Dex's Footblog

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07/01/04
- After a huge slump of not having my computer (shot motherboard) I finally got a new motherboard (thanks atom) and our clubsite will be updated soon to reflect some new information. Look for some amazing information about Buskerfest, including pictures and hopefully, video and articles. About moves, what did I hit... Symposium Illusion! w00t! Cant wait to get to worlds. Got my finances sorted out and can't wait to meet some of you people. Its gonna be the hightlight of my year for sure! *works*

05/30/04
- Some huge stuff happening lately in the club. Headlining one of the top 50 festivals in Ontario, Dundas Buskerfest this upcoming weekend. Looking forward to that. Got some exposure in a Buskerfestival newsletter, goin out to promote footbag. Look for more coverage in the events section. About my moves, dayam, I must have hit a slump or something, all I have hit in the past weeks include; Zoid Mirage, Zoid Butterfly, Fairy Mirage, Fairy Same Legover (Reverse Majellan?), and some crazy outside to op toe walkover that Jorden cringes at everytime he sees me do it. LOL! Oh, and I almost forgot, I am hitting Bubba and all kinds of half-osis moves. Rooted Butterfly and a good Osis on one side. So I have alot to work on, and my strings are getting continually longer. I hope to get whirl and ripwalk by worlds. w00t! *Works on Website*

05/10/04
- So my aim and speed with dex's is getting better. I have had drifter, torque and gyro mirage on my foot, but it rolled off. My runs are longer and more controlled then they were a month ago and I really feel the development process is coming along. Can't wait to shred with the guelph boys! We also went to the 'Clean up the grand river festival'. It was apparently supposed to be a 'Pot Festival'. But there were so many police officers that there was no marijuanna involved at all. But there was a circle of circle kickers and we got in the circle and just kicked. Then Atom, Johnny and myself busted large and they almost shat in their pants. Now I eat some icecream. *lick* *lick* *lick*

04/21/04
- Finnaly, we have some warmer weather on deck! I can finnaly wear my lavers to work and shred on my breaks! I have nailed osis on my right side, and I can now go from osis into butterfly, same and op side, mirage, reverse whirl and DLO. I skooled it hard at work and some lady that works with me that saw me doing it said that I was going to break every bone in my legs if I kept it up. So I told her that I would gladly try. She left in a huff. I love footbag!

03/24/04
- Wow. I never realized how easy it was to go from one butterfly to the op side butterfly. I was kickin' on my break at work and it came so easy, I cant wait to school it next saturday!

03/11/04
- Man, last night I was coding the site and the freakin' tables were being biz-natches (Say it like Snoop Dogg and it sounds better) and they were screwin up the whole freakin' layout. I considered throwing my monitor out the window. All I did was change the images, but the image sizes were the same as before the change. So I didn't understand. Anyway, I went to bed and woke up this morning and sat down and ironed everything out so it looks smooth on your end. Check out our new 6-Tier news and update system on the main page. *zzzZZzZZZZzzzZ*

03/07/04
- Well, the wait is over. The website is online and being tweaked a lil' more every day. I think there is still a whole lot of stuff that needs to be done on it but for the most part I am satisfied. Just when I thought that summer had come and I could start shredding outside again, BOOM! The great Canadian Winter hits us from out of nowhere. Gotta love the snow. I don't know how Chan and Vandall handle winter in Winipeg. Im off.

09/29/03
- I have been working on this site non-stop for like... weeks now. My footbag skills have diminished somewhat. At our most recent sesh I couldn't hit some of the moves that have come naturally to me. I think I am going to go spend a few hours outside before work schooling those moves back into my skull. Ciao. *shreds*

09/25/03
- So there is alot more to the site now, bandaged fingers and blood-letting. I haven't shredded for like... a week almost, cause of the solid time I am devoting to this site development. I will have to make up for it double time this weekend @ our sesh. So far I have everything done, not including the information that I need from my members, like addresses and bios, but that will be taken care of this weekend too. I have to pay my host like $100.00 to get my friggin' FTP access back... damn the bills. But I get paid tonght so that shouldn't be a prob. Hmm, what do I want to hit this weekend... I want to hit Smear for sure, Ripwalk, gotta work on my OP Butterfly, and OP Stepping. I hope Jorden Moir can make it down this weekend, I always seem to do much better if he is around, giving out pointers and such (He just came back from Funtastik Summer Classic in PA, USA with a second place in Freestyle Comp). I wouldn't mind seeing Will Little either. Looking forward to getting this web-show on the road/net. Night. *sleeps*

09/21/03
- I did a whole lot on the site today. Jesus friggin' Christ, my fingers are bruised and broken from this damned typing. im sure that it will all be worth it in the end tho cause the site is lookin more then sweet. I hope the guys like it. I got some mad plans for tommorows coding sesh. Im gonna add a sweet admin page that is accessable by club members only. It's gonna have some wikkid stats for our club, including a live counter, counting up from the opening of our club until the current second! I gotta get to bed tho, cause i have been coding for hours. *sleeps*

09/19/03
- Today I got the blog working. See?

09/13/03
- I thought that i was done for the summer, however, at todays session i hit these moves;

Symposium Mirage x 2
Ripwalk x 1
Whirl x 2
Illusion x 5
Fairy Butterfly x 4

I also linked 5 mirages. I was quite happy about today, and I only have my new short-shorts to thank.

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08/11/04

Been a long time since I posted in here. Alot has happened since then.

Our clubsite is still down, the host that I was going through decided that they are not going to host websites anymore, so we are going through another provider, Xeo Comm, so it will be a few days until that gets settled. In the meantime, I have another project on the go with Footbag Ontario. It's shaping up to be a huge site with loads of content. We have all kinds of shredders from different parts of Ontario (Tom Mosher, Ryan Seath, Jon Haber, John Suderman, Will Little and many more) dedicating some of their time to help create this awesome monstrosity (thanks guys).

Hit some new moves at and after worlds, my first five add;
Fairy Reverse Whirling Crossbody Rake

And some new moves that I have been schooling;
Ducking Osis
Fairy Same Blender
Tap
Drifter

And some strings I really like;
Osis>Butterfly
Osis>Blender

On a different note, if anyone out there has a footbag site and wants to link to Modified.Ca, you can use this code and image that I made to do so.

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<a href="http://www.modified.ca" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.footbagontario.ca/outsourced/modified.gif border="0" alt="Modified.Ca - International Footbag Forum"></a>

Thats about all for now. We have a few events coming up, SummersEnd Shred v2.0 @ Canadas Wonderland, and Dundas Ribfest the day after.

~ Dex

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08/21/04

I am so hungover, I don't even want to type.

I woke up late for going to CactusFest today, so no shred with the crew. SummersEnd Shred 2 is coming up next weekend and I don't know if I am prepared for the shred maddness! I rolled my ankle forward last weekend, and it feels fine, but the day before I rolled it, A bee stung me and bit me 4-5 times on that same ankle (Poor bastard bee got stuck in between my ankle and the toungue of my laver so he thought I was attacking him or something).

So I haven't shred too much in the interim.

Footbag Ontario is coming along at a steady pace, we have some video to put up there thanks to our video editor Tom Mosher! We have some articles to post thanks to Jorden Moir, and we have some really f'in awesome people doing the back end coding.

Hack-Bfa.Com will be back up shortly, the server says that they are updating and upgrading C-Panel and user admin programs. So that rawks, but is taking forever.

I need to go get some coffee, and a bite to eat before I wither away into nothingness.

*yawn*

~ Dex

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08/21/04

I almost forgot, I made some more links to Modified and FB.Org. Use If you want, they rawk.

Footbag.Org

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<a href="http://www.footbag.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.footbagontario.ca/images/stock/footbagworldwide.gif" alt="Footbag Worldwide" title="Footbag Worldwide" border="0" /></a>

Modified.Ca

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<a href="http://www.modified.ca/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.footbagontario.ca/images/stock/modified.gif" alt="Modified.Ca - Powered by phpBB2" title="Powered by phpBB2" border="0" /></a>

Hope you like!

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10/03/04
- Been so long since I wrote in here. Things are starting to look up for me and my footbag skill. Had a HUGE sesh (5 Hours) today with Atom C, we decided to school our ducks, dives and other moves attached to them. We both walked away with 7 - 8 new moves to add to our repitoire.

Mine:
- Ducking Clipper (Bsos, SS)
- Diving Clipper (Bsos, SS)
- Diving Mirage (Bsos)
- Ducking Mirage (Bsos)
- Ducking Butterfly
- Ducking Osis (Bsos, SS)
- Diving Osis (Bsos, SS)

Some Runs:
- Fairy Butterfly > Ducking Osis
- Mirage > Ducking Mirage

Overall, I am pretty happy with the acomplishments today. I can't wait to start sticking them in my runs. Nother' huge sesh comin up on saturday. The week will not go by fast enough for me and my new found attitude!

~ Dex