Footbags, also known as hacky sacks, are a hit with kids looking for analog, retro toys—but they're getting hard to find.
Gaze intense, feet flying, Curtis Taylor is on a hot string. His eyes and his whirling feet are locked on a tiny bag that he's kicking, kicking, kicking. The 17-year-old Clear Lake High School senior ...
Champion athletes from the United States and Canada, will compete this weekend in a U.S. Open tournament at Willamette Park. Their sport, almost 40 years old, has its roots in the metro area. What ...
The hacky sack players often spotted in White Plaza are a diverse group of "footbaggers" from across the globe. (Serenity Nguyen/The Stanford Daily) Passing through White Plaza on a Tuesday afternoon, ...
Many have played the game before, even if unknowingly. Footbag, also known as hacky sack, has been played professionally for nearly three decades. This weekend, its national championship tournament ...
Except for maybe curling, could any sport be more ridiculous? You're hopping up and down, contorting your body in all kinds of yogic positions, kicking a little beanbag in the air. Sure, the moves you ...
Nathan Bonslaver, 18, a senior at Exeter, doesn’t find his passion in music or the arts. He prefers his own version of art, the art of freestyle footbag. Freestyle footbagging is the ability to ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Footbag – World Champion 8 Bit Sports Are you tubular? Do you love retro 8 bit NES classics? Do you have what it takes to be the 2014 footbag world ...
In the lobby of Theater Artaud on Thursday night, a dozen hopefuls were spinning in place, inventing routines and glad-handing one another, sweat dripping from their torsos. It was the semifinals of ...
These days, we spend far too much connected to the world on our smartphones and tablets, so much so that we forget to have fun sometimes. I’m sure that more than a few of you have been staring at your ...
To the music of a Spanish guitar, Chris Dean flipped and juggled a small footbag with the rhythm of a dancer. The sac flew behind his head, through his legs and came to a rest on the toe of his shoe ...