FOOTBAG

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FOOTBAG

• Footbag is a growing sport, played mostly in
  Europe and North America, though there are a
  rapidly growing number of footbag clubs and
  players around the world. Frequently referred to
  as "Hacky Sack" (a product manufactured by
  Wham-O, Inc.), footbag has existed as a
  competitive sport in several forms since the
  1970's.

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• Footbag Net is a singles or doubles court game,
  like tennis or volleyball, where players use only
  their feet to kick the footbag over a
  five-foot-high net. The rules for doubles net are
  a lot like volleyball players are allowed three
  kicks per side, and must alternate kicks. In
  singles, however, players are only allowed two
  kicks per side.

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• Footbag Freestyle is the artistic form of the
  sport. It can be a flurry of difficult moves the
  eye can hardly follow, or it can be smooth and
  flowing, as if in slow motion. This variety makes
  freestyle competitions very difficult to judge.
  To simplify the task, competitors are judged
  along four dimensions choreography, difficulty,
  variety, and execution.

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• Players choreograph routines to music, and are
  judged on how well their style of play matches
  their choice of music. They are also judged on
  their originality and creativity.
• Each move or trick has a determinable difficulty
  rating. The average difficulty of each move and
  the total difficulty of all the moves in the
  routine are added to determine a player's
  difficulty rating. Difficulty is measured in
  "adds", which represent additional levels of
  difficulty beyond the basic moves.

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• For variety, players must perform moves that
  contain elements from five general categories
  (1) leg dexterity (circling the bag with the
  foot), (2) delays (catching the footbag), (3)
  spins, fliers, and blind moves, (4) unusual
  surfaces (i.e., sole, shin, or head), and (5)
  cross-body moves (made by crossing the foot to
  the other side of the body).
• Execution is judged by smoothness, confidence,
  and, most of all, the ability of the player to
  keep the footbag off the ground .

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