Hood's House

[bob]

brad, you are gonna be crazy shocked when you see how much hood's exploded. he was having probably 15+ contact genuine guiltless. really really sweet stuff. pixies, steppings, and atomics both sides. he was tearing up last night.

bob

[HooD]

haha, i pulled an exploding paradox grifter off tonight, damn it felt good ! I just have to figure out all the pivot points, right speed and timing of movements, and set height, other than that, it's still about the same ole, pretty close every couple tries.

Also 1 dex away from rubberman tonight. Bob needs to not have headaches anymore so we can shred longer. I'm thinking it'd be wise for me not to shred till worlds, to let my body be 100 % when i start, but every day I want to shred. Then I tell myself to shred easy, but I always want to try fun combos that require some stomping and hopping.

On a sidenote, there is a scary lady that circles the clinic every time I'm there, she likes to look in on us, maybe she wants to kick too...that or kick us, you never know.

[bob]

you know, that headache sucked, BUT i went to sleep that night at like 10:30, and it was sooooo nice getting up the next morning. also, john, i don't think i'm gonna be shredding anymore before worlds. because i always say i'm gonna play easy, and i just don't. can't. so i think i am just gonna take a break for the next couple days like you said and heal up. maybe ice and heat some things. later on everyone.

new drill I completed a few times:

spinning clipper > ducking clipper (repeat) + same drill started from my op side.

in footbag news, for some reason i can't surge anymore. i think i hit one surging move out of alot of tries last session. john was spinning like a mad man, and my flip side was catching alot of stuff it normally doesn't which was nice. drifter to spinning is getting easier while whirl to stepping is getting harder. any advice from anyone on that? thanks

bob glasser

[B_Man]

To step out of a Whirl dex, I guess the best thing to keep in mind is to try not to lean away from the delay as you may normally do when performing Whirls. Keep your weight centered and try to land the Whirl as quickly as possible before catching.

I'm not a pro at that yet, but I find it helps

[bob]

thanks buddy, i appreciate it!

bob

[full nelson]

I wanna see Hoods new stuff. Maybe we can play a little after watching the Champion's League tonight. I'm glad you guys played a lot while I was gone. I wish I could say the same Nah, I got to play a good bit at Euros. I played with Yves for a good bit the last night. I was super tired and couldn't do much, but I couldn't quit after he finally started playing. We played until the place closed down. Then I walked across the city back to my hotel in the rain.

[full nelson]

Hmm, how to describe Worlds? Does "fucking awesome" work? I think it's appropiate. I met some cool people and drank lots of beer. I didn't play as much or as well I would have liked, but kicking with so many cool people ruled. The return of Adam Keith was a nice surprise. Team Japan was awesome to kick with. Umm, shit, I have a memory block. I'll edit more later. Anyways, it ruled and I'm glad I spent all that money that I probably needed for something else.

I'm really inspired to start skooling again. It showed how lazy I've been so I'm ready to get back to it.

[shaggster]

brad... remember friday when ken hit WHAT!!! haha that was great

[HooD]

There is so much to tell about the last week, so I'll just do a couple posts the most memorable times. Today I'll tell the tales of not Worlds 2004, but just the trip there.


Bob is supposed to stay at my house, and as we're packing our things, he figures out that he had locked his keys in the car. Not the biggest of deals since I'm driving, but he needs all his gear. So i have to drive him back to his house, once we get there, he can't find his spare keys. So he has to wait till about midnight, since that's when his parents get back home. Brad and I decide to take off back to my house.

So it's the night before Worlds, Brad convinces me to shred with him, since I have to drive 14 hours and it was already quite late. I couldn't say no since he would shred where I sleep, so I figured we'd just shred anyways. About 1 hour into shred, Brads' hands are flailing around and he smashes the light above. The lights go out and all you hear is glass breaking. " I think I cut myself ." We go to the next room and his hand is covered in blood, so I get him to the sink and apply pressure with a rag. Keep in mind , this is about 5 hours before our car trip. He cut his wrist really deep, and it's one of the uglier things in life I've seen. I patch him up, and try to figure what to do.

Brad is finally taped up, and it's almost 1 am, and I still haven't heard from Bob. I can't turn the lights on because brad smacked the damned lights so hard, they all went bad. I find another light and plug it in, turn it on, and when i see the room, it looks like a horror movie. There is broken glass everywhere with drops of blood all over the place. It looked like i tried to kill someone, and was quite successful. Brad and I clean up the glass remnance and I try to clean the carpet as much as I can. Finally Bob walks in the door 1 hour late, and it just seems that the trip to Worlds will be one crazy trip if it continues at this pace, unfortunately, the rest of the trip was quite maniacle, yet fun.

So we all wake up about 5:15 am and start our trip to Canada, the story shall continue soon.

[HooD]

So it's a very sleepy morning, yet excitement is on the tip of every thought, the journey begins ! We all gather and hop in the car, ready for the trip @ 5:30 am, our first stop is North of Pittsburgh, to pick up Caleb Abraham.

On the way there, we're making pretty good time, keeping a good 85 mph average. Nearing Calebs, I see a Pittsburgh exit, and I take it. There is one main thing wrong with that, I was supposed to just keep going on the highway, so now we end up in the heart of the city. There are a couple detours so the we can't get where we want, the bad part is the detour just stopped leading us. I've never seen anything like it, I pulled so many U turns within that city I was probably making the passengers dizzy. Finally after I think I'm getting screwed again I magically end up on the road I want to be on.

So now we're out of Pittsburgh and I have to find Eat'n'Park resteraunt, where I'm meeting Caleb. Since I'm not going North and taking the exit, I'm entering the town somewhat backwards and Eat'n'Park isn't right off the exit ramp like it should be. So I wonder around, taking numerous wrong turns, and I make it into a small city, where I go into the gas station and ask the lady, where Eat'n'Park is. She points and says, go back to the bridge you crossed and take a left. I'm pretty sure she didn't like me or herself cause she wasn't too happy when she talked to me, so I leave the parking lot, and start down the street. When I start to notice the backside of 2 stop lights, and not much room for me going down the road...what does that mean ?? I'm traveling down a one way street, THANK GOODNESS there were no signs, only people pointing at me confused and scared.

So I have now lengthened the trip by 1 hour. I pick up Caleb and trade out Brad to the van of non kickers, Jorden & Simon. Bob, Caleb, and I roll out having about 10 more hours to drive. Everything is pretty smooth sailing until we get into New York. The last time I went to Montreal, my friend Simon got a ticket about 20 miles before entering Canada. So once I am nearing that part, I say outloud " I really should slow down, I don't feel like getting a ticket ." 5 minutes later **Cops Sirens** and I'm pulled over at the exact same spot Simon was pulled over at. To make it better, the cop is a complete ass. He has no sense of personality, he seems as if he has been programmed to hand out tickets, so there was no chance of warning.

After 5 minutes, I cool down from the whole situation, untill i see that cop on the other side of the highway passing me. " I HAAAATE YOOOOOOU" After I got that madness out of me, we entered the lovely place called Canada. You notice that the skies are more beautiful, the water is cleaner, and the women there are gorgeous. It's really a great place, I'm sure everyone will agree that went to Worlds.

Now, we are nearing Montreal, after I take another wrong turn. A 4 lane road turns into a 3 lane, which turns into a 2 lane, and that turns into a 1 lane, and that equals a huge ass traffic jam. Once we get through that hell, we find out that Montreal is having a great big festival , and many of their roads are cut off and blocked. Also, it's midnight, really fricken busy and dark, just what I needed to find the UQAM Dorms. Fear not, after searching the streets, we find where we're supposed to stay, it didn't have any big signs, or anything about Worlds 2004, just a lil ole Uqam sign that you could pass 5 times before you'd even notice it.

We enter the lobby and talk to the front deskman. We tell him we have a room there, and he asks us our names. So we tell him it should be under Nelson, Brad. He looks and says ok, are you Brad ? We say no, and he offers to give us the keys anyways. He never asked for ID or anything, just trusted us and said we could have all 3 of the keys. We tell him to keep one so when Brad comes in, he could have that key, I just had to throw the little tale in, because I can't believe they would just give us a key. Next time we stay at uqam and you don't have a place to stay, just throw a random name, and say you're with them, and give me a key. BAM, you've got access to a room.

Bob and I wait downstairs after unloading some of our junk. Team Japan is downstairs, but we find out Ken S. is already upstairs. We talk and try to exchange words with many many hand gestures. Chad D also shows up, my first time ever personally meeting him, I thought he was quite the humble bapper. He circle kicked with us in the lobby and talked for a bit. You can't beat that, again , compare footbag to any other sport, and you never get these situations so often to when some pro will talk and play with you, like some regular person. That's the end of Sat. What a fricken day.

[HooD]

So it's Sunday now, we're all ready for the Tam Tam Jam. We've seen it on video so many years ago, and now we will experience it first hand with the + of Worlds being there. You couldn't beat the weather, gorgeous skies and the air was fresh, with a tint of weed. Once nearing the statue that we were looking for, signifying Tam Tam Jam, you could hear drums. The closer you got, the louder the rumble was. There were so many people playing drums of different sorts. They played from 1:30 when i got there, till like 9 PM when I left.

When I first got there Chris Kovac (sp?) and David Clavens were just warming up. They were so good, they could easily string 15-20 contacts + I saw Derek arrive, and I had to go say hello, since he's my video shredding hero. We warmed up together in the grass just kickin out to the basics. We hopped into some circles but I can easily remember being in a circle where I would keep getting cornered from Scott Bevier in my circle, and Ken Somolinos would start shredding and moving towards me. I couldn't move and only stand as straight as I could, while they would bust 4-5 add moves way to close for my comfort. It didn't happen just once, it happened many a times. Ellis Piltz was also in my circle, a very nice guy with a lot of sweet barraging type moves (double pickup, reapers, barrages, paradox barrages, terrages ) He did a lot of those moves, and made some really styley strings. Everybody else was playing pretty well, since there was such a great energy going around. The sun was right behind the statue as 30 + drummers were giving as some ancient dancing rhythm to play to, so great.

Everybody was done and I was the last freestyler still kicking, but we couldn't stay anymore since the sun was down. So we rolled out to the city. The next couple days weren't as memorable because I mix them all up with shred here and there, and drunk nights, but I'll sort them out somewhat and tell about those.

[bob]

yea, so i decided to do a month of nothing but 2's and 3's because i noticed that alot of problems in my strings are associated with the lack of a base game. so yea, going back to the basics for a month and see where i am. i've already discovered a new way to do illusions that is helping out alot. I wasn't sure if i was gonna be able to do it because once you hit big add tricks, it's hard to just stick to small ones, but i think it's necessary.

also i got new shoes that i haven't modded much yet. i think they will be good and i'm pretty pumped for that.

bob glasser

[HooD]

Ok, so I already typed out a couple days, but accidentilly X'd that window out...So on to Places Des Arts. Monday and Tuesday is somewhat of a blur, since both days took place there. I remember how the sun was blazing down on us and we were there before most anybody else with some freestylers, so we went under the shade in a nice place to shred. About 5 minutes Later, Ellis comes over and tells us we should shred in the hot hot sun, because there is more exposure to the public. So he says he will be there shredding, of course we all follow and start some circles up.

Eventually the area of steps and flat parts of cement are completely taken up by freestylers. We engulfed the area with circles of shred, shred, shred. There were so many people that passed by on the streets , many of them stopped by to see what the hell was going on over there. Some stayed and watched for a while in awe, while some would just smile and walk by. A very good vibe was out those 2 days. Circles of all skill levels all around me, as I kicked with some freestylers I've met for the first time. Later, I sat ontop of a ledge where a light post was, and watched one of the more impressive circles, eventually it turned out to be Eric Windsor, Calab Abraham, Jan Weber, and Vasek Klouda. It took about 5 minutes before everyone started gathering around, making a huge crowd of freestylers and passerbies. I was quite proud of Caleb for holding his own with the big boys, he had some nice shuffles each time he got the bag. I recall Webslinger hitting atomic ducking butter, fairy ducking butter, and pixie ducking butter all in one string...wow. Also Vasek, what can I say, he shreds like he shreds on video. Long powerful strings that are unreal. Superduperfly > symposium flurry, he also put symposium flurries wherever he felt necessary, it was rediculous. If you ever see me in videos, I'm somewhat quite and just out of it, staring and nodding my head in disbelief. This kid is steps above everyone else, he should be discovered 3 years from now when others can near his level, but no, HE IS HERE NOW !!!!

After that , the parties started, I went to my first bar, El Zaz. I was feeling a bit out of place until I started drinking. They had some good songs playing, but they always seem much better when you've had some alcohol in you. So I asked the bartender for something strong that didn't taste bad, so I had 2 Jack n Cokes, and another with more jack n' less coke. After that some beer, and I was ready to go. I never party back at home, and I don't like the scene to much ,I believe alcohol can bring out the worst and dumbest in a person, so I usually stay away. Then again, it's my vacation, and I'm of legal drinking age in Montreal, so I drank away that week.

[HooD]

I give up on the Worlds description , there is just too much to write and I'm too lazy, Bob / Brad, if you want to pick up where I left off at , feel free to do so.

Tonight I thought hey, I'll make a video and upload it off my webcam for everyone on the forums, good thinking john. 25 minutes later, I want to try some bigger combos for the cam, and I pull a back muscle trying ducking legbeater...my BACK !!! Who hurts their back when shredding, but I guess your whole body is quite susceptible to injury when bending, torqueing, and twisting at high speeds. So now I'm some what pissed and going to try this new popcorn called cinabon popcorn, and if it tastes anything like those cinnabons I've had, then the bike ride to get them was well worth the trip, I'll report back next time I shred , and continue my horrible webcam video.

[HooD]

Ok, so about that popcorn. If your mind is open to popcorn that is sweet, you gotta have some of that Cinnabon popcorn. It was already sweetened with cinnamon spread all over the buttery popcorn, smelled so good I was drooling as I opened the bag. It also comes with some very tasty frosting you put over the popcorn...oh god, I'm getting hungry.

Cinnabon Popcorn

So onto more footbag related journeys. I made my horrible one night of webcam shred. I wasn't playing that well, but I told myself to make a video anyways. V i d e o That was a couple days ago, and my back was feeling somewhat better, as I warmed up the pain was almost non-existant.

Sooo, onto last night, wow, what a fricken night. Brad and I decide to go filming at some interesting location so we head towards downtown parkersburg in search of light and a nice location. He first tells me of a park ontop of a hill, that overlooks p-burg, and also that there is a huge tank there. So we keep driving towards the general direction until we find the park, to our suprise, it's lit, but the only bad part is the overlook was horribly lit, and next to the tank was only one source of light, so a huge dark shadow was cast. We still tried to shred some because we never shred next to tanks...

After filming about 2 strings from both of us, we decide to leave that location since no good was coming out of there. We head towards City Park, and as I'm driving through there, I'll tell Brad I swear to the funkiest freshest beats that I saw some kids breakdancin in a parking lot above this small hill. He didn't really believe me, but my excitement was quite credible. As we are driving around I see 3 black kids and one of them dancing, they somewhat break up as I pull into the parking lot. There are a couple of other people that are watching, and yell " If these damned PEOPLE would stop driving through here !" I just tell them I wanted to see some steps. So I pull up and get out my 'freestyle' cd and open up a door to let them dance to it. They start dancing and I find out they're cousins. One from bama, and one from NY, while the 3rd being from hometown parkersburg. They were pop'n'lockin and takin it on the ground a couple times. Pretty interesting stuff , I'm sure they could have done more if they weren't on asphault.

Later I ask them if they beatbox, sure enough killa cam busts a beat and the other 2 start freestylin, bustin out their lyrics. I couldn't get enough of it, I really wanted to step in with my beats, but I let them flow with it as I enjoyed this rare occasion. For you see, this is West Virfuckinginia, home of the redneck where diversity and style is very rare, and I hit the jackpot.

They can only dance so long, so I start footbagging, he just goes off like, wtf wtf wtf !? ?!? you know how it goes. "Ohhh shit it went over his head !!" hahaha...so we start kickin and I do a pendulum, he is completely baffled and amazed, I try to show him the motions, so he puts the bag on his foot, I give him a couple tips so maybe he could come close. He raises his foot forward and when he does the pendulum motion, somehow he manages to use that momentum and looses grip and falls flat on his stomach. His head didn't hit, but he landed flat on his stomach, I laughed so hard.

After that, we take off since they all leave, and go towards downtown , and find a decent place to play, the lighting was mediocre, but my bag was the exact same colors as the tiles we were on, we managed to kick for an hour + until we called it a night. Brad hit ducking barfly for his first time, on his first try. I hit blurriest for my first time. I'm thinking those were the only highlights...I'm real close to Swirling reverse swirl. Once I get my forward swirls more circular and controlled, I'll be able to hit ripstein. To top off the night, we end it with 7-11 , Gatorade for brad I believe, and a slushy for me...delicious !

[full nelson]

John and I went down and played at the Parkersburg Homecoming today. We had to pay for parking which pissed me off, but I still had a lot of fun. We started by some fountains in the sun. There was this Christian family band playing and I couldn't concentrate because either the lyrics were funny or there was no beat. After a few minutes, a man with big boots came over and kicked with us. He had pretty good control while kicking which is something rarely seen in this area. He did some flying clippers and a toe stall or two which made me smile. Random kickers are the best. He was the first new kicker I ever met that figured out that you shouldn't do toe pickups with a 32-panel. I always thought it to be common sense, but no one ever seemed to get it. Thank you Todd for giving me a little more faith in the human race

Anyways, I don't like playing in the sun very much so I got John to move down into the parking lot where there was lots of shade. He was playing strong today. Pretty much all guiltless except for some styly bubbas thrown in ever once and a while. I saw blender midstring which I'd never even seen him hit before. Then later, he had zigzag and vortex off his foot. I did some fearless combos that I can't remember anymore. I played pretty well I guess.

After we were done, we went to the Dippin Dots trailer and got some free ice cream because my sisters were working at it.

[full nelson]

For the past week or so, I've been drinking only water instead of the usual pop and koolaid. I drink about 7 to 8 bottles a day and my sessions have been getting much longer. From what started out at 30 minutes to an hour at the beginning of last week, before getting too tired, led to 3 hours of play today. I've also started to exercise at a clinic and being more health conscious in general; I'm getting more sleep and cutting down on red meat and produced foods. I'm not doing this for footbag, but I'm sure it will help out in the long run

On the subject of my game, I feel like I'm starting to actually progress again.

[HooD]

Well, my weekend kicked lots of ass. This weekend was Funtastiks for most East Coasters, for me I went to Montreal. I drove 13 hours out to see a girl I met at Worlds 2004, quite exciting to see her again. I won't go into great detail to everything I did that weekend unrelated to footbag.

Saturday was the begginning of my vacation, I got myself to walk into a lake with her, any of you that really know me, know that I have a hefty fear of natural water. I thought, why not, who better to coax me into a freezing lake. I got out far enough to where I was shoulder high, the water was freezing, and my brain was just plain freaking out. Later we watched Napoleon Dynamite, her 3rd time, and my 2nd time. Anybody contemplating about watching it at a theatre, go watch it.

Sunday was the BEST ! We started off the day with French Toast, and damn it was good. The weather was perfect so we went to meet Nick Laroche at the Tam Tam Jam. As soon as we were nearing the statue, you could start to hear the thundering drums coming from that direction. I thought I'd see a couple people kicking, but later there were about 3 - 4 circles, not just kicking, but a lot of shred going on, it was reminding me of Worlds 2004 so much. The sun was out with clouds everywhere, later in shred the sun came out. There was your usual 40 + drummers with dancers around the statues, 100's of people everywhere, and your occasional crazy person. I also got to see some pretty high level breakdancing, amazing stuff. People of many skills were there, bboys, yoyo'ers, footbaggers, dancers, drummers, frisbee, skateboarders, and then some.

It was quite humerous seeing all the Montreal freestylers because they didn't know I was going to be there that weekend, I only told Nick. "What are you doing here ?? Don't you live in West Virginia ? " - " I was in the neighborhood ! " On the note of shred, I saw some sweet combos from Nick , Ellis, and Sebastien. I was very impressed by Nick's symposium double over downs, they are clean and controlled, which is usually 2 big problems with anybody that can hit that type of move. His grifters were lucsious and pretty consistant. Ellis had his usual same leg double dexes down, such as double pickup, double far pickup, barrages, paradox barrage, reapers, etc. etc. I was actually quite impressed by everyone's shred since I don't see other kickers often. So it was quite the treat for me. Sebastien was hitting symposium dlo's and eggbeaters with no problem, long strings that pleased the crowds and me . After the shred, I went to eat some famous 99 cent pizza, even though I got pepperoni, which was more. I ate with Marisa, Claudia, Nick, and...damn it, I forgot his name ____ Sayer I believe.

Later that day I went to Old Montreal and the port, there are so many places to see. I was teaching Marisa how to kick, and she seems somewhat interested, which of course makes me happier than anything. Later while we were kicking 3 guys came up and we started a circle, go figure they were from Pennsylvania, we kicked for about 20 minutes or so. That whole time I was waiting to use the climbing wall that was outside, so many families and their children were trying to climb, so I just waited and kicked. I tried the hardest route and was very dissappointed by getting up halfway, my hands started to get sweaty and I couldn't continue with that grip, I had no chalk. Soo I cheated and used whatever I could and finished

While we were on the port, we were kicking and I was teaching her again, we were using my prized Lonn Irish bag, and she kicked it into the grass about 5 feet away from her, not a big deal. UNTIL some god damned bastard sea gull comes flying in squawking and picks up my bag and starts running away trying to fly. I of course waved my hands around spastically and chased it until it dropped it, luckily he didn't get into the air...

A good weekend, makes me want to move to Montreal so much. Unfortunetly I have to finish up with school and start work , so if I do move, it will be a couple years. I left Marisa with 2 footbags to keep her busy when she has time to kick, if she pleases.

On my way back, I'm very tired, about 11 hours into my drive and I'm speeding a little more hour by hour cause I haven't seen any cops for a while. Of course, I run into a cop waiting for me that was in a 55 mph when it changed from 65 mph. Luckily I slowed down some so he had me 70 mph in a 55mph, so very pissed... I wouldn't have had a problem with that, but I was very sleepy and not aware of surroundings. That and I no longer have a radar detector cause a cop in Canada took it away from me at Worlds...fuck...OK, so my weekend was pretty kickass except for that.

[full nelson]

Funtastik this year was probably my favourite out off all the ones
I've been to. I arrived at Sunshine Park around 3 o'clock on
Saturday. I said my hellos and eventually began playing myself. The
circle started off with Jon, Bevier and myself. Jon warmed up with
the most flapper kicks I'd ever seen (on both sides of course). Scott
did his usual long, consistant strings with lots of variety and
difficulty. Jon stepped out and Chris Kovaks, Alex Strassman and
David Clavens all rotated in and out of the circle. Scott ended his
shred with a 40 contact (at least) string that was filled with all
kinds of madness.

After net finished up, everyone made their way back to the hotel. I
found Matt Cross under the tent in the back of the Holiday Inn. He
gave me my room key and I got settled in. I went back down stairs and
met up with Clavens, Steve G, Chris, Leonard and Bevier to go eat
dinner at Eat'n Park. I had a very tasty grilled chicken salad that
was surprisingly easy to eat considering the foul imageries that Chris
so crudely described in attempt to gross out Leonard. He and Clavens
eventually corrupted Steve throughout the weekend, who became just as
gross come Sunday night. I hope none of what was said gets repeated,
ever.

So shred started back up at the hotel. I played some with my New York
roomates and did whatever combos Clavens commanded. Eric did a super
clean e-walk midstring.

The next day I woke up and ate breakfast with the guys in my room and
then headed over to the site. It's such a familiar venue that it
seemed like I was there just last week. I played almost the whole
time and saw lots of consistancy from David who is improving at an
alarming rate now-a-days. I was happy to see that Stan and Jake
Milofsky showed up on Sunday. They are always cool to kick with.

When freestyle was finished, Clavens and I headed back to the hotel to
soak in the hot tub because my legs stopped responding to my brain.
Kenny joined too which was cool because I don't get to talk to him
much. I sat around most of the evening until it was almost time to
watch the Hall of Fame inductions. Josh, Stan and I started an
unusual circle where we had to pass to eachother using only pinchers.
After probably a half hour, we actually made a full hack and
celebrated accordingly (high fives, duh).

The Hall of Fame inductions were very cool. Kenny taught us a lot of
history with some humorous stories and Sam and Pete made good
speeches. Pete spiced his up with a demo in between each of his thank
you's. He did awesome considering he had been drinking and had a very
interactive crowd ;-P. Afterwards, Clavens made did a quantum show
for people in the rec room. He hit 6 consec toe blurs, toe
gravedigger, toe tombstone, and toe blurry drifter among other things,
none of which he had done before. After he collapsed, literally,
there was a huge hack circle with a net bag that lasted for a couple
of hours. Steve could handle it the best and did the nights record
for sole kicks effortlessly. Later in the night, Steve, Clavens,
Kovaks, Nate, Pete, Lonn and I went to get deserts at Eat'n Park. I
had a strawberry milk shake and Clavens went on and on about Ross,
heh.

My ankle swelled over night which was odd considering there was no
pain and I don't remember doing anything to it. So I played at the
site on Monday anyways and it wasn't bad except that I couldn't bend
it much. Josh and I had a spectacular net practice, haha. I'm going
to start competing intermediate as soon as possible. Speaking of
competition, Josh placed 3rd in routines (!) and Nate did awesome both
days. They inspired me to do a routine one day. I left once the
Solonoski's began to pack up and ended up home 8 hours later for a 5
hour drive. Don't ask.

[HooD]

Here are some pics I took of the Montreal Tam Tam festival on Labor day weekend, I'm updating my site just a bit so I'm sorry about the long load time on the pics, I'll shrink down the preview pictures tonight. Now remember, this happens EVERY sunday at that park when the weather is nice. Let's all move to Montreal

Tam Tam Jam