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World's
$150+42 taxes i see a flight on orbitz right now. Less than 2 hundo. I should really buy it. It' comes in almost a week early. I'm gonna check to see if I could stay with Tim. Going to US Open and Worlds might be stretching my pocket book. I did like the idea of a grand road trip to Portland then Cali, but fuel price for such an endeavor would require many individuals. And I don't know who'd wanna go along the way. I wish gas still cost a dollar something right now.

A grand road trip would cost around $600-$800 just for gas - unless someone has a hybrid. Drive through what I think I heard was beautiful scenery along the roads of Wyoming, and camping along the way - and it'll be nice out in July. Along the way - hit up any freestylers and kick and have them show us their town, and chill, maybe some will come along. Arrive in Portland for US Open, chill with Red and Nick and Flash and the whole crew. Get some of that delish pizza for cheap like my first day there in September. Finally see the water temple which I missed.
Then shoot down the West Coast down to cali with the Pacific always on our right. See my homeboy Tim. See Cali and San Fran for the first time. Go to my first Worlds.

With a good car and other people (who also have about 3 weeks of flexible free time) it could work. Driving through some beautiful roads and camping. That'd be the best...

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Wine and Cheese 2010

Reile and Marianne scooped me from my casa a bit after noon. I got a luscious 8 or 9 hours of sleep and woke up at 11 and took the doggie for a walk and gave her medicine. So the time R & M arrived I still needed to shower and get ready. Showered quick while they talked to my mom, shoved what ended up being way too many clothes into my backpack, since I ended up not changing or even showering for 2 nights with too much to do and not enough sweating with the cool breeze, and the extreme longevity and accepted cleanliness of jeans, and we headed into the chicago traffic on I-90. There was no rush and we were talking and whenever I'm driving with Reile we talk and time slips quickly.

We stopped at a rest area before Champaign an old lady sleeping in her car with her mouth open. We shyly, slyly, and boldly snapped pictures and giggled.

Arrived in Champaign-Urbana and saw bright and sometimes dull purple flower/leaves on many trees. So pretty. Grabbed Reid and Liz and went to Fat Sandwich Company. I had the Fat Milf which consisted of philly steak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and fries on an 8" sandwich with mayo and ketchup. It was quite good. They had a $25 dollar sandwich that you get free if you can eat it in 15 minutes.

Went to the quad and tried to walk on a slack line. The people were cool. It was hard to do. One girl said she'd only been doing it 2 weeks and she was pretty good. The noise the line made when you fell off was scary. Like a rubber band being twanged between your fingers.

Went home and made cheese! Cool to say that I've seen and participated in that once in my life. I know what whey is now - and it's more than a mexican slang term for homies. Played long thinking difficult scrabble. Reile got a bingo. Slept.

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Saturday
Breakfast at Merry Ann's. This place is the shazzer. The hot cakes that come with the breakfast classic combos are dee-fuckin-liscious. Instead of toast - always. And 3 pieces of sausage not 2. And all for pretty cheap. Plus they have these little docks on each booth that the server pops into so they can serve you without going all the way around. Oh man yeah - food will be the highlight of this post. Food and friends.

Went to the quad and James arrived just in time as we digested. Played footbag. Reid can play fast and whirl and spinning whirl as much as he wants, and flurry and toe flurry. James was smooth as usual - though said he wasn't feeling it. I didn't do anything special. Reile played which is always tits. Fairy same DLO or merlin? What a group of bad ass skalliwags awesome people. All of the guys are in the top of my book. If Zach had come I might've exploded from the sheer awesomeness surrounding me. So yeah - I want to be good and better at footbag again. I can't wait till Reid moves here.

Bought a Cactaur shirt from this Japanese cutie, and should've kept talking to her, and invited her to Wine and Cheese but kept putting it off and she left early. Speaking of which. U of I is a haven of cute girls. A veritable Ho-asis. I should've found a place to live when they accepted me years ago and attended.

The party:
We were going to eat before feasting on just cheese for the night. But we only bought wine at the IGA. Reid had most of the cheese,and Reile brought some as well.. Reid decided to leave the foot funky Limburger cheese at home thankfully. I generally smell everything I eat and some things I don't. Just to get a better feel for it - appreciate it more. But I think now that's a no no for cheese. At the party I tried a piece of every cheese. The standby Gouda was my favorite, and this chipotle cranberry was my second favorite. There were some in there that I would've thought were very old and moldy and never woulda touched if the experts around me weren't vouching for their edibility. I can't comment on the wine, but the arizona was splendid.

I thought some of the people there were frou frou. And 2 dudes were ass clowns. But everyone else was cool if blah. I dunno, I spent most of the time talking with James and Reile and having a great time, as Reid was in the Kitchen most of the time hosting and cutting cheese and bread.

At some point a dance party started, and after a few songs this cute girl Katie with long legs taught us about the 'skanky leg' dance. Which was in fact the stanky leg dance. This surely led us to thinking about and Reile putting on 'smell yo dick' which promptly ended the dance party. We hung out by the laptop/jukebox the rest of the time and randomly did the stanky leg dance which looks like stomping out a cigarette.

At the very end James pointed out a sharpie and I wrote on all the empty wine bottles giving them new names. And drawing YUM on sweet baby rays BBQ sauce and yuck on some beef spread on top of the fridge.

Too much wine except for me and 2 cars, so we pile all 7 of us into the Fit and off to Hardees! Closed. Merry Ann's again and the waitress was hella quick with the food, and it tasted good. I spontaneously wrote a bunch of filthy words on a napkin. Gape.

Home after 4. James and I talk for 20-30 mins. Sleep. Wake up at 1030 to pick up R&M from hotel b/c they need to check out. Good songs on the way over there on the radio. i miss the radio in my car.

Kicked at the quad again. James hit ripped warrior>riptide>mobius. oh I hit mobius on Reid's command in the middle of a run the day before. I also almost hit ripstein>reaper for james. My flip reaper too. Played for about an hour.

Hit the custard place, Jarling's, near Reid's place before heading home.

Photos

[Reid]

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100 insides
100 swirls (50 BS). at end = frozen butter>frozen swirl>pdx mirage>rpt anyone else thinking of ice cream? cream on the outside, clean on the inside
20 atom smashers one side (other knee said don't risk it i feel weird)
atomic dlo and atomic ducking butter attempts - CLOSE! got 3 good atomic ducking nothings.

Might go to Iowa this wknd and kick with Jamez.

[Zjeezy]

Yeah Buddy...

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Back during NYJ I peeped at Zach's footbag journal and he looked at mine. I took a pic of his "Drills to Hit." Theh other day, printed it out and taped it to my wall. Printed a smaller one for on the go. It's quite hard, but possibly eventually doable.

Worked on blender>pdx blender>RPT. First on the list.
I got 2 on both sides, well without the rpt. Then my left side wasn't doing pdx blenders. I must have hit 4o blenders trying to get a pdx after. It's funny how consistent my blenders came be (well not in strings per se). So I went to just pdx blnder and hit 10 on both sides. Learned the trick is the same as regular blender. Start soon and get that dex before it gets too low.

Then I was back at it and hit blender>pdx blender 10x BS in all. Quite a sick link, and easier than I expected. I've probably don't more pdx blendersd today than in all of my years of footbag. maybe. gotta work on playing out of pdx blender now.

then 10 Mobius BS

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Good sesh today with Max and Nathan came for a bit too. my strings felt really good like they haven't in a while - made it quite fun to play. threw in some harder moves too. DOD>reaper was cool.

Hit Zach's drill: torque>drifter>RPT

So I said somewhere else I'm going to US Open and Worlds, so here too just cuz. Woot.

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alley night solo sesh after a luxurious day at the beach with woman and puppy. It was about 90 degrees today but quite pleasant by the lake.

So came home and warmed up:
with 30 swirls BS and 50 whirls BS. The whirls had to be in sets of 5 on my flip (one of the only moves i have a flip on that isn't super hard), then in sets of 10 for the last 20.

Then worked on Tim's challenge: drifter>whirling swirl>repeat
I got all but the last swirl 6 times. i got the drifter after the whirling swirl every time. It's weird b/c I just had flip whirling swirl before this winter without ever working on it. Though it's not a tits fashion show - it works.

Then another of Zach's drills: diving clipper>diving osis>RPT
seems like it should be easier. I had to make sure to look at the osis to get that move, then I had to do it a shitloas more to stabilie it and not rush the 3rd contact. I finally fluked one and got another!

Finished off with 5 torque>drifters BS

I was sweating like a mo throughout. And I noticed, as I've noticed in the past, but haven't written about it, that I can look down at my chest and see my heart beating. in fact my whole torso beats, but right there in the middle of my chest below the rib cage, when I'm breathing hella hard and usually drenched in sweat, I can see a little pat pat. i think that's really cool. I've said before that sweating balls while playing is a really good experience to have in life.

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I'm in Davenport!

Me and James Rizzo grilling steaks and playing footbag every night. We just finished a sesh in the garage and walked out into fricken sunrise! Then some bananas and chocolate milk and pb sammiches.

This is after we hit up the casino on the other side of the Mississippi and I bet my last 15 bucks on blackjack and let it ride once to 30 then again to 60 then James encouraged me to let that bitch ride one more time to 120 bucks! So it pretty much paid for my trip here... and the titty bar the first night. ::flashing::lights::

James hit some sick stuff the passed 3 days. There will be a vid. Obviously there's a talent show. I hit some stuff, but wish I was better. Gonna have to drill when I get back, for the _ weeks until ___

[PegLegHolly]

It's ____ to see you _____ and ______ for ______. Looking forward to _____ing you _______ _______ in ________ ________!

[Zeke]

MAD LIBS!!!





It's tits-ola to see you shit-awn-it and booging for ponies. Looking forward to jakotaing you somewhat centaurish in luscious ank-hole!

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LoL <3 it

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Kicked with Nathan. Tried some bo's

pdx dlo>paradon>RPT
pix ss clp>DlO>RPT
pix ss leg>DLO>RPT
stp ss osis>torque BS

Almost hit Jamez' drill one move shy both times:
reaper>double switch>paradon>RPT

After watching footage with Jamez I noticed I wanted to do some cooler stuff instead of same old strings I've been doing. Moves that I can do especially egg and dlo's which are my bitches but never do. Successful at that today and was fun. Just need to keep it up and get longer strings with those.

edit: and atom smasher>toe barrage>Repeat

[Zeke]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1aszjv ... re=related[/youtube]

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Ha nice. I watched it, then I saw Rex Navarette on related vids. Been a while. He a superstar.

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Time to train for US Open and Worlds. 4 weeks isn't a lot of time, but I'd like to be as good as possible by then. I played every froozin day for 2 months before NYJ, so I'm thinking of playing 2x a day for the next few weeks, but I've never done that before, so I'll see how it works out. Starting today

2010JUN04 - Nada

2010JUN05 - Torques, where did you go? Schooled BS until started raining.

2010JUN06 - 1130PM. alley. solo. Postal Service.
I decided to drill some single moves. I was motivated for the upcoming CIC Birthday.

warmup: 100 Kicks, 20 swirls BS, stretch
50 smears in sets of 10 (with drops, but no break until 10, switch sides, continue). Both Sides = 100
50 terrages in sets of 10 (with drops, but no break until 10). Both Sides
30 torques BS. sets of 10.
20 double switch overs BS. sets of 10.

So all of these sets of 10 are good for stamina.

Taking a break after a set of 10, I walked down the alley a few houses toward the end to shake my legs out. I'm 6 houses from the end, and the other end of the block is really long (1/4 mile). I left my phone playing music, with my journal and footbag. When I turn around I see a guy stumbling down the alley. I don't know where he came from. Cut through some yeard must be, because I know he didn't walk that whole 1/4 mile b/c I would have seen him. I nod to him as I walk back to say hello and he says blurr shlurrp mrewh. I say "what?" "youuuurrr shit's stil therrre," he replies. haha. Drunk mofo with a guilty conscience.

Come back make it 50 torques BS. Flip side was being a bitch. I had to focus on a low second leg for the catch. Just focusing on the catch in general did the trick.

Played for 2 hours all together.

2010JUN07-08 - sore from that 2 hr sesh. my left hammy. nada

2010JUN09 Kicked poorly with Tim and Max and Holly. Blackhawks win! Fireworks ensue.

2010JUN10
$1 Jimmy Johns! We hit 3 stores to get these bad boys. What a great customer appreciation day.
Kick with Tim Holly Reile and Cory in Reile's living room. Levitate shoes. Cory's good. He's gonna be really good some time.

2010JUN11
Beach! with Hen Nathan Cory and Holly. Fuck commas. Sand penis. Found shark toy in the water and ghetto game it up with that. "Who can run in and find it first after it's thrown?"
Jordan and Eric from Indiana arrive. Footbag on concrete slab near graffiti benches where I always wanted to have a sesh. People watchin. We need to have a spike and shred here some time.

2010JUN12
Freestyle and BBQ! and a lil rain. Held out though and rain stopped. Turkey italian sausage is the shazzer. Henry is still so good at footbag even after long spells of not playing. Jamez! reid and eric. Grant $$
Ghetto gamez: Sacrotchfice, footbag at face with trash bin and duct tape hole. Jamez is gonna be off the heezy at Worlds. Maybe he'll just get Bapped cuz he's so stylish.

2010JUN13
Pizza and everyone departs

2010JUN14
Last Kick with Tim. and Max, and Kamil comes out too!

2010JUN15 nada

2010JUN16
control: osis>swirl>rpt. a great warmup
combo of medium moves that i don't link often: atom>DLO>RPT
a few ss jumping swirls

2010JUN17-20 Windy City Cup
Jeremy Mirken arrives! Freestyle with Max for an hour while they play net. A tree almost kills Ben in the crazy weather. Kick a net bag with Emily wearing Jeremy's too small shoes - fun. Bag goes straight up, feet don't hurt.
Met Eric Wulff. I never met any of the guys I watched videos of when I first started, so to see him was really cool. I thought to myself - I'm chilling with Eric Wulff. Would've been cool if he joined our freestyle circle for a minute. Next time I'll ask - preferably not next to the net tourny.
Tommy is fun and funny.
Going out with PT and Manu and Ben and Walt and Kamil and Fletcher was fun! That girl in the red dress. Dancing in the back room with the awesome DJ.
PT's the shit. Used to slaaay pussy. Ben's cool.
No Portillo's. Zeke's same meal costs more than mine at Mickey D's
Navy Pier - Kick with Josh Elmer after years! Jeremy does well in singles.

2010JUN21 - nada

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2010JUN22
Finally we reach today. I don't know if anyone will read that raggedy ass list of stuff I wrote. So today is the beginning of training for worlds. My shoulder already hurts. used the massage machine on it. typing this shit doesn't help

control: 10 osis>swirl>rpt BS
10 atom>dlo BS not rpt cuz i had on my new lavers that aren't titsly modded yet.
10 double switchovers BS
50 flip whirls

Took a nap for an hour and 2nd sesh.
Worked on Zach's drills

The best was the motivation today. I just pictured all the times I played in the cold with 2 or 3 layers on in that same spot n the alley. And when I thought of all those times and all the times I've played and all the years I've played - I just figured I should be able to hit certain shit all the fucking time. I've been kicking a bag half my life.

So I felt this surge of power when thinking that. Hit egg>ss egg>RPT BS easily enough and worked on torque>pdx ducking mirage>RPT for an hour got close 6 times. It's funny when trying combos just out of reach. When you get close everything's in slow motion and you watch it and just hope it lands in the right place. daaaaamn! nope - so close. Would've loved to hit it once.

[Reid]

Nice write up.

[PegLegHolly]

parking lots

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Just played tonight almost 1 am,

whirl war 8 contacts also some more compete sets. twice to 8
DLO>atom smasher>RPT 9 contacts most

Then I somehow thought, let me try toe set whirling swirl, and I thought how awesome it's be and I'd tell everyone. hit it in like 5 tries. fucking easy! just think toe set quick whirl then swirl it. if thinking of it as one move legs get confused.

I texted Jamez,: "omfg I just hit toe set whirling swirl and it wasn't even that hard."
jamez: hell yeah dude, that's tits. Lol keep doing it. And pdx too
me: oof i dunno bout that :-p
jamez: nothing is hard. you can do anything

hmm. took it to heart.

I thought of Jon Schneider hitting that move in California Connection.
I hit paradox whirling swirl in 2 tries!

texted jamez and everyone on facebook. texted reile and told him our years old race to pdx whirling swirl was over while he's likely sleeping.

toe whirling swirl again
pdx whirling swirl again
toe whirling swirl again
not flukes.

i should do pdx whirling swirl again... hmm let me try blurry. har har har. I know Kenny shultz hit it back in the day, and david hit it symp in a recent vid i think and jamez hit it on vid, and probably anyone Polish or Finnish or Czech... let me just try it for shits and giggs.

a little over 10 minutes later I screamed from the rooftops in futuristic text form, "I just hit BLURRY fucking WHIRLING SWIRL.". Texted all the OG CIC's.

finished off with ripped warrior>blurry whirl and blurry whirl>bedwetter. trying to combine them for a sub-beast for Mathieu GM.

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This is all after an afternoon sesh today that went quite well with Nathan and Max.
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Also the other day hit one of Zach's drills: toe torque>pdx ducking mirage>RPT. fucking hard. shins killed the next day.

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Arrived in Portland after a day delay in Detroit where I got to hang out and kick with Zach and Mike Hollis
I was greeted by Red and Chang. Up the stairs Luis and Aaron Shepard. Walked into Red's house and saw Manna past out on the floor and Jim Penske and Hania on the couch. Aaron Shephard is cool and talkative. A minute later Lon Smith comes out of the basement.

Over to Evan Lovely and Nick Landes's house I see Nate and K-Crow and Sam Colclough. And I meet Wiktor, Damien, Szymon, Anssi, Marco and Jeremiah.

Nate is the best host. Crashed at his place and he made the best breakfast and smoothie. Such a nice place as well.