We have found we can be most effective with our message by working directly with children during their regularly scheduled gym class. We are able to do half-day workshops that allows us to reach out to up to 4 classes. We start with a brief presentation to the class, then break them up into small groups where they each will have a hands-on experience learning to play footbag.
Contact us to schedule us for workshops.
School Workshops
In an effort to offer our programs for free, and to leave a footbag in the hands of every person we reach, we are looking at many avenues of funding such projects. Please contact us if you can assist in this effort!
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School Workshops & Assemblies
As footbag athletes and performers, we have done demonstrations
for groups of people ranging from School Assemblies and Park Districts
to Rotary meetings and Church groups, always with a great response from our hosts!
Chicago Fire Demo, Soldier Field - June 2004
One of the best ways to reach out to children is through School Assemblies. We have developed a dynamic program that introduces footbag as a great way to have fun alone or with friends. We know that kids need at least 30 minutes of exercise daily, and footbag offers that unique combination of fun with benefits.
Our School Assembly program combines an entertaining presentation of basic kicks and advanced tricks with an interactive educational experience of ‘how to learn the basics’ of footbag.
Contact us to schedule your next school assembly.
School Assemblies
“Children enrolled in kid-oriented diet and exercise programs are likely to adopt healthier eating and activity patterns, according to an updated systematic review.
If those children could sustain the changes in food and physical activity then that would make a [weight] difference in the long term," says lead author Carolyn Summerbell, a professor of human nutrition at the University of Teesside in England. According to Summerbell, the health programs that are effective for children are those that put some fun into fitness and food. "They don't want the boring old sports and training that are often in the curriculum," she says.
Fun foods and
exercise may reduce childhood obesity