Israel Footblog - Training program

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 01 Jul 2011 04:12

Toda raba!

Yep it was 6 in a row (or 5, I'm starting to doubt my recollection of the event), but definitely in a row!

Today very short session, working on those steppings, especially out of butterfly.

Ducking clipper->sidewalk->osis->schmoe

Blizzard bsos

blur

blurry whirl

osis->stepping op osis

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 02 Jul 2011 22:07

1. Agree that it's awesome you have so many players with Lavers at a random session. That's great.
2. I just realized today that "Israel" anagrams to "serIal." Interesting.
3. Cosign props on the DATWs.

Inspired by you:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo17B_erLX8[/youtube]

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 04 Jul 2011 10:03

Wow, thanks for the gesture

I'll dedicate one back when my camera is fixed!

It was a super rare session - It's 3 kids who kinda stopped playing even though they were pretty good. I think they were too young and I wasn't providing enough push to keep them in practice.

Session on saturday: A freestyle soccer player got hooked and gave me his # to tell him of future sessions. He hit legover, atw and mirage barefoot.

Today I watched some David Clavens videos before my sessions. I love his videos. Other people hit a sick move and make me think "I'll never be able to hit this". David hits them one after the other in such a rapid succession that paradoxically it makes me believe I CAN hit them if I practice hard.

Highlights from today:

infinity x 20

footed stepping ss whirl bs

ducking legover inside

clipper set symp whirl (rare move for me)

parkwalk->schmoe->magellan->magellan->parkwalk->schmoe (Link inspired by a dream)

Next session I want to count the actual amount of stepping I do. I think I may not be doing enough per session.

Today on the way back from work I saw a guy with a tshirt saying "LEGOVER".

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 05 Jul 2011 00:39

stepping ss whirl is a good trick...you're getting pretty good! I wish I was going to Worlds this year, would be great to hang out again.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 05 Jul 2011 09:58

Thanks! I've been working hard. Liliana told me that she thinks my game really improved, which means a lot, since she's been a close spectator for more than a year now.

About 70 stepping in today's session. I think butter->stepping is starting to settle on bs. It's nearly time to move on to another concept.

Ducking butter->ripwalk

dimwalk->schmoe bsos

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 09 Jul 2011 06:40

This week there was a 11 ppl strong session at the beach, with 5 pairs of lavers. My friend came over to film, hopefully he'll send me some footage soon so I can edit something. I hit spinning ducking clipper, confirmed that the ducking was clean by other ppl.

Today I had a solo session. As opposed to my latest sessions, today I didn't feel so hot. Worked on stepping. Last solo session with the 70 steppings really brought me to a new level, but I didn't feel like I made new grounds today.

Highlights:

70 clippers - to hand catch, first try (new record!)

footed ripped warrior (secret seems to be: Clear dex first, then worry about ducking)

parkwalk->blur->symp whirl

ducking butter x3

Tried hitting merlin - weird trick.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 10 Jul 2011 09:45

I think it's time to move on from stepping to paradon

quantum butter->stepping legover

ripwalk x3

zooming clipper bs

blurriest first try

2 blenders, felt very easy

miraging pickup (obviously a bail from merlin, but came very close)

eggbeater->symp whirl

clipper set symp whirl - whole bunch, also felt easy

ducking butter->ripwalk

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 13 Jul 2011 10:26

Oren is leaving to Prague today, and no one from the Czech republic answered my call in the Journeys subforum to meet him. Kinda sad

Started working on paradons. It's pretty confusing, I'm not sure how to practice this other than hitting tons of paradons.

My main problems are that I can't hit it if the set is not low, and that it's hard for me to keep the bag in clipper after the paradon, so setting out of it into something non-trivial is tricky.

lots of paradon bsos

pixie diving ss osis

pixie op swirl

pixie quantum lo->paradon

osis->stepping lo->paradon

paradon->ducking clipper bs

Next session I'll try hitting more 3 adds out of paradons.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 13 Jul 2011 11:59

It should be duly noted that my stamina has improved leaps and bounds. Today's session was an hour and a half, and I could've gone more if the bag and the shoes didn't feel like mud puddles.

For a while now, after a kicking warm up, I've started every session with leg hops, as much as I can do on each foot, and then a set of symposium tricks (which I still suck at, but slowly improving). Then, I try to break my clipper to clipper record. By the time I get to the actual practice, my legs have reached their max fatigue several times. I'm pretty sure that this routine has a lot to do with the stamina and consistency improvement.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 15 Jul 2011 06:47

I've been working on a demo site for freestyle footbag in Hebrew. I want to get a decent domain to put this on, make flyers and put the URL there.

Took a few hours to make, but I like the results. Landing page tells you that "those crazy tricks you saw, you can learn to do as well!". Second page shows the basic techniques, 3rd page is about equipment, and finally a "contact us" page. Covers all the bases, right?

boyle · Post by **boyle** » 16 Jul 2011 00:00

I like it, I don't know if you have any regular kicking times/locations, but maybe you could put that into the contact details, because sometimes people will be keen to just rock up to a spot and see what's happening.

sen · Post by **sen** » 16 Jul 2011 07:07

Site looks really good!

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 16 Jul 2011 09:37

Thanks! I moved it to its permanent home at http://footbagisrael.com.

I didn't post any kick time/locations since they're so irregular and I'd rather have contacts I can email once a week about that. Jon Schneider recommended I make a mailing list and it's about time I do that.

Today I played a session by the beach. I wasn't "feelin' it", as I never do after two days of not playing. We were joined by an enthusiastic Arab guy who refused to toss the bag and kept serving himself unsuccessfully. I offered him a free bag and he declined. He hardly knew Hebrew so it's possible he didn't understand what I was talking about the whole time. We had a large amount of spectators and I kicked myself for not having flyers ready.

Even though I didn't play so hot, I hit stepping out of paradon (to a drop), and a few really good torques. I even hit torque->dlo.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 19 Jul 2011 10:40

My body is rebelling against my training regime - My back gave in first with inflammatory pains, then came shin splints, and now I can barely survive a 40 minutes session.

During this weakness period I'm gonna try to listen to my body and stop the session when I feel drained.

After one session of working on paradons, I've discovered to my dismay that my stepping sets are unsatisfactory again. I'm gonna work on them once more till I reign them back home. How frustrating!

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 20 Jul 2011 10:48

Today must've been the worst day to play outside. We decided to play by the beach at 6 pm, 2 hours before sun dawn. Should be pretty chilly by then. But no, it was HELL. The air was so dense with humidity that it felt like playing in some strange, heated liquid.

Combined with my weak game related physical and mental state, I thought the session will be a disaster. Fortunately, I played ok (if not very consistent), and even brought home some highlights:

Perfect spinning whirl

Footed merlin (yay)

several clean blenders

Blurriest

Gyro mirage

pixie symposium butterfly

diving osis bsos

Close attempt at ducking dlo

dlo bsos (i hardly do flip dlo)

toe barrage

I suppose longer sessions break through any hardship and eventually you hit nice stuff given enough time.

Icing my shin splints, they don't bother me too much.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 21 Jul 2011 08:57

whirl->stepping legover bs

pixie whirl bsos

spinning clipper->osis->zooming

blender

pdx dlo

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 22 Jul 2011 07:12

I'm leaving to Finland in about a week, I have no idea what it's gonna be like and I have almost no plans whatsoever. In the mean time, I try to play as often as possible. It seems like there's a huge difference between the amount of practice session a week I squeeze. Every additional one exponentially helps me. I'm glad I didn't skip today.

Even though it was short today, I hit 4 new tricks:

flip blender

whirling swirl

merlin

pixie muted swirl

Super happy with all of them.

Some new links:

drifter->blender

flip dimwalk->diving osis

sidewalk ->blender

Looking back at the blog, exactly a year ago I was working on flip spinning clipper & drifter.
Two years ago I started this blog, and it was worlds 2009.

Honestly doesn't seem like a whole lot of progress since then. I was half expecting my highlights to be mirage x4 or something.

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 25 Jul 2011 09:27

I'm getting pretty excited about worlds already. I'm leaving to Finland on Thursday morning, a bit early, in hopes to catch some of the country and hopefully hop over to Estonia for a day.

Today I had a real nice session. I regained my confidence in stepping, and I worked on those paradons. I also had a breakthrough in osis.

flip zooming butterfly

dimwalk->pdx whirl bs

stepping lo->paradon bs

spinning dlo

paradon->blender

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqaN9LDgGIQ[/youtube]
Paradon->dlo->parkwalk->ducking butter

PoisonTaffy · Post by **PoisonTaffy** » 29 Jul 2011 01:56

One on one session with Felix Zenger

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 05 Aug 2011 12:34

Props on winning intermediate request.