Name: Derrick Fogle
Location: Columbia MO
Site: http://h4x354x0r.com
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w00t! Thanks so much to everyone for sending me birthday wishes! Been having a great time so far today, carving it up at Speaker Circle, then grubbing and going for a nice, slow, easy bike ride. The old Rt. K bridge is open, new pedway over bridge is awesome! Now I’m hanging at home with the fam, taking it easy, having someone fetch me a sandwich…
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In order to improve your freestyle footbag game, the second most important thing you need to purchase (behind the most important item the footbag) is a solid pair of shoes. There are have been a few developments in recent years to develop a shoe for the sole purpose of use in the sport, but as of now many viable options are still available.
1) Adidas Rod Laver
The Rod Lavers are the standard for a footbag shoe. They are easily found, moderately priced, and with a few key modifications can be made into a very playable shoe.
2) Quantum 1/2/3
Extremely light, but lacking any real foot support.
3) Reebok G-Unit
Heavier then all of their counterparts, but offers shock absorption that the others could only dream of.
4) Nucleus
Made for use in Freestyle Footbag, including a pre-made toe box that allows for excellent toe-stalling right out of the box. The clipper catching area is not optimum, but it will force you to gain excellent clipper form.
4) Adidas Clima Cool
A video with some big tricks we managed to hit on two sessions. Players: Arek Dudziński, Olaf Piwowar and Szymon Kałwak.
Name: Derrick Fogle
Location: Columbia MO
Site: http://h4x354x0r.com
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Aside from nearly getting sick in the middle of the session (when I moved to the shade), it was… a ho-hum session. I realize I’ve gotten spoiled by kicking in building shade all summer. But the students definitely add a little pizzazz to the mix, eh? One of the ladies even stopped to try a hack.
I still haven’t been able to recover the w00t factor from a few weeks ago when I was averaging minute-long rallies at City Hall. What I did get on tape was barely 20 seconds a pop. On the upside, I’ve been pushing the drifters, torques, and blenders, and getting at least some reward for it. But it would be really nice if I could keep the damn bag off the ground, too.
At least as a small bonus, a couple guys came by and kicked with me for a bit at the end of my session. They were totally stoked, and will probably be meeting me for some kicking sessions.
MU classes start Monday (Aug. 23rd). I probably won’t be able to pull off a daytime session this week, because I support a lot of technology equipment on campus. I’ll be a human pinball here for a couple of weeks as technology gets shaken down with classes.
But I’m definitely planning a daytime session for my birthday – August 31st – if weather cooperates. Hopefully a circle full of students will inspire me to shred it up!
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