We arrived at the venue by about 2pm. Zach rented out a gym space in an elementary school. It was super dope for a five person shred!
We walked in to find Zach and Alex playing the new Smash Bro’s game on a TV that they brought. So random! The gym was booked 12-6 so they brought it just in case they were bored waiting for us to show up.
We had access to the equipment room with all the toys and balls and stuff which was super dope!
We got to shred pretty much right away. I think I played alright at the beginning. After about an hour Johnny arrived! I have seen him a couple times recently but this would be our first actual shred together in a while. I didn’t mind the five person shred too much because I wasn’t feeling super energetic. Often people would leave the circle to take a break and we would have a good 3-4 person shred.
The Ontario scene is definitely a unique one. It’s often difficult to stay focused, especially with Zach and Alex around - they are so fucking hilarious. Johnny definitely makes it worse because he instigates the hilarity. Some seriously funny conversations about body hair and other things went down. I laughed SO FUCKING MUCH on Saturday omg.
At some point Alex wanted to change up the playlist and put some really obnoxious super fast rap stuff on. It was absolutely terrible for shred. He thought we didn’t like it because the lyrics were offensive but the beat was honestly just impossible to shred to. Johnny made some comment about it and Alex changed the song to one that sounded EXACTLY THE SAME. I nearly died. I literally rofled. I think it was something you had to be there for. So fucking hilarious. These guys kill me.
Johnny hit Fairy muted Dyno>Swifter which was a super rad stylish combo. It inspired me to hit Fairy muted Dyno>Ripwalk which felt super neat.
I was happy to find out that Zach and Alex have been playing together a lot lately. Alex has noticeably improved and has some new tricks up his sleeve which was cool to see. Camille has great flow to her game. Zach has awesome style and nice consistency. He is always a pleasure to shred with. Johnny complained that he is out of practice. But he is still the Canadian hero. I told him that this is the worst excuse not to go to NYJ because he still kicks ass.
Both Alex and Zach were shredding in modded Sketchers. They are really light and seem decent for footbag. I’m not sure what model they are though. It was cool to see a different shoe being used.
We had a really fun shred with good vibes and lots of laughs until about 5pm. At that point we got out the scoops and balls from the equipment room and had some epic battles. It was really fun to double fist the scoops and just whip balls all over the place. We are such children. It was great. This is the most running around I’ve done in some time.
After that Alex, Zach, Camille, and Johnny played some dodgeball. I was pretty tired and decided to sit out for the sake of my shoulder. I spent some time stretching and enjoyed watching the dodgebattle.
Once we packed all our stuff up, Zach headed home to get ready for the party that evening and the rest of us headed over to Alex’s place to shower and chill for a bit. His roommates seem more chill than his old ones which is cool. We played bananagrams with scrabble tiles.
We were to head over to Zach’s place by 8pm. By this point we were ravenous. We were totally the fat kids at the party. There were other people there but I just had no interest in meeting people with this level of hunger. We devoured food with no shame. There was pizza, nachos, spinach dip, veggies, fruit, candy and other good stuff.
It’s difficult to be interested in socializing with non-footbag people after a full day of shred.
Johnny, Alex, Camille and I embarked on an interesting spiritual adventure of sorts. I knew I would have an awesome time because these humans are amazing. Unfortunately the vibes of the party didn’t quite match and the rap music that was playing was sort of terrible imo. We spent a good amount of the time upstairs in the bedroom laughing our asses off about nothing. First we were the fat kids, now the antisocial weirdos laughing at the ceiling. Awesome.
After a while most people had left the party and we were chilling in the living room with Zach, his wife Helen and a couple other people maybe. Zach did some comedy for us and just had us roaring with laughter. He was fucking hilarious. He did a sort of mime act with this chicken hat that he shoved a shirt in. The things he did to that chicken.. must not be repeated. I honestly can’t find words to do it justice but it was fucking hilarious.
Zach owns all sorts of weird massage contraptions. Zach massaging Alex on the floor with one of them and him making orgasm sounds.
The weird glowy electronic massager.
“What is art?” was sort of the theme of the weekend. I can’t even remember how this started. Zach laying the chicken egg. “Now that is art!”
We got to sleep pretty late. I woke up around 9:30 the next morning but ended up falling back asleep until past noon. I didn’t even feel bad about that because I definitely needed the sleep. Hanging out Sunday afternoon was really enjoyable. Zach made us a nice breakfast including bacon, eggs, hash browns, and pancakes. We played some smash bro’s and also watched the videos of Zach that Camille took the night before. Yep, still funny. I wish I had a copy of that
I’m so grateful that I got a chance to spend some quality time with these awesome people! I enjoyed this mini event a great deal and it’s really tricky to do it justice with a blog post.
Zach and Helen were great hosts! Hopefully another London event can happen in the spring because that venue would be perfect for a larger jam.
After a brief stop at Alex’s place and some good hugs Camille and I headed back eastward.
What a fun weekend!
Both Monday and Tuesday of this weekend I had solo sessions for about 30 minutes before doing yoga. It felt really good to play alone without any pain. I’m still trying to take it easy but I think I will be able to get back to proper training pretty soon. I have a full hour massage tomorrow which I’m definitely looking forward to. I'm also looking forward to a chill weekend involving lots of rest this week.
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