"I won many World Championships with the Twisted, and I'm glad to see it's back. The Twisted is a Footbag classic."
Peter Irish, 5-Time Singles Freestyle World Champion.
I've seen this before and wondered if, A) this is true and B) he's ok with them using his name.
"intricatly hand stitched, professional freestyle Footbag."
It's even spelled wrong. Brilliant.
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david wrote:I was just sitting here surfing and my mom looks over my shoulder. I had to jab down the down key real quick so she wouldn't see that topic title and question me about what kind of site I was going on.
Peter used to be sponsored by Twisted footbag back in the early 90's by a company called Kick in the Grass freestyle footbags, but they stopped do doing business. I think the ebay seller is Scott Milne, a player from Vancover selling those but not sure. Two of the best bags in those days were the Juice and Twisted. And Peter did win titles with Twisted bags.
Nice tidbit of history Tu! I remember I had a Juice, haha. And I remember they were big, reading about them in my 1996 issue of Footbag World. I never heard much about Twisted but I remember the ads. Considered buying one at the time.
$2.22 wrote:Peter used to be sponsored by Twisted footbag back in the early 90's by a company called Kick in the Grass freestyle footbags, but they stopped do doing business. I think the ebay seller is Scott Milne, a player from Vancover selling those but not sure. Two of the best bags in those days were the Juice and Twisted. And Peter did win titles with Twisted bags.
Peter was sponsored .... What does that mean ? What about wham-o or any other company when footbag was a real trendsport .
Do you can tell something about that or give us a source where I can watch myself?
What do you mean by Trendsport? Peter probabaly receieved a little cash and free bags from Kick in the Grass. BTW, don't know if Peter approved that quote and image to be on that ebay site. Wham-O, Sipa Sipa, and other companies used to be regular sponsors of the world footbag championships but bailed out after players there rejected the bags (and still do). Wham-O did a couple of rounds of sponsoring players, even Ryan Mulroney was sponsored. In the mid-late 90's, Adidas sponsored a lot of people when they made bags but that never took off. I think that was John Stalberger buying the licensing and doing it himself. I'd tell you more, but you'll have to sit me down at a footbag tournament and buy me a beer
In terms of footbag history sources, there isn't much out there but there was footbag world magazine, footbag news, and kickers quartley all defunct now. check out...
$2.22 wrote:What do you mean by Trendsport?
I'd tell you more, but you'll have to sit me down at a footbag tournament and buy me a beer
Trendsport = a sport which is "in , hip for a certain period of time "
I wanted to refer to the time when footbag was in California Games and it was common to kick a bag during breaks /lunch in school.
And I hope you will come to Worlds- so you can bet that I will remember you to your offer
For me it would be ok if you talk as long as I can bring beer - I guess that would be a rough week for you .
