Thanks Erik, it was great having you! You definitely showed Street Fighter potential : )
It has been very busy on the home front, but a good deal of fun. Usually after the US Open we have a little downtime, this year it's been quite busy. The last month went as follows;
First week of August:
Jake Wren, Aaron Orton visit for a session
Second Week of August:
Erik Chan, Nate Lindscott visit for a session
Third Week of August:
Justin Dale, Cale McCoy visit for a session
Fourth Week of August:
Nate Lindscott and Jake Wren visit again
First week of September
Tom Kotsokos moves in
Elliot Piltz visits town
We all head down to the Beaver Open
Second Week of September:
New project launches... : )
I have some good pictures of all the sessions, hopefully I will be able to upload them when I get a chance. Good times!
R
Sole Purpose Portland Footblog
Sole Purpose welcomes Tom Kotsokos to the group. Tom is out from CIC to train with the local freestyle team, he has only been here a few days but its good times already! We were having our regular Weds. session when Tom flew into town. He hopped on the Max train from the airport directly to Pioneer Square, were he proceeded to hop off the train and into our circle : ) It was a fun session, next up; the Beaver Open!
Sole Purpose also welcomes Andrew McCargar back to the posse. Andrew was one of the original people who helped rebuild the Sole Purpose Group. Four 3 years he has been in Germany, most recently working on the 2009 World Footbag Championships. Welcome back Andrew!
Sole Purpose also welcomes Andrew McCargar back to the posse. Andrew was one of the original people who helped rebuild the Sole Purpose Group. Four 3 years he has been in Germany, most recently working on the 2009 World Footbag Championships. Welcome back Andrew!
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Hey guys,
Glad to hear you are in town Chris! I think you chatted with Flash earlier today. If you can make our Weds session (Pioneer Square 6pm), you will meet quite a few people in our group. We are happy to get a session going tomorrow as well, there are quite a few people in from out of town right now. Shawnell Tolliver will be one of the sessions tomorrow. I think what will happen since people are on different schedules is that either either we will have a couple of different sessions, or one long running session in which people come in and out. Some of us are available earlier, some later (after 5pm). Look forward to kicking with everyone!
Adding to our busy September schedule;
This week:
Nate Linscott
Kurt (Eugene)
Chris Dean
Shawnell Tolliver
Andrew McCargar
Next Week:
Mike Hansen
Third Week of September:
Idaho State Championships
Fourth Week of September:
Portland Juggling Festival
Good times!
R
(I hope to upload pics and a Beaver Open write up soon, it was a fun event!)
Glad to hear you are in town Chris! I think you chatted with Flash earlier today. If you can make our Weds session (Pioneer Square 6pm), you will meet quite a few people in our group. We are happy to get a session going tomorrow as well, there are quite a few people in from out of town right now. Shawnell Tolliver will be one of the sessions tomorrow. I think what will happen since people are on different schedules is that either either we will have a couple of different sessions, or one long running session in which people come in and out. Some of us are available earlier, some later (after 5pm). Look forward to kicking with everyone!
Adding to our busy September schedule;
This week:
Nate Linscott
Kurt (Eugene)
Chris Dean
Shawnell Tolliver
Andrew McCargar
Next Week:
Mike Hansen
Third Week of September:
Idaho State Championships
Fourth Week of September:
Portland Juggling Festival
Good times!
R
(I hope to upload pics and a Beaver Open write up soon, it was a fun event!)
Hey guys,
Glad to hear you are in town Chris! I think you chatted with Flash earlier today. If you can make our Weds session (Pioneer Square 6pm), you will meet quite a few people in our group. We are happy to get a session going tomorrow as well, there are quite a few people in from out of town right now. Shawnell Tolliver will be one of the sessions tomorrow. I think what will happen since people are on different schedules is that either either we will have a couple of different sessions, or one long running session in which people come in and out. Some of us are available earlier, some later (after 5pm). Look forward to kicking with everyone!
Adding to our busy September schedule;
This week:
Nate Linscott
Kurt (Eugene)
Chris Dean
Shawnell Tolliver
Andrew McCargar
Next Week:
Mike Hansen
Third Week of September:
Idaho State Championships
Fourth Week of September:
Portland Juggling Festival
Good times!
R
(I hope to upload pics and a Beaver Open write up soon, it was a fun event!)
Glad to hear you are in town Chris! I think you chatted with Flash earlier today. If you can make our Weds session (Pioneer Square 6pm), you will meet quite a few people in our group. We are happy to get a session going tomorrow as well, there are quite a few people in from out of town right now. Shawnell Tolliver will be one of the sessions tomorrow. I think what will happen since people are on different schedules is that either either we will have a couple of different sessions, or one long running session in which people come in and out. Some of us are available earlier, some later (after 5pm). Look forward to kicking with everyone!
Adding to our busy September schedule;
This week:
Nate Linscott
Kurt (Eugene)
Chris Dean
Shawnell Tolliver
Andrew McCargar
Next Week:
Mike Hansen
Third Week of September:
Idaho State Championships
Fourth Week of September:
Portland Juggling Festival
Good times!
R
(I hope to upload pics and a Beaver Open write up soon, it was a fun event!)
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Heya all,
We are up for a session any time! This week Anita Lenneis (Verena's sister) visits town to kick as well, it should be fun! Also, we welcome a new shredder to the Sole Purpose Footbag Group;
Keisuke H.
Keisuke is representing the new school for freestyle in our area, we look forward to shredding with this new styler regularly!
It is going to be another busy week, we are building up to the Portland Juggling Festival 2009 (PJF). We will be performing workshops, setting up a booth, and performing in the big show Saturday night. After this event we will officially conclude our summer season of footbag, and move into the fall sessions of Sole Purpose. What a summer!
R
ps, the Idaho State Footbag Championships event was a blast, there will be a write up on Fourkast soon : )
We are up for a session any time! This week Anita Lenneis (Verena's sister) visits town to kick as well, it should be fun! Also, we welcome a new shredder to the Sole Purpose Footbag Group;
Keisuke H.
Keisuke is representing the new school for freestyle in our area, we look forward to shredding with this new styler regularly!
It is going to be another busy week, we are building up to the Portland Juggling Festival 2009 (PJF). We will be performing workshops, setting up a booth, and performing in the big show Saturday night. After this event we will officially conclude our summer season of footbag, and move into the fall sessions of Sole Purpose. What a summer!
R
ps, the Idaho State Footbag Championships event was a blast, there will be a write up on Fourkast soon : )
See you then!!!
Ben Schmaltz emailed me this picture the other day, it's a great shot. Our grand total of kickers that day was 16 I believe, 13 wearing some type of freestyle shoe. We had 6 new people make an appearance, which was great : ) Unfortunately we were still missing some of our other people from that session, but one of our long lost freestylers is returning to us next week. Good times!
R
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Here are a few pictures of the Sole Purpose Footbag Group, Spring 2010. We had 11 people out today, good times. I am happy to say our group is as alive and kicking (pun intended) as it ever was : ) We are happy that attendance has remained strong. The summer should be exciting!
We are happy to welcome our newest member of the group, Noah Cacayorin. Noah is also our youngest member at present (14), beating out Casey (15) by one year. The two went right to work kicking with each other after meeting at the session, the OG's joked that they were quietly planning their take over. We certainly look forward to it!
Not pictured in group photo;
Nick Landes
Sean Wingert
Shawn J.
Nate Linscott
Aaron Shepard
We are happy to welcome our newest member of the group, Noah Cacayorin. Noah is also our youngest member at present (14), beating out Casey (15) by one year. The two went right to work kicking with each other after meeting at the session, the OG's joked that they were quietly planning their take over. We certainly look forward to it!
Not pictured in group photo;
Nick Landes
Sean Wingert
Shawn J.
Nate Linscott
Aaron Shepard
Sole Purpose proudly welcomes the great Evan Lovely to our group.
For those who are unfamiliar with Evan, he was one of the main driving forces behind the Missoula Footbag Alliance, and the Montana Freestyle Jam. We are happy to have this great individual in our group!
Aside from Evan, it seems I am contacted almost weekly now about our local footbag group, our numbers continue to climb. Our invitation still stands to all the players in the community, come check out Portland and join our culture of footbag!
Red
For those who are unfamiliar with Evan, he was one of the main driving forces behind the Missoula Footbag Alliance, and the Montana Freestyle Jam. We are happy to have this great individual in our group!
Aside from Evan, it seems I am contacted almost weekly now about our local footbag group, our numbers continue to climb. Our invitation still stands to all the players in the community, come check out Portland and join our culture of footbag!
Red
Okay, so I know that it's been a while since anyone has posted here, but I am reviving this blog!
Yesterday was a fun session with Flash, Chris Dean, and myself. Lots of fun stuff going on, Mr. Dean's style and form are very refined. Bevier was doing some cool links, including gyro miraging pincher to swirl and a bunch of whirling calf bump> op whirl back to back. I had a few good runs, one with gyro blender and spinning blender bsos, and spinning dlo>barroque, which I thought was a lot of fun to link.
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Today we had a session with Cale McCoy, who came up from Southern Oregon to shred. We kicked with Sam, Marianne, Joe, James, and Cale's friend Taylor. While Sam was injured, he still played and was giving great instructions to Marianne. Taylor, who I just met today, was a competent kicker and I think I saw him try some stalls as well.
Joe, on the other hand, was killin it today. He broke his old record of consecutive toe stalls (~20) with 54 toe stalls today. He also was demonstrating more control over legover and clipper while hitting longer strings of stalls and two add moves, occasionally throwing mirage.
Cale seemed on top of most of the components he tried, but he is still recovering from an injury I believe, so it was nice to see some good links from him. I remember vertigo being a big trick, and him hitting pdx drifter and pdx whirl bsos in one combo. He also had good variety.
James, even through too baggy shorts or pants, hit some good stuff as well. I remember a string with ducking pdx mirage bsos with great stalls on each, and I remember him hitting gyro DLO at the end of the session, a first for him.
I felt like I was doing well, I had one string with both nuke torques in it, and then one with both nuke drifters as well as both atomic drifters. One string had a lot of muted same foot stuff in a row both sides, ending with muted double spinning clipper. The last highlight would be a 20+ contact tripless run with lots of variety.
It has been a lot of fun here in Portland, and we are getting more organized. Yesterday we had a meeting with all the Sole Purpose members, and we split the payload of running a large footbag group into delegated tasks for each person. One of my main goals is to write more on Modified to let you guys know how the group is doing, so make sure you check in every now and again to see what's up
Yesterday was a fun session with Flash, Chris Dean, and myself. Lots of fun stuff going on, Mr. Dean's style and form are very refined. Bevier was doing some cool links, including gyro miraging pincher to swirl and a bunch of whirling calf bump> op whirl back to back. I had a few good runs, one with gyro blender and spinning blender bsos, and spinning dlo>barroque, which I thought was a lot of fun to link.
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Today we had a session with Cale McCoy, who came up from Southern Oregon to shred. We kicked with Sam, Marianne, Joe, James, and Cale's friend Taylor. While Sam was injured, he still played and was giving great instructions to Marianne. Taylor, who I just met today, was a competent kicker and I think I saw him try some stalls as well.
Joe, on the other hand, was killin it today. He broke his old record of consecutive toe stalls (~20) with 54 toe stalls today. He also was demonstrating more control over legover and clipper while hitting longer strings of stalls and two add moves, occasionally throwing mirage.
Cale seemed on top of most of the components he tried, but he is still recovering from an injury I believe, so it was nice to see some good links from him. I remember vertigo being a big trick, and him hitting pdx drifter and pdx whirl bsos in one combo. He also had good variety.
James, even through too baggy shorts or pants, hit some good stuff as well. I remember a string with ducking pdx mirage bsos with great stalls on each, and I remember him hitting gyro DLO at the end of the session, a first for him.
I felt like I was doing well, I had one string with both nuke torques in it, and then one with both nuke drifters as well as both atomic drifters. One string had a lot of muted same foot stuff in a row both sides, ending with muted double spinning clipper. The last highlight would be a 20+ contact tripless run with lots of variety.
It has been a lot of fun here in Portland, and we are getting more organized. Yesterday we had a meeting with all the Sole Purpose members, and we split the payload of running a large footbag group into delegated tasks for each person. One of my main goals is to write more on Modified to let you guys know how the group is doing, so make sure you check in every now and again to see what's up
Nick Landes
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Portland Blog
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Proudly Representing Fourkast Footbag Co.
http://www.fourkast.com
Portland Blog
All the ladies love Matt Cross because Johnny Depp + Footbag = Matt Cross
Mastery is the combination of knowledge and practical experience