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In the old days, the less-dominant side was referred to as "weak side," and I got to thinking that having a more positive name might have a subconcious effect on players' development. So one night on the bus home from school (college) in San Deigo, I was reading the dictionary, as I often did, and this realization occurred to me that we needed to change "weak" to something more positive and encouraging. I wrote down three words, "switch, flip and dark," then zoned out until I was 2 miles past my bus stop, thinking about it. Don't ask why it took so long. I was probably thinking of other things as well. But anyway, I got off the bus and had to backtrack 2 miles on foot, and that's when I decided to go with "flip side." I got home and shared the idea with Richard Abshire, my roommate at the time, and he was in full support. I then spread it to the rest of the footbag world through the good ol' footbag.org email list, and the rest is history.
Sure, there were those who fought the change, there always are, but eventually even those players came around, when they realized it was disgraceful calling a less-dominant-side move "weak" when they had spent so much time training it to be as good as the dominant one. It just felt good to say, "my flip Fog," as one legend put it.
Oh, but this is supposed to be about why we are called "Flipsider." Well, that's easy. Using "flip side" in footbag nomenclature was my idea, and I've always valued the use of both sides, so it was kind of a no-brainer. Actually I was looking to buy the domain name flipside.com, but it was taken, and so the name Flipsider occurred to me, and in fact the domain was available, so booya, there you have it.
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