The Footbag Shoe

RawSko · Post by **RawSko** » 13 May 2006 10:56

Please, can we stop posting here unless you're Tom-with-news. It will make it easier to:

forget about it and let the footbag shoe come to us

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 13 May 2006 15:00

You guys want some news?

How about this, I had an epic conversation with Steve Brown and it looks like I am going to get to go ahead and make us a shoe to be manufactured.

Start getting excited and saving your pennies.

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » 13 May 2006 15:03

mosher wrote:Start getting excited and saving your pennies.

I've been doing that for a while..... This is gonna be SO awesome.

Drew360 · Post by **Drew360** » 13 May 2006 15:17

mosher wrote: I am going to get to go ahead and make us a shoe to be manufactured.

SWEET

gdawg8_0 · Post by **gdawg8_0** » 13 May 2006 16:29

*temporarily loses control of bladder*

HG · Post by HG » 14 May 2006 04:36

can you at least get some input from THE WHOLE FOOTBAG community to see if WE (the consumers) like the shoe?

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » 14 May 2006 05:00

read the first seven pages and count the suggestions.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » 14 May 2006 05:00

I would really like to see the shoe and I'll buy the shoe for sure to get its 'bidness' up and runnning. This is so sick Mosher.

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » 14 May 2006 05:00

read the first seven pages and count the suggestions.

mahhkohh · Post by **mahhkohh** » 14 May 2006 05:12

since i think they will only get in stores in us or canada at first... mosh, i send you money then and you will ahve too send me a pair of these.... man, i´m exited... that is so awesome... we get our own shoe... yay

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 14 May 2006 05:38

HenryG wrote:can you at least get some input from THE WHOLE FOOTBAG community to see if WE (the consumers) like the shoe?

Before making jerkbutt 'attack toms character' style posts realise that there is nothing to see yet!

This is what has happened so far:

- first I did a hypothetical design of a shoe for a class in ergonomics
- since I did a good job of that I was allowed to go ahead and take on the project more formally in my thesis class
- the thesis project was VERY successful, I made two prototypes with the assisstance of a local shoe cobbler
- Duncan liked what I accomplished and I was given 'Inventor Submission' forms to fill out to get the paper trail started
- I am about to hand in those forms and then the REAL process begins

What happens next upon approval:

- I will contract the same shoe guy here in town and he and I will begin the lengthy process of designing the shoe
- This is where the community aspect comes in!
- I will take all the input I recieve and apply that to what is taken into consideration
- the first mock up will be made and reviewed then sent to the factory with some specific instructions and they will send us the first factory made footbag shoe
- it will get reviewed and revisionary changes will be made
- the process of tweaking the design will be repeated until the shoe is perfect

(get ready for this)

- THEN THE SHOE GETS MADE AND SOLD TO YOU GUYS!!!!!!

Don't fear, the community will be invilved when the time is right!

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » 14 May 2006 05:53

Wow.... You really know how to get things done, dont ya mosher? I doubt anyone else wouldve been able to do this. Good luck/job!

RawSko · Post by **RawSko** » 14 May 2006 07:12

wow, Mosher... I think I admire you even more after pretty much every post of your'se I read. This is sooooooooooooooooo great.

keep it real

HG · Post by HG » 14 May 2006 09:44

i meant, can we see the prototype?

Seath · Post by **Seath** » 14 May 2006 14:32

I stole it, project's canceled, sorry guys.
I'm going to write Seath-Unit on it and start my hiphop career in style.

zeroman13 · Post by **zeroman13** » 14 May 2006 14:40

RawSko wrote:Please, can we stop posting here unless you're Tom-with-news. It will make it easier to:
forget about it and let the footbag shoe come to us

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 14 May 2006 18:12

Seath wrote:I stole it, project's canceled, sorry guys.
I'm going to write Seath-Unit on it and start my hiphop career in style.

I would totally mod your shoe and pimp out in freestyle.

bigdirtyfoot · Post by **bigdirtyfoot** » 15 May 2006 06:37

Congrats to Tom for the idea and everythign; make sure you make it in size 14+, I have a hell of a time finding shoes.

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 15 May 2006 13:04

I would still like to mod them just a little bit....

RawSko · Post by **RawSko** » 15 May 2006 13:18

I was thinking the same thing... it would be sorta cool to leave room for our own ingenuity. But by the same token, the whole point of a Footbag Shoe is that it doesn't need modding. It's already done... I think that it would be super cool if it was all white mesh. that way we could still add our own ingenuity by colouring them, but each shoe would already be completely perfect for footbag by default. That way there's no room for bad moding-jobs, but we still get to express our uniqueness.

@Tom
I'm sure that you've spent more time thinking about this than I have, so if you've already come up with this idea: I support it!!

keep it real