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Talk About It: Comment Without Logging In
I would love to see more conversation happening in Shrednow’s comments, so as an experiment you can now leave comments without being logged into a site account. It’s possible I will have to go back to the old setting if Shrednow receives a lot of comment spam (it’s a new spam problem – you don’t want to know), but we’ll try it this way until there’s a problem.
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Shreditas
Over in the sport of footbag freestyle, the women have banded together to promote the progression of their side of the sport. The result: shreditas.com, devoted to women’s results and the latest big tricks achieved by women shredders. Could a movement like Shreditas expand women’s participation in disc freestyle?
Offseason 2004: Let’s Talk About Judging
Now that the summer freestyle season is winding down, let’s trade ideas about how to be better judges at competitions.
Have you ever judged a competition and been dissatisfied with the marks you handed to the head judge? Have you ever felt the marks you got from the judges didn’t match up to what you did on the field? Have you been asked to judge but not felt qualified? Ever wonder what we would measure if we wanted to certify judges? Ever had an obscure question about the judging system and didn’t know who to ask? Have ideas about better ways to do things? This is a place to address these issues and talk about all aspects of judging.
Rankings: August 2004
The biggest reshuffling of the rankings usually happens after each year’s world championships. After the second year of the FPA Worlds in Europe, the rankings go through some major changes this month, including two new entries into the top ten and a new women’s number one.
frisbeedisc.com
There has been a big buzz recently about Wham-O’s renewed interest in the sports side of Frisbee. Wham-O has just launched a new website just for Frisbee – frisbeedisc.com. Until this website, Frisbee was only a small part of the main Wham-O site and was a bit hemmed in by Wham-O’s toy image. Frisbeedisc.com seems to give Wham-O more freedom to promote Frisbee as the edgy, athletic activity it is. The site showcases not only the redesigned Frisbee line and improved brand imagery, but also the disc sports we love. Looks good.
2004 FPA Worlds: Monday’s Jam
Pat Marron flies high over the Adriatic Sea to catch a gitis.
2004 FPA Worlds: Thursday’s Pre-Competition Jam
How many triple spinning standing gitises can one man
do in a day? Ask Pipo Lopez. Only he knows.
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2004 FPA Worlds: Sunday Results
The champions are:
Women: Cindy Kruger/Lisa Hunrichs Silvey
Co-op: Toddy Brodeur/Larry Imperiale/Paul Kenny
Mixed: Lisa Hunrichs Silvey/Matt Gauthier
Pairs: Dave Lewis/Arthur Coddington
2004 FPA Worlds: Saturday Results
FPA World Championships
Rimini, Italy
July 30, 2004
Mixed Pairs Semifinals
(top 6 advance to the finals)
1T. Cindy Kruger/Dave Lewis (T: 68.0 D: 20.6 E: 24.5 A: 22.9)
1T. Lori Daniels/Paul Kenny (T: 68.0 D: 19.0 E: 26.8 A: 22.2)
3. Lisa Hunrichs Silvey/Matt Gauthier (T: 67.1 D: 19.1 E: 25.6 A: 22.4)
4. Sarah Bergman/Jeff Kruger (T: 60.6 D: 14.9 E: 25.1 A: 20.0)
5. Mary Lowry/Larry Imperiale (T: 57.0 D: 17.1 E: 22.5 A: 17.4)
6. Qxhna Titcomb/Toddy Brodeur (T: 56.8 D: 14.8 E: 24.8 A: 17.2)
7. Bethany Sanchez/Rodney Sanchez (T: 56.4 D: 15.1 E: 24.6 A: 16.7)
8. Hila Yaniv/Edoardo Favorini (T: 45.7 D: 12.4 E: 20.7 A: 12.6)
Co-op Semifinal A
(top 3 advance to the finals)
1. Arthur Coddington/Dave Lewis/Pat Marron (T: 71.89 D: 22.09 E: 26.0 A: 23.8)
2. Matt Gauthier/Paolo Mirabelli/Randy Silvey (T: 65.3 D: 19.6 E: 25.6 E: 20.1)
3. Lorenzo Apriani/Edoardo Favorini/Alessandro Damiano (T: 56.76 D: 16.76 E: 22.8 A: 17.2)
4. Piccio Cusma/Matteo Gaddoni/Rodney Sanchez (T: 54.4 D: 17.5 D: 20.6 A: 16.3)
5. Jeff Kruger/Pipo Lopez/Reto Zimmerman (T: 54.2 D: 18.5 E: 20.1 A: 17.1 PENALTY: 1.5)
6. Fernando Botrugno/Luca Mazzucato/Mauro Mercuri (T: 46.3 D: 13.3 E: 23.8 A: 9.2)
7. Alan Caplan/Oriel Hemed/Lusti Lustiger (T: 38.3 D: 12.0 E: 19.1 A: 7.2)
Open Co-op Prelim B
(top 3 advance to the finals)
1. Toddy Brodeur/Larry Imperiale/Paul Kenny (T: 68.84 D: 19.24 E: 26.7 A: 22.9)
2. Clay Collera/Tommy Leitner/Andrea Meola (T: 62.66 D: 18.76 E: 23.7 A: 20.2)
3. Mary Lowry/Cindy Kruger/Lisa Hunrichs Silvey (T: 58.55 D: 17.35 E: 21.4 A: 19.8)
4. Joakim Arveskär/Roland Karlsson/Stefan Karlsson (T: 57.65 D: 17.35 E: 21.4 A: 18.9)
5. Gregory Lo-A-Sjoe/Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (T: 48.65 D: 14.85 E: 21.2 A: 12.6)
6. Jan Soerensen/John Titcomb/Hila Yaniv (T: 31.95 D: 13.05 E: 13.6 A: 6.8)
Open Pairs Semi A
(top 4 advance to the final)
1. Arthur Coddington/Dave Lewis (T: 71.1 D: 21.4 E: 27.8 A: 21.9)
2. Larry Imperiale/Jeff Kruger (T: 61.4 D: 18.0 E: 26.0 A: 17.4)
3. Toddy Brodeur/Pipo Lopez (T: 58.6 D: 18.3 E: 23.7 A: 16.6)
4. Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (T: 56.7 D: 17.2 E: 24.7 A: 14.6)
5. Matteo Gaddoni/Rodney Sanchez (T: 51.5 D: 16.6 E: 21.7 A: 13.2)
6. Joakim Arveskär/Stefan Karlsson (T: 46.8 D: 15.8 E: 18.0 A: 13.0)
7. Paolo Mirabelli/Jan Soerensen (T: 45.3 D: 14.0 D: 21.4 A: 9.9)
8. Piccio Cusma/Andrea Meola (T: 44.2 D: 15.0 E: 17.5 A: 11.7)
Open Pairs Semi B
(top 4 advance to final)
1. Matt Gauthier/Randy Silvey (T: 72.2 D: 20.3 E: 25.4 A: 26.5)
2. Pat Marron/Tom Leitner (T: 67.3 D: 20.3 E: 26.7 A: 20.3)
3. Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (T: 62.1 D: 18.3 E: 23.7 A: 20.1)
4. Clay Collera/Tommy Gereben (T: 53.2 D: 19.2 E: 25.1 A: 9.0)
5. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini (T: 50.1 D: 16.7 E: 19.9 A: 13.5)
6. Lorenzo Apriani/Roland Karlsson (T: 47.2 D: 16.7 E: 18.8 A: 11.7)
7. Fernando Botrugno/Mauro Mercuri (T: 40.7 D: 15.0 E: 18.8 A: 6.9)
8. Luca Medri/John Titcomb (T: 39.1 D: 15.1 E: 17.7 A: 6.3)