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F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 07 Jul 2011 18:31

Oh man, props on Ducking P Mirage bs dude! Earlier I remember you said that the flip wasn't really that good... Looks like that changed a bit, huh? lol That's one of my favorite things about footbag... you try a new trick and you're SO bad at it... practice it for about a week and you'll be ripping at it. Such a nice feeling. Also, I read that you're working on flip p whirls... ME TOO. I really despise my flipside p whirl. I don't think it thinks too highly of me either. I'm starting to become friends with it... SLOWLY. Here are some tips I've encountered for flip p whirl...

1) DON'T DO FLIP P WHIRL! lol Start with drilling the living crap out of flip toe whirl (toe whirl in general is a great trick to learn, it will help with a lot of whirling tricks). What you're doing by drilling flip p whirl is putting icing on a cake that hasn't really been fully made yet. When you get your flip toe whirls down pat, then you can put the icing on it and start doing p whirl.. sugar-free icing, of course

2) So now that you're just drilling toe whirls, the first tip is to SET THE BAG CLOSE TO YOUR BODY and A LITTLE BIT ABOVE KNEE HEIGHT. Experiment with different distance toe sets. You'll quickly find that your leg doesn't like to extend too far or high.

3) When you set the bag, make sure you turn your hips 90 degrees before dexing the bag

4) Dex the bag quickly, pretty much diagonally from your bum cheek and catch in clipper. I find it pretty important to make sure you separate the Whirl dexterity and the Clipper delay, otherwise you'll find yourself hitting these weak ass toe whirls that are really hard to make contact with anything but a clipper kick.

Lemme know if that was clear enough. Hope that helps a little. I actually just drilled 50 flipside toe whirls tonight. Good luck and keep going dude. You're progressing quickly. It's all that basics work

sen · Post by **sen** » 07 Jul 2011 19:14

Oh man Nick, I wish I had read that before I headed out to shred. Anyway:

35 minute shred outside. Put out mosquito candles and spirals, but they were still pretty bad.

flip paradox whirl a few times

paradox whirl BSOS

paradox whirl b2b

around 17 tiltless contacts

open switch b2b

PS whirl a few times (strong only)

and I warmed up with my normal pick up and switch drills. All in all a pretty good session. I <3 FOOTBAG

Workout Streak: 161

sen · Post by **sen** » 08 Jul 2011 13:39

AAARRRRGHGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Footbag at lunch
Toe whirls.
Lot's of them.
Sealed with paradox mirages and butterflies.
tried so hard to get toe whirl > p mirage > toe whirl > p mirage but just could not seal it. Tonight.

sen · Post by **sen** » 08 Jul 2011 18:37

30 minute session on wet cement.

23 conecutive pick ups

paradox whirl > paradox mirage > paradox whirl > mirage

above plus 3 contacts

17 titless contacts & 15 tiltless contacts

gyro clipper and spinning clipper bsos in one string

ducking legover bs

ducking pick up bs (both new)

I think thats about it. I love the feeling of being drenched after a good workout.

Forgot to mention I hit flip Spinning Clipper > spinning clipper at lunch.
Yay footbag!

Workout Streak: 162

sen · Post by **sen** » 09 Jul 2011 19:23

30 minute session in the rain

740 toe stalls

20 contacts of butterfly > paradox mirage

spinning butterfly bs

ducking butterfly bs

smear bs

smudge bs

I was thinking earlier today... I think I am now at the height of my footbag skill. Through all the times I've started and stopped I have never been as consistent as right now. At least I don't think I have... Feel good right now.

Workout Streak: 163

sen · Post by **sen** » 10 Jul 2011 19:01

An hour session with no rain!

Went through my pick up and switch drills.

Pheonix (strong side)

Paradon bs (I thought it was double down... toe>op out dex>same out dex>op clip)

I can't duck my flip open set. Need to work on that in the future.

Workout Streak: 164

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 10 Jul 2011 19:31

DAMN, Tony! Ducking your Pixies?! Props dude. That was a big moment for me. Props on Phoenix dude.

I didn't understand this string though... paradox whirl > paradox mirage > paradox whirl > mirage... I'm thinking you meant toe whirl instead of the 2nd p whirl. Sounds hella rad though. Also, an overall general "madd props" for your intense improvements with EVERYTHING lately. Every post is another serious improvement from you. It's fun to read.

Keep doing what you're doing dude.

sen · Post by **sen** » 11 Jul 2011 10:51

Thanks for the props. Phenoex isn't actually new, but I haven't hit it for like 4 years. Starting to get my old moves back, but I realize I don't really need to be focusing on them at all at this point. Need to stick to the basics and get a strong BS foundation in place. Which brings me to a highlight from last night's session that I forgot about:

27 tiltless contacts.

I was stoled on that, but spent the next half hour trying to hit Double Down and ended up forgetting about it until I was drifting off to sleep. 27 is a new record for me. Got some work to do if I'm to be able to do 30 consistinetly by Sept. But I think I can still manage it!

sen · Post by **sen** » 11 Jul 2011 13:18

Lunch kick.

Did ten minute trainer Yoga Flex first. Felt good. Leg's are tired from more footbag than they are used to. As such my session was quite unfruitful. I hit ducking osis > butterfly bs. That was literally my only highlight, but I only kicked for about 15 minutes. Hopefully more tonight.

Peace.

sen · Post by **sen** » 11 Jul 2011 19:01

40 minute session outside.

Legs are still tired. Feel shin splints coming, but don't want to take a break. Nothing of note tonight.

Workout Streak: 165

Edit: I always forget the best highlight of a session. Tonight:

plo > smear > plo (possibly first time hitting 3 double dex moves)

The Rhino · Post by **The Rhino** » 11 Jul 2011 19:09

740 alt consec toe? What is this? A typo, a misunderstanding, a fib or a new jedi order galactic record? Hey... If we ever form a team of shredders, we could call it NJO.....

sen · Post by **sen** » 13 Jul 2011 09:28

No typo and no record either. Last I looked Jeremy O'Wheel held the toe stall record at 999. Mind you that was 4 years ago so it might have changed. I remember reading that he decided 999 was a good number and instead of continuing he went into a string from there, so he could have kept going. I definitely thought about that story when I got to about 600, thinking... "Hmmm... this isn't too tough, maybe I could set a record..." And I love the thought of a footbag club called NJO. I've always thought about having a Solo Shredders club for everyone who doesn't have anyone in their area to play with. Maybe we should start one called NJO.

Just had a 40 minute session outside. Overcast and cold. VERY NICE!

Warmed up with my pick up drill and then mostly messed around with 1 add moves. I'm getting ready to skool them Bob and Nick style. Calf and cloud kick are ridiculously hard. I also played with heel stall. Which leads to really my only highlight:

heel set pixie legover bs

Workout Streak: 166

Edittoadd: Also did 46 push ups. 15x2 plus 16x1 I want to incorporate this into 3 sessions a week until I'm able to start P90X

sen · Post by **sen** » 14 Jul 2011 19:23

55 minute session.

Nothing intense tonight as my left leg is bothering me. Feels like my hamstring is really tight. Need to concentrate on some stretching! I'll try to do Yoga at work tomorrow. Anyways:

heel set ducking heel stall bs

pimping legover heel stall! (only strong side as both flip dexes are on left leg and it's not feeling it)

outside stall > toe stall > inside stall > op inside stall > toe stall > outside stall bs

And I messed around with ducking toe a bit. Started raining at the end and it felt SOO nice. Steam coming off me cuz I'm hawt.

Workout Streak: 167

sen · Post by **sen** » 15 Jul 2011 19:03

Kicked outside today. Started off windy, but got really nice. Just over an hour.

switch drill for warm up

fairy legover bs

28 tiltless contacts. (decided after hitting that that I WOULD hit 30 tonight)

37 tiltless contacts

Pushups: 20/20/14

Terrage (strong side only

)

Tiltless runs were feeling a lot better tonight. It may be all thanks to Nick's tips on getting longer tiltless strings. Namely repeating patterns. But my drilling may be helping too.

Workout Streak: 168

Edit: Forgot I hit gyro mirage bs again

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 15 Jul 2011 19:15

sen wrote: 37 tiltless contacts

Told ya!

Props man. It feels good setting a tiltless record, doesn't it? You can even break that record. Glad my tiltless tips helped you with that. It's also really great to hear that you've been hitting some cool heel stuff. I laughed when I saw that you hit Pimpin'> Legover heel, because you gave me that request a while ago, and I think you said you couldn't hit it... Looks like you've proved yourself wrong!

Dude, seriously impressive stuff from you lately. So cool to read that you got 37 tiltless after earlier posting in my blog that you couldn't get 30. Keep it up, Tony.

sen · Post by **sen** » 15 Jul 2011 19:31

Footbag Goals (Spring/Summer 2011):
1. 50 Tiltless
2. 30 Tiltless consistently
3. Don't stop playing
These goals deadline is Sept 15, 2011

Finally feel like I'm making a bit of head way toward my summer goals. I was feeling pretty bad about wanting to get to 30 tiltless consistently and yet never even being able to get to 30 once. I feel like now that that barrier is out of the way I'm a lot closer to these goals. And I realized that I didn't really say what consistently was so for the purpose of the goal consistent will mean once a session. I'm happy I'm doing so well on goal number 3. That always seems to be the tough one for me.

Nick. Thanks for the encouragement. As always, it means a lot to me. I love proving myself wrong. It feels so good to be wrong.

sen · Post by **sen** » 16 Jul 2011 18:46

Well, another hour and a quarter of footbag down. Session outside. Was hotter today than recently, but still only about 20 degrees. Sweat a lot.

drifter bs a few times

tap bs (first time)

shut legover bs

pixie whirl bs

22 alternating pixies

33 tiltless contacts

tiltless average of between 15-20 contacts

20 crunches/20 right side crunches/20 left side crunches/ 20 superman crunches

Felt like a really nice session. Slowly pushing my sessions longer in length. That feels nice. I was happy to hit drifters with relative ease. I still couldn't play out of them, but they felt easier than the last time I tried them, and I haven't tried any for about a month. I was reading through the 3-adds on .org (because I had it open to find the name of terrage yesterday) and thought that tap sounded hitable. So I hit it. Shut legover and pixie whirl I've hit before but not often, so it was nice to hit each within a few tries. My tiltless strings are getting more and more solid. I even hit whirl bsos a number of times. Almost every string started with fairy as I'm trying to get them more solid. And each string had some crazy repeat drills in it. (legover>legover>pick up>pick up, mirage>illusion>mirage>illusion>pixie>rpt) Yup, good times.

Workout Streak: 169

sen · Post by **sen** » 16 Jul 2011 18:57

::: Random post incoming :::

I spent this afternoon watching Epic Rap battles of History. I love those things. I was also engrossed in trying to make my new tablet into a PADD from Star Trek. It's hard because it involves math and stuff. But it'll look sick if I ever figure it out.

Also, I'm moving next weekend. Hopefully. The new place is more expensive (bummer) but has a lot more room in it so I will be able to shred inside and there's room for P90X and stuff. Now I need to decide if I'll keep on shredding until winter hits or do what I had planned and hit P90X > Insanity and then start shredding and training footbag. If I wait to do the workout programs until winter it might work better because winter is when I lose footbag motivation most often. But I feel I'm on a footbag high right now, don't wanna quit when it's going so well.

sen · Post by **sen** » 17 Jul 2011 19:15

50 minute session in the heat.

plo bsos

39 tiltless contacts

78 alternating clippers stalls

mirage>illusion rpt bsos

push ups 17/17/20 (54)

Workout streak: 170

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 18 Jul 2011 07:15

sen wrote:But I feel I'm on a footbag high right now, don't wanna quit when it's going so well.

Awesome. Glad to hear you're playing more footbag. I understand there are many benefits from your workout regimen, but I always hoped that getting in better shape would be a means to and end (ie, enable you to shred better), rather than an end in and of itself.