Hey Bob,
That was a formatting issue. I hit stepping legover. I tried a few blurriests and they felt about the same as a completely downtime paradon, which I have hit a few times.
It would be killer if you could make it to the jam. Makes me want to rent a car that much more.
Steel City Freestyle
Rieferman wrote:Ken, I'm going to give you a wedgey next time I see you for that comment..
(except I am going to consider the wedgey)
Ian Brill wrote:Yo, +1 on the wedgie
Rieferman wrote:nyfa jam would be fun... i doubt it will happen for me, but the idea has crossed my mind. if you two went, it would cross my mind even more
Fuck! 
)Kicked with Jake, Matt and Josh G. David C. dropped by to say hello also. There is talk of kicking with him on Thursday, when he won't be preoccupied entertaining a young lady.
Session was good.
Josh:
*wonton DLO
*Flail-wonton mirage
*stepping barrage-flail
etc
Matt:
*usual nonsense, just longer and better. I wouldn't know where to start or how to do it justice
Jake
*pulled together a nice jam-was good kicking with him again
Me:
*DSO-Wauxpin
*some good strings
* whirls and rev. whirls were on point
*8-10 eclipses b2b, first try
* Stepping set was strong on left side
*dynos are a great new emphasis in my game
Session was good.
Josh:
*wonton DLO
*Flail-wonton mirage
*stepping barrage-flail
etc
Matt:
*usual nonsense, just longer and better. I wouldn't know where to start or how to do it justice
Jake
*pulled together a nice jam-was good kicking with him again
Me:
*DSO-Wauxpin
*some good strings
* whirls and rev. whirls were on point
*8-10 eclipses b2b, first try
* Stepping set was strong on left side
*dynos are a great new emphasis in my game
I wish I could find the pics of Matt on that one girl's facebook page so I could post'em up on here. ha
BTW, cheers to the lame arts festival attendees who would spend 6 dollars on an 8 ounce smoothie, but wouldn't put money in our busking hat after having formed a half circle around us and applauding after everyone's runs. Ah well, at least we made people happy.
BTW, cheers to the lame arts festival attendees who would spend 6 dollars on an 8 ounce smoothie, but wouldn't put money in our busking hat after having formed a half circle around us and applauding after everyone's runs. Ah well, at least we made people happy.
Jake Milofsky
Steel City Freestyle [ex officio]
Steel City Freestyle [ex officio]
Kicked with Matt and Dave for the first time in PGH. Had a great time.
Personal highlights:
*Ducking wauxpin-string. Ducking wauxpin again next serve-string
*Right side blur and left side ripwalk same string
*DSO-wauxspin
*A few calm, more graceful spins (as encouraged by Dave- who had great advice as usual)
*Some long and nice strings
Dave hit ducking wauxpin on both sides, and plenty of other great tricks/strings.
Matt hit paradox tapping drifter for the first time and plenty more
Personal highlights:
*Ducking wauxpin-string. Ducking wauxpin again next serve-string
*Right side blur and left side ripwalk same string
*DSO-wauxspin
*A few calm, more graceful spins (as encouraged by Dave- who had great advice as usual)
*Some long and nice strings
Dave hit ducking wauxpin on both sides, and plenty of other great tricks/strings.
Matt hit paradox tapping drifter for the first time and plenty more
Kicked with Matt outside in tornado weather. He'll swear on a dystopian novel that it was only drizzle but he will be lying to you.
Highlights:
*Matt lying about the amount of rain we kicked in
*The disgusting, sloped, drop-off area of a hospital we kicked in for the second half of the session
*Wrapping my infested footbag in an old utility bill so that my shoulder bag would not be too infected
*Blackouts, lightening and pizza
*Matt hit some cool stuff as usual
Personal highlights:
*Wauxpin first try-string-weakside simple swirl
*Rev. whirl-weakside simple swirl
*Ripwalks on weak side
*Hit dyno a very different way. Set it twirl height executed it in much more aggressive manner. Had much more control of it in the end. I will look into this more
*Swirling osis, first try- so clean
Coded so much in the last couple days!!! So many things that I have bee struggling with are coming together. I am quite happy.
Did I mention Pizza? We had pizza. Mmm.
Highlights:
*Matt lying about the amount of rain we kicked in
*The disgusting, sloped, drop-off area of a hospital we kicked in for the second half of the session
*Wrapping my infested footbag in an old utility bill so that my shoulder bag would not be too infected
*Blackouts, lightening and pizza
*Matt hit some cool stuff as usual
Personal highlights:
*Wauxpin first try-string-weakside simple swirl
*Rev. whirl-weakside simple swirl
*Ripwalks on weak side
*Hit dyno a very different way. Set it twirl height executed it in much more aggressive manner. Had much more control of it in the end. I will look into this more
*Swirling osis, first try- so clean
Coded so much in the last couple days!!! So many things that I have bee struggling with are coming together. I am quite happy.
Did I mention Pizza? We had pizza. Mmm.
Kicked with Dave, Jake and Matt. Fun session, though Matt and I are still recovering from yesterday. I would post some gooey highlights of Dave's efforts but he has his own neglected blog and I don't want to risk stealing anyone's thunder.
Personal highlights (and they are short today)
*Got a short haircut (told you so)
*WauxpinX2, on two occaisions
*ripwalk to simple swirl
*DSO- tripwalk-drop
*one particular 24 contact string
*fun with building abstractions in max/msp
Personal highlights (and they are short today)
*Got a short haircut (told you so)
*WauxpinX2, on two occaisions
*ripwalk to simple swirl
*DSO- tripwalk-drop
*one particular 24 contact string
*fun with building abstractions in max/msp
Kicked with Matt. Last session before a month of installing for a major show at the Wood Street Galleries (don't know much about the show as of yet, but I hope it's going to be good.) So, I paced myself considerably. Also, I wanted to try out some ideas that Dave has recently suggested for me to consider. Mostly I concentrated on these.
Highlights:
*consecutive one/two add tricks, trying to force myself to hold the bag longer without losing balance or becoming anxious. Discovered that I am not putting any resistant force at all when I land, other than with my knee. I am trying to learn how to actively incorporate a bit of downwards force with my calves so that I can stick the bag in place, upon impact, and control it there long enough to casually set a swirl, dyno, spinning set, etc.
*tiltless drills. Super important if I ever want to develop a toe game
*butterfly-ripwalk, multiple times on my good stepping side
*roughly ten weak-side ripwalks, including ripwalk bsos twice, and 5/6 tries at the end of the session. It seems that I need to catch the bag like I am going to hit (my strong side blur) so that I initially stick the clipper lower, cocked and with better posture. Then I have to make sure to set the bag closer in, straighter than I think I have to- if not slightly away from the completing infinity side. This will enable me to more comfortably distribute my weight (better, more natural form) as I come down with the infinity (since I like to make my infinities on the larger side.)
*Dynos are looking sharp. I have been setting them twirl height (to internalize/muscle-memorize the lower-than-I-might-think timing of that set) and making a differently efficient down time motion. Rather than than my old style, where 25% of the trick was popping the bag slight towards my setting legs calve, and the last 75% forcing my body around the bag I now have a more efficient manner. 75% of my effort goes into setting the bag at a proper twirl height- weighting for it to peak and taking note of its accuracy. Then, the last 25% is shared between two simultaneous motions, that are casually distributed between the two sides of my by body: Coming around the bag on one leg, and hopping into osis with the other. If done correctly (and this may necessitate a quicker or more agrgessive attack for the down time component) I should be able to this system of motions so that the bag sticks. Programming this into my long-term memory seem quite realistic.
*Hit two new moves (variations of them) both first try: muted far butterfly swirl
*Pm-inf.-simple swirl-to stall-osis, first try. Then, immediately afterwards-
*Pm-inf.-simple swirl-osis, x5
*Practiced weak side simple swirl. Hit a couple
*swirls, bsos twice in the ss, and bsos multiple times
*Most of my runs today were quite reserved and limited to schooling components (much like my last session- the third session in three day, but this time on a whole other, conscious and active level.) I did, however, bust a few strings today and they were each reasonable in length. Two of them I was happy with enough that I hand-grabbed the bag, rather than compromise the integrity of my form.
Back to work.
Highlights:
*consecutive one/two add tricks, trying to force myself to hold the bag longer without losing balance or becoming anxious. Discovered that I am not putting any resistant force at all when I land, other than with my knee. I am trying to learn how to actively incorporate a bit of downwards force with my calves so that I can stick the bag in place, upon impact, and control it there long enough to casually set a swirl, dyno, spinning set, etc.
*tiltless drills. Super important if I ever want to develop a toe game
*butterfly-ripwalk, multiple times on my good stepping side
*roughly ten weak-side ripwalks, including ripwalk bsos twice, and 5/6 tries at the end of the session. It seems that I need to catch the bag like I am going to hit (my strong side blur) so that I initially stick the clipper lower, cocked and with better posture. Then I have to make sure to set the bag closer in, straighter than I think I have to- if not slightly away from the completing infinity side. This will enable me to more comfortably distribute my weight (better, more natural form) as I come down with the infinity (since I like to make my infinities on the larger side.)
*Dynos are looking sharp. I have been setting them twirl height (to internalize/muscle-memorize the lower-than-I-might-think timing of that set) and making a differently efficient down time motion. Rather than than my old style, where 25% of the trick was popping the bag slight towards my setting legs calve, and the last 75% forcing my body around the bag I now have a more efficient manner. 75% of my effort goes into setting the bag at a proper twirl height- weighting for it to peak and taking note of its accuracy. Then, the last 25% is shared between two simultaneous motions, that are casually distributed between the two sides of my by body: Coming around the bag on one leg, and hopping into osis with the other. If done correctly (and this may necessitate a quicker or more agrgessive attack for the down time component) I should be able to this system of motions so that the bag sticks. Programming this into my long-term memory seem quite realistic.
*Hit two new moves (variations of them) both first try: muted far butterfly swirl
*Pm-inf.-simple swirl-to stall-osis, first try. Then, immediately afterwards-
*Pm-inf.-simple swirl-osis, x5
*Practiced weak side simple swirl. Hit a couple
*swirls, bsos twice in the ss, and bsos multiple times
*Most of my runs today were quite reserved and limited to schooling components (much like my last session- the third session in three day, but this time on a whole other, conscious and active level.) I did, however, bust a few strings today and they were each reasonable in length. Two of them I was happy with enough that I hand-grabbed the bag, rather than compromise the integrity of my form.
Back to work.
KWM@FP
HL:
* Landing on left side, ducking butterfly:
to twirl, string
to (non simple) swirl, string
* Right side:
to blur-string
*new move: gyro toe, left side. twice in one string.
*wauxpin, bsos
*wauxpin, 4 times total on my weak side, overall, today
*wauxpin-string-wauxpin-string-wauxpin-string-drop on fourth wauxpin
*spins felt alright today, both sides
*blur, bsos
*atomic sets are finally feeling better on my weak side. Multiple strings with multiple legs, only one clean atom
*dynos felt fantastic
*swirls
*swirl out of inf., left side- I should practice this on the other
*weak side far butterfly muted swirl, 4th try
*symple swirl bsos
*a couple long strings that demonstrated reasonable amounts of control at times that I would not have displayed even a few weeks ago.
HL:
* Landing on left side, ducking butterfly:
to twirl, string
to (non simple) swirl, string
* Right side:
to blur-string
*new move: gyro toe, left side. twice in one string.
*wauxpin, bsos
*wauxpin, 4 times total on my weak side, overall, today
*wauxpin-string-wauxpin-string-wauxpin-string-drop on fourth wauxpin
*spins felt alright today, both sides
*blur, bsos
*atomic sets are finally feeling better on my weak side. Multiple strings with multiple legs, only one clean atom
*dynos felt fantastic
*swirls
*swirl out of inf., left side- I should practice this on the other
*weak side far butterfly muted swirl, 4th try
*symple swirl bsos
*a couple long strings that demonstrated reasonable amounts of control at times that I would not have displayed even a few weeks ago.
Kicked with Jeff, Josh and Dave at Heinz Lofts
Highlights:
*tapdown-ducking wauxspin-string-first try
*torque bsos (forgot about these)
*couple ws ripwalks
*couple decent strings
*rev. whirling rake bsos
*trip walk and atom (ws) are better, now that I place the bag closer in, and towards the dex-ing leg
EDIT:
New move, bsos, first try: whirling inside
Highlights:
*tapdown-ducking wauxspin-string-first try
*torque bsos (forgot about these)
*couple ws ripwalks
*couple decent strings
*rev. whirling rake bsos
*trip walk and atom (ws) are better, now that I place the bag closer in, and towards the dex-ing leg
EDIT:
New move, bsos, first try: whirling inside
Kicked with Matt in a new location: Arsenal Park. From Friendship to Arsenal- Just like that. Kind of reminds me of my day at work.
Arsenal park is sweet. It's actually a park and it is three blocks from my house. The tennis courts are completely manageable as well.
Highlights:
*Ducking inf. X8
*ws s swirl- string- s swirl- string- ws s swirl
*Strings with both ducking inf.
*string with ducking clipper- div. clipper- rpt- string- other stuff (I forget)
*frozen weak rip
*strings with w step side blur and strong rip
*multiple weak wauxpins
*ws spin clip-pm-wxspn-inf-ducking clipper-ws s swirl (hit this finally after hitting all but the last move other times)
*string with about 10-15 ducking moves, etc
*tripwalk-string
*really nice ripstein but dropped on the seal
Now to try and finish some freelance work that I was too exhausted to work on after all of this construction I had to do at the galleries.
Arsenal park is sweet. It's actually a park and it is three blocks from my house. The tennis courts are completely manageable as well.
Highlights:
*Ducking inf. X8
*ws s swirl- string- s swirl- string- ws s swirl
*Strings with both ducking inf.
*string with ducking clipper- div. clipper- rpt- string- other stuff (I forget)
*frozen weak rip
*strings with w step side blur and strong rip
*multiple weak wauxpins
*ws spin clip-pm-wxspn-inf-ducking clipper-ws s swirl (hit this finally after hitting all but the last move other times)
*string with about 10-15 ducking moves, etc
*tripwalk-string
*really nice ripstein but dropped on the seal
Now to try and finish some freelance work that I was too exhausted to work on after all of this construction I had to do at the galleries.
Last edited by Ian Brill on 04 Jul 2009 05:30, edited 1 time in total.
Nils passed away. Matt and I went to the funeral today. I was hesitant at first to post about it because so few knew him, but then I thought- it's really so unfortunate that this was the case.
Nils was someone that I really hoped to get to know better. He was a very nice, thoughtful, engaging, intelligent, funny and creative individual. The list could seriously go on for a long time. I am completely caught of guard by this. I feel incredibly bad for his friends and family. I had hoped to see Tyler tonight but it did not happen. Hopefully I will be in touch with him soon.
It takes me a while to accept that these sorts of things happened. Nils was not close to me but I thought very highly of him. Taking things for granted. Taking life for granted. Pettiness. Why?
I will post here in the blog, the same place I met you: You are missed, man. I hope I can catch up with you again sometime.
Nils was someone that I really hoped to get to know better. He was a very nice, thoughtful, engaging, intelligent, funny and creative individual. The list could seriously go on for a long time. I am completely caught of guard by this. I feel incredibly bad for his friends and family. I had hoped to see Tyler tonight but it did not happen. Hopefully I will be in touch with him soon.
It takes me a while to accept that these sorts of things happened. Nils was not close to me but I thought very highly of him. Taking things for granted. Taking life for granted. Pettiness. Why?
I will post here in the blog, the same place I met you: You are missed, man. I hope I can catch up with you again sometime.
Nils Pfenning
PFENNING NILS
Age 21, on Saturday, July 4, 2009, of Squirrel Hill; beloved son of Frank and Nancy (Gormley) Pfenning; loving brother of Andreas with fiancée Mary, Marina Pfenning; dear grandson of Margit Funke and Horst Pfenning with wife Jutta and the late William and Elena Gormley; loving nephew of William Gormley and Rosie Zagarri, Robert and Cindy Gormley, Ken and Laura Gormley, Susan and Mark Hogan, Robert and Ina Pfenning, Katja Funke; also many loving cousins. Nils' infectious enthusiasm, sense of humor, and zest for life will be greatly missed by all those who had the privilege of knowing him. Friends received Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the THOMAS L. NIED FUNERAL HOME, INC., 7441 Washington St., Swissvale. Funeral Service on Wednesday at Homewood Cemetery Chapel off of South Dallas Ave. in Sq. Hill at 11 a.m. Everyone to meet at the Chapel. . In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to CORE, 204 Sigma Dr., RIDC Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15238.
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