A Survey over ADDs

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A Survey over ADDs

Post by Zac Miley » 29 Oct 2008 15:48

This is for my statistics class. It would be great if you could answer all questions if you read this, since it's homework. Thanks guys and gals. You can pm me your answers or write them here, I don't care.

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? (yes or no)

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? (choose only one)

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)

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Post by mannampepo » 29 Oct 2008 16:11

1. yes i visit modified atleast once a day.

2. abit of both but mostly "art form" for this s.o.b.

3. yes

4. yes

5.no.

i havent been to alot of tourneys soo i cant say much about the judging system soo i just said yes.

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Re: A Survey over ADDs

Post by sidekick » 29 Oct 2008 16:18

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? no

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? sport

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing?yes

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? NO!

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? YES, although it would be very difficult to do
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Re: A Survey over ADDs

Post by dp » 29 Oct 2008 16:25

1. Yes

2. Sport

3. Yes

4. No

5. Yes

I feel yes and no answers don't really get my true opinion across very well.
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Re: A Survey over ADDs

Post by Jeremy » 29 Oct 2008 16:35

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? (yes or no)
Yes

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? (choose only one)
Sport

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)
Yes (good)

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)
Yes (broadly speaking)

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)
No (depending entirely on the new system - also from a practical point, ie. I don't think a significantly better system is possible.

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Post by Cass » 29 Oct 2008 16:35

1. yes

2. Sport

3. No

4. No

5. No

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Re: A Survey over ADDs

Post by pips » 29 Oct 2008 17:58

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? (yes or no)
-yes

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? (choose only one)
-sport

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)
-yes

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)
-yes

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)
-nah? i don't think i know enough to have a strong opinion on these last few questions.
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Post by Kljopa » 29 Oct 2008 22:37

ehh im crying

art :cry:

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Post by Jokse » 29 Oct 2008 23:07

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day?
-Yes

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport?
-Sport

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing?
-Yes

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks?
-Yes

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)?
-No

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Post by Asmus » 29 Oct 2008 23:21

Peope could just post their reasons with their single word answers, because it's interesting for us on modified to see.

And Zac could just use only the yes' and no's.

I will do this a bit later.

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Post by Asmus » 29 Oct 2008 23:44

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? (yes or no)
Yes

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? (choose only one)
Sport
I answered from the perspective of freestyle footbag on modified. I think this varies alot from place to place, scene to scene, person to person. For me it's If there was an options of saying footbag is a community of friends I would pick that.

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)
Yes

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)
Yes
But only because modern freestyle footbag is so focused on adds. To get the "right" amount of recognition for a trick it has to be score-able in the add system. If the add system changed footbag freestyle would aswell.

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)
Yes
The ADD system was never ment to score tricks and is way too simple to do so. I hope that somebody out there is working on something better.

On a different note: "New notation for freestyle moves"
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/11217

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Post by Blue_turnip » 30 Oct 2008 00:09

1. No
2. Sport
3. Yes
4. No
5. Yes
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Post by Blue_turnip » 30 Oct 2008 00:12

Asmus wrote: On a different note: "New notation for freestyle moves"
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/11217
Dude, props.

I don't have time to read it now but i flicked through it and it looks great.
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Post by Zac Miley » 30 Oct 2008 04:46

For the record, I don't mean freestyle footbag when you play at your house. I mean freestyle footbag in competition.

Thanks to everyone who has completed the survey thus far. And Aleksei, could you finish it? I can't use that unless you answer all of the questions.
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Post by Muffinman » 30 Oct 2008 05:21

1. Do you visit Modified.in at least once per day? (yes or no)
No.

2. Do you think freestyle footbag is more of an art form or a sport? (choose only one)
A sport. I was going to say sport before you clarified competition too.

3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)
No. Well, I'm somewhere in between, but shred would be so boring if it was all gauged by "difficulty". That's why Shred 30 is lame.

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)
No. For obvious reasons? Also, Xdex is lame.

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)
Yes [for competition]. I guess all of these questions are in the context of competition, yes? You may have recieved more accurate responses if you had clarified if all questions were regarding competition. And which competition.

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Post by Outsider » 30 Oct 2008 05:57

Yes
Art
Yes
No
Yes
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Post by slapdash21 » 30 Oct 2008 07:53

1. yes
2. sport
3. yes
4. yes
5. no
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Post by flash » 30 Oct 2008 11:21

1. no

2. art

3. yes

4. no

5. yes
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Post by century264 » 30 Oct 2008 11:44

1. Yes
2. sport
I see footbag as a sport because I'm not trying to express myself, I'm just playing the most awesome game of keep-it-up that anyone ever thought of.
3. No
If there were an accurate system to score how hard a trick was, I would probably be ok with it. I suppose I wouldn't mind if it were scored like skateboarding, though.
4. Yes
I'm taking this as competitions. Since I see the current competition style shifting towards circle comp away from routines, I believe the system is starting to accurately represent modern freestyle tricks, since in circle it's expected that you drop and so you don't have to play as conservatively as in routines. Truer representation of modern freestyle tricks, regardless of how many adds there are.
5. Yes
Whatever makes people happy, as long as I don't have to relearn all the names, because I will never stop calling it Forque>flaming tard>big papa smurf>montage. As long as everyone understands that adds are lame and knows how difficult tricks are, it doesn't really matter.
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Re: A Survey over ADDs

Post by C-Fan » 30 Oct 2008 12:17

Zac Miley wrote: 3. Do you think that a quantitative scoring system is a good thing? (yes or no)

4. Do you think that the current system accurately represents modern freestyle tricks? (yes or no)

5. Do you think that a new quantitative scoring system should be implemented (this means either improving the current system or a completely new system)? (yes or no)
!
I have trouble answering these questions, because it is unclear to me what you are referring to. What do you mean by a "quantitative scoring system?" You mean a system to assign difficulty to tricks (hence ADDs in the title)? Or do you mean a quantitative scoring system for judging competition? And in question 4, what do you mean by "represents." Are you asking if the ADDs system describes difficulty accurately? Or are you asking if the ADD system accurately represents the components of tricks?

In order to get meaningful responses, I think the questions need to be more clearly phrased.

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