Author Archives: Iron Clad Ben

Atomic muted rake

Here’s a new trick I hit a little while ago.  Atomic muted rake.  After my right leg does the atomic set it doesn’t plant before doing the cross body rake, hence “muted”.  This is one of the more stylie tricks I’ve hit lately.  Enjoy.

Hack Season, 2010

You really couldn’t have planned it more perfectly.  Look at this line up:

April 16-18: Austin Reggae Fest
April 24: Eeyore’s Birthday
May 1-2: Southern Regionals (in Houston, website TBD)
May 7: Round Rock ISD Wellness day demos

That’s 4 weeks in a row of footbag/hackysack events.  I’m training now to get my body in tip top shape for this. [...]

Southern Regionals announced!

Southern Regionals will be the weekend of May 1-2 in Houston, TX. More details to follow soon.

Texas Jugglefest XVII Feb 26-28th

Texas Jugglefest XVII Feb 26-28th
Celebrating its 17th year, Jugglefest is a three-day event full of workshops, games, demonstrations, and shows featuring juggling, unicycling, and related circus arts. Everyone is welcome to come on down to pick up the basics, learn some new tricks, meet some crazy people or just chill out and watch.
Last year we brought [...]

Spring 2010 Events

Cold enough for ya?  It’s been below freezing in Austin here all weekend which is RARE.  I mean I was used to it when I lived in the Northeast, but c’mon.  Footbag sessions have been sporadic here while we go into hibernation.  The one thing that keeps me going is knowing what an AWESOME spring [...]

Freestyle Footbag Best of 2009

Check out the best players, videos and moments of 2009 here at Fourkast:
http://www.fourkast.com/magazine/article/kenny/fourkast-footbag-best-2009

25 Awesome Footbag Videos

Every year the modified.in forum puts together a Christmas Calendar of 25 footbag videos. Check them out!
Day 1: Tuukka
Day 2: Tuukka
Day 3: Jacob
Day 4: Lauri
Day 5: Mathieu
Day 6: Anssi
Day 7: Nick L.
Day 8: Armin
Day 9: Ianek
Day 10: John G.
Day 11: slavgan
Day 12: Marco
Day 13: Zac
Day 14: Szymon
Day 15: Mrbear
Day 16: Greg R.
Day 17: [...]

Texas Jugglefest 2010: Feb 26-28

Firm dates for Texas Jugglefest have been announced.
FEBRUARY 26TH-28TH, 2010
More details TBA.  Last year admission was $8 for the weekend, free with UT ID.
http://www.juggling.place.org/

One-shot Challenge

In the footbag community there is an ongoing challenge called the “Stephen Barnes 1-shot challenge”. You film one run from your session and no matter what happens you post it on the forum for everyone to see.  I got a pretty good run on video for this.  You can check it out here:

To see [...]

Frankenbike #51

Next session will be at FRANKENBIKE
Start: 10/31/2009 – 11:00am (hack starts at 1:00pm)
End: 10/31/2009 – 4:00pm
This month everything’s going down at Freewheeling Bicycles, at the corner of San Gabriel and 24th St. The event runs from 11am-4pm THIS Saturday (31st), and from the sound of things there’s gonna be a lot of great stuff there:
Don’t [...]