Hood's House

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 30 Sep 2005 12:04

Fun solo session. Finished 4 more of the challenges and felt pretty strong. My left shin wasn't bothering me at all, if any, bearibly noticible. Almost hit vertigo bsos, but I did manage to hit it both sides. Hit the dlo > ss dlo > repeat, that was rewarding.

After playin for about an hour at City Park, I decided to bike back home, but then I thought, school is getting out, so I stopped at PHS. There surely enough, was a bunch of circle kickers, about 8. So I stopped over and they let me in, once I was comfortable half of them left, and I started shredding with the big ole sipa sipa hack, it wasn't bad at all actually. I just stuck with easy 3 adds and single dexes and my strings were pretty long, long enough to pass. I got an odd question, one I've never had been asked before " So you run track or somethin ??"

I broke out my lil Lonn bag and they were astounded at how small it was, I had a couple good strings, good for my level of play ! Until there was this kid that ran by, they were like, "that kid is the best kicker around here, but you're way better than him. " Later he stopped by and he saw my footbag, he was like, "that's a footbag not a hacky sack, it's for footbaggin , not hackin." So my one chance to be like, FREESTYLE FOOTBAG THIS, I get it and drop it on my 2nd contact and he is just psssh, and walks away like it's nothin. Cocky bastard. As he walks away " you're better footbaggin, i'm better hackin.." He watched me for a good 5 seconds, interesting fellah. I'm supposed to show up either Monday or Friday to show them freestyle, I plan to do so.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 30 Sep 2005 12:53

great story

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 01 Oct 2005 21:45

Had a cookout at Mountwood park with a lot of my good friends. Great weather, great times, and some good falls. Sooo...I enjoy doing many things, and some of those things are just stupid. This is an example. There was a dead tree that needed knocked down because my friend and I thought it was appropriate, I notice he couldn't pull it down from his location because he couldn't gain any leverage at his height. Soo..i had the bright idea of climbing up high enough onto the tree so it'd lean down the hill, he could grab my feet and pull, creating a much higher lever and more efficient. All I can say is it worked really fast, cause it took less than 2 seconds of pulling and that tree snapped and I flew down the hill with it. I pretty much landed flat on my ass and back followed by some vicious whiplash and my head just bounced off the ground as the tree came falling onto me. It was so crazy, I made a little comic out of it... enjoy !

edit :: notice various rocks around me, there was a 25 % chance I would have been bloodied/unconcious/hospitalized because there were rocks all over the place. Luckily my head found the nice dirt/moss area

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 02 Oct 2005 18:19

Well, I woke up today and I couldn't move my head, it felt like an extra heavy bowling ball. My neck muscles are extremely sore from the fall in the woods, not to mention soreness in the upper and lower back, and right calf. So with that mentioned, I doubt I'll be shredding today or tomorrow, I'll have to give it a couple days so my head doesn't fall off. I got the lost tape uploaded onto my computer so I'll start editing it this week

It definitely brought back some great memories of the wv jam...

edit :: it's 1:30 am, and I had to test out the new Vegas 6.0 ...so I already have 2 min 30 sec + footage edited, it's gonna rock your socks.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 03 Oct 2005 18:15

Well, I can now hold my head up in bed, just hurts a bit, neck extension is the killer for me, damn whiplash. I'm about 90 % done on the vid now, quite exciting ! Editing is so addicting, it's like gaming, once I start I'm in my own zone where time passes and I don't event notice it. If my body is feeling better, I'll shred tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm itchin for it.

BOBBY G, WHEN ARE YOU COMING IN !?

edit : Hen, if you're reading this, I put a special 10 seconds in the vid just for you bud.

Edit :: http://v.footbag.org/media/766/Lost%20Tape.wmv Enjoy !

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 04 Oct 2005 13:37

I just finished watching the new vid, pretty sweet. Hope you recover soon, Chicago would love to have you back...

HG · Post by HG » 04 Oct 2005 16:45

Ba da ba ba ba, im lovin it! Trampoline rocked, penske's run with it looked like Reile and Tom flippin into the pool was cool. Great editing too.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 09 Oct 2005 16:35

Played Friday and Saturday with Brad and Bob, fun fun fun. Only thing i knocked off the list was beta blur bsos. On Sat. I almost had witchdoctor back 2 back midstring, that was tight, but I didn't hit it. Tried grave digger for the first time, I'm actually close to hitting it, a couple more tries and I'll have that, I just need more consistant high stepping sets. I think I hit a couple new moves here and there, but nothin too crazy. PS whirls were on on Saturday, I hit just about whatever I wanted out of it, I hit pdx drifter out of it and ducking pdx mirage, which was really cool. I'm really liking the 75 BOP challenge cause I can't get to it so that just shows my weakness and I believe it's a good way to remedy it. I've got weak osis, so I do a lot of different variations of osis in the BOP challenge.

For those poor souls like me who don't know what BOP is (I found out like 1 month ago), it's Butter , Osis , Paradox Mirage. I always thought it was some sort of bail terminology, but now I know, and knowing is half the battle. The other half is hitting 75 of them.

So out of everything on the list, the 2 challenges I think that will be impossible for me to hit within this month are butterfly swirl bsos and torque > ripwalk repeat, that shit is hard !!! One question for Henry, is it 10 double dexes in a string ? or 10 double dexes consecutive ?

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » 09 Oct 2005 16:59

Its consecutive. Oh, and dbl dexes means anything with two dexes, including shuffle, not just dbl downs and barrage type moves.

The lost Tape video was great! The editing was slick, really professional. Plus the Bila lavice ending was awesome. It looked exactly the same!

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 09 Oct 2005 19:26

The new 2006 yamaha line up is out...and damn that is a tasty lil thing. I'm hopin in a couple years after I'm out of school, I can start making it to more events on my new ride. I can always dream...

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 10 Oct 2005 12:23

So last week's weather was pretty crappy, so I never went to PHS to kick with those hackers, so I thought today would be a nice day to play, that and my neck was still pretty tight from whiplash. I biked over and there weren't any cars in the parking lot !! I forgot there wasn't any school today, so instead I just biked over to City Park and had a fun solo sesh. Felt pretty strong today, I feel that my legs are starting to really move and flow, it's a nice feeling when you hit moves with ease and feel light on your feet. I tried my 75 BOPS and no luck, I got like 36 or something,

I tried the 30 guiltless with 5 4's in there, no luck. For the most part today, I just shred to my heart's desire.

Ugh, on my way back, it was like it was gnat season or something cause I kept biking through all these damned gnats ! when I got done I had to sweep myself off cause they were all over the front of my body, I even found one smashed on the screen of my nano like a bug on a windshield

Well, it's time to go to work. I only have till the 24'th and then I start my clinicals

My first clinical will be close by in an inpatient setting. I've never worked in an inpatient setting so the experience should be good, I hope...

full nelson · Post by **full nelson** » 10 Oct 2005 19:13

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 12 Oct 2005 16:53

PSTOFF !! , since no one else will answer.

SOOOooo...onto tonight's super duper sweet shred !! I didn't hit any challenges but I hit some of my own personal goals ! I finally hit flip ps whirl in Brad's G-unit's, I also hit ...uhhh it's like a wauxpin except a reverse whirl bailed to toe...so like a far reverse whirling gyro toe midstring ??? (in his G's (they're a whole size too big)) I also hit vortex for the first time both sides and I managed to hit food processor first try, clean ! I'm still on my footbag high so I'm quite excited..

. I think I shall order my G's tonight in celebration

Well, it looks like it's time to watch Lost.

edit > Brad said I should plan my first beast...I think it shall be Blurry Blender > ducking Ps whirl > spinning blender / ducking pdx. torque (I haven't hit either

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HooD · Post by **HooD** » 15 Oct 2005 22:26

Geee geee geee Unaaaat !!! I got mine in today

i also filmed a bit on Friday before I went to the highschool and played, maybe I'll make a quick crap edit and put it on, who knows. I had a great place to shred, but my buddy's were tellin me it was on illegal property, bah, a flood wall is for the public...right ?...ok no...

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 15 Oct 2005 23:12

Yeah, I knew it was PSTOFF2 as well, but I read his post like 5 minutes after he wrote it, so I wanted to give time to others to guess it.

John: how weird is it that you just got G-Units? I just got G-Units myself, just yesterday! Before coming to Aussie, me and Jeremy O Wheel both hit stepping reaper for the first time on the same day, without having talked about it at all. Half-Japanese footbag psychic unconscious... cosmic.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 16 Oct 2005 17:49

Man, i'm goin insane...i've got my shoes in front of me...and I want to mod them to hell and back. But if I do so...I am going to take the time to make a tutorial...and I don't think I should be doing that now since I have some big final tests the next 4 days. I also bought these shoes as an excuse to have new work shoes...so if I cut them all up, I'm pretty sure they won't look professional...unless i do a professional job of mod'ing them

Oh, on the note of shred. I got the camera out to film so solo shred. I tweaked my back to where it hurts to twist and laterally flex around the thoracic portion of my back...This is the second time I've hurt my back, the other time I was filming. So I guess I take the pressure of camera on me and I immediately play and rush moves to where I, well, hurt myself. I have to remember next time to just warm up for a longer time, and then bust the camera out.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 17 Oct 2005 10:35

It is pure gorgeous outside right now. I'm going to do some tripod filming for the upcoming battle due Nov. 15th. I believe it is gonna be Henry, Johnny, Joe, and myself. So either a 3 way or a 4 way battle. Should be good, I've never really messed with tripods, so here goes nothin !

This quarter has been very rushed and I just took my first final today. I totally whipped ass and got a 98% on my final and a 100 % on my paper. The only thing is now I have to prepare for my 2 dreaded classes and a paper for her...

damn Kathy... Any who, today can't get much better, hopefully my back will allow me to shred, I'll take it nice and easy and shred outside and then I'll hop in the car and find a nice place to film. Tah tah suckahs !

edit : camera is dead - crap...No filming today, maybe I'll mess with some more website redesigning. Yeah, if you didn't know, which you shouldn't, because I haven't really said anything, I'm redesigning hoodshouse to make it extra hot. So expect a facelift and update of information within a couple months.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 17 Oct 2005 20:43

Well it's near 1 am, and I just got done completely mod'ing my new G-units...I got so addicted I haven't even started studying for the other tests or starting my final paper for pathophysiology...

Mods:
- Trimmed off part of the inside of the insoles
- Took off all outer layers on the inside and toe surface
- Sliced off some rubber off the inside to make a smooth transition from soul (rubber) to cloth (inside)
- Sewed around cut edges on the insides to make a smoother transition between leather and thin material.
- Tubing mod to make a nice smooth small - medium wall size.
- Relaced and spaced the toe.
- I got so excited while mod'ing those beautiful shoes that I went back on ebay and ordered a pair so I could wear them casually

i've got shoe addiction...

- "Jajajajajaja-jee-youu-nit!"

edit :

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 21 Oct 2005 08:46

There it is, i mod pro suckah.

I also took some time to put some Funtastik 2005 pics up, you can view them here. http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/Funtastiks

I'll give a throw down of the event, what I remember.

It was great seeing all my buddies there. People from all over made it. I roomed with ma boys Caleb, Jake, & Dave. I met some new guys and they were in there too; Iain, Pat, and that one guy, lol (sorry man).

Some of the highlights was seein Sunil show up for the event, he was pretty rusty and not his old self. Brian Mckenzie was also there, very cool guy, I got to talk to him a good bit. Nasty Nate was even there !! He's gotten so much better since last time I saw him, props to him. Some other guys that impressed me were Dave, but I saw that coming, Nathan Pipenburg, and Will Digges. Those two have this skinny style that makes everything look easy, it's wierd !

One night I hooked up one of the mics in under the tent to the pa system, and had a bit of a beatbox session. It started out with myself, then Mike Anello showed, then Kovacs, then Will, and then Dave gave a shot. Pretty fun stuff ! I almost feel like a poser when I beatbox cause it seems like all other footbaggers have taken it up, but I've pretty much been doin it before Vasek was, but oh well

. Eventually we got kicked out by whatshis name, some netbagger. He was just tryin to keep the pa system for the next day so we wouldn't get it taken away.

The weather was so great, every day. The only problem was when we wanted to kick at the hotel, we got kicked out of fricken everywhere. I've never been treated like such a piece of shit so many times in one place before. It seemed like people in Harrisburg had coal stuck up their ass or somethin.

One other highlight was Dave and Caleb bustin infront of this crowd with a band behind them. I would have joined in, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet, not good enough. They were in the center of a dance floor, having nice long strings and gettin a good vibe from everyone around, which was a lot of people.

One of my favourite routines was Kovaks, it was the first time I've heard that song - my hump. He said he kinda wanted to do it to joke around for the first round, but I thought it was super kick ass.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of other memories, but the pictures keep them close to mind. Going to events like that makes me really anxious to get out of school so I can afford to go to them more often. I had a great time with everyone there.

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 23 Oct 2005 13:05

Well, I just had a session outside, it was a bit cold at first, but then I warmed up. So I can't really use cold as an excuse. I had the camera on so maybe that's why I played worse. I haven't played for over a week, maybe that's why also. And today I had my first session in my G6's. I pray that my new shoes weren't why I played so bad. Either way I still plan on using my lavers till they're dead unless I find a profound increase in my game with my new G-units, which I doubt will happen because I know it's my skill that needs worked, not new gear.