Friday, October 14, 2005

Raptor Kicks All Around

I have recently stumbled across a new competitive sport. I don't have a clue as to what it is called but my curiosity still wants to find out. The closest I have come to is footbag-net. This is a sport that involves a hacky sack and a badminton net. A team of two will hack it back and forth just like volleyball. But in this picture, they are using some sort of ball if you pay attention to the upper left of the photo. I downloaded a video of footbag-net and it is absolutely amazing. There has got to be some guy that is 6 foot 2 (from norland) and he is raptor kicking the foot bag over the net. That's not the amazing part though...the cool part is the little guys that defend the raptor kicks by Jackie Chan-ing a spinning kick and landing like a cat. I laugh really hard. The video that I downloaded had a few really good rallies that lasted a long time. So I need some help. Has anyone ever heard of this sport? Any bets on how big or small this sport will be? Does anybody else feel the pain when they look at this picture?

Sub-thought: I'm pretty sure the guy in the red shirt is Butch aka Ben.

4 comments:

scoeyd said...

Totally looks like Butchie - the existence of this sport also explains the absence of Rich & Laibson-Thomas for the last few years. They have been honing their skills.

thank you for the raptor kicking.

David said...

This sport was developed by the Japanese shortly after WWII. In a country were many were left without arms, it flourished.

It moved West into Canada where players were able to play with a beer in one hand and the hand of their girlfriend (usually named "moose") in the other. Thus, the Canadian game is slower, as are all of the country's citizens.

Americans who play this game are known as stench-eunichs, for they have traded their genitals for felxibility and now a smelly patch of hair is all that is left to remind them of their sacrifice.

No(dot dot)el said...

ohhhhh man , rofl. the pic was good enough but commentary is even betta!!

The Age said...

That guy in the red shirt looks like he's about to get a net wedgie