Freedom Footbags

Yet another cherry pick form the modified footbag video forum. This time it’s Honza Weber dropping the crazy video scoop of a new player on the scene.
His YouTube profile only uses the name “sanchezmc”, and lists him as a 19 yr old Czech. This guy is unique. He reminds me of Jesse James Hilbert (I […]

I’m always curious to see what outsiders have to say when they report on seeing professional footbag for the first time. I sometimes forget just how lucky I am to live with the 2nd ranked player in the world (Jim Penske) and that I get to kick with him on a (nearly) daily basis. […]

It turns out that our original order of Quantum02’s (The official footbag (a.k.a. Hacky Sack) sneakers) was way short on larger sizes. It was our first ever shoe purchase, so getting the right size distribution turned out to be a little tricky. The problem of the small number of larger sizes ordered was […]

I have–what some might call–an unhealthy obsession with tracking footbag on the world wide web. I read a whole bunch of different feeds from various aggregation services that keep the pulse of the intarweb and reports on whenever someone mentions the word “footbag” (or a good selection of pseudonyms such as “hacky sack”, or “hackey”).
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So, I took a peek in the modified video forum just now, and noticed that Jim had posted a new video (22MB quicktime file) that he made just yesterday; as usual, Jim throws down.
At one point in the session, he hits “Dracula”, which Jon Schneider describes as follows. Jon essentially “invented” dragon-based (cross-body outside) footbag […]