Allan's Footblog

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F[uns]tylin' Eclectic wrote: But yeah I am following that too. I'm really hoping they're all serious.
They're not serious :) Like, I'm sure Ahren is serious about playing again, but everybody getting together? I dunno. Eli is actually coming over this weekend from Vancouver, and we've got plans to shred, so that's happening.

Thanks for the kind words, Nick :)
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Eliot just left. He came through town on Monday and we had a pretty good session in Beacon Hill park. I didn't play great. It was Eli's first time in over three years, but he was still busting out tomahawk > tomahawk and some solid 10-15 contact runs.

We hung out that evening, but then he took off to camp along the coast at Botanical Beach for a couple of nights.

On Tuesday, Matt & I played. I got some video. I played OK. I got a ducking bronze badge. One of these days I'll edit out the clip and claim it :) Matt played his usual game.

Eliot came back a day early because his dog (Lucy) needed some help with one of her paws, so we had a beer or two and watched a skate video (Pretty Sweet).

He roamed around the city today while I was at work, and then we met Matt at the museum and had a solid three-person shred. We were all playing pretty good. I had a couple of 30+ contacts runs with decent density. Eli hit shooting butterfly > 15 or so contacts that included one other move that made me happy, but I can't remember what it was. He hit blurry drifter first & second try (after more than 3 years!). Matt's been really taking it up a notch recently, hitting more consistent ~10 contact runs with lots of variety. My last run had DSO > ISO BSOS in amongst 30 - 40 other contacts with a bunch of 5s ... it felt great. I ended the session with it, as I'm trying harder these days to end things on a positive note.

No video on any of it :(

Eli had to work tomorrow morning, so he's off back to Vancouver, but I think I can get him to play more often. I'll have to take trips over there and drag him out.

Fun :)
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Very cool read. I'm excited that you got Eli to play. Wish there was some footy, but what are you gonna do? Just glad you guys played again. Sounds like he's not lost "it". I wish I could understand insipins like you. It's one thing I just can't wrap my head around. Any tips would be appreciated and totally sick. Speaking of sick.. I, too, enjoy throwing a skate video on from time to time. I skated for like 9 years. Old habits die hard, eh? I still have to look out the Window if I hear those wheels rolling by. Good times. Sick DSO>iso bsos combo too. Hope you band Eli play again soon. Sorry for the absolute chaos of this post. About to get to bed and thoughts are not organized. Woot. You're the man.
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Testing 123. Edit.
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You see this yet?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4R2tViZDSY[/youtube]

Think you can get 11 Allan? I think you can.
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I had not seen this! Crazy. I'm stoked. I can do it.
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First flip spinning symposium twirl yesterday... came damn close to BSOS. I'm wanting to get slowly more and more comfortable with my flip simp. twirl so that I can achieve my 2014 mission of flip green eggs & ham.

I went out and did some ledge-work the other day. I filmed it, but I didn't really get a lot that I'd want to publish. I did hit PDLO-UP (make sense? paradox double legover, up) but it's a bit more than that, as I turn 180 after the set; I face the ledge and set high from the (left) clipper, spin (right) the 180 and then do the DLO on the way up. I hit it a couple of times, but wasn't able to do anything out of it. I hope to have some video of that & more ... sometime.

I guess that's all for now.
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Hit stepping far symposium twirl BSOS yesterday; SFST > down > SFST > weak osis > hand catch. Started from flip.

What's "revup"?? Reverse swirling opp. pickup? It's like blink, but picked up instead of just to toe?

I also hit atomic symposium reverse swirling pickup the other day ... it was fun.

Heading to the petting zoo now to punch goats in the face :)
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Rev up is like blink just picked up. I've always enjoyed symp rev up, actually a bit more than symp twirls :p atomic symp rev up is a super cool rare trick, props.
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Thanks for the clarification brianbear :)

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Awesome. Thank you.
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You are a disgustingly awe-mazing man, Allan.

Thanks for the very cool stuff (video-wise and modified-wise and footbag community-wise and perhaps otherwise).
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thanks for that last video. tapping symp revup (right?) was great
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Always look forward to videos from you, Allan. This one was a lot of fun. Thank you
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Thanks for the video. Digging the symp twirls (esp on flip) and revups.
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A couple of notes about the video:

- I'm seriously stoked on flip symp. twirl.
- The audio is off by, like, a second. #annoying
- I mostly don't like bongo drum music like this; these guys were just playing in the last spot after being denied in two other spots. I probably should have gotten their info as their music is in my video.
- The fairy symposium revup was attempt #22 :lol: and a first for me. It was my flip revup, so I'm thinking BSOS for this trick in the not-so-distant future.
- The marius > pswhirl was a request from Matt; that was attempt 3, I think. I got flip marius, but no ps whirl.
- I called the spinning combo at the end as a request to myself of sorts. I don't generally plan _anything_ about my game (it's partly why I'm so repetitive). Oddly enough, I only called it one side, and trying it flipside felt like an afterthought. I don't know if this is good or bad :) I guess I don't care.

It's not summer any more. Next sessions will likely be indoors.
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Just waiting another bit for Vimeo to get their act together ...

This is a very rare session in that we started at 11:30AM. I've not played footbag this early in quite some time. I was feeling pretty good. Despite this, I'm really quite out of shape, which I definitely feel is holding me back. It's just my usual fair, nothing groundbreaking here :)

Stepping Near Symposium Twirl, BSOS.

This is from a couple of weeks ago:
I don't have much to say about this one. Just my usual...
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Your skill has been excellent since I started in footbag and your style has become really tight too. Enjoyed watching these. consistent. Love the shoes as well!
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I took the better part of a few weeks off from playing, and the weather completely turned in the meantime. Finally getting back to it, Matt & I paid the drop-in fee at the Y, defeated at not having been productive in finding an alternative spot, but grateful that it was there for us. We started out playing in the gym, but basketballers kicked us out; turns out, it was all good, as the squash/volley ball court was open and that's a better spot. I fucked up the video from that part though: it's all out of focus :( I hit some stuff; felt pretty good. Just short runs, standard fare for me.
Other stuff is happening. I started on that shred shoe finder app, which is fun. I'm hoping to put in a couple of hours on it tomorrow. I've got a couple of other footbag projects on the go too. The other day I heard from Steve for the first time in a long time; he's got something cool cooking up that I might get to work on, but I gotta learn a new framework for it; I should definitely do that...

I'll be super-duper stoked the day Holly finishes the logo off. The site will look sooo much cooler! I'm purposefully keeping things extremely minimal right now, but I'm going to start adding stuff in soonish. Rather big changes are afoot :D
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