Janis, thanks for the thoughts on links and scoring. I'm not sure I personally want to take this that far, but I've thought about similar solutions in the past. The way diving scores difficulty comes to mind. H4x glad someone knows the pain of doing this type of analysis! And I agree, props to the s...

Here are transcribed runs. L and R refer to which foot catches the bag, and SS means near. Variety Milan #1 Fury R > Butterfly L > Ducking Leg Over L > Symple Swirl L > Merkon R > Symposium Mirage R > Butterfly L > Ripwalk R > Symple Swirl L > Spinning Clipper L > Reverse Swirl L > Symposium Whirl L...

Well, I'll have to agree to disagree about scoring for the density round. I think the example with consecutive Nemesis is flawed because it is much higher in difficulty than the other proposed string. A more balanced one might be 20 consecutive Blurry Whirls vs. a string of 20 mid-difficulty 4's and...

Ken, I completely agree with your comments. As for quick information, not that I think it would be quite fast enough yet, but in doing this analysis I set up an Excel sheet such that all I have to do is type in the move name and which foot the bag contacts and the spreadsheet imports all the ADD and...

I disagree that uniques and unique components have no place in the density round, I believe they should just be secondary information to things like ratio and link difficulty. Someone might hit 10 nemesis back-to-back. Very hard link, very high ratio, very tough to do, but it still only shows high d...

Good point. I thought about including some toe vs clipper data, but it was taking so long I wanted to get the post up. I also thought about including dexing data like total and breakdowns by dex type to see who had better balance and who just threw 1 or 2 tricks in.

I did give some thought to links, and the simple answer is I think they can be measured somehow, I just haven't come up with a method yet. It is true that is an important factor, especially for the density round. As for the ADD subject, while there are obviously some problems, over a large number of...

As most of you probably know, the fans and analysts of many other sports use advanced statistics to track the competitors and teams. Footbag has seen precious little of this, so this is my endeavor to bring analytics to our community. Let’s see what the numbers tell us. I decided to use the 2015 Wor...

I think this really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you just want an activity to keep you energetic and in good health footbag all by itself is fine. However, if you are playing footbag and trying to really push your game, like with any other sport, you should do some cross training...

I have been working on my swirling sets (and ripstein as a result) quite a bit recently and I have some thoughts now that I have made some progress. 1) The majority of the upward motion for the set comes from the support leg. I do very little with the foot setting the bag, and in fact, try to keep i...

One of the things I like best about this sport is rapid-fire dense shred, but I also believe it is hurting the popularity as a spectator sport. Most of us enjoy watching dense strings with difficult links, but for an audience I think this is overwhelming. I watch quite a bit of shred footage and I s...

Hi all,

I am going to be in Berlin March 1-3 (but I won't be getting to Berlin until the afternoon on the 1st) and would love to be able to get a session together. Please e-mail me to let me know. If it helps I am staying at the Abba Berlin.

Adam Keith
keithadam80@gmail.com