Nice short vid.
Your DVD project sounds a lot like Tricks of the Trade 2.
Turku Footblog
Already 100 posts in the blog. Nice. And thanks for reading and replying everyone.
I think the Genuine video thread Ken started is great. I hope people will post there and it stays alive like the One Shot video thread. At least I'm going to post in the Genuine videos!
We had a session with Antti yesterday. First time in months! Of course he hadn't been playing, so he was rusty, like he almost always is when he plays. He's going to live and work in Tampere the whole summer, but I hope he does some footbagging on his own there. He could continue progressing if he'd have solo session on a certain basis.
Statement of the day: While shredding wearing pants rather than boxers is more effective.
We did not do the course at all, mostly because we had problems planning it via e-mail with Jere Linnanen. Maybe next year.have you already started with the freestyle beginners' course project with the FFA?
I think the Genuine video thread Ken started is great. I hope people will post there and it stays alive like the One Shot video thread. At least I'm going to post in the Genuine videos!
We had a session with Antti yesterday. First time in months! Of course he hadn't been playing, so he was rusty, like he almost always is when he plays. He's going to live and work in Tampere the whole summer, but I hope he does some footbagging on his own there. He could continue progressing if he'd have solo session on a certain basis.
Statement of the day: While shredding wearing pants rather than boxers is more effective.
Long time.
I got the Feet On Fire DVD a couple days ago. Good stuff. Just somehow it's sad that the footage is old. Like Vasek hits Montage > Whirring Flail on the DVD - and then on the Danish vid that just got posted on Modified, he hits Frank'N'Stein > Montage > Whirring Flail... as just an example. The sickest combo on the DVD in my opinion was Zig Zag > Revstein > Revstein, which was surprising, since I haven't seen Revstein from him before. Sickest sinlge trick must have been Spinning PS Flux. Some really nice runs as well, that beat Bila Lavice and Final Shred, which I've been taking as Vasek's best game so far. For critique, I'd say that all the drills Vasek did were boring and too easy for him and he could have done some more flipside tricks - other than just Ripstein and Whirr.
We were playing with Virppa again today. I got some nice new stuff. Like Tombstone > Stepping Whirl > rpt, Blurriest > Fury > Fusion, Smog > Pigbeater > Smoke, and a couple of new Beasts. I tried some Fearless as well, I still haven't forgot my new years resolution, 4 Beastly and 12 Fearless, for example. I should hit them quite soon.
Today it was a nice weather, Virppa took some photos. They're the ones on the bottom of the page:
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/ana_aliphotos
Statement of the day: Kolo Sport shirts are cool.
I got the Feet On Fire DVD a couple days ago. Good stuff. Just somehow it's sad that the footage is old. Like Vasek hits Montage > Whirring Flail on the DVD - and then on the Danish vid that just got posted on Modified, he hits Frank'N'Stein > Montage > Whirring Flail... as just an example. The sickest combo on the DVD in my opinion was Zig Zag > Revstein > Revstein, which was surprising, since I haven't seen Revstein from him before. Sickest sinlge trick must have been Spinning PS Flux. Some really nice runs as well, that beat Bila Lavice and Final Shred, which I've been taking as Vasek's best game so far. For critique, I'd say that all the drills Vasek did were boring and too easy for him and he could have done some more flipside tricks - other than just Ripstein and Whirr.
We were playing with Virppa again today. I got some nice new stuff. Like Tombstone > Stepping Whirl > rpt, Blurriest > Fury > Fusion, Smog > Pigbeater > Smoke, and a couple of new Beasts. I tried some Fearless as well, I still haven't forgot my new years resolution, 4 Beastly and 12 Fearless, for example. I should hit them quite soon.
Today it was a nice weather, Virppa took some photos. They're the ones on the bottom of the page:
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/ana_aliphotos
Statement of the day: Kolo Sport shirts are cool.
Why does it seem like nobodys going to Euros? There isn't even a topic about it on modified.
I hit my first Swirling Near Legover exactly two weeks ago, and since then I've been drilling Swirling sets. Ofcourse they're still very unconsistant, but today I filmed some. Sorry about the camera angle and distance, you can't really see if they're clean or not.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AO9FSLOkMlA[/youtube]
There's also a Pixie Knee Bumping drill just for fun.
I'm going to see if I can get a good hold on Swirling sets. They would really bring color to runs and nobody uses them except for single trick. It does seem difficult, I haven't tried to learn a new concept for a while. So far my hardest trick out of it is Pdx Mirage - which is actually pretty tough.
This Friday I was in an etrance test for University of Applied Sciences in Kemi, which is 600 km's north from Turku. The school is for healthcare and well-being, if I get in I'm going to study physiotheraphy. Keep your thumbs up.
Statement of the day: Euros or not Euros?
I hit my first Swirling Near Legover exactly two weeks ago, and since then I've been drilling Swirling sets. Ofcourse they're still very unconsistant, but today I filmed some. Sorry about the camera angle and distance, you can't really see if they're clean or not.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AO9FSLOkMlA[/youtube]
There's also a Pixie Knee Bumping drill just for fun.
I'm going to see if I can get a good hold on Swirling sets. They would really bring color to runs and nobody uses them except for single trick. It does seem difficult, I haven't tried to learn a new concept for a while. So far my hardest trick out of it is Pdx Mirage - which is actually pretty tough.
This Friday I was in an etrance test for University of Applied Sciences in Kemi, which is 600 km's north from Turku. The school is for healthcare and well-being, if I get in I'm going to study physiotheraphy. Keep your thumbs up.
Statement of the day: Euros or not Euros?
I'm going to Montpellier, leaving on Wednesday and coming back Tuesday. I hope I find my way to Montpellier without getting too much into trouble 
And I'm frikking stupid for paying 500 euros for the tickets. But I only checked one cheap company and it didn't have good dates. My boss is already freaking out because I'm out of work for so many days.
Last weekend was mid-summer so I drank three days in a row and caught a cold. Still a bit cough, but I played today for the first time in seven days, and it was ok. Didn't really try anything hard though.
I just realized last week that I should have already started practicing routine for Euros. I guess I'll either scratch it or go just shred for two minutes on the stage.
I bet everyone remembers the instructional videos "Anz Trikz" I made some time ago. I guess so, because the thread still gets some views. I put them on YouTube some nine month ago and now I'm getting new subscribers on a steady flow. Check it out, http://youtube.com/user/AnzTrikz
72 Subscribers while I'm writing this. And a couple of the videos have more than thousands views. Most of the viewers are complete beginners, and the videos aren't actually directed for them, so I thought about making a couple of new ones for starters. Propably this weekend.
Anyway, this could be a great way to introduce hacky sackers to freestyle.
Statement of the day: Who wants to shred at Euros?
And I'm frikking stupid for paying 500 euros for the tickets. But I only checked one cheap company and it didn't have good dates. My boss is already freaking out because I'm out of work for so many days.Last weekend was mid-summer so I drank three days in a row and caught a cold. Still a bit cough, but I played today for the first time in seven days, and it was ok. Didn't really try anything hard though.
I just realized last week that I should have already started practicing routine for Euros. I guess I'll either scratch it or go just shred for two minutes on the stage.
I bet everyone remembers the instructional videos "Anz Trikz" I made some time ago. I guess so, because the thread still gets some views. I put them on YouTube some nine month ago and now I'm getting new subscribers on a steady flow. Check it out, http://youtube.com/user/AnzTrikz
72 Subscribers while I'm writing this. And a couple of the videos have more than thousands views. Most of the viewers are complete beginners, and the videos aren't actually directed for them, so I thought about making a couple of new ones for starters. Propably this weekend.
Anyway, this could be a great way to introduce hacky sackers to freestyle.
Statement of the day: Who wants to shred at Euros?
I'm writing here because I want to say that I'm leaving for Euros in 12 hours. I hope I make it to Montpellier without too much trouble. I haven't travelled abroad alone before. Mommy! I can't wait to meet all the people and shred and party with them. I hope I can sleep tonight. 
I'm traveling with only a backbag, so it's some training for the longer Europe tour I'm making with Keving in August.
Picked my routine song today. Hmm... See you in finals? No?
I filmed some Atom Smashers and Blurry Whirls on Saturday evening. Also both of the tricks Alpine b2b, which I hadn't filmed before.
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/14474
That song has a pwning original music video.
Only on footbag.org because YT is so overrated nowadays.
I also filmed a couple of new Anz Trikz videos for beginners on Sunday, but haven't edited the videos yet. Those shall wait for next week.
Statement of the day: Passport, check! Tickets, check! Quantums, check!
I'm traveling with only a backbag, so it's some training for the longer Europe tour I'm making with Keving in August.Picked my routine song today. Hmm... See you in finals? No?
I filmed some Atom Smashers and Blurry Whirls on Saturday evening. Also both of the tricks Alpine b2b, which I hadn't filmed before.
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/14474
That song has a pwning original music video.
Only on footbag.org because YT is so overrated nowadays.
I also filmed a couple of new Anz Trikz videos for beginners on Sunday, but haven't edited the videos yet. Those shall wait for next week.
Statement of the day: Passport, check! Tickets, check! Quantums, check!
hey Anz, just wanted to thank you again for the trick tips vids. That must have taken a lot of effort and it's definitely really useful. I go there every few weeks to learn a new trick, or to solidify tricks I can already do.
edit: btw, I love the youtube accessibility of your vids.. I often watch in spare moments from work.. I'm not able to download on this computer, but youtube still works great.
Also, liked that swirling set stuff above. Looks not slurry to me.. like set, then dex rather than just a roll off set. Does that make sense? In any case, my point is I thought those sets looked great
edit: btw, I love the youtube accessibility of your vids.. I often watch in spare moments from work.. I'm not able to download on this computer, but youtube still works great.
Also, liked that swirling set stuff above. Looks not slurry to me.. like set, then dex rather than just a roll off set. Does that make sense? In any case, my point is I thought those sets looked great
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Bonjour! Greetings from Montpellier. It's not actually as sunny as people say, but the sun was shining
I got home late on Tuesday after midnight. It wasn't that bad at work yesteday, but today I was really tired.
It was really great to see all the people. I hadn't met almost anyone from the event before. Actually the only ones I had met before were Steve Goldberg, Dexter, Honza, Vasek and the Finnish net players.
Playing in a circle with only people who you never played before is really an awesome feeling.
I'm mad at the polish players for not showing up at the late night training session on Monday. I guess they can't handle champange But seriously, I was the only freestyle player there. But at least I got to see some net training. It's really boring: just "Bag on!" "Bag on!" "Bag on!" all the time. But I played a little freestyle as well.
Big thanks to Jul again for lending me his shorts. I actually found mine just like a minute before leaving for good from Miquel's mom's house. They were on a table at the balcony were the czechs and net players had slept. I guess the French guy who told me he gave them to some polish had though some czech guy as a polack. Well at least I got them back.
The coolest thing at the trip was Vaseks private show to me, Milan Benda and the australian shredita Caroline on Monday afternoon. We had just grilled and Vasek ate like five steaks and he went to put on his Lavers straight from the table and practiced like five or six times in a row his new routine for Worlds. When the music finished he went to push play from the stereos and did it again. So about ten minutes of shred in a row straight from the dinner table. I call that frikking stamina.
The second coolest thing was that towards the end of a couple of sessions when nobody else wanted to play anymore I had a nice crowd watching me play solo and giving requests. I had fun doing that.
Kevin Regamey arrives to Helsinki in nine days.
Turku Open is in two weeks.
Statement of the day: Trouc de ouf!
I got home late on Tuesday after midnight. It wasn't that bad at work yesteday, but today I was really tired.
It was really great to see all the people. I hadn't met almost anyone from the event before. Actually the only ones I had met before were Steve Goldberg, Dexter, Honza, Vasek and the Finnish net players.
Playing in a circle with only people who you never played before is really an awesome feeling.
I'm mad at the polish players for not showing up at the late night training session on Monday. I guess they can't handle champange
But seriously, I was the only freestyle player there. But at least I got to see some net training. It's really boring: just "Bag on!" "Bag on!" "Bag on!" all the time. But I played a little freestyle as well.Big thanks to Jul again for lending me his shorts. I actually found mine just like a minute before leaving for good from Miquel's mom's house. They were on a table at the balcony were the czechs and net players had slept. I guess the French guy who told me he gave them to some polish had though some czech guy as a polack. Well at least I got them back.
The coolest thing at the trip was Vaseks private show to me, Milan Benda and the australian shredita Caroline on Monday afternoon. We had just grilled and Vasek ate like five steaks and he went to put on his Lavers straight from the table and practiced like five or six times in a row his new routine for Worlds. When the music finished he went to push play from the stereos and did it again. So about ten minutes of shred in a row straight from the dinner table. I call that frikking stamina.
The second coolest thing was that towards the end of a couple of sessions when nobody else wanted to play anymore I had a nice crowd watching me play solo and giving requests. I had fun doing that.
Kevin Regamey arrives to Helsinki in nine days.
Turku Open is in two weeks.
Statement of the day: Trouc de ouf!
Mr. Sundeberg,
i write this little entry in order to let you know how grateful i am
for your program and for the tech knowledge that you share with me
and the community.
My latest understanding of footbag, my progress concerning my clipper
game and all its various effects ( string length, variety, form ect ) i owe
to a large part to you and yours .
Since your expertise served me well in the past, i hereby ask your opinion
on another delicate matter .
How in the name of ps whirlin jesus do you pro guys organize your various
concepts ? If i concentrate on clipper downtime lets say, i loose my dexless
and my shuffle. If i drill atomic and triple dexes, my swirls and stepping suffer...
Did you simply re-name all the week days - like monday is now called
triplessday, and tuesday double down day ?
If every session has a theme, the question remains : how shall i organize
these ; sticking to one concept, like dexless only, or do you mix em up
like"wedneseday i drill pixie, osis and gyro" ?
Tell me what you know, if it pleases you .
thanks
i write this little entry in order to let you know how grateful i am
for your program and for the tech knowledge that you share with me
and the community.
My latest understanding of footbag, my progress concerning my clipper
game and all its various effects ( string length, variety, form ect ) i owe
to a large part to you and yours .
Since your expertise served me well in the past, i hereby ask your opinion
on another delicate matter .
How in the name of ps whirlin jesus do you pro guys organize your various
concepts ? If i concentrate on clipper downtime lets say, i loose my dexless
and my shuffle. If i drill atomic and triple dexes, my swirls and stepping suffer...
Did you simply re-name all the week days - like monday is now called
triplessday, and tuesday double down day ?
If every session has a theme, the question remains : how shall i organize
these ; sticking to one concept, like dexless only, or do you mix em up
like"wedneseday i drill pixie, osis and gyro" ?
Tell me what you know, if it pleases you .
thanks
EASYKINKI
HAhahahah
Hey Mister Truc de ouf, Beau petit cul :p
Petit filet mignon ^^
It was so nice to see you Anz, and we had a lot of fun with you.
Your such a great guy and also an amazing player...
I'will put some video in the next week.
I just arrived from France long trip I'm exausted and i go directly to max's Birthday...
We stay in contact
cya
Hey Mister Truc de ouf, Beau petit cul :p
Petit filet mignon ^^
It was so nice to see you Anz, and we had a lot of fun with you.
Your such a great guy and also an amazing player...
I'will put some video in the next week.
I just arrived from France long trip I'm exausted and i go directly to max's Birthday...
We stay in contact
cya
Hey Jul, it was great hanging out with you guys as well. I hope you can make it to Worlds!
Daryl:
If you're on a training program involving only a few concepts, you can prevent loosing other concepts by going through them during warm up. Like 5-15 repeats with perhaps different variations per side should be enough to keep that move in your muscle memory.
For example if you have a habit of losing Drifter when skooling something else, do 20 b2b Drifters, a couple of Paradox Drifters and maybe a couple of Smokes or Blurry Drifters on your warm up. - But still I want to emphasize how the quality over quantity on these repeats is more important.
Of course if you have a lot of these concepts and you start going through all of them - you can't call that a warm up anymore. So maybe some concepts today and some tomorrow.
I've noticed as well that the concepts that are not on the training program do tend to suffer, and that's one reason you shouldn't do different training programs in a row. After a program you should have some sessions of casual shred.
Hope that helps.
I got one day left at work before summer holiday. I'm going to Helsinki on Wednesday to play with the locals and see Kevin Regamey. And there's Turku Open this weekend, but I don't think there will be any real freestyle contests.
Statement of the day: Losing your glasses and then finding them shattered can really piss you off.
Daryl:
If you're on a training program involving only a few concepts, you can prevent loosing other concepts by going through them during warm up. Like 5-15 repeats with perhaps different variations per side should be enough to keep that move in your muscle memory.
For example if you have a habit of losing Drifter when skooling something else, do 20 b2b Drifters, a couple of Paradox Drifters and maybe a couple of Smokes or Blurry Drifters on your warm up. - But still I want to emphasize how the quality over quantity on these repeats is more important.
Of course if you have a lot of these concepts and you start going through all of them - you can't call that a warm up anymore. So maybe some concepts today and some tomorrow.
I've noticed as well that the concepts that are not on the training program do tend to suffer, and that's one reason you shouldn't do different training programs in a row. After a program you should have some sessions of casual shred.
Hope that helps.
I got one day left at work before summer holiday. I'm going to Helsinki on Wednesday to play with the locals and see Kevin Regamey. And there's Turku Open this weekend, but I don't think there will be any real freestyle contests.
Statement of the day: Losing your glasses and then finding them shattered can really piss you off.
I came back from Worlds last night. I was really done at work, after five hours of sleep and all the stuff from the journey going through my head.
Our trip to Copenhagen, Berlin, Wroclav, Strelin and Prague with me and Kevin Regamey was bloody awesome. Kevin wrote a diary untill Worlds started, so he'll propably post about the trip somewhere. I'm not going to make a big post about the trip or the Worlds. But I'd like to thank many people for severeal reasons. I try to make it in chronological order.
Thanks to ---
Tuomas Riisalo for letting me crash to his place in Espoo.
Lauri Airinen for hitting Whirring Swirl barefoot after 12 beers.
Samu Ahola for saying that beer is his life during the most epic battle of Pass the Pigs ever.
Mads Hole for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Copenhagen.
The Danish crew for hanging out with us.
Max Kerhkoff for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Berlin.
Ville Laakso for hanging out giving us a tour in Berlin.
Szymon Kalwak for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Wroclav.
The Ostrowski brothers and rest of the Strelin crew for organising the chill footbag camp.
Ianek Reginbald and Matthieu Gauthier for keeping us company in English at the Polish footbag camp.
All the polacks for teaching me polish.
Matthieu for drinking Pokemon Juice with me.
All the players who stayed at the hostel Penzion for making cool parties there.
The volunteer Czechs for making the tournament happen.
Jacob Wagner for always being so funny, even after the "This is no jungle, this is Czech Republic!" -episode.
Aleksi Airinen for getting wasted with me the night before semi finals. The bottle of vodka was a good decision.
Jay B for being so enthuastic about footbag.
Ben Roscoe and Jamie for doing all crazy stuff and staying at our hostel room.
Sergey Kozlov for having good conversations.
The huge Finnish party crew for showing good example to the other footbaggers.
Norek for having a night session with me untill 3 pm during the night before Finals.
Nathan and Phil for buying me beers and being cool guys.
Sergey Kozlov for buying that 5L beer on the final night, and smuggling it to the bar where the after party was at.
Ales Zelinka for being the first one ever to give me a direct compliment on my style.
All the 39 polish players for creating the cheer mood during the awards ceremony.
"The Animal", "Beer Tank" and "Hangover" for living up the their nick names year after year.
Everyone who stayed 'till the end of the final nights party.
Steve Goldberg for finding the Letna Park on Sunday.
Kevin for traveling with me. And carrying that camera, mon.
That's about it.
I'm sure I forgot a lot, like everybody does. Sorry.
It was epic, but I need a serious break from footbag now. For at least two weeks.
Cultural fact of the day: The mafia of Czech Republic is seriously after Canadian footbaggers.
Our trip to Copenhagen, Berlin, Wroclav, Strelin and Prague with me and Kevin Regamey was bloody awesome. Kevin wrote a diary untill Worlds started, so he'll propably post about the trip somewhere. I'm not going to make a big post about the trip or the Worlds. But I'd like to thank many people for severeal reasons. I try to make it in chronological order.
Thanks to ---
Tuomas Riisalo for letting me crash to his place in Espoo.
Lauri Airinen for hitting Whirring Swirl barefoot after 12 beers.
Samu Ahola for saying that beer is his life during the most epic battle of Pass the Pigs ever.
Mads Hole for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Copenhagen.
The Danish crew for hanging out with us.
Max Kerhkoff for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Berlin.
Ville Laakso for hanging out giving us a tour in Berlin.
Szymon Kalwak for letting me and Kevin crash at his place in Wroclav.
The Ostrowski brothers and rest of the Strelin crew for organising the chill footbag camp.
Ianek Reginbald and Matthieu Gauthier for keeping us company in English at the Polish footbag camp.
All the polacks for teaching me polish.
Matthieu for drinking Pokemon Juice with me.
All the players who stayed at the hostel Penzion for making cool parties there.
The volunteer Czechs for making the tournament happen.
Jacob Wagner for always being so funny, even after the "This is no jungle, this is Czech Republic!" -episode.
Aleksi Airinen for getting wasted with me the night before semi finals. The bottle of vodka was a good decision.
Jay B for being so enthuastic about footbag.
Ben Roscoe and Jamie for doing all crazy stuff and staying at our hostel room.
Sergey Kozlov for having good conversations.
The huge Finnish party crew for showing good example to the other footbaggers.
Norek for having a night session with me untill 3 pm during the night before Finals.
Nathan and Phil for buying me beers and being cool guys.
Sergey Kozlov for buying that 5L beer on the final night, and smuggling it to the bar where the after party was at.
Ales Zelinka for being the first one ever to give me a direct compliment on my style.
All the 39 polish players for creating the cheer mood during the awards ceremony.
"The Animal", "Beer Tank" and "Hangover" for living up the their nick names year after year.
Everyone who stayed 'till the end of the final nights party.
Steve Goldberg for finding the Letna Park on Sunday.
Kevin for traveling with me. And carrying that camera, mon.
That's about it.
I'm sure I forgot a lot, like everybody does. Sorry.
It was epic, but I need a serious break from footbag now. For at least two weeks.
Cultural fact of the day: The mafia of Czech Republic is seriously after Canadian footbaggers.
