The footbag is not just a pass time, but also a sport. Played competitively in the United States of America, footbag - or popularly known as "hacky-sack" - is also a great way to keeep fit and have fun solely or as a group.
Following are various
tricks, listed in difficulty order by the IFAB. The more "adds" to
a move, the greater the difficulty.
Adds come from any of the following five categories, listed in parentheses for each move:
delay
- stalling or delaying the footbag using a foot or leg
dexterity
- circling or crossing the footbag with a leg
cross-body
- using a leg on the opposite site of the body
body
- spinning, jumping, twisting the body
unusual surface
- using any surface on the body besides the
toes, insteps, outsteps, and knees
Note that the add count for a move counts the final delay of the move (if any) but not the delay (if any) involved in the set for the move. This convention ensures that sequences of linked moves are properly counted.
In the names for the
moves below, the terms "stall" and "delay" are synonymous. In other
words, some people will say "toe delay" instead of "toe stall".