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h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 10 Dec 2010 06:52

surely page 9 deserves something more positives then this.

ya fathah!

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 16 Dec 2010 17:53

gah I wanna shred so bad.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 05 Jan 2011 17:21

I still haven't played since the 9th and I doubt I'll be playing again for a few months. I"ve started thinking about quitting footbag. alot.

footbag has definitely taught me alot and brought on tons of cool experiences. I've hit lots of cool tricks, ducked lots of good sets, met lots of cool people,

However, I still get the urge to play everday and 9/10 thoughts are based around footbag. I'll break my leg like 6000 times before I hang up my units for good.

2011 will be a good year, next time I post in here it will be highlights.

also found this picture so i had to fuck with it.

they took our jerbs.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 28 Jan 2011 07:34

playing for 20 or so minutes yesterday wielded the following:

ducked quantum 3 times in 4 tries and once on fip. not new, just a nice easy feeling suprise. Alpine tripwalk feels like its gonna be a good run starter someday.

nuke ss drifter 3 different times. close on flip too.meh

leg dosen't feel like its gonna be good anytime soon so i doubt I'll play again for atleast a month. this really fucking sucks. I havent been 100% since last may.

Good thing is school is fucking great right now. I'm so stoked to learn illustrator and get better at photoshop. i'm using the same mentality that footbag showed me to get better at these things too- repetition until my brain bleeds. using illustrator reminds me of when I was a n00b watching hack videos and didn't understand half the tricks, although I realized the power of footbag just like how i can see this power of illustrator, its a mystery but unlike footbag when i first started, i believe i can do it and succeed.

look for a new bsc vid soon. hope to see everyone this summer at some tourney, hopefully nyfa.

one.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 11 Feb 2011 11:58

my doctor told me today that maybe I should quit footbag.

well thats a buzzkill.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 12 Feb 2011 15:43

ive been told that more than a few times by doctors.

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 12 Feb 2011 22:43

Hey man, I've been keeping up with your recent bloggings and you sound like an awesome kicker. You've also suggested multiple 4 adds and 5 adds to me that you thought I could hit, and you were correct on almost all of them. You're definitely a big influence for me to play footbag, just thought you should know that. I really want to influence new kickers some day, too. I hope your leg heals soon. It sucks to read about your injury, because I couldn't imagine how it would feel for your mind to want to play footbag, but your body won't let you. Don't quit playing footbag yet. You're still young. I would just take it easy and only do things you feel comfortable with and don't bust huge until you're fully healed.

In the meantime, maybe you could start stitching bags? It would keep the spark of footbag alive within your life without actually playing. My friend, Zach did that. Just a thought.

I really hope you heal up soon and I hope to get to meet you at our PA Jam if you can make it out.

Take it easy dude, here's to hoping your leg heals within due time.

~Nick Polini

PS. Do you mind telling me what lead to your injury and what your injury was?

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 14 Feb 2011 19:49

Thanks for the post nick.

I don’t think I could be less inspirational lol but that’s cool you said that anyways, although who dosent inspire you in footbag?

And as far as an awesome kicker goes, I don’t think I was ever there and I’m not sure I’ll ever be there. I definitely really wanted to at one point, but injury changed me a lot, motivation really comes and goes.

I’ve had 3 injuries. 2 stress fractures in both shins and I blew out my knee while working.

I plan on REALLY taking care of myself when I get back, 3 sessions a week for awhile, mostly work basics. Bad things come in threes, if I get another fracture though, not sure I’m really down to miss another 5+ months of shred.

I still love footbag more then anything, but I play to actually be an awesome kicker someday but im not sure I'll be able to play how I want to, so it’s sort of futile to just play with no feeling behind it, ya dig

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 14 Feb 2011 21:25

Yeah I hear you man. And there are a decent amount of footbag players who don't inspire me. I give them madd props on what they do, because they're sick at it, but their styles just don't click with what I like. However, you're right, a nice heap of players really do inspire me. You and Drew Krause are definitely up there, because you're closer to my age.

Anyway, I really hope everything works out for you. Stress fractures must be a bitch and a half. Keep on keepin' on.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 01 Mar 2011 08:18

just beatdown a pen tool test. All of my studying has paid off and I'm stoked about that. rewarded myself with 15 minutes of shred and hit 3 new triple dexes.

not playing (until now) has been a really good thing however as im glad i'm not faced with the decision to study or shred and I don't know how realistic playing everyday would be with my current/work school schedule. Praying injury is just a blessing in disguise before shit pops off this summer.

heres a really basic logo i made in illustrator. the criteria was use an object that defines you most, the first letter of your last name and only two colors. pretty lame assignment but i tried to make the most.

DTank126 · Post by **DTank126** » 01 Mar 2011 18:42

Aren't you a graphic design major? That looks like the result of something my dog would shit, eat, and then puke.... and then eat again.

But seriously. It's total crap.

When you off the cast?

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 02 Mar 2011 06:38

well pussy that was the assignment. I dont really like it either but its supposed to be mad basic looking plus i've been using illustrator for about a month. If the assignment was make something beautiful for doug tanks approval, I probably woudent do it.

cast cant come off soon enough.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 11 Mar 2011 06:59

yo doug i got a 100 on my logo so now your mothers taking me for diner and a movie.

I saw my doc today and he said he cant believe how fast the bone is healing. in a few weeks im gonna start working consecutive atws and toe stalls and stuff, just to keep the bag off the ground. No real shred till may, but fuck it the light is at the end of a dark tunnel.

however i found out i have a rare (for someone my age) bone density disorder, thus explaining the stress fractures. As much as that sucks cause now i have 100 more appointments to go to, I'm relived that the fractures werent 100% caused by my own shitty form.I'm probably gonna have to be way more healthy now but i like that, it will help for good shred.

word up.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 23 Mar 2011 08:30

been doing alot of cross training and practicing better, healthy habbits. I think it's helping my form. Painless session in boston yielded:

-fury
-ducking pdx dlo thrice. alpine fog here i come.
-far symp rev whirling toe 4/5 times
-started learning dragons cause of tristan. best things i got were symp whirling dragon, pixe dragon and tapping dragon. boring, but eventual goals are stepping ducking dragon and vortex dragon.

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 23 Mar 2011 08:43

Sick you're getting back into it with some strong stuff.

Dragons are the shit. I've been incorporating them a lot lately.

Try messing with some of these, they're all really fun:

~Firefly (Butterfly ending on dragon)
~Ducking Firefly
~Spinning Dragon
~Torque Dragon
~Dragonstein
~Refraction Dragon (not very hard, but looks really cool)
~Blagon (Blender dragon, I hit this my first time two days ago)
~Spitfire (Swirling Dragon)
~Snapdragon (Rev Swirling Dragon)
~Stepping ss Dragon
~Stepping op Firefly (Ripwalk ending on Dragon)
~Furnace (Hopover Swirling Dragon)

And Vorgon (Vortex Dragon) is one of my dream tricks. For shits'n'giggles, wanna race to hit that on tape?

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 23 Mar 2011 08:50

eh we'll see with most of those. If I could understand how dragon osis worked i'm sure i could hit some cool shit with that.

as far as vortex dragon goes, my good vortex and good dragon are different feet. Once i'm 100% again and can fix my flip spinning vortex dragon sounds good.

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 23 Mar 2011 10:27

Sounds good. Check you PM's. I think this might help.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 04 Apr 2011 18:36

Definitely the "breakout" star of the tournament to me. He was the kid at the tournament who still wanted to shred at 2 AM - in other words, the new Jay Boychuk.

Read this for the first time in nearly a year. Still probably one of the coolest things anyone said ever said about me. If I could time travel, I would beat the fuck out of myself now. I have achieved nothing in a year.

legs permitting, i play once or twice a week. not even sure if i'm guiltless , let alone the new jay boychuk. Kids at my school play hack with me now on one campus which is fun. They think atw looks cooler then jani walker. go figure.

coming back to footbag is going to be different. Once I got hurt, Kevin stopped playing and i dont think he'll play again. which sucks because footbag aiside, kevin is one of my best friends and the times we had playing hack, smoking and talking mad shit to people while doing so were the best times. Also, alot of other people who i used to compete with on here seemed to have slowed there playing down too, which sucks because the only cool thing about being injured is seeing my friends succeed. also every n00b and his fathah is now better then me. I probably won't play much at the boston jam.

the next few months are going to be my last stand against footbag. i love this sport and it's done alot for me, but i hate having shit like a flip pixie and a flip torque out of nowhere. Alot of my hardwork seems like it went away and I'm not sitting on my ass for 6 months a 3rd time just to let my game go to shit further. I'll stop smoking, drinking soda, eat healthy, send jorden videos on to critique toe stalls, go to the gym do whatever to stay healthy so Hopefully, by the fall I will be playing as good as I was in December. My goal is to be playing everday a year from now.

Only thing is, I'm not failing myself this time. I also hit predator today for the first time.

Peace.

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 04 Apr 2011 21:06

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Props on Predator, madd cool trick.

h0ag3yb3atZ · Post by **h0ag3yb3atZ** » 06 Apr 2011 11:02

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic wrote:You can do anything you put your mind to.

we'll see whats good at the end of the summer.

With that in mind, today in digital imaging i was thinking about how it pissed me off that i had never hit superfly and how i didnt really understand how that move works at all.

i still need to build up to superfly but heres my first blackula. it's pretty thin but i had some good ones on my foot and it's cool cause i never thought i would come close to that shit.

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