New Years, Old Years...
Posted by h4x354x0r at 1/7/2012 4:44 PM 
Categories: footbag
Tags: footbag hacky sack outdoor new year goal bike crazy speaker circle stankowski field
Categories: footbag
Tags: footbag hacky sack outdoor new year goal bike crazy speaker circle stankowski field
Happy New Years, everyone! My first footbag session of 2012 sure started off right, with a 2nd freak, mid-winter, super-warm Thursday in a row:
The first freak-warm Thursday capped a fantastic 75-hour plus year for 2011:
I didn't do the typical New Years post a week ago, but I feel the need for some New Year's accounting now. According to last year's blah blah blah post about it, My 2011 goals were:
1. 60 hours of footbag. I did 75! I had a great year, lots of great sessions, stayed healthy, had a special "48th Birthday, 30 Years of Footbag" celebration session. It seems like I've lost some add ratio / technical density over the last year. But, as always, I love kicking and have a great time; even as a slowly fading, old-school styler.
2. 3,000 Km on bike. Well... I'm certain I didn't make that goal, but I don't know how far I actually did go. My cyclocomputer display got so bad it became completely unreadable. I'd estimate I barely did over 2,000 Km; a far cry from my stated goal. What can I say? It was another bad bike year.
My 2012 Goals are:
1. 60 hours of footbag! (you knew that was coming, didn't you?)
2. 2,400 Km on the bike (I got a new dual-bike computer for that 
3. Do *something* kinda crazy (to be determined rashly)
2:00 / 2:00 - I'm a bit bummed to reset the counter, but... a great start to a new year! Thanks for tuning in!
I was hoping for a new baseline goal of 75 hours shredding. Maybe an added goal of 5 new tricks and getting back to your add/contact ratio goals along the way too? Let me know how I can help.
Also, it is better to fade away than to stop playing all together. Footbag has so many health benefits, and as an exercise it does not bore the mind, instead it beckons for more!
Keep it up!
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I think increasing my goal would make kicking less about playing footbag, and more about meeting quota. A twice-weekly kicking schedule would be required, and being allowed two days a week off fam time just isn't going to happen right now. Maybe someday, when I'm really too old for that to make a difference.
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After watching the videos, I feel compelled to call out a few tricks that should be pretty easy for you to learn, as you have the components for these totally dialed.
1. Double Leg Over. Set off your toe doing an in out dex and plant that leg, do an out in dex with the other leg and catch.
2. Pixie Mirage. Set off right foot, do an in-out dex, quick plant and do a mirage with the left leg ending on the right toe.
3. Pixie Butterfly. Set off right foot, do an in-out dex, tap foot down (or not) and with the right leg do an out in dex ending in left foot clipper on right side.
4. Blur. I can't emphasize how much my game changed when I committed myself to Blur. It led to Ripwalks and literally a hundred more tricks, at least. It was the single turning point in my skill set that made the most difference in my future game.
I really think that weaving a little more variety into your strings will help build-in a challenge that might motivate you to play more than once a week, or maybe spend more time visualizing.
All the best for 2012! I'll be watching!
-enlightener
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Yeah I'm kinda disappointed in my level of variety, and add density. I mostly live off a dozen or so moves these days. I used to do blurs, haven't tried them in ages; similar story with with double legovers. I've never done pixies. I've been working on ducks, but not getting very far.
Fighting the war of aging attrition, within arbitrary time limits, isn't pretty. But this works for me.
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After watching the videos, I feel compelled to call out a few tricks that should be pretty easy for you to learn, as you have the components for these totally dialed.
1. Double Leg Over. Set off your toe doing an in out dex and plant that leg, do an out in dex with the other leg and catch.
2. Pixie Mirage. Set off right foot, do an in-out dex, quick plant and do a mirage with the left leg ending on the right toe.
3. Pixie Butterfly. Set off right foot, do an in-out dex, tap foot down (or not) and with the right leg do an out in dex ending in left foot clipper on right side.
4. Blur. I can't emphasize how much my game changed when I committed myself to Blur. It led to Ripwalks and literally a hundred more tricks, at least. It was the single turning point in my skill set that made the most difference in my future game.
I really think that weaving a little more variety into your strings will help build-in a challenge that might motivate you to play more than once a week, or maybe spend more time visualizing.
All the best for 2012! I'll be watching!
-enlightener
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