All About Hacky Sacks

I was looking at the Footbag.org website trying to find clubs in the Northeast Florida area. For a sport that started in the U.S. it sure seems to have more appeal and support overseas than here. There area approximately 183 United States clubs listed with this international organization and only 5 or 6 of those registered in Florida. And as I was looking over the various ones in the other states I notice a very curious thing. Most of the clubs have only 1 member. Can you really be a club of 1? I guess you can but they really should have another category such independent member or something. I think they just list anyone who has become a subscriber to their Groups Page. Most of the listings are even a few years old so there is no telling if the information is the same or not.

Most of these clubs do not even have a website of any kind. Some of them may have a group or forum page on Facebook or one of the other services but there are only a few that are actually kept up-to-date. I imagine that quite a few of the email addresses are not correct either. So determined was I to find other groups out there that I checked every single one of them and put a link to the ones that actually worked, were updated and/or at least had a news section, videos and pictures. They are listed under U.S. Footbag Clubs in our links section. Check it out!

Any members of the other clubs out there let me tell you if you really want to promote the Footbag sport for the fun and inexpensive exercise that it is then you really need to get a website going. There are still FREE website services out there that do not require you to know any web coding. Try www.webs.com, or even a free blog site that allows you to add pages, pictures and video such as http://posterous.com/. Take a few minutes to pick some colors, a layout, add a page or two and then upload some pictures, possibly a video, and finally add some info about the club such as the name, location, member profiles, where you practice, what events might be coming up in your area. Go wild! Have a Ball!

Email us when you are done so we can link to your site and get you some subscribers……

Oh! and go back to your account on footbag.org and update it with this latest edition.

We are gathering information and videos about the fun game of Hacky Sack or Footbagging. There is a very informative short article from E-How entitled: What is Hacky Sack that you should take a few minutes to read through. For the official version of the rules you should spend a few minutes at the official Footbag.Org website They go over the classification of players, the types of games, the physical properties of the footbag itself and a few other things.

You-tube is probably the best FREE source of instructional videos in the world. We are viewing the videos that are online and picking out some of the ones we feel will be the most beneficial. If you see one here or at another website lets us know and we will post it here.

There are other websites, books and videos about Hacky Sacks and/or Foot-Bagging all over the place including our own Bookstore page. The first step in learning any sport is to get out there and try! Remember you cannot become good at something until you actually put in the time, learn the rules, and practice, practice and practice!

We were cruising the web looking for information about footbaggers and the sport of Hacky Sacking. We have added some new links for various websites out there for and about hacky sacking or is it really footbagging. There have also been some additions to the Bookstore to include not only books about the sport, various styles of hack sacks available for sale but apparel such as t-shirts, hats, bags and more. Check it out at http://allabouthackysacks.info/wordpress/hacky-sack-bookstore.

We are just getting started with the website and hope to encourage others in the Jacksonville, Florida area to join in. I know there are other footbaggers out there We have seen you play on the beach, at the parks and at some of the schools. If you would like to get together and practice your style and possibly start a competition with others around the area give us a shout at jolene.macfadden@allabouthackysacks.info.

We will be reviewing information from the various websites on the net and hopefully pointing the way to some great information on how to play, leagues, movies, pictures, and other great stuff that can help you on your way to becoming a terrific Hacky Sack Player!

Cheers and until next time.

Hey, footbaggers we are off and running with our blog. Yes, we are still fairly young in the blogging world and our main players, Dillan and Jamie will be adding photos and movies in the future. We are also gathering information as we accumulate it for our readers so stay tuned and we will be updating them as we go along.

Below you will find a little movie of beginning moves with a footbag. We look forward to your contributions as well. The boys are working on a step-by-step how-to video for those who may be interested.

Good day to all you hacky sack fans. We have added a bookstore to buy books about the game as well as the footbags. We hope you will buy a thing or two as this will give us a little bit of change to keep our blog going. We encourage everyone to join as subscribers and for those who would like to post their own discussions you can email us after you subscribe with your user id and a note that you would like to become a subscriber at: jolene.macfadden@allabouthackysacks.info

We will be adding information and links to information as we find it. We will be posting little videos of our local hacky sack players. We will be gathering links to teams of hacky sack players as we find them.

This is an initial posting for our site.  Once we get the site up and running this information will be moved to the ABOUT page.  We will be gathering information on how to play, what materials you need to play, and whatever else we can gather.  We encourage our readers to subscribe and add comments.  For those who would like to participate more you can email us after you subscribe and we will change your status to contributor.  Just remember this will be a family blog and want to keep all comments and posts rated “G”.

You can email us at:  jolene.macfadden@allabouthackysacks.info