The Future of Footbag Freestyle, By Honza Weber

Recently I watched couple sideline videos from various years World championships and in the background I was hearing all the names of great players from the past being read in their pools and it forced me to think about the past of the sport and of course its future. Let`s be honest because there is not many of us left here in freestyle. That is also why I mentioned the word “freestyle” in the title of this article. I have to diversify between freestyle and net because, let`s be honest again, these sports do not have much in common except all the freestylers switching to net when they grow up, which leads us to the first downfall of freestyle, the age. When you are young enough, it is very easy to be obsessed with freestyle because you can improve quite fast, but when you get older, not only that it is hard to keep up with the young players, you also fight with the flexibility of your body and the fun can be gone with the same speed it appeared.

The other reason for footbag freestyle breakdown is other freestyle category, freestyle football. This very young sport, which gained attention of thousands of people around the World (including our fellow bloke Vasek) in the beginning of the new millenium, managed to overgrow footbag in a small fragment of time that footbag had existed. When I first entered the freestyle football community, the players kept talking about “freestyle”, not “freestyle football”, just “freestyle”, which I could not understand. I was asking myself “Are they really that cocky to think they can overcome the meaning of the word and implement it only to their sport? What about freestyle… jet ski , bmx and so on?” When I did realise how widespread has the sport and the community become in such a short time, I start to understand.

Not only has freestyle football gained players, but also media attention because people can simply see what is going on, which is sometimes very hard with footbag. Visibility of footbag has always been a problem. Even though the media wanted to make some reports on footbag, it was just impossible with the small footbags the players are allowed to use. There is a solution now though, football and all the freestylers who can handle it.

The current freestyle footbag community has one big problem and that is the lack of new players. Great amount of older players has quit the sport, but there is nobody to compensate the losses. The 12th annual Todexon tournament just happened here in Prague last week and there was 7 registered players for the event. Yes, 7 players, that is ridiculous! I remember in 2003, there were over 80! We had to have 3 rounds and we had to start with the routines at 10AM to be able to make the finals on time at 8PM. That was incredible! Milan told me how angry he was when he saw just those 7 registered players and I understood. He worked really hard for many years to become the top player and now he has no competition and it seems as a waste of time for him and wanting him to quit the sport as well as all the others before him.

Steve Goldberg also visited Prague last week for 13th time in his life and I still remember what he told me during Todexon, “There is no passion for the sport anymore” and I again had to agree. It seems just like a duty for the players to come to tournaments and compete. To compete is also harder than ever before, freestyle has reached an incredible difficulty level and there is basically no bad or intermediate player competing these days and therefore it is very easy to finish lets say 10th out of 10 competitors.

“It looks to me like our history, running on repeat, over and over” are words from the latest song of my favorite music band “Looptroop Rockers”, but these words have also the same meaning as a story about history of frisbee freestyle Dexter told me some time ago. The sport almost died during the 90s, but the community managed to survive and is even evolving these days. I think footbag is also really close to “extinction” these days and it is really just up to us to save it because nobody else will or can help. One way could be to force the players to compete with big bright visible bags and make the sport more suitable for media, which could afterwards attract sponsors and bring some money and more people. I know it is probably not the best compromising solution, but in my opinion it is worth trying. I still remember when I saw Jorden using such bags for his routine and I thought he was crazy, but now it seems like a good idea. I just hope people like Queency, Steve, Red, Daryl and Dale will not give up that easily and together we manage to ensure there will still be any footbag freestyle players and tournaments when our kids ask us “What is this?” and they will be holding a beautiful 32 panel bag in their hands.

Honza Weber

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

Overall Standings – http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?p=450568#450568
Video 1 – Bsos 3 http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/bsos-3-results-video/
Video 2 – The Luns http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/shred-global-event-2-video-released/
Video 3 – FDS http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/shred-global-event-3-results-announced/

As a tribute to the one of the founding fathers, Flipsider.com, Shred Global is happy to announce the 4th and final event of the First Annual Shred Global Footbag Season. The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST April 20th. The concept of this event is to show your versatility with the 4 main sets (each toe and each clipper) and then give you a 5th trick shot at something huge!

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) The final points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST April 20th.
2) The combo (5-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the combo) and finished with a hand catch after the final trick.
3) The only rules is that the first 4 tricks must be set in the following order with the fifth being your choice
trick 1) Toe
trick 2) Flipside Toe
trick 3) Clipper
trick 4) Flipside Clipper
trick 5) and surface / set
–The Flipside designation meaning it is done from the other side then the original for the sake of this contest–
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity , cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on any of this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions, and may the best contestant win!

Name: Derrick Fogle
Location: Columbia MO
Site: http://h4x354x0r.com
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For 2011, I only carry over the footbag and bike mileage goals. Well, I also tweeted, “Do more fishing.” Considering I only got to go fishing 3 times last year, that shouldn’t be hard to beat. I hope. The rest? No promises, no goals. I’m just gonna deal with it a day at a time.

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On to footbag, the primary purpose of this blog. Today marked my 1st session of 2011. I had a chance to play footbag at the MU Rec center (they’re running a ‘trial membeship’ promotion), and at first I was really stoked about it. I’d be able to bring my camera in, and make a footbag blog video. But then, I realized I probably couldn’t bring my boombox in. Music is to my footbag, as breathing is to life. So, I bailed on the Rec center thing, and went back to the Secret Hideout. I can’t film in the secret hideout, because it wouldn’t be so secret anymore. So, no hassle of setting up a camera, and plenty of music!

It was a fairly average session, but I did hit a 30-contact “tiltless” string. “Tiltless” means a difficulty level of 3 or greater. In footbag, each aspect of difficulty is called an “add” becaue each thing beyond a basic kick adds a difficulty point. Stalling the bag on the foot (instead of just kicking it): 1 “add”. Going around the bag (a leg-over): another “add”. Spinning or doing a “cross-body” (touching the bag on the left side of your body, but with the right foot), another “add”.

To be honest, there are young punks that make me look like I’ve got broken legs. For every time I can go around the bag once, they can do it twice, maybe 3 times. The average difficulty level among today’s elite footbag players is over 4; mine is barely 2. OTOH, here I am, throwing down my own gauntlet: “OK, punks, keep that up for another 20-25 FUCKING YEARS.” Few athletes are still active in their sport at 47. I am. I have no intention of quitting.

I put in 1:30 tonight. That brings me back to the blog’s title: resetting the counter. It’s always a bit of a bummer to do that, but it also renews the drive; fuels the fire. At the end of almost every footbag-centric blog post, I end it with a line thats [today's time] [year's total time] Thanks for tuning in! So…

1:30 1:30 Thanks for tuning in!

Name: Scott Davidson
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://footbagfreestyle.blogspot.com/
See all Scott Davidson Posts here!

This is the best tip ever. Thanks to Steve Goldberg, Brat, the greatest benefactor to the sport of footbag.

This has come full circle. I started by skooling the basics. As I got better, I learned the “Economy of Motion” and got better at trimming time off of movement by finding and training more efficient paths. Spending less effort to get more done. Particularly when ending a trick, I have learned over time to catch the footbag with the minimum downward motion possible, which is one of many ‘economy of motions.’ To make matters worse, I spent about week this summer focusing on ‘rooted’ tricks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRXODg6Bzg which are distinguished because the catching foot is the plant.

This reduction of downward motion in catching the footbag in order to complete my most difficult tricks is causing my form to suffer when doing the most basic versions of the tricks. For instance, it is generally more efficient to complete a Paradox Torque by expending as little effort as possible on the catch, and doing it at the last moment. On the other hand, the trick is more ‘solid’ when I am able to utilize ‘economy of motion’ during the dexterity part of the trick and spend more time on the ‘catching’ part of the trick.

One of the side effects of spending years of training to reduce the distance needed to catch a footbag at the end of advanced tricks, is when you do the basic component, it looks rushed and unpolished.

As a part of my daily training (1493 in a row today), I warm up using my ‘basic’ staple tricks. For instance I don’t want to spend too much time training tricks I have mastered, I use those to warm up with. I do 10 osis, 10 infinity’s, 10 ripwalks, I do 10 reps of my whirl/osis combo, ripwalks, blurs/blizzards and paradox whirls. I am getting into the zone at this time and generally just gaining the proper focus I need for the rest of my jam session. Thanks to this new tip, I am really gaining better basic form.

In the past few weeks focusing on the depth of my clipper catches and I can really feel a difference in my control and general ability to maintain long strings. I am really happy that a friend like Steve took the time to mention this very basic observation to me at the New Years Jam this past December. I have been working on it every day since then and am really feeling the difference!

Shred Notes: Jan 2011
In addition to working the solidness of my clipper tricks, I have spent a lot of time working on front side tricks. I have particularly been recategorizing Atomic tricks into low-impact. I have always thought of Atomic tricks as high-impact, but have recently discovered that they really aren’t. I hit both Atom Smashers in a single string, which was a big barrier for me, but might seem basic for you. I also realized that I have been hitting LegBeaters on both sides (I’ve been calling them atomic butterflies), and then was challenged by Tuukka to do blur, LegBeater, Blurry Whirl, Blur, LegBeater Blurry whirl and hit all those components with an extra spinning butterfly before the 2nd blur. Very happy.

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

And here we go … Halfway through the inaugural Shred Global Season with everything still up for grabs.

Official Info can be found here:
Current Standings
Video 1 – Bsos 3
Video 2 – The Luns

So the third event has come to fruition, and in association with Freedom Footbags, Fourkast, and BombFootbags, are pleased to announce “Flying – Ducking – Spinning”!!!

The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST February 12th

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST February 12th.
2) The combo (3-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the combo) and finished with a hand catch after the third trick.
3) The original set can be from anywhere you want, But the first trick must be a jumping contact or stall (with the bag leaving your foot before you hit the ground), the second trick must have a Ducking, Diving, Weaving, Zulu element, and the third trick must have a Spinning or Inspinning Element.
EX. Drop to any surface>(Trick ending on flyer)>(Trick that includes a duck)>(Trick that includes a spin)>hand catch
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity (Show me your Zulu and your Inspinning), cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions!

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

This is the video everyone has been waiting for, as it reveals the winners of Event #2: the Luns.

The point of the contest was to see who could catch and set from unusual surfaces the best.

The placing of all the submissions is in order from last to first…… so ENJOY!!

Name: Derrick Fogle
Location: Columbia MO
Site: http://h4x354x0r.com
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Happy Holidays Everyone! The audio track on this video is a radio segment produced by Lauren Sanguinet, a Mizzou J-School student, for KBIA News. I added the video. Thanks Lauren!

It’s wintertime in Columbia MO US. I’m kicking indoors, in my Secret Hideout. That means no video of my sessions for now. But I’ll still keep you up to date. I’ve put in 3 sessions at the hideout since my last post.

Dec. 2: OH GOD MY BACK! I worked late, then hopped on my bike to ride home and get my footbag stuff. When I got home, and got off my bike, my back was suddenly killing me! No fair!

But I hadn’t gotten an opportunity to kick since I caught wind of the Shred Global BSOS competition, and I was determined to get something on tape for it. So, in more pain than I’ve been in for months, I spent a half hour – my first winter season’s use of the Secret Hideout – filming for my BSOS combo. I also couldn’t resist a little more promotion of MOvember: a dorky guy-centric corollary to the PINK campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer. MOvember is intended to raise awareness of cancers (prostate, testicular) affecting men.

Unfortunately, Shred Global doesn’t give a shit that I have such limited kicking opportunities. I missed the submission deadline. So I posted my combo directly on YouTube instead. The official competition results have now been announced and posted. I figure my combo would have taken next to last place anyway; my combo was a common 4-3-4 (difficulty rating) set. The winning combo had more than twice the difficulty rating.

Dec. 9: My back is feeling better, but still a little tender. My camera has run out of tape, but I’m able to capture video directly to my computer in the secret hideout. I try to limit tape usage to 10-15 mins per session, but direct to hard drive really lowers the barrier. No time wasted on ingest, no cost for tape. I was trying to hit something for Shred Global’s 2nd competition: LUNS for Link of Unusuals. I captured over an hour of video during my 1.5 hour session, but… couldn’t hit shit. DELETE! that session is wiped from my hard drive. No tape wasted.

Dec. 16: For over 2 months now, I’ve woken up every Thursday – my one opportunity per week to play footbag – with sciatica. Back pains that radiate down my leg, causing phantom knee, ankle, and foot pain. It’s starting to piss me off. Why can’t I feel good on a footbag day? If God is trying to tell me something, I’m decidedly not taking the hint. Down in the Secret Hideout, I set up the camera and computer once again, and went at it. Another 1.5

hour session, and this time I hit a couple LUNS combos for the competition. They’re still lame; what I’ve got will probably win me next to last place. But at least I’ll have it submitted before the deadline, and actually be in the competition. Other highlights of the session were easy (for a change) drifters and blenders.

It is so near the end of the year! I think I have 1, maybe 2 more footbag sessions left. With the 3.5 hours during the last 3 sessions, my total for the year is 68.5 hours. Just one more hour-and-a-half session, and I’ll hit 70 hours for the year! I think I can do it, and that’s freaking awesome, for me.

Thanks for tuning in!

For anyone not knowing, David Clavens has had one of the most remarkable years in recent freestyle footbag history, taking on all comers and winning with amazing class, style, and skill.
Check him out and see why he is one of the few people around who can mesmerize crowds with his awesome shred.

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

And to the Judges for taking the time to judge all the submissions:
Milan Benda
Mark Monistere
Jeremy O’Wheel

And to Eric Chang for the video!

With money on the line, and first place in the Shred Global Season standings, 22 freestylers took to the challenge of having the best 3 trick combo, with the first and third trick being the same trick started on different feet. This video, shot in order from lowest point score to highest point score, shows how the competition panned out.

Enjoy! (And please leave comments on the youtube video as well as this page to show your support for events like this!!!!)

Summary of Results:

Open Singles Freestyle:

1. Damian Gielnicki
2. Bartosz Bubula
3. Mariusz Wilk
4. Micha³ Ostrowski
4. Rafa³ Kaleta
6. Marcin Bujko
7. Jakub Grabarczyk
8. Tomasz Ostrowski
9. Arkadiusz Stanek

Women Singles Freestyle:

1. Dorota Wojtasiuk
2. Sylwia Kocyk
3. Ma³gorzata Olêdzka
4. Kinga Gwó¼d¼

Circle Contest:

1. Bartosz Bubula
2. Damian Gielnicki
3. Rafa³ Kaleta
4. Mariusz Wilk

Intermediate Singles Freestyle:

1. Dawid Micha³owicz
2. Patryk Tenderenda
3. Konrad Chlebny
4. Filip Wójcik
5. Maciej D³ugoszek

Shred30:

1. Damian Gielnicki (189,10)
2. Jakub Grabarczyk (159,26)
3. Mariusz Wilk (157,5)
4. Bartosz Bubula (154,76
5. Micha³ Biarda (131,56)
6. Rafa³ Kaleta (125,36)
7. Arkadiusz Stanek (118,29)
8. Pawe³ Nowak (90)

Sick3:

1. Bartosz Bubula (Alpine Blurry Whirl > Bedwetter > Open Near Symposium Double
Over Down)
2. Damian Gielnicki (Stepping Reaper > Open Torque > Whirlwind)
3. Pawe³ Nowak (Atomotion > Locomotion > Far Symple Dyno)
4. Jakub Grabarczyk (Blurry Drifter > Nuclear Near Whip > Mobius)
5. Pawe³ ¦cierski ( Atomic Pickup > Shut Down > Matador)
6. Micha³ Biarda (Open Pickup Stallberger > Hyper Legover > Legover Cloud)

Coming out of Poland is one of the best pure shred videos I have seen this year. If you dig big shred, this is a must see video. check out the guys from Poland (www.footbag.com.pl) as you get introduced to some of the biggest names in Europe. Easily one of the most impressive videos put together in a long time.

After the awesome reception to event number 1, Shred Global is pleased to announce the opening of event #2: the Luns. The Luns stands for Link of UNusual Surfaces.

The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST January 1st

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST January 1st.
2) The link (2-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the link) and finished on the stall of the second trick (No Hand catch is needed on this one)
3) The original set can be from anywhere you want, but the first catch cannot be done to a toe stall, a clipper stall, or an Osis position. Anywhere else is legal. (EX: a legal combo would be clipper -> stepping Heel -> ducking outside)
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity (having to set off one of the UNS catches should be fun to watch), cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions!

Name: Freedom Footbags
Location: Nampa, Idaho
Website: http://www.freedomfootbags.com

Most people commonly refer to the sport of footbag as Hacky Sack. When you see people kicking around a small round object, you say, “Look, they are playing Hacky Sack!” Back in the 70′s, Wham-O started mass producing the first official footbag which they called a “Hacky Sack.” The founders of Wham-O, Arthur “Spud” Melin and Richard Knerr were known as the gurus of blockbuster fads, according to the Wham-O website. From the Slip ‘N Slide, to the HULA-HOOP, the superball to the limbo party kit, from the FRISBEE to the Hacky Sack, Wham-O was has been bringing the best toys to the market for 60 years now. And when we talk about fads, we are serious! Wham-O sold 25 million Hula Hoops in 4 months! The Hacky Sack went through a similar phase, when they flooded the market in the 70′s and 80′s, it seemed Hack circles were everywhere! The name Hacky Sack stuck but that is the trademarked name of one specific brand.

My older brother initially got me kicking, he had two of those official footbags and let me play with one. Two leather panels, sewn like a baseball, and hard! We had my friend’s older sister drive over it in the car to try to soften it up! It wasn’t easy to play with, luckily times have changed!

When it comes to kicking a footbag, some people can go on and on. For example, on November 15, 1995 Ted Martin set the men’s record with a total of 69,812 kicks, taking him 7 hrs. 38 min. 22 sec. The women’s record was set by Constance Constable on April 18, 1998 with 24,713 kicks taking her 4 hrs. 9 min. 27 secs. But after a while kicks can get boring, in my opinion!

Sometimes fads come and go and sometimes they evolve. So, the sport of footbag evolved into two distinct disciplines, footbag net and freestyle footbag. Here at Freedom Footbags our focus is on the evolution from basic circle kicking to freestyle footbag. We have some of those great bags for the Hack Circle. We have Sipa Sipa’s, and the Hempster that can be kicked all day long. Then we have the Mr. Sandbag, the SandMaster, and the Infinity for those of you who want to learn to stall. We have the Fourkast 14 when you start to take freestyle a little more seriously, and when you want to hit the big tricks, we have the Bear Bags, the Fearless 55, and other specialty footbags, hand sewn by the professionals for optimum playability. Accurate sets, multiple dexterity moves, and good solid catches.

We’d love to see you take the game to the next level! If only I could have lunch with Arthur “Spud” Melin and Richard Knerr and find out how to make freestyle the next big fad, and not just the very cool underground sport that it is!

It’s been the cornerstone of my development. First physically as I got in shape as a 12 year old. Then it was personally, as I was able to be proud of my ability to play well, and thus become proud of myself. Finally its been my vehicle of friendship, where I’ve made so many friends all over the world and had so many great times with so many excellent people.

But where did it go wrong -

The pressures of needing to get a ‘real job’ – I guess as I put it myself when explaining my life to a Primary School teacher this week ‘Footbag probably won’t pay a mortgage’. I’m not even interested in getting a mortgage – I’d rather invest in the banks then be prey to them. Its part of the story – but Footbag has also been my main source of income throughout uni and meant that I never had to get a typical part time job.

Loss of the close friends who I had when I was learning. I probably wouldn’t have kept playing after one year if it weren’t for Lynton Stephens and Brendan Erskine. I probably wouldn’t have kept playing if it weren’t for Alex Urano and Scott Kirchner. The only thing that kept me in Footbag after those guys left was my love of teaching – my love of the game was never the same.

When I think about Footbag now I think about Jesenik and playing with Milan Benda, Daniel Spacil, Karel Hak – if he ever plays again lol. But while I was there I realised that I just wanted to play with the people I started playing with, I wasn’t really interested in improving my game – I felt my Footbag spirituality meter had dropped.

Spending time with Vasek and writing the Vasek Klouda Manual was exciting, and I am so inspired by his words and life in general. The thing that excited me most was the potential for people all over the world to be reading that e-book, then improving incredibly, and all the joy that would bring them. I wasn’t excited about my own game improving, after ten years of playing I had lost the desire to keep pushing my own boundaries – but I feel good that other people still love to see me play, and that they love Footbag.

I’m going to write more about Footbag over the coming weeks
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In order to promote what will probably be one of the top 3 freestyle footbag videos of the year, we give you from the great country of Canada….. “Badassery”

To check out some of the reviews of this video, or for updated information, please look here http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?t=21933

From the desks of team Badassery…

Badassery is an entirely new footbag video, made by Canadians Jay Boychuk and Jorden Moir. The video showcases 100 moves that the public has never seen, all edited within 27 minutes of HD video. This video has multiple sections, including over 6 minutes of string footage. To get ready to see footbag like you’ve never seen it before, click the following link for purchase details.

Video Info:
BADASSERY: 100 Moves You’ve Never Seen
NOW AVAILABLE!!!!
Total Runtime: 26:38
File Size: 2.64 GB
File Type: MPEG
Res: 1280/720 (High-Definition!)

Payment Info
Cost: $15 CAD/USD or 12€
Method: PayPal or Cash (in well-sealed envelope)
Arrow PayPal: jorden.moir@gmail.com

or Address:
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**Only streaming available at the moment, while we sort out an HD downloading issue. Will be resolved soon**

Upon payment received, an E-mail will be sent to the E-mail that sent payment with the viewing information. Please check within a few hours of payment to see if you got a message. If not, please PM me. Thanks.

Seeing the possibility to gain a bunch of exposure for the sport of freestyle footbag, the people at Nucleus footwear decided to sponsor some of the world’s best to perform some demo work at the 2010 Tony Hawk “Stand up for skateparks” event in Bevery Hills. Honza Weber, David Clavens, and Evan Gatesman can be shown in the video below being the professionals they are, while showcasing our beloved sport in a rare opportunity to the types of people who could appreciate it.

A big thanks to Nucleus Footwear, Honza Weber, David Clavens, and Evan Gatesman for sacrificing the time, energy, and motivation needed to help push the sport to as many people as possible.

Well here we go folks. It is time to get this season started, and as previously announced we will be holding a 4 event season where the winner gets 500 dollars cashola! Aside from that, there will be numerous prizes handed out for each event, along with prizes for people who place high in the final standings.

The prizes for this event as of now (but possibly to grow between now and the end of this event)
1) Points in the season standings for the $500 prize
2) $50 to the winner
3) A Hania bag to the winner (with a letter of congratulations from the Footbag Princess herself)
4) A Fourkast Shirt / Pair of Shorts to the second place contestant
5) A Freedom Footbag Shirt to the third place contestant

The first event will be the BSOS 3. This event be judged on on three factors by objective judges of our choosing.
1) The cleanliness of the combo.
2) The creativity of the combo.
3) The difficulty of the combo.

The Rules for the BSOS 3 are as follows..
1) The combo must start from a drop and end on a catch
2) The only tricks allowed after the drop are the 3 moves of the combo (Warmup kicks/stalls allowed after drop)
3) The Combo must consist of any trick sandwiched between a trick done on each side
-Trick A > Trick B > Trick A other side- is the correct format
[EX.] Clipper > Ripwalk > Flip Clipper would be a valid entry
4) One Entry per contestant will be submitted by Email before December 1, 2010 to Submissions@shredglobal.com along with your Name and postal address (for prize sending)

So lets to it guys, we wanna see some creative, flashy, innovative combos!!!

This blog is mostly about me and my game, but I’m thinking that when I see a video that stokes me enough to go play, that I should post it … with that in mind, check this:

Penske Visit Oct 2010 from nate linscott on Vimeo.

JIm Penske, Nick Landes and Gordon Bevier play footbag in Portland Oregon, USA.

Name: Scott Davidson
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://footbagfreestyle.blogspot.com/
See all Scott Davidson Posts here!

Specifically: .. Phobic Gyro Symposium Whirl, Phobic (opp) Blender and Reverse Twirls.

I am fluent in many spinning tricks, and in many ducking tricks. And until recently, the only trick I had thought to combine spinning and ducking on, was SDButterfly, as featured on tricks of the trade 2.

Tuukka challenged me last week to hit a spinning or a ducking twirl, and it got me to really skool those tricks. This week so far, I have hit Spinning Ducking Whirls on both sides, Spinning Ducking Barfly’s (ducking scorpiontail) both sides.

This movie has: Phobic Gyro Symposium Whirl (from 2 angles), Pixie Same Swirl, Reverse Twirl (thin), Phobic (opp) Blender. The movie was filmed with my iphone4, using apps ranging from ‘camera’ to ‘slomo’ to ‘imovie extras’ (for titles) and of course ‘imovie’.

Keep inspiring me! It seems to work!
Thanks!
Scott!

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In a wonderful end of the season performance, David Clavens has once again taken the title of Funtastik Summer Classic Champion. This may be the final Funtastiks, thus making Mr. Clavens its final champion in fact. A great title indeed! You can see the video of his work here;

Here are the final results of that event;

Open Routines:

1. David Clavens
2. Ken Somolinos
3. Scott Bevier

Circle:
1. David Clavens
2. Jay Boychuk
3. Ken Somolinos
4. Scott Bevier

Shred 30:
David Clavens

Also, here is video of Fourkast Team player Scott Bevier, taking 3rd at that event. Hopefully we will have the 2nd place video soon, enjoy!