The Vasek Klouda Manual: How to Play Footbag
This is pretty exciting news: Vasek is telling us his secrets in a new footbag book. “The Vasek Klouda Manual: How to Play Footbag” has been made available as PDF download for a measly $5 (through PayPal).
There is a fascinating autobiography at the very beginning, with a preface written by Dan Ednie. The manual then goes into very precise detail, instructing the fledgling or competent freestyler alike in a world-class training regime that includes everything from the very basics, through to triple dex moves, sets, cross-training, and advanced techniques in the psychology of footbag. This is almost 100 pages of pure gold for any young freestyler out there, as well as being a highly enlightening and informative read for those of us who are past the age of pure training and competing.
From the footbag.cz website annoucing its availability:
Vasek recently teamed up with Dan Ednie from Australia to write a manual: How to Play Footbag. It is available for download for US$5 and it is 90 pages of How to train Footbag, The Psychology of Footbag and exact trick tips for sets and downtime components. Half of the money is donated to IFPA so please dont steal and email it to your friends.
It’s definitely a collaborative work, edited by Dan. They thank Ales Zelinka, Dexter Struz, and Milan Benda for their contributions.
Frankly, I don’t think they’re charging enough for this. It’s a philanthropic price, especially considering that half of it goes to the IFPA. I would encourage those of you who can afford it to pay multiple times. I think maybe they should set up another “by donation” payment option so as to allow more affluent supporters to better support/reward this momentous effort.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I agree $5 is way too cheap! People pay $30-$40 for a premium footbag. This is way more valuable!
August 6th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Value wise it is very cheap, but the temptation for people to cheat the IFPA, Vasek and myself by emailing the download is very high. We have been very fair with the price and expect that people will be honest and buy their own copy rather than asking a friend to email it to them.
Thank you so much for your great review Freedom Footbags