ripwalk record:
35, 7 and 9 (in the order above :) ).

Some parts of this sesion was not very good, like I have tried a trick or a combo and I just couldn't hit it, but the last one and a half hour was really good, 'cause I have hit a new drill: ripwalk>bubbabeater>dimwalk> repeat :) which inspired me a lot. I think it is a really good one. After that, I have BSOSed my blenders in a tiltless run, and practiced torques. After a hundreds of tries, I finally found out how to do it.

The ripwalk-part of this morning was funny and angry at the same time. I have beaten my ripwalk-record, it was 8, now I have hit 9 ripwalks two times, but missed the 10th. My currently goal is to hit 10 ripwalks in a row. So, I was pretty close to it. Doesn't matter, in the whole session I have hit more than 100 ripwalks, I'm sure.
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I had a "for fun" session today with my friend, we just practiced some basic stuff, and I have hit pixie torque 8) I think it's a really good one.
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Keep up the progress. Pixie torque is sweet.
"...You have to get, really, practice, like eight hours every day. Then you get good level and then you can compete....There is no money, so players are like big family and that is what I -like" -Vasek-

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This days I was totally in my form :) The shred went very good. I played every day, like 2 hours per day. I felt the hapiness of shredding again, like I didn't hit big tricks usually, but long runs, and it made me so much fun :) I also hit my biggest sick3: pixie DLO>phoenix>torque.

This days I'm satisfied with everything, the things goes so good in my life, I have nothing to worry about. I love it :P

Today we will make a show with my friend Ã
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The preformance was really good, we were in a good form, and were really successful :) There were 3 shows after each other, so at the end of them all, we were pretty exhausted. Fortunately, Ã
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After I have written my last post, I went out to my garden, and started to practice flipside magellan and pixie ducking set.
Unfortunately, I twisted my ankle, and injured. It had a terrible voice (like SCRATSCH). It is not so hard injury like I had 1,5 years ago, I hope it will be fine after 4 or 5 days, but now I can't walk, it hurts.

After that, I thought that all in all, I'm a lucky guy. Last summer I saw a german man, like 30 years old, who has lost his whole right leg. He will never twist his ankle while play footbag.

So the most important thing is to see the good things in life, not to worry about the things which goes wrong :wink:
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It's a really good blog, and not just and average footblog. I like to read all the new posts, all of them are so positive, and optimistic. I hope your injury is really not serious, and you'll recover soon, and we'll be able to shred togather again!
Thanks for mentioning my first 7 add move, it really felt good to hit. 8)
Some more about our performance: We did 2 rutins, and between them we were talking about the sport itself, and we'we shown a few basic tricks with a big black juggling ball to the audiance! Tamas had really long (30-40 contact) varied and both sided strings! I've hit some big moves like Phoenix, Whirling Swirl, PS Whirl, and Ripped Warrior (I've also hit a pdx Drifter, what is strange, because my drifters are not too good, and I think I've never hit pdx Drifter midrun before :lol: )!
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BACK TO SHRED AGAIN!! :D

After 2 weeks of healing myself, I feel ready to practice again. I can walk and jump without any pain, but some moves still hurts me during the shred, like osis and harder landings. I'm careful, thought. My ankle is not good enough (my clipper-surface is not flat like Vasek's I mean), I hope it will not get worse than before my injury.

So, today I had the first real session till the accident. I didn't went good, but I enjoyed it a lot. I got also tired after a short shred, physically I was a bit out of my form (perhaps I have put on some weight :lol: ), but I felt I'm doing someting for my development again, so it was a good feeling. Today morning I planned a shred:30 I am going to preformance in the footbag camp in august (it will include a small championship too), and hit the first 11 contact of it two times. It includes 31 conacts and it is 210 points, as it is unique. So I was satisfied with myself.

These days I'm on a diet. I love to eat, and it was not a problem while footbaging, but in the last two weeks I haven't done any sports (in the first 4-5 day I couldn't even walk). That's why I feel I'm a bit fat now.

Doesn't matter, I'm going to practice every day, and lose those fat cells! :lol:
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Today in the early afternoon I had a solo session, ca 2 hours long. In the beginning, I was not so inspirated, as the surface where I played was very wet (it rained before my session), and my bag got wet also; I also didn't have a good control. I couldn't control my clippers good enough, sometimes it happens to me, but I hate it.

In the second part, it got better. The sun began to shine, and my shredplace got dry. I had also more light this way, which was good. I started to practice clippers again, they went much more controlled and relaxed, and aslo hit 21 contacts of butterfly>pdx mirage rpt., firts try.

I hit 2 new moves too, they are cool I think:

reverse da da courve (illusioning symple butterfly), three times
and reaper.

I came up how to do the datws, they are easier and look better this way with both legs, both directions. The way how I make them now is lower set but faster dexes. I love them :)
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Nothing special these days; I play like 4-5 times per week, but I just didn't want to post the results here. A couple of days ago I hit stepping ps mirage (not a dream trick for me, just thought why not), and broke my legover record. Now it is 150. I will play today also, yesterday I met a footbagger guy who inspirated me, he practices like every day, doesn't care about the weather and the oder guys and people who are watching him. He develops pretty fast.
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Today at the afternoon I had a pretty good solo session. The weather is beautiful today, which gave me some inspiration and fun. I played ca. one hour long, I enjoyed it a lot, practiced my shred:30 string I have planned to the Hungarian Footbag Camp (19th-23rd august); I have hit the first 15 contact of 31 and other parts of it, so I was happy and satisfied. If I practice it enough and make it dropless, I could probably win this part of the event :) , but my stamina sucks. Doesn't matter, just have to train like a freak :wink:

Today I have also hit my first 5 ADD move on flipside! It is tomahawk. 100 times footed, one time got it :D However, the stall could have been more controlled.

Tomorrow I'm going to (try to) get a job. It will be a symple student job: boring, little money, etc, but it is still more than nothing.
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ppffh I have just send this post, and want to delete it, 'cause it was just a failure. Could anyone help me? :lol:
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Hey Modified, long time no see!

This week I did not have enough energy to shred, I'm a lazy pig. On thuesday and friday I was working to get some money, so I get a bit tired. After 4 days of break I had a short session barefoot. Before it I thought about pixie opp. double switchover, I thought maybe I could hit it, so went out and after a couple of tries I got it 8) As its secret is the "half-rooted" pixie (the pixie and the first legover dex are in the same time), I thought I could try frantic and sailing sets also.
I had right, in 15 minutes I got pixie tap, frantic ss legover and frantic ss butterfly :D 4 new 3-dex trick in one day! I was surprised and happy, also because I reached my first and second 2-dex set, even if they are barefoot.


Today morning I really wanted to shred. After almost 12 hours of sleeping and the "breakfast" (""-->12:30), I went out to shred. The session was enjoyable, I had a good form, controll, etc.

I learned barfly pretty good (sadly just on one side), had the phoenix BSOS (flipside phoenix first time :D ) and dimmiest as a new trick.

This session was only one hour long, but it included all the things that make a session good :)
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Ahh, good session today evening! After a short warm-up, I started to practice ducking butterflies, and ducking butterfly>diving butterfly rpt.
After a lot of tries, I finally got it two times (never hit it before). Some of the stalls were not the best, but I set it to handcatch.

As last time barflys went really good, I have hit some of them, because it is one of my favourite tricks. After hitting a lot of barflys and blurriests, I thought how about motions? I never practiced them, but now I felt like I could hit it. I am not sure, but like in 5 tries I got it :D It was a fantastic feeling, it became my favourite trick I can hit. I have hit it a lot of times, also from same side clipper (down double downing osis), it was pretty easy and clean 8) I was sooo happy about it :)

The highpoint of this session was after that all. 3rd try I have hit my first 6 ADD trick which is

Locomotion :D

I got it two times :), pretty clean I think, wanna see it on video. Damn, this session was hilarious :)
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These days were beautiful. I played every day, and two of these sessions were memorabe. 2 days ago I played with Ã
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Hey modified, long time no see!

In the last two weeks I had a holiday with my family in France. I didn't have any internet connection, but had some short sessions.

updates:

zulu pdx illusion
twirl bs

12 whirls on strongside
16 ducking clippers
7 ducking infinitys
71 infinitys to handcatch
8 contacts of ducking clipper>diving clipper rpt

pdx whirl> ss butterfly> rpt.
dimwalk> pdx eggbeater rpt.

The holiday was not so good as I expected, with a lot of traffic (5500 kms in 2 weeks...), more culture with less relaxing. However, my parents enjoyed the culture-part a lot.

French people love footbag :) Every time some people saw me playing, they applaused me, even it was only one trick once :? :lol: So if you want to do some street preforming, go to any city in France! :P

ps. ca 2 hours ago I smoked my first cigarette, because I wanted to try nicotine pure (without weed-just kidding :wink: ) It is not so bad, but it was also my last cigarette, as I don't want to became a smoker.

ps.2. The 4. Hungarian Footbag Camp coming closer and closer... ==> Exited :P
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