Footbag Peace Initiative - Review Comments

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Footbag (or 'Hacky Sack') is a street game played around the
world. Footbag is an ancient game. It is also a popular modern
game. It is accessible to all levels of play (anyone, any time,
anywhere). The web site shows how the game generates interest
wherever it is played - on the street, in the office, at home,
or up a mountain (Everest!).
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Footbag can be used both as a starting point and as a focal point
for community work - especially with young people at risk. But
Footbag is more than a crowd-puller or icebreaker. One hour of
'kicking' generates many rewards of its own.
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My 3 favourite Footbag pages:
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1) The home page:
a picture of Daniel with a footbag 'hoofing it at Worlds 98'
followed by a fun and informative intro with hyperlinks to other
pages - a simple, story-based way of indexing the site.
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2) The Footbag Mentors Project:
shows how this game can lead into serious youth work - without
losing the spirit of the game, and while also spreading footbag
and non-violence via young newly trained 'Footbag Mentors'.
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3) Footbaggers' Stories and Testimonials About Our Great Sport.
These testimonials make compelling reading. Unlike other
testimonial pages that are so so predictable, these stories have
real depth and insights. I have never kicked a footbag (what an
admission!) but while reading this page I got a real feeling for
how and why this game (and all that goes with it) works so well.
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Daniel writes: ''Unlike the vast majority of competitive sports,
footbag is intrinsically cooperative, strongly reinforcing mutual
support and win-win thinking, precisely what facilitates that
'group building magic' described in the testimonials."
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=====> 'Borrow a piece and make it grow.'
Daniel writes:
''This website is dedicated to the sport of "footbag" as a path
of personal and cultural healing. Harnessing my experiences as
citizen activist and emmisary and my great love for "sack", I've
been living and teaching peace for twenty years...
Footbag offers a particularly outrageous context for this work
with youth (especially at-risk). The Footbag Peace Initiative and
Mentors Project specifically offers cooperative play, leadership
and mentoring through sewing workshops and teen health, sexuality
and non-violence trainings. But footbag is healthy for all kinds
of people .... What I offer here is the seed, the framework of a
program. Maybe you already have your own "peace initiative".
Perhaps these ideas will be useful to you or you will borrow a
piece and make it grow.''
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Daniel Botkin's 'Footbag Peace Initiative'
reviewed by Roger Greenaway in SiteFinder Ezine September 1998

reviewed by Roger Greenaway in Sitefinder Ezine 1.3 and in its special review supplement.

The above review is an extract from a review of three sites:
"W h a t ?   N o   r o p e s   c o u r s e !
What do the Grand Canyon, yachting and 'Hacky Sacking' have in common?

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