Nike Sponsorship/Demo

sidekick · Post by **sidekick** » 20 May 2006 07:46

On thursday, August 10th, I'm going to go to Nike headquarters for some serious shred. I'm going to make a big sign that says "Footbag: It's all in the shoes" and bring that sign, hopefully the rest of the protland crew, and do a demo ON the Nike world headquarters campus in Beaverton, where I live.

I want everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who reads this to send an e-mail to Nike on that day, August 10th to http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jht ... orld#world, it's the first link that says "E-mail Us", click that.

In the e-mail, I'd like you to put down:
1) you name, and where you live
2) what kind of shoes you wear
3) how many shoes you go through in a year
4) how long you've been playing
5) and how many times a week you play
(make sure you include that you play FOOTBAG, not hacky-sack, and state if you would buy a shoe made specifically for footbag)

I'm going to be handing out flyers and our team business card, wearing the team jersy, and giving out information. Hopefully I can get some media coverage as well. Thanks in advance for all the help guys.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 20 May 2006 09:41

june 1st is my birthday. i will definitely try to do this

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 20 May 2006 12:14

Nice! I blogged it on the Flipsider.com front page. Good luck!

Edit: why is this in the Shred Symposium forum?? I almost never look in here. It should go in General Footbag, no? AND make the Topic Title clear and descriptive. 9 times out of 10 I will not read vague "I need help" topics; I'm sure I'm not the only one. Just offering my advice to help your post get noticed by the most people. Not everyone trolls modified.

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 20 May 2006 12:30

Nick, I know I sent you a PM with lots of advice, but another idea would be to shoot it and make a commercial in the vein of the "Truth" (anti-smoking) campaign. That would be sweet. I don't know how far Beaverton is from Portland, but Ethan knows a thing or two about making videos. If you do it, just be sure to get lots of different angles and shot sizes (ELS, VLS, LS, MLS, MS, MCU, CU- look it up if you don't know).

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 20 May 2006 14:17

[Moved to General Footbag]

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 20 May 2006 14:27

Wait wait wait! This is bad timing!!

I am on the cusp of getting to actually make us a first footbag shoe pleeeease don't go and get Nike to come and totally rape our community like they do to everything else!

I have been working VERY hard for the community to make this project happen and it would kill me to see Nike jump in and barf out some piece of crap.

I applaud your passion and desire to get big things to happen but I feel that this isn't the best place to be applying that drive.

I just completed a 50 page report for Duncan Toys that I am mailing tonight that represents the culmination of all my efforts thus far on the footbag shoe project which I have been at for over a year now.

I am not trying to discourage you at all, I just really don't want something Ive worked so hard on to get ruined.

moparman · Post by **moparman** » 20 May 2006 14:33

...wierd...not sure who to pull for...

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » 20 May 2006 15:38

Why cant we get both parties to make their shoe, and we'll use whatever is better (probbably tom's, because HE is designing it, not some shmuck at nike)

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 20 May 2006 15:43

No, that approach doesn't work at all, a company can't just go and pump out a shoe without knowing anything about what our needs are.

There's alot more involved than you think I bet.

blitz · Post by **blitz** » 20 May 2006 16:34

a company can't just go and pump out a shoe without knowing anything about what our needs are.

no company would do this, especially not a giant like Nike. Please, footbag is not even a blip on their radar, nor are the numbers of players in footbag worthy of their immediate investment; think long-term. If Nick garners even a glance from a single Nike executive, which is already unlikely, it will be a success. Think of it as a friendly reminder, but a little "in your face"; it's not like they've never heard of footbag, if anyone remembers 2001. Personally I just support Nick because he is actually doing something. A quick email to Nike is the least I can do to help his efforts.

Tom, keep doing what you're doing, and let us know how it goes. But butt out when other people want to take initiative; it's rare enough without people discouraging them. I don't know how my "tone" will be interpreted here, so just trust that I'm trying to be as nice as possible, and respect what you're doing, too.

Peace,

BalinorNZ · Post by **BalinorNZ** » 20 May 2006 18:55

Yes! Go Nick! I waill send them my email on that day

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 20 May 2006 19:24

As long as you give a reminder post in here the day before or the day of, I'll e-mail them.

Good initiative.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 20 May 2006 22:06

Hey, doesn't Nike already make some sort of footbag? Or they did at one point I think.

Keep being motivated Nick, don't let me discourage you.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » 21 May 2006 00:55

Yeah with recyled shoes as filler or something like that.

sniikeri · Post by **sniikeri** » 21 May 2006 06:14

Yep, it sucks.
Maybe not the worst starter bag though.

King Monkey · Post by **King Monkey** » 21 May 2006 07:00

hahah dont worry too much Tom, i cant see Nike giving too shits about footbag. Especially when everyone emails telling them they wear Adidas to play footbag...

sen · Post by **sen** » 21 May 2006 07:26

The fact that we all wear Addidas shoes might spark Nike's interest. In theory wouldn't they want to steal and bussiness they can from their major competitor?

As long as I remember, I"ll email.

Skippy! · Post by **Skippy!** » 21 May 2006 13:34

Yo I tried playing once with a nike 32 panel sandbag. Some dude paid like 25 bucks for it.

It was terrible.

Shredfish · Post by **Shredfish** » 21 May 2006 18:37

That's a good point about sparking their interest because we play with Adidas. I'm don't know anything about a company like Nike but I'm guessing, if they care, they will want to grab a hold of it. Also like blitz said, even if one person with some sort of high position and an open mind sees it, it's a success. Cause if that same person sees it again somewhere else he'll say "oh...footbag...hmm $$$$$" I could happen!

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 21 May 2006 19:27

Yeah good luck with this - good to see somebody taking some action - also same goes to Tom, but I don't like the idea of not doing something because of another project - I am sure that this action won't effect Tom's efforts - If nike to produce a footbag shoe and it's crap footbaggers won't use it. If they produce a footbag shoe and it's good - well it's a shame you've put in effort for nothing but the benifit to footbag is still good.

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