Yo Ryan, glad you liked the story
Where are you from, btw? and do you currently have players you kick with? If not, maybe I can help you find some in your area. Get back to me on here or pm me, doesn't matter which. I'd like to help you out if I can.
So, today was our big "Recruit some new blood at PSU Berks" day with Toolman (who never ended up murdering anyone, thank Gravy), Jeremy, Nadiah, and I. We went into the session dressed cool as hell, and then dropped our stuff down and started casually kicking. Mike says, "Man, we're a bunch of white kids, we need more diversity to appeal to other potential players." Sure enough we go home with an indian kid's phone number and a african american kid's phone number
Diversity achieved. Both kids are freshmen and really nice. Neither of them have hacked before, just wanted to try it because it looked cool. However, they both immediately took up kicking. Himanshu plays soccer and started doing alternate inside kicks easily. Albert Harris III learned head stalls, toe stall bs, inside kicks, toe kicks, and knee bumps today.
And it was funny, I noticed that when Albert was learning, another A.A. kid stepped up and wanted to learn. He tried for a bit but gave up. Then he left, but it was interesting to see that when one A.A. kid was kicking, another wanted to join ad try it out. I feel like there could be something more to this that we could incorporate in getting more diversity in our sport.
Funny stuff:
-While we were kicking, we realized we had to look really nooby, so we did several funny things:
~Mike did a toe stall to save the bag and we were like, "dude, no toe stalls" then he said, "you're right, I should have freaked out about it and acted
surprised"
~I did a really bad osis at one point and said, "You see that, it's called the scoop, I invented it in highschool last year" (because we were trying to blend in
like other freshmen) Everyone got a kick out of that.
~Whenever someone had too much control over their kicks, we said it was too good and to dumb it down, then they would put a lot of effort into trying to
kick the bag and miss on purpose. It was hilarious. We had such a fun time messing around today.
~Mike said something like "It's ok to do flyers, right?" we agreed that it was ok. Then he did one and did a kick out of it. We said that he needed to make it
look worse and have no chance of playing out of it. Then Mike does a " real Jester" when kids jump real high, kick real hard and it flies super far away.
~We were all kicking in a circle. I had on a green and black tiger striped sweat band, Jeremy had purple cheetah print sunglasses. I observed this, started
to take off my headband, and stated, "No, we can't do this.. There can only be one item of animal print in a footbag circle otherwise people will think
that we're a cult". We all laughed about that.
We had such a fun time with the session.
Anyway,
Lighheights:
XBD Cloud drag (Jorden's invention) bs & bsos (new on both)
Infinity Gyro Frigid Osis thing (Jorden's invention) bs & bsos
Blurry Whirl> Spinning Whirl BSOS (Doooppp)
Ripped Warrior> Blurry Whirl> Spinning Whirl> Mobius> hand (going for 5 soon)
New 6 add on camera, gotta see if it's THE before I post it though.
Guiltless run x40something contacts.
Gyro Whirl b2b
Badger strong side (new trick)
After the session, Jeremy left, but Mike, Nadiah, and I drove to a park in the area and went on a tree hike. Mike told me that he recently started to get into identifying trees. And since Nahds and I have both taken Dendrology in college, we wanted to help teach him. We over-loaded his brain with new species of vines and trees. We quizzed him on a few of them and he was getting a few of them right, which was great. Hopefully we go on more tree hikes. that was a blast.
After Mike left, Nadiah and I went to go get some food at a Subway. After we walked out the door, I pulled a bad charlie horse and was massaging that out when we saw a couple leaving a store to go to their car. They were yelling about something on their car and the girl flicked it off and the guy put his foot over it and stepped on it. Being the naturalist that I am, that really pissed me off, and I wanted to go over and see what this asshole just killed. I walk over after they left. To my awesome surprise, it was a huge praying mantis chilling (still alive and well!) on the ground. I took my shoe off and let it climb on, then brought it back to show Nadiah. When I got back to where Nahds was, there was a crowd of people that had somehow developed while I was over there picking up the mantis (Gyro Eggbeater). When I got back, there were like 5 people there wondering what I found. Then once they all saw, they started taking crazy amounts of pictures. Fucking serious paparazzi. Then after a while, the cameras freaked him out and he flew directly into my face and onto my neck. I couldn't believe no one got that picture. But it was an awesome experience. That mantis and I were totally brothers for a minute there. Then it flew away. Just a cool little extra tidbit about my night. Most people around me were excited about this because they have never seen one with black eyes before. Neither had I. Here are the pics the one business guy just sent me:
Also, funny story how I hit Badger tonight.Well, on the way to Boston one time, Nadiah, Jackson, Corey, Toolan and I played a car game to pass the time. It was called "guess the animal I'm thinking of". Basically it's like 20 questions but with an animal and unlimited questions. Nadiah and Toolan realized they were psychically connected or someshit lol It was crazy though, because each of them knew what the other was thinking about almost immediately. For instance: It's Nadiah's turn to pick an animal, Toolan is guessing. (first question) "Do you ever see it dead on the road? Nadiah: "No that would be fucking scary." Toolan: "Oh then it's gotta be a whale." It was a whale. We were flipping out. But so tonight, Nadiah says to Toolan, "what animal am I thinking of?" Toolan couldnt get it, so I asked Nadiah what it was. She chose "Honey Badger", so I signaled to Toolan to watch me... I tried Badger a few times and couldn't get it, then tried once more and I got it! ... Mike had no clue what the street name for the trick was. "Is it a butterfly?" Jesus, c'mon, Mike! haha
Sorry for all the writing, just a lot of fun stuff happened tonight
Going back to Berks next week to teach our new students!
