Eugene, Oregon Blog

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 01 Mar 2005 11:53

haha, which guy was that? I can't remember, I just got done watching all of the footage, and I have a lot of awesome runs from the Penske/Lon/Daryl epic shred and lots more, how should we do this?

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 01 Mar 2005 12:26

gimmie, gimmie!!! You should either put out a big awesome vid, or you could send me your tapes by mail or something and I could do it. If you make a cool vid you could upload it to .org and I could download and host it on my site.

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 01 Mar 2005 12:33

Oh just got an e-mail from Juan Rangel and he is coming to Eugene this weekend! Hell yeah more sick shred going down in Eugene

Maraxus · Post by **Maraxus** » 01 Mar 2005 14:50

I would hit that shit like 20 times a night.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 01 Mar 2005 14:57

Maraxus wrote:I would hit that shit like 20 times a night.

hey, thats cool, just try to keep your clothes this time

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 03 Mar 2005 11:39

Lots of shredding yesterday. Nate and I shredded it up on campus. I got quite a few cool strings and a couple of ooohs and claps. Campus is always cool. Came really close to fog beesauce and also matador>fog. Come to think of it I was near matador>tomahawk too... Doh! Figured out some new shit with paradox torques that I didn't really get before. All in all it was a high energy day. Oh yeah I hit a new 5>5 phoenix>blurriest.

Started lifting weights again. I think I am going to get super serious about that again. I'm starting to get out of shape, at least in comparision to what I used to look like when I was lifting.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 03 Mar 2005 12:10

face it james, you have the body of a little girl, even I could beat you in arm wrestling

BTW, I thought you guys were taking a break for a while. Looks like I rubbed off a little bit on your guys

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 03 Mar 2005 12:15

habitat wrote:BTW, I thought you guys were taking a break for a while.

And let you get better than us? Yeah right

Oh yeah, my girlfriend hates you for stealing my hoody... she loves that hoody

Do you have my shorts? Nate ended up with your underwear.

Have you gone through much off your css footage yet james? Mine is so great. I can't wait to have some time to put out a vid.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 03 Mar 2005 12:51

yeah, I got some bomb footage of everything, like 20 mins of the epic Lon/Jim shred on sunday, although no 97 contact run or 55 swirls, nate lauren and I were a little busy at the time

plus my camera died!

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 04 Mar 2005 09:51

Juan Rangel should be getting in around 2pm today! I have sooo much school work so I probably will have to keep my partying to a minimum... yeah right. I haven't played with Juan for a year and a half. It should be fun to represent my new skills, and get some footy of the Chosen Juan.

I'll post later after we shred, video will probably come after my CSS stuff, or maybe I'll throw the Juan stuff on the forum right away.

Who wants to come to Eugene next!?

sampotter · Post by **sampotter** » 04 Mar 2005 11:00

Maybe you should come to Seattle!

http://www.modified.ca/footbag/viewtopic.php?t=8388

(probably not -- can't imagine the hole you're burning in your pocket already

)

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 07 Mar 2005 11:51

The forum doesn't seem quite the same anymore... I don't know what it is.

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 07 Mar 2005 15:37

It's because people are leaving us James. First Jeremy, now Andrew.

Who's next?

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 10 Mar 2005 12:26

Trying to take a much needed vacation from footbag. I highly doubt it will last long, since all I think about is shredding, but my body could use it. I've been working out regularly again, and it should help my game. I'll probably start up again on Sat (wow a whopping 4 days of not playing.) The weather here is just beautiful, and I want to go shred infront of everyone. It will actually be hard to not play today or tomorrow, but I must not play! Ahh all this talk about not playing makes me want to shred!

Evil footbag.... Evil!!

Oh yeah, as soon as my girlfriend will get off my computer for a night or two I will put out a CSS vid.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 10 Mar 2005 13:26

yeah even I, James Randall, am taking a break from footbag. The longest since I started playing seriously is 1 day. I'm just getting sick of being injured, everyday

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 15 Mar 2005 07:53

I'm glad most people that watched my CSS video seemed to like it. I never can seem to please Samurai though, oh well

I guess if I wasn't so busy I could spend days perfecting a video, but instead I just gave up my weekend to crank it out real fast. I can understand why Lovely doesn't want to make big internet videos anymore. I'm sure it takes him forever to put out a super quality vid. Still I will miss his huge productions, they are some of my favorite videos online.

Yikes its too early to be at work!

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 16 Mar 2005 09:27

Nate and I have been shredding pretty often. I am sick though so it kindof sucks. I have been taking it easy mostly these days. I've pulled back from 5s, not really but I throw less of them and try less new ones. I'm really trying to smooth out my style and get some cooler 3s and 4s under my belt. I want toe spinning and inspinning to be totally dialed in. Came really close to double spinning osis the other day, and I have been hitting inspinning osis mid run which is a cool move. Also hit zulu clip bsos for the first time. Never really put too much work into zulu.

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 01 Apr 2005 18:18

I have been doing a lot of spinning a ducking variations for the last while, and I am really trying to tie it in seamlessly with my shuffle and downtime moves. I think my record is like a run of 14 or 15 dexless guiltless. Thats cool. I think nate has like 30 or something, so its something to work towards. Not too long ago I could only do like 4 or 5 unless it was like consecutive ducking clippers or osis or something. I'm trying to become a much more well rounded player. Oh my quantum seems to be kicking ass lately... I'm happy about that.

Red and noah are coming tomorrow! That is going to be fun. They are bringing two little badasses named Nick and Jake. They are some young shredders I guess, and they are going to take over. Nick has some crazy barroqes and dragon type moves and stuff so that will be cool. He has even hit fog both sides. This should prove to be fun.

I'll let you guys know how it went.

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 03 Apr 2005 13:10

Well that was a lot of fun! Now I'm at work, so I might as well post in my blog.

Lets see Friday night Aaron Orton called and he was staying with richie, and jason crook and cameron kennedy were over there too. It seems they were going to have a Saturday session just like us. It was cool talking to Aaron, and we basically shot the shit about Jorden and his badass videos. I talked to cameron for the first time on the phone. He seems like a really nice guy. I'd really like to get the chance to shred with those cali dudes in the near future.

Red brought Noah and Nick and Jake. Red was basically playing the best I had ever seen in person. He seemed to be in top form, and he was hitting some crazy ass shit like blurriest swirl, and stepping diving dod(bear claw). His runs were really long and packed with 4s and 5s. He also hit redwetter at the end of the day. Oh yeah he was doing some wonton stuff both sides, and he hit blurry blur in a run.

Nick is really crazy. He has such a soft step when he plays, and he has some great strings. His paradox barrages are insanely good, and he came really close to paradox barroqe. The kids knees are so freaky double jointed so he can bend them all weirdlike. He seems to be really positive and addicted to footbag.

Noah was going off too, hitting some really long strings and doing more spinning and ducking then I had ever seen him do. His zulu looked really clean, and I thought he really transitioned well between that and his shuffle.

Nate and I played pretty well and had a fun time. I hit wonton legover for the first time which was neat.

Jordan videos were pretty much the only shred videos we watched. Red and Noah kept saying "he's not the boss of me." Oh yeah and Noah is wearing his Pope shirt the rest of the week. It has the pope smoking a joint on the front and says I like the Pope, the Pope smokes dope.

It was definitely a really fun time. Although I am really tired and I have to work until like 10:30pm tonight. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the damned daylight savings crap. I hate that shit!

peace out homeys.

ericksonj · Post by **ericksonj** » 06 May 2005 14:03

Whats up there guys. Thought I would post a bit in my blog so people don't think I dropped off the face of the footbag planet.

Well for starters I got a new job programming, so that's sweet. Finally getting a chance to get paid for what I am best at.

I have been playing lots of footbag and I am improving lots. I think my style has greatly improved, and for a while I was focusing really hard on spinning and ducking variations. It really slowed my game down and all of a sudden I could barely shuffle and I would get really tired if I tried! But it sure did seem to improve my style. Now I am working really hard on my shuffle again and it is improving like crazy. It seems like I have to put a lot less energy into it now, and I have been breaking my shuffle records all over the place. Hit 25 ripwalks and 25 smears the other day, but I know I can hit way more if I upped my endurance a bit. Was fun though. All of a sudden, I seem to be incredibly both sided on all my shuffle. Before I could throw everything both sides if wanted, but now it seems like I don't even think about what side I am using.

I will probably put out a vid of me and nate soon to show you what's up with us. Although I don't have a bunch of extra time these days for forums and video making, but I do really care about everyone here and I don't want people to forget about me in the community.

I hope everyone is doing really well here and progressing fast and steady!

GO FOOTBAG AND EVERYONE WHO PLAYS!