Epic Win: Hacky Sack
Submitted by Jonathan C
I remember everyone owning a hacky sack, and only the soccer players being any good with it. Still, hacky sacks are a win for sure — just about any activity that makes you and friends get in a circle is.
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Impetua sez:
I grew up in Oregon and HATED this stupid game. Since it originated in Oregon in the early 70’s, by the mid to later 70’s we were all obligated to enjoy it as part of gym class. Those of us who were not that coordinated (me and almost everyone I knew) had to suffer through it every year.
And yes, the kids who did stand around and play it on the edges of the playground or campus even through high school were the weird kids that nobody talked to.
I loved playing “Pelt” in highschool.
Have friends stand in a circle and after the hacky-sack was kicked up 3 times, it was “live” and you could slap it… if you pelted somebody they either were out, or a letter (kinda like horse).. unless the person hit was able to regain control of the hacky-sack. Catching the hackysack was allowed, as long as you didn’t catch it with your hands/arms.
are you kidding I STILL play Pelt and just regular hacky sack. Those games do wonders for your coordination.
Nice! I wasn’t sure if it was a regional thing or not.
Wait, those are actually used for hacky sack? The ones in my house are just used for juggling
ANother one for juggling.
yep – juggling
The kids playing hackey sack were the ones who didn’t wash their hair and/or clothes regularly.
Sad to say, those were my thoughts exactly upon seeing the hacky-sacks again!
Rastafarian sacks! Bob sacks? Ziggy sacks?
Goldman Sachs?
No, Goldman Sachs fall apart.
I grew up in Oregon and HATED this stupid game. Since it originated in Oregon in the early 70’s, by the mid to later 70’s we were all obligated to enjoy it as part of gym class. Those of us who were not that coordinated (me and almost everyone I knew) had to suffer through it every year.
And yes, the kids who did stand around and play it on the edges of the playground or campus even through high school were the weird kids that nobody talked to.
Nobody talked to them unless they wanted to buy pot off of them.
All I ever remember about hacky sack is that where I lived, only the douche(sp?) bags played it. Hence, I voted no.
Oh man I remember playing with these as a kid. Some of the hacky sacks people would try to mush and squeeze them around to help loosen up the fabric to make it easier to catch, some people would try pop out a few of the beads to make it easier to hacky. (Is that a real word?)
This is full of win!
Nope, I vote no.
The AH Dean at my high school took away out frisbees, but let the wussies play hacky sucks because they weren’t knocking people over.
Nope, they were just in the effing way.
I never played with these in school, but I just bought one the other day as a stress-reliever for work. I keep it on my desk and toss it around with myself when I’m talking to stupid people on the phone. And my boss’s kids like to come in and toss it back and forth with me, lol
They sold chainmail hacky sacks at our Renaissance Festival. One hellova way to break one’s ankle.
i still have a few hacks laying around. i was quite good, especially for a chubby kid. looking back, i should have hustled some money this way, cause no one ever guessed i could actually play well.
the pelt game, we called beanbag, and you only got hit if you were the one who messed up a circle. if it went over 100 and you dropped it, everyone got to bean you with it. could get nasty with a lot of kids playing.
epic bruises were epic.
Hell I still play hacky sack. I also resent the comment regarding cleanliness. Strangely i get better at this when I’m baked.
In school we created “hacky basebal” it was played with a hacky sack, the pitcher kicked the hacky sack to the “batter?” and he/she kicked the hacky sack into play. from there it was pretty much softball/baseball rules. catch it the batter (for lack of a better term) was out, the batter ran bases, you could be tagged out, 3 outs to an inning, etc. It was pretty awesome though. It caught on during the lunch period and we’d play it out in the foyer before school in the morning and at lunch and even sometimes we’d pick up a few innings after school before practices or games.
That’s awesome! Did you ever play cupball? We would always play behind the dugouts at the ballpark while waiting for our little league games to start. It’s just like baseball except we used a crumpled up paper cup for a ball and hit it with the palm of our hands. The paper cup didn’t go very far, even when you hit it as hard as you could, so it was ideal for small spaces. Lots of fun!
cupball all day for the win!
I forgot all about that!
My school was so awesome that we had a Hacky Sack class for PE, for those of us who needed the credits but didn’t want to actually exercise. It was cool.
druggie sack, you mean.
Super fun game. I used to bring a hackey sack on backpacking trips – a lightweight and fun game for deep in the woods. Got to be careful not to lose it though. It seemed that there was a direct correlation between enjoying hackey sack and smoking pot.
Check out the Banana Man: Hackey Sack God
My HS shop teacher HATED hacky Sacks… If some one was playing with it in class he picked it out of the air and buzz sawed it in to oblivion on the rip saw…. The little pellets inside would always explode out, almost like it was snowing…. freaking hilarious…
Also check out the Hackey Sack Shuffle
What, no one mentioned Freddie Prinze Jr.’s epicly lame hacky sack bit from She’s All That? That’s MY favortie hacky sack memory….
“Still, hacky sacks are a win for sure — just about any activity that makes you and friends get in a circle is.”
Does that mean circle jerking is an epic win too?
Wow, 1,000+ thumbs up…so this is what pot heads do now…surf epic win. That explains the smarties, captain planet…
Win!
I remember the stoners at school would sit around, smoke, and then play hacky sack outside the “smoke doors” at school.
i acually just started a club t my school and im looking for another club to go against as in we play it like tennis or badfmittonn and we hit it over a net with teams of six or so
Those aren’t Hacky Sacks. They’re generic sipa sacks. Hacky Sacks were made from two leather panels stitched together, and filled with pellets. They were a lot smaller than sipas and predate them by about 10 years. I got my first Hacky Sack in about ‘81 or ‘82 and my first sipa sack in ‘88 or so.
One of my friends at college broke his nose playing Pelt. Tried to run away from the hacky-sack and ran face-first into a goddamn pole.
by the time i graduated high school in 2003, hacky sack was banned from the campus
but we’d still play because we had a few cool teachers who would let us play in there classrooms.