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Post by janis » 10 Feb 2008 04:56

played at st Kilda festival today with Leon, Jamie, Macca, Micheal, Dan and Pat. It was a really good day for promoting, we tried to sell a lot of bags and handed out heaps of flyers. Hopefully some of those people make a return, one guy could hit atw both directions, also a girl learnt atw and says she'll be back.

I guess the next few days will show if the flyers were successful.

Footbag wise I played badly, I've been having a really tough time recently. Only just recovered from a calf injury so I'm totally out of practice.
highlights: datw out > plo > rpt > datw in > plo > rpt
hit some new stuff: stepping same osis both sides
symp flurry (clean? not sure)

stepping same osis was very tough for me, I think my lack of crank really hurts me on that trick.

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Post by james_dean » 10 Feb 2008 05:16

janis wrote:stepping same osis was very tough for me, I think my lack of crank really hurts me on that trick.
most definately. you did everything right but your poor ankle just couldn't handle the crank :( That being said, even bigger props for hitting it BS :D

Returning from injury seemed to be the theme of the day... awesome day though :)
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Post by janis » 12 Feb 2008 05:15

First solo session in ages, mostly did drills and stuff I'm not consistent at:
50 op clipper marathon style

127 consec toe stall op

toe same dirfter > drifter bsos

drifter rake > hand catch > other drifter rake, woot!

ss butter > pdx mirage > rpt
left : 5 9 7 9 8 7 13
right: 7 12

clipper > osis > spinning clipper , both sides woot!

osis freeze clipper bsos
far osis freeze both sides
I think these were a bit rough on my left ankle, which was feeling sore before the session. I'm going to give zooming a miss for a few sessions.

left clipper set whirling dragon osis, new move, first try.

butterfly > near mirage > legover > rpt
7, 11, 21



(venting frustration)
To be honest the "rate my crank" threads really annoy the shit out of me, sure I have terrible crank and I admit that there is a certain element of bitterness. But there is no skill in having great crank, sure hitting moves with good crank is props worthy, but just having crank alone doesn't impress me.

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Post by Kljopa » 12 Feb 2008 05:22

Props on drifter rake, sounds hard.

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Post by janis » 23 Feb 2008 22:15

played today with Pat and Dai, Pat hit DLO a few times. Dai hit a bunch of new moves, including pixie, mirage, inside set atw and 30 consec inside stalls.


I had a 147 contact run, booyah.
Pixie same side symple legover both sides was new.
also hit triple pixie.


Good session overall.

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Post by Kljopa » 24 Feb 2008 04:34

147 contact string, props dude!!!

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Post by King Monkey » 24 Feb 2008 05:25

Yeh the rate my crank topics are ridiculous, because the people making these topic have VERY OBVIOUSLY BETTER- THAN -GOOD CRANK. Perhaps the title should be more like 'Blow smoke up my arse'.
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Post by janis » 24 Feb 2008 14:04

King Monkey wrote:Yeh the rate my crank topics are ridiculous, because the people making these topic have VERY OBVIOUSLY BETTER- THAN -GOOD CRANK. Perhaps the title should be more like 'Blow smoke up my arse'.
omg sooo much agreement, yeah you know how it is. These people will never know how much harder it is playing with shitty crank.

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Post by pips » 26 Feb 2008 17:51

Haha...Janis, you'll never guess what just happened to me today. I was playing poker on Facebook today, and some random guy asks, "Chrissy, are you playing footbag in your picture?" And I told him yes, thinking maybe he was just talking about hacky sack but has heard of footbag. He mentioned playing with some friends, and I asked for their names. He was like, "Well, I live in Australia..." I got him to say a few names, and you came up! It's a small world. I never would have expected anyone familiar with footbag to randomly play poker with me online. His name is Dan Nathrakh.
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Post by janis » 26 Feb 2008 19:37

nice chance encounter :)

I take it that you play poker then?

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Post by pips » 26 Feb 2008 21:38

Yeah, I'm addicted to the stupid game. Heh...
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Post by janis » 27 Feb 2008 03:27

Had a good solo session just then, improved on swirls.

Good to have some shred music 8)

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Post by janis » 28 Feb 2008 05:34

Day 1 of O-Week Promotions:

Awesome day for the Melbourne University footbag club, despite shitty weather and a smaller than expected turnout to the clubs and societies day, we signed up 75 new members. Also we are going to be ordering in another 3 pairs of lavers for club members in the next few days. The club is starting to gather some momentum now, so it should be a good year for things to happen.

we had a few circles going throughout the day and it looks like there is some talent out there.

we organised to give out free icy poles, but it was really cold in the morning so that didn't go as well as last year when it was extremely hot. Even so in the afternoon when it was a bit warmer there was some interest.

The free footbag with every membership was a real hit, also it will mean that there will always be a bag at the weekly kicks.

Over the course of the day 6 people helped out at the table, it made a huge difference, thanks to everyone who helped out :D



photos will be posted later.

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Post by janis » 19 Mar 2008 04:17

Aussie Nationals in a few days, woot!
Going to get epic amounts of footage.


my knee is sore, damn it :(

Still it's a bit better than Friday when I saw the physio.

On the positive side I'll be able to film more stuff.

Watching Jorden's 2bag juggling video reminded me of when I used to do it heaps, I thought of a totally new 2 bag juggling concept that nobody has done before. I'll try to film it when my knee recovers.


The uni club is going well, I think we are up to about 130 members now and we have a regular group that kicks. Going to be giving club members chocolate easter eggs tomorrow, should be fun :D Also finally got a chance to order in some more lavers, world footbag was down for a few days but it is back up now.

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Post by janis » 24 Mar 2008 16:31

back from nationals now.
was a good event, thanks to all the organisers and thanks to Dan Boyle for being awesome,

My right knee was pretty fucked up leading into the weekend and it didn't really get better, I was happy to be able to do a routine at all even though it wasn't great.

The Dan's killed their routines, very deserving 1st and 2nd place. Dan Boyle had improved massively over last year and had a great routine, big props to him.

Got the routines on camera, I'll try to post them up soonish.

tricks hunted: stepping same whirl, ss symp dlo both sides.

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Post by dazza » 24 Mar 2008 18:55

props on the new trix - stepping same whirl is on my list aswell,
i tried it once today, but forgot to keep at it because i was wrestling
with my flip barfly :P

I got two questions for you dude : can you talk/read/write greek ?, and,
whats your key to drifter rake ? i always seem to be just that sec to late...
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Post by boyle » 24 Mar 2008 18:59

thanks for coming man, looking forward to seeing the footage.

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Post by janis » 24 Mar 2008 21:36

NuR wrote:I got two questions for you dude : can you talk/read/write greek ?, and,
whats your key to drifter rake ? i always seem to be just that sec to late...
1: I'm very Aussie, ie. I can only write in English fluently, my Italian is rusty as all crap, I don't speak/read/write any other languages.

2: The thing about drifter rake that helped me was to rotate more than for a drifter, like really rotate your hips and use the momentum of the dexing leg to help with the rotation.

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Post by janis » 27 Mar 2008 04:03

something I have been working on for ages (I'm easily into the 100's of hours now):
http://www.footbagclub.com/footbagmoves/
The programming is almost complete and it has a bit of content now, but needs more.

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Post by janis » 28 Mar 2008 19:19

Just watched the open sick1/3/5 thing, feel inspired to shred today.

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