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Hey we finally got the ball rolling on this.

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Practice videos

This is all footage from August



This was taken on 8-10-08, after I got that nasty road rash on my left knee. These are my very first attempts at toe flips. This is also the first time I have tried editing video in about 8 years.



More footage from 8-10-08. The swing is feeling more natural so here I'm trying to see how high I can reach and how hard I can hit the target.



Ever since I separated my collar bone a few years back, I've been very tentative about doing crazy things in the air. As you can imagine, it's a big problem for a short net player who wants to get up and spike. I got plenty of great tips from better players and took it step by step. I'm able to hit side axes in games now.



A collection of spikes I've been practicing earlier in the summer.

Second City Cup Results

Results are in!

Singles Net:
1. Cory Current
2. Steve Smith
3. Ted Martin
4. Scot Hansen
5-7. Zeke, Bryan, and Vince, who all decided to scratch from the consolation games in favor of playing more doubles.

Doubles Net:
1. Cory Current/ Scot Hansen
2. Ted Martin/ Steve Smith
3. Greg Grandy/ Bryan Nelson
4. Zeke Ibardaloza/ Vince Pontarelli

Congratulations Fat Man!

Congratulations are in order for our very own Matt Sweeny today. His wife, Renea, gave birth to a baby boy named River William. Nice work Sweeny family!

Second City Cup- This Weekend!

Hey everyone! I noticed that the blog has been very quiet lately, but that doesn't mean we aren't still kicking! In case you forgot, the Second City Cup is being held THIS WEEKEND at Union Park in Chicago. Saturday will be impromptu net games all day long and Sunday will be the official competition. We'll start at 11:00 AM with a singles bracket and go straight into a standard doubles bracket before we do a little "King of the Court" competition to end the weekend.
No entry fees, no prize money, no bleachers, no frills. Just a great weekend of kick volley! Be there!

By the way, I sent in a formal request to Navy Pier just moments ago to secure our space for the 2nd Annual Windy City Cup to be held June 19-21, 2009. Make sure to block the weekend on your calendars now!

Memphicago Kick Volley Challenge 1

Salem, IL became Memphicago, which became Memphicagorleans with the addition of Rob Creel, who was in town for a wedding and had a day to kill. I'd like to thank Rob for seeing the event on the web and having the audacity to give me a call. He filled out the posse nicely giving us an even 8 players.

The day was perfect as Big Ben and the Hammer made the trip up from Memphis to meet myself, Cory, Tommy, and Zeke from Chicago. Also present was the already mentioned New Orleans native, and Mikey Bellman, the High Planes Breaker. There were a few singles matches to start the day, but for the most part it was doubles net all day with different partners for almost every match.

Like Zeke said, "This was SOOO worth the drive."

Check out some photos here: http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/1700

Inner Rectangle Blog Publishing

Just wanted to take a minute and address all the contributors of the Inner Rectangle footbag net blog. I have signed up the following blog authors and admins to have this blog's posts emailed directly to your addresses whenever any of us publishes. This includes you: Zeke, Mike B., Carrie C., Yevez, PT & Scot. The idea here is we want you all to contribute more posting content to the Inner Rectangle. So when you want to rant about how you spiked, got hurt, did well or got killed, take a minute and visit the Inner Rectangle blog and tell us all about it! Also if you for some reason do not want the blog posts emailed directly to you, let me know.