Month: April 2007

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Paganello 2007 – Day One

2007 Paganello
Rimini, Italy
April 6, 2007

Open Pairs Prelim A
(top 2 advance to the semifinals)

1. Tom Leitner/Reto Zimmerman (67.1)
2. Alex Alexandrov/Gary Auerbach (56.2)
3. Andrea Poli/Riacardo Sanna (56.0)
4. Sergio Arrighi/Bianca Strunz (50.8)
5. Markus Goetz/Eleonora Imazio (50.7)
6. Markus Hein/Zahlen Titcomb (37.1)
7. Urs Hardegger/Niki Thoma (35.9)

Open Pairs Prelim B
(top 2 advance to the semifinals)

1. Larry Imperiale/Fabio Sanna (65.1)
2. Matteo Gaddoni/Jan Schreck (57.9)
3. Claudio Massaro/Andrea Rimatori (57.2)
4. Matteo Feller/Paolo Magni (53.0)
5. Ramon Galliani/Carlo Perrone (48.3)
6. AlÈ Collera/Xtehn Titcomb (44.7)
7. Jan Huybrechts/Hans Peeters (34.6)

Open Pairs Prelim C
(top 2 advance to the semifinals)

1. Paul Kenny/Pipo Lopez (69.5)
2. Manuel Cesari/Arthur Coddington (61.9)
3. Giavanni Coppo/Valerio Occorsio (59.4)
4. Steve Hays/Neil Toland (52.5)
5. Angelo Mancarella/Danilo Torzolini (52.2)
6. Cristina Nicolardi/Davide “Panda” (43.9)
7. Gloria Alessandrini/Davide Bacco

Open Pairs Prelim D
(top 2 advance to the semifinals)

1. Antonio Piccione Cusmá/Andrea Meola (61.9)
2. Joakim Arveskär/Clay Collera (60.9)
3. Claudio Cigna/Luca Medri (60.6)
4. Fabio Caruso/Silvia Caruso (57.3)
5. John Titcomb/Marco Prati (43.2)
6. Alessandro Berra/Matteo Ceresa (39.3)

Open Pairs B Final
(Top 2 advance to the semifinals)

1. Matteo Feller/Paolo Magni (65.1)
2. Angelo Mancarella/Danilo Torzolini (63.7)
3. Steve Hays/Neil Toland (59.7)
4. Fabio Caruso/Silvia Caruso (58.8)
5. Sergio Arrighi/Bianca Strunz (58.7)
6. Markus Goetz/Eleonora Imazio (53.3)
7. Ramon Galliani/Carlo Perrone (51.5)
8. John Titcomb/Marco Prati (51.1)
9. Jan Huybrechts/Hans Peeters (50.9)
10. Markus Hein/Zahlen Titcomb (49.2)
11. Alessandro Berra/Matteo Ceresa (46.4)
12. AlÈ Collera/Xtehn Titcomb (45.9)
13. Cristina Nicolardi/Davide “Panda” (44.5)
14. Urs Hardegger/Niki Thoma (44.2)
15. Gloria Alessandrini/Davide Bacco (36.3)

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Paganello 2007 Begins

Paganello 2007 got underway today with endless jamming under sunny skies followed by a ginormous opening party. Looks like there will be almost 60 freestylers in the competition. Unfortunately, Filippo Cavalca won’t be among them as he hurt his shoulder just yesterday. We wish him a quick recovery – we will miss you Filippo! Most turbo so far this week is Alex Alexandrov, who jammed for 3+ hours in the rain and soft sand yesterday, then followed it up with about 6 hours today. He was still jamming tonight at the party.

Tonight’s opening party had wine, pasta, freshly-caught fish, belly dancers, a medieval drama performed on stilts, a live band and fireworks. Those who wake up in time for the 10:30 players meeting tomorrow will play the Open Pairs prelim. 12 teams will advance to the semis from the 24+ teams entered, then the rest will have a playoff for two more spots.

Now it is time for me to sleep, so my old legs can make it through a three minute prelim round tomorrow. Buona notte.

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Video: 1998 FPAW – Almost Dropless


Murf and Ted were on fire at the FPAW1998 in Seattle, winning the finals with a performance that was called Routine of the Decade. Their tournament began with this prelims performance. Dropless with huge closing catches (almost) all the way through.