What is freestyle kicking?
The word freestyle is very generic. There are many styles and the people who use them love them. The Bloughchi style is just one of many and designed to best assure a cooperative blending of abilities in a footbag circle or twosome that will accomplish the freestyle form known as footbag dance. The basics about Bloughchi are taught in the book “Footbag Dance” written by Steve Blough in 1983 which can be read online by Home at the top of this page and clicking on “How To”. It can also be purchased there or a text only version in a zipped file can be downloaded there. The idea of cooperation instead of competition and the enormous benefits of eye-foot coordination are developed fully in a research paper written by Blough entitled “Bloughchi – a Renaissance of Modern Movement” which you can at http://www.footbag.com/blouchi.htm. There is a lot of discussion about “freestyle” these days as some have tried to limit it to the competitive type of freestyle called stalling or juggling but that
