Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Glendale, AZ, USA
Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 7:08 am Post subject:
They've let in too many "sports related subjects" into the olympics!
Example:Snowboarding Freestyle tricking (people the participate in it go one at a time and then compare scores.........footbag freestyle shreding could be done in the exact same way!)
Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Layton, UT, USA
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:
come on man. footbag has been played for thousands of years if you think about it. the mayans used to play it. the frickin australians used to play foot bag with kangaroo ball sacs with pebles in them. if that doesn't qualify as an olympic sport what does!!!???
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 477 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:
Jojo Fairbourn (johnyjojo) wrote:
come on man. footbag has been played for thousands of years if you think about it. the mayans used to play it. the frickin australians used to play foot bag with kangaroo ball sacs with pebles in them. if that doesn't qualify as an olympic sport what does!!!???
Marn Grook was played with possum hides.......
seriously what are you on about?
Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Layton, UT, USA
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject:
All i'm trying to say is that people have been hackin' for thousands of years and it's still not an olympic sport.Snow boarding is a good example, people have been boarding for fifteen - twenty years if that. Just because footbag isn't a "mainstream" sport doesn't mean that it shouldn't get the respect that it deserves.
Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 741 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:08 am Post subject:
Jojo Fairbourn (johnyjojo) wrote:
All i'm trying to say is that people have been hackin' for thousands of years and it's still not an olympic sport.Snow boarding is a good example, people have been boarding for fifteen - twenty years if that. Just because footbag isn't a "mainstream" sport doesn't mean that it shouldn't get the respect that it deserves.
Dude did you bother to read the begining of this thread? Telling the Olympic committe that "footbag is kewl" and "people have been hackin' for thousands of years" isn't going to just automatically make it an olympic sport. They have requirements.
Benjamin Benulis (ironcladben) wrote:
There are a few requirements that need to be met:
C-Fan wrote:
Section 52 of the Charter, entitled "Admission of Sports, Disciplines, and Events". This is the section that lists the requirements that must be met before any sport can be considered for inclusion in the Olympic Games. I read this section very carefully, and it appears that these are the minimum requirements:
Minimum Requirements to Be An Olympic Sport
The Sport Must be Widely Practiced
"Only sports widely practiced by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad." For Winter sports, the criteria is 25 countries on 3 continents.
(Olympic Charter Section 52, Paragraph 1.1.1)
The Sport Must Have International Standing
"To be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, events must have a recognized international standing both numerically and geographically, and have been included at least twice in world or continental championships."
(Olympic Charter Section 52, Paragraph 3.2)
There Must be Drug Testing
"Only sports that apply the Olympic Movement Anti-Doping Code and in particular perform out-of-competition testing in accordance with the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency will be included in the programme of the Olympic Games."
(Olympic Charter Section 52, Paragraph 1.1.3)
Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 33 Location: San Jose, CA, USA
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:
Why are we getting a head of ourselves already??? Whats up with the off topic CART Is better than you.
I do agree with Ben a long the lines of just because its "kewl" or thousands of years old doesn't mean it gets in. Then again I would really like to know how curling go in before us, (insulting, no?).
But after that we shouldn't really care about olympics as much as we should care about supporting the IFPA. Not to mention recruit wherever you are. I have a bunch of Freedom Footbag Jim Penske handouts (the ones with the tricks) And I keep them in my backpack which I take with me to shred sessions. If there is a young kid watching or someone interested I leave the circle and talk to them. Even tell them about what I know of the sport, and if they're still interested I'll kick with them, and give them the handouts and information to footbag.org.
After that, its only a matter of time, I mean heck if you look back I doubt skateboarders ever thought it would be this big. But now look, almost every kid in Cali I know skateboards (except me I'm from Wisconsin). So like I said, only a matter of time, and until then. Support the IFPA via cash or heck ask if you can Volunteer to help, and get other people into the circle.
I only wish it were easier though. People get so intimidated when they see a clipper. They want to just kick around a little. When they see me break a sweat they usually just quit and find a skateboard.
On the bright side, I have personally trained at least two people how to clip. And those two meant more to me than... insert witty metaphor here.
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 1508 Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:32 am Post subject:
Eric Chang (acommoncold) wrote:
Support the IFPA via cash or heck ask if you can Volunteer to help, and get other people into the circle.
Exactly - footbag will never be an olympic sport until footbaggers start supporting footbag as a sport. Imagine how much bigger footbag would be if 10% of the energy put into posting on internet forums was put into helping the IFPA...
Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 9 Location: San Jose, CA, USA
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:
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Andrew Swanson (Mert)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:
I only wish it were easier though. People get so intimidated when they see a clipper. They want to just kick around a little. When they see me break a sweat they usually just quit and find a skateboard.
On the bright side, I have personally trained at least two people how to clip. And those two meant more to me than... insert witty metaphor here.
blah (long day)
heh, that's how this one guy got me on here... he started doing clippers, illusions, mirages, infinities, and he tried a pendulum... all I could do up until i met him was toe stall and flying clipper (I still like to call it "Jester") He even told me to go to this website. I'm sorry guys I don't wanna get all serious about footbag and contribute to it becoming an olympic sport. But all of these tricks are new to me and I wanna stretch my comfort zone and get better at "hackysack"(progress as of today: landed left foot toe stall and right inside stall. hehe, and I would have probably gotten better in the last 10 minutes it took me to make this post)
I dunno if people doing it for thousands of years would make it a sport. I mean I like to hack not to prove I'm better than others but to be able to contribute to a circle and do a little something cool and then pass it to the next person. (every post I do here seems to be a long one)
Hackysack or Circleplay (whatever it is dubbed here) reminds me of Collective Improvisation from early Jazz music. Every member in the band would be improvising together and enjoying themselves. One member would decide to play louder and go off on basically a solo, and the other band members would show courtesy by backing off a little bit and supporting him with harmonics and rhythm. The person taking a solo would finish and they would continue playing their original song. Another person takes a solo and the cycle continues again. But this time the person playing is somewhat of an asshole and the rest of the members don't like him. If this guy is playing too soft, instead of backing off and supporting him, they may bury him. If the guy is playing too loud, they may play softly and not support him with harmony or rhythm, making him sound way too loud and really awkward.
I can imagine a similar behavior when playing in a circle. One guy is hogging or being too much of a showoff, the rest of the people playing would stop paying attention to him(or giving him positive attention), and avoid passing to him. Or the guy keeps dropping it way too much, so the rest of the players don't pass it to him.(sorry, this post is getting too long)
Then the "Louis Armstrong" of hackysack comes along, and nobody wants to take a "solo" after him. Everyone just wants to watch his incredible skills.
Collective Improvisation makes room for the ever popular Soloistic Improvisation and "Freestyling" is born...
Wouldn't it be funny to say that it was after my Jazz History class that I met the guy who opened my eyes to this new world...*cough* I mean sport
(because it was)
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