HEADIS is hybrid of head and tennis and was invented in 2006 by René Wegner, a Saarbruecker sports science student at the time, at "Wesch", a pool in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The soccer field was occupied, that was why they started heading the ball back and forth at the table tennis table. During his study he developed the idea with his common student and friend Felix Weins.In 2008 HEADIS became part of the sport program at the University of Saarbruecken. 

That is when HEADIS started to spread throughout Germany.HEADIS is easy to start, fun to play and simple that is why more people join in and start playing every day. There is a huge media interest (both print and TV) in HEADIS and it got awarded as one of the finalist at the 2010 "ISPO brandnew Award" in Munich, the world's largest start-up competition in the sporting goods industry.