Hi Everyone,
So this summer we’ve fallen of the wagon with regular sessions. They will be resuming now! Saturdays at 1pm at Palmer. No mid-week session for now. If you want to start one, post a comment letting us know the suggested time and place.
Texas State tournament in less than 2 months!
Hey everybody, we’re going to have a Footbag Net session on Sunday afternoon around 5PM. Details TBA. If you are interested, pls email me at ironcladbenNOSPAM@footbag.org (just remove the “no spam”).
What up? I’m still sidelined with a sore knee but wanted to post a couple things that are going on this week:
Wednesday 7/1 Blues on the Green 7:30pm: Jimmie Vaughan, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan’s brother will be performing. It’s free, and of course there will be hack circles. I will remember my glow in the dark bag this time!
Saturday 7/4 Veggie Hot Dog eating contest 1-4pm: OK so not really footbag-related, but I went last year, this event was teh Aw3s0me!! $5 gets you admission with a veggie dog and unlimited Nada-moo vegan coconut ice cream.
You can also sign up to compete on the website. W00h00!
Sorry for the short notice, but this June, we will be having our Wednesday sessions at Blues on the Green instead of the regular spot. This is every other Wednesday night at 7:30pm, beginning today, June 3rd. Full info here:
http://www.kgsr.com/Other/blues/
I’ve never been, but word around town is there are quite a few hack circles at this thing. Plus hey, free concert. Can’t beat that.
Man am I footbagged-out from this past weekend!
Friday: Taught footbag classes for Wellness Day at Great Oaks Elementary school in Round Rock. This was a great time! The kids were very excited about footbag and RRISD took great care of me.
Saturday & Sunday: Southern Regionals in Houston, TX. I played net, freestyle AND golf. Lordy, lordy that was a lot of footbag. I took 3rd in both golf and freestyle, and didn’t place in net. Apparently Curtis hit atomsmasher > atomsmasher > atomic torque and I missed it. We shredded a lot, played some golf and net, and I got to see a sweet power metal band called Golden Axe! All the Texas Footbag Hall of Fame players were there. I don’t need to name names. If you haven’t met them before, you need to come to a tournament and meet the many living legends we are so fortunate to have here.
This Saturday there will be hack circles galore at Eeyore’s Birthday. 11am to Sunset at Pease Park on Lamar.
Don’t miss it!
Hey everybody, just a quick update, because there is a TON of stuff going on right now. First off, Austin Reggae Fest was awesome! Last year it was kind of crappy, this year it was much better. If you missed it, what the hell were you thinking? Saturday night we busted out a glow-in-the-dark Nighthack and played for well over an hour after dark. If you just found out about the club this weekend, here is the scoop on stuff we got going on this week:
Well it has been 2 months but I finally got my stuff together to capture and edit the Brenham Jam footage into a video. Some people only got a few runs on tape, so this is 4:45 of the best of everyone’s shred from that day. Enjoy:
Also a couple bits of good news:
Well the world is always changing, and we in the footbag community feel it’s important to keep up with the times. In 2009 the new hot technology is Twitter and we are now on there at www.twitter.com/AustinHack. It’s the best way to get real time updates about footbag activity going on in Austin.
The best part is, you can use your mobile phone (any type of phone, you don’t need a fancy schmany iPhone or anything) to get text message updates about sessions. Just send the message “Follow AustinHack” to 40404 and Twitter will send you a text message every time we tweet. So say for example we decide to have an impromptu session in front of the Texas Capitol randomly on a Tuesday night, we’ll tweet and if you’re following us, you can see it and head over and join in. Isn’t technology cool?
P.S. If you’re interested in Houston footbag info, check out www.twitter.com/HoustonFootbag for updates from our good friends, the Houston Skyliners.
April is coming up quickly! I like to call it “the most wonderful time of the year” because it has two festivals that always get tons of hack circles going:
We’ll be at both, kicking till our legs fall off.