Riku's Footblog

riku · Post by **riku** » 20 Jul 2004 01:58

Hi! My name is Riku Ahola and I am 15 years old. I live in Espoo, which is in Finland.
I`ve been playing freestyle for 15 months now in a team called SixBag. I usually play with a FelixBag,
but I lost it

and now I`ve been playing with a Mr. sandman. I bought a new FelixBag at the Euros
so maybe in a week from now I`ll start playing with that bag.

Yesterday (19.7.) I had a half an hour shred with my brother, Samu.
I hit blurriest for the first time and paradon>down double down.
Flip atom smasher and flip barfly were close. I`ll hit them today. I promise.

Some goals:
1. Bap drill
2. Atom smasher back-to-back
3. 5-5-5 (darkwalk>tomahawk>something or Phoenix>GYBAS>something)
4. Spinning whirl
5. Pdx blender
6. To be in the Top 10 in this years finnish footbag championships (intermediate)

Well, better get practising..

P.S. It`s okay to post replys to my Footblog.

riku · Post by **riku** » 21 Jul 2004 06:36

I had a really good shred with Pillar, Mikko and Iiro yesterday (20.7.)
I hit bubba beater, flip stepping ss mirage, fairy butterfly and fairy ss mirage.

Today I hit barrage when I was playing in a outdoor swimming-thing for about fifteen minutes. Flurry and Baroque would be so nice to hit! But it`s gonna take a while before I`ll hit those...

mouseman · Post by **mouseman** » 21 Jul 2004 16:30

blurriest, nice :) the coolest trick :)

riku · Post by **riku** » 23 Jul 2004 01:10

Yes!! I hit pdx. eggbeater in my room! There was no space for any long strings so I had to just try some new tricks. Good thing I did!

Yea, I like Blurriest too.

riku · Post by **riku** » 27 Jul 2004 04:47

Smog, flip smear, flip magellan, flip barfly.

Two months to finnish footbag championships! Can`t wait!

riku · Post by **riku** » 29 Jul 2004 03:29

Yesterday I played with Mika "Iceman" Koistinen.
I hit flipside atom smasher(!), pdx torque(!) and pdx blender(!)
Spinning whirl rolled off few times..

I have hit five moves of trippless:
Blur>Dimwalk>Sidewalk>Ripwalk>pdx whirl

Today I`ll hit seven:
Parkwalk>Blur>Dimwalk>Sidewalk>Ripwalk>Pdx whirl>Down double down

Lauri · Post by **Lauri** » 29 Jul 2004 04:30

Awesome Riku!! Pdx eggbeater?! Without lavers?

riku · Post by **riku** » 02 Aug 2004 02:01

WITH lavers..

Don`t have any time left to write so I´ll write some other time..

riku · Post by **riku** » 05 Aug 2004 02:41

I´ve been practising alone and with some friends in the past 1½ weeks.
I`ve hit six tricks of tripless, 7 ripwalks, ripwalk>step. clipper>repeat, motion, fear, ps mirage and my first 5>5 which is phoenix>blurrier!

My guiltless strings are much longer now, but I still like to do some two add tricks (mirage,legover and specially far legover).

Some big tricks I´ve almost hit:
scorpions tail, paradon swirl, ripstein, pigbeater and spinning whirl.

I have this problem with my spins: If I try to do it smoothly, the bag will fly somewhere where I can`t catch it. That`s why I have to do my spins like this: First I set the bag pretty high and watch it going up. Then I´ll do the spin. It really isn`t smooth at all.. And that`s why I can`t do any gyro tricks.

riku · Post by **riku** » 06 Aug 2004 01:23

Yesterday I played with Tuomas. I hit Beta blur and both side toe drifters.
Pdx drifter and smoke were close..

I had a few pretty long tiltless strings (12-20 contacts) with only about two or three two add tricks.

riku · Post by **riku** » 06 Aug 2004 01:26

I also hit slapping butterfly.

Slapping=Quantum ss. Right?

_Dimi · Post by **_Dimi** » 06 Aug 2004 03:21

jep, propseja, varsinki 5-5 komposta

riku · Post by **riku** » 09 Aug 2004 04:21

Tack so mycket, Juuso!

I have had two sessions since the last time I posted here:

7.8. I had a good session with Tumpe. I hit spinning whirl and smoke (after trying it for twenty minutes).

8.8. I played with tumpe and pillar. I hit pdx. drifter. It wasn`t a great session for me but for pillar it was! Damn he was in flames!!

riku · Post by **riku** » 10 Aug 2004 03:36

Yesterday I played with 5 (!) other guys. I hit beta Smear, matador, 26 whirls, 11 ripwalks, symp. whirl for the second time (It`s been like three months since I hit that last time) and I had one veeerrryyy looooong string. I`m pretty sure that was the longest string I`ve ever hit!

There was also a guy from Austria: Bernhard. He was pretty good. He`ll be staying here in Finland for ten months.

riku · Post by **riku** » 11 Aug 2004 05:36

Yesterday (10.

I played with some guys I haven`t played before. They were all better than me, but it was nice playing with them. I hit pixie butterfly swirl and pixie eggbeater at first try! And I also hit Ripstein!

Today at school I hit swirling mirage and butterfly rev. swirl!

riku · Post by **riku** » 12 Aug 2004 08:23

I played with Ilkka yesterday and I hit stomping DLO and
rev. swirling pick-up!

I`ve played like a maniac lately I haven`t had anymore than about five resting days in a month! And now when school started I play at least an hour five days a week! Plus other sessions after school!!!!!

riku · Post by **riku** » 17 Aug 2004 01:22

New tricks: Pdx DLO, flip DLO, DLO BSOS, Drifter Back-to-back, spinning ducking clipper and ducking butterfly kick.
Strings: 7 moves of tripless, Ducking clipper>diving clipper>repeat in
mid string and ripwalk>stepping clipper>repeat in mid string.

riku · Post by **riku** » 17 Aug 2004 01:23

Oh, and Zig Zag was close.

riku · Post by **riku** » 20 Aug 2004 03:45

Yesterday I was playing with about twenty other guys (and Verena)! HUGE!!!
Didn`t hit any new tricks but I did bust two ddd`s in a row.

riku · Post by **riku** » 25 Aug 2004 01:24

I haven`t hit any new tricks but my spinning is pretty good now.