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My New Emmings Footbag

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I did some work on mattemmings.com, so Matt made me a new footbag:

It’s not a great quality pic; I just snapped it with the camera in my Mac.
It’s tiny. 3.5 CM == ~ 1.4 “. I dig it; just like I asked for. It’s got pure tungsten footbag filler (haven’t weighed it).
We played with it [...]

Footbag and the Human Body

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

User ‘Holliday’ posts on modified about “The Human Body: Pushing the Limits & Footbag?”. He points to a show on Discovery Channel that’s got cool info-graphics backing up explanations of the latest theories on how the body works.

Anyway, there was this section on juggling a soccer ball, and in depth about muscle memory. It then [...]

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!