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Jake Gauthier: Ask Your Older Brother


Portland, Oregon’s Jake Gauthier is among the best freestylers yet to win a major title. Playing mostly with his younger brother Matt, Jake has risen steadily thruogh the ranks since 1997 to his current rank of #12. He has made the world championship pairs final for the past four years and placed as high as fourth.

In 2003, Jake teamed with Randy Silvey in pairs for “Back In Black,” one of the most talked-about routines of the year. They made a big splash in April, nailing the routine for second place at the World Beach tournament in Mission Beach, beating top seeds Arthur Coddington and Dave Lewis and narrowly missing out on first place to Dave Murphy and Dave Schiller. They followed up Mission Beach with top five finishes at both the World Disc Games and the FPA Worlds.

Not content to simply hone his skills, Jake and Matt have contributed to the sport by creating heinsville.com, hosting tournaments and marketing products like the Whiz Ring and custom freestyle nails.

Shrednow spoke to Jake while he rehabilitates his knee after a beach jamming injury.

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Rankings: December 2003

As the year winds down, the year-end rankings are almost complete. There are only two more competitions (Tampico Open and Indoor Romashred) scheduled for 2003, and no more older competitions will fall off the rankings.

The biggest upward movers this month come from the only new result – the 2003 Arizona States. Arizona champion Randy Silvey scoots back into the top ten, shifting Pat Marron out of #9 by only 0.25 points. Silvey’s teammate Matt Gauthier, who hasn’t competed much in 2003, now has five solid results after his Arizona States win. It pays off as he moves back into the Top 20 at #19.

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Contacting Me

As of today, you no longer have to be logged-in to use the Contact link at the top of each page. The Contact link used to lead to my profile. It now leads to a separate Contact page that anyone can use.

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The Cindy Kruger Interview


Cindy Kruger will finish 2003 as the number one player on the Women’s Rankings. Based in the Seattle, Washington area, she has won the FPA Worlds Women’s Pairs title three times (1998, 1999, 2003) and the Mixed Pairs title in 2002. Not content to dominate Women’s competitions, Kruger has been a frequent entrant in the Open division with great success. She has flirted with the top 20 in the Open rankings, reaching a high of #21 this year. In early November, she teamed with Lisa Silvey and Mary Lowry to tie for second place at the Arizona States. Shrednow interviews Cindy Kruger about her game, freestyle, Seattle, late night dancing, and her plans for 2004.
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Fabio Sanna’s Treasure Trove Of FPA Worlds Videos

Over the past few weeks, Fabio Sanna has been given a sneak peak at some of his videos from the 2003 FPA Worlds. Now he has created freeskyler, a website with more than 60 routines on video, including all of Open Pairs, the entire semifinals of Open Co-Op.

A few selections from the Open Pairs final:

2nd place: Tom Leitner/Pat Marron (5.9 meg, avi)

3rd place: Clay Collera/Paul Kenny (6.7meg, avi)

4th place: Dave Murphy/Ted Oberhaus (6.1meg, avi)

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Is This The Routine Of The Year?

Ted Oberhaus and Dave Murphy’s performance from the Pairs Semis at the FPA Worlds has received several nominations as routine of the year. Take a look at the video. What do you think?

Dave Murphy/Ted Oberhaus – Pairs Semifinals (6.2meg, avi)

(courtesy of Fabio Sanna)

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Customizing Shrednow

Did you know that you can customize Shrednow? It’s true. Once you Join, you have a lot of control over how Shrednow looks on your computer.

After logging in, go to Preferences. You can choose the language for many of the site commands (not all of them) to English, Italian, German, Bulgarian, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish or Swedish.

You can also choose the colors of the site by selecting a Theme. There are three color schemes. Sky is a blue theme. Sunrise is a yellow theme. Sunset is an orange theme.

Normally, ten stories will be shown on each page. If you want a different number, type a new number into Maximum Stories.

If you are not interested in certain freestyle subjects or articles by certain authors, you can make them invisible. On the bottom of your Preference page, select any subjects you DO NOT want to see. Those subjects and authors will not be shown when you are logged in.

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Video: Silvey/J. Gauthier At FPA Worlds

Randy Silvey and Jake Gauthier finished fifth in Open Pairs at the 2003 FPA Worlds. This is their prelims performance:

Randy And Jake (6.2mb, avi file) (courtesy of Fabio Sanna)

If the video clip will not play in your browser, try downloading it to your hard drive and viewing it with a free program like VLC.