Talk:Hacky sack

Disputed accuracy

This article should be merged with the footbag article because it describes exactly the same thing. Both the ball and the sport itself are adequately described at footbag. Quote from the footbag article:

Stalberger and Marshall soon became enthralled with the game, which Marshall had been hoping to promote with the general public. The two designed a product, which they trademarked the "Hacky Sack", and began putting together a plan to market the product and the sport. At the same time, they decided to create a "generic" term for the sport itself, as opposed to their product, and they named the sport "footbag".

--Malcohol 09:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Mr. Malchohol. --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 20:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with both above, Hacky Sack is just a generic name for one type of Footbag. The sport is footbag, not hacky sack. This Hacky Sack page should just be a direct link to the Footbag page, the first paragraph of the Footbag page should contain information about the commonly known Hacky Sack trademark. Jwebber 04:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)John

These guys are the inventors of the original footbag, right? Article could be expanded. Many people call the game and the bag Hacky Sack, we shouldn't treat the term as a misnomer. If pushing for merge, put in top-level of footbag article, after introduction. --Knulclunk 13:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge Suggestion

I don't support a merge. I looked for the exact words hacky sack. I got this bare bones page. I support its being enhanced and a cross-reference to footbag article instead. Many, many people know the term hacky sack over footbag and it is quite enlightening to know it actually means that we're all talking about a proprietary name...

--Flickety 02 Dec 2006 (EST)

I agree, this is a well-known brand name. It would be like merging the Kleenex article with the facial tissue article. Or the Saab article with the automobile article. 68.9.253.26 18:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)JoshCatone

Games

The games in the Games section could be moved to List of circle kick variants.--Malcohol 09:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

fixer upper

over the past few days I have added to this page. I added the section of vocab and info about the game. I think that although "Hacky Sack" is a trademarked product owned by Wham-O, that the game "Hacky Sack" is widely used and so is public property. I was careful to talk about the game "Hacky Sack" as the game, and not use "Hacky Sack" to describe any footbag except the one owned by Wham-O. And by the way Malcohol, I think it is the other way around, footbag is the bag itself, hacky sack refers to the game (which is also called Circle Kick) I think this article adds some much needed info (Footbag talks about the game brefly and list of circle kick variants doesn't mention the original game at all.) The vocabulary of moves and external links useful in understanding and playing the game, no other article has that. --Superman₌₎^{lets talk} 22:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 28 March 2017

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The result of the move request was: Moved — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:42, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hacky Sack → Hacky sack – Footbag was merged into this article today after a proposed merge timed out with no comments. Since it's now an article about the general subject of little bags and how they get kicked around, it should either be moved to hacky sack or footbag. It looks as if "hacky sack" has gone the way of frisbee and become a genericised trademark, 40 years on, with WP:COMMONNAME press coverage favouring "hacky sack" 2-1 over "footbag" (and the latter cases often explaining "aka hacky sack" to its readers). Press sources only seem to use "footbag" when commentating on Guinness records and events like the U.S. Open Freestyle Footbag Championships, where the event organisers are presumably deliberately avoiding the use of a trademark. McGeddon (talk) 18:13, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Earlier discussion from technical move request at WP:RMT

Hacky Sack (currently a redirect to Hacky sack) → Hacky sack – As a result of a merge from footbag, this article has been written to be about the generic trademark use of the term, rather than the Hacky Sack product specifically. McGeddon (talk) 09:16, 28 March 2017 (UTC) I do not agree that this is an uncontroversial move. I have not seen a reliable source that states Wham-O's trademark has become generic and it is not Wikipedia's place to take the lead in making such a declaration. Consider this source which describes Wham-O's potential loss of trademark protection for their Frisbee brand; it says: The opening sentence in a Wikipedia article about "Flying Disks" states: Flying disks (commonly called Frisbees) are disk-shaped objects . . ." This sentence alone exemplifies that the FRISBEE mark is in a lot of trouble. The word "commonly" and the term "Frisbees"—a trademark used in a plural form with no ® sign next to it or even a single mention of Wham-O—sound like a public verdict of genericness. This should be discussed in a requested move and perhaps insight from WMF legal should also be sought.--John Cline (talk) 15:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC) Okay, I'll start a move discussion. The Wikipedia article about "flying disks" has been at Frisbee since being moved there last August, for what it's worth. --McGeddon (talk) 17:58, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

• Support move - my opposition to this move was based on the lack of reliable secondary verification of this brand's generification. I withdraw that opposition based on this edit which added a reference that supports designating this brand as a generic trademark.--John Cline (talk) 09:55, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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Hacky?

Could the article explain the meaning of "hacky" that the footbag is filled with?

I have just searched for hacky and can find no meaning related to this usage.

Marchino61 (talk) 06:42, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Hacky is just the word hack with a -y suffix. It doesn't refer to what is inside, it just means it was made from whatever parts were available.71.63.160.210 (talk) 21:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)