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It has been several years since anyone but Dave Lewis, Dave Murphy or Arthur Coddington has been ranked number one. Since 1998, those three players have won the big titles and played enough other tournaments to outscore the rest of the players. Now, Tom Leitner has outscored them all and has become the new number one player on the June 2005 rankings.
Continue reading “Rankings: June 2005 – Leitner Takes Over Number 1”
1986 US Open freestyle champion Peter Laubert suffered a heart attack last Tuesday in San Diego. He was released from the hospital after two days of treatment and will be recuperating for a month. Though his jamming is on hold right now, he plans to watch the action as a spectator at the upcoming WFDF/Masters/Juniors championships in late June.
There is a lot of movement on the May rankings (Open, Women). Each month I try to list some of the more important changes, but that’s just one man’s opinion. I think there Shrednow’s community can find much more interesting rankings stories both in this month’s list and the more than 10 year history of the rankings. If you see something interesting, talk about it in the comments.
Here’s one bit of news. Next month there will be a new Open number one player. He lives in Europe and his first initial is T.
I’ll sweeten the offer. The best rankings story gets a Shrednow sticker.
2005 Flying Disc Opening
April 30 – May 1 2005
Podersdorf, Austria
Pairs
1. Edoardo Favorini/Tom Leitner
2. Tommy Gereben/Fabio Sanna
3. Gergo Németh (14 yo)/Balázs Major (16yo)
4. Florian Hess/Ferenc Orosz
5. Eleonora Imazio/Johannes Petz
6. Gábor Boross/István Prán
7. Andrea Poli/Manuel Cesari
8. Andrea Furlan/Ricardo Macari
Intermediate
1. Davide Sanna
2. Jan "Dexter" Struz
3. Ali Dastrandj
4. Ricardo Macari
5. Andrea Furlan
6. Christopher Peroutka
7. Mike Haberfelner
8. Florian Herkner
The Shrednow Sky Styler has been one of the most successful Sky Stylers in history, winning world title after world title over the past five years. Both the green and the white model have sold out, so it’s time to make some more.
I’d like to get an idea of who will need more Shrednow discs this season and which color you prefer. Let me know in the comments, or you can send me a message. Don’t worry, you’re not ordering anything by answering this little survey, but if you want to pre-order, you can do that too. Just contact me and I’ll set you up with the discs you need.
2005 Jammers Championship
April 23-24, 2005
Jacksonville, FL
Pairs
1. Larry Imperiale/Jeff Kruger
2. Pipo Lopez/Jonathan Willett/Paul Kenny
3. Jake Gauthier/Gregg Hosfeld
4. Tito Andino/Steve Scannell
5. Sarah Bergman/Cindy Kruger
6. Carl Emerson/Craig Simon
7. Vic Ouzoonian/Stuart Landsee
Mixed Pairs
1. Cindy Kruger/Jake Gauthier
2. Sarah Bergman/Jeff Kruger
3. Anne Goh/Steve Scannell
Wham-O’s World Class Freestyle 160g model comes with a bonus this year: the Jam Like A Pro DVD aka Z Weyand and Dave Lewis’s The Secrets Of Pro Disc Freestyle. Z and Dave licensed the DVD to Wham-O so more people could learn to freestyle, and in turn Wham-O is offering the DVD as a free bonus in the package with the disc. Wham-O is also releasing disc/DVD packages for Ultimate and Golf.
This is a great moment for Freestyle. Hundreds of thousands of players will be able to learn freestyle, even if they have never seen a real-life jam. Let’s make the most of it. Let people know about the free DVD offer, and if you see someone playing with the Wham-O freestyle disc, ask them if they got hte DVD and if they want to learn any new tricks.
Both Lorenzo Apriani and Clay Collera have been hobbled by knee injuries this spring. Lorenzo tore his meniscus just before Paganello. He will have to have surgery. Clay aggravated a chronic injury on the first day of Paganello and gutted it out to win Co-op and take fourth in Pairs. He is getting a diagnosis from his doctor. We wish them quick recoveries and hope to be amazed by their moves in Seattle.
2005 Virginia States
April 9-10, 2005
Fredericksberg, VA
1. Rob Fried,/Joey Hudoklin/Ted Oberhaus
2. Dale Crawford/Phil Cappa
3. Harvey Brandt/Tom Lasher
4. Donny Wallace/Gary Auerbach/Bethany Sanchez
5. Bill Wright/Rob Knapik
6. Rodney Sanchez/Lori Daniels
7T. Bob Cooksey/Jack Cooksey/Randy Lahm
7T. Ronnie Turner/Brian Steffen
9T. Dave Hessleberth/Ken Reynolds
9T. Dave Steger/Jennifer Griffin
11T. Jack Stanton/Tom Coffin
11T. Hunter Wootten/Nick Purpura
13. Mike Trapasso/Larry Hinkle
2005 German Indoor Championships
April 2-3, 2005
Berlin, Germany
Finals:
1. Hartmut Wahrmann/Buguslav Bul (GER) (49.5)
2. Fabio Sanna/Eleonora Imazio (ITA) (47.7)
3. Kolja Hannemann/Markus Hein (GER) (45.3)
4. Tom Leitner/Nico Bernold (USA / SUI) (42.3)
5. Iwan de Moor/Jan Soerensen (NED/ DEN) (42.0)
6. Tobias Doehner/Florian Hess (GER) (41.4)
7. Laurent Mess/Carsten Heim (GER) (38.9)
8. Heiko Voigt/Chris Lamred (GER) (36.9)