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Footbag on MTV (UK)

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Last year I was contacted rather out of the blue by the UK branch of MTV (homeboy called me at 4AM!). They found me via my YouTube profile and wanted to know if I would make a short clip for a TV show / website that they were producing that featured people making challenges to […]

Cambodian Buddhist Monk Shreds

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Dylan Fry has been traveling South East Asia for the past several months, visiting Buddhist temples and meditating with the monks. He recently sent me this picture of a monk (Carla) wearing his Quantum02 Footbag Shoes while shredding:

Dylan left Cambodia yesterday for Vietnam. We’re hoping he’ll get tired of meditating soon (lol) and come back […]

IFPA February Newsletter

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

There’s a new newsletter out by the International Footbag Players’ Association. It features and update on IFPA activities (including info on the new regional committees), updates on the IFPA World Footbag Championships 2008, some stuff about the official footbag rule book, and some other tidbits, including a great interview with Tuan Vu!
Go check it out!

Feet On Fire - Vasek Klouda

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I’m not sure how I missed this one (it was announced Feb. 20th), but there’s a new (commercially available) footbag video out featuring World Champ Vasek Klouda. Apparently it’s edited by none other than Honza Weber, and it’s called “Feet On Fire”. Check out the preview:

The announcement was made in this modified forum thread, so […]

Thanks to Malcohol

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I was just perusing my footbag tag in my feed reader and noticed that there were some recent edits to the footbag article on wikipedia. This edit in particular was to fix some vandalism that had taken place.
I’ve been watching this article with some interest over the years, but haven’t had the time to participate […]