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2005 Super Hein: Randy Silvey Is Super Hein…Again

2005 Super Hein
Seaside, Oregon
July 23-24, 2005

Final Standings
(total score for Pairs, Mob Op and Big Move)

1. Randy Silvey (295.5 points)
2. Tommy Leitner (293.5)
3. Dave Schiller (290.5)
4. Matt Gauthier (289.5)
5T. Jake Gauthier (287.5)
5T. Joel Rogers (287.5)
7. Larry Imperiale (285.5)
8. Pipo Lopez (273.5)
9. Fabio Sanna (272.5)
10. Paul Kenny (270.5)
11. Rodney Sanchez (268.5)
12. Bob Boulware (266)
13. Jamie Chantiles (259)
14. Jeff Kruger (257.5)
15. Z Weyand (256.5)
16. Lisa Hunrichs Silvey (254)
17. Cindy Kruger (253)
18. Lorenzo Apriani (250)
19. Jan Soerensen (249)
20. Mark Regulbuti (243)
21. Mary Lowry (241)
22. Steve Scannell (237.5)
23. Mike Galloupe (237)
24. Eleonora Imazio (229)
25. John Titcomb (227)
26. Sara Bergman (225.5)
27T. Dan Burke (223.5)
27T. Neil (223.5)
29. Lori Daniels (163.5)

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Big Moves: Double Spinning Roots


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On a routine pass over the Adriatic, the Shrednow satellite picked up this video signal. Immediately, the mysterious footage, labeled simply File 2271, was urgently transmitted to our security headquarters for analysis. The conclusion: Matteo Gaddoni should board the next plane to Seattle to show his roots-catching skills.

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2005 Manresa

2005 Manresa
Manresa State Beach
Santa Cruz, CA
July 17-18, 2005

Final Results: Co-op

1. Skippy Jammer/Tom Leitner/Carolyn Yabe (33.5 points)
2. Arthur Coddington/Clay Collera/Fabio Sanna (31.4)
3. Lorenzo Apriani/Mark Regalbuti/Jan Soerensen (25.7)
4. Jamie Chantiles/Mike Galloupe/Melissa Trail (24.5)
5. Carl Dobson/Doug Korns/Z Weyand (19.5)
6. Eleonora Imazio/Keith Kleiner/John O’Malley (13.8)

Final Results: Open Pairs

1. Skippy Jammer/Tom Leitner (34.8)
2. Arthur Coddington/Clay Collera (34.5)
3. Joel Rogers/Z Weyand (32.6)
4. Lorenzo Apriani/Jan Soerensen (29.5)
5. Jamie Chantiles/Carl Dobson (28.0)
6. Mark Regalbuti/Fabio Sanna (27.1)
7. Mike Galloupe/Melissa Trail (21.7)
8. Eleonora Imazio/Doug Korns (13.7)
9. Dan Burke/Alessandro Collera (9.3)

Open Co-op Notes

– The bonus moves were Gitis, Roll To Partner and Cuff To Partner. These were scored from 1 to 5.

– The super bonus moves were a Scarecrow Brush, a Spinning Catch and a Turnover To Partner. These were scored either 0 or 5. All or nothing.

– I didn’t see the winning routine (I was warming up to play after them), but I heard they almost went dropless. From the cheers, they must have hit a ton of big moves.

– Johnny O’Malley could have gone ballistic with a few more clock throws. His partners were counter, and he graciously played almost the entire routine counter. We saw a few glimpses of his big air brushing game. It was beautiful to see him put ego second to the performances of his team. An example to us all.

Open Pairs Notes

– The bonus moves were Gitis, Roll To Partner and Cuff To Partner. These were scored from 1 to 5.

– The super bonus moves were a Scarecrow Brush, a Spinning Catch and a water catch. These were scored either 0 or 5. All or nothing.

– Points were close between the top two teams. Neither team hit big. Skippy Jammer and Tommy Leitner had a great start with smooth and flowing skid passes and multiple spinning catches from Tommy. Once the disc got wet and sandy, they lost their momentum. Arthur Coddington and Clay Collera had some momentum until they both caught water catches a third of the way into their six minutes. After that, they carried around what felt like 20 extra pounds of water in their clothes and didn’t quite have the pep they wanted.

– How powerful is a triple spinning gitis? Powerful enough to move Joel Rogers and Z Weyand into the top 3. In the last minute of their time, Joel fired off a very casual triple spinning gitis. Until then, they had scored pretty standard gitis bonus points. Joel’s move may have raised their score over Lorenzo Apriani/Jan Soerensen.

– The random draw didn’t like Lorenzo Apriani and Jan Soerensen. They drew the first playing position both days.

– Alessandro “Sleepy Jammer” Collera made his United States competitive debut. He was on fire for the first minute of his jam with Dan Burke. Ale hit a huge, definitive Scarecrow and nailed combo after combo until the sand took over their disc.

– Fabio Sanna did two standing gitis pulls; almost every catch had at least two spins.

– Jamie Chantiles and Carl Dobson were on the hunt for a solid gitis for their whole six minutes but didn’t hit the triples they wanted.

– Despite cackles from certain male freestylers, Eleonora retained her dignity and did not go for a water catch. She left that duty to Doug Korns.

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California Jam Italia #1: San Ramon AKA The Hottest Place On Earth


Fabio Sanna – San Ramon, California (July 12, 2005)
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Was the weather at EFC a little too cold for you? Do you like freestyling inside an oven? Do you mind if the grond melts your freestyle sneakers? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you would have had a great time at the first pre-FPAW jam of our Italian visitors.

Eleonora Imazio and Fabio Sanna arrived into San Francisco on Monday evening. After a improvised driving tour of San Francisco and some obligatory photos of the Golden Gate bridge, they got some much needed rest only to wake up on Tuesday in the middle of a heat wave.

Heat wave, you say? A heat wave in the Bay Area? The temperature must have gotten up to almost 22C, right? Wrong! After a weekend of chilly 20C degree days, Bay Area weather changed. The sun decided to focus its beams directly here, driving temperatures into the 30’s in an instant. Reports of temperatures at the jam ranged from 34C to 40C. Yes, it was that hot. It was one of those boiling days where wind actually made you feel hotter.

Eleonora was smart, jamming in short bursts then reclining under shade trees to enjoy the action and laugh at the fools melting in the sun. The rest of us – Fabio Sanna, Arthur Coddington, Greg Riley and Doug Korns – played on for almost three hours.

This was a trial by fire for Fabio, but he passed with flying colors. He was the most turbo of the day. He jammed the hardest and sat down last. Along the way he put down some sweet combos. My favorite was a UD series that included a double over down and some incredible flat work. If I hadn’t been delirious from the heat, I might be able to provide more details.

Tomorrow, the invasion continues with the arrival of two groups of European travellers to the Bay Area and the promise of more jams, these fueled by cooler breezes.

Ciao!

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2005 NASS Competition

2005 NASS Competition
The National Adventure Sports Show
Royal Bath & West of England Showground
Westex, United Kingdom
July 8-10, 2005

1. Tom Leitner (USA)/Lorenzo Apriani (ITA)
2. Edoardo Favorini (ITA)/Gregory Lo-a-sjoe (NED)
3. John Coxhead (GBR)/Joe McCrave (GBR)
4. Timmy Broxap (GBR)/Russell Scott (GBR)
5. Ollie Gordon (GBR)/Tom Stocker (GBR)
6. Rob Capper (GBR)

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Rankings: July 2005 And A Note About Upside

The July rankings (Open | Women) is a hurricane of movement. Lots of events cycled off the rankings. Four big events came on. The number one player changed again. Two players entered the top ten, fourteen players entered the top 100 and thirty players entered the rankings list.

Number One
Dave Lewis returns to number one, ousting Tom Leitner after only one month. C’mon Dave! Give someone else a chance up there. Actually, Dave was able to regain #1 by winning WFDF with Arthur Coddington. Since Tom Leitner did not play the event, he did not have the opportunity to earn the big points that come with a major championship. Just wait until later this month, though. The rankings list released just before the FPA World Championships will include new results but will also NOT include the 2003 World Disc Games/WFDF. Lewis/Coddington, the champions in 2003, will lose a huge number of points, as will most of the top ten players. Look for another eye-popping reshuffling in the days before the world championships.

Top Ten
Jeff Kruger’s second place at WFDF helps him re-enter the top ten at number nine. The bigger story is Fabio Sanna, a first time Top Ten player this month as he jumps from 14 to 10 based on strong results at the European Freestyle Championships.

The Top 100
There is too much going on here to even attempt to break it down. It is chaos, wonderful chaos. Active players are vaulting upwards. Inactive players are dropping down. Glance through the names in the Top 100. How many players do you personally know? How many countries are represented? That’s right!

Upside
Sometimes, players do well at a tournament, but when they look at the rankings their points or rank don’t go up much. I’m always here to help figure out what happened, but most often it is the case of upside. Only your best five results count. If you have five or more results, you have to beat that fifth result to improve your points. If your fifth result is small, you have a lot of Upside. Almost any result will help your point total, and with a big result you can move up lots of spots. If your fifth result is big, you have no Upside. You may have to play a huge tournament to even improve your points.

I created an Upside List to who you how this works. Here are the ten players with the most Upside on the list:

1. Murphy, Dave (Rank: 11, Fifth Best Result: 3.5, Tourneys: 5, Best Five: 893.25)
2. Gauthier, Jake (Rank: 30, Fifth Best Result: 7.5, Tourneys: 5, Best Five: 576)
3. Downs, Rik (Rank: 103, Fifth Best Result: 8, Tourneys: 5, Best Five: 209)
4. Graves, Anne (Rank: 140, Fifth Best Result: 8.5, Tourneys: 6, Best Five: 148.75)
5. Bergman, Sarah (Rank: 179, Fifth Best Result: 9, Tourneys: 7, Best Five: 109.85)
6. Cordero, Sara (Rank: 182, Fifth Best Result: 9.5, Tourneys: 5, Best Five: 107)
7. Lowry, Mary (Rank: 60, Fifth Best Result: 10, Tourneys: 6, Best Five: 317.25)
8. Audino, Gaia (Rank: 167, Fifth Best Result: 10, Tourneys: 7, Best Five: 119.75)
9. Cole, Tom (Rank: 84, Fifth Best Result: 11, Tourneys: 5, Best Five: 243.5)
10. Cohn, Eddy (Rank: 139, Fifth Best Result: 11, Tourneys: 6, Best Five: 150.5)

Compare Jake Gauthier, with the second best Upside, to Tom Leitner, who actually has the 76th best upside. Jake is coming off an injury. He hasn’t been playing many events, but he has five events banked from before he hurt his knee. To increase his points, he only has to score more than 7.5 ranking points at a tournament – for him that basically means showing up and twiddling his fingers on the playing field. If he wins an event, he could earn 125 to 400 points (the top performer at the FPA Worlds usually accumulates about 400 points). Almost all of that (all but 7.5 points) would improve his point total. What happens? He flies up the rankings.

Tom Leitner has an insane amount of ranking points, but his fifth best result is 201.5 points. 201.5! There are few opportunities to grab that amount of points. Third place at WFDF this year got 204 points after bonus points were factored in. Winning a regular tournament with almost every top player in the field would get you just about 200 points. Tom is almost maxed out. He has low Upside.

So, if you are concerned about your ranking after a proud result, consider your Upside. The full Upside list is below. Keep in mind that there will be profound changes in this list between now and FPA Worlds because of the expiration of 2003 WFDF points and the addition of 2005 Manresa and SuperHein points.

Continue reading “Rankings: July 2005 And A Note About Upside”

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ukdiscstyle.com: the voice of the next generation

I started to freestyle at 13. Call me biased, but I believe that the early teens are one of the best times to learn about our sport. Our bodies are fresh and resilient. We are open to new ideas. We are ready to dive into activities we can call our own. We are ready to rule the world. Sometimes lost amid Europe’s freestyle explosion is the fact that some of our newest freestylers are in that perfect age range.

Johninho and Joe “The Flow” discovered freestyle through Dave Lewis and Murf’s Nike commercial. They have practiced and learned, begun to compete and stepped up as leaders of UK freestyle. Now, they have launched ukdiscstyle.com.

Their website is both a showcase for the UK Discstyle team and a great place for new players to learn what freestyle is. Not content to simply master freestyle, Team UK Discstyle has produced videos to introduce themselves, show off their best moves and show how to do freestyle moves. They have published the most recent interview of Dave Lewis. And, by partnering with the FPA and Shrednow, they feature histories of the sport, instructional info, video clips and even the world rankings.

Stop by ukdiscstyle.com and say hello to the next generation of freestyle.

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2005 WFDF: Mark Williams Videos

Mark williams has posted six videos from the WFDF2005 freestyle competition last weekend in San Diego. The teams featured are:

Arthur Coddington/Dave Lewis (1st place)
Larry Imperiale/Jeff Kruger (2nd place)
Joel Rogers/Dave Schiller (3rd place)
Dave Bailey/Paul Kenny (4th place)
Jamie Chantiles/Steve Hanes (5th place)
Dan Roddick/Z Weyand (Senior Grandmaster division)