Alex's Blog

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 10 Apr 2007 11:49

Sup... I'm Alex and this is my footblog..

Equipment:

Adidas Rod Laver shoes

Two Mr. Sandbags -- EDIT. ([ I lost them both after quitting footbag for a while.. I'm hoping to find them but if not I'll buy some more... I'm using a Crotched footbag now ])

Current skills: Right now I am still working on consecutives and basic stalls. My inside stalls are ok but I need to perfect them, my toe stalls are pretty good but once again I need to perfect them and i can do 24 consecutives.

Goals

100 consecutives [DONE]
+20 alternating toe stalls [DONE]
10 alternating inside stalls[DONE]
Get the hang of clipper
5 Alternating legovers.

Oh and by the way.. Pleeasse comment.. I love advice or help or just anything..

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 10 Apr 2007 11:53

Good to see you working your foundation before trying harder stuff. My biggest recommendation is to find somebody in your area who is better than you, and play with them as much as possible.

If you have specific questions on tricks, post them here, or post them in the trick advice forum.

Good luck!

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 10 Apr 2007 14:05

Thanks

I got a hold of this guy named Ben Duffle and he's supposed to be really good. I can't wait to have a session with somebody better than me! For all my footbagging time I've always played alone and never played with any one better than me.

gibson sg · Post by **gibson sg** » 10 Apr 2007 16:37

OH no i posted it in the wrong blog!!!!!!!

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 10 Apr 2007 16:41

haha

its ok... so any way my session went pretty well. I pretty much tried to school getting 100 consecutives. But my record went from 24 to 49!! Its so cool 49 is the most I've ever got!! But thats all i really have to say soooo.. uhhh yeah

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 11 Apr 2007 14:58

I didn't really like the session I had today. The highest I got in consecutives was 26

not even close to getting 49 again.. oh well, Other than my horrible consecutives stalls went pretty good. My inside stalls went for 1 "alternating

" to 3 alternating. And toe stalls went from 2 alternating to 10 alternating

very good for me. But thats all I did today.

janis · Post by **janis** » 12 Apr 2007 07:51

Props on the toe stalls

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 12 Apr 2007 08:09

Keep breaking your alternating toe and inside stall records.

Are you doing 'the hop' when you do your alternating?

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 12 Apr 2007 10:41

I'm doing the hop on toe stalls but not for inside stalls. Should I do it for inside stalls also?

PS. Janis said I should make a vid of my inside stalls so here it is. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8866275775

Sorry if you cant see much. I took it with my digital camera which isn't very good for videos.

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 12 Apr 2007 20:18

I had a boring session today. The most exiting thing is that i got 50 consecutives. The highest i got in inside stalls was 4... And toe stalls 8. It's really to bad... oh well

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 12 Apr 2007 21:39

Ready for your first 2 add? Go for legover bro! Just do the hop with the alternating toe stalls, then quickly throw a legover in there on one of the hops.

Anz has a vid for legover, but curiously he doesn't use the hops on his. He's also European, so sometimes they learn things a little different over there. At least you'll get to see the dex pretty clearly:

http://www.footbag.org/media/908/AnzTrikz-Legover.wmv

I think you're ready for this one, give it a shot! It'll definitely cure the boring session blues

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 13 Apr 2007 00:12

do it

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 13 Apr 2007 07:49

ok thanks!

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 13 Apr 2007 12:31

dang... legovers are really hard

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 13 Apr 2007 13:10

Here ya go, I made a tutorial for you to check out:

Legover Tutorial

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 13 Apr 2007 13:16

aw thats nice of you!

youll get it soon enough. just try not to set the bag too high

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 13 Apr 2007 16:06

thanks a lot!

I think i should practice toe stalls a little bit more though, because I still cant do a toe stall whenever i want.But thanks any way

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 13 Apr 2007 17:51

Oh ok, well keep practicing the hopping toe stalls, and when you can hit 4-5 regularly try to throw a legover in there.

mannel rox · Post by **mannel rox** » 13 Apr 2007 18:06

I can hit 10 regularly

lol I dunno I guess i'm afraid of the challenge..

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 13 Apr 2007 22:50

"Fear is the path to the darkside. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering..." -Master Yoda