How old were you?

Reid · Post by **Reid** » 18 Oct 2003 13:27

So how old and what got you into it.

for me 13 and washington DC trip was so boring needed something to do.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » 18 Oct 2003 13:53

Was 16. In high school my friends were playing hack with a juggling ball they won (ticket prize games) at the arcade. I was playing with them but I really sucked. First few hacks we used were juggling ball type. After that I got a crochet hack and started learning basic moves - jesters, butterfly kick, toe stalls etc. Played every day and then come 2001 ( when I was 18 ) got more into footbag and freestyle and in 2002 I think got a 32 pannel bag

Panda Licker · Post by **Panda Licker** » 18 Oct 2003 14:03

I started freestyle this summer when i realized that i stayed up till 3 in the morning and had nothing to do

deano* · Post by deano* » 18 Oct 2003 14:25

i was 18... say this dude at my skool busting out some two's then i looked on the net for footbag and never looked back

i really wish i started playing earlier tho

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 18 Oct 2003 16:12

I started freestyling when I was 14 now I'm 15.

oZonE-juNkie · Post by **oZonE-juNkie** » 18 Oct 2003 16:12

hey, what happened to the 25 and above group?

Actually, been playing for a long time - but only started learning freestyle this year (age 34), so... WHATEVER

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 18 Oct 2003 16:31

I just started last December. Johnny was doing some 3's and 4's and that really amazed me. So I started learning how to play freestyle. Now I'm 14.

swiftkick · Post by **swiftkick** » 18 Oct 2003 16:47

It was the year 1991, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. My kayak instructor had a rule - no hackey, no kayaky. I kicked obsessively for 9 years before I discovered freestyle online.

Reid · Post by **Reid** » 18 Oct 2003 21:14

oZonE-juNkie wrote:hey, what happened to the 25 and above group?

well I added the group

LameR · Post by **LameR** » 18 Oct 2003 21:20

I picked one up super young but didn't really do anything. Started again in 7th, then 8th, then freshman (current) so probably around 12 i guess.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 18 Oct 2003 22:28

i started playing this past may when i was 17.

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 18 Oct 2003 23:31

i started kicking when i was like 9, i did it on and off. Flying Clipper was my fav move. i stopped for a long time. i began freestyling somewhere in april or may of this year. im 16 now.

Doylie · Post by **Doylie** » 18 Oct 2003 23:49

swiftkick wrote:My kayak instructor had a rule - no hackey, no kayaky.

Hahahaha thats so cool!

I first kicked a bag when i was like 16 i guess, but only this year at Uni did i find out about freestyle, so when i was 18. I've been playing for about 6-7 months now.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 19 Oct 2003 00:09

i played in grade 7 when everyone else was playing. i was like 11. they would play like every day at lunch (pellet, kill, numbers -- those games) and at spares. and in the morning before classes started. at one point i fell in love and i left home early so i was at school by like 6 or 7 every morning. i was good friends with the janitors son. and he was always there early. sometimes i arrived before them and had to sit outside cause the school wasnt open yet.

at my birthday i got two hacks. a crocheted. it was like brown and green? with some patterns on it. the duck sounds familiar..someone mentioned that i think. a yellow duck. all the way around. like a bunch of them. and then i got a sipa sipa. like the exact one on worldfootbag.com or whatever. with the huge beads.

then like a year later i lost my brown and green bag and i was buying clothes with my mom and i begged her to buy me a new one. cause they were selling them in a jar at warehouse one. i still have that one. and the sipa sipa. the new crocheted one was like pink and yellow. there are like no beads in it now. i love crocheted bags (do i spell that right?) theyre so much fun to play with now!! my brothers friend wants to learn. so they were playing in my basement lair the other day and they left their bag there. and when i went down for my session i hit a bunch of 5s with it

so fun!!

oh yeah. and then about grade 10 i saw that shes all that movie. and looked up footbag. and then watched videos of ryan from worlds 99 on footbag.org in computer class all the time. looked up the clubs. and posted a note in the hackrifice guestbook. and then joel phoned me the next weekend (prolly from my footbag.org info??) and asked me to come out and if i could do an "around the world" and stuff. (i couldnt). and then i met mark who was hitting 3 add moves!!!!!!

and then i met dan klokow and zeke ibardaloza in grade 12 on a band tour of the east coast. and by that point i could SOMETIMES do mirage. and SOMETIMES butterfly. i think i hit mirage twice in a row ALMOST for the first time that day. or something. oh yeah. and scott davidson stopped in for a jam on his way back to chicago from worlds in vancouver (2000?) and i met him!! and he signed karl bohns laver. and thats where i got the idea to make all freestylers i meet sign my shoes

yip.
10 years later....i am OLD..
(and bored -- i should go work on my video now..)

EDIT: oh yeah. and back in highschool. like grade 10. or whatever. me and this guy i played with, ben, printed off the footbag.org moves list and we tried to learn every move. and basically we were scared of all 3s. and we were super stoked when we'd hit one (but i dont know if we ever did?..) i remember looking at the description for eggbeater and just flipping out. like -- how is that POSSIBLE??? -- and then we would look at like the 7 adds and just laugh...)

EDIT2: i closed perenthesis on my edit. but never even opened them!!

oZonE-juNkie · Post by **oZonE-juNkie** » 19 Oct 2003 07:31

exudedex wrote:
oZonE-juNkie wrote:hey, what happened to the 25 and above group?

well I added the group

Luckily the question is not "when did you start freestyling", so I guess I'm in the 15ish range

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 20 Oct 2003 00:26

I first played hacky sack when I was 16, but never got the hang of it.
I picked up a footbag when I was 24. I think even that was too damn old.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 20 Oct 2003 19:55

I hacked all the time on and off from when I was 6 or 7 till I was like 12. Then in 7th grade some kid started playing a lot, so I started bringing mine (a Sandmaster) to school every day because I wanted to show him up. After that we played all the time at school. I was like so much better than everybody there. I could consec up to like 120-something, and I could do toe stalls and inside stalls. For a while my best move was something like a clipper, only the stalling foot was on the ground, then I 'made up' a flapper stall and hit it a few times and thought I was the shit... then I found footbag.org a couple weeks later...

Yeah...
Met Daryl, Chris, and Kyle (and Sunny) about a week later....
Now I'm here, 6 months later, a lot worse now then I should be, because I hardly ever kick anymore

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 20 Oct 2003 21:04

HA! thats what happens when you "learn to sew" and start selling bags! hahahahah. Wlelcome to the world of the shredder/stitcher, wherein you have much less time than everyone else!

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 20 Oct 2003 21:10

School is dragging me down, though. That and not being old enough to drive to sessions.

Girrrr on school.

Hey grades this week. Wonder what I got!!

full nelson · Post by **full nelson** » 20 Oct 2003 21:38

First started circle kicking at age 15, sophomore in high school. We got the idea by kicking a empty milk carton from the cafeteria. We kicked just about everything we had until someone actually brought a crotchet footbag. Footbag.org was discovered the following year.

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