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When: 1997
Where: Ala Moana Park – Honolulu, Hawaii
Who: Dave Schiller, Randy Silvey
Why: 1997 FPA Worlds – Open Pairs Final
Dave Schiller captured his second Open Pairs title, and Randy Silvey collected his first with the “Jet” routine.
UPDATE (12/14/04): I have uploaded new versions of the both videos. The quality should be the same but the files are smaller.
UPDATE (9/10/08): Silly oldschool video downloads. We’re in the web 4.0 age of hosted, shared videos on YouToob now.
When: 1997
Where: Honolulu, Hawaii
Who: Gina Sample
Why: FPA World Championships
Gina Sample is the only woman to have ever won the FPA Open Pairs world championship (in 1994 with Rodney Sanchez). In 1997, she played Pairs with Dave Lewis and hit this individual combo (with two indigenous pulls) in the semifinals.
The November rankings are now online.
Open Rankings (November 2004)
Women’s Rankings (November 2004)
Rankings Home
New tournaments on the list this month are:
2004 Trofeo Citta’ Di Milano
2004 Romashred
2004 AZ States
Tournaments falling off the list are:
2002 New York State Championships
2002 World Beach Invitational
2002 Best Damn Freestyle Tournament Period
When: 1992
Where: filmed in San Diego, broadcast across the US
Who: Dave Schiller, Amy Bekken, Dave Murphy, Stacy McCarthy, Joel Rogers, Rick Castiglia, Danny Sullivan, Crazy John brooks and a brief cameo by the Cameranesi family (including an infant Athena)
Why: shameless pimping of the sport for the media
In the early 1990’s, Dan Cortese hosted a show on MTV that was in many ways a precursor to the X Games. Each week two or three alternative sports were featured. Freestyle got its turn in 1992. This is the segment that where Dave Schiller’s famous “it’s a sport I dearly love” quote came from.
When: 1984
Where: La Mirada, California
Who: Joey Hudoklin
Why: US Open (I think)
Pure consecutivity from twenty years ago. A double spin directly into a behind the back hold. Popped up to an against the spin behind the back pull into an invert. Pops the invert up under his leg to a restricted tip to a double spinning catch!
When: January, 1995
Where: Christchurch, New Zealand
Who: Peter Bowie
Why: 1995 New Zealand Overall Championships – Freestyle Final
New Zealand legend and US Open overall champion Peter Bowie connects the neurons, then uses the leftover spin for an upside down (UD) gitis pull during the freestyle finals of the 1995 New Zealand Flying Disc Championships.
And there’s more:
Scott Starr photos of Peter Bowie
When: 1998
Where: Santa Monica, California
Who: Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy sets the disc at Frazier Park for a triple spinning phlaud.
When: 2000
Where: Santa Monica, California
Who: Tommy Leitner, Dave Lewis
Tommy Leitner sent this perfect kick to Dave Lewis, who spun once, twice, three times then caught a gitis.
Amit Peled, FPA’s Future Jammer winner, turns 14 years old today. Happy Birthday, Amit! What is on Amit’s birthday list? Freestyle nails. Amit is yearning for some Matt Nails or Yarnails. Can we hook him up?
Steve Hays aka The Beast was also born on this day. Way more than 14 years ago. I’m not sure what’s on the Beast’s birthday list, but it probably includes a fine lager and some finer z’s. Can anyone hook him up? Happy Birthday, Beast!