You won't find much. Here's some of the earliest footage online
When footbag dot org first started putting videos on-line, the first one I can remember was a cool little run by Rippin' from about 1993 or 94. It was still there not long ago, buried somewhere, and I tried to find it again today but had no luck. Well, not exactly "no luck", because I stumbled upon Steve Goldberg's personal stash of video, and there is a nice variety of very cool footage from the late 80's and early 90's, footage of guys I'd mostly only heard of, hardly ever actually saw. Plus, he's got the
LEGENDARY Ocean County Clippers team freestyle routine (I've been hearing rumors about these guys for years, and up till today had only seen a few tiny bits and pieces of this performance; I will say no more...). And to top it all off, a doubles freestyle routine of his. It reminded me that Steve was actually a pretty damn good freestyler, long long ago. Tough to believe now, I know, but I swear its true, and I always enjoyed shredding with him on the rare occasions when he actually would really freestyle. Alas, Steve's legs ain't what they used to be. Anyway, he had some real good eclipses and a patented move he called "Sifter", a drifter from a sole stall, and much other good stuff (his mastery of the sole stall in general was very impressive, and you'll see what I'm talking about if you watch his routine - bear in mind that its just one small example of his skills, in a doubles routine, which ain't he most idea circumstances, plus, I believe that was an tournament that he was actually running, so...). Anyway, here's the link:
http://www.footbag.org/gallery/showset/844
by the way, thanks, Matt, for the digging you've done, and thanks for the link to Worlds '97. That was my first Worlds, and I'm sure I've already watched ALL those videos, but its probably been 6 or 7 years since that last happened. I think I'll check 'em out again soon. Also, I like your explanation of that whole "first gyro move" thing. That sounds very plausible, and was exactly what I was thinking, but you expressed it very clearly. And as for that archival message of mine, about Red's Quadruple Dex move, yeah, it was a typo - I meant to say Shooting Star.