Jeremy Mirken's Footbag Blog

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 13 Nov 2007 00:35

Happy Birthday Jeremy.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 13 Nov 2007 11:19

Hope the Gromitron had a fun birthday!

ted · Post by **ted** » 21 Nov 2007 07:29

Hey Jer,
how did the NSA tourney go? did you get a rating?

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 21 Nov 2007 15:41

Yes, inquiring minds want to know.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 09 Jan 2008 16:05

Taught a girl to produce a non-lateralized "ch" sound today. One of my biggest accomplishments as a Speech therapist, althougyh relatively meaningless according to her mother. "Good, honey."

Made a hearing impaired kindergarten child pout as I kicked him out of Speech to his classroom. Feel bad about that one, but he was being a jerk.

Fell asleep in office from 2:40-4:00pm. Now I'm suuuuuuuper tired. Great job Jeremy!

Going to Phoenix Open in less than 2 weeks, looking forward to that one.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 28 Jan 2008 18:13

HG · Post by HG » 28 Jan 2008 18:40

eat your heart out chuck norris

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 28 Jan 2008 18:42

banana splits

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 29 Jan 2008 22:47

Had my best net practice ever today. I was very intense throughout, and for the most part, my partners were as well. It was certainly my best spiking day- I hit about 10 screaming kills (probably 35-40 MPH) that were undiggable, a handful of excellent spikes that people footed or dug, and I was going for my shots all night instead of being tentative. It payed off today. I hit a couple of unlikely kills that made my partners (constant rotation) laugh out loud or get really pumped.

I am still riding a high from my performance at the Phoenix Open, where I placed 3rd in open singles and 4th in open doubles, even though the level of competition wasn't the greatest.

I am very motivated to lose about 10 lbs of extra weight and really push my game. Also, my left outside (in the 4 opportunities I let myself use it) bumped the serve very every time, and that was a pleasant surprise.

I wish ya'll could have seen those kills! It feels so amazing to kick that bag as hard as you can.

ted · Post by **ted** » 30 Jan 2008 08:42

Jeremy defeats me in Scrabble!!!

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 30 Jan 2008 08:51

It's true. I triumphed over Terrible ted, Ted the Mercilous, Ted the Terrible. I dropped 3 bingos in that game I believe, plus "zeatin" for 53?

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 30 Jan 2008 09:36

You know, I've read about it, I've seen the pics of you doing it in your blog a while back and I've seen you do it with a takraw...

but it just now hit me how freaking hard ayatollah is

Congrats
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=aTXRzolPzFo[/youtube]

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 30 Jan 2008 14:28

<---- from sheer happiness. My soul has been enveloped by love and kindness.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 31 Jan 2008 23:04

Another high intensity session. really focusing now on creating attainable goals for each session in order to increase feeling of success and confidence.

Tonight's goals:
1) Play aggressively when the opportunity presents itself
2) Hit at least 50 sweep serves
3) school placement and dink shots for improving singles game
4) maintain intensity and positive emotion

All goals achieved. Swung aggressively for almost all spikes (50 of 55 or so). Hit sweep serves all night long (at least 80-90) and 70% were in. Worked my placement in 3 games of singles. Never got down on myself and concentration lapsed only for 3-5 points (out of 40pts x 10 games=400 pts.).

Ripped a couple more spikes and had a chance to drill defense with PT. We stood 12 feet apart, and he hit line drive kicks at me while I "dug" them (i.e. returned them with bloopy kicks) > repeat for 15 minutes.

Eric Chang · Post by **Eric Chang** » 04 Feb 2008 20:23

Sweet, nice to see that you're enjoying net

, and improving from the looks of it!

Edit: Also come back to freestyle for a session for me! I never really had the chance to footbag with you

Tell me when and where and I'll be there!

QuantumBalance · Post by **QuantumBalance** » 05 Feb 2008 02:20

Yo is that your SEXY mountain bike in the background? I used to have very similar by Niota. It was so amazing, you could lock out the front shock it was epic.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 05 Feb 2008 20:53

No, actually it is my room mate's mountain bike, which he leaves out in the frikkin living room because he's afraid to store it in the garage (continuously unlocked) and pretends he has no room in his room for it.

And Eric, I will likely have a freestyle session witrh you sometime over the next couple odf months, because I am returning to cardio workouts for my body and freestyle is a good way to get that accomplished. This is not to say that I'll be freestyling several times a week, but maybe once a month to keep up some skills. I'll give the SFC a holler if I plan on coming up on a Saturday.

Just came back from my first workout at a real gym since my undergrad days at UCSB (5.5 years ago now?). Felt good.

Worked lower back, quads, cardio, and chest, then more cardio and about 30 minutes of passive and active stretching. I got a 3 month free membership, during which I can attend 3 days a week. I will likely only attend once weekly or bi-weekly, however, because I typically play net or the other days I have the gym available. I'dlike to improve my bench press by 30 lbs., but quads in strength and endurance, and lose about 10 lbs. of body fat. Then I would feel like I was in better shape.

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 05 Feb 2008 22:03

Senor Grommet wrote:No, actually it is my room mate's mountain bike, which he leave out in the frikkin living room because he's afraid to store it in the garage (continuously unlocked) and pretends he has no room in the garage.

LOL, I don't blame him. I'm only comfortable locking my baby up on the back porch because it's 3 flights up, out of the way and there are 2 easier to "acquire" bikes before they can get to mine. Look at it this way, he can put it on a rack and then it's a "display" and not "parking"

'03 Stumpy?

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 09 Feb 2008 19:59

ISC info:

609 Wins, 620 Losses
Total games played: 1229

My current rating 1467, best rating ever achieved 1467.

Avg pts per game: 379
Avg pts per play 21

Highest scoring play "envisage" for 167 pts.
Highest scoring game: 593 points

Post by **Zac Miley** » 09 Feb 2008 20:02

Wow. Props Jeremy!