Crossing Over to the Darkside

The footbag to takraw transition has been going smoother than I anticipated. Our footbag group only had 5 active members, & we were struggling to get 4 to a practice. The takraw group has only been running for 3 weeks now & we've already managed to have 2 new players - both have shown up for the last 2 sessions. One of the new guys has a background in soccer & the other is lao (who does have some limited takraw experience), but he's eager to get much better. We're not really doing much different from when we played footbag, just switched from a bag to a ball & it seems to be catching some steam.

The real challenge of this is that come mid-March these newbs are going to be playing takraw on a court with a group of guys who have spend most of their lives doing this. I only have 4.5 months, no scratch that 3.5 months now to get them ready. Thus far none of the regular takraw players from the temple know I'm training a group of hacky sackers how to play. So it would be awesome if I just show up with a carload people that can kick who they've never even seen before.