Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Footbag videos and footbag related videos such as takraw, freestyle soccer, etc.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Jeremy » 04 Sep 2013 19:46

Bila Lavice, Telocvicna series, Shred with Sunil, and Kampa Park were all very close to being included by me (also The Move, 100 Bars, Jorden's series of videos, Monsterhack Videos), but 3 is very limiting, and 2 even more so once I committed to including an Aussie video. Maybe once Jay finishes this series we could keep this topic going with people posting other videos they are nostalgic about :)

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 04 Sep 2013 22:24

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Hey footbaggers. Brian Bear here with a few selections of my favorite videos. I was looking for some good memories of my first tournaments, and any random videos that I gained inspiration from. These are what I came across:

Chaos Green Cup Freestyle Part I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvE8HV664Q This was my first time playing footbag with the big guns, I was fresh on the scene. I had a session with Lon Smith on Friday that was epic, just me and Lon! This was also my first time seeing Dave and Nick in person, just an epic memory. And on top of it, all my good stanford buddies were there, even Emily. Great times.

Fourkast VM6 - Milan Benda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPa7d0E5X4 The first time I was there when Milan came to visit Stanford. What a guy. Such an intense footbag player, and a fun guy to party with! This video is also pretty well done and the interview at the end is great, lol.

WRC FOOTBAG - The Compromise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcIJQtU94GM Probably the first really well done (editing and film quality) footbag short I saw. I thought the idea was great and still do. Wish these two still played freestyle regularly.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Asmus » 04 Sep 2013 23:37

Jeremy wrote:Bila Lavice, Telocvicna series, Shred with Sunil, and Kampa Park were all very close to being included by me (also The Move, 100 Bars, Jorden's series of videos, Monsterhack Videos), but 3 is very limiting, and 2 even more so once I committed to including an Aussie video. Maybe once Jay finishes this series we could keep this topic going with people posting other videos they are nostalgic about :)
Maybe people should stick to not naming all their favorite videos, since I am sure a lot of these will op up later ;)

Great lists so far from everybody!

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jones » 05 Sep 2013 09:56

jay7 wrote:ImageImage Juho. Marjo.ImageImage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_v-Eb7iU8

This video was filmed in 2004 after Finnish footbag open. Vasek was the special guest of the tournament and obviously won all the comps. Hardcore shred vid which makes you want to go kick. Also loving Dacco's (pekka raitio) reactions to Vasek combos, haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolXVIARhc8
King Vasek doing one of the best routines ever. I remember the crowd was pretty hyped after this next level routine.
Nailed it!!!! My two favourites!!!!!!!!

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by mtoolan » 05 Sep 2013 10:21

This is awesome! I haven't seen some of these in so long and the ones I haven't seen at all are great!

I'd be interested to see a list form Jay.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by C-Fan » 05 Sep 2013 11:17

mtoolan wrote: I'd be interested to see a list form Jay.
Not sure if that's a typo, and you'd like to see a list from Jay, or if you wanted all the videos in a list form. But yeah, I think the first post should be updated to reflect all the videos so far. This should help:

1. Dave fearless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEe2ownWIg
2. NW Footbag https://vimeo.com/15981586
3. Kozlov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMD-pFYhdsY
4. Australia's Finest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pxgNsxd9k
5. Ryan Mulroney Worlds Routine 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMUEVJbxM
6. Sick 03 Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_54JBU55PRE
7. FFO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_v-Eb7iU8
8. Vasek routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolXVIARhc8
9. Mulroney 2000 finals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg5Owq_iyaU
10. Mulroney 2001 finals http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/864
11. FFO preview- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDJ49nBMEM
Final Shred FFO 2004 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_v-Eb7iU8
12. Peter Irish Master Juggler/Juggling Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqES24g2tE
13. Czech big tricks vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokToJxuVFg
14. Chaos Green Cup Freestyle Part I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvE8HV664Q
15. Fourkast VM6 - Milan Benda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPa7d0E5X4
16. WRC FOOTBAG - The Compromise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcIJQtU94GM

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by mtoolan » 05 Sep 2013 11:49

Typo, but thanks, Ken. That's cool, too.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 05 Sep 2013 21:10

Enjoy :)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh9IZEwAPuM[/youtube] It's early summer 2004. I am sitting in my room in my parents basement in a small town in the south of Denmark. A message pops up on MSN Messenger. It is from a boy in Copenhagen, I have never met him but we have messaged back and forth on a danish youth site. He sends me a link to a video, he tells me that what they do in the video is called footbag and that the European Championships are coming to Denmark. The video is the video above, filmed in the legendary Kampa Park in Prague in 2003 and edited by Mads Neuhard. I watch the video in awe and when Vasek does Neutron Smasher > Toe Barrage > Toe Symp Whirl > Rev Swirl > Pincher I knew I had to start playing. The boy from Copenhagen later hosted me when I came to danish champs later that year, he became one of my best friends and later my roommate when I first moved to Copenhagen. I still haven't hit Neutron Smasher but I will one day!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyoJLLwunVk[/youtube] The intro shows of this video shows that you don't need fancy software, state of the art technology or crazy camera angles to make an interesting video. The rest is just badass! Johnny is already hardcore, the first link is one of the styliest things ever and the song goes so hard and well to the shred. I still listen to the album it's on from time to time. This was from the first tripod video battle, I liked this video and John Mahood's so much I later organized a video battle here on modified myself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABwrTEopSKw[/youtube] The videos I have watched the most are Jorden's session videos, but you have all watched those so I'll had to pick something else [/for those who haven't -http://juggling.tv/users/835/Jorden ]. I thought about this one, since I remember it as the one that really put Jorden on the map (look at peoples faces in the background - and some of the tricks are fucking hardcore even for todays standards), but I ended up with the one above. Look at that young Asmus playing with his idol and tell me it isn't worth it? Also the huge circle in the end with all my danish footbag friends always makes me smile. Mads really translates the vibe of the place to the video, like no one else.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 06 Sep 2013 22:08

Get ready for text. Lots of text. Much similarity between this entry and Juho. Note there is a second entry, at the bottom, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Go put on the kettle :)

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Ken Somolinos.

The Horror

Let's set the scene.

It's winter of 2005, and I had spent the past 3.5 years of my life in Japan with almost no connection to American culture. I'd see a movie in theaters every now and again, and my family would occasionally send me a VHS tape of basketball or the Simpsons, but for the most part I was unplugged from US culture. I was out of the loop musically, and even footbagwise I was most concerned with the development of the Japanese scene above anything else. I had played with Nick Laroche before, including at 03 and 04 Worlds, so I knew he had good style and was good. But I wasn't prepared in the least for what I'd see on that year's Joulukalenteri.

I recommend watching this once all the way through, then coming back for the blow-by-blow of how I processed this the first time (and basically every time afterwards).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_N9eFLfUg[/youtube]


First 20 seconds- Standard xmas calendar intro. At this point, I'd been conditioned to associate this intro with an expectation for new, solid shred right afterwards.

0:21-0:22- Remake? What? How do you make a shred video remake? And what's "RJD2?" (note: I'd never heard or heard of RJD2 before. It'd become one of my favorite bands in the late aughts.

0:24-0:25- At first I thought something was wrong with computer speakers, the glare of the sun punctuating the sonic burst. Then it settles into an ominous groove and...

0:26-0:31- ...a body in the snow?!? This is a unique intro for a footbag video.

0:32- Seeing the drool on Mathieu's face makes me slowly realize that this is much more than just a shred video....there could actually be a narrative?!?

0:38-0:45-These transition cuts are done super well...I feel as disoriented as Mathieu

0:45 and 0:50- We've made it almost 30 seconds into the video, and this is the first hint that this video is even tangentially related to footbag. So far this video is completely unlike any other footbag video I've seen, and I'm really enjoying it.

0:55-1:16- Mathieu's style of running cracks me up. But hey, how cool is this music? And where's he going? What's this leading up to? I'm glued to the screen.

1:16- I don't recognize it on my first viewing, but later on I realize this is the old NDA center in Montreal, where I played with Yacine and Sebastien on countless old trips to Montreal. Brings back memories of California Connection.

1:19-1:22- the editing of this door opening sequence gets me every time. So well done...

1:30- Footbag. One full minute of video before we even see footbag. Wow.

1:30-1:39- And what a string to kick it off! That first combo especially...I'd never even consider doing that in air shred, much less in real life. This is just the beginning of the master class Nick teaches in this video on trick selection.

1:49- Swirling muted gyro mirage?!?! WTF! I had to rewatch this multiple times to process this. Also the first of several tricks in the video that takes me by surprise.

2:00- The Laver logo comes full circle. So cool.

2:03-2:11- The metamorphosis. I still think this is the coolest "getting ready" scene in any footbag video. Supernatural.

2:20- Sonic legover! I didn't understand this on first viewing either. And from Mathieu too!

2:22-2:32- The opener of this string is a cool sick 3, but for some reason it's the midstring swerve to swirl that gets me every time. Just the precision and violence with which Nick sticks it, and that he spins out of it. I'm already bowing down at the style and trick selection at this point of the video.

2:42-3:00- Kolo! I didn't know he could shred this hard, so I'm impressed. Then...

3:02- THIS trick. Love the originality.

3:13- But then its topped by this trick! This was before people were playing with breakbagging, like Vasek's handstands or Mosher's tail was catching up.

3:18-3:24- What?!? Yeah, it was a good choice to rewind this trick and show it again. Cause wtf? Nuke gyro whirl?!? I hadn't even seen atomic gyro whirl, so this blew my mind completely.

3:34- At this point in the string, with the way he was spinning, I assumed Nick would miss the double spinning clipper completely. Instead, he turns it into DSW! I'm not sure I'd seen this trick before, so to see it midstring and at a point where I expected a drop...well at this stage my jaw is already on the floor and I'm just getting numb.

4:06-4:08- blazing blender! Another trick I had to rewind to make sure I processed correctly. Blazing sets were pretty rare back then, so to see somebody tack on a pdx blender after one, especially a player I didn't know could do that set. Wow. At this point my head is just dizzy with the array of concepts Nick has mastered and can link in his strings.

4:35-end- What a satisfying outro. Brings back the laver logo trope and everything.

I'm pretty sure I didn't make it through the first viewing without already rewatching sections, but I am sure that after my first viewing I immediately watched it twice more. There would be other good videos in the Joulukalenteri that year, but when they all ended this was one of the few I kept on my computer. It was like a lesson in style, both video editing wise and also in terms of Nick's game. Rewatching it years later, I still get pumped up as the music builds, and the links are as fresh as the first time. Definitely an all-time favorite for me.

Epic Mulroney run from 1999 Worlds

When Jay approached me for this project, a bunch of videos immediately crossed my mind. There were classic videos I knew many people would/could mention (100 Bars, Bila Lavice, etc.). There were obscure videos that I enjoyed that could be fun to share with a new audience. There were videos I appeared in, that could be interesting to narrate, to share behind-the-scene stories about. But really, if you were to ask me what video had the biggest impact on me, that is truly nostalgic? I think I'd be lying if I chose anything other than this one.

I found a good quality version of this video, which I'll share later in the write up, but all that video does is show the same run from a different angle and in better resolution. But to get the true nostalgic effect, you can't beat watching it in its original grainy quality, from the angle I watched it hundreds, if not thousands of times. Its even hosted on a website which hasn't changed in 13 years, so clicking through to it brought back memories.

Let's just get to the video, then I'll ramble on a while longer.

http://dallas.footbag.org/multimedia/Ot ... ryan07.mpg

Some of you may recognize the string from its appearance on "Aggressive Grounds," where it was featured as an "epic flashback." I'm guessing a whole lot more of you don't even remember Aggressive Grounds, which makes me feel even older. In any case, here's the backstory to this clip.

From 1997-2003 Mulroney was one of the best players in the world. In fact, it'd be very hard to argue that from 1998-2001 he wasn't THE best player in the world, both in terms of shred and competition. I was at 1999 Worlds, and it was clear that he was considered the favorite to win it all. He didn't. He wasn't happy about it. Back in the day, the final night of Worlds was always the biggest shred. After routines ended, there'd be a Saturday night shred, and that was where people played until they dropped. That was where BAP hopefuls stepped into the elite circles and tried to prove themselves. It was like the real show, even though it came after competition ended. Anyway, Ryan was pissed that he didn't win, so he shredded his ass off all night. Just straight domination. In the Mulroney special interview section, he admits as much. Regardless of his motivation, it resulted in some of the most insane runs hit at Worlds that year, and happily the cameras were there to capture it.

I was at that shred, and remember watching Ryan shred people into the ground. It was the first time I'd ever seen somebody just brutalize a circle like that, imposing their dominance on everybody else. It was both terrible and beautiful. I've only ever seen something like that a few other times in my career. While I've never dominated a circle like that, I learned from watching Ryan what you can do when you adopt that mindset. I've survived a few Circle contests by trying to channel that inner Mulroney-ian intensity, that desire to just stomp your opponents by going all out. I've also been on the receiving end of that mindset. At the 2008 NYC tournament, Jorden Moir was the best player present. But due to a problem with his routine music, he didn't compete in routines. I ended up hitting my first dropless routine ever, which won it. In a weird fluke (which might occur like 1 out of 20 times), I beat Jorden in the Rippin Run finals. And then I beat him in Sick 3. The final event of the tournament though was Circle comp, and Jorden went Mulroney 99 on our asses, to leave no doubt who was the best shredder at the tournament. It felt like every turn he laid down 30-40 contacts of pain. I remember him opening one string with backside blurriest swirl, and me just shaking my head and laughing. Dominance.

But I digress.

Ryan showed me that night footbag at a level I'd never seen before. Swagger I'd never seen in footbag. Gracefulness I didn't know existed in the sport. Thanks to the videos on the Dallas Footbag Site, I'd be able to watch and rewatch and rewatch all of them, to the point that I basically memorized them all. I was in college at the time, and whenever any of my friends would come to my room I'd force them to watch that one Mulroney run, in all its grainy glory. "It looks like he's dancing" they'd say. For years I'd get comments from people when they'd watch me play, but I never got the dancing comment, or at least not in a positive way. When I finally did start getting that compliment, I knew that I was making progress. To this day, when somebody says that to me, I think of this Mulroney vid, and showing it to people in my college dorm.

While we're on the dancing note, I have to talk about the music in the video. Part of the Mulroney mystique for me was the fact that he always had speakers and shred music with him, and that his shred music was always bad ass. Fatboy Slim was new on the scene, and to this day FBS and Mulroney are inextricably linked in my head. I became a big fan of FBS, probably in part because I associated it with the coolness of Ryan during his prime. Beyond his shred music, Ryan also did routines to mashups his roommate created. This was years before mashups became a fad, and so they blew my mind. But yeah, of all the songs and music I associate with Mulroney, the one in this video is my favorite. I've used it in my own footbag videos, and I've seen it on others. It just goes so well with the shred, such an iconic shred song.

For those of you who'd like to see the string in better (less nostalgic) quality, skip ahead to the 22:30 mark of this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc12S-xEvO0[/youtube]

The shred is more visible, but its not the same nostalgia, or the same video as the one I posted above. There is one weird notable feature of the string from this angle though. I watched this string on the Dallas site hundreds of times, but I didn't remember witnessing it in person. It wasn't until Aggressive Grounds came out and I showed it to some Japanese players, that they pointed out...me. At the very end of the run, right before Red comes over to high five Ryan, you see a 19 year old version of me stand up and applaud the string! How do I not even remember being there when my fav string ever was shot? I was under a spell. What can I say.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 07 Sep 2013 22:09

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Ianek Regimbald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80xdFV37ZE

Epic Vasek shred that i was lucky to witness live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQkyq1xp7c

The dream move i haven't hit yet. (plus Allan Haggett's epic reaction to the car passing by!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_wLgO4gHxw

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by C-Fan » 08 Sep 2013 11:37

Really enjoying reading everybody's. Some vids are new to me too, so enjoying that too.

Also, when this kicked off I never expected one of my vids to be included, so I was honored by Ianek mentioning one!
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Muffinman » 08 Sep 2013 14:41

Loved yours, Ken!
I also make that association with Fatboy Slim and Ryan shred. Your post was really nostalgic for me too!

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by brianbear » 08 Sep 2013 16:52

this is great jay! it makes me feel young too because I started playing so late, too bad I missed the epic-ness of 04-06.
Great memories from that evan video though :) like when he was tearing shit up in my g-units lol.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 08 Sep 2013 20:44

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CSS4 Hallway by Sam Colclough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGFX2Exo9I

This was one of the first shred videos we watched with Riku Ahola (Samu's big brother) when we started playing back in 2003. Riku would often come to my parents' house after school, and we would watch a couple of videos and then go shred. What I really loved about this video was that it had no music, so you could hear all the sounds and comments the players made. It made us think "that's how the best players play and act in a circle". We would adopt the lines "this guy's awesome!" (3:34) and "Vasek combo" (6:05), and would shout them out to each other while shredding. Sometimes we would also give each other foot props, like Sunil does a couple of times.

Lon Smith Special by Eric Windsor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12RLX9NL ... Aj&index=2

This video had a huge impact on the early years of my game. Even though Vasek was the best player at the time, I wanted to play like Lon. The genuineness of his runs, his both sidedness and Torques, I wanted it all. Especially the double dex run in slow motion had a big 'wow' effect on me. I also copied the shuffle beginning of his Shred30 to my own as soon as I was good enough to hit it consistently.

Bílá lavice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItBoEG040RU

It might be a cliché to include this video, but I think it shows just how unmatched Vasek was back in the day. When I started playing, Vasek was already the best, and me and others thought that Vasek would never be beat as long as he kept playing. Never. I even remember excitedly telling my parents about it (I think I was 13 or 14 years old). This turned out not to be the case however, which I think proves how fast footbag is improving and how much potential it still has.
Apart from all the Barraging stuff this video has, there were also other really hard links and tricks. I remember thinking how cool the link Flapper Kick - Reverse Swirl looked, and trying to hit it myself. Even after 10 years, which is an eternity in freestyle footbag, the last run is absolutely crazy. 60 contacts, full of hard tricks and links, and Vasek doesn't even seem tired after it.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Outsider » 09 Sep 2013 07:09

Hi. Just a quick note about Ken's post of: Epic Mulroney run from 1999 Worlds
Video footage of that night, the big shred after freestyle finals, LOOKS great, but the lighting was in fact TERRIBLE. The big shred began in the lobby of the hotel/conference center where we were all staying, but security came and kicked us out (we had shredded there on previous nights, but, there were MORE of us for the last big shred...), and so we found another spot, and they kicked us out again. "So, where the hell will you allow us to play?" ... This was a huge conference center that could have fit 100,000 shredders... they lead us out back behind, to a parking lot. This was well after dark, and we were playing under parking-lot street lamps. Somehow it on the video it looks really good, but the lighting was actually barely tollerable. So, all the serious shred from Ryan (and Peter, Dave Holton, Scott, Eric Wulff, etc,) might have all been even better, but that night we were all like enthusiastic newbs so stoked to shred that we'd do it anywhere under any aweful conditions. Its ALWAYS been funny to me how good the footage looks from that night --- it really looks like a good place to play, but it wasn't.

(the aweful conditions might not have left as big of an impression on Ken because, back then, he WAS one of those enthusiastic NEWBs :) )

I guess in one way its a testament to how cool freestyle footbag is and the passion we have for this game --- even after getting kicked-out of our spot TWICE, and even having been made to walk for what seemed like half-a-mile through this giant building just to be shown out by THE BACK DOOR, the best players in the entire world, and everybody else too, all made a pretty good night out of a bad situation anyway. Can you imagine the top tennis players in the world so eager to play for fun that they'd play IN A PARKING LOT AT NIGHT UNDER BAD STREET LAMPS?
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 09 Sep 2013 23:20

Mathieu Gauthier.

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For some reason, I always thought if anyone had poetic style, it was Mathieu Gauthier. But anyway, onto his submission.

For me nostalgia in footbag is things we don't see anymore, or players who vanished for a while

Defender of the universe
James Risden, what is there to say, this guy was so good, he was floating while playing, when I started playing footbag this was one of the first videos I was shown, and heard many stories about James and how good he was, I got to see him eventually in Chicago and he didn't deceive me, such a smooth style
http://youtu.be/AaysTzGkdcE

Full Nelson
Not the best Nelson video out there, but I watched it many times, maybe this is the video that got me to like editing a lot with greyscale. What ever happened to him and Mahood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJOYCO31No

SJFF Sickness video (especially Ricky Moran part)
The tune that got me to love RJD2 so much 'since we last spoke'
such a good mix with Ricky's energic and smooth style with a lot of duck and spins variation, this guy influenced me a lot in my footbag style over the years, and I see it now after watching the video again, been quite a while!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OcW071nCq8

Again, what happened to Ricky!!
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by dasreen » 10 Sep 2013 05:17

I like the format. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Asmus » 10 Sep 2013 06:41

CSS4 Hallway by Sam Colclough
Interesting how this video is legendary in Finland and also in Denmark. I know quite a few danish players that would pick this one aswell.
Defender of the universe
Had not seen this one before. Cool style - reminds me of Peter Irish

Is The Outsider himself going to pick his favorites?

I am gonna watch Bila Lavice for the second time today now.

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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by Outsider » 10 Sep 2013 07:42

Is The Outsider himself going to pick his favorites?
No.
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Re: Nostalgia Video Compilation.

Post by jay7 » 10 Sep 2013 21:51

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Justin Sexton: Around The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LavsNdd4Xek
When I had just started freestyling I was searching the mysterious contents of the World Wide Wed to look for information about Footbag.
I had to ask permission from my parents to go online with the dial-up modem. The connection was just SO SLOW. I found the website of Finnish Footbag Association, which I read through many times.
I could only download so many videos per day, because it took ages. Also those 5...30 second clips took a lot of space on the harddrive, so I had a CD-RW to burn them on, so I could watch them without the Internet connection.
Footbag.fi had some trick video demonstrations, of which I picked up Justin Sextons ATW (look at that window on the dex!) for everyone to see. It could have been pretty much any video, but this is how I learned what tricks I should start learning first.
One mind blowing video from Footbag.fi that I need to mention too, was a Shred30 by Peter Irish (don't remember which year, and couldn't find it now). The picture was grainy as shit, but I could tell that he was doing shuffle (Ripwalks, Blurs, etc). Before that I had thought a Ripwalk was like the biggest trick, so realising he was doing dexes with both feet in one trick was just mind blowing.

Telocvivna 3 (15. 11. 2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA3fR3DqEpE
This video is now 11 years old. Boom. The first time I saw this, I didn't even know what the heck was going on half the time.
I haven't watched this video in a while now, but I used to watch this a lot. Such a great variety of players and styles. Vasek and Ales are really busting on a what looks to be a bloody slippery floor.
Pretty good single tricks, decent runs. Legendary music. I have this song (Rasputin) on my shred playlist.
Not many random session videos have come out from Czech Rep. Of all the Telocvicna series, this is my favourite.
One combo that comes to mind is Vasek hitting Barfly > Barfly > Pdx Whirl > Pdx Whirl > Ducking Butterfly > Ducking Butterfly, which I think I set as a goal for myself.
I was still a circle kicker when this video was filmed. And the video starts with Vaseks Quantum Eggbeater. Balderdash!

Worlds 2003: Vasek Special Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9lEXJlhdIw
Now who the hell steps on stage with a cheering audience. Under all that pressure does PS Whirl x 12 > Whirlwind > PS Whirl > PS Whirl > Spinning Whirl > Spinning behind the back hand catch -- and walks away.
If this doesn't raise Vasek above of us all, then he's never been in the same league.
It's quite a random video - only one run, but I remember that I had to use a hall jack to get my jaw back in place when I saw this video for the first time. This was "absolutely fucking massive" back then. And have I watched this so frikken many times...

Other videos that I could have added are of course the Warmup (by Tuukka Antikainen) and Final Shred (by Aaro Wichmann) from Finnish Champs 2004. Just legendary videos. Then there's Kona Beach (all three of them). First day out -- actually pretty much all the videos byJere Vainikka.
Jay Boychuk

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