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james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 04 Oct 2006 20:43

PROPS!!

grifter rules. I was hitting them last session too, booya. I should start doing eggbeaters, I bsos'd bubba beater the other day, that felt good, yeah, I think it's time to beat some eggs. I wish my game was better. I hope I can come to Melbourne soon to take in your illusion skillz in person

janis · Post by **janis** » 05 Oct 2006 03:46

thx

james_dean wrote:I hope I can come to Melbourne soon

me too

Today was awesome

Earlier on there was free food, drinks and bands and some epic circle kicking. Also organised the annual general meeting for the club, which is going to be on the 17th. Met heaps of people today, played in 3 hack circles.

Later played in a random circle out front of the State library, was surprised to bump into Dan there. Talked to him a bit about some moves, he said "footing moves doesn't count for much" , so I'm like orly? Dan-"alright bring it on!" and gave whirr a go, it was "the" but I got the clipper so that is some progress.

did some stuff after everyone left, inculding 9 contacts of op clipper>far legover>rpt and 6 rotations of 2 bag juggling

Bumped into someone I knew in the street and was asked to do an impromptu footbag demonstration, did a few legovers, mirages, an eggbeater then moved onto some 2 bag juggling, 20sec dropless routine woot.

Did some whirls when I was at home, it almost killed me cause of stupid fucked up flipside, but hit clipper set whirl bsos, woot

attempted dragonfly> ducking op dragonfly but kept missing the handcatch

EDIT: 2 weeks of playing each and everyday for a few hours has really taken it out of me, thinking of taking a break tommorow.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 05 Oct 2006 16:16

you're a machine. I should play more, stop being such a bum

janis · Post by **janis** » 05 Oct 2006 23:04

after exams are done come to my place and stay a night or two and we'll get some awesome shred in

yeah, I took a day off footbag today

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 06 Oct 2006 14:30

Props on all the good stuff

But your a pussy for taking a day off.

janis · Post by **janis** » 06 Oct 2006 21:17

lol, I'm amazed that I didn't play for a whole day. My right knee was sore from doing whirl, I'm going to avoid that for a while. Left whirl is pwning it up now though

so I had a session today, all started with this challenge (subtle hint to spam my challenge page if you are reading this

)

BenRea wrote:pixie set>back stall*

*- you have to drop to the ground after the pixie and land the bag on your back in pushup position

ive seen it done.

Hit it on the 3rd or so attempt.
also knocked off these challenges:
Pixie SS Toe > SS Legover > Magellan > Pixie SS Toe > Mirage > Smear
Legover same pincher>pinch beater

atomsmasher kick

also hit for the first time:
flip magellan
pullback bs
atw and datw all four directions bsos
smear>pigbeater
datw pendulum
datw in>double pixie>datw in> bail on double pixie
clipper set whirling inside

and pdx whirling inside

........ all barefoot

janis · Post by **janis** » 07 Oct 2006 03:25

Played again today, mainly datw this session
also did some pixie spinning, missed pixie spinning mobius by a few centimeters about 10 times in a row

xbd rake b2b
new stuff:
magellan bsos
pixie ss pickup
flip kneebumping dragonflyer
pendulous rake
pendulous xbd rake
pendulous spinning rake
clipper set whirling toe
far pincher bsos
far cloud bsos
pixie op cloud
datw in-out ending on heel
datw out-in ending on heel
butter heel (first time barefoot)
butter sole
dimwalk heel
quantum knee stall to end session

all up 5 hours of shred today

janis · Post by **janis** » 08 Oct 2006 00:41

played a bit today, also did some busking
also really fed up with ppl telling me to do more clipper based game, I simply don't care and it pisses me off

Just call me hagesy · Post by **Just call me hagesy** » 08 Oct 2006 14:32

Pixie spinning mobius, or do you just mean pixie toebius.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 08 Oct 2006 17:34

Do more clippers.

Pixie mobius = sick

I look forward to coming down, spending a night or two and 'shredding' with you... baby...

I have an interview at a bank tomorrow. Wish me luck. If I get it I will be down a lot more

janis · Post by **janis** » 10 Oct 2006 03:57

Hope you get that job Jamie.

Awesome session with Alex today, he is playing really well atm. Some highlights from his shred: blurriest>stepping ss double down>run, pixie spinning mirage, spinning symp mirage, ripped warrior bs, some phat foodprocessors and almost alpine food, lots of torques/pdx torques and shitload of 5's midrun.
I had an awesome shred too, new stuff included:
clipper set whirling inside bsos
cloud set eggbeater
inside kick set eggbeater
datw kick (harder than it seems)
heel set symp mirage
whirling front body rake

dimwalk bsos>strong parkwalk then drop on flip parkwalk

dragonflyer, pixie dragonflyer, symp dragonflyer, pdx dragonflyer all in the one run
DATW all 4 directions in the same run (first time in shoes)

Also footed barfly heaps and was really close to TATW a few times, not long now and I'll have that trick. Also whirl is feeling good, whirr is going to be mine soon. Atomsmasher is feeling good, so is quantum

edit: forgot I hit toe set> bag goes over head> blind clipper

janis · Post by **janis** » 11 Oct 2006 04:21

did some zoid set stuff, hit legover pdx mirage and pickup out of it
pixie merlin off the foot, way too many times

finished with pincher set whirling inside

good way to finish an exceedingly annoying session

janis · Post by **janis** » 11 Oct 2006 22:55

omg tatw is pissing me off, its just permanently just out of reach, after 100's of attempts it is getting really frustrating. Anyway hit pinch set ducking legover for the first time today.

janis · Post by **janis** » 12 Oct 2006 01:19

Ended up shredding for about 4hours today, which isn't a bag effort considering it was a 36degree day(96F for all you imperial measurement ppl). Spent a few hours filming myself to try and figure out what was happening technique-wise. Ended up getting some good stuff on tape. Was way too tired to get tatw attempts on tape after trying them for an hour earlier on, mabye tommorow. Feel a bit deydrated now thuogh.

janis · Post by **janis** » 13 Oct 2006 03:10

Played a bit today, meet some new people who were circle kicking.

Had a headache, probably from dehydration yesterday, tried to get some stuff on camera. Got a few good bits and pieces but cramped up badly so I had to stop. Going to try tatw tommorow for the camera hoping that I can get some tips if I post it up.

janis · Post by **janis** » 14 Oct 2006 04:40

Had a fantastic session with Alex and Scott at chadstone. Scott was playing the best I'd ever seen hitting blurry whirl, symp whirl, ripped warrior and far symple swirl. Alex was busting out huge fearless links and did a 30+ contact (mostly tripless) shuffle run he also did a barefoot ripstein

. I had some mega improvement on the clipper front, I can step now

So in the space of one session I went from no stepping set to hitting 6 stepping tricks, woot. Hit probe second attempt, tried symp rev whirr a few times, rev swirl was feeling good and footed ripstein.

new stuff:
ripwalk (yeah I one "lol" attempt once before, but this was the other side)
sidewalk
stepping op mirage
stepping op illusion
stepping op pincher
datw in>paradon
datw in>smear>smudge>eggbeater
dimwalk>whirling inside>rev whirl
pixie rev whirl

Zjeezy · Post by **Zjeezy** » 14 Oct 2006 14:21

Wow, awesome on the stepping stuff. What is probe?

symp whirr would be huge

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 14 Oct 2006 17:46

Wow, props on the stepping janis! That's great. Told you it would come

whirling inside > rev whirl is a cool link.

janis · Post by **janis** » 14 Oct 2006 23:52

wow other people posting in the melbourne blog

thx for the props guys

probe: toe set> bag goes over head from front to back> blind clipper

Finally met Alex today, it's awesome to have someone who is into the net. Spent most of the afternoon practicing net with him with his uber leet net bags. Looking forward to regular games of net

Had a bit of shred with the other Alex, nothing particularly hardcore from either of us. I managed to hit datw all directions bsos again, new stuff:
pinch set datw (going to do this more, reckon it will help with tatw)
datw out-in>paradon

currently editing the mfc winter shreds video, need to cut back heaps of footage, cause it's like 40mins long atm

janis · Post by **janis** » 17 Oct 2006 04:44

The footbag club AGM got quorum, woot.

Also had a shred this evening, got some stuff on film, including blurry pincher first attempt. Also some more pincher stuff and toe moves, at the beginning of the session I was trying pixie ss clipper> infinity > pdx dragonflyer> butterfly but after some attempts my left leg was cramping up really bad. So from that point onwards I was having lots of trouble doing clipper (more trouble than the normal trouble I have with clippers). Instead of ending there, did some more toe stuff, worked flip pixie quite a bit.