BART Diaries » Lake Merritt Station http://bartdiaries.com Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:30:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hacky Sack at Lake Merritt Station http://bartdiaries.com/2009/09/30/hacky-sack-at-lake-merrit-station/ http://bartdiaries.com/2009/09/30/hacky-sack-at-lake-merrit-station/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:30:49 +0000 Eugenia http://bartdiaries.com/?p=258 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Riders Matt and Dawn told me that they have separately both seen a group of Chinese people playing Hacky Sack inside the Lake Merritt BART station. Hacky Sack? Inside the station?

A little sleuthing unearthed this video:

The poster on YouTube reports that this was actually a Chinese game called jianzi, what some would say is the “original hacky sack.” But unlike hacky sack, jianzi is played with a shuttlecock (yeah, I had to look up that one too). I actually saw this game played when I was a kid. But why inside the BART station? I wonder if it’s some kind of a pick-up game.

Anybody got more information on this bit of morning fun at the Lake Merritt station?

p.s. This is not to be confused with the footbag practice held by the Chaos Footbag Club at Lake Merritt – the lake, not the BART station, according to Jack H. at Chaos. Jack asserts that his sport (like “volleyball with your feet”) is also way cool.

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