Hacky Sack 20 in a row

I got some good practice in over the weekend—a couple hours playing with friends. It’s been a while since we’ve had a decent number of us playing together so that was fun, even if we weren’t very good. We managed to get up to 8 hacks, so it’s progress. I’m hoping over the summer we can get the same folks together again to play some more.

On a related note, I learned that you don’t actually need kevlar anything to play hacky with a fire footbag—you just need clothes (most importantly, shoes) that are made from natural rather than synthetic fabrics. So hey, a step closer.

I’m wanting to get better at hacky sack, as well as start learning poi spinning, eventually to graduate to fire poi. Perusing the sites today, I actually found a fire footbag. Of course I’d need to sew kevlar clothes, shoes, hats, etc. in order for us to play safely, but it was fun to see.

Well we found the hack and even a small group of friends willing to give it a shot and not afraid of looking silly. We’re late starting this this year. Normally we start as soon as the snow melts, are terrible all spring, decent come summer, pretty good come fall, then put away the hack over the winter months, whereupon with the arrival of spring we find we’re awful once again.

It’s a vicious circle but I love it. Guess the playing regularly part is the one bit I still have to nail down.

Step 1: Locate the hacky sack. (Check)

Step 2: Find people to play with (got one, more in progress..)

Step 3: Get out and actually play regularly (coming soon…)