My footbag career has spanned several decades, and I'm working on several more. I went to world footbag championships for 20 years consecutively starting in 1985, took 2nd many times, finally won it in 1999 and had a blast in the process. I have had many players who have inspired me to turn up level of my game which takes me in a new direction. Starting with Andy Linder, Kenny Shults and Rippin' Rick Reese who got me truly addicted to freestyle and got my game going, then later there was Ryan Mulroney and Vasek who made me light that internal fire and step it up to the next level. Watching Ryan come up and dominate the shred game, it really made me train hard and took me to the world title. In the past 10 years, after Ryan disappeared and Vasek took over. I have learned different lessons from all of them, and little lessons on the side from my other competitors like Eric Wulff (ducking), Jonathan Schneider (dragons) and too many others to mention. They all had these things in common: They innovated because they could see the possibilities beyond the current reality. They pushed themselves to attain great things and focused on their strengths.
Thanks to all the greats, and to all my friends who make this sport what it is!
Here is a movie I just made with the new movie software on a mac, and even though I didn't spend more than 20 minutes making this one, I think it is one of my better ones. Enjoy!
Shred notes: 10/22/10
I've crossed the 1400 day mark. Looking at end of January for 1500 days, but first it will be December 19th as my 4 year mark. I've been interspersing long strings in with new trick development. In small spaces it is easy to go to new tricks. Gotta consciously work on long strings. I've been filming with a new Kodak Zx1 but not happy with the quality. Been publishing crazy videos very frequently. Using my phone and computer alternatively to publish. Getting confused on which footage is published and what is not. Sooooo much footage. Gotta go through and keyword it.
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