Well!
Yesterday was pretty eventful!
As mentioned I was pretty fucked. Dan, Rory and Jesse were like 2 hours late. A good friend of mine who I used to go to school with turned up with a friend. We kicked pretty light, and played some four square while waiting for Dan and co to turn up. I won both games
. - I'm pretty sure I was the most experienced 4 square player though.
When we finally got into some shredding, I was playing pretty poorly – it’s way too hot for me and having played two 6 hour sessions in a row as well as a hang over didn't help. I think I might have hit some ok stuff. I thought people were giving me props way too easily. At one stage I hit neutron smasher after 3 or 4 attempts and could only seal it with a toe stall but still got props - neutron smasher isn't very hard when you know how to do it and considering the day before I footed pixie neutron smasher a few times, I didn't think I deserved it. I think I made a silly facial expression or something that was on tape.
The real highlight came when this hot young blond (actually all the girls in Brisbane are hot) came up to me and said "You're amazing, can I have your autograph" and got me to sign her arm and later gave me her phone number. My reaction was very uncool I think - mainly because I was embarrassed and surprised. I just mean that I laughed and hid my face in my hands or something like that - It's on camera anyway. It's hard to write on flesh and I have a shit signature too. I've only signed 4 autographs in my life I think (not counting signing peoples shirts at the end of a school year and stuff like that) - It made me feel pretty good anyway. - Half the incident is on camera and I think I'll call her sometime this morning. It could well turn out to be a situation that is technically illegal but I'm only here for 3 more days (counting today)
We had some shred off battles that Dan won overall. I lost to Ian when I dropped blurry whirl (later I learnt that Ian went really easy
- although I guess it was justice since I bailed to a mirage in the battle before against Rory just as he dropped it). Jesse did really well and came 2nd. I really like shred battles because it gives everybody a much more equal chance of winning.
We did a sick 3 as well - which was an awesome format. Basically we said that you have about 5 attempts at each time - but we rotated around so you could have as many attempts as you want. You'd have to change this format a little for bigger events but it made the event heaps more fun - there was no pressure and you were much free-er to try more interesting combos instead of pre planned sick 3s.
I only hit one good combo which was my standard - sumo>phoenix>ps whirl as well as a bonus combo for Anssi
but I also tried a lot of cool combos and it gave me a lot of ideas.
Dan hit a lot of combos - the ones I remember which I think were the best are - blurry whirl>blurry whirl>spinning whirl, fog>pixie whirl>blurry whirl, vortex>swirl>torque.
Everyone else hit some good combos as well. Also Ian hit paradon swirl and Jesse hit beta assassin - although neither were linked to anything.
I'm not really sure who one. I think we may put them up on the net and get people to vote for the best combo or something. I'd like to think that mine was the best since it had 3 completely unique moves - no component was repeated and the first link is moderately hard although I guess the second isn't. Clearly I'm biased though and you should make up your own minds (I'm just campaigning anyway
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We shredded for a while longer although my legs were really sore and I ended up stopping. This is particularly eventful because on the first two days I was the only person who played from the start of the session to the end without taking a break at all. Still my legs feel better now. And I think I was hitting a lot of "the" stuff near the end - I'd hit like 2 or 3 moves - "the" something and pass it off - so it was probably a waste of time me playing.
Dan was playing really well and hitting some awesome stuff. He hit three consecutive blurry whirls and some long runs with lots of hard stuff in it - vortex>swirl seems like an easy link for him these days.
We had pizza for dinner and then had a bit of a fire hacky kick. I got hit in the face and lost some of my beautiful hair
but it was heaps of fun. Rory was the bravest person I think and actually head butted the bag a few times. I tried a couple of moves but I was too tired. I did foot janiwalker when the bag had gone out and probably would have hit it if it weren't so dark (I kicked it back up - so I guess you can call it a janiwalker standing clipper or something - tough 4 add!)
Having hardly slept for the last few days, I pretty much passed out after that.
Today we're going busking in the city and later having some kind of jam with lots of jugglers. I think I should play well since my legs have healed a bit - Oh I should mention I iced them in a bucket of water and ice when we got home - I think that really helps recovery.
Peace
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