Footbag

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Footbag

• Plan
• History
• Footbag is a sport.
• Styles of Footbag
• Rules of Footbag
• Why should we play Footbag?
• A footbag is a masterpiece!
• The best game in the world!!!
• Our footbag

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A little History

• Footbag is a modern American sport. It was
  invented in 1972 in Oregon City, Oregon, when
  John Stalberger met Mike Marshall, who had been
  kicking around a hand-made bean bag. John had
  recently had knee surgery and was looking for a
  way to work on his flexibility, and he instantly
  took to the game and become good friends with
  Marshall. They called the game, "Hack the Sack."
• Stalberger and Marshall soon became enthralled
  with the game, which Marshall had been hoping to
  promote with the general public. The two designed
  a product, which they trademarked the "Hacky
  Sack", and began putting together a plan to
  market the product and the sport. At the same
  time, they decided to create a "generic" term for
  the sport itself, as opposed to their product,
  and they named the sport "footbag".
• Tragically, Mike Marshall died of a heart attack
  in 1975, at only 28 years of age. Stalberger,
  determined to realize their vision of footbag as
  a sport, continued to promote the product and the
  game. He formed the National Hacky Sack
  Association along with the help of many others.
  He ultimately sold the rights for the Hacky Sack
  footbag to Kransco (operating under the Wham-O
  label), which also manufactered the Frisbee
  flying disc.
• In the years following the creation of the Hacky
  Sack product, many footbag enthusiasts began
  sprouting up around the world, and a sport was
  born.

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Footbag is a sport!!!

• Footbag ,as an organized sport, is governed by
  the International Footbag Players Association, a
  non-profit organization. There are a substantial
  number of footbag tournaments and festivals each
  year. Competitive footbag is governed by the
  International Footbag Committee (IFC), which
  publishes the official Rules of Footbag Sports

• Footbag is plenty of fun, a great
  cardiovascular work out, improves
• your foot-eye coordination, it forces you
  to use both sides of your body, teaches you
  balance skills, timing and rhythm. Footbag can be
  played just for fun or in a competitive format,
  also it is great for both team and non team
  personalities.
• In Tajikistan this game is called lanka. This
  is a little different from footbag. It will be
  made from lead and skin of animals. Interesting
  isnt so?

But these games have the main thing in
common every person let he be baby, chairman,
pupil or oldman he can play this game if he
wants. It can be played everywhere in the
street, yard, lawn, bus stop, office, etc.
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Styles of Footbag

• Footbag Freestyle is the artistic form of the
  sport. It can be a flurry of difficult moves the
  eye can hardly follow, or it can be smooth and
  flowing, as if in slow motion. This variety makes
  freestyle competitions very difficult to judge.
  To simplify the task, competitors are judged
  along four dimensions choreography, difficulty,
  variety, and execution.
• Footbag Golf - Instead of a club you use your
  foot. Your driver bag is hard and your putter bag
  is soft. Holes are 18 inches around and 18 inches
  off the ground.
• Circle kick is the more common version of
  footbag, and it is the game people are referring
  to when they talk about "hacking the sack" (or
  any other variant on the term "hacky sack"). In
  this game, players stand in a circle, do tricks
  with the footbag, and keep it moving around the
  circle. A 'hack' is achieved when every person in
  the circle contributes a kick

• There are 5 styles
• Footbag Net is a singles or doubles court game,
  like tennis or volleyball, where players use only
  their feet to kick the footbag over a
  five-foot-high net. The rules for doubles net are
  a lot like volleyball players are allowed three
  kicks per side, and must alternate kicks. In
  singles, however, players are only allowed two
  kicks per side. The footbag ) may not contact a
  player's body except below the knee. Footbag Net
  combines the court strategy of tennis with the
  set-and-spike strategy of volleyball. Players
  frequently spike the footbag over the net, using
  either the sole of the foot, a sweeping inside
  kick, or an outside push. Even more remarkable
  than the spikes are the "digs" players use to
  defend against the spikes. Players also block
  spikes in the air with amazing foot-to-foot
  battles over the net.

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Rules of Footbag

• There are no rules per se, it is more
  etiquette
• 1. Not allowed to say your sorry - because
  gravity always wins.
• 2. You don't use your hands - if you can
  touch with your hands you can also kick it. You
  have more reach with your feet than your hands.
• 3. When the Footbag does hit the ground,
  you don't serve the bag to yourself to start up
  again. Always give a courtesy toss to one of your
  fellow players.4.Not allowed to spit, insult or
  offend.
• The scoring in footbag is made up of
  points called "adds" these adds are
  awarded for a variety of different things such
  as a delay (stall), a dex (circling the bag),
  body (ducking the bag, jumping, or spinning),
  cross body, or unusual surface. Through these
  different "adds" all of footbag's tricks can be
  described.

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Why should we play footbag?

• Footbag not only unites the
  individuals within the kicking circle, but also
  symbolically links all the races and nations
  within the universal impulse to kick a ball.
  Kicking around a small, round object (a rock, an
  animal bladder, a sock, a rotten orange...) must
  surely be one of the oldest forms of human sport.
  It seems that practically every culture, from
  ancient history to modern times, has adapted some
  kind of home-grown variation on the foot-ball
  theme (takraw, shuttlecock, kemari, etc.).
  Commonly played on street corners, plazas and
  campuses around the country, footbag finds its
  unique impetus not from the quest to "win", but
  from the sheer joy of dancing together in a
  circle and working toward a common goal. When
  everyone touches it before it falls, the entire
  group wins. In this simple way, footbag compels
  groups of disparate individuals to set aside
  their separate, ego-driven minds and behave, for
  a moment, with a cooperative worldview. This is
  what makes footbag so special.

• The fun and teamwork that is inherent in this
  game makes footbag by far the best game ever
  invented. It is truly beautiful in its
  simplicity. In the circle game (which is how most
  of us were introduced to it in the first place)
  everyone is invited to play no matter the skill
  level, and everyone is automatically on the same
  team If I am "hacking" in a circle, I will try
  to stand next to any beginner to help pick up
  their shanks. I think this is the big factor in
  the popularity of the game. It is simple. You
  attempt to use what initially is a foreign part
  of your anatomy to keep a small bean bag from
  hitting the ground. Your circle becomes as many
  other people as the bag can hypnotize.... I feel
  that our efforts as pros have been mostly to take
  the game beyond these simple beginnings. I think
  that the game speaks for itself.

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The best game in the world!!!

• It's a great thing that totally different
  people can come together in the pure joy of just
  kicking a little bag. I think that footbag boosts
  the human spirit and creates a feeling of
  camaraderie and friendship among any group of
  people.

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A footbag is a masterpiece!!!It's a little round
bean bag but it is perfectly round, a certain
weight, and a certain softness.
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Just try it!!!

• We made our own footbag.
• Our footbag symbolizes the friendship
• of two countries USA and Tajikistan.
• There are symbols of our countries on it
• . It was made of atlas (our national fabric)
• and 13 stars ( the number of first American
• states). It was not easy to play footbag.
• We trained 3-4 days to kick it. Its so small
• and bouncing!!! But we got it!!!