About

Hacky sack started in Oregon in 1972.

Two guys, John Stalberger and Mike Marshall, made a small beanbag to 
help John rehab a knee injury. They started kicking it around. Other 
people wanted one. They called it the Hacky Sack and put it on the 
market. By the late 70s it was a registered trademark and a real 
business.

By the 80s and 90s, you couldn't walk through a college quad or a 
parking lot without seeing four guys standing in a loose circle, 
trying to keep a small leather pellet-filled ball off the ground. It 
was a thing you did between classes. A thing you did at concerts. A 
thing you did when you didn't have anything else to do.

Then it got serious. The freestyle scene developed — players inventing 
moves with names like the Clipper, the Pixie, the Butterfly, the 
Symposium. There are world championships. There's a footbag federation. 
There are players who can keep the bag in the air for over five hours 
straight using only specific kicks, stalls, and delays they've spent 
years perfecting. The world record is 63,326 consecutive kicks. Six 
hours, fifty-five minutes. Set by a guy named Ted Martin in 1997 and 
never broken.

We are not those guys.

Sunday Sack is for the rest of us — the people who learned to kick a 
sack in middle school and never stopped, even when we stopped being 
good at it. The people who'd rather stand in a circle with three 
friends than be alone with our phones. The people for whom the bag 
isn't really the point. The standing around is.

Respect to the freestylers who kept this thing alive for fifty years. 
We're just here to keep the circle going.