Some of you may be wondering, where can I purchase takraw shoes? Well look no further than http://www.kickersrock.net/ 3 people in our group have already bought these shoes & love'em. I had a pair of the traditional Nan Yang shoes that I wore last year when I played. After a couple months my ankles began to hurt, but only when I kicked takraw. So I ordered the speciality shoes from kickersrock, they are much more comfortable & give better support. On the downside, the soles of the shoes are less malleable or flexible than Nan Yang, regardless kickersrock feel better & certainly look better. I don't care who you are it's tough to act like a badass when your sporting some shoes that look like Keds.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Takraw Shoes
Some of you may be wondering, where can I purchase takraw shoes? Well look no further than http://www.kickersrock.net/ 3 people in our group have already bought these shoes & love'em. I had a pair of the traditional Nan Yang shoes that I wore last year when I played. After a couple months my ankles began to hurt, but only when I kicked takraw. So I ordered the speciality shoes from kickersrock, they are much more comfortable & give better support. On the downside, the soles of the shoes are less malleable or flexible than Nan Yang, regardless kickersrock feel better & certainly look better. I don't care who you are it's tough to act like a badass when your sporting some shoes that look like Keds.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Nintendo DS Includes Takraw + Nashville Update
I don't have a DS, but I just think it's awesome that sepak takraw was included in the new sports package. I did watch the trailer & some kid playing it on youtube & it's doesn't look half bad. It's not that I expect this to do wonders for the sport of takraw. I mean just look at what "California Games" did for hacky sack.... 
We're 7 weeks into our training now, & there's now 8 of us (total) that have been learning the game. I wish we could get 8 people to a practice, but it's usually 5. No matter... that's still more than we could get to play footbag. I've tried to avoid being too coachy because I just want people to adjust to playing a new game. I also want everybody to have a good time, so we haven't been running many drills either. Well that's all about to change. Starting Jan 1st, we only have 11 weeks till the official takraw season begins. So we're going to be discussing more strategy - - with less "just kick it over the net" - - & running drills like a group of crazy people. It's my hope that this will not alienate any of our players. If we're gonna run with the big dogs, we need to step it up.
We're 7 weeks into our training now, & there's now 8 of us (total) that have been learning the game. I wish we could get 8 people to a practice, but it's usually 5. No matter... that's still more than we could get to play footbag. I've tried to avoid being too coachy because I just want people to adjust to playing a new game. I also want everybody to have a good time, so we haven't been running many drills either. Well that's all about to change. Starting Jan 1st, we only have 11 weeks till the official takraw season begins. So we're going to be discussing more strategy - - with less "just kick it over the net" - - & running drills like a group of crazy people. It's my hope that this will not alienate any of our players. If we're gonna run with the big dogs, we need to step it up.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Before footbag.org
I found the first footbag pictures I ever appeared in. So let's roll the dial back to '96 before footbag.org was up & running. In order to learn new tricks in those days I had to wait for the new issue of Footbag Worldwide magazine to come out. Cheers to my original running crew from Jackson, TN - Scott S. & Chris R.
Monday, November 1, 2010
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!
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