Vasek on Jimmy Kimmel: Video Recap, Review
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Vasek Klouda made a great showing on national television on August 30th. Vasek had three short sections during Jimmy’s opening monologue and gave the nationwide audience three solid, dropless runs that were packed with style.
Unfortunately only two of the three clips are currently publicly available. You can watch them below, but unless you want to watch Jimmy’s entire monologue, you may want to read on below the video for the timeframes that actually show Vasek
Or, watch it directly on YouTube.
3:38-5:05 (6:16-4:49 time remaining) Vasek’s first appearace
When Jimmy first introduces him as “Vasek Superglue Klouda”, he mispronounces his last name rhyming it with “glue” rather than “cloud” like it should be - though he does pronounce it correctly in the second segment showing Vasek in the show. Vasek explains the significance of his “B.A.P. Name”, “Superglue” (though they don’t mention B.A.P.) and proceeds to tell Jimmy and the audience that he’s going to do “Ducking, Diving and Spinning…” It turns out that this is really a vast understatement. Vasek ends up doing quite a variety of tricks given the short time available, landing the following string:
Toe, clipper, stepping clipper, ripwalk, ducking clipper, ducking clipper, diving clipper, butterfly, ripwalk, blurriest, (same side) butterfly, ripwalk, paradox symposium whirl, symposium whirl, symposium whirl, butterfly, (slight bail here) butterfly, ripwalk, barfly, spinning clipper, spinning butterfly, spinning clipper, double spinning clipper… curtains.
After Vasek’s first run Jimmy goes on to say “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would someday meet the Czech Footbag Champion.” This is yet another vast understatement here - Vasek is now the six time Singles Freestyle World Champion. See my previous blog for info on the recent World Championships in Florida.
8:28-8:50 (1:27-1:04 time remaining) Vasek’s Second Segment
This second run seems to be cut abruptly short by the curtains, but Vasek manages to squeeze in the following tricks:
Clipper, butterfly, ripwalk, stepping (far) clipper, whirr, whirr, butterfly, ripwalk, stepping far clipper, ducking clipper, spinning clipper, legover, then into juggling two footbags… curtains.
Then without doing so directly, Jimmy gives Vasek some massive props when he says right after the run, “…How that’s not in the Olympics, I have no idea.”
If anyone can somehow find the third run, please let us know and I will post it in my blog ASAP.
The next segment of the show only featured a replay of Vasek landing barfly in slow motion right after the commercial break. The rest of the YouTube video show segment features comedian George Lopez doing his best to make fun of footbag and get a few laughs: 
Even in slow motion, the barfly looks quite fast.
All in all I was happy to see some serious footbag skills on national television. A few people even learned the the sport is actually called footbag (which they said 2-3 times in the show) and not “Hacky Sack” (which they used to refer to the sport at least 20 times… It looks like we’re stuck with it.). Nonetheless, the sport has no place to go but to grow.
Thanks for watching. Peace.
