Mathieu

[acxel22]

2nd drilling session
added 20X rev swirl both sides

at one point about 20 students where around me yabbing and yelling.. I was having quite a hard time on flip illusions and bailed on them again
did a good string with flip drifter midstring wich pleased me for not even trying the move once today.. usualy drop the first ones of the session
hmm close to crispy torque. I have hit it before but was'nt clean.. today it was real clean but always droped the stall.

what else.. pickups are still a pain.. managed 16 consecutives at once.. kind of like yesterday.

oh and I've seen this video of me playing here last year, god I SUCKED! I'm proud of where I'm at compared to last year, but still think I can do much better.. patience...

[acxel22]

did'nt play this weekend
my skin is all burned from sunday at the beach
played a bit today.. not a drilling session, but I drilled a lot of spins
managed spinning butterfly bsos for the first time
flip spin is getting more accurate, almost matching strong spin
got close to pdx torque.. still no flip torque
and I footed drifter>drifter .. again
flip whirl is getting cleaner and deeper.. footed pdx whirl on flip, footed tomahawk both sides...

[acxel22]

121 contacts of 10 clipper > switching clip repeat
some good runs with non casual moves.. spining pickup, spin mirage, a dlo somewhere..
diving clip> ducking clip > rpt > run .. I need to work this combo a bit more
footed gyro whirl like 5 times in a row.. god when am I gona hit it..
found out after doing flip gyro clip, that my strong clip ends up in a better position, and sets much better, this need some research! the sets where perfect for torque or drifter.. Did'nt land one, but close.
flip smear was doing better too

I did'nt use my drilling program for a 2nd consecutive session, but the urge to shred was killing me, so I played, but with categorised strings. like every string needs at least the folowing moves in the first contacts..

[acxel22]

played for 30 mins, drilled a bit, going nowhere.. 29 consec mirages strong side was the only good thing, then moved to spins, cant ever manage more then 2 gyro clips, cant do spin clip> gyro clip > rpt.. always missing one or two last moves..
bah
then pixie whirl goes in, a bright moment, I go for gyro whirls, foot it both sides, cant delay it.. move to hitting:

flip pdx whirl
pdx whirl bsos!
ducking butterfly>symp whirl
zulu clip>zulu clip
and then after some drilling I got this string:
weaving clipper>ducking clipper>weaving clipper>ducking clipper>diving clipper>ducking clipper>diving clipper>ducking clipper>buterfly>buterfly>osis>pdx mirage>buterfly>ducking clip> drop on symp whirl
all those ducking moves where TIGHT and BAP controlled, I was so pleased of this string, perhaps my best ever..
cant break my ducking clipper record, always drop at 5 or 6.. ugh!

flip osis sucked all day
managed to hit spin ducking clip out of strong osis tough

[acxel22]

flipside zulu le loup .. took only a few tries
gyro whirl! srong side, footed flipside
my legs are so sore I played too much lately.. I'll play tomorrow anyways, I'll be off footbag over the weekend.. perhaps!
I'm probably ready for spining zulu le loup
I want to shred with other players, I'm fucking bored of myself.. it's so hard to play by yourself for so long

[acxel22]

today pdx illusion unlocked on my only working illusion side..
it felt easy and controlled, looked clean to me. I did'nt need to put any effort in it, but I did drop to it a lot
linked it out of clipper, butterfly, ducking clip, whirl
out of rev swirl it was'nt so clean
managed to link dimwalk out of pdx illusion
zulu clip bsos easy
weaving clip>ducking clip> rpt on first try
I'm working like a madman on gyro mirage> paradon .. god this is hard for me

I figured out the motion for hippy atomic set on one side, can't get the set high enough beside ending in oop clip.. bah.. fuck atomics for now and more efforts in basics.. flip illusion is a real lack.

[acxel22]

saturday was 6th consecutive training day..
I hurt myself trying PS Whirl too many times, but I was never closer.. foot at the wrong spot was only problem.
flip spinning ducking clipper> ripwalk
spinning ducking clipper > pdx whirl
kicked an extra hour with 6 kids

I'm off since, for 2 more days perhaps

[acxel22]

ok first shred in 5 days since I was injured.. Knee feels sketchy. No symposium whirls! especially PS
At first all my delays where rushed and I droped on clippers so much.. It's only 5 days but this injury really changed my leg movements.

new 4 add both sides: zulu mirage (diving pdx mirage)
close to zulu symp mirage on one side
almost 3 contacts of ducking buterflys
I go for a barfly, got it first try.. pretty happy for a move I've hit twice before. I hit it again and again on most trys.. flipside hmm.. a couple of good tries, most of the time I can barely dex once... but some tries had the 2 dexes
got it midstring after, footed a lot of the ones I dropped, the dexing seems natural now

Then I spent like 45 minutes trying spin ducking clip> barfly .. no success, footed it at the best
footed tomahawk both sides
footed mealstrom (this can possibly be my first 6! .. with enough practice)
footed spinning whirl

I drilled my flip spin a lot, since I changed the form of it to my strong side.. I was spinning diffrently before and I want the flip to look like the good one, without having my arms wacking air all over!

zulu le loup both sides on command.. i can do them easy now! especially flip.. not bsos yet, I tried back to back.. seems doable

maybe spent 20 mins on spinning zulu le loup.. no success

and also.. dowtime drifter on strong side, really clean! This made me happy like crazy, I hate my low sets uptime drifters..

session lasted over 2 hours, feels good!

[acxel22]

ok small session
8 consecutive ducking clips
19 consec infinity
4 consec PLO
smear record still at 2
I decided to devote some sessions to toe moves only, drilling pixie mainly.

[acxel22]

drilled flip pixie for about 45 mins
drilled flip whirl for a while too
flip pixie is getting better.. devoting time to it really helps.
strong PLO > pixie pickup
flip PLO> smear
still really hard to do flip magellan, I consume so much strength on it..
I had problems with delay on flip dimwalk. It's getting better, managed to hit ducking butterfly out of it.

Barages both side, most are THE, but I hit at least a clean one on each side.
9 cons duck clippers
blender > spin clipper
drilled flip zooming.. I can get the set cleanly gyro"d.. but most of the time it's either a lousy drop (no set) or set is behind the back after the gyro..
flip peaking clipper
footed mobius .. yep .. I need to work on torques like a madman.. I hit the move so rarely .. and flipside seems impossible, unless I land in dragon?? weird.
zulu clip > weaving clip > zulu clip > footed weaving clip
closed session on a good note zulu le loup>zulu le loup

[acxel22]

Another session of drilling on some non casual moves for me
flip whirl , no comment
flip pixie is getting better every session!
flip smear midstring (out of pdx mirage..)
not sure if it was spin clip>osis>gyro mirage or spin osis>gyro mirage
tried some surging for fun.. most are the, got one or two clean ones.. set is'nt high enough.. but promessing. I think I handle the basic of the gyro/stepping motion.. I even feel a good hop when I step it.. feels like I'm doing it right.
close to 3 contacts of consecutive zulu clips
dlo is doing better on my only working side.. did'nt try flip today. diving clip>ducking clip>dlo with great control all around.

otherwise.. on only dbl pickup side.. clip set dbl pickup 3 times in a row!
trying to pixie out of barrage.. no luck today.

[Slowsis]

Shred hard man. Keep motivated and think how much better you'll be when you get back to Canada!

[acxel22]

Ok .. 2 months left in Gabon .. here's a roundup of my progress

here are my goals for the next 6 months in Gabon:
- whirl + pdx whirl both sides.. I can hit them on one but pdx is still occasional.. other side is really bad

strong pdx whirl is getting in good shape. flip whirl is hard, hit flip pdx whirl a couple of times.. 2 months to finish this

- improvement to osis, they are good but flip can use some help .. I drop to it once out of 3...

the main thing lacking here is the fact I can barely spin out of flip osis.. stepped out of it but did'nt work on that aspect much

- pixies, strong side is usable midstring, it still needs a small boost for me to be satisfied, flipside is coming, I just cant do it midstring (once so far), I want it to be as good as my strong side is right now
- Stepping, strong side needs this small touch to make it good, flipside is non existent and needs a huge load of work, both sides need to work when I'm leaving gabon

ok .. strong pixie is'nt so bad.. I can do most of the moves I can handle midstring, flip pixie.. it's getting on it's way, drilled it mainly lately, I've hit some flip pixie stuff midstring, but way too unconsistant.
Flip stepping, general lack. Strong step, can't hit blur for gods sake..

- Fairy , I've hit this set a couple of times but never worked into it, would be fun to learn it properly
- double dexes on flipside, yes they are bad, they need work, paradon/double switch ...
- barfly, and flip reaper ... still didnt hit those, and I want to because double dexes are the moves I like!

ok fairy.. only one side, fairy osis;; fairy clip, footed fairy dyno.. it's bad but I dont understant it really well.
paradon both sides, pretty consistant! flip reaper is a nono, same for flip double switch that I've hit once about 6 months ago
barfly on one side, doable midstring, needs improvement.

-flip zulu, wich also means flip diving.

Done, and Done!

- more 5 adds, maybe a 6? spining whirl, if I end up geting pswhirl and get constant to it, perhaps whirlwind? would be so neat...

Fell on the ground trying whirlwind, got close to it after, footed mobius! , spinning ducking 5 adders have been hit.. ps whirl is close..

- I want spinning ducking both sides, I've been to a point where I could do my good one on first try, and even midstring couple of times, totaly lost this, I already hit spin ducking osis both sides.. I can do this
- flipside blender, maybe both pdx blender.. no rush on these.
- swirls, flip reverse swirl (same as for blender, no rush

Ok spin ducking both sides.. but not consistant.
flip blender.. hit it like 3 times, nothing good; pdx blender is a nono also
rev swirl both sides.. flip is lacking a bit but I am really proud of the progress on this; plain swirls are hard


I'm pretty happy about the progress overall, hoping I can acheive all in my last 40 sessions in afrika

[acxel22]

spent most of todays 1 hour session on pixie again
flip smear>PLO is the highlight ..
I was so frustrated after 15 mins of trying PLO>flip smear that I went in hunger and just kept trying/doing flip smears, as the bag droped, picked up, repeat .. over 5 mins.. I was exausted. I need to do this shit more often
close to gyro blender
gyro mirage > pLO both sides
drilled spin clips both sides for a bit, usualy 2 consecutives every time.. I guess it's an ok fondation for now

[acxel22]

ok, lot more pixie drilling
2 consecutive flip smears
PLO>flip smear
flip smear> dbl switch
gyro mirage > dbl switch
footed spinning mirage>dbl switch

I'm getting more used to flip pixie, with a nice height on good sets, a good "hop" feeling when I set as well. I think with some work it will be better then my strong pixie
I hit a blur today, they are so occasionnal.. never work them though

ducking pickup both sides

footed tomahawk like 10 times.. yeah..

hmm I kind of hit a backside smear.. the symp mirage was between a symp mirage and a rake.. I could'nt tell if it was good or not. my symp mirages sucked today so probably not clean.

hockey playoffs are starting, for the first time in 2 years, I miss hockey! only seeing the scores will suck

[acxel22]

I should'nt have played .. but oh well
had a session on saturday, mainly drilling flip pixie again
did some runs.. nothing crazy but I made a small video since I was at home.
link : http://www.footbag.org/media/919/april22.wmv
I was trying to hit bigwalk but actually hit flip sidewalk trying it .. bah! at first I tought it was a clean bigwalk and video proved me wrong
flip pixie midstring is doing better
flip dimwalk> pdx mirage > rpt > rpt

some drilling records: duck clip X10, infinity X 24 got 2 close (14) of osis record of 16 ..

[acxel22]

13 consec ducking clipper (new record)
DLO is getting easy
gyro dlo
footed pdx dlo
footed flip DLO
spin osis> DLO
flip dbl pickup (from clipper)
gyro mirage>smear
pdx whirl > rev swirl
some cool combos I forgot about.. I filmed a bit and making a video for tomorrow.. I footed PS Whirl 3 times in a row.. I will hit the move very soon!
footed mobius again...

[Zeke]

Man, can't wait to play squares with you again

[acxel22]

yeah, I'd kill my girlfriend for some four square with you right now!
God I miss footbag with other people then myself!
I shall think some cool rules until we meet again my friend

[Zeke]

yeah, I'd kill my girlfriend for some four square with you right now!

LMAO!!!!!

EDIT:
I just put that quote in the 4S addiction thread... fuck I'm still laughing about it!