Category: History
Check out this podcast about Hacky Sack co-creator Mike Marshall
Andy Linder Profile
Andy Linder has held multiple footbag world records and to this day he is still the only one to ever break a thousand kicks in five minutes with a total of 1,019 kicks.
Andy Linder – Footbag World Record Holder from Daniel Sather on Vimeo.
Greg Cortopassi, World Footbag Co-Founder
At the top of his successful career as a professional footbag player, World Footbag Association co-founder Greg Cortopassi, had a life changing knee injury, and was never able to return to championship level competitive play. In 1989 he made the most difficult decision of his life…to leave the sport and organization he loved.
With no college or skills society recognized as valuable, he has made a successful career as a trainer in the world of personal and organizational development. Since then Greg has assisted hundreds of organizations and individuals to actualize their dreams. (Visit Greg’s LinkedIn profile)
In 2007 he ventured into a totally new industry, the professional world of nature photography. His images have received the reputation for being spell-binding, original and evoking….
Check it out at http://www.cortoimages.com/
Tricks of the Trade 2 – The Best Players, The Biggest Tricks, The History
Tricks of the Trade – Outro Video
Interview with Footbag Hall of Fame Member Ken “Kenny” Shults, Star of Tricks of the Trade 1 and 2
This is the first of hopefully many more to come with Footbag Hall of Fame members that contributed to the history and creation of the sport we all love and cherish, Footbag!
Ken Shults is the star of Tricks of the Trade 1 and Tricks of the Trade 2, the first instructional videos focused on teaching the original moves of Footbag. These videos were created by World Footbag back in the early days of the sport, and Ken was nice enough to work on the project with us to make it a high-quality production that still holds up in today’s digital age. Though some of the moves have new names, the principles of how to execute them perfectly every time remain the same.
In today’s modern generation it’s easy to reference the ever-popular hacky sack circle, and more advanced players will know the basic moves of footbag involving stalls. But try to imagine a world where the first toe stall has never occurred. People go to competition and seek to get the most kicks. Frisbee and Hoola Hoops dominate the alternative sports scene. This is the world Ken Shults entered into when he got his first footbag for Christmas one year. The rest is history.
This is Ken’s story:
Current Footbag Guinness World Records
Current Footbag Guinness World Records
Sanctioned by World Footbag
Last submission to Guinness: January 1, 2012
Record Holder: Ted Martin / Des Plaines, Illinois, USA
Category: Open Singles Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: June 14, 1997
World Record: 63,326 kicks – 8 hours, 50 minute, 42 seconds
Event: 1997 Midwest Regional Footbag Championships
Location: Lions Park, Mount Prospect, Illinois
Record Holder: Constance Constable / Seaside, California, USA
Category: Women’s Singles Footbag Consecutive
Event: 1998 Women’s Singles Footbag Consecutive Fest
Location: California Athletic Club, Monterey, California
Record Holder: Gary Lautt / Chico, California, USA
Record Holder: Tricia George / Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Category: Open Doubles Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: March 21 & 22, 1998
World Record: 132,011 kicks – 20 hours, 36 minutes, 17 seconds
Event: 1998 Chico Challenge
Location: Lia Way Rec Center, Chico, California
Record Holder: Constance Constable / Seaside, California, USA
Record Holder: Tricia George / Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Category: Women’s Doubles Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: February 18, 1995
World Record: 34,543 kicks – 5 hours, 38 minutes, 22 seconds
Event: 1995 Heart of Footbag Freestyle Tournament
Location: Eagle ¹s Hall Rec Center, Portland, Oregon
Record Holder: Ted Martin / Des Plaines, Illinois, USA
Record Holder: Andy Linder / Geneva, Illinois, USA
Category: Open Doubles One Pass Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: April 3, 1993
World Record: 27,956 kicks – 3 hours, 56 minutes, 54 seconds
Event: 1993 RecPlex Footbag Consecutives Challenge
Location: RecPlex Fitness Center, Mount Prospect, Illinois
Record Holder: Constance Constable / Monterey, California, USA
Record Holder: Tricia George / Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Category: Women’s Doubles One Pass Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: July 28, 1987
World Record: 6,136 kicks – 1 hour, 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Event: 1987 World Footbag Championships
Location: Golden Recreation Center, Golden, Colorado
Record Holder: Andy Linder / Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
Category: Open Singles Timed Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: June 7, 1996
World Record: 1,019 kicks – 5 minutes
Event: 1996 Midwest Regional Footbag Championships
Location: Mount Prospect, Illinois
Record Holder: Ida Bettis-Fogle / Columbia, Missouri, USA
Category: Women’s Singles Timed Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: August 11, 1997
World Record: 804 kicks – 5 minutes
Event: 1997 World Footbag Championships
Location: Westmoreland Park, Portland, Oregon
Record Holder: Ted Martin / Des Plaines, Illinois, USA
Record Holder: Andy Linder / Geneva, Illinois, USA
Category: Open Doubles Distance One Pass Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: March 10, 1995
World Record: 622 kicks – 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Event: 1995 St. Patrick ¹s Footbag Fest
Location: Kishwaukee Community College, Malta, Illinois
Record Holder: Tricia George / Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Record Holder: Paul Vorvick / Tigard, Oregon, USA
Category: Open Doubles Timed Ten Minute One-Pass Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: August 5, 2006
World Record: 1,415 kicks in 10 minutes
Event: Fun in the Park
Location: Wilsonville, Oregon
Record Holder: Jody Welch / Mountain View, California, USA
Record Holder: Tricia George / Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Category: Women’s Doubles Distance One Pass Footbag Consecutive
Date of Record: July 28, 1992
World Record: 249 kicks
Event: 1992 World Footbag Championships
Location: Colorado School of Mines Athletic Field, Golden, Colorado
Record Organizer: Andy Linder, Geneva, Illinois, USA
Category: Largest continuous circle of people playing footbag
Date of Record: July 6, 2001
World Record: 946 people playing footbag in a circle
Event: Cornerstone Festival
Location: Bushnell, Illinois
Record Holder: Alex Zerbe, USA
Category: Footbag
Date of Record: June 30, 2004
World Record: 26 Consecutive Eclipses
Event: L’Été De Tous Les Records
Location: Biscarrosse, France
Record Holder: Vasek Klouda, Czech Republic
Category: Footbag
Date of Record: July 6, 2005
World Record: 35 Consecutive Diving Butterflies
Event: L’Été De Tous Les Records
Location: Argeles-Gazost, France
Footbag Hall of Fame Inductees for 2013 Announced
This Just In!
The Footbag Hall of Fame Historical Society (http://www.footbag.org/hof) is pleased to announce that voting has concluded for this year’s nominees. Here they are below, and don’t forget to click the links for full details!
Congratulations to these new Hall of Fame Inductees!
Becca English-Ross- Eugene, OR (USA)
http://www.footbag.org/
Jan Zimmermann – Zurich (Switzerland)
http://www.footbag.org/
Ole Schnack – Berlin (Germany)
The Whirl is not Enough – A Roadtrip Documentary
This is a repost of information that went out through the Footbag.org Announce list earlier today.
We’re excited to see this documentary released today and want to share it with our fans 🙂
Hello, footbaggers all around the world,
I am glad to finally announce the availability of a new footbag documentary movie, “The Whirl Is Not Enough” aka “TWINE”.
It was shot last year in Austria and Czech Republic, featuring not only the Austrian footbaggers, but also Honza Weber and Milan Benda!
After its premier at the Austrian Footbag Championships 2012 last autumn, it will also be part of “The San Antonio Film Festival” (Texas,
USA), in a couple of days!
It was a huge project for the Austrian footbag scene and we were happy enough to collaborate with a fantastic film crew! We would really love to see the film going out there to the global footbag community and to everybody interested in freestyle sports!
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The full length documentary will be online starting THIS WEDNESDAY,
June 12th, 2013, at 6 pm CET* at <http://www.lm-media.at>.
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If you want to leave comments or reviews, or if you just want to support our project, feel free to friend us on facebook: www.facebook.com/freestyleTWIN
Just the best from Austria and have a good, shredsome summer!
Klemens
The Whirl Is Not Enough – A roadtrip documentary
http://www.lm-media.at
32 minutes – online starting 6pm CET on June 12, 2013