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Pronunciation

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Today I had the privilege of watching an as-yet unreleased footbag video. I promised not leak any details of it (it’s very cool), but I am going to allude to something that was said during it; namely, that it’s very important how you pronounce your moves. I thought that using this word ‘pronounce’ was very […]

Refilling Your Sack

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Recently in a help session on our support page, a customer inquired about how to go about refilling a footbag. Specifically, he was asking about how much filler to use and how to go about getting it in the footbag. We currently carry three types of footbag fill, so it only seems […]

Trick Tip of the Week: The Magic Hop

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Here it is, the secret to freestyle footbag: The magic hop! Sometimes the most subtle things can be critically important. The footbag “magic hop” is one such thing. Learning the magic hop is critical to leaning freestyle footbag because it is an inherent component of most footbag tricks. Succinctly put, the […]

My Footbag Education - Part 1

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

My grandmother bought me my first footbag when I was about 10. It was a sweet two-panel pigskin hacky sack and I remember being excited to get it out of the package. When we got home, I went into the backyard and started trying. I don’t know if you’ve ever kicked with one of those […]

Trick Tip of the Week: Full Hands

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Every week I’m going to be putting up a simple tip that may help with your game. Two weeks ago I posted about a simple ankle stretch.
This weeks tip is: Keep your hands full. And by that I don’t mean you should keep objects in your hands (though I often end […]