- My name is Troels. I come from Denmark and I just took up playing footbag late August 2013 again.
The first time I got an eye for footbag was on Roskilde Festival 2000 or 2001 - can't remember. I saw Mads Hole and Mads Neuhard play along with some other guys and was really facinated by their skills.
Me and a couple of guys then started playing in highschool on a very basic hacky sack level. Only kicks, toe- and inside stalls. Then I started playing barefeet because we always played in the summer time. I actually got alot better barefoot than playing with my lavers on so I just kept it up.
But my friend Andreas keps up with his lavers and started getting alot better than me. He could now do clippers, oses and butterflies while I was pretty much stuck at my learning and improving.
From that point I only played very rarely. None of my friends ever wanted to play with me in parks because they couldn't play as good as me (allthough I suck) and it was to exhausting.
So for then next decade or so I didn't learn any new tricks I just tried to maintain what little I could do.
Then on a vacation in Greece in 2013 I started playing barefeet again every day in a week and it was very rewarding. I found out that I could do stuff I didn't think I could and became hungry for more and started looking in to the community in Denmark.
I found the FootbagDenmark group on Facebook and learned that Nis (whom I knew and played a bit with in highschool) had just continiued shredding and had become quite the juggler.
I asked around in the group and showed up for practice where I met Kim, Asmus, Michael and Jan at the first day of practice. I was just baffled with the amazing tricks they so effortlessly landed while I was struggling to do sketchy, wobbling ATW toe-,inside stalls and clippers. Unfortunately I had built up some bad techniques during my barefeet period I had to shake off me. So basically that was what I did the first month or two.
Since late August then I been practicing with the danish crew and gotten alot of new friends. I've also tried to practice at home because I wanted to try to learn some of the really nice tricks the other players can preform. So about 3 days practice a week or so.
The DFO 13' Event was really also an eye opener aswell that brought a lot of really nice players from all over the world - though mostly Finland
It was really fun to see all the different playstyles and levels from all the participants. I even got to play with Aleksi in a circle and at the warmup days.Now after being playing 4½ months I just landed my first really nice tricks 3 days ago:
Clipper-Ducking-butterfly
Clipper-Ducking-legover
Butterfly-flipside reverse swirl
Ripwalk strongside
Am still struggling with my infinity and can't really do alot of butterflies btb only 5-6 at max atm.
Big shoutout to coach Asmus who encouraged me to make a blog here. And to Kim, Jan, Andreas, Nis and Jasper for staying strong every single thursday of the week!
Special thanks to Kim, Asmus, Nis and Andreas for pressuring me to do new and more tricks!
By the way feel free to comment or reply fellow footbagger.
So I gotta practice this alot also. When I come to think of it I gotta learn atomic set also. Can't make anything other than toe out of it yet.
Your coach promises to do better this year.
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Film more, please.