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"Hacky Sack" is the name of a brand of footbag popular in the 1970s (currently owned by Wham-O), which has since become a generic trademark. [ 1 ] The most common game of footbag consists of two or more players standing in a circle and trying to keep the sack off the ground for as long as possible.
Freestyle Shuttlecock - Jan Weber - World Footbag Champion 2011-2013 Competitively, the government-run game is called "Hacky-Sack (jianqiu 毽球)" and is played on a rectangular court 6.10 by 11.88 meters, divided by a net (much like badminton) at a height of 1.60 meters (1.50 meters for women). [4]
Wham-O Inc. is an American toy company based in Carson, California, United States.It is known for creating and marketing many popular toys for nearly 70 years, including the Hula hoop, Frisbee, Slip 'N Slide, Super Ball, Trac-Ball, Silly String, Hacky sack, Wham-O Bird Ornithopter and Boogie Board, [1] many of which have become genericized trademarks.
Mike Marshall (ca. 1947 – 1975) was an American inventor best known for his co-invention, with John Stalberger, of the sport footbag and the Hacky Sack in 1972. Marshall was living in Oregon when he met Stalberger.
It was all fun and games — until the feds showed up. Disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was spotted gleefully playing hacky sack and frisbee in Central Park — just one day before ...
In 1979, Stalberger and Ted Huff formed the National Hacky Sack Association (NHSA) which became the first official organizing body for the sport. The NHSA sanctioned and/or sponsored footbag tournaments in the U.S., including the "Footbag Nationals" which evolved into the World Footbag Championships, an event that it has been running annually ...