Do you have a club? If so, how did yours start?
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innersmile
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I kinda have a footbag club on the go but in all honesty we've only managed to get together once. Luckily, I shred with one of the 2 other members every weekend at the flea market where we sell bags and other cool stuff.
Most people see footbag as just a pass time to do when others are doing it. It's hard to motivate people to practice and push themselves and keep to the set meeting time. A problem I had was that everyone always had something more important to do. Don't get me wrong, footbag is not the be all and end all of my life and I understand other priorities but, practice is practice. Some people will let circumstances get in the way and dictate their time, always running to do something else.
This is not the most positive post dude but I would say just start a club and learn for yourself. We still are a club, even though I'm the only one who really practices, or rather puts practicing as a priority. But, as the saying goes, "when you want something bad enough the whole Universe conspires to get you what you want".
Make a flyer, set a meeting time, and get hacking. It'll come together even if you have 1 kid who just does toe stalls for a month. Another good way to get people involved is to become really good yourself. We (Asmus and I) are about the same skill level (I like your blog btw; although you have youth on your side and will be hitting 7 adds when I'm in a walker) and I've noticed people sit up and look interested when I land cool stuff (hey, a leg over is cool ok?).
Hope it helps dude,
Most people see footbag as just a pass time to do when others are doing it. It's hard to motivate people to practice and push themselves and keep to the set meeting time. A problem I had was that everyone always had something more important to do. Don't get me wrong, footbag is not the be all and end all of my life and I understand other priorities but, practice is practice. Some people will let circumstances get in the way and dictate their time, always running to do something else.
This is not the most positive post dude but I would say just start a club and learn for yourself. We still are a club, even though I'm the only one who really practices, or rather puts practicing as a priority. But, as the saying goes, "when you want something bad enough the whole Universe conspires to get you what you want".
Make a flyer, set a meeting time, and get hacking. It'll come together even if you have 1 kid who just does toe stalls for a month. Another good way to get people involved is to become really good yourself. We (Asmus and I) are about the same skill level (I like your blog btw; although you have youth on your side and will be hitting 7 adds when I'm in a walker) and I've noticed people sit up and look interested when I land cool stuff (hey, a leg over is cool ok?).
Hope it helps dude,
Greg
Have love; will travel
Have love; will travel
The Rochester Footbag Assoc. was founded my freshman year at University of Rochester in NY. it happened one chilly night as I was walking back to my dorm. I was on my way out of campus, and as I was walking back to pack up my bags, I saw a guy wearing wrecked lavers, and I freaked out. he (Tom Bulatewicz) must have thought I was going to attack him, I was so excited. But then I explained, and we exchanged numbers, and we kicked a few times that year. Then Mike Strumpf and Mike Anello joined. A few others have come and gone, and mike s and tom moved away. Now the RFA is kinda inactive in it's original sense, but the RIT Footbag Association is going strong. That's recently been formed by Aric McIntosh, and we're kicking regularly.
Starting a club is all about playing in public place, making it look like fun, and being really friendly and welcoming to interested onlookers. and also, it helps if you take some of the organizational responsibility yourself to get people together and get people to buy shoes and bags and stuff. People need a lot of encouragement when they're first starting.
Starting a club is all about playing in public place, making it look like fun, and being really friendly and welcoming to interested onlookers. and also, it helps if you take some of the organizational responsibility yourself to get people together and get people to buy shoes and bags and stuff. People need a lot of encouragement when they're first starting.
BRICK!
rfa::never give up::
nyfa
rfa::never give up::
nyfa
Being part of club is so essential to me.
I live in munich, germany and although things changed massively
for me, only for out of 1.6 million people, that live in my city,
are serious footbagplayers .
I started out playing with a big, bad hacky
sack in school and it was mostly kicking and doing cheesy trix
without a future. Then i've met some other people, who were
also more interested in more "serious" way of playing, but we had
no conception of what footbag could really be about .
You can imagine the shock i had, when i was on footbag org the
first time, watching some vids from the world championships .
I was thrilled and two minutes later i became a job notation addict...
This experience seperated the men from the boys ; i always been
hated on for making efforts to really learn a trick, instead of relying
on your karma to make it happen, but after getting interested in
footbag seriously, i got branded as the nasty show off. So i grabbed
the only other enthiusiast and left that circle to play in a different place.
Then i met daniel, and we linked instantly.
Not only we had experienced the same things, we were also at
the same trick level. He kinda had a website, we formed a two
man club and we got a little better at playing...
And then it happend : a young architecture student named
ryan mulroney contacted us, he was also playing footbag,
he said, and he was travelling thru europe.
He kindly asked us, if he could stay with us, when he's in munich.
At first we didnt know who he was, but when we found out,
Daniel and me were in hysterics and he really came over
and he played with us and , needless to say, we were blown away !
And they shredded happily ever after... no , not quite .
Just before the time, when things got really interesting,
i broke my leg and my buddy went to england to study
economics there...
I also left school and started to work fulltime, and making music
consumed mostly all of my spare time, plus my interests in
sport shifted to fitness,basketball and wild parties.
But the bag came back to me, years later, in form of a birthday present.
I started out kicking again with one of my old schoolmates,
but again i was the only one, who really wanted to progress.
And then, standing in my store working the register, this dude came up
to me asking, whether he could put some flyers on the counter .
I wasnt really interested in the flyers, but since i was in charge that day
i was obliged to take a look at them.
There werent bullshit party ads, but hand outs for a footbag jam
in my town !
I looked at the guy again, smiled,looked down, and when i spotted
red fucked up lokking lavers, i freaked out.
Ignoring the growing line of customers, we started chatting away
and exchanged names and fon numbers.
One thing lead to another, i attended one of their shreds,
met bjoerns team mate max, and his sister bea, and i joined
their club that day .
Since then, i'm a happy man, munich footbag is four peeps strong
now and i can learn to improve my game in the best context
possible .
We meet twice a week at least, everybody loves the sport and works
hard to progress.
The atmosphere is friendly, supportive, energetic and respectful.
A couple of weeks a go, we conducted a little footbag jam for the
munich streetlive festival ( the one bjoern gave me the flyers for ).
It was such a brilliant weekend ; players from other german cities
came down, we had a great time shredding in the warm sun and
we could also interest people of all ages in the different aspects
of our sport .
At the jam, i also ran into daniel, my old buddy and i was stunned,
when i saw him shredding. Apparently, he didnt gave up playing,
but improved like crazy in his absense . And, of course, he was
the guy, who taught the basics to my mates bjoern and max,
who are helping me to learn nowadays
LIVE IS GOOD
That event taught me a lot about the versatility of the sport and
its great vibe of "togetherness", and, out various reasons,
i couldnt imagine footbag now with out my club and the footbag
community around the world!For pics and vids, check out our site : www.munich-footbag.de
Thx to sNaLe, ebo and bea !!!
Big up daniel !
You make me all so happy !!!
Remember : love is round
I live in munich, germany and although things changed massively
for me, only for out of 1.6 million people, that live in my city,
are serious footbagplayers .
I started out playing with a big, bad hacky
sack in school and it was mostly kicking and doing cheesy trix
without a future. Then i've met some other people, who were
also more interested in more "serious" way of playing, but we had
no conception of what footbag could really be about .
You can imagine the shock i had, when i was on footbag org the
first time, watching some vids from the world championships .
I was thrilled and two minutes later i became a job notation addict...
This experience seperated the men from the boys ; i always been
hated on for making efforts to really learn a trick, instead of relying
on your karma to make it happen, but after getting interested in
footbag seriously, i got branded as the nasty show off. So i grabbed
the only other enthiusiast and left that circle to play in a different place.
Then i met daniel, and we linked instantly.
Not only we had experienced the same things, we were also at
the same trick level. He kinda had a website, we formed a two
man club and we got a little better at playing...
And then it happend : a young architecture student named
ryan mulroney contacted us, he was also playing footbag,
he said, and he was travelling thru europe.
He kindly asked us, if he could stay with us, when he's in munich.
At first we didnt know who he was, but when we found out,
Daniel and me were in hysterics and he really came over
and he played with us and , needless to say, we were blown away !
And they shredded happily ever after... no , not quite .
Just before the time, when things got really interesting,
i broke my leg and my buddy went to england to study
economics there...
I also left school and started to work fulltime, and making music
consumed mostly all of my spare time, plus my interests in
sport shifted to fitness,basketball and wild parties.
But the bag came back to me, years later, in form of a birthday present.
I started out kicking again with one of my old schoolmates,
but again i was the only one, who really wanted to progress.
And then, standing in my store working the register, this dude came up
to me asking, whether he could put some flyers on the counter .
I wasnt really interested in the flyers, but since i was in charge that day
i was obliged to take a look at them.
There werent bullshit party ads, but hand outs for a footbag jam
in my town !
I looked at the guy again, smiled,looked down, and when i spotted
red fucked up lokking lavers, i freaked out.
Ignoring the growing line of customers, we started chatting away
and exchanged names and fon numbers.
One thing lead to another, i attended one of their shreds,
met bjoerns team mate max, and his sister bea, and i joined
their club that day .
Since then, i'm a happy man, munich footbag is four peeps strong
now and i can learn to improve my game in the best context
possible .
We meet twice a week at least, everybody loves the sport and works
hard to progress.
The atmosphere is friendly, supportive, energetic and respectful.
A couple of weeks a go, we conducted a little footbag jam for the
munich streetlive festival ( the one bjoern gave me the flyers for ).
It was such a brilliant weekend ; players from other german cities
came down, we had a great time shredding in the warm sun and
we could also interest people of all ages in the different aspects
of our sport .
At the jam, i also ran into daniel, my old buddy and i was stunned,
when i saw him shredding. Apparently, he didnt gave up playing,
but improved like crazy in his absense . And, of course, he was
the guy, who taught the basics to my mates bjoern and max,
who are helping me to learn nowadays
LIVE IS GOOD That event taught me a lot about the versatility of the sport and
its great vibe of "togetherness", and, out various reasons,
i couldnt imagine footbag now with out my club and the footbag
community around the world!For pics and vids, check out our site : www.munich-footbag.de
Thx to sNaLe, ebo and bea !!!
Big up daniel !You make me all so happy !!!
Remember : love is round
EASYKINKI