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Encyclopedia > Footbag net

Footbag net is a sport in which players kick a footbag over a five-foot-high net. Players are not allowed to use their hands. Any contact above the knee after the service is a foul. The game is played individually and as doubles. A typical freestyle footbag. ...


Footbag net combines elements of tennis, badminton, and volleyball. Specifically, the court dimensions and layout are similar to those of badminton; the scoring is similar to the old scoring system in volleyball (you must be serving to score); and serves must be diagonal, as in tennis. Footbag net games can be played to eleven or fifteen points, although the winners must win by at least two points. For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Badminton is a racket sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...


Similar games include Bossaball, Footvolley, Jianzi, Sepak Takraw and Sipa. Footvolley is a sport which combines field rules that are based on those of volleyball with ball-touch rules taken from football. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A sepak takraw ball made out of rattan. ... Sipa is the Philippines national and traditional native sport which dates backs to the Pre-Hispanic period. ...


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The Sport of Footbag Net (944 words)
Footbag net players tend to look for round, firm, and sturdy footbags -- i.e., footbags that don't break in too much, hold their shape, and aren't too hard to kick straight up or over the net.
The net itself is a standard badminton net attached to two stanchions (posts) with a width of 20 feet and a height of 5 feet.
Attach the top of the net first, making sure that the distance between the two posts is 20' when the net is pulled taut and the distance from the top of the net to the bottom of the post is 5' on both sides.
Footbag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1208 words)
The main varieties are Freestyle Footbag, footbag net, and circle kick.
Both the footbag and the sports that use it are sometimes referred to as Hacky Sack or hackey sack.
Footbag was invented in 1972 in Oregon City, Oregon, when John Stalberger met Mike Marshall, who had been kicking around a hand-made bean bag.
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