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Written by: Yakumo
@stout bit cheeky of me but you made me giggle a bit too, TKD's got a bad rep for the short active career of it's practitioners because of joint abuse.
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Written by: Mark Husted
TO MCP: Smoke a bowl because I think I almost heard the stick in your ass snap.
Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
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Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.
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Written by: stout
Hey Mr Majestik, congrats on making it to the Australian championships.
Written by: stout
But the difficulty issue is completely irrelevant
Written by: mcp
I think hacky sack is the easy version of chinlone. Chinlone is the absolute win.
Written by: mcp
Is it a ridiculous thing to suggest? I thought it was only done by white teenage american boys in small cities towns originally. Cos I'd only ever seen videos of and heard about teen white boy footbagers. Now I discover it's also done by australians.
Written by: mcp
A few videos on hop will show that spinning isn't stuck to one demographic.
And you've yet to show any evidence that it's done by anyone else, so I don't see how it's a ridiculous thing to suggest.
Written by: mcp
I think chinlone is better because it's graceful, it's a national past-time with traditional roots, and is a team game with non-traditional scoring.
Written by: mcp
If it was endurance, it would be for more than the length of a song. I don't think there are any 'precise' athletic sports. All the throwing jumping and other events have a reasonable landing area.
Written by: mcp
surely with a big ball you have to make bigger movement to get your leg over it etc... I don't know if there is a solo version of chinlone, other than for display.
Written by: mcp
I dislike activities or so called 'games' based on modern made up toys, like footbag, subuteo, yo!-stick, and whatever else. And yes I do dislike both poi and staff for some of the same reasons too.
Written by: mcp
Yeah, I don't think you have to set out with the goal of impressing others just to look/be graceful in an activity. Grace is it's own reward when doing something.
Written by: LazyAngel
But if I had to choose between watching footbag and chinlone, chinlone all the way! I mean a sport where the object is to do cool stuff and impress people to win is by its very nature going to be much cooler to watch.
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obviously you dont know how tiring jumping around and shifting your bodyweight every few seconds can be, running along a road for an hour is a lot simpler than playing two minutes straight of freestyle footbag without dropping the bag. a reasonable landing area you say? yay... i can throw a object that way and get a medal....i'm a real athelete... the precision and endurance required for freestyle footbag becomes a combination that i believe laughs at things that you consider to be atheletic like running along a specifically designed track, or throwing a specifically designed stick.
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exactly, you make one revolution with your leg around a chinlone ball, where as you make three revolutions around a footbag,
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Written by: Stout
Yakumo. There's no pedantry here... footbags' not going down without a good fight.
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Written by: Mascot
Hooray for MCP1 and her harsh ways. I think that there's not enough put downs and such on these forums. Too many hippies and too much of this modern "Your opinion is equally valid stuff".
Not enough people prepared to say "Your opinion isn't equally valid, it's wrong. Just plain wrong".
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Written by: Mr Majestik
i disagree, meg clearly stated that she thinks footbag is easier than chinlone, i completely disagree.
Written by: Mr MajestikWritten by: mcp
Is it a ridiculous thing to suggest? I thought it was only done by white teenage american boys in small cities towns originally. Cos I'd only ever seen videos of and heard about teen white boy footbagers. Now I discover it's also done by australians.
.... yeah, well chinlone is dumb because only asians play it....(i find this statement comparable in ridiculousness to what you've stated about footbag)
Written by: Mr Majestik
its just plain rediculous to say one sport is played by one social demographic, only the italians played soccer when it was first invented, and now look at it! would you have been insulting soccer when it was invented because it was only played in the country it was created in?
Written by: Mr Majestik
and how does a sport become a national past time without beginning somewhere? this sounds like you're saying "its big and popular so i like it!". and whats non traditional scoring? non-Anglo/Celtic/European scoring? imho i'm getting the impression that the only reason you like chinlone more than footbag is because it comes from a culture vastly different to your own and therefore has a more 'exotic' appeal.
Written by: Mr Majestik
obviously you dont know how tiring jumping around and shifting your bodyweight every few seconds can be, running along a road for an hour is a lot simpler than playing two minutes straight of freestyle footbag without dropping the bag. a reasonable landing area you say? yay... i can throw a object that way and get a medal....i'm a real athelete... the precision and endurance required for freestyle footbag becomes a combination that i believe laughs at things that you consider to be atheletic like running along a specifically designed track, or throwing a specifically designed stick.
Written by: Mr Majestik
so not only do you have a fondness for other cultures, but you have a fondness for historic activities?
Written by: Mr Majestik
i agree completely, i feel awesome when i get a graceful run playing footbag.
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But if I had to choose between watching footbag and chinlone, chinlone all the way! I mean a sport where the object is to do cool stuff and impress people to win is by its very nature going to be much cooler to watch.
haha, shall we turn this into the technical Vrs Dancing twirlers thread?
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Written by: mcpWritten by: Mr Majestik
i disagree, meg clearly stated that she thinks footbag is easier than chinlone, i completely disagree.
I didn't state but implied, that chinlone would be easier with a footbag and without style, and footbag would be harder with a chinlone ball and grace. Or to put it another way, to do the same movements as in chinlone with a footbag would be easier.
Written by: mcp
Lets put it more clearly: I think it's retarded, and clearly it's only done by a population group that I think are immature, and liable to do stupid things, and have no cultural games of their own to play or are unwilling to play them and instead have to invent this useless, ugly activity and compete at it.
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Written by: Mr Majestik
i think footbag is as useless as contact staff
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"the still legendary" - Kaskade
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Written by: Yakumo
anyway, enough pedantry and jibes, I'm more interested in the lack of comment on the health implications?
Written by: Mr Majestik
you can jump about for hours? I'm not talking just jumping around, i'm talking precise, fast leg movements, during which you're carrying the entire weight of your body mostly on one leg, for every second of how ever long you go for.
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"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Written by: Stout
True Yakumo, long term, footbagging can do alot of damage. Out of the group that I used to play over the net with, and all of whom went to the world's in SF in 2004, every one of them is complaining about knee and hip problems.
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Written by: mcpWritten by: Mr Majestik
i think footbag is as useless as contact staff
yeah but happily, it doesn't cause joint damage, does look nice, it can be used to perform with, it's done by a diverse range of people, a good deal of whom I respect and what's more, you have no arguments to back up your statement.
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Written by: Mr MajestikWritten by: mcpWritten by: Mr Majestik
i think footbag is as useless as contact staff
yeah but happily, it doesn't cause joint damage, does look nice, it can be used to perform with, it's done by a diverse range of people, a good deal of whom I respect and what's more, you have no arguments to back up your statement.
i think footbag does look nice, i guess thats a matter of opinion. footbag can be used to perform, my friend gets paid about $400 AUD for a five minute demo. i think freestlye footbag is mostly played by younger people because of the high entrance standards, high training demand (if you want to be good), and you have to be very fit to compete. which statement do i have no arguments for? or perhaps it wasnt a statement like yours wasnt
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.
'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.
'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi
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