Freestyle footskills game from (edit) Burma/Myanmar

JFootbagger · Post by **JFootbagger** » 23 Jan 2006 15:25

HELL YEAH! THESE ARE MY PEOPLE!!!! I DON'T CARE 'BOUT THEIR SHITTY GOVERMENT! THAT IS JUST PLAIN KICK ASS!!!!

GO CHINA!!!!

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 23 Jan 2006 15:50

damn they are good.

LinoSphere · Post by **LinoSphere** » 23 Jan 2006 16:08

OMFG!!!!!

plain amazement. can't put in words. so good.

now that i play takraw regularly, i'm even more fascinated i guess. it's just so hard to control that rigid beast of a ball. and then in the way they do.

(and by the way, it's most likely thailand and not china, jfootbagger)

mahhkohh · Post by **mahhkohh** » 23 Jan 2006 16:30

damnit...its played in berlin???uhm...i need to come over for a few days

and shred with a few different round objects!

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 23 Jan 2006 16:32

I am actually quite surprised there are men playing.

In China, this sport is a girls sport, from what i've heard it is meant for woman, and this I believe is a reason why nobody in China plays footbag yet!

This information was givin to me by a (footbag) friend who has been teaching in China for the past 6 months.

Very cool video!!!!

JFootbagger · Post by **JFootbagger** » 23 Jan 2006 18:41

LinoSphere wrote: (and by the way, it's most likely thailand and not china, jfootbagger)

Taiwanese people used to be Chinese...so all in all, it's like the same...same blood man, same blood

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 23 Jan 2006 19:53

Theyre not chinese, i can tell u that.
And that was all computer generated!

Nah, but that was pretty sweet, it looks like thai, bangladesh, something along those lines.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 23 Jan 2006 22:28

BalinorNZ wrote: In China, this sport is a girls sport, from what i've heard it is meant for woman, and this I believe is a reason why nobody in China plays footbag yet!

!!

I disagree. In Japan, the closest sport to footbag was something called "Kemari" (けまり) which is played pretty much exclusively by girls. Once Japanese people were exposed to the potential of footbag, via tournaments and the Pepsi campaign, men got into it very seriously. Footbag isn't big in China because there haven't been any tournaments or ad campaigns. If your theory were correct, footbag wouldn't be big in Japan, and that clearly is not the case.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 23 Jan 2006 22:29

This deserved a separate post:

JFootbagger wrote:
LinoSphere wrote: (and by the way, it's most likely thailand and not china, jfootbagger)

Taiwanese people used to be Chinese...so all in all, it's like the same...same blood man, same blood

<--- me crying with laughter. This is seriously the funniest thing I've read on modified in years.

Too good!

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 23 Jan 2006 22:36

haha i just realised that, good spotting

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 23 Jan 2006 22:41

LOL, yeah man, you definetly are related when you know the name of the country. When.

freshONE · Post by **freshONE** » 24 Jan 2006 03:33

A friend of mine has such a ball/bag.He brought it from indonesia I think.
It`s quiet funny to play but it is damn hard to control this ball! So the guys on the video are really impresive

greetings

Flipsider · Post by **Flipsider** » 24 Jan 2006 05:55

Their skill and presentation are equally amazing. Imagine if footbaggers spent as much time on presentation as technique, we might actually be entertaining!

With a few minutes of research, Chinlone is the national sport of Myanmar (Burma), which holds the annual Mandalay Waso Chinlon Festival, and is over 70 years old in its modern form.

Myanmar
General explanation of Chinlone.
Player's perspective of Chinlon Festival (see dodgy video at bottom).
Accurate google results.

In conclusion, thanks, Jon!

daheck · Post by **daheck** » 24 Jan 2006 06:06

...and i was so long wondering, which is the reason about the footbag existing

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 24 Jan 2006 06:34

Flipsider wrote: Myanmar
General explanation of Chinlone.
Player's perspective of Chinlon Festival (see dodgy video at bottom).
Accurate google results.

EDIT: Oh Ellis fixed those already

JeffRichards · Post by **JeffRichards** » 24 Jan 2006 06:41

DAMN! Thats pretty sweet! I wonder if these people know about footbag??
and u gotta love the backflip set

bigdirtyfoot · Post by **bigdirtyfoot** » 24 Jan 2006 07:23

Flipsider wrote:Their skill and presentation are equally amazing. Imagine if footbaggers spent as much time on presentation as technique, we might actually be entertaining!

I agree with Ellis! And I also love this video... I will be giving the link out on my podcast Engagement Head for our next show. Definitely cool. Thanks!

mahhkohh · Post by **mahhkohh** » 24 Jan 2006 08:51

hey ellis.thanks alot for the links.very interesting stuff.someday,we should organize a chinlone competition together with footbag worlds...

...i bet everyone could learn a bunch from the other!

mc · Post by mc » 24 Jan 2006 11:16

Thanks for the links, ellis! my favorite quotes on that page were "there are 900 teams" and "I am 87, I've played since I was 15". There's hope for us footsatchelists yet!

JFootbagger · Post by **JFootbagger** » 24 Jan 2006 12:47

C-Fan wrote:This deserved a separate post:

JFootbagger wrote:
LinoSphere wrote: (and by the way, it's most likely thailand and not china, jfootbagger)

Taiwanese people used to be Chinese...so all in all, it's like the same...same blood man, same blood

<--- me crying with laughter. This is seriously the funniest thing I've read on modified in years. Too good!

.........shit

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