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Thanks Ken!
I'm going to Seattle tommorrow to pick my girlfriend up from the airport. She's coming back from Belgium.
Haven't played footbag since that last post. Just haven't felt the urge lately. It'll be nice to kick with the Seattle crew but I don't know if that will happen due to arrival and departure times. Here's to hoping though.
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I'm going to Seattle tommorrow to pick my girlfriend up from the airport. She's coming back from Belgium.
Haven't played footbag since that last post. Just haven't felt the urge lately. It'll be nice to kick with the Seattle crew but I don't know if that will happen due to arrival and departure times. Here's to hoping though.
edit: CHAT NOW!!
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E-mail from Ben Little (original member of the Missoula Footbag Alliance), who is just finishing up a few years in Tanzania for the Peace Corps:
I've been thinking a lot lately. Perhaps its the Poe, vielleicht the german philosophy, the seeming imminence of concluding the greatest adventure of my life, or the abundance of absolutely nothin to do at night in the village, but I've found myself ruminating on much more than the standard ugali and beans lately. Most of these thoughts are raw and powerful, lacking refinement and direction. The situation isn't helped by the constant influx of new catharses, which prevent me from completing any single contemplation before the onset of the next... which is why i've decided to divulge them before they've completely matured. I usually don't like to expound upon any concept which i haven't scrutinized to the point of knowing exactly where I stand in regards to it, but I feel that if I don't start throwing them out there then they'll get lost in the deluge of detritus that seems to be overflowing my mental sub-strata. Plus, maybe some of you can add some objective perspective that will help me rake some meaning from the muck.
But enough chengachenga(zig-zaggin round the topic). I'll just blurt it out, and then do some stream of thought from there. I've decided that the entire mode of application of Peace Corps, and indeed nearly every major international development organization in the world, is plagued with a fundamental fallacy. In common parlance of our times, I've realized almost everything I and all the other do-gooders out there is contributing towards a better tomorrow doesn't amount to jack shit. I'm not saying that the idea of good-will to men and peace on earth is unfounded or unattainable, but rather our methods for achieving it are outdated. More than ineffectual, I'd say that they are even hurtful to a developing country in the modern world. There are many smaller issues that I'm sure those of you with experience in this field are expecting me to mention, but I don't think lack of equal sharing of projects, cultural understanding, reality of needs assessments versus wants of project sponsors is the fundamental issue here. The fundamental problem that I see doesn't require a new program overhaul, it demands a change of vision in the development sector the world over. All international cooperative efforts are based on the idea that developing countries need our help, and the only way for them to eliminate poverty and famine is for us to give them what they need.
At first glance, this sounds like a great recipe for worldwide prosperity and happiness, and probably was indeed the only way for the process to start. But now that they have the minimal infrastructure, the communication systems, and the modicum of trained professionals, do our free hand-outs really cause more help or harm? When a child is first learning to ride a bike, they need the emotional support, encouragement, and strong guiding hand of their parents to get them going. The child gets a taste of the freedom their new talents and equipment brings, and is hungry for more. But will the child ever be able to tear up the BMX bike path with training wheels intact and mom still clutching onto the back seat trying to push? More importantly, will they ever have the self-efficacy to trust that they can indeed do it just fine, perhaps even better one day without help?
This is a paradox that i see in action every day here in Tanzania. We want to help. We think we can do so by building, say, a bridge. The locals praise us as saviors, and we feel justified. Years pass. The bridge falls into the river one day due to lack of maintenance and carries a herd of screaming people with it. The locals again wait around for some other developed nation to come and build them a new bridge. Most Tanzanians that I talk to believe that they don't have the ability to raise themselves up or do any development work for themselves. And why should they? Every time they need something, they have learned that the best way to get it is to ask America or Europe for it. And we never let them down. They also don't believe me when I tell them that america was once a poor country, and that we made ourselves into a great nation. They believe that the world is the way it is by simple, inalterable divine mandate. God giveth to the white man, who giveth to the african, forever and ever, til death are they consigned. This learned helplessness makes every project that involves any concrete physical 'thing' unsustainable and irreplicable in practice. And, unfortunately, our foreign aid policy is still based around throwing money at problems and building things as edificial reminders of how much they still need us.
This dissertation wasn't brought on by an analysis of worldwide aid policy, but rather observations on the ground in the small but front-line development work that I do in my own life. I've been trying to figure out why everyone asks me for something... or rather, why everyone expects me to give them something and is down-right offended when I don't pull a 'just add water' health clinic or secondary school or library out of my pocket. The teachers at my school don't understand why i can't procure credit cards and cameras for all of them. Randomn people in the village seem perplexed when i refuse to pay the exhorbitant a-level school fees for private schooling of their kids who couldn't get into government schools because they failed the national exams. The headmaster was furious with me when i explained how much of an inconvenience and financial burden it would be for me to obtain a solar panel, a box of rechargeable batteries, and a compatible battery charger. Perhaps the most disdainful and pathetic example of the extent of the learned self-helplessness that pervades the mindset of certainly every Tanzanian and perhaps most of the developing world occurred when i was helping to set up for a community festival. The village executive officer, the most powerful political figure in Makoga, was watching me tape up decorations on our make shift pavilion when he asked me for some tape. I promptly measured out a strip of duct tape and handed it to him. He replied that he very much admired my tape, and would like to get a few rolls of it for himself. When i told him that it was about 3000 shillings at any stationary store in town for a pretty decent TZ imitation, he slyly smiled and said "I was hoping you could help me out with that." When the elected leader of my community feels incapable of purchasing his own office supplies and, moreover, that I'm obligated to provide them for him simply because I do development work, I take that as a serious sign that something is fundamentally flawed with the entire international aid system.
So what am I saying? We should just tell the developing world "tough luck" and proceed to ignore them in midst of a global food crisis? Am I pronouncing the last two years of blood, sweat, and tears that I've invested in an ideal a complete waste of my life energies? No, I'm not proposing that we rescind all aid and abolish all aid organizations. I'm instead calling for a refocusing of aid efforts away from 'stuff' and towards a guiding role that will enable people to do for themselves what the western world currently does for them. Of all the things that I've contributed in my service, I believe the most valuable and preservable of them weren't really 'things' at all. I now see the education, encouragement, cultural exchanges, and other ineffables I've contributed as the only real lasting legacy I will leave behind. What Tanzania really needs is more Tanzanians with a desire to better their situation, a belief that they really can enact a change on behalf of themselves, and programs that will help provide the education necessary for these wakusizi (motivated people) to make their dreams into realities.
I'd like to end with just such a story... the story of the friend who convinced me that maybe it wasn't all hopeless and I shouldn't declare all for naught quite yet. My friend Renady came from a large family, where he was the third son and fifth child out of seven. His parents didn't have enough money to send him to secondary school, and he joined the family business of farming straight out of primary school. Although he didn't have the book smarts, he had something that almost all of my students lack: the drive to succeed and the belief that he could make a new life for himself. He saved money from his potato and corn harvests for about ten years, when he finally found the break he'd been waiting for. He used his savings to attend a two-year silviculture (tree farming) course at a vo-tech school in Iringa town, and immediately put the concepts learned into practice. Upon returning, he started a seedling nursery growing pine and cyprus seedlings to feed the lucrative lumber industry of the region. He also built dams and a corresponding system of irrigation canals to quench the thirst of the 30,000-50,000 seedlings he sells every year, along with a series of vegetable gardens in which he grows whatever greens are currently in high demand and low supply. He and his family hand-harvest seeds from cones in the wild, make their own compost, and hand pack all young scions into their plastic housings. He still farms potatoes, corn, and wheat like his parents before him, the harvests of which provide him with food and money for basic necessities. But in consequence of his tree seedlings and greens, he also takes in an extra 5 million shillings of pure profit every year. This isn't much when converted into dollars, but for a villager with no living expenses who didn't own shoes until he was 20 it's an absolutely lucrative business... and one that he has no one to thank for but himself. He wants to buy a car next year, making him the only one in the village to have one, and promises that he'll come to visit me in america some day. I don't doubt that he'll do all these things and more.
Comments and suggestions welcome. I hope you're all doing well, and I promise a little bit more about what I've been up to and a little bit less about what I've been thinking about next time.
Love
Ben
"It is rarely seen, even more rarely heard, and even if perceived most rarely known."-the bhagavad gita
"Those who talk don't know
those who know don't talk"-Chinese Proverb
I've been thinking a lot lately. Perhaps its the Poe, vielleicht the german philosophy, the seeming imminence of concluding the greatest adventure of my life, or the abundance of absolutely nothin to do at night in the village, but I've found myself ruminating on much more than the standard ugali and beans lately. Most of these thoughts are raw and powerful, lacking refinement and direction. The situation isn't helped by the constant influx of new catharses, which prevent me from completing any single contemplation before the onset of the next... which is why i've decided to divulge them before they've completely matured. I usually don't like to expound upon any concept which i haven't scrutinized to the point of knowing exactly where I stand in regards to it, but I feel that if I don't start throwing them out there then they'll get lost in the deluge of detritus that seems to be overflowing my mental sub-strata. Plus, maybe some of you can add some objective perspective that will help me rake some meaning from the muck.
But enough chengachenga(zig-zaggin round the topic). I'll just blurt it out, and then do some stream of thought from there. I've decided that the entire mode of application of Peace Corps, and indeed nearly every major international development organization in the world, is plagued with a fundamental fallacy. In common parlance of our times, I've realized almost everything I and all the other do-gooders out there is contributing towards a better tomorrow doesn't amount to jack shit. I'm not saying that the idea of good-will to men and peace on earth is unfounded or unattainable, but rather our methods for achieving it are outdated. More than ineffectual, I'd say that they are even hurtful to a developing country in the modern world. There are many smaller issues that I'm sure those of you with experience in this field are expecting me to mention, but I don't think lack of equal sharing of projects, cultural understanding, reality of needs assessments versus wants of project sponsors is the fundamental issue here. The fundamental problem that I see doesn't require a new program overhaul, it demands a change of vision in the development sector the world over. All international cooperative efforts are based on the idea that developing countries need our help, and the only way for them to eliminate poverty and famine is for us to give them what they need.
At first glance, this sounds like a great recipe for worldwide prosperity and happiness, and probably was indeed the only way for the process to start. But now that they have the minimal infrastructure, the communication systems, and the modicum of trained professionals, do our free hand-outs really cause more help or harm? When a child is first learning to ride a bike, they need the emotional support, encouragement, and strong guiding hand of their parents to get them going. The child gets a taste of the freedom their new talents and equipment brings, and is hungry for more. But will the child ever be able to tear up the BMX bike path with training wheels intact and mom still clutching onto the back seat trying to push? More importantly, will they ever have the self-efficacy to trust that they can indeed do it just fine, perhaps even better one day without help?
This is a paradox that i see in action every day here in Tanzania. We want to help. We think we can do so by building, say, a bridge. The locals praise us as saviors, and we feel justified. Years pass. The bridge falls into the river one day due to lack of maintenance and carries a herd of screaming people with it. The locals again wait around for some other developed nation to come and build them a new bridge. Most Tanzanians that I talk to believe that they don't have the ability to raise themselves up or do any development work for themselves. And why should they? Every time they need something, they have learned that the best way to get it is to ask America or Europe for it. And we never let them down. They also don't believe me when I tell them that america was once a poor country, and that we made ourselves into a great nation. They believe that the world is the way it is by simple, inalterable divine mandate. God giveth to the white man, who giveth to the african, forever and ever, til death are they consigned. This learned helplessness makes every project that involves any concrete physical 'thing' unsustainable and irreplicable in practice. And, unfortunately, our foreign aid policy is still based around throwing money at problems and building things as edificial reminders of how much they still need us.
This dissertation wasn't brought on by an analysis of worldwide aid policy, but rather observations on the ground in the small but front-line development work that I do in my own life. I've been trying to figure out why everyone asks me for something... or rather, why everyone expects me to give them something and is down-right offended when I don't pull a 'just add water' health clinic or secondary school or library out of my pocket. The teachers at my school don't understand why i can't procure credit cards and cameras for all of them. Randomn people in the village seem perplexed when i refuse to pay the exhorbitant a-level school fees for private schooling of their kids who couldn't get into government schools because they failed the national exams. The headmaster was furious with me when i explained how much of an inconvenience and financial burden it would be for me to obtain a solar panel, a box of rechargeable batteries, and a compatible battery charger. Perhaps the most disdainful and pathetic example of the extent of the learned self-helplessness that pervades the mindset of certainly every Tanzanian and perhaps most of the developing world occurred when i was helping to set up for a community festival. The village executive officer, the most powerful political figure in Makoga, was watching me tape up decorations on our make shift pavilion when he asked me for some tape. I promptly measured out a strip of duct tape and handed it to him. He replied that he very much admired my tape, and would like to get a few rolls of it for himself. When i told him that it was about 3000 shillings at any stationary store in town for a pretty decent TZ imitation, he slyly smiled and said "I was hoping you could help me out with that." When the elected leader of my community feels incapable of purchasing his own office supplies and, moreover, that I'm obligated to provide them for him simply because I do development work, I take that as a serious sign that something is fundamentally flawed with the entire international aid system.
So what am I saying? We should just tell the developing world "tough luck" and proceed to ignore them in midst of a global food crisis? Am I pronouncing the last two years of blood, sweat, and tears that I've invested in an ideal a complete waste of my life energies? No, I'm not proposing that we rescind all aid and abolish all aid organizations. I'm instead calling for a refocusing of aid efforts away from 'stuff' and towards a guiding role that will enable people to do for themselves what the western world currently does for them. Of all the things that I've contributed in my service, I believe the most valuable and preservable of them weren't really 'things' at all. I now see the education, encouragement, cultural exchanges, and other ineffables I've contributed as the only real lasting legacy I will leave behind. What Tanzania really needs is more Tanzanians with a desire to better their situation, a belief that they really can enact a change on behalf of themselves, and programs that will help provide the education necessary for these wakusizi (motivated people) to make their dreams into realities.
I'd like to end with just such a story... the story of the friend who convinced me that maybe it wasn't all hopeless and I shouldn't declare all for naught quite yet. My friend Renady came from a large family, where he was the third son and fifth child out of seven. His parents didn't have enough money to send him to secondary school, and he joined the family business of farming straight out of primary school. Although he didn't have the book smarts, he had something that almost all of my students lack: the drive to succeed and the belief that he could make a new life for himself. He saved money from his potato and corn harvests for about ten years, when he finally found the break he'd been waiting for. He used his savings to attend a two-year silviculture (tree farming) course at a vo-tech school in Iringa town, and immediately put the concepts learned into practice. Upon returning, he started a seedling nursery growing pine and cyprus seedlings to feed the lucrative lumber industry of the region. He also built dams and a corresponding system of irrigation canals to quench the thirst of the 30,000-50,000 seedlings he sells every year, along with a series of vegetable gardens in which he grows whatever greens are currently in high demand and low supply. He and his family hand-harvest seeds from cones in the wild, make their own compost, and hand pack all young scions into their plastic housings. He still farms potatoes, corn, and wheat like his parents before him, the harvests of which provide him with food and money for basic necessities. But in consequence of his tree seedlings and greens, he also takes in an extra 5 million shillings of pure profit every year. This isn't much when converted into dollars, but for a villager with no living expenses who didn't own shoes until he was 20 it's an absolutely lucrative business... and one that he has no one to thank for but himself. He wants to buy a car next year, making him the only one in the village to have one, and promises that he'll come to visit me in america some day. I don't doubt that he'll do all these things and more.
Comments and suggestions welcome. I hope you're all doing well, and I promise a little bit more about what I've been up to and a little bit less about what I've been thinking about next time.
Love
Ben
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I'm really surprised the last post received no replies. It seems to me that a a culture constantly bombarded with television, billboards, and the media needs constant entertainment. This relates to the posts I've seen in the Hack-Off threads of people complaining about watching people take drinks of water and whatnot between strings. Why do we need constant entertainment? that's not the natural way of humanity
played yesterday. Took a long time to warm up but was having fun the whole time. Had a good session after warm-ups. One of my bigger tricks sessions.
hilights:
-bsos infinity swirl (I never try this trick, it's really fun)
-nemesis>string w/ whirlwind sealed with ps torque>handcatch
-symp whirl>ps whirl bsos
-whirlwind>spinning mirage>bops>tomahawk>ps torque>handcatch
-flurry (wooo! I've only hit this once or twice each side. I've hit the symp version more on each side which is weird to me)
-barroque>string
played yesterday. Took a long time to warm up but was having fun the whole time. Had a good session after warm-ups. One of my bigger tricks sessions.
hilights:
-bsos infinity swirl (I never try this trick, it's really fun)
-nemesis>string w/ whirlwind sealed with ps torque>handcatch
-symp whirl>ps whirl bsos
-whirlwind>spinning mirage>bops>tomahawk>ps torque>handcatch
-flurry (wooo! I've only hit this once or twice each side. I've hit the symp version more on each side which is weird to me)
-barroque>string
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my comment to that e-mail is regarding to the lack of patience people have in reading a long message vs a short quick down and dirty post. The lack of immediate entertainment in a long message deters people from reading it.Isilwar wrote:I would have responded (I read it) but I think it went over my head.
i'm drunk, and was during that last post. but this is a message that i've felt for a long time in accordance to the emerging media-based community of earth nowadays
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I agree with a lot of what you have been saying, kevin. I did read the letter but just this morning, he is very insightful. I was thinking of joining the peace corps, and still do occasionally. What he was saying really makes sense and I think its true for a large percentage of americans, people expect other people or things to do everything for us. So many people I know just dont read, they say its boring. One person even told me that if a book was worth reading it should be made into a movie. Idk, when people take stuff for granted it just really gets to me.
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Thanks Mike!
My girlfriend is moving into my parent's basement with me. While going through old boxes i found my 1st pair of lavers. It's incredible how light they are. Even lighter than my quantums. They're also a size too big but fun to mess around with. It feels like I'm playing barefoot. Can't use the toes though. played for 2 minutes and got blender>spinning blender. Woo! Kept over-shooting ducking blender
My girlfriend is moving into my parent's basement with me. While going through old boxes i found my 1st pair of lavers. It's incredible how light they are. Even lighter than my quantums. They're also a size too big but fun to mess around with. It feels like I'm playing barefoot. Can't use the toes though. played for 2 minutes and got blender>spinning blender. Woo! Kept over-shooting ducking blender
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My sister joined and quit the PC a few years back. Basically for the same reasons stated above - but also becuase of corruption and politics within the branch of PC she was involved with.
I was watching a show on discovery (or similar), I'll try to find a link to the synopsis. But basically, is was about 'teaching people how to fish' rather than making them a fish dinner. In this specific excerpt that I watched, it was all about how effective water pumping and filtration can turn an entire village around. Water allowed clean drinking (less disease), bathing (less infections), irrigation (food and cash crops) etc. And I was impressed that the villages had to prove they were capable of maintaining the simple systems in order to be awarded one.
My sister was teaching English and HIV awareness and other such topics. Meanwhile her host family was bathing in the same water they would later use to cook unwashed food. Crawl before we walk before we run.
I don't profess to be an expert on this topic, but the show I watched, combined with stories I've heard and read, makes it seem like giving less (but massively important skills) is actually more.
I was watching a show on discovery (or similar), I'll try to find a link to the synopsis. But basically, is was about 'teaching people how to fish' rather than making them a fish dinner. In this specific excerpt that I watched, it was all about how effective water pumping and filtration can turn an entire village around. Water allowed clean drinking (less disease), bathing (less infections), irrigation (food and cash crops) etc. And I was impressed that the villages had to prove they were capable of maintaining the simple systems in order to be awarded one.
My sister was teaching English and HIV awareness and other such topics. Meanwhile her host family was bathing in the same water they would later use to cook unwashed food. Crawl before we walk before we run.
I don't profess to be an expert on this topic, but the show I watched, combined with stories I've heard and read, makes it seem like giving less (but massively important skills) is actually more.
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That's very interesting that clean water can help so much. I want to meet you someday. You seem like a very down-to-earth guy
Bought an above-ground pool yesterday. It's a $400 pool that was half-off. It took all day to set it up. I'm about to swim in it for the first time. My girlfriend and her son have been in it all morning.
played today. had a good session
-ps whirlx3>string with bsos blurry whirl, tomahawk, and whirlwind (tied my ps whirl record and it started from the other side
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-whirr>bedwetter>pixie opp whirl>string
-blender>montage>string
-sailing opp butter and frantic opp butter both mid-string
-marius>string (haven't hit that trick in a long time)
Bought an above-ground pool yesterday. It's a $400 pool that was half-off. It took all day to set it up. I'm about to swim in it for the first time. My girlfriend and her son have been in it all morning.
played today. had a good session
-ps whirlx3>string with bsos blurry whirl, tomahawk, and whirlwind (tied my ps whirl record and it started from the other side
)-whirr>bedwetter>pixie opp whirl>string
-blender>montage>string
-sailing opp butter and frantic opp butter both mid-string
-marius>string (haven't hit that trick in a long time)
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Bit of a slow response but thanks for posting your friends email, it was very interesting. The thing about things like that is that perspective is so important. While I don't really agree with a lot of what he says, it's very hard for me to criticise, as your friend is drawing his views from experiences I've never had.
It sounds like perspective is a massive issue in what he's talking about as well. The people he deals with have a completely different perspective to him, and so don't understand his position. It's obviously really hard to make different people understand where you're coming from when neither of you know the other person's perspective, so know how to make the other person see your view. I read a number of articles about this last semester for uni (I'll try to dig up some of those articles).
The thing about very poor places is that they don't have the support to be able to take risks and this forces them to make low yield investments - because the consequences of high risk investments that fail is too great. Hence in poorer regions farmers are much more likely to make decisions that keep them in the same financial position.
The reason aid doesn't work is because there isn't enough - there are too many places where the need is so great that the total aid gets spread to a level where it's insufficient to provide the support for people to be able to make the higher risk decisions that will change their standard of living. But if the aid were to be more focused, many people would miss out altogether.
There are solutions, but they require far more resources and lots of patience.
- That's my perspective from reading policy and research journal articles on the subject, but with no hands on experience.
It sounds like perspective is a massive issue in what he's talking about as well. The people he deals with have a completely different perspective to him, and so don't understand his position. It's obviously really hard to make different people understand where you're coming from when neither of you know the other person's perspective, so know how to make the other person see your view. I read a number of articles about this last semester for uni (I'll try to dig up some of those articles).
The thing about very poor places is that they don't have the support to be able to take risks and this forces them to make low yield investments - because the consequences of high risk investments that fail is too great. Hence in poorer regions farmers are much more likely to make decisions that keep them in the same financial position.
The reason aid doesn't work is because there isn't enough - there are too many places where the need is so great that the total aid gets spread to a level where it's insufficient to provide the support for people to be able to make the higher risk decisions that will change their standard of living. But if the aid were to be more focused, many people would miss out altogether.
There are solutions, but they require far more resources and lots of patience.
- That's my perspective from reading policy and research journal articles on the subject, but with no hands on experience.
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Thanks for your thoughts Jeremy.
had flip double over practice for an hour today. It's far behind the strong but it was my best flip session for that motion to date by leaps and bounds. Also spent about 15 minutes trying to hit clip ss swirl. I didn't hit it
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-ddd>barfly>rpt
-bsos spanishfly twice
-flip paradon>flip scorpions tail>string
-bsos scorps
-flip superduper fly
-superfly bsos
-whirr bsos
-flip jani>handcatch>strong jani>handcatch
-barfly>barrage>paradon>barfly>barrage>paradon>barfly>barfly>string w/ bsos blurriest
-footed flip and strong nemesis
-muted ducking pdx torque>string w/ maelstrom in the middle
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-atomic opp eggbeater>string
-plasma (inspired by Zac Miley)
-bsos toe far muted swirl
-gyro mirage>far symple swirl>rpt
-sidewalk>ripwalk>rpt>rubberman>bap drill
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after looking at some footage, I was practicing 'the' double overs towards the end
had flip double over practice for an hour today. It's far behind the strong but it was my best flip session for that motion to date by leaps and bounds. Also spent about 15 minutes trying to hit clip ss swirl. I didn't hit it
:-ddd>barfly>rpt
-bsos spanishfly twice
-flip paradon>flip scorpions tail>string
-bsos scorps
-flip superduper fly
-superfly bsos
-whirr bsos
-flip jani>handcatch>strong jani>handcatch
-barfly>barrage>paradon>barfly>barrage>paradon>barfly>barfly>string w/ bsos blurriest
-footed flip and strong nemesis
-muted ducking pdx torque>string w/ maelstrom in the middle
edit:
-atomic opp eggbeater>string
-plasma (inspired by Zac Miley)
-bsos toe far muted swirl
-gyro mirage>far symple swirl>rpt
-sidewalk>ripwalk>rpt>rubberman>bap drill
edit2:
after looking at some footage, I was practicing 'the' double overs towards the end
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James... What Up?!?!
Was messing around in the kitchen yesterday trying barefoot tricks I'll never hit like diving delusion and quadruple atw. It was fun.
I tried toe jani and somehow hit a really deep toe flurry. I've never hit that trick before
James... What Up?!?!
Was messing around in the kitchen yesterday trying barefoot tricks I'll never hit like diving delusion and quadruple atw. It was fun.
I tried toe jani and somehow hit a really deep toe flurry. I've never hit that trick before
Welcome to Flavortown
Kevin Crowley
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