YouTube Footbag Group
This is just a heads up that we’ve created a Footbag Freestyle Group on YouTube. There has actually been a footbag group up there for about 6 months, which had/has 13 members and 50+ videos; however, when I created that one, I made a typo and it ended up with a funny URL (note the missing ‘b’). I asked YouTube if they could do something about that, but they said that they couldn’t. So, this morning I went ahead and created a new group, invited all the existing members over to it, and then manually added all 50 some-odd videos from the old group to the new one. I think I missed a few, but whatever.
Personally, I think youtube is an awesome way to promote the sport. As wicked as Footbag Worldwide’s video galleries are, videos on YouTube are likely to get vastly more exposure to people who would otherwise have never made it to Footbag.org, let alone waited to download a video from there. Of course, our servers there still serve an important purpose, but I think it should be pretty much standard practice at this point to upload to both servers (and as many other video sharing services as possible.
February 11th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I completely agree, and believe the community could benefit greatly by actively promoting itself on youtube/googlevid. If footbaggers put the effort into voting up / favoriting / commenting some of the better output on there, it could result in WAY more exposure than some talk show spot or newspaper article.
The 33feet vid I uploaded somehow made it on the frontpage for a short time, and got 30 thousand views!