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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 [...]

Jorden & Jim at SJFF ‘07

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Our man Nate Linscott (shreddaily101 on YouTube) posted a video from the Seattle Juggling and Footbag Festival 2007, featuring Jim Penske and Jorden Moir. Do those guys have some impressive footbag skillz, or what?
Check it out on YouTube if you can’t see the video below:

UPDATE: There’s a Part 2 too!

Invest in Us: We Support Footbag

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

This is just a reminder that when you buy your footbag stuff through the Freedom Footbags store, you are directly supporting the progression of footbag sports. We directly re-invest your money back into the footbag community in myriad ways. We don’t just take your money and run. We sponsor freestyle tournaments and individual players; we [...]