Shred Session: 20080930:
(Yeah, I do still plan to finish my Worlds write-up...honest...)

I just had a blast. 2-hour solo.
I don't know if I've ever had this much genuine (no pun) fun with footbag as when I've started schooling the crap out of osis. I should clarify that I have always been one of those players who felt that osis should be 9 adds. It has never, ever come easy to me. It has all I have been soloing for the past month, and it is sooo fun. It's low-impact but still challenging as anything else. And styley as hell. I keep looking forward to soloing so I can push this part of my game more. It was just a blast. So my session was basically JUST drilling. I think I only did one or two actual runs to warm down at the end. I'll try to recap all of the stuff I did:

-osis > merkon > osis > parallax [repeat]
-osis > pandora > osis > gyro pickup [repeat]
-osis > spinning mirage > osis > gyro mirage [repeat] (I tried to back-to-back all of these drills, but man alive I guess I'm not QUITE ready; almost)
-osis > spinning ducking clipper > osis > gyro diving clipper [repeat]
-close again to spinning osis x3 > gyro osis x3 [repeat]
-may have done diving osis > gyro osis [repeat] > ducking osis > spinning osis [repeat]
-rev swirl x3 (only 2 flip -- shin discomfort wouldn't let me push)
-torque x3 (only 2 flip -- shin discomfort wouldn't let me push)
-toe torque > torque [both sides]
-pdx mirage > torque > osis > osis > torque [repeat]
-pdx torque > pdx torque (first-ish try!; really close on other side)
-also tried spinning osis > ripwalk > gyro osis > ripwalk [repeat]; really close; feels AWESOME!

Yeah.
That's basically it. It was really fun. I should pop an ibuprofen though. I gotta go meet some friends for bubble tea before they move back to Whitehorse, Yukon, in about 2 hours. In other news Andrew, Manna, and I are planning to revamp Hackrifice.com and blog there instead of here with videos, like JohnnySuderman.com Should be fun! Maybe within the week. Also, our new recruit ordered Lavers within one session with us! DOPE!

In non-hacky news, I found out that I can apply for internal school division jobs (I am already an employee... just not employed Razz) all online without interview or application or resume or anything Very Happy Sweet! So I applied to a position today. I'm trying to be productive. I wanna make some money and finally move out and get on track... for whatever is out there. Marita and I are gonna stay best-best friends, which is really, really nice. She is in India though without contact info, so I miss her lots. My best friend is also out in the country visiting her dad, and it sucks to not have her here, but I may go drive out with her roommate and stay a night or something later this week. And I'm gonna start hanging with two other friends whom I never see much of, so that should be really nice. I've never really had friends other than Marita and my best friend, Willow. What else... Oh I should remember to bring in my bike for tune-up later tonight (and find out where Gord's Cycle moved to!) Here is my new uplifting song that gets stuck in my head. Really sweet:



EDIT: Here's something that Matt Cross wrote in the FAT blog today. I found it really sweet and brought back incredible memories:

Matt Cross wrote:
What's your favorite FAT story?

I've got a lot of them, of course.

Here's one of my faves.

The time I came up to do the Breaking the Cycle show with Erik and Adam!

The show itself did not go well for me. Erik and Adam both played well. I played really badly that night, BUT...

after the show, I got my YTV Jock Shorts TV spot a few days later, so I had the privilege of staying in TO a little longer. I had some family friends I could have stayed with, but Erik and Marita put me up in their apartment, right by the CN tower. I had been taking a break from my smoking habit, so my lungs and head were clearing up nicely, which led to me doing some of my best freestyle playing to date (which made it onto the FATCross video). The non-footbag time there was great, though;

it was my first time meeting Marita, and she totally took care of me during my extra time in TO. Erik had work, so while he was there, Marita and I went on long walks and talked about TO and my girl problems at the time. We went shopping and had lunch and basically had a great time. I'd never even really spoken to her before, but Erik told me she liked my music, so when we got together back at the apartment with Erik and Mike after the FATCross session, I played some guitar for them (which also made it onto FATCross), and got to see some of Mike's work on paper.

I had had NO idea of the depth of his talent, passion, and skill! I tend to infer a lot about peoples' character based on how I've seen their passion manifest itself (or rather, whether they have passion at all; if someone's got passion, I can respect it [maybe just partially, or maybe on a separate level from the rest of my opinion of them], no matter for what that passion is for) so when I know someone outside of one of their passions, and then I become exposed to it, I usually see people on a whole new level.

So, it was great to be exposed to Marita's passion for friendship, hosting, and welcoming, and to be exposed to Mike's passion for images. They both brought me to a new level of admiration for their beautiful selves.

back to the Breaking the Cycle show...

the FAT session we had afterward was a blast! Josh Lackey broke out MC#42 (turtle), a bag that he's kept in PRIME condition for as long as possible (thanks Josh! means a lot to me). I'm not sure if anyone's game was super hot, but there were LOTS of people around to check out freestyle, and it was during this session that I got my YTV session, as well as some contact info from a promo agency in TO that I have yet to take advantage of Wink gotta get on that...

So, just wanted to share some positive Toronto memories. I could go ON and ON!!! and, tell you what, if a few more people share some nice memories, I'll post another one Wink

love you guys!