eBo's Footbag History

[ebo]

edit: move history added. i found this textfile on a backup-cdr -
my whole progress ever since I hit my first mirage (which was the
beginning of freestyle footbag for me..)

bf means barefoot - I had no decent shoes
and I shredded barefoot in my room before I got my first pair of lavers...


Ende 05.03 *mirage*

01.06.03 mirage>mirage

02.06.03 *legover*

03.06.03 *pixie mirage*

11.06.03 *far guay*

12.06.03 *pdx mirage*
*ducking clipper*

16.06.03 *pixie butterfly* (first 4-add!)
*osis*
*drifter* (the)

03.07.03 *ducking butterfly*

03.08.03 *far legover*
guay>far guay

04.08.03 drifter (hochgeworfen)

05.08.03 first 3>3>3: butterfly>pdx guay>butterfly

09.08.03 *fairy*

09.08.03 first 5-add!! (*pixie ducking butterfly*) - clean!

10.08.03 3>2>3: pixie clipper>far guay>butterfly

11.08.03 *ducking mirage* 2x! (barfuß)
osis>ss butterfly
osis>os butterfly
osis>ss mirage

04.09.03 *pixie sameside mirage* (2x)
ducking mirage
*pixie sameside guay*

06.09.03 legover>pixie butterfly
legover>pixie clipper
mirage>pixie clipper
mirage>pixie butterfly
pixie mirage>pixie butterfly (after 100 tries...)

10.09.03 *magellan* (pixie ss legover) (barfuß)

12.09.03 bf: *flipside atw* (!)
legover 7x!
neck stall>pincher

16.09.03 *symposium mirage*

18.09.03 bf: mir>leg>mir>leg>mir

19.09.03 bf: mir>leg>mir>leg>mir>leg>mir>leg>mir>(leg?) (9-10 contact string...)

21.09.03 bf: leg x13
mir>leg x4
pixie ss legover>pixie mirage>pixie legover>legover

22.09.03 bf: legover x16

24.09.03 bf: mirage>legover x6 gelinked (12 contacts)
4xflipside mirage

26.09.03 bf: *double around the world*!

28.09.03 bf: *double legover*!!
mirage x10+

29.09.03 bf: *pixie ducking mirage*

30.09.03 bf: flipside mirage>legover>illusion>pickup>mirage>mirage
bf: *pixie pickup*>mirage>legover>mirage>pickup>pickup>mirage>
ss legover>toe stall>mirage (long run, almost tiltless!)

07.10.03 bf: pixie ss legover> pixie mirage>pixie legover>mirage>legover>pixie pickup
*pixie illusion*

09.10.03 bf: magellan x4
legover x28
*pixie ss illusion*

11.10.03 bf: magellanx5
flipside ducking clipper

12.10.03 bf: flip atw io>flip atw io>flip atw io>atw io>datw
bf: goodside: atw io>atw oi>atw io>datw

15.10.03 bf: *flipside pixie mirage*
*flipside pixie legover*
*flipside pixie pickup*

22.10.03 bf: 36xlegover
6xmagellan

25.10.03 bf: flipside pixie legover>pixie legover

26.10.03 clipper set ducking clipper

27.10.03 bf: ducking legover

30.10.03 clipper>neck stall>calf stall

*************************** 31.10.03 - Rod Lavers!!! *******************************

31.10.03 butterfly>ss pickup>flip butterfly>ss pickup
butterfly>infinity>infinity
*crispy Pixie ss Osis*
*clipper set ducking butterfly*
*RIPWALK!*

01.11.03 2 Ripwalks
33 goodside clippers
8-10 flipside clippers
3 infinities

02.11.03 *Flipside ducking Legover*
*Flipside ducking Clipper*
*Whirl*
*Blurry Legover*
Pixie Clipper>Far Guay>Butterfly>Pdx Mirage

07.11.03 Toe Set Ducking Clipper>Ducking Clipper

14.11.03 21x mirage (goodside)

15.11.03 *flip pdx mirage*
flip atw o-i>flip atw i-o>atw o-i>atw i-o>clipper>flip clipper>osis>bail

17.11.03 36x legover



29.12.03 first session after 2 months off (calf injury)! new bag (sole ass. black/orange)
*inside around the world* (both) (goodside)
*toe set diving butterfly*
*BLUR* (blurry mirage) 2x

30.12.03 far legover bsos
pdx mirage bsos
inside atw o-i>inside atw i-o


07.01.04 *clip set diving clipper*
*clip set diving butterfly*
guay bsos
flipside clipper slowly getting solid. slowly.

12.01.04 zum ersten mal mit max+seiner schwester in der halle
osis>osis

19.01.04 *clip set drifter* clean!

22.01.04 *swirl* 3x
butterfly>pdx mirage 3x
*clip set double legover*

06.02.04 waldschwaigsee-warm-winter shred mit max..
osis>ducking clipper (2x)
osis>ss osis>ss osis
5x ss butterfly

07.02.04 osis>osis>osis>osis>drop (alternating)

08.02.04 *toe set ducking mirage* (both sides)
*toe set ducking legover* (both sides)
clip set ducking legover
*clip set clipper* (bsos, crispy, not sealed yet)

09.02.04 *clip set weaving butterfly*

11.02.04 *FIRST 3-DEX!!* - *Pixie Double Legover* (barefoot)

12.02.04 butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>pdx mirage>butterfly>drop

16.02.04 18 contact-tiltless run
lot's of legovers, then pixie legover>legover repeatx4
pixie mirage>pixie clipper>far legover>pixie butterfly>far legover>pixie ss mirage
ducking paradox mirage (goodside)
clipper>ss clipper> repeat 5-6x

23.02.04 gute session, mal nur mit Max' Mars gezockt...
flipside wird langsam solide;
ss clipper goodside 30-40, flipside 13
*clip set diving mirage*
*clip set diving butterfly*
clip set diving clipper
butterfly>ss butterfly>infinity>ss butterfly
hopover>reverse hopover
*flipside hopover*
*zoid ss mirage*

29.02.04 butterfly>pdx mirage 4x

03.03.04 osis>osis>osis>osis (alternating)

04.03.04 *clip set ducking osis*
toe set ducking osis>osis
4 alternating osis' (3x)

07.03.04 bf: pixie legover>pixie legover (first flipside pixie move!)

08.03.04 clip set ducking clipper>osis>pdx mirage

09.03.04 *gyro mirage*

10.03.04 strong osis>ducking osis

02.04.04 great outdoor summer session with Max after 3 week break!
*flip blurry clipper*
*flip ripwalk*
several ripwalks
blurry clipper mid-string
longer tiltless runs (10-12)
Max hist 14-string combo with Ripwalk midstring and Flail!

05.04.04 A feast for my strong side; getting the stepping set down a lot more consistant!
Several Ripwalks (strong)
A couple of Blurs
Blurry Legover
*Blurry Pickup*
*Blurry Osis*
*Stepping ss clipper* a couple of times
*Stepping ss Butterfly*
*Stepping ss legover* (Shmoe)
*stepping ss mirage*

6.04.04 Ripwalk mid-run! (mirage>butterfly>ripwalk>osis)

15.04.04 *Drifter* endlich clean!

16.04.04 Drifter mid-run

18.04.04 flip Ripwalk 2x
*flip Drifter*
Mirage>Drifter>Osis>Toe>mirage>drifter

19.04.04 Flipside Drifter
Strong Drifters ein paar
*Clipper set Drifter (both sides)*
*Flipside Ducking Pdx Mirage*
*Flipside Blurry Legover*
*Flipside Blur*
*einige cleane flipside Ripwalks..
*Flip Ducking Clipper>Ducking Clipper (2x)
close to Flipside Stepping ss butterfly.
2-3 10+ tiltless runs

21.04.04 24 contact tiltless run!! 16 uniques...woohoo
average string length from 6 to 12

22.04.04 butterfly>paradox mirage drill 10x (22 contact string )
*ducking far pickup* both sides
10 infinities
flip Ripwalk>Ripwalk auf dem Fuß!!

01.05.04 Ripwalk und Drifter in langen Hosen, leg>leg>pick>pick>osis in der u-bahn

03.05.04 Drifter>Clip set Drifter!
Blur>Flip Clipper>Ripwalk>hand catch

06.05.04 134 insidestalls op foot in pant
weak osis>pdx mirage>strong osis>pdx mirage>weak osis
*Pixie Drifter (Smoke)*
flip Riwalk>Ripwalk vom Fuß!
15+ titless run

25.07.04 uh-oh - writing break! Done several 4xduckingclippers in a row, clip set DLO's
midrun, 24+ tiltless, Dyno, Pixie Dyno (2nd 5-add!), Pixie Ducking Osis (3rd
5-add!), and today clip set Ducking butterfly>Ducking Clipper>Ducking Osis

28.07.04 Finally Clip set ducking Butterfly>ducking Butterfly
*Diving Osis* yay!
Ducking Clipper>Ducking Clipper>Osis>Osis>Osis>Ducking Clipper>Osis>Ducking Clipper
Smear>Datw>whatever..

04.08.04 Magellan>Datw>whatever
a couple of Phoenix's and Pixie Ducking Osii
very clean flipside Ripwalks and Smears (all of a sudden, haven't drilled stepping for ages)
Clipper>Osis repeat ~9-10 times
4 ducking clippers
Finally: Ducking Butterfly>Ducking Butterfly
Dimwalk>Ripwalk (first 4>4)


05. August 2004

This session rocked. Paul inspired me to try some new moves that
I considered unhittable - I finally hit Torque, I hit a superclean Terrage
and Butterfly Swirl. Also, I hit Ripwalk bsos, and had Blur bsos off my
foot in the same run. I also hit Pixie Dyno for the second time, on
command .

[ebo]

07. August 2004

Paul and me had another session. I thought I'd play like crap because I
was partying the night before with shitloads of beer and Ouzo, and merely
got 5 hours of sleep. Still, the session went well, we ended up playing 2
hours, and I hit some new stuff:

Pixie Eclipse
Pixie Spinning Clipper
Flipside smear (shame on me, I never did anything for my flip pixie before..)
and Datw and terrage in one run.

At the end of the session, Paul hit Mobius SUPERCLEAN first try. We were
both soo stoked. Later on, while waiting for the S-Bahn, we shredded
again, and Paul hit Torque>Torque first try..insane shit. an elderly woman
gave us 5 euros because she was so impressed..we played like shit,
but it still impressed her quite

[ebo]

09th August 2004

Max and me had a 1 1/2 hour session. We had an appointment with
a guy from a radio broadcast agency. They do all sorts of radio
reports that every radio station in Bavaria can check out and "buy",
if they want, and this guy did a report on Footbag after reading the
article with in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper a couple of days
ago. So I'm not sure if the report will ever be broadcast, but
it could be that several station all over bavaria air it. We'll probably
have an mp3 of the report on our website soon.

Anyway, the session for me was pretty low, my calfs were hurting,
and I had already given up the session, when at last I managed
to hit 5 consecutive Ducking Clippers, twice! I've had a record of 4 for
over a month now and never managed to get beyond that. My
duckings are slowly progressing
Also hit Dyno midstring, which was 'the' according to Max, but still.

Max hit a lot of Pixie bsos stuff, like Dimwalk bsos, Magellan bsos and
stuff like that.

[ebo]

12th August 2004

Had a good session today, taped lots of it, so expect a short video clip
in the next days.

Broke my Ducking Clipper record again, went for 6, and it's on tape!
I'm curious to see how clean they were.

Had some good runs in front of the camera, which is rare for me, as
most of the time I don't even hit a decent toe stall when the camera's
running Seems like I'm slowly getting used to it.

[ebo]

16. August 2004

Nothing spectacular. Had a nice run with DLO>Butterfly>Drifter in the middle.

Oh, I broke my Ducking Clipper Record again Went for 7 this time!
Want to get 10 by the end of the week.

[ebo]

18.August 2004 No playing for me today. I have problems with
my calfs lately, especially my right calf is causing trouble. I'm
keeping it low.

Today we hooked up with Eric and Jerry from the Footbag-Freunde Weiß-Blau e.V,
the Munich Footbag club that has gone inactive. Max and me want to
take over the club and revive it, and change the name to "Munich Footbag".

I just wasted approximately 2 hours by updating my Move Nickname List.
Added 73 moves, so there's 323 moves right now. I really gotta go to
bed. It's almost 4 in the morning now.


Basics to work on:

-Get Flipside ATW more solid (it's a shame, really)
-learn Flipside Pixie
-Get Flipside Osis more solid
-Infinities! must get 20 at least. Average right now about 6, record 12-14.

[ebo]

22. August 2004

Jendrik from Berlin hooked up with us as he is in Munich for a few days,
and we had a 4 1/2 hour session. I think I never played that long
continuously. The first 2 hours, Max and Bea played with us, as well
as a guy called Josh, who was from California, and was so intruiged
by our shred that he stood and watched for half an hour. We got him to
try some toe stalls and atw's.

I hit a Smear record of about 8-10 (don't know for sure, but it's
on tape) which was awesome because until then I never stringed more
than 3 pixie moves together.

After Max and Bea left, Jendrik and me turned the shred into a drill
session, and it was pretty effective. My torques are getting good,
I hit a couple of them today, even midrun. Hit my second 4>4:
Dimwalk>Torque. Also, a nice (onesided) sick 3:
Magellan>Smear>Dimwalk.

It felt good to shred hard for such a long time. Most of the time I play
with Max the sessions aren't longer than 1 1/2 - 2 hours. The best
thing was that my calf pains practically weren't there, even though I did
a lot of Pixies and stepping, which would normally have caused instant
pain. Magnesium did the job, really!

Oh yeah, and I even twisted my ankle during a Ripwalk attempt, but
immediately iced it and I could continue shredding right after that.
(I played on for 3 hours after this..)

Goood session. Afterwards, Jendrik and me watched Champions League
at my place. I've seen it 3 times now, and man, this is such a hardcore-
shred video.

[ebo]

That session was also the first one in my new red lavers. AND had
such a hangover from the night before. But that was gone after 1 1/2 hours.

It seems the red lavers really help my game - I used to play with
Navy Blue lavers, and I always had dark bags. Now I can see the bag
on my feet much better!

[ebo]

23. August 2004

Max, Bea, Jendrik and me kicked again. My legs still felt sore from the
hardcore session the day before. Nothing particularly new for me, but
for some runs with a lot of ducking moves. Also, one run with Assassin
and Ripwalk, but that's about it.

Oh yeah, one new move: Muted Magellan. Twice in one run.

I had to stop because my shins were killing me and my ankle suddenly
started to sting. I guess I just played too much, and since I twisted that
very ankle yesterday I'll keep it low the next days.

I'm gonna start working on the flyer for the Munich Streetlife Festival
Footbag Jam we're having.

[ebo]

29. August 2004

Session with Max at the Olympiapark.
We kicked with Daryl and a friend of his for the first time, after I handed
out flyers a few days ago and met him at the local Footlocker store where
he works.

Didn't accomplish much, I was playing under pain. My calf hurt again,
so I went low.

I did hit 56 legovers, before my stamina left me. I really need
to work on that.

Max hit a whopping 10+ pixie legovers!

[ebo]

01. September 2004

Short session with Max.

Went well.

- 8 contact guiltless (something like smear>butterfly>pdx mirage>diwmalk>butterfly>infinity>ss butterfly>osis>pdx mirage (drop)

- toe set double legover getting more solid. still no flipside.

yesterday: Backside Smear a couple of times. Muted.

-Long tiltless string with a couple of Pixies, Ducking Pdx Mirage, Ducking
Clipper, Ducking Butterfly in it

[ebo]

04./05. September - Munich Streetlife Festival Footbag Jam

This was our first event, and thanks to everybody who was there, it
ROCKED!

Viktor+Nils from Dexdo came, as well as Virak and Robert from Nuernberg. Jochen Bauer showed up on saturday! Daniel Schuldes,
who is from Munich but lives in London now, also came by.

On saturday we shredded through the day from 1-10 p.m...it was good,
there was a lot of interest from the people, and many stood around the
shred circle all the time.
My shred wasn't too good though. I really had trouble with my consistency. One string was good though, with a lot of Pixies, a DLO and
a Torque in it. The others were busting like crazy. Nils has been playing
for 8 months now, and has solid Pixie, Stepping, Ducking and Spinning
sets, as well as a decent Atomic set. !! Vik was busting big stuff, on
sunday he hit Symposium Quantum Butterfly and Blazing Pdx Mirage! He
came close to Vortex.
Robert was a pleasure to watch - his style is sooo smooth. Lots of spinning, whirls, blenders, almost a Montage Rake (!), nice reverse swirls,
etc.
Virak came really close to Toe Blur a couple of times, I'm not sure if
he did hit it though.
Saturday evening everbody went to my place, we watched The move and
Budas Best, had big time dinner and lot's of alcohol and stuff...

On sunday they were only Vik, Virak and Rob left, as Nils went back home
by flight early in the morning. We shredded 'till they left at 4 o'clock, and
soon afterwards, a couple of shredders from Landshut came, most notably
Mike and Philipp. Shred on 'til it was too dark to see the bag, then lots of
4Square action.

Oh yeah I did hit Stepping ss mirage, which was kinda new for me.

Thanks to all who came, thanks for the shred and the new inspiration!

[ebo]

10.September 2004 - Austrian Champs 2004, Vienna

Mike from Landshut, me and a friend of his, Kathrin, left Landshut early
heading for Vienna. We arrived at Max's place, Kathrin's boyfriend, who
supplied us with food, beer and the other stuff. He had this big house
with a big pool in the garden, and reggae music was playing everywhere
in the house.

Well-fed, Mike and me headed to Pizzeria Faourati to the opening meet.
First, we headed 8 bus stations into the wrong direction, but we figured
it out...

At the Pizzeria there was free Pizza for everybody all night long, everybody
was there; Stefan who arrived a few days ago, some hungarians,
lots of Austrians from Vienna, Linz, Bruck etc. and the Czechs, with
Dexter, Vojta, Honza and Vasek. We went out almost every half an hour
for a smoke/hack circle.. it was cool seeing Vasek hitting ripstein during
a hack circle, with fat skate shoes and not being warmed up at all.

At midnight everybody moved to the "Tüwi" where we would sleep. We
had more beer there, and a good 4square, where we marked the lines
with gravel.

Highly pissed and stoned, I went to bed at like 4 or 5 in the morning.

[ebo]

I'm lazy lazy lazy.

Haven't been playing for 3 weeks, and last week we had a great
recovery session in the gym with Grischa, Max, Bea and Daryl.
I hit Ripwalk>Ripwalk for the first time, and my first 4>4>4 sick 3:
Blur>Dimwalk>Torque. The session was pretty good.

Last thursday Mike from Landshut came down, we had 2 sessions,
one at 1-3:30 in the morning, totally drunk and stoned, in my room,
but the session turned out to be pretty good. We were skooling the
Ryan-style superlow alternating toestalls, and I pushed myself up to
41, including some insides. this is fun!

Now I'm feeling my calf again. This sucks major aXX, as I thought
it'd be okay since last week.

[ebo]

I hate my calf. One week it was perfectly healed and I was drilling
stepping sets like crazy, and now it's all back to zero. However, I can't
stop shredding (now, that I have edited the Vasek-Raw video and watched
it over and over, even less..).

I'll concentrate on my osis, and practice easy stuff like flappers and
such. Damn injuries.

[ebo]

edit: I'm reposting my own progress from Munich Footblog.

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:16 pm

Thanks guys for the kind words. Paul called me yesterday. We should
hook up with him soon!

Since I'm injured, all I do from time to time are clipper>flapper combos
on the strong side, which are getting more consistant. I've never done
flappers before, so this is kinda new to me, but fun!

[ebo]

11. October 2004

regular monday gym shred session:

Players:
Max
Bea
Bjoern
Daryl
Paul

I'm still injured, so playing was kinda hard for me. I played low, however
did some good stuff.
Flapper>Osis
Smear>Parkwalk>almost Ripwalk
2 Torques in one run
58 legovers (gotta develop some stamina, I was exhausted after this!!)
Pixie Dyno
Clip set DLO>DLO

Max, Daryl, Paul and Bea played like crazy. They're getting better
everytime we shred.

[ebo]

18. October 2004

The regular Monday Gym Session.

Players: Max, Bea, Bjoern, Mike, Paul.

I was playing, even though I'm STILL having troubles with my calf.
Anyhow, it went pretty good that evening, I hardly felt it, and could
bust hard. My runs weren't too good, but I was going for some bigger
stuff today.

I hit:

Paradox Drifter!

Came close to two new 4>4>4's:
Dimwalk>Ducking Butterfly>Ripwalk rolled off
Parkwalk>Ducking Butterfly>nearly Torque

as well as 1/6th of the challenge I gave Max:
Ripwalk>DLO

Oh yeah, at the end of the session, when everyone was stretching out
already, I went for an old enemy of mine, the Eggbeater. 10-15 tries,
and I got it. After that I hit at least 15+ Eggbeaters, all of which I
consider clean. I even hit 3 Eggbeaters in pants after the session!
And I came close to Bubbabeater as well. Woah! Intense session.

Bea hit two more Ripwalks midrun, Mike and me hit a clean Phoenix,
I hit Assassin (Pixie ducking Mirage), Mike hit his first ever Ripwalk,
as well as Dimwalk>Ripwalk, and he hit Pixie Ducking Xbd Rake!
Max had some nice runs, one of them with symp mirage>flail midrun!
Paul was unique in his style as usual, and he hit some big stuff, something
like Spinning Butterfly>spinning refraction>Spinning osis or something,
and Dimwalk>Torque>Torque. Paul, if you read this, correct me if I'm
wrong.

Today, I was at the doctor because of my calf. After waiting for 1 1/2
hours, he looked at it and said it's difficult to tell what it is, but to make
sure it's a muscular injury, I have to go to another doctor next week
to have my veins checked. Well.

[ebo]

20th October 2004

Had my first solo session in my room for ages, and it was actually
quite fun.

Hit some good stuff:

Flipside Smear
Flipside Pixie Legover
Toe DLO>DLO

and quite a good run:

ducking clipper>stepping ss legover>dimwalk>pdx mirage>pickup>dimwalk>pdx mirage>Clipper>ducking clipper>flip ripwalk DROP

also 10 infinities or so. They're slowly getting more and more consistant.

Also hit 1-2 more eggbeaters. Eggbeaters are fun!

[ebo]

Fri Oct 22, 2004

Not much worth mentioning from my side at that session except for this:

DLO>Eggbeater!