A Week in Alabama

Last week I was attending a flood hazard conference in Montgomery. On the way down I decided to drop by Huntsville to get some kicking in. Chris Ryan is a long time footbagger & juggler, I met him back in '04 at Worlds in Montreal. We hooked up at some music in the park event near downtown. I'm from Tennessee so I can handle bluegrass music, but I draw the line at barbershop quartet. In all my life I cannot recall any other genre of music that could be as distracting. There's a small juggling club in Huntsville, unfortunately, footbag is not nearly as popular in rocket town.

Party With The Nashville Rollergirls

Alex G. & Elliott hit up the roller derby saturday night. It was intra-league bout so there were only 2 local teams competing. The Assualt Rivals managed to beat the Distress Damsels in a really close match. When the bout was over I went down to the floor & started talking with one of the girls "Lady Fury" and she invited us to come to the afterparty at Melrose Billiards. We hit up the pool tables, then moved over to table tennis & dominated anyone that came near that table! After working my "loop kill" shots, we joined a couple of the rollergirls "Lady Fury" & "Maulin Monroe" at the bar. We went through the drinks pretty fast & had a great time. Once the after party was over, we went to the after after party. As it turns out, I cannot operate a camera after 3 in the morning, so I don't have any footage of that.

Kicking with the "Funky Chicken"

I was on vacation last week traveling around Missouri. A couple weeks before Emily & I left, I was attempting to contact footbaggers in the St. Louis area. I was lucky enough to get in touch with a couple, however we weren't able to synchronize our schedules. On the bright side when we went through Columbia, I decided to give Derrick Fogle a call. We met up on Wednesday afternoon & kicked at MIZZOU campus for a good hour. I managed to have a couple decent strings + hitting assassian & phoenix. Derrick shot some video & I had my buddy Paul take some photos.

Finding Out About Jianzi

I've been trying to find out more information on jianzi here in the past couple weeks. It's the Chinese version of footbag that's played with a feathered shuttlecock. Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck finding any related English websites. The sport seems to be taking off in Eastern Europe. Nashville has a decent sized Lao & Thai communitues, but not many Chinese folks. My Grandparents in-law are missionaries in Taiwan, so when they get back I'll ask them what they know. I'd like to see in played here in Nashville.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzi

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