Dan Ednie
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Occupation | Writer, Public Speaker, Footbag Instructor and Performer |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Introduction | At 20 Dan co-founded Global Heart Tours , a foreign language tour service where young Australian language learners give tours to international students and short term travellers. The tours take place in Mandarin, English and Japanese and promote cross-cultural communication and language sharing. He beleives strongly that Australians need to be better supported when learning foreign, and in particular Asian, languages.
At 19, Dan founded Footbag 4 Fun, program which has since taught over 9,500 students worldwide. Most recently at the 2009 IFPA World Championships he launched a new eBook co-written with the 7 time World Champion titled The Vasek Klouda Manual: How to Play Footbag. Dan has performed Footbag on Television numerous times and would love to work more in commercials. Dan is also an inspiring speaker and performer perfect for schools, corporate functions, and community festivals. Email Dan at dan.ednie@gmail.com |
| Interests | Linguistics, biography, writing, public speaking, footbag, Japanese, Chinese, Czech |