4 hour session today: Conclusion = sore.
Well the session continued in the vein of the last session, utter crap and I wasn't improving on sidewalk < ripwalk on my flipside.
So after a few hours of getting slightly steamy, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place. I recorded
my play and then analysed.
-Turns out everyone has the planting foot arm in a position that maintains the body in a upright and slightly behind themselves
posture where in my case I let the arm dangle which brings the whole planting side of my body down and therefore makes the
stepping set twice as hard as I am throwing the bag more into the left side of my body than into the centre. All this means is look
at how people hold the arms on a spin or stepping dex. I decided to just ensure that the arm was always more up and at a angle
and during the stepping set the palm of my hand was always facing down.
- relax the other shoulder
- i can allow to turn the toe in a little more as it does help with the pop a little.
- the knee dexes up then out, a lot of the time I just go to the side >.<
SOOOOOO what does this mean?
I need to relearn toe set butters and consecutive infinities to ensure that I maintain that posture for when I try
multiple contacts. Fun!
I did fix these improper techniques over a 4 hour session, went from hitting sidewalk < ripwalk about 50 % or less of the time
to pretty much 95 % but alas was so buggered I couldn't keep going and struggled to maintain the posture when rotating to the other side of my body.
Although not a noteworthy session, at least now I can finally progress next session with flipside stepping.
Yay Panda!
Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Sounds like a major breakthrough in your game. Maybe the sesh wasn't fabulous but I think the outcome of your progress, as your stated will most likely be phenomenal. Exciting!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
had another good session today (short though). Couldn't kick most of the week as I was sore >.<.
TY MetZelRio, I did get some time to watch the video BaaBaa posted and I enjoyed your strings and
his mirages. You have great posturing on your tricks, you will have such a clean style and be
hitting those nice long guiltless strings in no time if you keep at it. But your kids going to be better haha.
So still just doing the sidewalk < ripwalk repeat drill but with the better positioning so that I
don't look like a gorilla when I do it. I need to work on the actual stepping motion though if that makes sense.
When a player gets the motion down it seems effortless, I can do that nice easy motion for a few contacts
but once I change sides I tend to lose the motion. Going to work on some consec ripwalks to help with that.
In other news, was searching through old videos and found a lot of unseen footage from the 2010 Worlds.
Going to try and make a highlight video and upload it when I get some time.
Might start videoing some sessions too, my play looks quite smooth and effortless at the moment but I
just want to work on those longer strings with more variance. Till next time
TY MetZelRio, I did get some time to watch the video BaaBaa posted and I enjoyed your strings and
his mirages. You have great posturing on your tricks, you will have such a clean style and be
hitting those nice long guiltless strings in no time if you keep at it. But your kids going to be better haha.
So still just doing the sidewalk < ripwalk repeat drill but with the better positioning so that I
don't look like a gorilla when I do it. I need to work on the actual stepping motion though if that makes sense.
When a player gets the motion down it seems effortless, I can do that nice easy motion for a few contacts
but once I change sides I tend to lose the motion. Going to work on some consec ripwalks to help with that.
In other news, was searching through old videos and found a lot of unseen footage from the 2010 Worlds.
Going to try and make a highlight video and upload it when I get some time.
Might start videoing some sessions too, my play looks quite smooth and effortless at the moment but I
just want to work on those longer strings with more variance. Till next time
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Had another session today, decided to do consec ripwalks as I still don't have flipside sidewalk down to a level
that makes the ripwalk out easy. I can hit the trick easy but linking out is another thing. I know the posture is correct
I just feel like Im not 'closing' the hip enough on the butter dex which makes the folowing stepping dex really thin.
Consec rips are getting really easy, can link multiple no hitch anywhere in a string. Decided to practice
some blur < legbeater and legbeater < blur links on both sides to start linking in some atomic sets with stepping.
Felt pretty easy but I struggled to hit blur < legbeater < blizzard < dimwalk ( would only get up to blizz).
Eventually want to be able to repeat that combo easily, might have it down by the end of the month who knows.
Decided to finish the session of by doing a little spinning (still neglecting it for stepping >.<) and managed to hit a few new
tricks.
- gyro dlo bs
- gyro near pickup bsos
- gyro far pickup bs
And then because I still wasn't satisfied I went back to some stepping to finish off the session lol. As I said earlier
I know what I need to do to make the weak side sidewalk set easy just might take some time to adjust. Pity as its
only the flip sidewalk stopping me from doing sidewalk < ripwalk rpt to my goal of 20 contacts. Consec rips were well
over 10 contacts today but didn't really count them.
IN other news, my lavers are starting to get worn down. I have a useless pair of size 12 and 13 us quantums (too small)
where my lavers were only size 12.5 us. I do have another pair of size 13 us lavers but are slightly too big. Going
to do some repairing tonight to see if that helps but I am really hoping these shoes last until I can find a suitable replacement.
that makes the ripwalk out easy. I can hit the trick easy but linking out is another thing. I know the posture is correct
I just feel like Im not 'closing' the hip enough on the butter dex which makes the folowing stepping dex really thin.
Consec rips are getting really easy, can link multiple no hitch anywhere in a string. Decided to practice
some blur < legbeater and legbeater < blur links on both sides to start linking in some atomic sets with stepping.
Felt pretty easy but I struggled to hit blur < legbeater < blizzard < dimwalk ( would only get up to blizz).
Eventually want to be able to repeat that combo easily, might have it down by the end of the month who knows.
Decided to finish the session of by doing a little spinning (still neglecting it for stepping >.<) and managed to hit a few new
tricks.
- gyro dlo bs
- gyro near pickup bsos
- gyro far pickup bs
And then because I still wasn't satisfied I went back to some stepping to finish off the session lol. As I said earlier
I know what I need to do to make the weak side sidewalk set easy just might take some time to adjust. Pity as its
only the flip sidewalk stopping me from doing sidewalk < ripwalk rpt to my goal of 20 contacts. Consec rips were well
over 10 contacts today but didn't really count them.
IN other news, my lavers are starting to get worn down. I have a useless pair of size 12 and 13 us quantums (too small)
where my lavers were only size 12.5 us. I do have another pair of size 13 us lavers but are slightly too big. Going
to do some repairing tonight to see if that helps but I am really hoping these shoes last until I can find a suitable replacement.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
WARNING: This post is just a random write up of my life away from Footbag in the last few years.
I thought I would put some of my experiences and thoughts down here as a memo to read back on in
the future sometime, and the journey back to footbag!
First year away from footbag:
I stopped playing footbag when I started going out with a girl I had met at a friends 21st, she wasn't the complete reason I stopped playing but I started to do a lot of stuff with her and found my time for footbag dwindling. The Australian scene was getting smaller and smaller, my kicking partner Leon started getting frustrated with footbag even though he had such a nice play style and our kicks together were becoming obsolete. About this time I also made a trip to Japan to stay with TJ and Honza and attend the 2011 JFC, which was such a awesome experience but unfortunately the motivation to reinvigorate the scene I got from that just died when I came back to Australia. The Melbourne University Footbag club in my final year of Uni also collapsed as we had no serious players anymore
. I was only playing solo for about 6 months before I eventually got distracted by this girl and had totally lost interest. Soon after meeting this girl I started getting interested in computer games as well and after owning a mac through all of uni, buying a pc further hindered any time spent footbagging. I ended up not really kicking ( i think I kicked like 3 times the first year I stopped playing, once with Caroline and once with Dan Ednie). Dan moving to china was also another thing that sorta stopped me from playing much as I used to like watching him play, seeing him play was the first thing that got me interested in footbag.
My current ex (whom I went out with almost 2 years) ended up being my longest relationship, but eventually due to personal differences we ended up splitting up at the start of last year. However, I did not find my way back to footbag as the loss of
the gf ended up fueling my desire to play more games online >.<. Don't get me wrong, playing games is fun but when its all you
do in your spare time it feels like such a waste lol. I also ended up meeting someone online who I ended up spending a hell of a lot
of time with, we had a lot of similarities it seemed and despite me living in Melbourne when she lived in Sydney, I spent more and more time online with her. I was intending to move to Sydney later that year as I needed to break out of my slump of online gaming/same routines with friends with nothing exciting in my life. Going out with my ex, not her fault, and all the online gaming seemed to cause a total dwindling in my social life. My social life was very dull, every time I would go out we would do the same shit over and over every week. Same pub, drink, talk about nonsense and go home. I was missing the adventures, going out doing random stuff like bowling, laser tag, anything really. I felt like the world had matured, with me still wanting to be a kid and do all the fun stuff. Anyway this led me to believe I needed a fresh start, the other thing was my parents were bugging me about a future. I had finished my degree about the same time I met my ex and ever since then (even today) I am still working with the same company and have only just started to get back on track for my future dreams and ambitions for a career.
Second year away from footbag
Anyway the second year away from footbag I am going to attribute to a addiction to playing a game online. We had the whole set up, you know teamspeak 3, very social environment, very active. I really really did enjoy it, but the toll it takes on your time, mindset and health is ridiculous. After doing a ridiculous amount of hours on games for almost 2 years I really really do admire professional gamers. Its not something I could ever do, I love to interact in the great outdoors, go out and meet people and do random stuff. Another thing that kept me hooked to online gaming was this friend I had from Sydney. After breaking up with my ex, I started talking to her a lot more, getting to know a lot about her and I found myself more and more interested. The interaction with this person highlighted to me the dangers of spending so much time with one person (as if I hadn't already learned that from my ex). I wanted to do stuff with them 24/7 it seemed, wanted to chat heaps and just relax and enjoy myself. After knowing her for about 6 months, I ended up telling her I liked her and when I moved to Sydney I wouldn't mind going out with her sometime. I didn't really get a answer until 2 months later (a month b4 I was to move to Sydney) when she had started to withdraw her time spent online due to studies and other stuff. Seriously, this was probably the lowest point in my life, I think I thought about killing myself for the first time ever. I didn't have footbag, I wasn't having fun and I was stuck in a routine of stuff that didn't make me happy. I ended up taking all this frustration out on this poor girl as I felt her withdrawing was a way to tell me I was unsuitable lol (to this day I have never told her this, although I doubt she'd ever read this blog lol). We decided there to be friends, however I didn't want to give up as I was moving to Sydney in a month and wanted to get to know her better and then have another shot at it.
I was so close to playing footbag actively again when I moved to Sydney. When I first moved I started kicking for a week, trying to organise kicks with players, caught up on videos I had missed. I started my new job (transferred with the same company) and I was instantly happy again. I'm not saying my Melbourne friends were bad or anything, but I had lost a lot of 'good' friends to careers or moves or just lifestyle changes since high school. However, during this time I was still wanting to play online games (despite the girl i liked being inactive) as I had put a lot of effort into it and didn't want it all to go to waste. I started trying to ask this girl out to do some things that I thought we were both into, but she never took the bait. Nor did she ever try to reschedule plans with me. However, as some people know me well, I didn't really know if this was a hint to say 'no i don't want to go out with you to confuse you into thinking I like you' blah blah blah or if she was just busy. I ended up believing she was just busy. As I had moved to Sydney with a new resolve, I was seriously just looking for a way to get back into my old lifestyle of constantly being out, having fun and rarely at home and on the computer. I was trying to go out with this girl as I really enjoyed her company and wanted to just be friends and stay away from the dating scene. However, I cannot deny that I was still romantically attracted to her, I asked her again whether she liked me and she replied with the 'not sure, i wasn't ready' answer so I took this as a positive and wanted to try and organise some friendly things to get to know her better. Once again, over a period of a few months I was totally flaked on. My life revolved around the obsession of getting to know this girl better and online games even when I had just moved to Sydney. Starting to meet people and hang out was the first step to me getting away from the 'destructive' lifestyle I was leading and rediscovering footbag. I started meeting new people, doing all the fun things I missed. I ended up crashing a friends holiday and went surfing with them for a couple days in the summer and I had a blast. My new friends at work were very socailly active and would always be looking for different things to do when going out. FYI. eventually I did end up asking that girl whether she would go on a date with me again (hey! I persevered at least
) and when she said no, I was totally ok with it. Turns out, when your down in a gutter everything hits twice as hard, but when your leading a lifestyle your happy with, a downfall is negligible. Soon after I lost interest in online gaming (about a month or 2 ago) and I found out that Dan Boyle was coming to Sydney and wanted to have a kick.
I REDISCOVERED MY TRUE LOVE (disregard this comment any future girls I go out with
)
Kicking with Dan (Boyle) reminded me, I truly love this sport. It can be done anywhere, it takes you places, and for me it got me out from behind a stupid computer screen and obsessing over girls. Everyone has flaws, I guess these are mine lol. For almost 40 days now I have been kicking straight, I am getting totally obsessed like a school child again and I want to improve. I want to be a tripless player etc, I want to go to events overseas and I want to start a scene her in Sydney. Been thinking about going to a Uni and trying to start up a club hmmmm. To anyone who read to this, you are utterly insane. I have no idea what's wrong with you
Extra info (mostly about girls lol):
- haven't spent much time with that girl I really liked as now that I feel we are just friends, I don't really know what to do? I don't see her going out to do fun stuff with me as she never did in like 8 months or never tried to reschedule. I don't intend to ask her out again but maybe she will be more open (schedule) someday as well and we can be more than just computer friends (at least I hope)
- I'm 24, it did occur to me that I should probably think about getting out and dating again.
- I have met 3 unique individuals since then. One was already taken but I don't think I've ever met someone who has had such a similar interest in music (we have like the same favourite bands) and plan to make her my gig friend lol
- second person I was worried about as they were quite young. We got along really well, but I think I friend zoned them after like a week as they seemed to be interested in playing the 'dating' games. They get your message, wait to reply, they also don't seem to ask many interesting questions and always wait on you to ask first plus they don't seem interested. She leads a interesting lifestyle so I like to chat to her here and there.
- Currently been talking to a girl for a few weeks now, she's my age. She keeps the conversation flowing, she's makes me laugh, way prettier than what I deserve and we are going out sometime soon. Really looking forward to getting to know her well.
Best thing about this last 2 years, I have learned to enjoy spending time with girls even if it doesn't turn out for the better!
- With my interest in footbag, guitar has come back too! Currently learning to sing and play (always struggled to do this)
- Planning to travel to NZ and maybe kick with TJ/Phil not sure yet if I have the money.
-Planning to go to gdansk next year and do a Europe trip!!!!!!!
- looking for a job in relation to my degree/looking at future studies.
Going to have a kick in about a hour and will do a writeup on my session.
I thought I would put some of my experiences and thoughts down here as a memo to read back on in
the future sometime, and the journey back to footbag!
First year away from footbag:
I stopped playing footbag when I started going out with a girl I had met at a friends 21st, she wasn't the complete reason I stopped playing but I started to do a lot of stuff with her and found my time for footbag dwindling. The Australian scene was getting smaller and smaller, my kicking partner Leon started getting frustrated with footbag even though he had such a nice play style and our kicks together were becoming obsolete. About this time I also made a trip to Japan to stay with TJ and Honza and attend the 2011 JFC, which was such a awesome experience but unfortunately the motivation to reinvigorate the scene I got from that just died when I came back to Australia. The Melbourne University Footbag club in my final year of Uni also collapsed as we had no serious players anymore
. I was only playing solo for about 6 months before I eventually got distracted by this girl and had totally lost interest. Soon after meeting this girl I started getting interested in computer games as well and after owning a mac through all of uni, buying a pc further hindered any time spent footbagging. I ended up not really kicking ( i think I kicked like 3 times the first year I stopped playing, once with Caroline and once with Dan Ednie). Dan moving to china was also another thing that sorta stopped me from playing much as I used to like watching him play, seeing him play was the first thing that got me interested in footbag. My current ex (whom I went out with almost 2 years) ended up being my longest relationship, but eventually due to personal differences we ended up splitting up at the start of last year. However, I did not find my way back to footbag as the loss of
the gf ended up fueling my desire to play more games online >.<. Don't get me wrong, playing games is fun but when its all you
do in your spare time it feels like such a waste lol. I also ended up meeting someone online who I ended up spending a hell of a lot
of time with, we had a lot of similarities it seemed and despite me living in Melbourne when she lived in Sydney, I spent more and more time online with her. I was intending to move to Sydney later that year as I needed to break out of my slump of online gaming/same routines with friends with nothing exciting in my life. Going out with my ex, not her fault, and all the online gaming seemed to cause a total dwindling in my social life. My social life was very dull, every time I would go out we would do the same shit over and over every week. Same pub, drink, talk about nonsense and go home. I was missing the adventures, going out doing random stuff like bowling, laser tag, anything really. I felt like the world had matured, with me still wanting to be a kid and do all the fun stuff. Anyway this led me to believe I needed a fresh start, the other thing was my parents were bugging me about a future. I had finished my degree about the same time I met my ex and ever since then (even today) I am still working with the same company and have only just started to get back on track for my future dreams and ambitions for a career.
Second year away from footbag
Anyway the second year away from footbag I am going to attribute to a addiction to playing a game online. We had the whole set up, you know teamspeak 3, very social environment, very active. I really really did enjoy it, but the toll it takes on your time, mindset and health is ridiculous. After doing a ridiculous amount of hours on games for almost 2 years I really really do admire professional gamers. Its not something I could ever do, I love to interact in the great outdoors, go out and meet people and do random stuff. Another thing that kept me hooked to online gaming was this friend I had from Sydney. After breaking up with my ex, I started talking to her a lot more, getting to know a lot about her and I found myself more and more interested. The interaction with this person highlighted to me the dangers of spending so much time with one person (as if I hadn't already learned that from my ex). I wanted to do stuff with them 24/7 it seemed, wanted to chat heaps and just relax and enjoy myself. After knowing her for about 6 months, I ended up telling her I liked her and when I moved to Sydney I wouldn't mind going out with her sometime. I didn't really get a answer until 2 months later (a month b4 I was to move to Sydney) when she had started to withdraw her time spent online due to studies and other stuff. Seriously, this was probably the lowest point in my life, I think I thought about killing myself for the first time ever. I didn't have footbag, I wasn't having fun and I was stuck in a routine of stuff that didn't make me happy. I ended up taking all this frustration out on this poor girl as I felt her withdrawing was a way to tell me I was unsuitable lol (to this day I have never told her this, although I doubt she'd ever read this blog lol). We decided there to be friends, however I didn't want to give up as I was moving to Sydney in a month and wanted to get to know her better and then have another shot at it.
I was so close to playing footbag actively again when I moved to Sydney. When I first moved I started kicking for a week, trying to organise kicks with players, caught up on videos I had missed. I started my new job (transferred with the same company) and I was instantly happy again. I'm not saying my Melbourne friends were bad or anything, but I had lost a lot of 'good' friends to careers or moves or just lifestyle changes since high school. However, during this time I was still wanting to play online games (despite the girl i liked being inactive) as I had put a lot of effort into it and didn't want it all to go to waste. I started trying to ask this girl out to do some things that I thought we were both into, but she never took the bait. Nor did she ever try to reschedule plans with me. However, as some people know me well, I didn't really know if this was a hint to say 'no i don't want to go out with you to confuse you into thinking I like you' blah blah blah or if she was just busy. I ended up believing she was just busy. As I had moved to Sydney with a new resolve, I was seriously just looking for a way to get back into my old lifestyle of constantly being out, having fun and rarely at home and on the computer. I was trying to go out with this girl as I really enjoyed her company and wanted to just be friends and stay away from the dating scene. However, I cannot deny that I was still romantically attracted to her, I asked her again whether she liked me and she replied with the 'not sure, i wasn't ready' answer so I took this as a positive and wanted to try and organise some friendly things to get to know her better. Once again, over a period of a few months I was totally flaked on. My life revolved around the obsession of getting to know this girl better and online games even when I had just moved to Sydney. Starting to meet people and hang out was the first step to me getting away from the 'destructive' lifestyle I was leading and rediscovering footbag. I started meeting new people, doing all the fun things I missed. I ended up crashing a friends holiday and went surfing with them for a couple days in the summer and I had a blast. My new friends at work were very socailly active and would always be looking for different things to do when going out. FYI. eventually I did end up asking that girl whether she would go on a date with me again (hey! I persevered at least
) and when she said no, I was totally ok with it. Turns out, when your down in a gutter everything hits twice as hard, but when your leading a lifestyle your happy with, a downfall is negligible. Soon after I lost interest in online gaming (about a month or 2 ago) and I found out that Dan Boyle was coming to Sydney and wanted to have a kick.I REDISCOVERED MY TRUE LOVE (disregard this comment any future girls I go out with
)Kicking with Dan (Boyle) reminded me, I truly love this sport. It can be done anywhere, it takes you places, and for me it got me out from behind a stupid computer screen and obsessing over girls. Everyone has flaws, I guess these are mine lol. For almost 40 days now I have been kicking straight, I am getting totally obsessed like a school child again and I want to improve. I want to be a tripless player etc, I want to go to events overseas and I want to start a scene her in Sydney. Been thinking about going to a Uni and trying to start up a club hmmmm. To anyone who read to this, you are utterly insane. I have no idea what's wrong with you
Extra info (mostly about girls lol):
- haven't spent much time with that girl I really liked as now that I feel we are just friends, I don't really know what to do? I don't see her going out to do fun stuff with me as she never did in like 8 months or never tried to reschedule. I don't intend to ask her out again but maybe she will be more open (schedule) someday as well and we can be more than just computer friends (at least I hope)
- I'm 24, it did occur to me that I should probably think about getting out and dating again.
- I have met 3 unique individuals since then. One was already taken but I don't think I've ever met someone who has had such a similar interest in music (we have like the same favourite bands) and plan to make her my gig friend lol
- second person I was worried about as they were quite young. We got along really well, but I think I friend zoned them after like a week as they seemed to be interested in playing the 'dating' games. They get your message, wait to reply, they also don't seem to ask many interesting questions and always wait on you to ask first plus they don't seem interested. She leads a interesting lifestyle so I like to chat to her here and there.
- Currently been talking to a girl for a few weeks now, she's my age. She keeps the conversation flowing, she's makes me laugh, way prettier than what I deserve and we are going out sometime soon. Really looking forward to getting to know her well.
Best thing about this last 2 years, I have learned to enjoy spending time with girls even if it doesn't turn out for the better!
- With my interest in footbag, guitar has come back too! Currently learning to sing and play (always struggled to do this)
- Planning to travel to NZ and maybe kick with TJ/Phil not sure yet if I have the money.
-Planning to go to gdansk next year and do a Europe trip!!!!!!!
- looking for a job in relation to my degree/looking at future studies.
Going to have a kick in about a hour and will do a writeup on my session.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
And just finished having a nice breezy session!
Was focusing on hitting blur < legbeater and legbeater < blizzard both sides today again as it still could be a little neater.
I noticed that I struggle to hit pixie set out of illusion so I was just practicing illusion < dimwalk a bit as well. My illusions have never been great but I have been focusing on making them a little easier.
Figured out what I was doing wrong on sidewalk which you wouldn't be able to tell the difference on a video btw but on my strong side I sorta push the planting foots hip out to maintain posture, I don't really do this on my flip and I noticed a instant difference in how easy it became to set out of sidewalk. I was spent by this time as the atomic sets take a lot outta ya lolz so I just did a couple sidewalk < ripwalk repeats.
Finished off the session trying to hit spinning clip < ripwalk rpt but kept getting 3 contacts and messing up the last spin on both sides. I think I was just too tired by then so I will make sure I hit that tomorrow. I still need to work on spinning so I can hit better tricks than just spinning clipper.
All in all, good session. Got tomorrow off so I will probably have a lengthy kick then too!
My older brother made a good point to me on my last post, makes sense that I used to 'put aside everything' for girls/games.
I'm happy now that I can pursue those interests while I get to still enjoy footbag and other stuff, I doubt I will stop kicking for a while as the ambition to get good is burning! Shred on peeps
P.S- For anyone in Australia. Selleys Spredsole seems to work in repairing holes/worn down soles. It also adds a decent amount of grip, I suggest using this to repair your footbag shoes for the time being.
Was focusing on hitting blur < legbeater and legbeater < blizzard both sides today again as it still could be a little neater.
I noticed that I struggle to hit pixie set out of illusion so I was just practicing illusion < dimwalk a bit as well. My illusions have never been great but I have been focusing on making them a little easier.
Figured out what I was doing wrong on sidewalk which you wouldn't be able to tell the difference on a video btw but on my strong side I sorta push the planting foots hip out to maintain posture, I don't really do this on my flip and I noticed a instant difference in how easy it became to set out of sidewalk. I was spent by this time as the atomic sets take a lot outta ya lolz so I just did a couple sidewalk < ripwalk repeats.
Finished off the session trying to hit spinning clip < ripwalk rpt but kept getting 3 contacts and messing up the last spin on both sides. I think I was just too tired by then so I will make sure I hit that tomorrow. I still need to work on spinning so I can hit better tricks than just spinning clipper.
All in all, good session. Got tomorrow off so I will probably have a lengthy kick then too!
My older brother made a good point to me on my last post, makes sense that I used to 'put aside everything' for girls/games.
I'm happy now that I can pursue those interests while I get to still enjoy footbag and other stuff, I doubt I will stop kicking for a while as the ambition to get good is burning! Shred on peeps
P.S- For anyone in Australia. Selleys Spredsole seems to work in repairing holes/worn down soles. It also adds a decent amount of grip, I suggest using this to repair your footbag shoes for the time being.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Good job dan b...well, I'm moving back to Aus, and after kicking solo for years, I hope to see some more of you.
Glad that footbag is back in your life and that I helped with that. Good to have a healthy balance. Would be great to get a few uni clubs going in the next years. I am thinking about going and studying teaching in the next couple of years.
Glad that footbag is back in your life and that I helped with that. Good to have a healthy balance. Would be great to get a few uni clubs going in the next years. I am thinking about going and studying teaching in the next couple of years.
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well I hope you do see more of me and I don't get too obsessed and travel around the world to kick with everyone which I am seriously contemplating.
I am really excited that I might be able to kick here again with ya and think when your back and ready we should kick in some nice spots and I may try to kick at Macquarie Uni on my days off.
Awesome sauce!
I am really excited that I might be able to kick here again with ya and think when your back and ready we should kick in some nice spots and I may try to kick at Macquarie Uni on my days off.
Awesome sauce!
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Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
You should apply for Start Up Chile, or other accelerators. Get governments to get you to the location, then go from there. I have suggested it before, but it would be awesome if 5-10 footbag players got into one of these at the same time, just worked on their projects, but then happened to play footbag for fun as well.
I'm going to be staying at my auntie's place in Hunters Hill for a few weeks in late June, so we can kick (hopefully with Dyalan too) in that Ryde area. My Nanna also lives just down the road from Macquarie too. We should infiltrate all of the unis in Sydney, then later Australia, create a footbag club, get money, ..., profit.
Plenty of potential. There are some nice spaces at Macquarie, I would be happy to have a kick there.
I'm going to be staying at my auntie's place in Hunters Hill for a few weeks in late June, so we can kick (hopefully with Dyalan too) in that Ryde area. My Nanna also lives just down the road from Macquarie too. We should infiltrate all of the unis in Sydney, then later Australia, create a footbag club, get money, ..., profit.
Plenty of potential. There are some nice spaces at Macquarie, I would be happy to have a kick there.
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Sounds good!
Had a session today as well. Decided to go back to stepping ss clipper and try to get that to 20 contacts before I return to sidewalk < ripwalk as I know that my ss step isnt as good on my flip. Only got 5 today but I was catching the bag if I did a awkward set so I probably could have gone higher.
Hit ripwalk < spinning clipper repeat quite easily after that so thats a new link down
I then proceeded back to the blur < legbeater < blizzard drill and was able to hit that on my strong side a few times without too much difficulty, but on my weaker side so close but always dropping on blizzard. I did hit blur < legbeater bsos which is probs new as I haven't drilled this before.
So spent by the end of the session, but was happy as my atomics are super clean atm and I could probs duck the legbeater quite easily if I put more into it. I am still yet to attempt a ducking stepping set for kicks (I have never really been a trick hunter) but I might try hitting ripped warrior or alpha blur or whatever its called in my next session. Any tips on getting the bag higher for a tall guy would be appreciated.
Things I plan to work on after I get my stepping consistency to where I want it:
- barfly < drifter < pdx whirl (i need to work on whirls in general so will probs go back to ss and toe whirls)
- double dexes probly datw < dso rpt and then work on the others
- spinning clip < gyro clip to 20 contacts would be so cool
- 30 unique guiltless string
- 15 unique tripless (very future goal lol)
- pixie/fairy (aim for gold badges)
In other news, going out this Saturday on my first 'dateish' sorta thing in forever. Should be fun!
Had a session today as well. Decided to go back to stepping ss clipper and try to get that to 20 contacts before I return to sidewalk < ripwalk as I know that my ss step isnt as good on my flip. Only got 5 today but I was catching the bag if I did a awkward set so I probably could have gone higher.
Hit ripwalk < spinning clipper repeat quite easily after that so thats a new link down
I then proceeded back to the blur < legbeater < blizzard drill and was able to hit that on my strong side a few times without too much difficulty, but on my weaker side so close but always dropping on blizzard. I did hit blur < legbeater bsos which is probs new as I haven't drilled this before.
So spent by the end of the session, but was happy as my atomics are super clean atm and I could probs duck the legbeater quite easily if I put more into it. I am still yet to attempt a ducking stepping set for kicks (I have never really been a trick hunter) but I might try hitting ripped warrior or alpha blur or whatever its called in my next session. Any tips on getting the bag higher for a tall guy would be appreciated.
Things I plan to work on after I get my stepping consistency to where I want it:
- barfly < drifter < pdx whirl (i need to work on whirls in general so will probs go back to ss and toe whirls)
- double dexes probly datw < dso rpt and then work on the others
- spinning clip < gyro clip to 20 contacts would be so cool
- 30 unique guiltless string
- 15 unique tripless (very future goal lol)
- pixie/fairy (aim for gold badges)
In other news, going out this Saturday on my first 'dateish' sorta thing in forever. Should be fun!
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
haven't had much time to kick recently, but tomorrow I finish early and plan to have a good session. Feeling quite tired since I had a few days off >.< though. Might have been playing too hard.
Otherwise, had probably my best date/outing ever last night. I was a little nervous and chatted maybe a bit too much, but the girl I went out with was just so interesting. Only meant to have a quick eat then we were both meant to head out with separate friends, but we both ended up getting distracted, going and grabbing dinner and hanging out for most of the night. Signs are good!
Thinking I should maybe attempt badges, but I only want to video the gold ones lol. Might take a while haha
Otherwise, had probably my best date/outing ever last night. I was a little nervous and chatted maybe a bit too much, but the girl I went out with was just so interesting. Only meant to have a quick eat then we were both meant to head out with separate friends, but we both ended up getting distracted, going and grabbing dinner and hanging out for most of the night. Signs are good!
Thinking I should maybe attempt badges, but I only want to video the gold ones lol. Might take a while haha
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Had a session today at Macquarie University and will probably keep kicking there to try and get some more interest. Didn't play well but I did have quite a few people come up to me and say they were impressed. The only thing about kicking at Uni's is you get those people looking for a survey or a christian group who want you to join their bible studies..... Hey, if your into that fine. But I sorta want to kick too lolz.
I was still just practicing blur < legbeater on both sides with some runs off of them, did do a couple bsos blur < legbeater runs as its easier to incorporate in now. Forgot to do much step ss clipper stuff so will make sure to work on that hard the day after tomorrow.
i think my best run was around 20-25 bop contacts with some tiltless at the start as I was playing for long as they look more impressive to newbs lol.
Other news, this girl is great! She is studying a law degree and that does keep her quite busy, however she makes the time to chat here and there. Her wit is ridiculously similar to mine and it's been years since I had this much fun getting to know someone. Good signs on the horizon.
I was still just practicing blur < legbeater on both sides with some runs off of them, did do a couple bsos blur < legbeater runs as its easier to incorporate in now. Forgot to do much step ss clipper stuff so will make sure to work on that hard the day after tomorrow.
i think my best run was around 20-25 bop contacts with some tiltless at the start as I was playing for long as they look more impressive to newbs lol.
Other news, this girl is great! She is studying a law degree and that does keep her quite busy, however she makes the time to chat here and there. Her wit is ridiculously similar to mine and it's been years since I had this much fun getting to know someone. Good signs on the horizon.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Didn't kick today as I wasn't feeling well. Planning to kick at Macquarie University again tomorrow.
I want to practice some long strings probably. I ahh may have annoyed this girl a little, but seeing as
she hasn't told me to f off I presume I maybe just stepped out of line (was teasing her lol). Hoping
a couple days off will fix things. Doubt I can convince her to play footbag but she doesn't think its lame.
1 Point Ryan lol
Gotta start planning some stuff in relation to my career and life so I will be increasingly getting busier and busier.
However since I cut out gaming I have had a lot more time, I just need to stay organised and keep working on it.
I want to practice some long strings probably. I ahh may have annoyed this girl a little, but seeing as
she hasn't told me to f off I presume I maybe just stepped out of line (was teasing her lol). Hoping
a couple days off will fix things. Doubt I can convince her to play footbag but she doesn't think its lame.
1 Point Ryan lol
Gotta start planning some stuff in relation to my career and life so I will be increasingly getting busier and busier.
However since I cut out gaming I have had a lot more time, I just need to stay organised and keep working on it.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Touring footbag salesman. All problems solved...
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
yeah I would totally do that if it was viable for us
Had a nice session today. I printed out that huge list of combos/drills with 3-3 3-4 3-3-3 etc on it and I'm probably just going to work on being able to hit every one of 3-3 3-4 3-3-3 3-4-3 easily so my guiltless runs are more than just bops, ducks and spins.
Hit a 20ish contact guiltless string with maybe 10-15 uniques so I was kinda pleased with that. Otherwise I was working on ss clippers and broke my record on both sides. Was able to get 7 contacts on my flip and 8 on my strong (although I was focusing on my flip). Its easy to get about 4-5 now just need to keep working on it until I can do 20 bs. Did some sidewalk > ripwalk and it still feels weird after 4 contacts but its almost a guarantee string now.
Worked on blur > legbeater bs and did hit it bsos again today. Then I wanted to work on atomsmashers and see if I could hit first part of rubberman on one side and I hit it on my strong side but my flip needs to work on the atomsmasher and a better butter dex on the legbeater.
Didn't try to hit anything new as I was satisfied with my runs today, need to re-sole my shoes but the glue works well! I just may need to keep resurfacing it once every two weeks as it wears down quite quick.
Had a nice session today. I printed out that huge list of combos/drills with 3-3 3-4 3-3-3 etc on it and I'm probably just going to work on being able to hit every one of 3-3 3-4 3-3-3 3-4-3 easily so my guiltless runs are more than just bops, ducks and spins.
Hit a 20ish contact guiltless string with maybe 10-15 uniques so I was kinda pleased with that. Otherwise I was working on ss clippers and broke my record on both sides. Was able to get 7 contacts on my flip and 8 on my strong (although I was focusing on my flip). Its easy to get about 4-5 now just need to keep working on it until I can do 20 bs. Did some sidewalk > ripwalk and it still feels weird after 4 contacts but its almost a guarantee string now.
Worked on blur > legbeater bs and did hit it bsos again today. Then I wanted to work on atomsmashers and see if I could hit first part of rubberman on one side and I hit it on my strong side but my flip needs to work on the atomsmasher and a better butter dex on the legbeater.
Didn't try to hit anything new as I was satisfied with my runs today, need to re-sole my shoes but the glue works well! I just may need to keep resurfacing it once every two weeks as it wears down quite quick.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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Had a weekend of constant bad news and just stupidity. I don't really want to share any of it but I did manage to send a hateful message to someone just to try and make myself feel better, never done that before and hopefully never will again.
My friend was in a car crash and it looks like they will be ok, but I was stressing over that most of the past few days and only kicked shortly. I also received some great news (insert sarcasm) that I pretty much did a useless degree. Ty Melb Uni, according to a lot of Universities here in Sydney my degree in physiology isn't adequate to pursue Masters in exercise physiology.......Will probably try to look into this further as it seems ridiculous.
Really looking forward to kicking tomorrow at Macquarie Uni again as I really need to let some heat out. Unfortunately no one has been interested enough to come and play with me yet.
My friend was in a car crash and it looks like they will be ok, but I was stressing over that most of the past few days and only kicked shortly. I also received some great news (insert sarcasm) that I pretty much did a useless degree. Ty Melb Uni, according to a lot of Universities here in Sydney my degree in physiology isn't adequate to pursue Masters in exercise physiology.......Will probably try to look into this further as it seems ridiculous.
Really looking forward to kicking tomorrow at Macquarie Uni again as I really need to let some heat out. Unfortunately no one has been interested enough to come and play with me yet.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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Had a week off as I was super busy with stuff here and there. Was glad to be able to get back out and play again today.
Felt a little rusty for some reason, but the session soon picked up when I was playing at Mac Uni and some guys came
over and told me I have 'mad skills' and gave me some pancakes they were making for some Uni club haha.
Not really anything noticeable as I'm not trying to hit new strings just focusing on getting close to a unique 30 contact guiltless string.
Therefore was practicing:
toe whirl < pdx illusion
drifter < whirl
legbeater < blur
ripwalk < blur
Able to hit everything easily and spent most of the session trying to link it all together. My whirls need some work on the flipside and my stronger side drifter needs some work. I can hit the tricks easily, just toe whirl on my flip isn't as behind me as I would like and drifter on my strong side makes it hard to do ss tricks after the catch so I need to work on that.
Will go back to stepping ss clipper next session, need to break 10 as a goal as soon as I am able
Saw Dan is all packed and getting ready to move back! Super excited that I might have a shred partner again for the first time in like 3 years!
Felt a little rusty for some reason, but the session soon picked up when I was playing at Mac Uni and some guys came
over and told me I have 'mad skills' and gave me some pancakes they were making for some Uni club haha.
Not really anything noticeable as I'm not trying to hit new strings just focusing on getting close to a unique 30 contact guiltless string.
Therefore was practicing:
toe whirl < pdx illusion
drifter < whirl
legbeater < blur
ripwalk < blur
Able to hit everything easily and spent most of the session trying to link it all together. My whirls need some work on the flipside and my stronger side drifter needs some work. I can hit the tricks easily, just toe whirl on my flip isn't as behind me as I would like and drifter on my strong side makes it hard to do ss tricks after the catch so I need to work on that.
Will go back to stepping ss clipper next session, need to break 10 as a goal as soon as I am able
Saw Dan is all packed and getting ready to move back! Super excited that I might have a shred partner again for the first time in like 3 years!
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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We arrive Friday week, so a little longer to go! I will get in touch once we are around to line up a kick.
Re: Operation: Guiltless and Higher
Hell yeah!
Well had a session today, was playing around with whirls and drifters. Surprised to see I can still do blurry whirls/pixie whirls quite easily and I think I had a little break through on my drifters (they can be better).
Practiced the idol drill: toe whirl < pdx illusion rpt a bit as well as just analysing form for most of the session. Had some nice strings, nothing that I can remember too well as I have had a busy day. Super pumped to play with Dan sometime, and also looking forward to maybe getting some footage up soon. I need to get something up as the last video of me playing is from 2010 and I'm much better now (i Hope lol).
Right now, very tired. Tomorrow my body will be crying bloody murder.
Well had a session today, was playing around with whirls and drifters. Surprised to see I can still do blurry whirls/pixie whirls quite easily and I think I had a little break through on my drifters (they can be better).
Practiced the idol drill: toe whirl < pdx illusion rpt a bit as well as just analysing form for most of the session. Had some nice strings, nothing that I can remember too well as I have had a busy day. Super pumped to play with Dan sometime, and also looking forward to maybe getting some footage up soon. I need to get something up as the last video of me playing is from 2010 and I'm much better now (i Hope lol).
Right now, very tired. Tomorrow my body will be crying bloody murder.
You've got a hundred years to live, but probably not footbag. Better get Shredding!
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Maybe Sunday? We could also have a before/after work session some day...maybe on Monday. My Grandparents live right near your work. We will be staying there up to Tuesday morning.
I am sure there will be various family dos to attend, but I am always keen to play.
I am sure there will be various family dos to attend, but I am always keen to play.