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Piece of Finnish footbaggin’ history

Did you know that the first ever IFAB (predecessor of IFPA) sanctioned event outside North America was the Finnish Footbag Open back in 1997? The tournament took place in Helsinki in November of ’97. We had some 50 people competing in singles and doubles net and singles freestyle. The tournament… Read more ›

Promotional video for Helsinki underway

Our boy Jere Vainikka and the Finnish Footbag Association made a sweet deal with the city: Jere and his company Nobrainer Films are making a promotinal film for Helsinki, from a footbaggers point of view, and a documentary of the Worlds tournament! As we know how talented Jere is, it’s… Read more ›

Video Contest is here again

Back in 2005, when Helsinki hosted the World Footbag Championships for the first time, we came up with an idea for a sideline event: We would ask all the innovative film makers in the footbag community to create ground breaking footbag videos for the first ever Video Contest. We got… Read more ›

Footbag demos around Finland

We have been spreading the sport of footbag in a few events here in Finland lately. Turku hosted Eurocultured a couple of weeks ago, and footbag was present of course. Finnish Footbag Associations freestyle demo team kicked the bag for several hours in middle of BMX riders, crazy parkour people… Read more ›

Registration is now open!

The online registration for the footbag event of the year is now open! If you plan to travel to Worlds this year, you must register and pay online before July 17. There will be no on-site or late registration, so please register and pay before July 17. Whether you are… Read more ›

Finland is the World Champion in ice hockey!

Yesterday the Finnish national ice hockey team, also known as The Lions, crushed Sweden 6-1 in the IIHF World Championship final in Slovakia! It’s already 16 years since the last time Finland won the title, so it was about time… The whole nation went bananas after the match, and people… Read more ›