barefoot in 2008/2009

lineman · Post by **lineman** » 05 Jan 2009 07:13

I just spent 10 days on the beach... 10 days without shoes on... so I just played barefoot footbag.

And I found out it is a GREAT training method... My stalls are better, my clippers and pickups improved... I did hit 10 consecutives ATW... and had a load of fun.

here are some pictures...

http://www.flickr.com/ilikedags

HAVE A NICE YEAR EVERYBODY.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 05 Jan 2009 14:26

I've been theorizing for a while that eventually we are going to have a class of shredders that exclusively play barefoot and consider it more pure.

It would be hard to argue with them.

windsen · Post by **windsen** » 05 Jan 2009 16:17

cool pics, man. thanks for sharing.

there's a really talented kicker down here in texas (austin) that kicks barefoot. his name is cody rushing. he's got great style, flow and can bust huge, all completely barefoot. he clippers better barefoot than i do with shoes

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 05 Jan 2009 16:24

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_rh82IQcw[/youtube]

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 05 Jan 2009 16:33

There's a famous guy in Australia who has one arm, is aboriginal and plays (or used to play) barefoot and has apparently been hitting triple atw really easily since the 90s. Also his name is "Spear." Urban legend anyway, since he's never been to a footbag tournament, but he's good friends with Lotus.

windsen · Post by **windsen** » 05 Jan 2009 16:39

ken, thanks for posting that vid of cody. i knew there was some of him floating around. good stuff. always fun to kick with cody.

lineman · Post by **lineman** » 06 Jan 2009 06:36

There is this sick barefoot video too... who is this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vXdrNSJ9bc

I had a lot of fun playing without shoes... but I found the inside stalls almost impossible to do.

Then... after all... I am a rookie.. so.... miaaah.

Jack Stutler · Post by **Jack Stutler** » 06 Jan 2009 22:08

That is Tom Kotsakos, and thanks for sharing that link, I hadn't seen that before.

Pretty sweet

King Monkey · Post by **King Monkey** » 06 Jan 2009 22:34

You should check out Yves Kreil in the DVD 'The Move'. Its by Fabian Kollakowski. Ill barefoot shred like Ripped Warriors bs, Rubberman.. its cool.

lineman · Post by **lineman** » 07 Jan 2009 02:40

Jack Stutler wrote:That is Tom Kotsakos, and thanks for sharing that link, I hadn't seen that before.

Pretty sweet

No Problem.

I had a hard time finding it again to post... hahaha... I found it by accident the first time.

lineman · Post by **lineman** » 07 Jan 2009 02:41

King Monkey wrote:You should check out Yves Kreil in the DVD 'The Move'. Its by Fabian Kollakowski. Ill barefoot shred like Ripped Warriors bs, Rubberman.. its cool.

Where can I find it?

I would love to watch this.

james · Post by **james** » 07 Jan 2009 05:20

Cody has incredibly great style and form! I hope he still plays.

When a player has good form it's a pleasure to watch.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 07 Jan 2009 06:25

Dave Clavens has a sick barefoot vid on YouTube somewhere. I'll post it later if nobody else does.

Outsider · Post by **Outsider** » 07 Jan 2009 07:18

windsen wrote:there's a really talented kicker down here in texas (austin) that kicks barefoot. his name is cody rushing. he's got great style, flow and can bust huge, all completely barefoot. he clippers better barefoot than i do with shoes

I'll second that. Cody is a bad motor-scooter. His form is excellent. It is funny to see somebody who prefers to play without shoes...

james wrote:Cody has incredibly great style and form! I hope he still plays.

I kicked with him in at the Texas Statewides 2008 in Austin less than three months ago. He was bustin'.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 07 Jan 2009 15:33

Emo music alert!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKc0p8CfuE[/youtube]

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 07 Jan 2009 16:01

There's also this kid called Kevin Regamey who hits TATW > Alpine Pandemonium. But he's nothing special.

lineman · Post by **lineman** » 08 Jan 2009 05:36

Hey... does any of you, or anyone you know, play with unmodified lavers?

Like... without taking out the side layers or opening the toe box?

colefieldhouse22 · Post by **colefieldhouse22** » 09 Jan 2009 11:55

That video of Tom was really funny. It definitley made my day

Post by **Zac Miley** » 09 Jan 2009 15:03

lineman wrote:Hey... does any of you, or anyone you know, play with unmodified lavers?

Like... without taking out the side layers or opening the toe box?

My friend Cody did for a while, but he modded them recently and he likes them a lot more.

g00d33 · Post by **g00d33** » 09 Jan 2009 15:04

lineman wrote:Hey... does any of you, or anyone you know, play with unmodified lavers?

Like... without taking out the side layers or opening the toe box?

I used to play in unmodded lavers. It only worked out alright. I opened the toe box when I had to do a show and back then I couldn't notice too much of a difference but I love the opened toe box. Never took out inside layers though. I think it works fine most of the time. I guess I won't know for sure until I do it.