New Footbag interview: Ken Somolinos

Well, at the start of the year I introduce a series of interviews on Shred Global, a Footbag website. I planned to do one each week, putting each interview up for Footbag players and other people interested to read each weekend.

Well, the fact is that things don't always go to plan. That's just how life goes. I managed to get three done on pretty good schedule, but then lately the pace has picked up. I decided to use a bit of free time to get my series back on track.

My latest interview is going to be a multi part one, with Ken Somolinos. Well, the whole interview is done, but it was pretty long, so I'm going to split it up into multiple parts.

Here is his (dropless) routine from Worlds in Berlin.

This is one of my favourite routines that I have seen live in action. It was in the first pool at my first ever Worlds and I think Ken really surprised everybody with this one.

Ken came to Australia in 2005 or so for the campaign with Milo. I got to meet him a couple of times during that, but really I was just starting out as a serious Footbag player.

Here is the interview. One interesting response is that Ken thinks Japan is unlikely to ever hold Worlds, while South America will be the place where the Worlds goes next, the first outside Europe or North America.

Time to get to work...

New Footbag interview

I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I have begun a new project, I am planning to interview Footbag players from around the world, at least one per week. I haven't really put all that much planning into it yet, so each week I will just pick someone I'm interested to talk to in the Footbag community, and see what's happening with them and what their thoughts on the Footbag world are.

This week I chose to go somewhere between Australia and Chile, and there is really only one active player in that region, Phil Morrison from New Zealand. The "Red Rocket".

Here is a video made from a few years ago, from some of Phil's visits to Australia. It was made by Ian Pritchard, a good friend of mine. It was part of the 2009 video contest at Worlds in Berlin. Phil and I shared a dorm with some other great guys that year.

You can read the interview on Shred Global here. I am keeping to my target so far of one per week, although my real goal is to have 100 by the end of the year, which is almost 2 per week.