Chicago Inner Circle Turns 10

Today CIC turns 10. While it would be a stretch to say that we are still a fully active footbag freestyle club, I am extremely grateful that footbag has given me the most colorful and diverse set of friends that I would not have met otherwise. In the past decade, we've done a few demos, helped with a few tournaments, made a few videos and sold a few shirts. HOF worthy? Hell no. Not even close. What I like to think we're best known for is making footbag fun. Looking back, some of my favorite moments have little to nothing to do with with actual footbag but about endless hours of hanging out after events (or even local sessions) and eating tons of food while talking mad shit about anyone we didn't like. Believe me, there were (& still are) a lot of of you fucking bastards!

Footbag is merely what brought us together but it does not define Chicago Inner Circle. Although we rarely have big sessions together anymore we are still really good friends and we're going to be around for a while longer

Session 042810: Busse Woods

Play of the day

Ted managed to set one of my shanks back into the court. I spun and tried a toe reverse but ended up hitting a sunback about 2 feet off Greg/Cory's front left corner. Cory kindly offers some tips on my positioning. The very next play, Greg sets Cory who smashes a sunback of his own into my right shin. He had a noticeable smirk on his face as if to say, 'that's how it's done newb sauce!'

"I see how how it is... that's how you sunback..." I mutter to myself as my shoulders slump.

Next, Ted receives the serve from Greg and pops it to the front right corner. I give chase. Quick step with the right foot. Deep step with the left then take off. Get in the air, tilt my hips, and cock my leg back for the swing. Quads flex. Core tightens. Toes extend. Contact. The footbag rockets down their left side just past Cory's dig attempt.

The split second after that bag hit my foot I found myself yelling as loud as I could










"AND THAT'S HOW YOU FUCKING TOE JAM!"
I swear I got that all out before i hit the ground.
















The laughter dies down on both sides and Greg says, "but that was out!"
Godammit, Greg!

Pro Kicker is proud to be a returning sponsor for the 2010 Windy City Cup

I was very glad to know that the WCC will be back in 2010. It will be a pleasure for Pro Kicker to supply the official net bags for the competition. Good luck to all the players.


By the way there is a Pro Kicker event taking place in Montreal this week-end: Kick Volley 02 will rock the gymnasium of the College of Old Montreal April 17th and 18th. Click on the image for the details:

Windy City Cup Logo

In case you need it, here is the Windy City Cup logo.

Black CLCK logo used for the new handout flyer

Here is the new solid black logo which was created for use on the new sh*tty flier created for handing out general info on footbag net.

Session 022810

Tommy and I are teaming up for Memphis so we played often this session. My excitement at how well we can potentially play together was stomped on with the reality of how inconsistent we can be as well. I played like stir-fried gay ass-cheese and had more than my fair share of stupid plays and brain farts all day. Didn't feel that strong physically and could not focus mentally. I really need to stretch out before session. Even if that means not playing the first 2-3 games to do my full routine. On the plus side, after a shaky start, I was setting well the rest of the day and served out a handful of times. Yay for me. Not practicing during the week sucks.

w/Scot 21-15 vs Cory/Ronnie
-toe flip during warmups
-Scot hits a monster side axe
-overset too much

w/Tommy 15 21 vs Scot/Cory
-strong start fizzled out in the end
-too many errors

w/Tommy 14-21 vs Greg/Ted
-too many errors
-Teds serves were killing us

w/Ted 11-21 Scot/Cory
-toe jam. yay

w/Tommy 15-21 vs Greg/Ted

w/Greg 12-21 vs Scot/Cory

w/Scot 14-21 Ted/Ronnie

Session 022110

A slight improvement from last weeks session but still not playing very well. This was also my first session after getting injuries almost 2 weeks before. I used a thick ankle wrap for for support. I had it on for maybe 10 minutes then it got so annoying that I eventually took it off. My ankle was not really a factor in my play though. My service returns were abysmal and I was setting extremely well...

for the other team.

The day started out ok but I felt I became more and more useless with every game. The one highlight came with a good game with Scot fighting back a strong comeback against Cory/Greg

w/Ronnie 5-21 vs Scot/Cory
-mental fuck ups
-set gazing was
-ankle was ok without brace
-solid defense, particularly from Ronnie

w/ Greg 15-21 vs Scot/Cory
-Strong start but faded

w/ Ted 14-21 Cory/Greg
-solid game

w/Cory 17-21 Scot/Ted

w/Ted 10-21 Scot/Greg

w/Scot 21-16 Cory/Greg
-3 big side axes to fight off a comeback

w/Greg 18-21 Cory/Ted
-we had lead but gave up 5 straight points at the end
-several long rallies

w/Ted vs 21-16 Greg/Ronnie