What do you call tricks?

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 01 Oct 2005 02:38

ok so say your explaneing footbag to someone who is a adult, what word do you use for a tricks? moves? or maybe stunts?

i need to give a very good indeapth presentation for my graduation project and i dont know how to exsactly describe footbag in a introduction paragraph

when i am done with my project ill post pics of my visual

and my report so you can all laugh at my poor writting skills.

thanks.

ZSH

SandWraith · Post by **SandWraith** » 01 Oct 2005 10:10

If you post your report before you turn it in, we could proofread it for you.

And I guess I would call them 'tricks', since at least then they would get a basic idea and it doesn't have a cocky connotation (not that the others necessarily do, but 'tricks' seems like a very low-key word).

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 01 Oct 2005 12:16

executing a move>doing a trick

IMO

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 01 Oct 2005 14:18

Tricks.

Seriously Zach, if you want help editing your paper I'd be happy to help. I'm in school to be an English Teacher and I can use the practice on peer editing.

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 01 Oct 2005 15:10

wow for real, ill defnetly take advantage of that i really want this whole project to go well.

Chim-Chim · Post by **Chim-Chim** » 01 Oct 2005 15:32

yeah don't call it a trick, save that word for magicians and hookers. "Move" is a much better word.

limester816 · Post by **limester816** » 01 Oct 2005 15:57

Hookers use "move" too.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 01 Oct 2005 22:08

contacts also works.

For example. A "contact" is defined as that action which occurs between two consecutive touches of the footbag with a players foot.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 02 Oct 2005 00:30

personally I say tricks - I describe freestyle a bit like this:

"you might think of it as like extreme hacky sack - only we don't kick it, we stall it and do tricks with the bag like going around it with our feet and stuff" - and then I usually pull out a bag and do a demo because it is way too hard to make somebody understand freestyle footbag without showing them (hence my sucky explenation - because it's so much easier to rush over the verbal and go straight to the visual)

ted · Post by **ted** » 02 Oct 2005 08:20

engaging a dynamic

ted · Post by **ted** » 02 Oct 2005 13:51

manifesting an action potential.

HG · Post by HG » 02 Oct 2005 14:16

Mike Hansen is good at making anything sound good.

As ted would say "he makes math sound like literature"

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 02 Oct 2005 15:43

In a written essay you will probably want to use several of the suggestions people have given you. If you always use only one of them it will get redundant and boring. It's good to switch it up a bit.

Trick, Move, Journey into the symbiotic kinesis of the footbag and lower appendages of the human body.

Iain · Post by **Iain** » 02 Oct 2005 16:06

the best way i've found to describe footbag to other people is "juggling with feet"