I would expect bigger shredder scenes in North American than in Asia. Asian are generally built around smaller frames, and as such have smaller shredders in their scenes.
Asians have been playing Yin Tze for forever -- there will be more players. According to Ken there are, like, 70+ players in Japan! Asians would be naturally amazing at footbag. We are nimble.
I'm hoping to see more african american players in the future. African americans seem to be naturaly athletic which would make them incredible shredders.
Ninjas are Japanese
And there are lots of amazing Japanese players.
There was also a clip from some old Jackie Chan movie posted a while back where they play some game like soccer, but keeping the ball off the ground for like 10 minutes.
I think the answer to this question is obvious. Footbag was invented in the US and until the internet was hardly seen anywhere else apart from circle kicking. A number of players took the game accross to Europe so people have been playing there for a while too - other continents: Africa, South Amierca, Asia, Australasia all have only been exposed to the sport very recently - Australia has had freestylers for about 8 years I think, Asia for maybe 4 or 5? Not sure about Africa and South America - but obviously the longer it's been exposed in a country the bigger the scene will become.
Erik Chan wrote:Ninjas are Japanese
And there are lots of amazing Japanese players.
There was also a clip from some old Jackie Chan movie posted a while back where they play some game like soccer, but keeping the ball off the ground for like 10 minutes.
Damn it. The Japanese already have the Samurai, why can't the Chinese have ninjas? I use the term "ninja" loosely in association with kung-fu krazies like Jacky.
C'mon...NINJA!
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Larson wrote:I'm hoping to see more african american players in the future. African americans seem to be naturaly athletic which would make them incredible shredders.
Black's have basketball already
asians already have 100's of forms of martial arts
hispanics have soccer
and all us white people have is michael flatley
www.imao.us (some website?) wrote:
Actually there is a bit of a cross-pollination of the Ninja Way. Chinese Ninjas are known as Sokkan and Gokan (with Gokan divided into 5 types of specialization).
The Shinobi and, well, Ninja, are the Japanese Ninjas; but as time went on, the distinction between them all faded and the successes fo the Japanese Ninja overshadowed the others.
Ninja, from ninjitsu is clearly a Japanese word, although Japanese tend to steal everything from Chinese anyway... @____@
I can't wait for footbag to hit africa. Those super skinny dudes have the hugest windows ever! They'd be hitting crazy stuff in no time. Yves Kreils everywhere!!
Erik there are plenty of people in Africa that are fully clothed. The really skinny africans are most likely to live in very underdeveloped areas. Don't make fun of Erik, Jeremy, besides - I'm not african and I can do that. well i dreamt it once.. that would take some good hip motion though lol. Pendulum would need to get another name.
I use the term "ninja" loosely in association with kung-fu krazies like Jacky.
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