For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3B

Patick Schrickel, Chaos #8, and Florian Goetze VS PT Lovern, Chaos #3, and Emmanuel Bouchard.  One of the great all time matches.  Especially game one.  Enjoy!

Thanks to Tuan Vu, Chaos #7, for processing the video asap!  Now, For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3B

For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3C

Patick Schrickel, Chaos #8, and Florian Goetze VS PT Lovern, Chaos #3, and Emmanuel Bouchard.  One of the great all time matches.  Especially game one.  Enjoy!

Thanks to Tuan Vu, Chaos #7, for processing the video asap!  Now, For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3C

For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3D

Patick Schrickel, Chaos #8, and Florian Goetze VS PT Lovern, Chaos #3, and Emmanuel Bouchard.  One of the great all time matches.  Especially game one.  Enjoy!

Thanks to Tuan Vu, Chaos #7, for processing the video asap!  Now, For The Green Cup - 2008 - Game 3D

Evidence of Footbag Net in Israel

While browsing You Tube for net footage, I happened to stumble across this clip, which I thought was worth sharing.

Vasek Klouda - Vodafone Commercial

Is it old news?  Perhaps.  But I only got a chance to check this out today.  Boo Ya!  That’s a footbag commercial!  Okay, it’s a phone service commercial but… whether the viewer knows it or not it’s also a footbag commercial and that’s the friggin beauty of it to me.  Footbag stands on it’s own here.  No commentators trying to explain something they have no idea what it really is.  Footbag is hard enough to describe in words, even for an aficionado, without pictures and video.  But this commercial does a great job of getting the veiwer’s attention with footbag.

In the last month I’ve seen two examples of media exposure for the sport that are among the best ever.  First there was Lon Smith’s starring role in the Modest Mouse video and now this.  See for yourself if you haven’t already.

This is evidence that this sport has marketing muscle.  Is it just me or is the rest of the world slowly catching on?  Eh, just me probably.  I guess I could be bias somehow.

btw - I know this sport is cool because we have real talent - some of the best athletes in the world, and yet the word footbag is still not included in my browser’s spell check.

Not Just For Breakfast Anymore!

Lon Smith, Modest Mouse, Footbag - Boo Yah!

What the hell does that mean?!

I don’t often report on the exploits of footbag freestyle but there is sometimes a happening so BIG that it’s more than just freestyle, it’s footbag in general and we’re part of that for sure.  This is one of those times.

First the video and then, if you care, I contribute some babble below.  This Modest Mouse video stars Lon Smith.

It’s so big that I’m not entirely sure it’s real.  Perhaps this is some editing trick.  I doubt it though and I guess the video will have its official premier in the next few days on Modest Mouse’s myspace page. 

So, perhaps this isn’t footbag’s break-out moment.  Maybe footbag is and always will be an alternative sport and this isn’t where we go mainstream and start pulling all the big sponsors.  Does footbag even want that?  I don’t think it’s possible anyway.  Besides, I love footbag the way it is.  Not that I don’t want to promote the sport and see it grow.

I think of footbag like this…

Footbag is a theatre show to the stadium concert.  Perhaps even a smoky night club.  Okay, a garage band… in the garage… a one car garage.  But the band is bad ass!

Footbag is a little big city.  Well, still just a little city.  Okay, a town… in the middle of nowhere… a little town.  But it’s a bad ass little town!

That’s footbag to me.

Don’t give us any bull@#&* hype!  We don’t want it and we don’t need it!