Old School, But Still Cool

I was digging through my boxes last night and came across some old CD’s from a number of years ago. I popped them into to my mac and wow, was that ever a blast from the past! Amongst old (and often hilarious) footage of myself, I came across some footage that I used to host on the earliest incarnations of my web site (back when I was serving myslef off my home computer). The first clip almost brought tears to my eyes as I watched it and remembered being there … I couldn’t resist uploading Peter Irish’s first round performance at the 1997′s World Championship’s in Portland, Oregon..

World’s ’97 was my first real introduction to the footbag community outside of my own small town and I consider myself highly privledged to have participated in that event and witnessed some of the true pioneers of our game in a totally different era of footbag. I still have vivid memories of talking with Jubal and Jeremy about Tuan Vu’s ripwalk’s and how impossible that move seemed to me back then

The other radical clip I found comes from a little later on in footbag history, but Ryan Mulroney’s winning routine from World’s 2000 was equally inspiring and brought up as many or more fond memories of my initiations into the footbag community.

So, I’m posting these videos in the Freedom galleries to highlight a little something from our past and because I think that maybe it’s time we (especially the newer players) took some time for reflection and realize that we still have a lot to learn about artistic presentation and how a freestyle routine should be composed. Young-uns take notice: routines need art. Look to these pioneers as examples to learn from and build upon and show us more of it!!