Last weekend was the 27th Annual International Footbag Players Association East Coast Footbag Championships!

I had an awesome time there and was psyched to see two old friends, Dr. Sunil Jani and Brian McKenzie. Even though they were both supposedly “retired” they managed to bust out some very nice runs for a couple of old [...]

What: IFPA East Coast Footbag Championships
When: This Weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, 2010
Where: College Park Community Center in College Park, Maryland, USA
Who: D.C All Stars are hosting

This is an IFPA sanctioned event. It’s a footbag tournament and therefore I am predicting this event will be a BLAST (based solely on past experience… Even though this [...]

So, I was surfing around the other day and ran across this flash video on newgrounds.com showing some truly Insane Hacky Sack:

This is an impressive piece of artwork, and very imaginative and creative. Based on the types of tricks, I’m guessing the author has probably never seen professional freestyle footbag… That and the fact [...]

So you want to lose your weakside and even out your game, becoming more ambidextrous. The short, simple answer is obvious: practice both sides evenly. However, the practicality of this is another matter entirely. Hence, I offer the following suggestions:

Start with your vocabulary. Nix the weakside, bring in the flipside. [...]

So, I glanced at the USA Today yesterday and their cover story got me thinking:
Obesity is a key link to soaring health tabReport: Costs double to $147B in a decade (source: USA Today, July 28th, 2009)
Approximately 9% of all medical spending is directly related to treating obesity and about 1/3 of adult Americans [...]