I've been putting off getting on the blog trolley for a long time because i know I'm gonna end up neglecting it, but lately I've been getting back into freestyle, and I justy felt like getting back in touch with the whole community. It's trolley time.......

. Anyway, some news:
1. I'm moving back into the city!!!!!!!!!!! I've been living in a suburb of Chicago for the last couple years after spending my childhood and teen years in the city and it's K-I-L-L-I-N-G me. So I talked to Zeke, who's been looking to move to a new place for a while, and
BAM, in two days we found an awesome shredpartment close to both of our old neighborhoods so we can still order from all the same resteraunts

. Also, Our back yard is right up to a cemetary, like i can literally reach out off the back deck and feel that stale dead air, which is cool i guess, we don't have to worry about alley rats (rodent or human)and as long as the ghosts can't fly up to the third floor, we're golden. And the apt is just 5 min from Tim's house, so it won't take me that long to go over to his house and find out he's sleeping, bang on his bedroom door, he's sleeping, get bored, watch some tv by myself in his living room, knock on his door again, still sleeping, and then go back home. SWEET!!!
2. I actually skooled today! It felt awesome to play again. I found out that I didn't loose much skill after not really playing much for about a year, just a lot of consistancy and shred stamina. But if i stop and think about it, I can hit most of the moves I could hit before. That was relieving. I skooled Tom style too

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15OCT2005
10 toe dlo BS (20)
10 blender BS (20)
10 drifter BS (20)
10 ripwalk BS (20)
10 simple swirl BS (20)
10 smog BS (20)
And then I shredded some. The dlos, drifters and blenders were easy, especially the blenders. The ripwalks were frusterating, I used to be able to link 10 in a row and now I feel shakey linking 2. They still went pretty fast, but it sucks to take that big a step back

. The smogs were a bitchass. At first I was only going to do 5 on each side cause it's a tougher move, and I did that, then later on in the shred I thought it would be cool to say I did 10 so I just hit the next 5 on my strong side like nothing, I think I only dropped once. Shit, now I have to do flipside. I hit the 6th ok but that 7th smog took fo-eva. I was this close (imagine my finger pinching together 2 or 3 atoms) to just quitting and doing 6 flip and 10 strong smogs and then i hit the 7th. 8 and 9 came real easy after that and then 10 a few tries after that. It felt so good to actually acomplish that goal. Tom skooled today too and we each set a goal to try and link 3 consec blenders and hit a flipside whirling swirl. 3 blenders: No dice, Flip Whirling swirl: DICE

. I really like shredding with Tom lately cause I feel we are pretty close to the same level. Last sunday we had a pretty big CIC session and I was in a circle with Tom most of the session and we both linked blender>blender for the first time and at the end of the session we raced to hit pdx whirling swirl and we both *hit* it but not well enough to seal so the race is still going. At tomorrows session we will both hit it. For sure. DICE!!!
3. I found out there is a Stylee Riley (or some other spelling) in Montana!! Damn!! Stealing my mojo. We better not meet at an event or one of us will implode, that or its going to have to come to footsticuffs

. I'm putting a "the first" after my name to differentiate us, he can be the sequel haha.