How to Keep Eyes on the Ball in Hacky Sack

Hacky sack is a fun sport to master. In doing so, you need to keep your eyes on the hacky sack at all times, a step or skill that separates the pros from the amateurs. Although it appears as a common sense rule in hacky sack, newcomers tend to overlook this one aspect and need to master it.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Hacky sack

1. Maintain constant eye contact with the hacky sack.

2. Stay away from the habit of looking away from the hacky sack as you kick the bag back and forth, going from knee to knee, foot to foot or shoulder to knee. Practice looking at the hacky sack, so you learn not to divert your attention elsewhere.

3. Perform freestyle. Freestyle hacky sack means turning around in circles and performing all sorts of mind-boggling gyrations. If someone says, "Wow, dude. That's unbelievably awesome. How do you do that?" you need to keep your concentration by not responding--just keep gyrating.

4. Perfect your hacky sack performance for competition by practicing hacky sack in a public place like a park or community center. That way you get accustomed to comments, passersby and other diversions, so you learn to concentrate and maintain total eye contact on the hacky sack.

Tips & Warnings

• Footbag and hacky sack mean the same. Interchanging these terms happens all the time in the world of hacky sacking.

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