How to Identify & Name Freestyle Footbag Tricks

PassBack's long and detailed lesson on how to identify and name freestyle footbag tricks. Learn a primer on the language of freestyle footbag and be ready to jump right into discussing this complex sport. Cheat Sheets - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/language Trick Dictionary - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/tricks Glossary - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/glossary Footnotes: 1. You'll be fine with just the info in the video itself, but the following footnotes add some important-but-not-essential details, context, exceptions, etc. 2. In standard freestyle, kicks are mostly used as a warmup, and then tricks typically use only stalls. 3. Symposium can apply to other components (like a symposium kick done in a single-leg jump), but it's most commonly used with dexes. There's also a halfway between "normal" and "symposium": "symple," which is like half-symposium: a dex starts with a single-leg jump, but midway through, the other leg returns to the ground. Symposium & symple both shorten to "symp" and can almost always be inferred from the specific trick: symp mirage = symposium mirage, symp legover = symple legover. 4. Every other spin in this video is a "back"spin, which turns away from the bag, and is the assumed direction of a spin. This one is an "in"spin which turns towards the bag. Inspinning isn't very common and 95% of the time you see a spin it will be a backspin. 5. "[set]" means it doesn’t matter where the bag came from, it’s just in the air. For example, toe-ss toe and clipper-op toe are both the same trick of "toe stall," just set from different surfaces/sides. 6. The shorthand "rev" or "reverse" can be used to flip the dex of a trick in the reverse direction; Orbit could be named "Rev ATW." 7. Legover also the name of "Switch" from an attempt at an alternate naming system. Most players use “Legover,” but it’s good to know both. 8. Butterfly has the alt name of "Down" from the same alternate naming system. 9. "Double" ("triple," "quad," etc) is usually used to mean "the same trick fragment another time," ("double ATW," "double spin," etc) but there's one main exception. The trick "DOUBLE legover" is a nickname for "miraging op legover" (more commonly said as "DLO"), NOT a legover with two dexes. A "double-dex legover" is called a "double switchover" ("DSO" for short). This is due to historical reasons and the way trick names developed, but as far as I can remember this is the only weird case like this. Note: After publish it was brought to my attention that the method I use to describe tricks is slightly different than the classic "Job's Notation". I use the terms "same (side)" and "opposite" to always refer to sides of the body, while Job's Notation uses the terms "same" and "opposite" to refer to legs (you can see the Job's Notation for the trick Nemesis on the chalkboard of the thumbnail). Reference Videos:    • The Foot, The Bag and the Dexy - Joulukale...      • NYJ 2016      • camsettingsfromhell session 2024/4      • Jamps V Monday Cooldown      • FOOTBAG SHREDOFF 2022 - QUALIFICATION POOL...      • Matt & Will Shred-Off Leftovers      • Friday Night Lights - Salem DST Freestyle ...   Thumbnail & "Footbag Teacher" design by   / goldman_hachs   0:00 - Intro 1:08 - Part 1: What Even is a Footbag Trick? 2:11 - Part 2: Basic Components 4:50 - Part 3: Component Detail 10:39 - Part 4: Trick Names 16:07 - Part 5: Building Your Vocabulary 22:02 - Outro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Freestyle Footbag Resources: Beginner footbags - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/footbags Shoes - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/shoes Trick Dictionary - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/tricks Glossary - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/glossary Tutorials - https://www.passbackfootbag.com/tutor... Resource hub - https://www.passbackfootbag.com Contact me with questions, ask advice, send me video to critique, etc: Email - [email protected] Instagram DM - @passback_footbag FF on Instagram: #Footbag -   / footbag   IFPA -   / footbag_sports   Discussion groups: FF Discord (me: @kemino) -   / discord   FF on Facebook -   / footbag   Organization: IFPA - https://www.footbagworldwide.com Animation sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com