RIL internet starting tomorrow! Until then, check out Jon P’s early 2005 sampler, one of the greatest tricking videos ever made.

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Surgery. I had the 4th mouth surgery of my life two days ago and have since then been ゴロゴロing around my new apartment, which is sick. Vid soon.

My acid trips off of the various meds I’ve been using led me to read my sisters iPod playlist as “BASSSSS” the fish, rather than the tone.

Upon realizing my mistake, I made a vow to never do drugs.

Friends and family. Boys and girls. Peanut butter and jelly. Thank you for your support. My name is Dogentricks.com and this is my life.

3 days ago a man by the name of DK privileged me with a visit to Seattle. If you don’t know much about DK, allow me to make a short introduction.

As you can see, he’s a gorilla. Luckily he’s a gorilla who’s great at writing. Here’s my take on the past two days, written through DK’s words.

I was a little nervous before i met Dan. I mean, this is the first guy that has come to meet ME from this awesome sport and community. In my forums, he is an icon, and meeting any icon is a bit nerve racking.

Another thought was agitating me also: We’ve all seen the pics, we’ve all read the posts; we think we know what the man Dan is like in person, but truthfully, personality cannot be accurately measured by what we see in 10 minute video blogs. What if Dan is everything we hope he isn’t?

Let me set the record straight right now:

Dan is one of the nicest, coolest, most interesting, inspirational people I have EVER met. EVER. In my short 20 years I have never met anyone who could inspire as much confidence at such a young age. I’ll get more into why i think so later, but for now settle for the statement that Dan reaks of awesomeness.

I picked up Dan and we drove to a park with purrrrrrrfect grass. You couldn’t find nicer grass on a World Cup soccer pitch. There, we met Rizzice (yes, THE Rizzice) and another tricker named Zack. And then the fun began.

Watching Dan trick is like watching a new artist paint. I know this is sounds a bit cliche, but i picked this simile for a reason. Artists paint and draw for a variety of reasons, but new artists paint for one reason alone: they love painting and they want to try new things. Thats it. Im sure they would like some recognition for their good work, but it is not an increadable misfortune if that doesnt happen immediately. Like the artist, Dan tricks because he loves tricking, regardless of experience.

Dan loves tricking and is dedicated to improvement. You cant really grasp the scope of that statement until you actually meet, talk to, and trick with him, but when you do, you realize that Dan loves tricking more than he loves air to breath. Even though Dogentricks.com can through some tricks that Dan cant do yet, I couldn’t stop watching Dan because he put so much heart into every single kick and twist; Dan commits mind, body, and soul to tricking. It was phenomenal. It was inspirational. And it was very intimidating. Coming from a guy who only picked up the sport 4 years ago and really hasn’t trained or improved a great deal in that time period, i kinda feel like a poser. I like tricking, I think tricking is a ton of fun and i want to get better at it.

Is this going to stop me from training? Two words: HELL NO. If anything, this trip has affirmed every reason why I trick and totally strengthened my resolve to continue. The fire has been lit under my ass, and I am now super motivated to kick my training into high gear and start down this road in earnest.

Dan, I told you the next time we tricked, i would be better. I meant it.

Until we meet again.

Dogentricks.com

Hello friends. My name is Dogentricks.com, and this is my new tricking sampler. Summary post tomorrow.

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For those of you who have not yet purchased Jason Mraz’s new CD, please do so now! Looking forward to our gathering on Sunday! 

村上春樹の「走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること」からの文章です。

「僕はどちらかというと、一人でいることを好む性格である。いや、もう少し正確に表現するなら、一人でいることをそれほど苦痛としない性格である。」

これはとても深くて、凄いと思う。