Footbag Diversity

[Chris Hanratty]

Edit . please delete, meant to make a new topic. sorry.

[crazydwarf]

Up until 1996, Footbag Worlds had only been in America. Up until 2003, it had only been held in Canada and America. It`s only been held once outside of North America.

Fine you win! but yeh, I don't know what I was thinking, maybe I meant like the individual country worlds like i think Switzerland and a bunch of other places have like the swiss open and such... but then it's not really worlds at all, I guess I was more geographical, and in that case it seems like footbag is more diverse then many US sports, while less diverse then say soccer... or maybe I'm just unhinged... oh or maybe i was thinking of this year's worlds which is not being held in the US or Canada...

[Splint]

I'm actually surprised at the lack of Hispanic/Latino footbag players. Soccer is a huge sport in Central and South America and I've kicked with some people who have only showed the most passing of fancies. I know that there is a Brazilian footbag club (I know their more Portuguese than Hispanic or Latino).

Paul Mestas is the only Hispanic Player that I ever played with who really stuck it out for any length of time.

My friend Shay (Japanese/American) was with it for about 2 years before he got burned out on it.

Other than him, it's pretty much been a bunch of Honky's that I play with.

Recently, on my college campus I've been Hacky Slacking with a steady group, one of whom I believe to be of Indian or Pakistani decent. He shows real promise, but I don't know if I'll be able to get him into a paid of Lavers yet. Another kid who I used to work with just e-mailed me wanting to learn more about freestyle and if he's who I think he is (I'm bad at remembering people) I'm pretty sure he's of Asian decent.

As a visual sport, Footbag looks hard. It's not anywhere near as easy looking as picking up and getting kinda decent at as Basketball, Baseball, or Football. The reality is that nowadays people who get into this sport and play hard core for 1 to 2 years have the potential to get themselves ranked into the top 10% of players in the world if not higher.

The flip side to that is that there are at most 2,000 steady freestylers all over the world. So basically 1 in every 3 Million people get's into Freestyle as a real pasttime. So how do we up those ranks?

I think it's just important to be really supportive of anyone who shows the slightest bit of interest in the sport. You have certain teachable moments that are few and far between and if you don't take advantage of those moments, you lose potential shredders.

Give away bags. By a bunch of Mr. Sandmans or something and make sure to give one to someone who shows the least bit of interest and talent.

[LittleBoy footbag]

uhhhh....krafty, I guess Indian would be from the country as erik would proly know that it's politically correct to call native americans, Native Americans...

[Tsiangkun]

Actually, in an offtopic kinda of way, my friend is doing her thesis on "native americans" and the proper way to address them is by the actual name of their Nation, and the group as a whole is sometimes refered to as the indigenous people.

[LittleBoy footbag]

wait so if they're say, from a Cherokee tribe, I'd call them 'Cherokee?'


I like the name apache

soo cool