Begin Phase 1 again

Kljopa · Post by **Kljopa** » 26 Oct 2006 09:32

Happy b-day dude!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 01 Nov 2006 19:31

11/1/06 Solo Session 1 hr:
Played like crap. No endurance, foot hurt. Highlights:

Clean Flip Illusions for first time ever

Hit these tricks again: Dimwalk, DLO, Eggbeater, Smear
Flipside pixie nothing doing
Spinning? Couldn't get it working.

Other footbag related schnizznoz:
Appointment with sports medicine doctor Friday to examine foot.

Life stuff:

Moved in with my girlfriend today. Our new place is tiny, but it's awesome. I'm pumped

Applying to Grad School! Woohoo!

Eh well, gotta go, lots of unpacking to do

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 05 Nov 2006 11:27

Plenty of shred this weekend. Things are looking good. Clipper drilling has been paying off.

11/4/06 + 11/5/06
Session yesterday 3hrs with my peeps plus today 1hr solo session.

DLO and Eggbeater each a few times

Spinning Clipper

gotta get my spinning set back

Dimwalk and Smear a few more times

Clipper > op Clipper > op Clipper > SS Clipper > op clipper > SS Clipper

Butter > PDX Mirage > rpt 10 contacts

Clipper > Mirage > Clipper > Mirage > Clipper > Far Legover > Clipper > Far Legover > Clipper > Pickup > Clipper > Pickup

Clipper x 3 > Mirage > Clipper x 3 > Mirage > Clipper x3 > Far Legover > Clipper x 3 > drop on last far legover

Flip Illusion x 3 (clean)

EDIT: Extra innings session on Sunday 11/5 while my gf was taking a nap:

Pincher both sides!

Cloud delay both sides!

Ducking Infinity!!!

Pinchers are kinda fun. Glad I took some time to learn them finally. I wanna skool them so I can throw them into runs for variety

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 06 Nov 2006 17:38

lol i got your card in the mail today ben, thanks for that

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 06 Nov 2006 19:11

Zeb Jackson wrote:lol i got your card in the mail today ben, thanks for that

Oh cool, glad you got it.

Mobile Session Today. Did the whole hit up one spot > pwn it with shred for 10 minutes > catch my breath in transit to the next one > rpt

11/6/06 1.5 hours
Hmmm, felt pretty good today. I hit eggbeater a bunch of times, that is getting easier. My strong illusions are naturally tightening up, which is making it easier to slip in the legover at the end. Clean flip illusions are coming along slowly but surely. Pretty close to flip DLO on a few attempts.

Drillz!

Legover x 24 (there is like a glass ceiling, I've hit 24 3 times)

Downtime Pixie x 16 (yeah!

)

22 tiltless

(clipper > mirage) > rpt op side > (clipper x 2 > mirage) > rpt op side > (clipper x3 > mirage) > rpt op side

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 08 Nov 2006 22:44

Session with the crew

11/8/06 2.5 hours
Felt pretty good. Foot didn't hurt at all. Still shyed away from symposium though. Right clipper spinning didn't hurt. Spinning is one concept that I really don't have a flipside on. Both are different, but roughly equal. Footed spinning butterfly again.

Real highlights:

Lots of 15+ contact tiltless runs

Eggbeater several times, once in the middle of 20+ contact tiltless run

Closer to flip DLO, flip egg pretty soon too?

Infinities mid-run very easily now. Thank you clipper practice.

Near the end, I had everyone fooling around trying to hit eggbeaters. Cody hit bubbabeater, James hit pdx egg and came quite close to bedwetter.

NOTES! WHAT I NEED TO WORK ON:

KEEP DRILLING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF CLIPPERS

drill alternating clippers. It's like mowing the lawn, it sucks but I gotta do it.

drill illusions! The move is coming along, drill drill drill make it good!

Concepts to start working on:

Pdx illusions and bubbas. They need work

ducking. devote 20 minutes to working on ducking next session

spinning. devote 20 minutes to working on spinning soon

drifters. keep attempting them.

DEXCERISE!!@! YOU BUILT THE FRIGGIN DEXMASTER 1000 USE IT MORE THAN 5 MINUTES A WEEK!!

pixie, especially flip pixie. work on getting that shit under control.

Osis. I friggin hate the hell out of this trick. But it must be learned.

go running. Cardio. Cross train. It will do wonders.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 11 Nov 2006 16:52

Saturday Nov 11th

Session #1 with crew. 2 hours 45 minutes

Toe DLO

A few long strings

SS Butterflies both sides. Have I hit that before?

Session #2 solo in driveway. 45 minutes
Took some video!

Spinning Butter BS on camera

(first time out of right clipper)

Video -------> http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/10327

Gonna wake up "early" tomorrow morning and shred and record some more. I really wanna make a video!

Kljopa · Post by **Kljopa** » 12 Nov 2006 04:38

props on spinning butterfly

and nice eggbeater in the video.Definatly looking forward to your full vid

that you will make 4 sure!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 14 Nov 2006 12:54

Cross Training baby, Cross Training.

After Sunday's short solo sesh I went running for 20 minutes. Well it was like 15 minutes of actual running and 5 minutes of interspersed walking to catch my breath and walk off abdominal cramps.

Monday went running again. This time for 25 minutes. Of that run 20 minutes was actually running/jogging and 5 were catching my breath. Why do I get ab cramps? My legs don't get cramps. Only my ab muscles. Well it felt good to run. It also felt good to know that my endurance is visibily improving. It was my 3rd time running since I turned 25 a couple weeks ago.

No shin splints. Hooray! Quads were a little sore this morning but now I feel good. I'll give my muscles a rest and just shred tonight. I think I'm going to alternate shredding and running after work each night until I have the stamina to do both.

I've decided I'm going to wait until Black Friday to buy a video camera. Then WATCH OUT. Expect videos from me done to the tune of some awesome songs. I'm going to write them all down so I don't forget when I actually make the videos:

Lions - Movement (Austin band, live version)
Mountain - Immortal
Deep Purple - Lazy
Atomic Bitchwax - Ice Pick Freek, Tough Love, 45, Kiss The Sun
Elvis On Speed - Stacked Deck, Confred Fred (another Austin band)
Clutch - Rising Sun, Pure Rock Fury,

That should keep me busy for a while.

Current "I can taste it" moves:

Flip Egg

Flip DLO

PDX DLO

PDX Egg

Little Apple

Current "wish list" moves:

Spinning PS Mirage

Spinning Ducking Butter

Spinning PDX DLO

Iron Clad out

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 15 Nov 2006 06:26

Hey Ben I have to ask what's a Little Apple? I usually work on Ducking, spinning, and Diving moves on my downtime. So when I feel like thats not going to be a good session I figure that's a good time to work on those. keep up the great work on running also if you have access to a bike or a gym that has a bike I would suggest once a week to ride the bike for 25 minutes at a interval setting at usually they go from 1-30 and I usually set mine at a 20-25 to get a great workout!

Post by **Zac Miley** » 15 Nov 2006 07:25

Little Apple is gyro symp mirage I believe.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 15 Nov 2006 07:31

Really! that would look cool as hell. Yeah I still have to work on sym moves myself.

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 15 Nov 2006 08:22

Yeah my symp mirages are solid and my gyro mirages are coming along, just a matter of combining the two to get Little Apple

Shredded a little bit Tuesday night. Single highlight was:

Spinning Butterfly BS

again

I'm starting to like Spinning Butter a lot. Somehow it feels easier than spinning clipper, not sure why. I challenge myself to hit:

Infinity > Spinning Butter > rpt

Shred sesheyoan with the crew tonight. Then Frankenbike this weekend.

Keep shreddin'
ICB

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 15 Nov 2006 09:16

i feel the same way about the spinning butterflys, they seem way easier

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 15 Nov 2006 11:09

I haven't tried any as of yet. maybe I'll try some tonight

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 15 Nov 2006 19:42

11/15/06 2.0 Hours

Well it was supposed to be our weekly Wednesday night shred. I was the only one who showed up. Probably because it was like 43 degrees out. That's COLD for Texas. But no match for my northern blood

MONSTER. SOLO. SESH. It was awesome.

Highlizights:

Legover x 38

that was just warmin' up bitch. Shattered the old record of 24. Shat-tered iiiit!!

Mirage > Legover > rpt 22 contacts

Illusion x 3 > Mirage x 3 > Legover x 3 > RPT, that's 18 contacts, son

Illusion > Mirage > rpt 14 contacts on flipside

Butter > Spinning Butter > SS Butter BOTH SIZIDES

5 SS Butters on one side, 7 on the other

Toe Ducking Symposium Mirage BS - new!

Butter > Gyro Mirage > RPT. YEAH SON!

Plus footed ducking PS Mirage several times on both sides. DAMMIT! FIRST 5 ADD SO CLOSE!!! Also came reeeeeeeeeal close to Whale Tail. That trick is so sweet I want to crap my pants.

Hhahahahaha I made footbag my bitch tonight. It feels great

Well it feels good to have a session like that. I think the running is already helping my endurance

beenjammin · Post by **beenjammin** » 15 Nov 2006 19:45

Yes Please!!!!!!!!!!

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 15 Nov 2006 19:54

props to you ben!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » 16 Nov 2006 05:01

Iron Clad Ben wrote:11/15/06 2.0 Hours

Well it was supposed to be our weekly Wednesday night shred. I was the only one who showed up. Probably because it was like 43 degrees out. That's COLD for Texas. But no match for my northern blood

MONSTER. SOLO. SESH. It was awesome.

Highlizights:
Legover x 38 that was just warmin' up bitch. Shattered the old record of 24. Shat-tered iiiit!!
Mirage > Legover > rpt 22 contacts
Illusion x 3 > Mirage x 3 > Legover x 3 > RPT, that's 18 contacts, son
Illusion > Mirage > rpt 14 contacts on flipside
Butter > Spinning Butter > SS Butter BOTH SIZIDES
5 SS Butters on one side, 7 on the other
Toe Ducking Symposium Mirage BS - new!
Butter > Gyro Mirage > RPT. YEAH SON!

Plus footed ducking PS Mirage several times on both sides. DAMMIT! FIRST 5 ADD SO CLOSE!!! Also came reeeeeeeeeal close to Whale Tail. That trick is so sweet I want to crap my pants.

Hhahahahaha I made footbag my bitch tonight. It feels great

Well it feels good to have a session like that. I think the running is already helping my endurance

Made props Ben! Wow you really do have sym mirage down pack!

I have to ask b/c I've never heard the tricks name before, whale tail?
Yeah your running must be helping out on your eundurance that's awesome! Keep up the great work man!

Kljopa · Post by **Kljopa** » 16 Nov 2006 13:19

Props Ben!

Those kinds of sessions i call breakthrough sessions

.It is like you overcame a barrier and stepped to a new level.

Keep kicking!