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Beast - June 24, 2005 03:35 AM (GMT)
As requested. Some of these are pretty big - maybe only dedicated footbaggers and people with broadband will have the patience for them ;) I'll write some comments too :D

http://www.footbag.org/media/673/AFC%2005%20two.wmv
This is a video from the recent Australian Champs - I like it because it's got me in it and some really good footage and a great soundtrack. I guess my reasons for liking this is more sentimental than anything else - ie. it brings back some good memories.

http://www.footbag.org/media/639/dylan_jeremy_hq.wmv
This is the last video that I personally made and edited. So I like a lot about it. I tried to show a lot of personality in it and I think that comes across well. There are also a lot of footbag injokes in this video (for example the move I hit in the public toilets is called "backside smear" and the one I hit in front of the police booth is called "pigbeater" - only footbaggers would understand (unless they were told :P )

http://ausfootbag.org/uploads/bcs2004webversion.avi
The last of the videos of me in it. This is easily the best edited, most professional video to be released from Australia - lots of talent invovled. Also great music!

http://www.footbag.p2.pl/video/507.wmv
This video is from Poland. The quality of the shred is ok - but nothing amazing. But this video has so much style and personality. I really love it. It feels so fresh and is way different to most footbag videos...

http://www.fcfootstar.de/videos/gfo05/gfo0...FelixZenger.wmv
A competion video from the German Footbag Open (an event that attracted over 2000 people). Felix is a good friend of mine from Finland and he won the event. This is a fantastic routine - very impressive.

http://www.kapsi.fi/~vesuri/video/fdo2005.wmv
Some more Finland players - the Finland guys always make great vids - really well edited and amazing footage.

http://www.footbag.org/media/138/blavicka.mpg
This is a video of the current world footbag champion. When this video was released it created an enourmas impact on footbaggers around the world. Even though this video is now a couple of years old there is still nobody anywere near the level of skill demonstrated by Vasek in this video - it's truely amazing. Just watching it now I'm amazed by it and I've seen it hundreds of times. Shot in the Czech Republic.

http://www.footbag.org/media/386/Teaser%20-SICK.03-.mp4
The teaser to the Sick '03 footbag dvd - by far the most impressivly edited footbag dvd available - made in France. This trailer is awesome too - really captures the spirit of footbag. If you only download one video - make it this one.

http://www.the-move.net/gfx/download.gif
Trailer to my favourite footbag dvd - very stylie and a great soundtrack. Also features some of the best and coolest looking players in the world. The soundtrack is also awesome! This trailer is like a highlights reel of the actual DVD - definitly if you watch 2 videos - make this the second one ;)

http://www.footbag.org/video/worlds2001/ry...outine-2001.mov
This is the first footbag footage I saw and it's what inspired me to play footbag. Ryan Mulroney from America is still probably my favourite player to watch and this routine is still impressive (4 years on).

So that's a selection of my current favourite videos - I have lots more where they came from ;) Enjoy! Play footbag! There are players in Australia in most capital cities who would love to teach! www.flipsider.com is the best site for n00bs! (also www.footbag.org)

DJ-Civic - June 24, 2005 02:04 PM (GMT)
I'll get the first one for now as it's 53MB! :argh:

ultracrazy1 - June 24, 2005 02:24 PM (GMT)
Some awesome stuff there man. The one that you made was pretty damn scary in some places :P

So would I be right in assuming you you rarely do tricks involving 2 or more people? Maybe that could be somewhere where the sport could head, doing specific moves to pass the bag back and forth (that must sound pretty n00bish huh?).

If I had to sum up what I saw in one sentence, I'd say "it's like riverdance with balls" because thats what it reminds me of, and it also implies that Michael Flatley has no balls.

Beast - June 24, 2005 06:33 PM (GMT)
Yeah they are big vidoes. The teaser vids are probably the smallest (sick 03 and the move) and also the best to watch for non footbaggers.

I'm actually the doubles Australian Champion but you're right - I very rarely do stuff involving another person. Basically the story is that Dan Ednie (my nemesis and featured in some of the videos) made sure a doubles comp occured at this years Aus Champs and convinced me to compete. I played with him a few months before the comp and he was already working on his doubles routine. I then travelled around Australia with Dylan Fry (in the first two vids - world number 9 from Canada) and we became very good friends. We worked on a doubles routine pretty much every day before the comp and ended up having the only fully choreographed routine - so very convincly won! :D Doubles is heaps of fun although neither of us were that good at it. Another friend of mine - Max Boucourin from France is amazing - his team (the French Connection) hit so much stuff that nobody else in the world can hit - like one person sets the bag up and goes around it, then the other person, then the orginal and then the other person stalls it - it's amazing - I wish I had a video I could post on the net.

I get the riverdance thing a lot. That and "do you play soccer".

[m]averick - June 25, 2005 12:36 AM (GMT)
I watched a bit of the first one. Wasn't bad, a bit repetitive though.

ultracrazy1 - June 25, 2005 02:36 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (Beast @ Jun 25 2005, 04:33 AM)
"do you play soccer".

That would really piss me off. Its like asking "do those skills translate to a better sport?" I guess thats what you get when its a young sport, but hey maybe one day you'll be looked at as one of the pioneers of the sport.




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