Hack le Sack

nebagakidnebagakid
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
So, who here is interested in hackysack? Anyone? The small rounded threaded, beaded, ball, bouncy when new... it is a skill easy to novice at and difficult to master.... anyone?



I mention this only because my friends and I have started to play around the tenlytown metro stop (in DC) after school, around 4... if anyone from DC wants to hack it up, you are free to come join... (we play with this socialist dude who is at that same spot all day long)

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    formerlurkerformerlurker Posts: 2,686member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Nebagakid

    So, who here is interested in hackysack? Anyone? The small rounded threaded, beaded, ball, bouncy when new... it is a skill easy to novice at and difficult to master.... anyone?



    I mention this only because my friends and I have started to play around the tenlytown metro stop (in DC) after school, around 4... if anyone from DC wants to hack it up, you are free to come join... (we play with this socialist dude who is at that same spot all day long)



    Great for your reflexes, foot coordination, timing, accuracy, etc.



    I started out much this way myself with several college friends, in late Freshman year, and we became quite the proficient hackers. We came to prefer the croched type to the regulation leather HackeySack, way softer and it bounces less. We always stomped on new HackeySacks, even ran over them with a pickup truck several times to "soften" them up 8)



    When you are just getting started, you can fly up the learning curve by "hacking off" by yourself. Stand in a corner indoors with a fairly high ceiling and the wall rebounds will give you plenty of practice opportunity.



    This was 20 years ago, and I stopped playing regularly over 10 years ago, but it's a bit like riding a bike - I can still hack in to a circle of college kids when I run into one at a Show, and give it a pretty good go.
  • Reply 2 of 9
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Happydays with Happy sack

    When I was a kid, back in the 70's we used to kick small three inch "Bean bags" around in much the same manner. had much the sames rules too, except in our games we'd try to "catch it " by getting it to land on our heads..Great fun..

    & I still love it even if my knees don't !
  • Reply 3 of 9
    n a d n e r bn a d n e r b Posts: 144member
    yeaaahhh.. hacky sack. hmmm...... no. I used to see alot of pseudo-hippies kick them around about 10 years ago. It was pretty big around the time of the cat-in-the-hat hats and jester hats... you know which hats I'm talking about? Not that I haven't tried it or anything, and yeah it was kind of fun.... but I saw a group of people the other day at the park doing the same with a soccer ball and it seemed...... kind of.... less.................. you know.
  • Reply 4 of 9
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    I suck at Hacky Sack &trade
  • Reply 5 of 9
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    One of my freshman year dormmates was crazy at footbagging. He was like #2 in the world or something at the time.



    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/874

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/ryan

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/410

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/416

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/418

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/898

    http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/864



    Well, you get the picture...



    He was also a sleazy jerko. :P
  • Reply 6 of 9
    kraig911kraig911 Posts: 912member
    I used to play a lot in college too... we had a game where we drank 5 shots and had to play and whoe. whoever lost had to chug a beer heh but still I was pretty good sober too I met a dude from the dallas footbag association or whatever at the time but never attended I hear they are pretty good.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    Oh how I have always sucked at Hacky Sack! Truely sucked :



    Mabey one day I will be able to play it!
  • Reply 8 of 9
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by trevorM

    Oh how I have always sucked at Hacky Sack! Truely sucked :



    Mabey one day I will be able to play it!





    Hey ! You can always play the girls version...you know...the one where you just throw it back @ forth to each other.....
  • Reply 9 of 9
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by trevorM

    Oh how I have always sucked at Hacky Sack! Truely sucked :



    Mabey one day I will be able to play it!





    you can only get better, i believe, by playing more and more and more.....
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