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Footbag News (News for 1998)
25 December 1998
!! The East-Must Jam freestyle jam is
happening this weekend!! (December 26-27) in Washington, D.C. For more information,
click here or see the
upcoming events list.
23 December 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- HackieRoos, in Adelaide, New South Wales (Australia)
- Footbag Anarchists, in Fort Worth, TX (USA)
22 December 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Bear Feet, in Providence, RI (USA)
- South Dakota Sackers, in Miller, SD (USA)
- WCC Hack Society, in Valhalla, NY (USA)
- MUFF (MizzoU Footbag Fanatics), in Columbia, MO (USA)
6 December 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- The Footbag Foundation, in Dalton, GA (USA)
- The Dirty Cavemen, in Franklin, TN (USA)
- Sibannac Footbaggers Club, in Warminster, PA (USA)
- Footbaggeres of Ocala Forest High, in Ocala, FL (USA)
- M.A. Footbag Club, in Hopedale, MA (USA)
4 December 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- G.H.S Spanish Hack Club, in Greenport, NY (USA)
- The Underground: Munich Freestyle, in Munich (Germany)
- The Crew, in Canadian, TX (USA)
- Chesapeake hack crew, in Chesapeake, VA (USA)
- Jest, in Spearfish, SD (USA)
- London Footbag Club, in London, Ontario (Canada)
- ZION FOOTBAG ASSOCIATION, in Paris (France)
- Children of the Sphere, in Perth, Western Australia (Australia)
18 November 1998
!! The club list has been updated, and all
inactive clubs have been removed. There are now 151 clubs
in 21 countries.
8 November 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Rain City Shred Factory, in Seattle, WA (USA)
- Sole-Air Productions, in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
- Raton Freestyle Club, in Raton, NM (USA)
2 November 1998
!! CONGRATULATIONS to Carol Wedemeyer
and Eric Wulff on their marriage today!
30 October 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Hacks For Kicks, in Fayetteville, NC (USA)
- Southeast Footbag Society for Bored, Active Teens, in Chatsworth, GA (USA)
- Footstar Schweiz, in Zurich (Switzerland)
- FOOTBAG LOKOMOTIF - U. Oulu Footbag Agit Prop Club, in Oulu (Finland)
- Hacky Sack'ng Teens, in Moscow (Russia)
- Gravity Check Footbag Club, in Springfeild, MA (USA)
- Hackin' for Records, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)
- Louisville Footbaggers, in Louisville, KY (USA)
- Philadelphia Phootbagg, in Bensalem, PA (USA)
- UNCW Footbag Club, in Wilmington, NC (USA)
!! CONGRATULATIONS to Carol Wedemeyer
and Eric Wulff on their marriage on Monday, November 2nd!
29 October 1998
!! The club list has finally been updated!
See What's New for a list of new clubs,
including 3 European clubs (Russia, Finland, and Switzerland!).
19 October 1998
!! The Eugene Fall Footbag Tournament
is happening this weekend (October 24-25), in
Eugene, Oregon. More information is on the
event list.
18 October 1998
!! 
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Snap Editor's Choice Award in recognition of its overall excellence
in content, design and usefulness.15 October 1998
!! The Eugene Fall Footbag Tournament
is happening next weekend (October 24-25), in
Eugene, Oregon. More information is on the
event list.
14 October 1998
!! The online freestyle move list is one of the most popular
things on the site. Have we updated it? Nope! But keep watching. Updates are coming
soon. The move list contains video demonstrations of selected moves.
Click here for the current set of video demonstrations.
5 October 1998
!! The Texas State Footbag Championships
are happening this weekend (October 10-11),
in Austin, Texas. More information is
available on the event list.
28 September 1998
!! The Bay Area Fall Festival is
this Sunday (Oct. 4th) in San Francisco. More information
is on the event list.
24 September 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- UW Madison Footbag Association, in Madison, WI (USA)
- Great River, in Moscow (Russia)
- Associacao Brasileira de Footbag, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Sky High Freestyle Club, in Boulder, CO (USA)
- Sthlm Footbag Club, in Stockholm, none (Sweden)
- DESY Footbaggers, in Hamburg (Germany)
- The Kickin' Phatties, in Flagstaff, AZ (USA)
21 September 1998
!! The Finnish Footbag Open is
this weekend (Sept. 26-27) in Helsinki, Finland. Final
details are on the event list.
!! The new issue of Kickers Quarterly
Footbagazine is now available! Get your copy from the KQ Website.
9 September 1998
8 September 1998
!! The Finnish Footbag Open is coming
up on Sept. 26-27 in Helsinki, Finland. More information is
on the event list.
31 August 1998
!! The Funtastik Summer Classic footbag
championships are this weekend (September 5-7) in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. More information is on the event list.
30 August 1998
!! The 18th Annual Beaver Open is happening
this weekend (Sept. 5-7) in Salem, Oregon. More information is on
the event list.
29 August 1998
The Bay Area Fall Footbag Festival has been
announced for Sunday, October 4, 1998 in San Francisco, California
on the upcoming events list.
28 August 1998
!! The freestyle move list has been
improved and updated with lots of useful information, including
video demonstrations for selected moves. More video on the way...
Check it out!
27 August 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Düssel-Hackerz, in Düsseldorf, Germany
- Sack TEAM HAELEN 1, in Haelen/Heythuysen/Neer, Holland)
- Carnabal, in Nantes, France
- Orange Coast Footbag, in Costa Mesa, CA (USA)
!! The freestyle move list has been
greatly improved and fully moved onto this service.
Check it out!
24 August 1998
!! The Funtastik Summer Classic footbag
championships are coming up September 5-7 (Labor Day weekend) in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. More information is on the event list.
17 August 1998
!! The Vancouver Open Footbag Net Tournament is happening
this weekend (August 22-23, 1998) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
16 August 1998
!! Service Update: The footbag.org server is experiencing
problems, which may cause this site to be unavailable for periods
of time. Please understand that we are working on this and will try to
have the site up and stable as soon as possible.
!! The World Footbag Association has
updated their website! They now include an expanded catalog (more to be
added soon) and more information on their school programs.
Check it out at <http://worldfootbag.com>.
12 August 1998
!! The Eugene Celebration footbag tournament has been postponed
until Oct. 24-25.
9 August 1998
!! The California State Footbag Championships are happening
this weekend (August 15-16, 1998), in Santa Rosa, California. More information is available
on the event list.
7 August 1998
4 August 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Sierra Nevada Footbag Player, in Carson City , NV (USA)
- Anti-HS Footbag Smackers, in Essex Junction, VT (USA)
- Tamalpais Footbag Association, in Greenbrae, CA (USA)
- pipi and the dreamers, in bridgewater, Nova Scotia (Canada)
- The Many Direction Hackers, in Framingham, MA (USA)
- Amateur Baggers' Club, in Cottontown, TN (USA)
- Melbourne Footbag Club (M.F.C.), in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)
- Footbag.Net, in Minneapolis, MN (USA)
- Buffalo Footbag Club, in Buffalo, NY (USA)
- Cologne Kickers, in Koeln, none (Germany)
- Saskatoon Hotsteppers (Flaming Bag), in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada)
2 August 1998
!! The Northern Illinois Footbag Open is happening
this weekend, August 8-9, in Malta, Illinois. More information is on the upcoming
events list.
1 August 1998
!! Two more sets of photos from the 1998
World Championships are now available in the photo gallery.
31 July 1998
The 1998 California State Footbag Championships have been
announced for August 15-16, 1998, in Santa Rosa, California (USA). Details are on the
upcoming events list.
28 July 1998
The Texas State Footbag Championships have been
announced for October 10-11, 1998, in Austin, Texas, on the upcoming
events list.
22 July 1998
!! Events this weekend:
Seattle Alternative Sports Festival - Jul. 24-26 - Seattle
Brew Grass Chili Bag Festival - Jul. 25 - Dillon, Montana
More information is on the upcoming events list.
Seattle Alternative Sports Festival - Jul. 24-26 - Seattle
Brew Grass Chili Bag Festival - Jul. 25 - Dillon, Montana
More information is on the upcoming events list.
19 July 1998
!! The 1998 World Footbag Championships have
just concluded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Full results,
including beautiful photographs from the event, will be
available soon. Watch this space.
13 July 1998
!! The 1998 WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS are
happening this week in Montreal, Québec, Canada!!
More information is available on the Worlds Home Page.
!! For (almost) daily announcements of results from this week's
world championships, join the e-mail list announce@footbag.org
by going to the footbag list server.
7 July 1998
!! The 1998 WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS are
next week (July 13-19, 1998), in Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Complete details are on the event list.
!! New tournament photographs have been
uploaded to the photo gallery, taken and collected by
Mike Grueter at several footbag events over the last two years. Click here
for an index of the new photos.
6 July 1998
!! The State Games of Oregon, which
will include a footbag competition, are happening this weekend
(July 11-12, 1998) in Gresham, Oregon. More information
is on the event list.
4 July 1998
!! Congratulations to Tuan Vu and Lisa Monti on their wedding, July 4, 1998, in San Francisco!
3 July 1998
New information is available for the
1998 Vancouver Open coming up August 22-23, 1998,
in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on the event list.
!! Complete and final details are now available on the
1998 WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS
pages, including a detailed schedule, player information,
press release, and pre-tournament activities.
30 June 1998
29 June 1998
!! The 1998 Oulo Open Footbag Championships are happening this
Saturday, July 4, 1998, in Oulu, Finland. More information
is on the event list.
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Lord of the Dragonflies, in Madawaska, Maine (USA)
- Bogi-Flyers, in St. Peter am Hart (Austria)
- Sacto Hacking Co., in Sacramento, California (USA)
- Polaris, in Boulder Creek, California (USA)
- Absence Hack Association (AHA), in Batavia, Illinois (USA)
- Oconee County Footbag Association, in Seneca, South Carolina (USA)
- Wichita Footbag Club , in Wichita, Kansas (USA)
- Nitro, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho (USA)
- SHU Footbag Club, in South Orange, New Jersey (USA)
- Fuss-Sack Freunde, in Cologne (Germany)
28 June 1998
!! The 1998 Oulo Open Footbag Championships are happening this
Saturday, July 4, 1998, in Oulu, Finland. More information
is on the event list.
The Northern Illinois Footbag Open has
been announced for August 8-9, 1998, in Malta, Illinois, on the
event list.
Click here for more
information.
26 June 1998
Peter Irish will be on MTV this Friday & Monday (6/26 & 6/29) 12noon - 12:30pm (The Burn),
and Thursday (7/2) 4-5:30pm (MTV Jams)! All timezones within USA.
22 June 1998
!! The Bedford Indoor Footbag Championships are happening
this Saturday, June 27, 1998, in Bedford, Australia. More information is available
on the event list.
!! Peter Irish (multiple world freestyle
champion) will be on MTV sometime Thursday (7/2) 4-5:30pm (MTV Jams)! All timezones within USA.
20 June 1998
!! The 1998 WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS
are coming up JULY 13-19, 1998 in Montréal, Québec
(Canada)! More information is on the event list.
17 June 1998
!! The 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS page has been updated!
The Worlds are happening July 13-19, 1998 in Montreal, Quebec.
15 June 1998
!! The U. S. Open Footbag Championships are this weekend
(June 20-21) in Portland, Oregon. More information is on the
event list.
8 June 1998
!! The Midwest Regional Footbag Championships are this weekend
(June 12-14) in Chicago, Illinois. More information is on the
event list.
31 May 1998
!! The freestyle moves list has moved!
It is now hosted on Footbag WorldWide at <http://www.footbag.org/movelist/>.
26 May 1998
!! The 1998 Emerald City Open is
coming up June 6-7 in Seattle. More information is
on the event list.
18 May 1998
!! The WESTERN
REGIONAL FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS are this weekend (May 23-25) in
Palo Alto, California! Click here
for more information, or call 1-415-308-KICK.
17 May 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Section Footbag, in Savigny sur Orge (France)
- ME19281, in East Millinocket, ME (USA)
- Hector's Hack Club, in Matheson, Ontario (Canada)
- Club Sack, in Wollongong University, New South Wales (Australia)
- Jomari, in Cotabato City (Philippines)
11 May 1998
!!
- This weekend (May 16-17):
- Alabama Outdoor Footbag Championships
in Auburn, Alabama;
- Kansas Footbag Open in Wichita, Kansas.
7 May 1998
!! The 1998 WESTERN REGIONALS have
have been announced for May 23-25 at Stanford University in Palo Alto,
California. More info, click here.
4 May 1998
!! The Southern Oregon Footbag
Championships are this weekend (May 8-10) in Ashland,
Oregon (USA).
29 April 1998
!! The East Coast Footbag Championships are
this weekend in College Park, Maryland! More information is on the
event list.
28 April 1998
!! The Heartland Regional Footbag Championships are
this weekend in St. Joseph, Missouri! More information is on the
event list.
22 April 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- The Grass Stains, in Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
- Journey to Whirled Peas, in Noblesville, IN (USA)
21 April 1998
!! The University of Oregon Footbag Championships are
this weekend in Eugene, Oregon (April 25-26)!
20 April 1998
!! The Southern Regional Footbag Championships are
this weekend (April 25-26) in Dallas, Texas! Check out the event list
for more information.
18 April 1998
!! A new world record has been set: Constance
Constable kicked the footbag 24,713 times in a row on April 18, 1998, breaking
the previous record of 20,717 (set by Tricia George).
17 April 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Hackers-R-Us, in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia (Canada)
- HAFTR HACKS, in Cedarhurst, NY (USA)
13 April 1998
!! The Fighting Illini Footbag Festival is
this weekend (April 17-19) in Champaign, Illinois! More info is available
here.
12 April 1998
The BAFL Kicking Schedule has
been updated to reflect reality for kicking times/locations in the
San Francisco Bay Area on the Bay Area Footbag
League's home page.
The 1998 Kansas Footbag Open
has been announced for May 16-17, 1998, in Wichita, Kansas on the
event list.
9 April 1998
New information is available on the 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
home page, including travel information and a hotel update.
6 April 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Volkow Footbag Club, in Raanana, Israel
- Charleston Socci, in Charleston, SC (USA)
- ICARUS FOOTBAG, in Montpellier, France
!! Several footbag events are coming up this month:
- Champaign, Illinois - April 17-19
- Dallas, Texas - April 25-26
- Eugene, Oregon - April 25-26
31 March 1998
Results have been added or updated for the 1998 Winter Windchill Warm-Up on the tournament results list.
28 March 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Footbaggers Anonymous, in Pinehurst, NC (USA)
- Blake High Footbag Club, in Tampa, FL (USA)
25 March 1998
24 March 1998
!! The Southern California Footbag Championships are this weekend (April 4-5, 1998)
in Hermosa Beach, California! Click here for more info.
22 March 1998
!! A WORLD RECORD has been broken! Gary Lautt
and Tricia George just broke their own two-person consecutives
record. They successfully kicked the footbag 132,011 times
without stopping, breaking
their previous record of 123,456!
15 March 1998
The New York Freestyle Explosion has been announced
for June, 1998 (date TBA). Check back for more information when it is available, or see the
event listing for contact information.
!! The 1998 World Championships home page has been
updated -- it is now bilingual (French and English)! The schedule
of events has also been updated.
12 March 1998
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- C'mon Kids!, in Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Corvallis Kicking Congregation, in Corvallis, OR (USA)
- MCO Footbag Club, in Toledo, OH (USA)
- Circle of Fun, in Chico, CA (USA)
- Poridis-Guacamole Hackers, in Wellington, New Zealand
24 February 1998
!! Several new footbag events have been added to the event list. The 1998 competition calendar is pretty much filling up -- make your travel plans now! See the event list for more info.
22 February 1998
20 February 1998
!! The 1998 World Footbag Championships will be
July 13-19, 1998, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Click here
for more information.
18 February 1998
15 February 1998
6 February 1998
!! The 1998 East Coast Footbag Championships
have been announced for May 2-3, 1998, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD (USA); more
information is on the event list.
3 February 1998
!! The 1998 Chaos Indoor Festival is this weekend in Carbondale, Illinois! The latest information
is available on the upcoming event list.
29 January 1998
The 1998 Midwest Regionals have been
announced for June 12-14, 1998, in Mount Prospect (Chicago), Illinois on the
event list.
The 1998 Vancouver Open have been
announced for August 22-23, 1998, in Vancouver, BC, Canada on the
event list.
26 January 1998
The last of the old photos are being converted and added to
the new photo gallery. The latest
set was freestyle (and one net) photos from the 1994
Western Regionals.
25 January 1998
The little footbag "bullet" (to the left of this news item, and in many
other places on the site) has been replaced by a nicer version. Thanks
to Eric Côté from the Quebec Footbag Association.
The club listing for the Association Québécoise de Aqi-Footbag (AQAF) has been updated; AQAF now has their own
home page at <http://pages.infinit.net/studio16/aqaf/>.
!! New information is available for the 1998 WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS (July 13-19, 1998, in Montréal, Québec, Canada).
The Worlds home page is now available, with tentative schedules, site descriptions, and other useful information.
21 January 1998
!! New photos are available from the 1997 World Footbag Championships in the photo gallery. Captions and more photos are coming soon!
19 January 1998
15 January 1998
!! The video gallery has been updated
to use the new hierarchical index viewing, making it easier to
peruse the video collection. In addition, some of the older
videos have been converted into gallery format, with yet more
on the way soon.
The following clubs have been added to the club list:
- Fieldston Freestyle, in Riverdale, NY (USA)
- God stalls 'cause he's got big feet, in Santa Rosa, CA (USA)
- Ashland Freestyle Club, in Ashland, OR (USA)
Six new videos have been added to the Worlds '97 Shred Footage III
video gallery:
14 January 1998
The events and results
lists have been updated to include links and thumbnails for related photos
and videos where applicable. (So when you are looking at the event list,
you can access related photos and/or videos directly from that page.)
12 January 1998
!! The Air-A-Zona Footbag Tournament
is this weekend (Jan. 17-18, 1998), in Scottsdale, Arizona. More
information on this and other upcoming events is on the
event list.
11 January 1998
The photo gallery now allows for
photo set hierarchies -- i.e., photo sets may now be contained within
other photo sets, so that the main index is now simpler and
faster to load.
A new set of photos from the '96 Worlds
have been added to the photo gallery. This
set highlights the singles match between Sebastien Verdy and Kenny Shults.
10 January 1998
The related links page has been redone, using the dynamic content system that feeds most of the rest of the site. Users will soon be able to add their own links to the site. Many new links have already been added. To see the links, click the links button on any of the menus.
9 January 1998
!! The Air-A-Zona Footbag
Championships are only a week away! Meet some of the
top players in the net game.
Final information is available on the event list.
6 January 1998
The Sport of Footbag page has moved here from the Stanford website, and has gotten a facelift.
The Sound Footwork HotPix have been moved to the photo gallery.
3 January 1998
!! Footbag WorldWide has a new look, including a much nicer home page with more useful information in less space. Photos serve to spice up the page, as well as a new "Inside Scoop" section that keeps readers informed of the latest happenings in the game. The new look is still evolving, but if you find any errors, please report them to the webmaster.
The site is now also searchable!
!! Footbag WorldWide got a facelift! How do you like the new look?
Write us and let us know if you have trouble finding anything, or if
there are problems with the way this page looks on your browser.
(And of course, feel free to send kudos!)
1 January 1998
Happy New Year!
The home page is undergoing a facelift; phase I is now available. More changes, and updated information, are coming soon.
More photos have been added to the new photo galleries.