Florence dreams have been put on hold. Maybe next year.

Ok, so I guess it’s time for a new post… I’ve been browsing http://www.shockwave.com a lot lately… Has it all games, videos, music mixers.. what else could you ask for on long saturday night with a cable modem for company. Here’s a pretty cool video for those that enjoy skiing and/or extreme sports. Title of the film is Gap Jump, and was sponsored by the Nissan xterra. That pretty much explains it all.

And this one…. WOW for all you accord lovers out there… or those dancers out there… click on the guy in red…

Oh ya, some of you might be interested in Frisbee shop talk… Here’s a tentative final stands for Mixed from Nationals. blah and kaze were the teams from the Central Region… Congratulations!!
1. Donner Party (5th seed)
2. Hang Time (1)
3. tie – Didn’t play B+ (9) Holes and Poles (3)
5. Red Fish Blue Fish (2)
6. Blah (16)
7. DTL (12)
8. Flicks of Fury (6)
9. tie – Started to play, stopped after serious injury Chinstrap (8) Phob (11)
11. Bad Larry (7)
12. Halibut (14)
13. Kaze (13)
14. Persuader (4)
15. Rival (15)
16. BRU (10)

and read about our adventures at Harvest Moon this year we were 4 and 2.. Both loses were to Tulsa, who went on into the finals with the Arkansas home team.

Nothing notable going on around here. Can’t believe that it’s aleady the end of October. The last three months have passed quickly. Ok, so I’m digging for a topic for a blog entry. Something to justify sharing it with the world.

humm.. nothing much..

lets see.. my bell south phone is picking up lots of static, and at somepoint someone dropped it and the phone hasn’t been the same since. It lost everyother letter/digit in the caller id widow, so it almost doesn’t make the money I pay for caller id each month as worth while. I just can’t justify spending more money on another phone though. I’ve just added it to the list of things that went badly.

Anyways, I’m going to have fun this weekend. I’ve taken two days off, something I’ve not done in a while.

Thinking about going to Florence, Italy in June.. need to save up a ton of money to go. Can you believe it, FOUR weeks touring one of the world’s greatest historic art centers….. I would have to chose between drawing, painting, photography or graphic design. oh geez, what a decision… I think I’m going to go grab my Art History text books and do a bit of relearning…

Talk to everyone later.

entry sparked by rec.sport.disc.

question: My backhand is pretty lacking and I am sure that it is due to lack of wrist snap in that direction. So, how should I go about to develop more wrist snap on my backhands? Just keep throwing and throwing and throwing?

My thoughts, which follow some of what the conversation did. Grip is usually 60-70 percent of accuracy and distance problems. Many times, people grip the disc lightly and it floats out of their hands. This increases the stiffness of your hand and wrist with increases wrist snap. also helps keep the disc in a straight line. Like a cross between a karate chop and snapping your fingers.

One comment made by Mike Gerics was also interesting.. I’d never thought of the comments I make while helping others with their throwing….
when i try to get folks to grip the disc tighter and use more wrist snap. the first throw is most often a zinger that is way off target. and as it flies by me.and while i am chasing it i always say “that’s the best throw i’ve seen you make, yet”
they laugh and think i am making fun of them. i assure them…”i’m not joking…..proper throwing form is the hard part….getting the aim down, is easy….we’ll work on that next”

All I can say is this is very true! Working on changing your throws, breaking old habbits takes a bit of time. It means while your throwing before practice/pickup, pretending that you have a defender on you. Don’t just stand straight and throwing directly at the other person. Establish a pivot foot. Lunge with the other leg and throw.. concentrate on accuracy. Avoid trick throws during warmsup until you have the basics down.. Once you have the basics it’s incredibly easy to pick up those trick throws.

I don’t enjoy the question where do you see yourself in 5-10 years.. there are so many answers to that question.

1. Working as a graphic designer in Chicago.
2. Organizing events.
3. making a living as a photographer.
4. same place I am now?
5. Managing a retail store
There are just so manythings that I think.. hay that’d be great to do

Things I can’t see myself doing…
wearing power suits with heels
Formal work enviroments
humm.. still thinking

So, I’ve fallen behind in posting.. Haven’t had much to say, or if I’ve had something to say, I’ve not had time to share it. Which is better or which is worse, I’m not sure.

Summer League ended back in July, everything went well. Already have a few modifications to make before I start thinking about next year. Nathan has started up a fall league. He went with the team sign up this time around, and hasn’t been too happy with the results. I think that various peoples feelings were hurt by who was or wasn’t pick to be on a team. I would have thought that it would have been the other way around, that the draft would have caused more hurt feelings. But in the case of the draft I guess everyone is in the same boat and part of the excitment is finding out. Kind of like fantasy football.

at some point I’m going to start writting more, I just realized that there’s only 1 entry left before there’s nothing on my site.. talk more later… Accreditation calls. bye

ok, so more time has past since my last post. I’ve been busy at work, so that limits the amount of time I have to think about what to include here. The new job, Senior Multimedia Specialist, is pretty busy right now.. I’m running from one event to the next… Still have piles of wires, mice, keyboards, monitors that are all slightly to over used. My next task is organizing it all and figureing out how Surplus can take some of this crap.

Had an interesting weekend, went my 10 year high school reunion.. ah just like old times.. I sat around waiting for people to show up.. Sad part is that most everyone stayed in the same groups, still no intermingling at this point. Kids help facilitate conversations on many occasions.. “oh, what are their names? How old? How cute? sooo.. what have you been up too?” Not having kids was a handicap, however I also didn’t have to run off looking for a lost one, or scream for them to behave. bonus bonus.

I think I had the most fun, trying to remember people, I must say that some people have changed quite a bit and others not at all.. I don’t know which is scarier or more exciting?

All in all it didn’t quite go the way I expected.. Still too scared to strike up random conversations. ;> oh well, I’d rather hang out with frisbee friends any day. well,… it’d would have been interesting to see what a few people have been up too.