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HG · Post by HG » 24 Apr 2005 06:52

also something i forgot,

I hit nallegam>magellan! Hehee.

And yesterday i forgot something else. Rockey hit smoke and smog in a run. and he started a run with smog.

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 24 Apr 2005 20:45

Whirls will only hurt if you do them wrong. DON'T DO THEM WRONG, but don't let yourself develop one sided either. Watch the move video on flipsider or footbag.cz or hackrifice or .org or something and try to see what your doing wrong. You need to stay over the bag, keep your knee in, and try to keep the dex low. Most people hurt themselves by trying to do the whirl dex to high or too early, if you practice regular whirls setting really low and staying over it, you should be ok. Then later your muscles are ready to do the dex faster at the same low height, so you can duck them and such. And about torque, to make the catch better, throw your shoulders into the spin first, and try to make sure your osis foots shoulder leans over the clipper at the end (so from right clip to right osis, make sure that you're fully turned to the left at the end, with your right shoulder leaning towards your right clip). It also helps if you plan something for after the torque; its hard to get a good set if you don't know what your setting to.

Kepp up the good work, good job with tennis. Hope the tips help. Peace

Bum

HG · Post by HG » 26 Apr 2005 11:48

Yesterday i had 2 sessions.

The first was before tennis, for about 30 minutes.

I hit my first ever smear>PLO>repeat! i cant believe it took me so long.

Then i almost hit dimwalk>infinity>ripwalk>pdx mirage>repeat, but dropped on the last ripwalk.

I just did simple shred for some passerby elementary school kids, they loved it.

Then after tennis i shredded in my room cause it was raining. My room is so SMALL compared to playing outside! I had trouble playing cause i tend to move around a lot

So i just tried for my sick 3, and hit a pretty SICK one! It is a 5>4>4!

tom did you get my video?!?!

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 26 Apr 2005 12:52

Yes I did, thank you very much for not being lame Henry.

HG · Post by HG » 29 Apr 2005 06:51

I think everyone will like my sick 3. It was actually not THAT hard for me. Which i am amazed by.

I am looking back on my old sick 3's from like, october-january. I can not believe how much i have progressed. I stopped going for just cool single moves and im working on spinning/ducking/shuffle which is making my game explode! Just last night after i wont my doubles match in tennis i went over and started to shred in the grass! I hit a really long run with about 8 teammates watching me. One called me a monkey, and another asked if there were hackysack tournaments. so i say

"Yeah there are." And he says "Isnt hacky sack a hippy thing?" i just replied "Hacky sack is, but the thing i am doing is freestyle footbag, and it is not a hippy sport. There are tournaments all over the world, and once a year there is a world championship! "

He seemed really interested, and he kick with me and got 5 kicks!

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 29 Apr 2005 11:18

HenryG wrote:"Hacky sack is, but the thing i am doing is freestyle footbag, and it is not a hippy sport. There are tournaments all over the world, and once a year there is a world championship! "

The best answer you could give him.

HG · Post by HG » 01 May 2005 16:30

Just got in from THE BEST SESSION EVER!

I wish i had a good camera, cause this would have made a SICK video, probably about 20 minutes of great footage!

I started out with

50 alternating inside kicks>50 alt toe stalls>25 alt clippers>10 infinities
Once my legs felt warm i did alternating legovers

First try - 57 legovers! By far my record. My legs actually hurt after this one!

Next was - SS mirage>mirage>mirage>repeat. I got 41 contacts of this. Thats a good drill for both sides of mirages.

Then i did infinities, this was the only bad part this session. I couldnt get more than 10 or 15 any time, but this was NOT carried on into the rest of the session.

So i start off and hit muted nallegam>smear>atomsmasher>run! The whole string was about 25-30 contacts, of mostly genuine guiltless! Lots of ducking/spinning.

I was generally just linking all of my concepts together to make LOOOOONG flowing runs. I felt so on today!

Then i tried smear>atomsmasher>repeat. I could get the beginning from both sides, but i couldnt link them. So i hit smear>atomsmasher BS.

Then i tried for smasher>smasher. I hit it on about my 6th try. I have hit it before, but it wasnt this controlled! It felt so easy! Then i hit it starting on the other side. Oh so flawless. I really love my atomic sets.

So after that i hit atomsmasher>legbeater bsos. Not the first time but real fun.

I realized that i hadnt been using drifters! So i worked them from clipper sets, which are really weak for me. By the time i was done drilling them, they were better than my toe drifters!

I ended up hitting clip set drifter>drifter from both sides! It felt so good! Then after that i hit drifter x 3!

Next i hit drifter>pdx drifter both sides, but not linked.

Then I hit legbeater>drifter both sides! And then 5 minutes later i hit it bsos!

God i feel so GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

I should probably just list everything

-57 legovers
-41 contacts ss mirage>mirage>mirage>repeat
-nallegam>smear>atomsmasher>run
-smear>atomsmasher both sides
-atomsmasher back 2 back from both sides
-atomsmasher>legbeater bsos
-made clip drifters better than toe drifters
-drifter back to back from both sides
-drifter x3
-legbeater>drifter bsos!
-drifter>pdx drifter both sides!

Me loves footbang

dazza · Post by **dazza** » 01 May 2005 16:41

Wow, Henry you are getting really friggin' good, its almost intimidating,
at least to me it is

Big fucking props for all ur achievements !!!
atomsmasher>legbeater bsos= jealousy

Shred hard = Henry !!!

Damm...you play for how long now...i am impressed !

HG · Post by HG » 01 May 2005 16:45

since june of 2004 . That is when i started freestyle

. Man. Its been 11 months of joy. I have never been happier. If im bored, i play the best sport on earth.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 03 May 2005 04:23

Henry that's awesome. So glad to see that you're improving so much and that you're having such a great time playing footbag. Your enthusiasm is inspiring.

HG · Post by HG » 03 May 2005 18:29

Today we ran about 5 miles in tennis. I dont know why.But we did.

Then i shredded with what little energy i had and hit this:

SPINNING CLIPPER>DRIFTER>REPEAT!

I was so excited. I just cant hide it. I know i know i know.

Picture of all my 32's coming soon

qphox · Post by **qphox** » 03 May 2005 19:42

Nice Henry. I sure can't hit that.

HG · Post by HG » 07 May 2005 16:31

So i went to my friends house last night.

i just started kicking in his house, and his little brother starts to watch me. He says "Gunnar (my friend) says you can go around the bag twice! Do it!"

So i try a DATW, which i never ever do or school, and i hit it first try! This was in baggy shorts and in a really small area. It was sweet. He was so amazed!

Then today i had an awesome session.

I went out to play at 4:25, and just started kicking and toe stalling. I got warmed up and did 30 contacts of mirage>ss mirage>repeat. Then i did mirage>fully downtime legover>repeat, and got about 18 contacts. My legovers are really uptimish, and i want to change that.

Then i went into some shuffle. I almost hit rubberman but with pdx mirages instead of blurs. It was sweet!

Then i worked on spinning and ducking, and hit

Ducking clipper>ducking clipper>ducking butter>ducking butter
drifter>spinning clipper both sides (i have already hit spinning clip>drifter rpt)
Spinning clipper x3 on strong side
Spinning clipper x3 on flip
Spinning butter x2 on strong
Spinning butter x1 on flip

a long 30 contact run with A LOT of spinning/ducking/atomic

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 07 May 2005 21:09

WOW!!!!!
When did you get so unbelievable, Henry? The last thing I remember seeing you hit was a sick 3 from ages ago. I never imagined you would get this good this fast!!!! SOOO bothsided!!! Spinning out of drifter is SWEET, hey? Props on the "almost rubberman but with pdx mirages instead of blurs". Props on everything else! I can't wait to see more videos of you!!!! Keep pushing!

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 07 May 2005 22:05

Go Henry!

Way to shred bud. I love the sport too. Keep it up. Can't wait to see you again. You should try to make it to Seattle in November; thats the next event Vegas currently has on its agenda. And its always a great event.

Peace man,
Bum.

HG · Post by HG » 08 May 2005 03:55

Thanks Erik and Loren! There is no way i can go to seattle.

Too far away

I am gonna shred for 2.5 hours today. Maybe more

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 08 May 2005 04:25

Man Henry your an inspiration

I've been playing since like november 2003 and you can hit quite a lot of things both sides that I cant hit! It sounds like your into similar moves and a similar way of playing which is interesting.

Do you find that doing legover/pickup/mirage/illusion warmups like you do really help you loads? Or can you shred just as succesfully without going so hard at your warm-ups or doing any at all?
I have been trying to get into warming up really well lately and I really think it helps!
Then I try to cover all my concepts both sides and then just try to string hard stuff. Sounds like exactly what you do.

HG · Post by HG » 08 May 2005 05:39

yes thats my favorite way to play!

I warm up with legovers and mirages, i really should get into illusions and pickups. And then i go into clipper based stuff. Then i do some runs with all my sets and stuff.

Today i am going to school stepping/pixie/ducking/spinning/illusions/pickups.

Wish me luck!

And thanks for reading my blog everyone!

HG · Post by HG » 08 May 2005 16:16

Today i had a 1.5 hour session in the morning.

I put the 512 mb memory card in the camera and went outside, feeling confident that i could get some good stuff on the web for you guys to see!

Here is some stuff i hit

Whirl bsos (without pain)
footed pdx whirl and blurry whirl both sides
spinning clipper x4 strong
spinning clipper x5 "flip"
spinning clipper>ducking clipper>spinning clipper>ducking clipper>ducking butter>ducking butter
spinning clipper>ducking butter>repeat
footed spinning pdx whirl
spinning ducking butter
52 contacts of ss mirage>mirage repeat

New 5 adds

-flip witchdoctor
-Alpha atomsmasher both sides

3 new five adds today

hit a run with

-phoenix
-witchdoctor
-Alpha legbeater

I would say that was an awesome session!

But when i went and got the camera to go inside i saw that the batteries ran out. i only got the first 10 minutes of my session

taken out on behalf of Loren

and i even tried to get some footage out of that 10 minutes, but my camera records in .ASF video format, and i have no program to convert to WMV. I usually use this crappy video editing program to convert it, but it takes about 10 minutes to convert 15 seconds of video, and i dont have the time to convert 10 minutes of video!

Then i had another session just now.

i went out, set up my boom box, brought out all of my bags, got ready and hit this

18 contact guiltless run with
-spinning clipper bsos
-ducking clipper bsos
-ripwalk bsos
-atomsmasher bsos
-flip legbeater
-BOPs

and i finally hit

dimwalk>infinity>ripwalk>pdx mirage repeat!

then it started to rain so i came inside. Bummer.

I will list all of my five adds now. cause i feel like it

-Witchdoctor both sides
-Alpha legbeater both sides
-Alpha atomsmasher both sides
-phoenix one side

-Phasing mirage

(x-dex)
-Smog

those last two are questionable because they feel like 5 adds but they arent.

I have nine 5 adds! go me!

FootbagginBum · Post by **FootbagginBum** » 08 May 2005 22:05

HenryG wrote:
god fucking damnit

No need to be so negative bud, everything you're doing is great, and the more positivivity you exhibit, the better you'll do

And sadly, both smog and phazing mirage are 4's. Smogs only full dex is the mirage, and the phaze only has swirl as a full dex. However, if you could get phazing pdx mirage, you'd get both x dex and paradox and it'd be an 6 add. But that doesn't mean you don't have 9 fives, in fact, you have many more you can do. Like pixie ducking osis and spinning ducking osis I bet. Just take a half hor and sit down in front of dragonfly footbags move list and you'll come up with all kinds of tricks to do.

Peace,
Bum