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1. No Hands (except when serving), No Arms - Shoulders are technically not allowed and are widely accepted among the average hack circle.
2. Always serve the bag to someone else, unless of course you are alone. Footbag is traditionally a game of courtesy, hence "The Courtesy Toss": a light lob usually toward the receivers knee.
3. Don't bogart that bag. - Don't always hog it 'till you drop it because that sucks for everybody else. Being able to pass well is important to almost all footbag games.
4. Don't say "sorry". Everyone makes mistakes, especially when learning, so sorries are unneccissary.
5. Try not to give knee passes Passes from the knee tend to go strait to the ground.
6. Don't play past .09 (blood-alcohol level) - You will only get frustrated, and you might loose the Bag. It is also next to impossible to play with a drink in your hands.
Playing Surface: Pavement is good, but hard on the footbag. Block off sewers etc. Grass is nice, but a little more difficult, although once you have wore away the grass and pounded the earth into clay, you have found your ideal footbag circle.
Footwear: Preferences on footwear vary from boots to bare feet. The most common denominator is a snug, mid cut leather cross trainer. Sandals are difficult, and it is very hard to play with bare feet. Serious shredders prefer lightweight court shoes such as Adidas Rod Lavers.
Styles of Footbags: The footbag itself can be made from a variety of materials including artificial leather and suede, crocheted cotton, facile, vinyl, hemp, and genuine leather and suede. The exterior material is called a cover. The harder the cover, the bouncier it is - the softer the cover, the "stickier" it is.
Paneled footbags can range from 2 to 120 panels, some have even more. The more panels that make up the cover, the rounder the footbag is. It is said that the rounder the footbag, the better it keeps its shape, and therefore the more control you have, especially when precise aim is required like in footbag net, and golf.
The interior of a footbag can be filled with plastic pellets or sand. The more tightly packed it is, the bouncier it is, and the more loosely packed it is the stickier it is. Sand filled bags are growing in popularity for their benefits of easy delaying (a trick where you stall the bag on your foot/leg etc). Even the plastic pellets can differ the feel of a footbag, from soft and waxy, to hard and crunchy.
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