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boyle
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Re: Feminine Freestyle
I think your work on the unusuals is already starting to pay off. Great to see variety in the game, it's something I've been working on a fair bit lately also. I think it comes fairly natural to those who have come from a "hacky sack" background...was that how you got into freestyle in the early days? I'm sure I could read that here somewhere...
Re: Feminine Freestyle
I kicked casually for a few months before I got into proper freestyle but I would say I'm good at that sort of stuff because I practice it.
I found my routine song. It's perfect!!!!
I don't need to edit it at all. In a single session I planned essentially the entire thing. I feel sooo good about this!
What a relief
FAT sesh tomorrow! Looks to be a good turnout
<3
I found my routine song. It's perfect!!!!
I don't need to edit it at all. In a single session I planned essentially the entire thing. I feel sooo good about this!
What a relief
FAT sesh tomorrow! Looks to be a good turnout
<3
Re: Feminine Freestyle
Really fun day in Toronto yesterday!
I made it to Bellwoods just a little bit late and Camille was there waiting. Just as I walked up Johnny arrived as well. We hung out for a little bit and talked. I messed around with some sole stalls and things while we waited. Soon Adam arrived. It was good to see him since he had been away for a while.
We got down to business and had a good four person circle for a while. I played alright but not amazingly. Johnny was hitting some really cool stuff. Adam was a little hungover but was still shredding it up. Camille has been sick so she didn't play the whole time but her consistency is definitely improving.
Alex finally arrived about an hour and a half late. After this point the circle got kinda silly and less serious but a lot of fun. Johnny made some joke about Alex’s “Jewish” shoe laces that resulted in a lengthy conversation about circumcision. Not too long after Alex arrived, JJ arrived! This was somewhat unexpected but awesome. We stayed in one large circle and just kicked casually. I wasn't feeling a super intense session that day so I didn't mind too much, it was just awesome to see everyone! More silly conversations about brothels and things commenced.
At one point while the six of us were playing we were approached by a girl, Josie I believe. She had come to the park to juggle and do some unicycling. She saw us playing and thought it was super cool. She tried a bit and didn't seem too intimidated by us which was really awesome. Fingers crossed, maybe FAT will have a new (and third female) member
After the session Adam had to get going and Alex, JJ, Camille, Johnny and I went to Sneaky Dee’s for some beer and food. I did really enjoy this however I had a really busy weekend and I was beginning to get burned out. I wasn't very talkative but it was nice being with my friends anyways.
Here is JJ telling one of his many outrageous stories:
At some point Alex was assaulted by molten cheese out of nowhere. The person at the table behind us bit into a jalapeno popper that sprayed cheese and hit Alex in the chin. This was mostly hilarious but the girl actually felt really bad and ended up buying him a shot.
Here is the bathroom at Sneaky Dee's just because:
Overall a really fun day!
<3
I made it to Bellwoods just a little bit late and Camille was there waiting. Just as I walked up Johnny arrived as well. We hung out for a little bit and talked. I messed around with some sole stalls and things while we waited. Soon Adam arrived. It was good to see him since he had been away for a while.
We got down to business and had a good four person circle for a while. I played alright but not amazingly. Johnny was hitting some really cool stuff. Adam was a little hungover but was still shredding it up. Camille has been sick so she didn't play the whole time but her consistency is definitely improving.
Alex finally arrived about an hour and a half late. After this point the circle got kinda silly and less serious but a lot of fun. Johnny made some joke about Alex’s “Jewish” shoe laces that resulted in a lengthy conversation about circumcision. Not too long after Alex arrived, JJ arrived! This was somewhat unexpected but awesome. We stayed in one large circle and just kicked casually. I wasn't feeling a super intense session that day so I didn't mind too much, it was just awesome to see everyone! More silly conversations about brothels and things commenced.
At one point while the six of us were playing we were approached by a girl, Josie I believe. She had come to the park to juggle and do some unicycling. She saw us playing and thought it was super cool. She tried a bit and didn't seem too intimidated by us which was really awesome. Fingers crossed, maybe FAT will have a new (and third female) member
After the session Adam had to get going and Alex, JJ, Camille, Johnny and I went to Sneaky Dee’s for some beer and food. I did really enjoy this however I had a really busy weekend and I was beginning to get burned out. I wasn't very talkative but it was nice being with my friends anyways.
Here is JJ telling one of his many outrageous stories:
At some point Alex was assaulted by molten cheese out of nowhere. The person at the table behind us bit into a jalapeno popper that sprayed cheese and hit Alex in the chin. This was mostly hilarious but the girl actually felt really bad and ended up buying him a shot.
Here is the bathroom at Sneaky Dee's just because:
Overall a really fun day!
<3
Re: Feminine Freestyle
I met/talked to/made friends with a lot of new people today.
I'm getting good at this.
Thanks footbag community for helping me be confident and awesome<3
I'm getting good at this.
Thanks footbag community for helping me be confident and awesome<3
Feminine Freestyle
I just spent a nice two days in Toronto. Stayed at a U of T dorm which was pretty cheap and decent. Check the view:
I sessioned with Alex at Bahen this evening after my green chemistry workshop wrapped up.
It was a really enjoyable session. I was a little hungover and spent the first portion of the session going pretty hard and sweating it out. After a bit we both chilled out and stopped pushing too hard. We played for about two hours and had some really good talks while we were at it. Alex has been playing regularly and it’s really starting to show. I had some okay runs. My body felt decently fresh after a two day break but my mind wasn’t as focussed as it could have been.
Neo op Mirage BSOS
So I have managed to collect 10, yeah TEN, $50 deposits for my skydiving event not including myself! The deadline isn’t even until Monday. I’m pretty impressed that I managed to convince a bunch of footbaggers to not only attend a footbag event over a month in advance, but to commit to JUMPING OUT OF AN AIRPLANE and give me money to do so. I think hyping up this event like a year in advance really helped to get people stoked about it. Looks like I’ve secured two prize bags so far as well so that’s awesome! I think there will be a request comp and maybe something like a weird one. Not too sure yet. I also want to think of some sort of game/event we can play with the non-freestylers that are attending. Suggestions appreciated.
The bar I went to last night had a wall of inspirational graffiti in one of the washroom stalls. It was pretty awesome.
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I sessioned with Alex at Bahen this evening after my green chemistry workshop wrapped up.
It was a really enjoyable session. I was a little hungover and spent the first portion of the session going pretty hard and sweating it out. After a bit we both chilled out and stopped pushing too hard. We played for about two hours and had some really good talks while we were at it. Alex has been playing regularly and it’s really starting to show. I had some okay runs. My body felt decently fresh after a two day break but my mind wasn’t as focussed as it could have been.
Neo op Mirage BSOS
So I have managed to collect 10, yeah TEN, $50 deposits for my skydiving event not including myself! The deadline isn’t even until Monday. I’m pretty impressed that I managed to convince a bunch of footbaggers to not only attend a footbag event over a month in advance, but to commit to JUMPING OUT OF AN AIRPLANE and give me money to do so. I think hyping up this event like a year in advance really helped to get people stoked about it. Looks like I’ve secured two prize bags so far as well so that’s awesome! I think there will be a request comp and maybe something like a weird one. Not too sure yet. I also want to think of some sort of game/event we can play with the non-freestylers that are attending. Suggestions appreciated.
The bar I went to last night had a wall of inspirational graffiti in one of the washroom stalls. It was pretty awesome.
<3
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Re: Feminine Freestyle
I think it's awesome you're doing this skydiving event. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would like to skydive, and to do it with friends in the footbag community would make it even better.
I have never skydived, but I'm sure if there was a footbag jam involved, it would definitely increase my interest in it!
Have you made any further investigations into your future studying plans?
I have never skydived, but I'm sure if there was a footbag jam involved, it would definitely increase my interest in it!
Have you made any further investigations into your future studying plans?
Re: Feminine Freestyle
I wasn’t planning to go to the FAT session today but I woke up and it was an absolutely gorgeous day! It was supposed to be a good turnout so I just couldn’t stop myself! I drove instead of taking transit which turned out to be cheaper and faster so I might start doing that more often.
Erik, Adam, Alex, JJ and Sam came out. It was great because we made two circles and had some really good shred. FAT is such a crazy high level club! So great. It was cool that Sam came out again. He played really hard! Hopefully he will keep coming out.
We played at a new spot in front of the U of T chemistry building. It was a good spot because it was out of the way but a lot of foot traffic goes by there. Seemed fitting because maybe I will end up spending spending a whole lot of time there in the future?
I was strongly leaning towards PSU for grad school until I went to this green chemistry event. U of T is pretty fucking awesome and I like how socially and environmentally conscious the school is. Toronto is a fucking amazing city with a great footbag club. I’m at such a crucial point in my life and figuring out where I want to be is stressful. Existing in Toronto makes me so happy and I think doing my PhD there would be an incredible opportunity.
I can actually say that I played well today! Everybody was feeling good and played for a really long time!
Paradon and Osis>Blur BSOS
Phasing Osis
Toe Drifter>DLO rpt.
New shuffle record: 6
I’m really happy with how much variety I have in my game now. I would like to be a little more consistent with some stuff but I’ve been throwing in tons of rakes and dragony things which are a lot of fun. My stepping is starting to feel pretty good and so I expect my shuffle record to go up more in the near future. I seemed to be stuck at 4 for a pretty long time.
My ankle didn’t bother me at all today, awesome!!
PA net champs next weekend! None of my footbag friends could make it but that’s okay cause I convinced a couple girlfriends to come out for the road trip. Really looking forward to this! I might take a few days off shred this week because I have a lot on my plate right now (which I put off for footbag today) and I think it will be good to heal up and give my body a bit of a break.
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Erik, Adam, Alex, JJ and Sam came out. It was great because we made two circles and had some really good shred. FAT is such a crazy high level club! So great. It was cool that Sam came out again. He played really hard! Hopefully he will keep coming out.
We played at a new spot in front of the U of T chemistry building. It was a good spot because it was out of the way but a lot of foot traffic goes by there. Seemed fitting because maybe I will end up spending spending a whole lot of time there in the future?
I was strongly leaning towards PSU for grad school until I went to this green chemistry event. U of T is pretty fucking awesome and I like how socially and environmentally conscious the school is. Toronto is a fucking amazing city with a great footbag club. I’m at such a crucial point in my life and figuring out where I want to be is stressful. Existing in Toronto makes me so happy and I think doing my PhD there would be an incredible opportunity.
I can actually say that I played well today! Everybody was feeling good and played for a really long time!
Paradon and Osis>Blur BSOS
Phasing Osis
Toe Drifter>DLO rpt.
New shuffle record: 6
I’m really happy with how much variety I have in my game now. I would like to be a little more consistent with some stuff but I’ve been throwing in tons of rakes and dragony things which are a lot of fun. My stepping is starting to feel pretty good and so I expect my shuffle record to go up more in the near future. I seemed to be stuck at 4 for a pretty long time.
My ankle didn’t bother me at all today, awesome!!
PA net champs next weekend! None of my footbag friends could make it but that’s okay cause I convinced a couple girlfriends to come out for the road trip. Really looking forward to this! I might take a few days off shred this week because I have a lot on my plate right now (which I put off for footbag today) and I think it will be good to heal up and give my body a bit of a break.
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Re: Feminine Freestyle
Do it.
I love Toronto!
Great surprise to see you today
I used to have classes in Lash Miller (not chemistry though)
I love Toronto!
Great surprise to see you today
I used to have classes in Lash Miller (not chemistry though)
Re: Feminine Freestyle
The past three days. Just wow. Where to start. Get ready for a lengthy post.
Everyone bailed on my trip to the 10th annual PA net champs except my friend Steph that I go to school with. I was a little worried about bringing a non-footbag friend to a footbag event but I hoped that she would have fun.
We left Friday afternoon at 4pm. Last week was extremely stressful at school. I did 10-11 hour days and hadn’t played footbag since the previous Saturdays FAT session. I was so ready for some fun and some footbag.
The nature of the drive was quite different than most events. The conversation was not really footbag centred. My driving companion Steph is super awesome though. You may know her from her post about Honza’s video a few pages back in that rather controversiol discussion in my blog. She was a very helpful navigator which was awesome. My GPS is old and terrible so we had to rely on printouts from google maps to get there.
The border crossing went much smoother with one female friend compared to 4 male friends. Net footbag is also much easier to explain to border agents than freestyle. I might just start telling them that from now on. “It’s like badminton only you use your feet”.
After a quick pee/snack break we were back on the road somewhere in NY state. Obviously I was excited to get there. Maybe a little too excited. I look in my rearview and see those dreaded flashing lights. Apparently I was in a 35mph zone. I was clocked at 62. Shit.
Apparently they don’t tell you the penalty of these tickets until you plead guilty. What’s up with that? There’s a chance my license could get suspended in the states over this so I’m definitely going to have to try to fight it I think. Annoying. Wasn’t letting that get me down though!
The rest of the drive was fairly uneventful. There were some cool windey mountain roads that were really fun. We arrived on schedule at around midnight. The event was held at a really nice house in a valley in the middle of some gorgeous tree covered mountains. It was dark and we didn’t see the “footbag” sign but I figured it must be the place with lights on and a bunch of cars. The disk golf hole confirmed we were in the right place.
Lots of people were there already! I gave Drew and Nick big hugs. The freestylers were in the basement hanging out. Matt Kemmer was giving Ivan tips on Osis and other tricks. I was happy that some people were willing to shred with me because I was just itching to play after such a long drive. I met Dan, a new student of Matt. Polini was killing it! He has some insane flapper skills. So awesome. I think Jim also played with us for a while.
After a bit of shred we just chilled out and drank some beers. It was a lot of fun. Went to bed at 4.
Three hours later I was wide awake. The neat thing about net events is I’m not the only early riser! I had a quick shower and several other people were up already.
There was a TV in the kitchenette of the basement apartment where we slept. They had vintage footbag footage on it all day. Oldschool videos of events from the 90’s. The differences in style and difficulty was really interesting. So were the 90’s fashion choices. This was long before I was part of the scene. There seemed to be a lot of talk about players from long before my time.
There was a mission to the store for some food. I got a delicious bacon breakfast sandwich. There were amish people. Sorry you missed your chance Alex
Back at the house there was stuff happening. I was anxious to freestyle soon. I happened to walk outside for one reason or another and there was Ryan Thomas. I gave him a big hug. He is the reason I even thought to come out to this event. This was only our second time meeting and I was looking forward to getting more shred time in with this super cool player.
Early in the day Saturday the freestyle started. I had convinced Drew Martin to come out to the event and I also suggested it to Nick Polini and Matt Kemmer. I was stoked that they made it out with Ivan, Khoa, and Dan. There was a pretty decent shred deck going on and I got some good shred time in with pretty much everyone. It was like a mini freestyle event within a net event.
My game is feeling really good. Lots of highlights that I don’t remember.
I got a chance to have a circle kick with three other ladies which was really cool. This event was much more diverse that most freestyle events.
Ryan taught me doubles juggling where you pass back and fourth. It took a bunch of tries but I got it. He was surprised that I stuck with it. He must have forgot that I’m a freestyler
We also kicked a net bag for a while and he taught me the basic net kicks. Net is exhausting when you have to run for the bag all the time but I started to get the hang of it. I did one really sweet sole spike.
I got tired out and we relaxed in the shade a bit.
By that point on Saturday I had pretty much exhausted all my energy. It was only about 3pm. I got dressed and spent that afternoon relaxing, enjoying the view and watching net matches. This was much more chill than most events where I’m trying to be everywhere and do all the things. There was not any wifi to distract and it was really refreshing.
A lot of people asked me about the skydiving event which was really cool. People seem to think it was an awesome idea
I was watching a doubles match. I’m not even sure who was playing but I know Ivan was kicking butt. This guy is good at everything. At some point something happened and he was on the ground holding his ankle. I didn’t see what happened but I thought it must be a rolled ankle or something. Ivan was really calm when he said something to the effect of “Can we go to the hospital, my achilles is gone” and that’s when I started freaking out in my head. How could he be so calm!? This was a disaster. He said it was numb and there wasn’t any pain which I was thankful for. I sat with him a minute and offered him beer. He seemed oddly fine. I had to leave to collect myself so that I wouldn’t start bawling.
When I came back there was a group of about 20 people standing around Ivan. I made a comment to Steph that I would hate to have all those people staring at me if that were me. It’s not like they could really help. They must have heard me because people walked away and the crowd was reduced to a much more reasonable number of people.
Ryan and Adrienne took Ivan to the hospital. The whole thing really hit close to home for a lot of us. It could have been anyone. Ivan didn’t do anything to deserve that it just sort of happened. This definitely put a damper on the mood that evening.
I didn’t want to be insensitive but I also didn’t want people to stop having fun. A bunch of freestylers decided they wanted to leave early because of this. I tried to convince them to stay but was not successful.
While we were waiting for news about Ivan I went for a walk with Nick, Matt, Khoa, and Dan. Nick really took this whole thing hard. The walk really helped and some unexpected stuff happened along the way. I touched the electric fence. There were also several UFO sightings that turned out to be floating lantern things.
I was glad I got to spend a little more time with these guys before they left. I made sure to give Nick an extra big hug that evening cause I knew he needed it.
There was a lot of waiting around to hear back about Ivan. Turned out he had a ruptured achilles. We found out that he wanted to come back to the event and stay the night still. I was pretty happy that I would get to see him again. They got back around 11pm or something like that. Ivan had his leg all wrapped up. He might need surgery on it when he gets back home. He was still more positive about the whole situation than some other people at the event. What an amazing person.
It just really sucks to see something like that happen to someone that is so awesome and was getting SO GOOD. I know he will be back before we know it but it’s still just a shame.
I usually want to hang out and party with everyone at events. This one was a little different because I don’t know all the net players as well and I just didn’t feel like being around a whole lot of people that night. I ended up spending the rest of the evening chilling up on the deck with Ryan. It was really nice. That human is something special. No wonder he has such a reputation. Give it up for Ryan Thomas
I have no idea what time I fell asleep but I woke up around 8:30 Sunday morning feeling amazing.
I played my first ever round of disc golf with Ryan, Jamie, and Joe. It was pretty fun even though I kinda suck. I got one really good putt at least.
I convinced Ryan and Drew to shred with me. It weird to have to specify what discipline at an event. Saying ‘let’’s footbag’ isn’t really specific enough when net and footbag golf is happening.
Ryan Thomas original:
This was a really great session! Drew is the best and Ryan just has crazy awesome style. He does tons of symple tricks and has really unique flow to his game. So awesome. Ivan sat and watched us play and I was glad that he seemed to be in a good mood. Some other players came in out of the circle breifly. Then Quinn joined us. She is the 14 year old daughter of some net players at the event. She seemed really interested in playing and stuck with us in the circle for a long time! She went from not having any stalls to all the basics and doing wrap arounds from insides. She had one run of stalls that must have been 8 or 10 contacts! She also footed atw a bunch. It was really cool that she was so stoked about it. She’s also just a really cool person. I’ve been saying for a while that the children of net players are the next generation of freestylers. This experience went a little way towards validation of that idea.
After a while we tired ourselves out. Such a good session. I sat with Ryan in the sunroom and we had some good conversation. It’s not like me to spend so much time with a single person at an event but I couldn’t resist. It tough when you make a close connection with someone that lives so far away. This certainly isn’t the first time it has happened. In fact there are so many people in the community that I've made connections with at events. I have special and unique relationships with so many great people. I’m getting better at handling saying goodbye. Thanks for the memories.
I heard this song today and it seems really fitting.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE[/youtube]
I think I watched a little more net on Sunday. I was planning to play a pickup game but was kinda turned off by the idea after seeing Ivan get hurt.
I met so many new people at this event and I feel bad because I didn’t do a great job remembering names. Anyways the net side of the sport is just as cool as the freestyle side. Everyone is so awesome and nice. I was relieved that Steph had a good time even though I was off doing my own thing a lot. She is pretty independent and spent a lot of time relaxing and reading.
Before it was time to go on Sunday I went on my usual hug spree. I gave Ivan, Drew and Ryan like six hugs each. Such awesome people.
The ride home was a happily uneventful 8 hours. When I got home and was reconnected to technology I learned that there would be a FAT session Monday morning with Andrew Dunford. I was kinda sad to miss the Sunday session with Andrew and Roy. Andrew is super awesome and I just had to take the opportunity to play with him today even though it’s supposed to be a school day.
I drove out to Christie Pits this morning and met up with Erik, Andrew, his girlfriend, and Camille. I was really glad I made it because this was an AMAZING session. omg.
Andrew is so much fun to play with and has such nice form for somebody who plays alone. Erik was playing SO WELL. Camille is making noticeable improvement.
My game was on point today. Just wow. I was feeling super positive and awesome.
Gyro DLO
Symp DLO BSOS first time hitting symp DLO today
Run with Atomic tricks and Zooming tricks BSOS
Spinning Osis BS
At one point it was just Erik and I and we got into a bunch of Osis tricks. I hit one run with a bunch of Osis and refractions and stuff. It felt really neat to do so much Osis. After Erik was like “that was a weird run”. Totally. Erik proceeded to do a bunch of cool Osis tricks and I would attempt to copy/do easier versions of what he was doing. It was neat.
Andrew was nice enough to donate a bag for the skydiving event even though he can’t make it. So nice Then Ivan told me today that he would also donate one. Too freaking sweet. You guys are amazing.
Anyways today was such a great extension to an amazing weekend!
Many love. Such inspiration. Wow.
Other shout outs:
Dan Greer is the man. What an awesome sense of humour.
Ted fritsch is crazy and also the man.
Hackysack Jack is cool shit.
Aint no is a crazy mofo.
Everyone else was awesome too. What a time.
This song is totally about my relationship with footbag:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFS69nA-1w[/youtube]
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Everyone bailed on my trip to the 10th annual PA net champs except my friend Steph that I go to school with. I was a little worried about bringing a non-footbag friend to a footbag event but I hoped that she would have fun.
We left Friday afternoon at 4pm. Last week was extremely stressful at school. I did 10-11 hour days and hadn’t played footbag since the previous Saturdays FAT session. I was so ready for some fun and some footbag.
The nature of the drive was quite different than most events. The conversation was not really footbag centred. My driving companion Steph is super awesome though. You may know her from her post about Honza’s video a few pages back in that rather controversiol discussion in my blog. She was a very helpful navigator which was awesome. My GPS is old and terrible so we had to rely on printouts from google maps to get there.
The border crossing went much smoother with one female friend compared to 4 male friends. Net footbag is also much easier to explain to border agents than freestyle. I might just start telling them that from now on. “It’s like badminton only you use your feet”.
After a quick pee/snack break we were back on the road somewhere in NY state. Obviously I was excited to get there. Maybe a little too excited. I look in my rearview and see those dreaded flashing lights. Apparently I was in a 35mph zone. I was clocked at 62. Shit.
Apparently they don’t tell you the penalty of these tickets until you plead guilty. What’s up with that? There’s a chance my license could get suspended in the states over this so I’m definitely going to have to try to fight it I think. Annoying. Wasn’t letting that get me down though!
The rest of the drive was fairly uneventful. There were some cool windey mountain roads that were really fun. We arrived on schedule at around midnight. The event was held at a really nice house in a valley in the middle of some gorgeous tree covered mountains. It was dark and we didn’t see the “footbag” sign but I figured it must be the place with lights on and a bunch of cars. The disk golf hole confirmed we were in the right place.
Lots of people were there already! I gave Drew and Nick big hugs. The freestylers were in the basement hanging out. Matt Kemmer was giving Ivan tips on Osis and other tricks. I was happy that some people were willing to shred with me because I was just itching to play after such a long drive. I met Dan, a new student of Matt. Polini was killing it! He has some insane flapper skills. So awesome. I think Jim also played with us for a while.
After a bit of shred we just chilled out and drank some beers. It was a lot of fun. Went to bed at 4.
Three hours later I was wide awake. The neat thing about net events is I’m not the only early riser! I had a quick shower and several other people were up already.
There was a TV in the kitchenette of the basement apartment where we slept. They had vintage footbag footage on it all day. Oldschool videos of events from the 90’s. The differences in style and difficulty was really interesting. So were the 90’s fashion choices. This was long before I was part of the scene. There seemed to be a lot of talk about players from long before my time.
There was a mission to the store for some food. I got a delicious bacon breakfast sandwich. There were amish people. Sorry you missed your chance Alex
Back at the house there was stuff happening. I was anxious to freestyle soon. I happened to walk outside for one reason or another and there was Ryan Thomas. I gave him a big hug. He is the reason I even thought to come out to this event. This was only our second time meeting and I was looking forward to getting more shred time in with this super cool player.
Early in the day Saturday the freestyle started. I had convinced Drew Martin to come out to the event and I also suggested it to Nick Polini and Matt Kemmer. I was stoked that they made it out with Ivan, Khoa, and Dan. There was a pretty decent shred deck going on and I got some good shred time in with pretty much everyone. It was like a mini freestyle event within a net event.
My game is feeling really good. Lots of highlights that I don’t remember.
I got a chance to have a circle kick with three other ladies which was really cool. This event was much more diverse that most freestyle events.
Ryan taught me doubles juggling where you pass back and fourth. It took a bunch of tries but I got it. He was surprised that I stuck with it. He must have forgot that I’m a freestyler
We also kicked a net bag for a while and he taught me the basic net kicks. Net is exhausting when you have to run for the bag all the time but I started to get the hang of it. I did one really sweet sole spike.I got tired out and we relaxed in the shade a bit.
By that point on Saturday I had pretty much exhausted all my energy. It was only about 3pm. I got dressed and spent that afternoon relaxing, enjoying the view and watching net matches. This was much more chill than most events where I’m trying to be everywhere and do all the things. There was not any wifi to distract and it was really refreshing.
A lot of people asked me about the skydiving event which was really cool. People seem to think it was an awesome idea
I was watching a doubles match. I’m not even sure who was playing but I know Ivan was kicking butt. This guy is good at everything. At some point something happened and he was on the ground holding his ankle. I didn’t see what happened but I thought it must be a rolled ankle or something. Ivan was really calm when he said something to the effect of “Can we go to the hospital, my achilles is gone” and that’s when I started freaking out in my head. How could he be so calm!? This was a disaster. He said it was numb and there wasn’t any pain which I was thankful for. I sat with him a minute and offered him beer. He seemed oddly fine. I had to leave to collect myself so that I wouldn’t start bawling.
When I came back there was a group of about 20 people standing around Ivan. I made a comment to Steph that I would hate to have all those people staring at me if that were me. It’s not like they could really help. They must have heard me because people walked away and the crowd was reduced to a much more reasonable number of people.
Ryan and Adrienne took Ivan to the hospital. The whole thing really hit close to home for a lot of us. It could have been anyone. Ivan didn’t do anything to deserve that it just sort of happened. This definitely put a damper on the mood that evening.
I didn’t want to be insensitive but I also didn’t want people to stop having fun. A bunch of freestylers decided they wanted to leave early because of this. I tried to convince them to stay but was not successful.
While we were waiting for news about Ivan I went for a walk with Nick, Matt, Khoa, and Dan. Nick really took this whole thing hard. The walk really helped and some unexpected stuff happened along the way. I touched the electric fence. There were also several UFO sightings that turned out to be floating lantern things.
I was glad I got to spend a little more time with these guys before they left. I made sure to give Nick an extra big hug that evening cause I knew he needed it.
There was a lot of waiting around to hear back about Ivan. Turned out he had a ruptured achilles. We found out that he wanted to come back to the event and stay the night still. I was pretty happy that I would get to see him again. They got back around 11pm or something like that. Ivan had his leg all wrapped up. He might need surgery on it when he gets back home. He was still more positive about the whole situation than some other people at the event. What an amazing person.
It just really sucks to see something like that happen to someone that is so awesome and was getting SO GOOD. I know he will be back before we know it but it’s still just a shame.
I usually want to hang out and party with everyone at events. This one was a little different because I don’t know all the net players as well and I just didn’t feel like being around a whole lot of people that night. I ended up spending the rest of the evening chilling up on the deck with Ryan. It was really nice. That human is something special. No wonder he has such a reputation. Give it up for Ryan Thomas
I have no idea what time I fell asleep but I woke up around 8:30 Sunday morning feeling amazing.
I played my first ever round of disc golf with Ryan, Jamie, and Joe. It was pretty fun even though I kinda suck. I got one really good putt at least.
I convinced Ryan and Drew to shred with me. It weird to have to specify what discipline at an event. Saying ‘let’’s footbag’ isn’t really specific enough when net and footbag golf is happening.
Ryan Thomas original:
This was a really great session! Drew is the best and Ryan just has crazy awesome style. He does tons of symple tricks and has really unique flow to his game. So awesome. Ivan sat and watched us play and I was glad that he seemed to be in a good mood. Some other players came in out of the circle breifly. Then Quinn joined us. She is the 14 year old daughter of some net players at the event. She seemed really interested in playing and stuck with us in the circle for a long time! She went from not having any stalls to all the basics and doing wrap arounds from insides. She had one run of stalls that must have been 8 or 10 contacts! She also footed atw a bunch. It was really cool that she was so stoked about it. She’s also just a really cool person. I’ve been saying for a while that the children of net players are the next generation of freestylers. This experience went a little way towards validation of that idea.
After a while we tired ourselves out. Such a good session. I sat with Ryan in the sunroom and we had some good conversation. It’s not like me to spend so much time with a single person at an event but I couldn’t resist. It tough when you make a close connection with someone that lives so far away. This certainly isn’t the first time it has happened. In fact there are so many people in the community that I've made connections with at events. I have special and unique relationships with so many great people. I’m getting better at handling saying goodbye. Thanks for the memories.
I heard this song today and it seems really fitting.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE[/youtube]
I think I watched a little more net on Sunday. I was planning to play a pickup game but was kinda turned off by the idea after seeing Ivan get hurt.
I met so many new people at this event and I feel bad because I didn’t do a great job remembering names. Anyways the net side of the sport is just as cool as the freestyle side. Everyone is so awesome and nice. I was relieved that Steph had a good time even though I was off doing my own thing a lot. She is pretty independent and spent a lot of time relaxing and reading.
Before it was time to go on Sunday I went on my usual hug spree. I gave Ivan, Drew and Ryan like six hugs each. Such awesome people.
The ride home was a happily uneventful 8 hours. When I got home and was reconnected to technology I learned that there would be a FAT session Monday morning with Andrew Dunford. I was kinda sad to miss the Sunday session with Andrew and Roy. Andrew is super awesome and I just had to take the opportunity to play with him today even though it’s supposed to be a school day.
I drove out to Christie Pits this morning and met up with Erik, Andrew, his girlfriend, and Camille. I was really glad I made it because this was an AMAZING session. omg.
Andrew is so much fun to play with and has such nice form for somebody who plays alone. Erik was playing SO WELL. Camille is making noticeable improvement.
My game was on point today. Just wow. I was feeling super positive and awesome.
Gyro DLO
Symp DLO BSOS first time hitting symp DLO today
Run with Atomic tricks and Zooming tricks BSOS
Spinning Osis BS
At one point it was just Erik and I and we got into a bunch of Osis tricks. I hit one run with a bunch of Osis and refractions and stuff. It felt really neat to do so much Osis. After Erik was like “that was a weird run”. Totally. Erik proceeded to do a bunch of cool Osis tricks and I would attempt to copy/do easier versions of what he was doing. It was neat.
Andrew was nice enough to donate a bag for the skydiving event even though he can’t make it. So nice
Then Ivan told me today that he would also donate one. Too freaking sweet. You guys are amazing.Anyways today was such a great extension to an amazing weekend!
Many love. Such inspiration. Wow.
Other shout outs:
Dan Greer is the man. What an awesome sense of humour.
Ted fritsch is crazy and also the man.
Hackysack Jack is cool shit.
Aint no is a crazy mofo.
Everyone else was awesome too. What a time.
This song is totally about my relationship with footbag:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFS69nA-1w[/youtube]
<3
Re: Feminine Freestyle
Cass wrote:The past three days. Just wow. Where to start. Get ready for a lengthy post.
Everyone bailed on my trip to the 10th annual PA net champs except my friend Steph that I go to school with. I was a little worried about bringing a non-footbag friend to a footbag event but I hoped that she would have fun.
We left Friday afternoon at 4pm. Last week was extremely stressful at school. I did 10-11 hour days and hadn’t played footbag since the previous Saturdays FAT session. I was so ready for some fun and some footbag.
The nature of the drive was quite different than most events. The conversation was not really footbag centred. My driving companion Steph is super awesome though. You may know her from her post about Honza’s video a few pages back in that rather controversiol discussion in my blog. She was a very helpful navigator which was awesome. My GPS is old and terrible so we had to rely on printouts from google maps to get there.
The border crossing went much smoother with one female friend compared to 4 male friends. Net footbag is also much easier to explain to border agents than freestyle. I might just start telling them that from now on. “It’s like badminton only you use your feet”.
After a quick pee/snack break we were back on the road somewhere in NY state. Obviously I was excited to get there. Maybe a little too excited. I look in my rearview and see those dreaded flashing lights. Apparently I was in a 35mph zone. I was clocked at 62. Shit.
Apparently they don’t tell you the penalty of these tickets until you plead guilty. What’s up with that? There’s a chance my license could get suspended in the states over this so I’m definitely going to have to try to fight it I think. Annoying. Wasn’t letting that get me down though!
The rest of the drive was fairly uneventful. There were some cool windey mountain roads that were really fun. We arrived on schedule at around midnight. The event was held at a really nice house in a valley in the middle of some gorgeous tree covered mountains. It was dark and we didn’t see the “footbag” sign but I figured it must be the place with lights on and a bunch of cars. The disk golf hole confirmed we were in the right place.
Lots of people were there already! I gave Drew and Nick big hugs. The freestylers were in the basement hanging out. Matt Kemmer was giving Ivan tips on Osis and other tricks. I was happy that some people were willing to shred with me because I was just itching to play after such a long drive. I met Dan, a new student of Matt. Polini was killing it! He has some insane flapper skills. So awesome. I think Jim also played with us for a while.
After a bit of shred we just chilled out and drank some beers. It was a lot of fun. Went to bed at 4.
Three hours later I was wide awake. The neat thing about net events is I’m not the only early riser! I had a quick shower and several other people were up already.
There was a TV in the kitchenette of the basement apartment where we slept. They had vintage footbag footage on it all day. Oldschool videos of events from the 90’s. The differences in style and difficulty was really interesting. So were the 90’s fashion choices. This was long before I was part of the scene. There seemed to be a lot of talk about players from long before my time.
There was a mission to the store for some food. I got a delicious bacon breakfast sandwich. There were amish people. Sorry you missed your chance Alex
Back at the house there was stuff happening. I was anxious to freestyle soon. I happened to walk outside for one reason or another and there was Ryan Thomas. I gave him a big hug. He is the reason I even thought to come out to this event. This was only our second time meeting and I was looking forward to getting more shred time in with this super cool player.
Early in the day Saturday the freestyle started. I had convinced Drew Martin to come out to the event and I also suggested it to Nick Polini and Matt Kemmer. I was stoked that they made it out with Ivan, Khoa, and Dan. There was a pretty decent shred deck going on and I got some good shred time in with pretty much everyone. It was like a mini freestyle event within a net event.
My game is feeling really good. Lots of highlights that I don’t remember.
I got a chance to have a circle kick with three other ladies which was really cool. This event was much more diverse that most freestyle events.
Ryan taught me doubles juggling where you pass back and fourth. It took a bunch of tries but I got it. He was surprised that I stuck with it. He must have forgot that I’m a freestyler
I got tired out and we relaxed in the shade a bit.
By that point on Saturday I had pretty much exhausted all my energy. It was only about 3pm. I got dressed and spent that afternoon relaxing, enjoying the view and watching net matches. This was much more chill than most events where I’m trying to be everywhere and do all the things. There was not any wifi to distract and it was really refreshing.
A lot of people asked me about the skydiving event which was really cool. People seem to think it was an awesome idea
I was watching a doubles match. I’m not even sure who was playing but I know Ivan was kicking butt. This guy is good at everything. At some point something happened and he was on the ground holding his ankle. I didn’t see what happened but I thought it must be a rolled ankle or something. Ivan was really calm when he said something to the effect of “Can we go to the hospital, my achilles is gone” and that’s when I started freaking out in my head. How could he be so calm!? This was a disaster. He said it was numb and there wasn’t any pain which I was thankful for. I sat with him a minute and offered him beer. He seemed oddly fine. I had to leave to collect myself so that I wouldn’t start bawling.
When I came back there was a group of about 20 people standing around Ivan. I made a comment to Steph that I would hate to have all those people staring at me if that were me. It’s not like they could really help. They must have heard me because people walked away and the crowd was reduced to a much more reasonable number of people.
Ryan and Adrienne took Ivan to the hospital. The whole thing really hit close to home for a lot of us. It could have been anyone. Ivan didn’t do anything to deserve that it just sort of happened. This definitely put a damper on the mood that evening.
I didn’t want to be insensitive but I also didn’t want people to stop having fun. A bunch of freestylers decided they wanted to leave early because of this. I tried to convince them to stay but was not successful.
While we were waiting for news about Ivan I went for a walk with Nick, Matt, Khoa, and Dan. Nick really took this whole thing hard. The walk really helped and some unexpected stuff happened along the way. I touched the electric fence. There were also several UFO sightings that turned out to be floating lantern things.
I was glad I got to spend a little more time with these guys before they left. I made sure to give Nick an extra big hug that evening cause I knew he needed it.
There was a lot of waiting around to hear back about Ivan. Turned out he had a ruptured achilles. We found out that he wanted to come back to the event and stay the night still. I was pretty happy that I would get to see him again. They got back around 11pm or something like that. Ivan had his leg all wrapped up. He might need surgery on it when he gets back home. He was still more positive about the whole situation than some other people at the event. What an amazing person.
It just really sucks to see something like that happen to someone that is so awesome and was getting SO GOOD. I know he will be back before we know it but it’s still just a shame.
I usually want to hang out and party with everyone at events. This one was a little different because I don’t know all the net players as well and I just didn’t feel like being around a whole lot of people that night. I ended up spending the rest of the evening chilling up on the deck with Ryan. It was really nice. That human is something special. No wonder he has such a reputation. Give it up for Ryan Thomas
I have no idea what time I fell asleep but I woke up around 8:30 Sunday morning feeling amazing.
I played my first ever round of disc golf with Ryan, Jamie, and Joe. It was pretty fun even though I kinda suck. I got one really good putt at least.
I convinced Ryan and Drew to shred with me. It weird to have to specify what discipline at an event. Saying ‘let’’s footbag’ isn’t really specific enough when net and footbag golf is happening.
Ryan Thomas original:
This was a really great session! Drew is the best and Ryan just has crazy awesome style. He does tons of symple tricks and has really unique flow to his game. So awesome. Ivan sat and watched us play and I was glad that he seemed to be in a good mood. Some other players came in out of the circle breifly. Then Quinn joined us. She is the 14 year old daughter of some net players at the event. She seemed really interested in playing and stuck with us in the circle for a long time! She went from not having any stalls to all the basics and doing wrap arounds from insides. She had one run of stalls that must have been 8 or 10 contacts! She also footed atw a bunch. It was really cool that she was so stoked about it. She’s also just a really cool person. I’ve been saying for a while that the children of net players are the next generation of freestylers. This experience went a little way towards validation of that idea.
After a while we tired ourselves out. Such a good session. I sat with Ryan in the sunroom and we had some good conversation. It’s not like me to spend so much time with a single person at an event but I couldn’t resist. It tough when you make a close connection with someone that lives so far away. This certainly isn’t the first time it has happened. In fact there are so many people in the community that I've made connections with at events. I have special and unique relationships with so many great people. I’m getting better at handling saying goodbye. Thanks for the memories.
I heard this song today and it seems really fitting.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE[/youtube]
I think I watched a little more net on Sunday. I was planning to play a pickup game but was kinda turned off by the idea after seeing Ivan get hurt.
I met so many new people at this event and I feel bad because I didn’t do a great job remembering names. Anyways the net side of the sport is just as cool as the freestyle side. Everyone is so awesome and nice. I was relieved that Steph had a good time even though I was off doing my own thing a lot. She is pretty independent and spent a lot of time relaxing and reading.
Before it was time to go on Sunday I went on my usual hug spree. I gave Ivan, Drew and Ryan like six hugs each. Such awesome people.
The ride home was a happily uneventful 8 hours. When I got home and was reconnected to technology I learned that there would be a FAT session Monday morning with Andrew Dunford. I was kinda sad to miss the Sunday session with Andrew and Roy. Andrew is super awesome and I just had to take the opportunity to play with him today even though it’s supposed to be a school day.
I drove out to Christie Pits this morning and met up with Erik, Andrew, his girlfriend, and Camille. I was really glad I made it because this was an AMAZING session. omg.
Andrew is so much fun to play with and has such nice form for somebody who plays alone. Erik was playing SO WELL. Camille is making noticeable improvement.
My game was on point today. Just wow. I was feeling super positive and awesome.
Gyro DLO
Symp DLO BSOS first time hitting symp DLO today
Run with Atomic tricks and Zooming tricks BSOS
Spinning Osis BS
Cleared a nuke set
Doof>toestall first set ever out of this position
At one point it was just Erik and I and we got into a bunch of Osis tricks. I hit one run with a bunch of Osis and refractions and stuff. It felt really neat to do so much Osis. After Erik was like “that was a weird run”. Totally. Erik proceeded to do a bunch of cool Osis tricks and I would attempt to copy/do easier versions of what he was doing. It was neat.
Andrew was nice enough to donate a bag for the skydiving event even though he can’t make it. So nice
Anyways today was such a great extension to an amazing weekend!
Many love. Such inspiration. Wow.
Other shout outs:
Dan Greer is the man. What an awesome sense of humour.
Ted fritsch is crazy and also the man.
Hackysack Jack is cool shit.
Aint no is a crazy mofo.
Everyone else was awesome too. What a time.
This song is totally about my relationship with footbag:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFS69nA-1w[/youtube]
<3
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Nice triple post. Awesome write up! It's cool that you got another really cool and totally different footbag day right after getting home. Doesn't usually happen like that, usually you have to wait a long time for the next one, haha.
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Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
The landscape there is just spectacular. Would love to go sometime. Glad to hear a lot of the freestyle guys tried out net. Too bad Ivan got hurt so badly though. I think he will be back even stronger in the future. Hope so anyway, he seems to have had a tough year.
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Yeah modified was being wack. I remembered a couple more highlights and tried to edit my post but instead it made a new post for some reason. Then I tried to edit that one and made a third one accidentally? I gave up at that point haha.
That extra footbag day was a really great way to help mitigate the post event depression. Gonna try and stay positive today. It's rainy here right now which seems fitting. I now need 150% productivity today and tomorrow to make up for totally bailing on school yesterday..
And yeah, PA is absolutely gorgeous! It's amazing how different the landscape is just driving 6 hours south.
It was really cool to have a freestyle presence at a net event. I'm not sure why the communities separate themselves so much. Everyone is so awesome.
That extra footbag day was a really great way to help mitigate the post event depression. Gonna try and stay positive today. It's rainy here right now which seems fitting. I now need 150% productivity today and tomorrow to make up for totally bailing on school yesterday..
And yeah, PA is absolutely gorgeous! It's amazing how different the landscape is just driving 6 hours south.
It was really cool to have a freestyle presence at a net event. I'm not sure why the communities separate themselves so much. Everyone is so awesome.
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Amazing writeup, thanks for posting that! I'm totally regretting not going now
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Dudeeee why haven't we played together yet?
I'm totally willing to drive out to you some weekend! I will bring people!
So I just did a little research and the ticket is pretty rough. Ontario and NY state share information about this sort of thing. I don't want my insurance rates to get jacked up so I just forked out $500 to hire a lawyer to fight my case. They seem really helpful and take all the stress out of my hands. I can fight it without driving several hours and taking time off to show up in court. They have lots of good reviews online so my fingers are crossed. It would have cost me $700 and 4 points in Ontario as well as 6 points in NY so they should be able to help me out with that.
There goes most of my footbag event savings..
The trip was still worth it
I'm totally willing to drive out to you some weekend! I will bring people!
So I just did a little research and the ticket is pretty rough. Ontario and NY state share information about this sort of thing. I don't want my insurance rates to get jacked up so I just forked out $500 to hire a lawyer to fight my case. They seem really helpful and take all the stress out of my hands. I can fight it without driving several hours and taking time off to show up in court. They have lots of good reviews online so my fingers are crossed. It would have cost me $700 and 4 points in Ontario as well as 6 points in NY so they should be able to help me out with that.
There goes most of my footbag event savings..
The trip was still worth it
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
The drawing by Ryan Thomas was from last year hanging in the house. I think someone just messed up on the net brackets.
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Those are draws from 2013. I thought they may have had them for fun comparison.
AWESOME PA Invitational write up indeed!
AWESOME PA Invitational write up indeed!
Ryan Thomas
Re: Feminine Freestyle - PA Net Champs write up!
Two things -- super appropriate song. And also we should have classic video screenings post-session more often! We could congregate at Camille's house. I have a box full of old VHS tapes and no VCR
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