2010 Takraw Season Winds to a Close

As it gets cooler, & daylight is hard to come by the Lao takraw season is nearly over. It's been a fairly productive for myself since I nearly played the whole season, although not as frequently as I would've liked. Footbag has become less of a distraction... when no one is playing anymore. I talked with a few footbaggers, & we agreed that come November it was time to move onto something more locally competitive. Our footbag skills just seemed to grow stagnent & it became more recreation than sport. I'm excited about the upcoming winter sessions because some have agreed to learning how to play takraw. So if we're lucky, next the spring we'll have 3 new takraw players - that means 20+ takraw players next year!

Takraw Article Written for a College Publication

I recently found an article about takraw that was published from my old college newspaper. Here's the link for the whole article plus some excellent black/white pictures - http://www.mtsusidelines.com/2.3112/pan-asian-sport-finds-home-in-murfreesboro-1.307901

My Perennial Struggle

The Nashville footbag scene has been struggling the past 2 years to maintain a core membership of 4. We've had a number of people shuffle in & out the past couple years, yet we still only have the 2 dedicated players that we had way back in '08. However, I've held out hope that we might be able to turn those numbers around. Since I have a kid now my time is more valuable, and my patience is shrinking; I don't have spare time to wait around for indecisive members of the group to show up. So I'm left with the question that I've been pondering for over 2 years... why don't I just switch to takraw for good?

Nashville Pro/Am Tourney

We had a little pro/am tournament with 3 teams last week in Murfreesboro. It was the first time we've had a Nashville only tournament in a long long time. I have to say it was nice to get some competition from within the group & probably something we should encourage more often. So congrats to Alex & Lee for staging a comeback in the final game.

1. Alex G./Lee S.

2. Elliott J./ Andy S.

3. Andrew C./Nikolai T.

I Cannot Find a Hacky Sack Sans Internet

There aren't any retail stores (in metro Nashville at least) that sell hacky sacks anymore. I've tried going to Academy Sports, Dick's Sporting Goods, Hibbetts Sporting Goods, Target, K-Mart, & even Wal-Mart. How is this sport ever supposed to grow if you cannot even walk into a store & buy one? Do I have to go to a head shop to get a footbag? How cliche is that? I personally blame that jackass who invented the mini-soccer ball for the demise of retail footbag. Is this what we look like in the eyes of the general population!?