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Had yet another session with Jackson today. He almost hit Ripped Warrior. He ducking it but missed the butterfly. I was flipping shit. He also footed Toe ss Whirl, but stopped trying it. He could have hit that though. I had a really good session.

Highlights:

:arrow: Swirl War! God damn. Finally. Hogan inspired.
:arrow: Whirling Swirl> Blender BSOS in a dense string with Ripped Warrior YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
:arrow: Symp ss Swirl> Ripwalk 5x bs
:arrow: Symp ss Swirl> Ripwalk *rpt
:arrow: Infinity Swirl BSOS (This trick is getting really easy)
:arrow: Gyro Clipper> Swirl *rpt> Gyro Clipper> Reverse Swirl *rpt> string with some shuffle and Flappers.
:arrow: Whirling Swirl> Spinning Osis bs
:arrow: Had some nice runs where I did a bunch of weird stuff midstring, like Whirling Cloud Kick> ss Butter, Flapper> Blender, Gyro Cloud Delay> Swirl, etc... Felt like Bevier.
:arrow: Whirling Swirl> Torque bs
:arrow: Blurry Muted Flapper> Spinning Clipper (need to try this flipside when my flip Flapper improves a bit more)
:arrow: Dope run, madd stylez, with Ducking Flapper BSOS and I spun out of the one on strongside.
:arrow: Flapper> Pdx Illusion BSOS with a Whirling Cloud Kick> ss Butter
:arrow: Osis> Flapper> Clipper *rpt (15 contacts)
:arrow: Osis> Flapper> Reverse Swirl *rpt (9 contacts)
:arrow: Flapper> Twirl *rpt (Twirl out of flipside Flapper is tough.. need to drill that more. Also need to drill flip Flappers in general. They're not as sturdy as strongside yet.
:arrow: Ripwalk> Far Blink bs
:arrow: Hopover Swirl BSOS
:arrow: Gyro Guay> Hopover Swirl bs (flip proved to be more difficult than I thought)

Game still feels strong. Really need my flipside Flappers to get more plank-like so it can hold the bag really firmly. I really think I'd like to do what Schneider does with Dragons but with Flappers.

In other dope news, Hoffa wants to get back into footbag. He's getting new insoles in a day or 2 and meeting up with us this Sunday. Stoked he's getting back into it. He said he thinks about it all the time still.

Probably taking tomorrow off. Legs could use some rest.
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Probably taking tomorrow off. Legs could use some rest.
So I had a session today with Corey Gerges. He basically spent the whole session trying Torque :/ I kept telling him that basics is the way to go, but I guess he'll have to figure it out on his own. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't het him to stop trying Torque when he's not quite ready for it. I gave him some basics to work on to eventually hit Torques, and he wrote them down, so I think he will practice them. I drilled some basics and messed with Flappers, Pdx Torques and a little bit of Nukes.

Highlights:

:arrow: Drilled a ton of Flipside Flappers
:arrow: String with Spinning Muted Flapper BSOS and Gyro Flapper BSOS. That felt great.
:arrow: Drilled some Pdx Torques and they actually felt like I think they're supposed to feel.. like turning a cork screw
:arrow: Pdx Torque> Flapper BS That took some control. Holy hell.
:arrow: Nuke muted Clipper practice on each side. Had some good nukes tonight. Almost BSOS'ed it, but not quite ready for it yet.
:arrow: Session-ender: Flipside Flapper> Symp Whirl (new on flipside)

I honestly probably wont be kicking tomorrow... I also probably just lied about that. But I'm hanging out with Nadiah tomorrow and I don't think she'll wanna kick, since we haven't seen each other for a while. Good night all.
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Lookin good mang. I saw ur Xmas video. Ur game just keeps getting better. Can't wait til we get to kick again!
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Thanks Doug :) Yeah man, I cant wait until we shred again either. I've seriously been so inspired by you with your Blinks. You really opened my eyes to that concept.

Drilled basics last night while Nadiah drilled basics over in her area. Forgot to post about that. Had a solo session tonight. Pretty happy with everything. Really decided to tackle Drifters tonight.

Highlights:

:arrow: Near Butter> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Sidewalk> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Stepping ss Mirage> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Diving Clipper> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Spinning Butter> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Torque> Drifter *rpt 5x
:arrow: Vortex BSOS
:arrow: Midrun Flapper> Pdx Whirl
:arrow: Had some bitchin' runs.. one I was just in disbelief after I couldn't drop after hitting some dope links, so I just had to hand catch after at least 30 contacts, pretty dense too
:arrow: Ender link: Barfly> Pdx Torque bs
:arrow: Invention(?): Blind Frigid Reverse Hopover bs and BSOS
:arrow: Warm down was very progressive.. Hit 50 Infinities first try, then realized that instead of turning into each Infinity, I set it left to right directly into each window.. Tried again and lost track after 50, but it felt like I did a handful over 100. Definitely set my record, but I don't know what it was :P I wanna record Infinities next time so I can just relax my mind and not count contacts.

I'd like to start hand catching after runs, because I love seeing Milan and others do that sometimes. Like, "Ok, I'm finished now. I did everything I wanted to do." I think that is so bad ass.

Might be shredding with Zach Hoffa tomorrow morning. That should be fun.
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So today's session with Zach didn't work out. He got up too late and couldn't make it down here in time, because he had to be back near his house by 6 to study for some sort of thing that apparently had to be.. studied... for? I don't know. I think it's like a test to see if he owns enough at welding to do.. really good.

So now there everyone understands that, I did have a session with Corey Gerges and Jeremy Mellor. So good to kick with Jeremy again. Hoping his legs hold up ok. I think if he uses proper form, he'll be fine. Anyway, I had him practicing basics and trying to get 10 runs of 10 contacts of clipper and toe (alternating in various ways). He got 5 runs of that. Hopefully he'll be practicing between sessions. Corey did pretty well. He hit his first Tripwalk, first Drifter, first Ducking Infinity, and first Ducking Clipper b2b. He's definitely been improving. I've been trying to help him with his weird flip toe (he has like an involuntary flicky toe thing he does that is going to ruin his game). He can do regular good toe sets when he's concentrating on it, but like when he's stringing, that goes right out the door. I brought it up a good bit and felt bad for it, so I eventually just stopped telling him about it in hopes that he'll just figure it out on his own. Oh well, his clipper game is looking good, so maybe that will help fix it.

Anyway, I had a sick session...

Highlights:

:arrow: Vortex> Ripwalk bs (First time stepping out of Vortex on both sides) Surprisingly, Vortex> Stepping stuff was inspired mostly inspired by Johnny Murphy
:arrow: Vortex> Blur BSOS
:arrow: Stepping ss Blender bs (not firsts, maybe seconds ?)
:arrow: Spinning Butter> Spinning Illusion bs
:arrow: Spinning Illusion> Blink bs
:arrow: Run with Gyro Reverse Swirl BSOS and Far Symp Swirl BSOS
:arrow: Pdx Illusion> Toe Blur bs
:arrow: Spinning Illusion> Tripwalk bs
:arrow: New tricks: Swirling op Clipper bs, pretty cool trick that I've never seen before.
:arrow: Awesome runs that felt like runs you would see Johnny Murphy doing.

I don't wanna film myself for a little while, just so it's really obvious that I've been improving. I looked at some of Johnny's runs and I think I'm pretty close to his level.. minus Nuke Ducking and some other junk :P But yeah, definitely around his level now I think. Exciting, because I saw his game a while ago and thought he was absolutely amazing and that I'd never get to that level... Now I just want to keep drilling harder and harder.

My strings are slightly more or less dense than these runs:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJyX8ijoUgM[/youtube]

Edit:

After watching the first like 30 seconds of the new Portland video, I saw Bevier hit something pretty awesome that I just had to try..

:arrow: New tricks: Clipper> Far Legover Cloud Delay bs (I love this trick now.. I can't believe I've never done it before)
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Not gonna beat around the bush, I've been like HYPER-STOKED on footbag ever since my session earlier. Also watched a lot of Johnny Murphy (which isn't much). Then I watched the Portland calendar videos and etcetera etcetera now my mind is in a Whirlwind thinking about combos and tricks and junk. I was messing with Rakes just a bit and I thought of something pretty cool. It's not that difficult, but I really really think it's an invention and it looks pretty stylish. I plan on loading this trick into my weird/unusual tricks arsenal. Haven't thought of a name for it yet, but when I do, I will post it here. I also plan on filming my 2 recent inventions really soon.

Definitely going to bed now.
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So I said I wasn't gonna film my runs for a while.. Kevin and Toolan suggested I should, so I gave in and I filmed. Pretty damn happy I decided to film actually... Short session, but I got a lot accomplished.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH9f9UDiL_o[/youtube]


Highlights in video:

:arrow: Vortex> Ripstein BSOS!!!!!
:arrow: Vortex> Mobius *rpt!!!!!
:arrow: The runs were pretty average, sometimes I can go more dense than that and I was going to do some runs with weird stuff in them, but my camera memory got filled up.


Highlights not in video:

:arrow: Inspired by Mathieu Gauthier: Mobius> Inspinning Osis bs
:arrow: Pdx Eggbeater BSOS (this is starting to feel pretty easy)
:arrow: Midrun Flapper> Singularity (Have never hit Singularity from Flapper)

Probably my shortest session in a long time, but one of my best sessions too.
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well i guess i should put on my big boy short shortz and try that drill.

i learned to not be surprised when you hit really hard stuff, that looked awesome.
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Kevin, I hope you hit that drill. I know you can get it. I'm convinced that if you can hit Mobius b2b and both Vortexes, you can hit it. Good luck, boss.

Quick post with a lot of (too much) dopeness (for me, at least)... Had a session tonight. This is it in movie-form below:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fLlZuIi2Hs[/youtube]

So this came about for several different reasons...

1. Mark Monistere challenged me to Vortex> Ripped Warrior bs.
2. Mobus> Isis bsos was definitely an inspiration from Mathieu Gauthier because when I saw him hit that, I loved the way it looked and I had to try it.
3. Kevin told me to try Vortex> Sumo, could only muster up a Matador. Nukes are hard for me..
4. Filmed with macbook pro, because I was too lazy to go get my GoPro.. I went into tis session trying to hit a ton of Pdx Whirls, because Jay said I needed to hit a ton of Pdx Whirls... Then my mind went elsewhere. I did figure out a big part of pdx whirls.. I think bringing your heel higher than your knee really helps.

Anyway, I surprised myself heavily by this. I think this might be a whole new stage of my game. And I'm LOVING it.
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First of all props on the level up! I went 8O watching those two videos. The room and your style kinda reminds me of Sam Colclough (whose game I love) - you should watch this if you haven't:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJvVv8wFrs[/youtube]
F[uns]tylin' Eclectic wrote:Then my mind went elsewhere. I did figure out a big part of pdx whirls.. I think bringing your heel higher than your knee really helps.
I can't do Pdx Whirls and want to learn, but this sounds hurtful on the knees to me.
Could some pro please let us know if this is the right way of doing it?
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Thanks for the words, Asmus. I think I figured mine out now. I actually looked at that video that Anz posted just before my session and tried to mimic him. I think I'm starting to get it.

Had a session with Jeremy and Corey. Corey's game is starting to come together. He hit some surprising stuff, like Sailing ss Clipper. It was a good Sail set too. Jeremy is taking it slow and trying to perfect his basic basics. Looking much better. Fixed his flip clipper tonight. I had a pretty dope session, too. Started to plug up some more holes in my game...

In other news, my dad got a worm farm. We played Worm Watch today. It's a game where you just watch worms for an hour. Then you win. We both won. Also, I went Geocaching today with my best non-footbag friend, Leon. We found 2 caches out of 3. It was a really fun time. The 3rd cache was covered with snow, so we had no shot. We're going to go back in spring and try to find that one. Vince Richardson got me into this new hobby a little while ago. Did my first one a few days ago. The thrill of finding a cache is really addicting. Anyway, footbag :D

Highlights:

:arrow: Pdx Illusion> every main 3 add and 4 add Pixie trick bs also Pdx Illusion> DOD bs.. big deal :roll: but I did figure out that I was setting my Pdx Illusions too high. They got much better today.
:arrow: Then I wanted to do a run with a few of the above Pdx Illusion> Pixie tricks, and I ended up hitting a huge 50-60 contact Guiltless run with a ton of that stuff and other stuff like Vortex, Blender, 4 ADD Spins, Stepping stuff. Awesome run. Oh and after every contact, I said "Bang", so I think that might have helped el oh el
:arrow: Dyno> Dyno> Pdx Illusion bs then BSOS
:arrow: Dyno> Vortex bs then BSOS
:arrow: Spinning Solestice> Zooming trick bs
:arrow: Ender link: Pdx Torque> Vortex bs

The hole'y spots are Pdx Illusions and Dynos. They got a bit better tonight though.

...And then they all died. The end :D
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OK, so Nick Pasquarello just got home tonight for the holidays and asked me to shred. Of course I said yes. But he wanted to stay at his place and I was cool with that... then Corey called me and ask me to shred. I of course said yes. But he couldn't get a ride to Nick's. And I was too lazy to drive over there an pick him. So I had a 2 hour session with Nick, then drove to Corey's and had another 2 hour session. I have no life. BUT! I have a girlfriend! So it's not like I'm a loser! :D But really, footbag has become such a huge part of my life. I love it being a huge part of my life, too. No hobby/sport/chipmunk has ever made me happier.

I hit some sweet stuff at Nick's, like a lot of big shreddy stuff, and at Corey's I drilled some stuff. Some of Nick's highlights were (from what I remember) Blink bs (new on each), Double Spinning Clipper, Toe Inspinning Clipper (new), Blur> Legbeater, and some other stuff. His game was looking pretty darn good for not playing often in Ohio. Corey was killing it too. His shred was much more dense tonight. Not as many toe bails. His highlights were Ripwalk, Ducking Pdx Mirage (new), Blizzard, Spinning Toe bs (new on each), and Osis> ss Clipper *rpt which he hit about 7 times throughout the session. Both guys looked pretty sharp.

Highlights from Session with Nick:

:arrow: A sick and controlled run with midstring Blurry Whirl> Spinning Whirl> String> Mobius> Pdx Blender> string> atomic ducking drop.. I think this is he first time I've hit 2 separate fearless links in a string. It felt awesome.
:arrow: Spike Hammer> Alpine Legbeater> Hand catch> are you fucking kidding me? That made me so happy and it felt kind of easy too.
:arrow: Run with flip Smoke> Ripwalk> string> Vortex> string with Toe Inspinning Clipper somewhere in there
:arrow: Run with strong Smoke> Stepping ss Clipper
:arrow: Run with Whirling Swirl BSOS> String> Gyro Blender> string> Pdx Blender> string Toe Inspinning Clipper and Blender BSOS somewhere in there.
:arrow: Zig-Zag bs (might be new on flip?)
:arrow: Spinning Butterfly> Ripstein BSOS
:arrow: Symp ss Reverse Swirl> Ripwalk bs
:arrow: Solestice> Infinity BSOS
:arrow: Double Spinning Clipper on strong, footed 3 times on weakside. I was slow motion studying how Juho does them and it made a lot of sense. Just have to keep practicing them.
:arrow: Session Ender: Gyro Blink> Paradon bs


Highlights from Session with Corey:

:arrow: Pdx Illusion> Dimwalk *rpt 5x
:arrow: Practiced a bunch of Spinning Ilusions bs. Flipside still isn't great. Will be working on it.
:arrow: Practiced a bunch of Ducking Pdx Illusions bs. Same deal as Spinning Illusions. Will be working on these too.
:arrow: New Tricks: Spinning Ducking Illusion bs
:arrow: Ducking Legover 5x bs I realized something about ducking and diving during this and other ducking/diving tricks immediately improved.
:arrow: Alpine Blurry Legover bs
:arrow: Toe Far Muted Swirl> Pdx Illusion bs
:arrow: Flip Symp Whirl x3 New record :P Old one was 2. My flipside still needs time with this one. I should also drill Symp mirages for a little while.
:arrow: Session Ender: Ducking Pdx Illusion> Toe Blender bs

Two really great and really exhausting sessions. I can feel myself improving. It's exciting. Someone saw my video and said I'm on my way to becoming a top tier player and that really drove to keep giving it my all.

Sometime soon, I'm kicking with Dave Clavens. We're making a sorta Bethlehem Jam out of it. I'm stoked for that.

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im glad to see nick pasquarello still plays, Luck you for having a session with him. im jealous. Maybe next year ill be able to get him to shred with us over here. As far as you go nick, you should be in detention for having such a bad shred session.....lol bad ass that is. probs on your fearless links in your string. What up with you trying alpine rubberman. when i read that highlight i simply said to myself, "fuck you." lol in a good way. I feel you need socks like i wore on the online comp but instead of saying "gay", it needs to say "meat". idk why but it does.

I would so drive over there for a session with you and clavens. havent seen him in a while. please hit the dates up asap and ill see if i can get them off.

P.S. I just want to tell you that your game is shinning so well and i hope to see you progress further and kick some ass.
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Mike: Thanks for the words man. I've been excited about my game lately. I'm stoked to shred with you again. And I suggested that Nick hit you up to kick sometime soon.

So today, a fun little jammy went down in Bluebell. Attendees (ABC order): Corey Gerges, Ivan Iakimenko, Jeremy Mellor, Kat Cryan, Nick Pasquarello, Nick Polini, Ryan Morris...

I think everyone had a sweet session and/or hit some new tricks/links.. I played my best I've ever played (string-wise). I got full circle props on almost every string, and it was all stuff that I considered prop-worthy for me. Minus one short string with some shuffle and a Pdx Blender, which Ryan tried giving me props on :P Nothing special, but it was toward the end and I was spent. Nice gesture, regardless. I hate waving props away when I don't think the run was good enough :/ I've been trying to get better with that. Anyway, my strings felt Gatesman-esque. Dense Alpine Stepping and Alpine Atomic. Alpine Stepping was all-of-the-sudden a BIG bail. Alpine Atomic was also so ON today. On both sides. Insane. And on top of that, Alpine Pixie was illin' it today too.

Highlights:

:arrow: New tricks: Atomic Muted Rake bs
:arrow: Assassin BSOS
:arrow: New trick: Royal Assassin (flipside could have been hit, but I know I'm not ready for it yet.
:arrow: Smoke BSOS (tried to sauce it on my birthday this year (May 24) but couldn't hit it. Finally nailed it and they both got a good bit easier)
:arrow: Ripstein> Vortex> good run
:arrow: Double Switchover> Butterfly Swirl> Hand catch> Other side.
:arrow: Midstring Zigzag
:arrow: Sick run ending with Spinning Whirl> Whirlwind
:arrow: Double Switchover> Toe Symp Whirl
:arrow: Stepping ss Swirl bs (super rare on each side, felt easy on string side)
:arrow: Sick run with Inspinning Osis BSOS
:arrow: Blurry Muted Blink> Legbeater> good string
:arrow: As I said, Alpine Stepping and Alpine Atomic were spot-on today and felt bail-y.
:arrow: Gyro Reverse Swirl BSOS in a sick run
:arrow: Jackknife BSOS
:arrow: Skullsmasher bs
:arrow: Easily hit some Ripped Warriors BSOS and Spike Hammers BSOS
:arrow: Blur> Phoenix bs
:arrow: Ripped Warrior b2b> awesome string
:arrow: Rubberman> Blendrop :P
:arrow: Barfly BSOS
:arrow: Had a run where I hit 2 Alpine Legbeaters (on the same side :/) but one of them was to a Blur
:arrow: Just had a ton of cool runs in general, almost all of them were around a dense 20 or several not as dense in the 30's. Also, I did break out some unusual stuff. Had one run with some Alpine Stepping and some Whirling Cloud Kick> Infinity and Gyro Cloud> Swirl.
:arrow: Ender: Vortex> Blurry Whirl bs

I was really feeling a sort of "future BAP" vibe from today's session. I've been feeling it lately, but not as strongly as I felt it today. I had so much variety today too. So that was really great to feel.

And in other news, I was watching tv with my parents and making fun of my mom's Christmas special (one of those corny drama ones on lifetime and whatnot) because they all have the same plots with different characters and then she said this and my dad and I started cracking up:

"Don't be the stupid stickler that will be the one that will be the scrooge"

Playing with Clavens and the rest of our crew and Bethlehem crew and maybe Jon Schneider on Friday. Fucking stoked.
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Man, 1 session is never enough for this guy. Addict. I needed to cheer myself up a bit though, so I figured I'd go drill some concepts that needed drilling. It was nice to kick outside today, by the way. Nice temperature to do so, even the session I just had. Anyway, I made some headway on some concepts which have needed improvement.

Concepts: Toe Far Swirls, Toe Far Reverse Swirls, Toe Inspinning Clippers, Ghosts, Pdx Illusions, Gyro Whirls

Highlights:

:arrow: Toe Far Swirl bs Several times each
:arrow: Toe Far Swirl> Reverse Swirl bs Several times each
:arrow: Toe Far Reverse Swirl bs Several times each
:arrow: Pdx Illusion> Smear bs Several times each
:arrow: Toe Xbd Rake> Inspinning Clipper bs Several times each
:arrow: Ghost> Inspinning Clipper bs Several times each
:arrow: Gyro Whirl bs Several times each
:arrow: Gyro Whirls got me thinking... I used to really want Gyro Barrages.. and my Barrages, Gyro Whirls, and Gyro Clippers all got much better since then (last summer?) But I remember I REALLY wanted to have Gyro Barrages in my runs, but just wasn't ready for them yet... I realized something during this session... Gyro Barrage is ready to be taken out of the oven.. Hit a handful on each side. Couldn't miss the strongside one time. Missed flip a few times, but that's nothing a bit of drilling can't set straight :wink:
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Minus one short string with some shuffle and a Pdx Blender, which Ryan tried giving me props on :P Nothing special, but it was toward the end and I was spent. Nice gesture, regardless.
I gotta say, I'm still at the point where everything you do looks good to me because I can't do any of it ;)
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Re: Nick Polini: Operation: DSNY (Don't Suck Next Year)

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Nick Polini is good at hacky. That is all folks.

Was an awesome session today. Will keep thinking about the stuff we talked about.
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Re: Nick Polini: Operation: DSNY (Don't Suck Next Year)

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Thank you so much, guys. it was a great time shredding with you both the other day. You're both improving like crazy.

Today I drilled with Nick Pasquarello. It was a good time.

Started doing my monthly planned drills again with a new twist on things to keep everything interesting.

I have a Day A and a Day B...


Day A:

Warmup:

Atw x3> orbit x3> atw x2> orbit x2> atw> orbit (3x each side)

Drills:

Gyro Reverse Swirl> Swirl bs (3x each side)
Blur> Legbeater> Ripwalk *rpt (3x each side)
Pdx Whirl> Reverse Swirl *rpt (3x each side)
Toe Drifter> Symp Mirage *rpt (3x each side)

Record:

Stepping ss Osis *rpt (attempt to set record.. 5 attempts)

Trick Attempts (10 attempts each side):

Swifter
Pdx Drifter
Inspinning Clipper
Tomahawk
Ripstein


Unusual Surface Link (3x each side):

Spinning Flapper> Spinning Butterfly bs

Warmdown:

Infinities


Then the next day is Day B:

Day B:

Warmup:

Atw x3> orbit x3> atw x2> orbit x2> atw> orbit (3x each side)

Drills:

Barrage> DOD *rpt (3x each side)
Smear> Atomsmasher *rpt (3x each side)
Toe Far Reverse Swirl> Blur bs (3x each side)
Stepping Ducking Clipper> Diving Butterfly bs (3x each side)

Record:

Toe Far Blink *rpt (attempt to set record.. 5 attempts)

Trick Attempts (10 attempts each side):

Spinning Reverse Swirl
Gyro Barrage
Toe Inspinning Clipper
Pdx Eggbeater
Clipper Far Blink


Unusual Surface Link (3x each side):

Whirling Cloud Kick> ss Legover bs

Warmdown:

Infinities



I hit all of Day A's drills just fine. Had a little trouble but not enough to hold me back much.

Stepping Osis *rpt was only around 5. Will up that.

Hit 2 Swifters each side :/ Had Alpine Legbeater as my one trick, but changed it to Pdx Drifter instead because it took too much out of me. Inspinning Clippers were decent. Tomahawk was almost every shot on strong, but hit it once on flip :/ Ripstein used to be Whirling Swirl, but Whirling Swirls are pretty easy now on each side, and I would rather get really good at Ripstein than Whirling Swirl.

The Unusual link was every time on strongside, but every other time on flip. Feeling better than before though.

Strung a little bit as a break from drills.. hit one awesome string, a cool bsos'y string and then one kinda sweet little string.

Highlights:

:arrow: Pdx Eggbeater> Legbeater> string> Toe Inspinning Clipper> stuff> Vortex> stuff> Spinning stuff> Food Processor> hand catch (felt like a boss)
:arrow: String with Drifter BSOS, Pdx Drifter BSOS, and Vortex BSOS
:arrow: String with some cool stuff in the beginning ended with Mobius> Blender> Hand catch.

Excited for Day B :D
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Re: Nick Polini: Operation: DSNY (Don't Suck Next Year)

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So, yes it has only been a few hours since my last post... But I was anxious to get my mitts on Day B. Nothing was happening. Had nothing to do. So I did Day B and made a few changes...

Day B:

Warmup:

Atw x3> orbit x3> atw x2> orbit x2> atw> orbit (3x each side)

Drills:

DOD> Barrage bs (3x each side)
Smear> Atomsmasher *rpt (3x each side)
Toe Far Reverse Swirl> Blur bs (3x each side)
Diving Clipper> Stepping Diving Clipper bs (3x each side)

Record:

Dyno *rpt (attempt to set record.. 5 attempts)

Trick Attempts (10 attempts each side):

Spinning Reverse Swirl
Gyro Barrage
Toe Inspinning Clipper
Pdx Eggbeater
Clipper Far Blink


Unusual Surface Link (3x each side):

Whirling Cloud Kick> ss Legover bs

Warmdown:

Infinities


Not too many changes but a few. The drills were taking longer than I expected, which is why I altered them slightly. Smear> Atom *rpt was a bitch, but I didn't wanna alter that, because it's doable, I just suck at toe-to-toe at the moment.I pushed it and got all 6. Figured out a little trick to Toe Far Reverse Swirls. Now my flipside is almost up to par with strongside. Everything else was alright. Can't wait til I own at all of this stuff.

The tricks weren't great.Gyro Barrage was my best, I hit a bunch of them on each side. Toe Inspinning Clipper and Clip far Blink was my second best. Got about 5 or 6 of those. Pdx Egg wasn't great. Hit a bunch strong, but like 2 on flip. Spinning Rev Swirl was decent on strong but I only got 1 on flip.

The unusual link was pretty easy. Got 6 in only a minute or so.

Anyway, my girlfriend got me the Jurassic Park Trilogy digitally remastered on dvd, so I'm going to start watching that and let my legs rest. If you're wondering why I am so stoked to watch it, it's because JP is my favorite movie of all time, hands down, and this little girl is about to be devoured by a pack of Compsognathi, so I must leave right this instant.
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