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Every hacky sack trick,
easiest to hardest.

All 49 footbag freestyle tricks in the order real players learn them — from your first Inside Kick to competition-level 3-Add combos. Tricks marked VIDEO have a full tutorial.

Looking for a move we don't teach yet? Jump to the complete 280-move list.

BASIC KICKS

Where everyone starts — clean contact and control with both feet.

• Inside KickVIDEO
  The foundation of everything
• Outside KickVIDEO
  Your second weapon
• Toe KickVIDEO
  Strike with your toe
• Knee KickVIDEO
  Use your whole leg

STALLS & DELAYS

Catch and balance the bag on your foot, knee, or chest.

• Toe StallVIDEO
  Freeze time on your foot
• Inside StallVIDEO
  Stall on the inside shelf
• Outside Stall
  Stall on the outer edge
• ClipperVIDEO
  Cross-body, then hold
• Wrap
  Pull it around your leg
• Dragon
  Cross-body outside delay
• Pincher
  Catch it behind the knee
• Neck Stall
  Balance on your neck

2-ADD TRICKS

Real freestyle: a set, an added move, and the catch.

• Around the WorldVIDEO
  Circle the bag between delays
• Leg OverVIDEO
  Support leg passes over the bag
• PickupVIDEO
  Support leg sweeps in, catch on the set foot
• MirageVIDEO
  Support leg sweeps in, catch opposite
• Knee Stall
  Balance on a joint
• Sole Delay
  Flat bottom, pure control
• Heel Delay
  Hold it behind you
• Dragonfly Kick
  Leg over, then jump and strike
• Illusion
  Support leg sweeps out to in
• Hop Over
  Hop the bag off the ground
• Fairy
  Circle out to in, catch opposite
• Pixie
  Circle in to out, catch opposite
• Bubba
  From a clipper, opposite leg over
• Walk Over
  Step over a grounded delay
• Flying Clipper
  Clipper kick in mid-air
• Rake
  Scoop it from behind you
• Pendulum
  Swing it back and over your head
• Flapper
  Cross-body sole kick
• Toe Clipper
  Toe strike from behind the leg
• Knee Clipper
  Knee strike from behind the leg
• Probe
  Blind clipper off the shoulder

3+ ADD TRICKS

Competition-level combinations. The top of the ladder.

• ButterflyVIDEO
  Leg over straight into a clipper
• Barrage
  Double dexterity mirage
• OsisVIDEO
  Spin into a clipper delay
• Whirl
  Support leg circles into a clipper
• Swirl
  Cross-body inside around the world
• Twirl
  A swirling osis, opposite leg
• Drifter
  A miraging clipper delay
• Dyno
  A blender, dexterity reversed
• Blender
  A whirling osis
• Torque
  A mirage into an osis
• Eggbeater
  An atomic-set leg over
• Double Leg Over
  A leg over straight after a mirage
• Paradon
  Circle it twice, then clipper
• Pixie Leg Over
  Pixie set into a leg over
• Ducking Mirage
  Duck it over your head, then mirage
• Ducking Butterfly
  Duck it, then out-to-in into a clipper

The complete move list

Every named move in the sport — all 280 — grouped by add-count, the number of components a move is worth. The 49 we teach above are marked.

1 ADD · 17 MOVES

Single surfaces and single strikes — the alphabet of footbag.

2 ADDS · 26 MOVES

One dexterity or delay added to a set. Where freestyle really starts.

3 ADDS · 60 MOVES

Three components in one airtime. Competition territory.

4 ADDS · 90 MOVES

Four. Now the set, the spin and the catch all have to be right.

5 ADDS · 59 MOVES

Five-add combinations. Very few players land these consistently.

6 ADDS · 22 MOVES

Six. World-class.

7 ADDS · 6 MOVES

The deep end of the list.