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[announce] 2014 Footbag Hall of Fame nomination process has begun!

To Footbag players, their families, and their fans,

The Footbag Hall of Fame Historical Society (http://www.footbag.org/hof) is
pleased to announce that the 2014 Footbag Hall of Fame nomination process
starts today  February 18, 2014 and ends  March 31, 2014, so please think
about who you believe should be nominated and submit your nomination by
going to the nomination form which can be found on the two forum pages or at
the bottom of the Hof page, at the following link.
(http://www.footbag.org/hof). The forums will show who has already been
nominated and their testimonies, so if you want to support an existing
nomination, then we ask that you go to the nomination form and write your
support there as well as on the forums.

The criteria for these nominations and induction to the Hall of Fame is
located here:

http://www.footbag.org/reference/-/Hall_of_Fame_Nomination_Criteria

The  footbag.org  forum is here:
http://www.footbag.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=44051#44051

The Modified.In forum link is here:
http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23577

Thanks in advance to all of the footbag community for your continued
enthusiastic support of the Footbag Hall of Fame by participating in this
years upcoming nominations process.

Tim Vozar, Chairman Footbag Hall of Fame Nominations Committee

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Interview with Footbag Hall of Fame Member Ken “Kenny” Shults, Star of Tricks of the Trade 1 and 2

Ken Shults 02This 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:

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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

Date of Record:  April 18, 1998
World Record:  24,713 kicks – 4 hours, 9 minutes, 27 seconds
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 Âčs 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 Âčs 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

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New Footbag Hall of Fame Inductee Announced at Worlds 2013: Becca English-Ross

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bruce-becca-english-ross-footbag-hof-worlds-2013The Footbag Hall of Fame has another name in their rosters: Becca English-Ross  was announced at the Footbag World Championships 2013!

While our own Bruce Guettich was originally going to announce the occasion, the announcement event got moved forward to an earlier day when Bruce wasn’t at the tournament. We did however get time to snap a shot of the two together in front of our sponsorship banner! 🙂

Congratulations to Becca English-Ross and the other Footbag Hall of Fame 2013 Inductees from World Footbag!

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Footbag World Championships 2013 Event Data Tournament Data Results

Footbag World Championships 2013

World Footbag is a proud sponsor of the 2013 World Footbag Championships! Our company president Bruce Guettich will be attending and hopefully he’ll send us some pictures to post here at the blog for you to enjoy if you can’t be there yourself (like me! –Jonno)

For now you can enjoy this tournament data from Tournament Software (.com)

 

Event Data / Tournament Data:

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/players.aspx?id=85C39AFC-052F-4395-8AA3-D8AFE93CF9D3

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Registration Open for 2013 IFPA World Footbag Championships!

Reposting the Good Word from the Footbag.org Announcement List:

World Footbag is an official sponsor of the 2013 World Footbag Championships being held in Montreal, Canada. We’re excited to sponsor this event another year strong! And we can’t wait to see the awesome videos that come from the Footbag  video contest too!!!

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Here is the info from the Announce List:

Hello Footbaggers across the world!

Online registration is now open for the 34th Annual IFPA World Footbag
Championships in Montreal, Canada, from  July 28th until August 4th.

Registration is MANDATORY for all competitors by the deadline of  July 15th.

So please register and pay now online here:

http://www.footbag.org/registration/register?tid=1323272493

If you want to compete at Worlds this year, you MUST register online and
PAY by  July 15th, 2013.

There will be NO on-site or late registration. Whether you are a
competitor, a sideline player, a volunteer or a member of the staff, please
register and pay here today:

http://www.footbag.org/registration/register?tid=1323272493

If you’re a non-competitor, you’re still asked to pay in advance to
simplify check-in and help confirm headcounts, but you may register online
and pay when you check in to get your players’ pack.

You can pay the registration fee by PayPal or a bank transfer. But since
bank transfer fees can be high, and take a long time to be processed,
we strongly recommend PayPal (which also allows you to use credit
cards if you don’t already have a PayPal account).

Registration takes just a couple of minutes, so there is no reason not to
do it now.

If you don’t have a credit card or can’t use a bank transfer, you may ask a
friend to pay on your behalf. For PayPal, simply ask your friend to go to
your registration form, sign in to your  footbag.org  account, and then
submit the form and choose PayPal, and then sign in to their PayPal account
to complete the payment.

You can still change your registration any time you like, before the
deadline of  July 15th. This includes finding/changing partners up until the
very last day of online registration. If you have already paid and you make
a change that affects your total fee calculation, then we will either
refund or collect the difference when you check-in for the tournament in
Montreal.

If you don’t have a partner, that’s okay — go ahead and register and pay
without a partner for each event you need a partner for. Then, when
registration closes, we will send an email to each registrant giving a list
of available partners who have registered so that you can pair up.

It will be up to you to confirm your partnership with your partner, and to
update your registration form. (It will be possible to add/remove partners
for 48 hours after the deadline. But you may not make any other changes
at that point.)

Also, don’t wait to reserve your accommodation in Montreal. We’ve got great
options at the special footbag rate for you here:

http://www.prokicker.ca/eng/wfc2013_lodging.htm

Check the official Worlds 2013 website regularly for the latest information
and updates at:

http://www.footbag.org/worlds2013/

The Net Director for this year’s event will be Luc Legault.
The Freestyle Director will be Steve Goldberg.

If you are interested in volunteering or being on staff, please contact me
directly at  pourluka@gmail.com  or contact the event directors if you wish
to volunteer for a specific event. (Please do not “reply to all” since it is
not permitted on the announcements list; so please reply only to me.)

You can also follow us on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/WorldFootbag2013?fref=ts

Looking forward to seeing you in Montreal this summer!

On behalf of Worlds 2013 Organizers,

Luka Weyler-Lavallée

Aki Québec
pourluka@gmail.com

WOW that is a lot of info!!

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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/members/profile/12024

Jan Zimmermann – Zurich (Switzerland)

http://www.footbag.org/members/profile/12178

Ole Schnack  – Berlin (Germany)

http://www.footbag.org/members/profile/12136

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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/freestyleTWINE

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