Stanford Crew Blog - The God Tier of Footbag Clubs

[Pyroman924]

I'ma be back in the bay area for what I believe will be the remainder of my time in California. Is there going to be a session at Stanford this Tuesday?

And it was a bummer to miss meeting you at the green cup David but I hope you're feeling better here soon and that your magic gig went well.

[Pyroman924]

Forgive he double post but I plan on showing up at Stanford tomorrow to try and search for the session, I haven't heard anything concrete about one happening so I hope someone's there! I also intend on bringing a camera so if anyone shows up there will prolly be footage..!

[Moxie]

Does anyone in the Stanford club want a box of footbag stuff? I have ultrasuede light, beads, shot, mailing envelopes for mailing footbags, free mass-produced bags (good for giving away) and instructional cd-roms, and a pair of Planet Footbag shorts. I'm also trying to find a home for the footbag painting I tried selling on Modified. You'd have to come pick up the box, because I can't make it to Stanford before I leave (which I'm bummed about).

Let me know.

[brianbear]

I will try to make it to sc this week for sure!!!
I wanted to say I would buy some stuff, but can't spend anything before worlds/USO :/

anyways, I'll pm you about details.

[brianbear]

just got back from uso
stanford did okay. i had 2x 1 drop routines and maybe gave penske a scare in circles.
mathias blau is visiting stanford now for a bit, i will try to make one video while he is here.

my legs feel stronger than ever, time to upgrade my game.

[Asmus]

I wanna see video! Denmark represent.
Give Jeff and Madame Blau a hug from me.

[C-Fan]

Good seeing you at USO Bear! Too bad we didn't get to play together hardly at all. Also, props on reviving this blog...can't believe one of the most active clubs in the US went over a year without a post here.

[brianbear]

Good seeing you at USO Bear! Too bad we didn't get to play together hardly at all. Also, props on reviving this blog...can't believe one of the most active clubs in the US went over a year without a post here.

and i will try to revive this again
I feel like I haven't played with you in a long time ken!
worlds and us open we didn't really shred together :/

Current Stanford training schedule:

Tuesday: At Stanford, usually with Steve Alex Dustin Brian, sometimes Katya, and a random kicker every once in a while.
Wednesday: At Google, usually with Dave Dustin Brian
Thursday: At Steve's, usually with Steve Alex Dustin Brian
Saturday: At Steve's, CORE of Steve Alex Dustin Brian, sometimes Dave, less sometimes Derek.

Peter and Jeff occasionally show up and play when not busy with school/work.

I thought I would revive this thread as I have been training very hard lately.
I kinda figured out I should take full advantage of living in the same city that clavens lives and works, and he has been getting shreddy lately

My main focus right now is on overall form for health safety, I want to play a ton with little to no pain.
Staying on my toes
Back straight
Arm and Hand Control
Knee bend
lots of stretching too,
It has been going very well!

Another thing I have been working on is low energy shuffle. I find I am much more efficient when I try a little less harder than normal.
If I keep working it, I should be a shuffle machine in no time
And working muted triple spin (much less complicated than non-muted for me). I was actually inspired by the winter x-games and freakin nuts those guys are with rotations. I would absolutely LOVE to hit a triple spin with even like 20% chance of landing it.

FLIPSIDE WORK NEEDED ON:
egg, grifter, double spin, step, fairy, p.whirl/p.blend , barfly/motion, barrage.
a lot of flip (p) illusions as a base for this.

Other Dudes:
Dave's maid threw away his old classic gunits cause they looked like trash in a plastic bag, so he's breaking in new ones now.
Steve hit ducking clipper x3 recently and is working on consecutive butterflies a lot. Leg strength/energy usually determines how well steve plays.
Alex has unfortunately been sick lately, and before that injury plagued. I have a good feeling he will be shredding hard in a week or two though
Dustin updates his blog so go look there!

[jay7]

What a nice read. I'm really glad that is how Stanford is doing right now.

Also, that maid should take a walk and never come back.

I'd enjoy seeing you learn inspinning, btw. Why the hell not?

[crazydwarf]

Stanford has been playing a lot!

Brian has been doing a bit of inspinning since I've been pushing my inspinning pretty hard.

By worlds Brian will be an unstoppable footbag machine. We already have a bit of shred 30 planning done, I'm excited to start working on routines!

[brianbear]

yesterday was pretty crowded.
connor showed up and was playin pretty good for not playin in a while.
katya showed up for her first steve's house session, worked on her clipper form and was owning mirages.
dave made it and was playing pretty hard, and workin some freshness.
alex only played for a bit, looked in good form but had a mysterious knee bruise that stopped him.
steve was playin ok, he didn't play much cause it was so crowded.

i was doing lots of stepping, and a good amount of flip double spins.
strong double spin whirl felt pretty clean and easy, but couldn't quite land it.
strong inspin is reallly good, but flip is awful. gotta figure out what it is.
highlight combo was motion -> gyro symple rev swirl.

[CIC flurry]

nice to read updates guys.
triple muted spin would be hecky gnar gnar

[brianbear]

sooo gnar gnar. maybe i was wrong about it being easier though. its hard to say.

I keep hurting myself. But in the weirdest places. About 2 months ago, maybe a month and a half ago.. i tweaked my neck/back/shoulder and could hardly turn my head to the right. Slowly got better, and I played a few sessions carefully after taking a week off. Then I reinjured it. not sure how or what trick though. After re-injury, it healed up very quickly, and I was able to play again after just 4 days break. just yesterday at stanford, i started the session with a sore back (i think from sleeping funny), and never got warm or stretched out enough... BOOM same injury on my left side this time!!! except this time it is less neck, about the same back, and more shoulder hurting.
Plan is to stretch and get back on my rowing machine workout, that should help.

Almost all of my footbagging injuries are upper neck, back shoulder, related. pretty silly! (maybe trick selection related) legs are feeling great on the plus side
Also, both injuries have happened since I got moved from my room and wonderful bed, to the living room and shitty mattress pad. might have something to do with it,
gotta get a tempurpedic pad or something.

Time for some advil and a heating pad!

[brianbear]

Back in action.
I played a bit yesterday, and was able to shred well.
Was playing with a pure form focus for most of it, kept my back really straight.
had one effortless beautiful feeling spinning whirl that felt so good on my body.
also a couple of vortexes that felt minimal if no strain.
also figured out flip bubbabeater, and i think flip egg. I just have to move my body a little more.
rakes were off the hook too, especially all variants of rev whirling rake.
Stopped playing when i felt my mid/upper back sore, but its feeling good today.

Gonna start up my cross-training soon, rowing machine and rollerblading mainly.
Got these on craigslist for $100, stoked to head out on em today.
http://www.skates.com/v/vspfiles/images ... ing_le.htm
http://www.skates.com/Rollerblade-Light ... -le-25.htm

Alex has been playing at the start of sessions, working through leg and knee pain.
Been showin solid form, and an occasional great run.
Steve was also playin through some pain, but had some good lookin clippers.
Connor was there again, and playing well. if he keeps coming i imagine his consistency will get much better. he hit rev whirl i think for his first time.
check dustins blog for his shiz.

i was feelin squares, and took dem games.

pizza was pretty good, pepperoni turned out better than the cheese. i think the cheese had less time in the oven or sumthin.
7.5/10 for the pepp. of course a stanford pizza 7.5 is a reg pizza 8.5. won't rate the cheese cause i don't know it well.

[brianbear]

tuesday shred:

pretty non-epic, standard stuff. dustin was goin the hardest.
alex had some goood shit goin as well, looks like he is gaining his strength back.
my back hurt, so I played lightly. hopefully i can shake this injury soon.
steve hurt his knee planting after a sole stall :/

bryan fournier came for the first time in like 1.5-2 years. at least it feels like something like that.
cool guy, has mad respect for us stanford shredders workin hard. He showed signs of life in his footbag game, a couple decent runs, and good attempts at big tricks.

been emailing with amotz, and have to share this great quote he told me:
"you should write one of these self-improvement books on how to use money and shit!"
if you know me well enough, you will see the truth and humor to this.

i just orders some half soles to replace the bottom of my current gunits, if it works. I will have g-units forever, muahahhaha

[brianbear]

played on thursday and friday.
can't remember much lol.
dave had one crazy dense string on friday, as well as one fresh jorden-ish run.
i hit flip torque screw for my first time, i'm thinking mobius-screw b2b will be cool.
been hitting both sides miraging pickup (mp), real good on strong. want to be able to hit gyro mps like i can g dlos.
still fighting with my flip illusion, fairy, stepping, but flip paradon is coming along. *work on flip gyro illusion
need to practice flip paradox mirage hah.

rollerblading has been great, i'm feeling stronger already! might try some of this shit out, i guess this is like a dropless routine:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCD6_kGsF9A[/youtube]

not a bad song for a routine, i might use it if its not to fast for me.

i'll take note of good things hit today by all.

[boyle]

are you just doing recreational skating for cross training? I used to skate aggressive inline a lot, great fun. So did Roy from Israel.

[brianbear]

yeah, mainly for cross training. i used to play street roller hockey quite a bit, and have been rollerblading for fun since i was 6 or so.
i don't plan on doing any jumps or grinds of any kind, just the tricks that are like figure skating.
i have a pair of generic k2's for freestylin/leg control training, and a pair of rollerblade brand distance blades for speed/ leg workouts.

cool that fellow shredders have love for da blades. it is great fun!

i don't remember shred on saturday very well. had a sore back so i played safely.
alex had some 5's. great symp pop on his strong side ps whirl and superfly.
connor was doing pixies like a boss.

[boyle]

I used to have some k2s, and also some Rollerblade brand ones too. Think I might get back into it if I find myself with some extra cash this year. Used to play some hockey, but we didn't have too many players, was good fun though.

[brianbear]

Stanford!
We are chillin.
Alex is injured and has to do some physical therapy stuff to get healed up, we are hoping for a fast recovery
Steve is pushing through pains to shred lately, some good dives lately and decent strings here there. Also some tiring 2-square rallying has been goin down with me and steve..
Dustin is shredding hard, mainly shuffle with more toes than before and also getting more variety with his downtime instead of so many butterflies. good stuff.
Derek earns an honorable mention for shreddin with me a few weekends, hit toes really make me wanna get better at toes. he is getting better thats for sure.

I haven't been very motivated to play hard probably since dave left for europe, maybe a bit before that. Been doing more crosstraining: some upper body, tons of core work, and some plyometrics. Also been doing some very basic toe drilling, both sides DATWs both ways coming along. fairy is coming back into my game as well as more solid stepping and last session i even squirted out some flip pixies. Strong focus on form of the entire body. Fixing my arms and getting my flip paradox tricks squared up earlier have been big goals. flip double down needs to get good. I should really start drilling every other day, with a list.