Bustin' Dustin Pays a Visit to Nashville

Dustin Yanofsky made a rare appearence on Sunday to practice.

He helped to found & organize our club way back in '02. This was

the first time I've ever been able to get him to play net, & for

someone out of practice he made it look rather easy. So he cannot

pull atomic ducking tricks mid-string like the old days, but he

could change that if he wanted to.

We had a 6 man session at Patterson Park. Alex brought a new kid out named Dennis. Unfortunately, he didn't last very long & pulled his knee out of socket when stretching for toe on the net court. This was an injury he has already sustained, so nothing out of the blue. It was just a suprise becasue I've never really witnessed an injury playing footbag other than a rolled or sprained ankle. I believe he's recovering nicely, although I doubt he'll ever be convinced to play net again. It's a shame.

It's Always Better Outside

We had a decent practice last weekend at the Boxing Resource Center in Nashville. It seems like whenever we kick outdoors we always have more people than indoors. I don't blame anyone, it seems like natural human instinct to stay home when it's cold outside & the weather is crap. So we only had 4 people turn out, lowest showing of the year I believe. We played several net games & shredded afterwards. Justin said he had never actually played 4-square, so we had to throw down. As usual Andrew won, but he always wins at squares. Could Andrew Coleman actually take down Steve Goldberg?

Nashville's 4 - Square Logo

Photoshop can do some fantastic things. It still needs some work, but it's a good start. I know that Zeke is going to be so envious when he sees it.

We had an amazing practice in the M'boro Sunday with 7 people. The past 2 weeks we've been able to kick outside. The shred went down in the KUC after the sunset. It was worth being sore on Monday. As usual, I cannot wait until next week.

Growing scene; Sewing.

Hey guys. Every week I am surprised when I realize that one could actually say we have a thriving scene here in middle TN. I think I can say that this is thanks in large part to the efforts of Elliott, no doubt that catalyst for most footbag activity in the area. I know he's put in a lot of work for the growth of the sport in the area and it's nice to see it paying off. Thanks Elliott for everything you do, we'd probably all be lazy bums on Sundays without you.

Also, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the facile fabric I ordered from Fields Fabric so that I can get to making some freestyle bags of my own. I've already started one and hopefully can fine tune the craft and put together some kickable bags. If I can get good enough at it I'd like to start selling some (with a Nashville crew discount of course), and maybe pick up some spare cash doing something footbag related (how cool). Elliott's done a great job getting us all interested in net, now maybe if I can put together some nice 32-panel bags for everyone we can start developing some advanced freestylers. Well I'll see you guys tomorrow, and maybe by next week I can have my first completed 32. Take it easy Nash-town.

Communications

So for the past 4 months I've been alerting everyone about practice via e-mail. It works for some people, but actually only 1/2 of our crew bother to check their accounts. I wind up having to make a few phone calls regardless, and it takes too much time to organize if I have to speak with people individually. So next weekend I'm moving over to texts because it's faster, easier, & nearly everyone has a cell. I think this will resolve a few of our communication issues.