As most of you know, in my last post I asked for blog topics. I got quite the laundry list of topics from my friend Stephen. One of the more unusual ones was my thoughts on the hacky sack. So here goes:
I'm sort of at a disadvantage here because I've never been involved in an actual game of hacky sack. That being said, I have observed many games and I do understand the mechanics.
I think that hacky sack is one of those things that people can sit and be amused by for hours, I know I can. Having said that I think playing hackey sack can be quite dangerous. It takes a lot of hopping around and that can result in ankle sprains or breaks. Not to mention if two people go for the sack at once and collide both could be injured.
I'd kind of like to take a slight tangent on the dangerousness of the hacky sack. I'm thinking the inside is small ball berings, yes? (please correct me if I'm wrong) But if you were to take a hacky sack(or 2 or 12) and put it in a cannon, that could do some nice damage. I think mythbusters should test that :) From this perspective one could see that a hacky sack is very dangerous.
Better yet, what if you put a hacky sack in one of those bank drive thru transport things...I keep thinking of the commercial where the kid puts the roll of coins into one and it puts a hole in the guys' door. Now a hacky sack isn't as heavy as coins but I bet if a person was standing in the path it would hurt. That sounds like a stunt for the show Jacka**. rofl
To the average person who doesn't own a cannon or work at a bank however, I think the hacky sack provides more hours of fun than injuries.
Bottom line: the hacky sack is alright in my book.
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I loved your thoughts on the Hacky Sack (also known as foot bags), but here is some information that you need.
ReplyDeleteThis crazy little ball was created in 2600 B.C. (called shuttlecock), in China,and it was helped to train soldiers.
The history of the footbag in the United States began in the early 1970s. Mike Marshall had taken a trip to Asia and seen one of the footbag-like games there. In 1972, Marshall met John Stalberger Jr., a former football player recovering from a knee injury who was looking for a rehabilitation exercise. They came up with the footbag.
The history of the footbag in the United States began in the early 1970s. Mike Marshall had taken a trip to Asia and seen one of the footbag-like games there. In 1972, Marshall met John Stalberger Jr., a former football player recovering from a knee injury who was looking for a rehabilitation exercise. They came up with the footbag.
The history of the footbag in the United States began in the early 1970s. Mike Marshall had taken a trip to Asia and seen one of the footbag-like games there. In 1972, Marshall met John Stalberger Jr., a former football player recovering from a knee injury who was looking for a rehabilitation exercise. They came up with the footbag.
The history of the foot bag in the US started in 1970 after Mike Marshall visited China. He met with John Stalberger Jr. a former football player that was recovering from a knee injury and looking for a rehabilitating exercise.
Here is where the foot bag was named Hacky Sack.
When John and Mike played they said they would "hack the sack". John patented the sack in 1979 and sold the right to Wham-O in 1983.
Early versions was a sock stuffed with dried corn. Then they moved onto plastic pellets. Later versions are filled with sand for they were conductive to certain tricks.
That is just some info about the Hacky Sack if you want more let me know.
ahh... very interesting, I would think it would hurt more than help in rehabilitation. Although being filled with sand kinda ruins my cannon and bank theories. I don't think sand would be heavy enough. Thanks Stephen for the extra info.
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