For the third time in four years, a player has swept the Open Pairs and Open Co-op titles at the FPA World Championships. In 2013 it was Arthur Coddington. Paul Kenny did it last year. Christian Lamred has won his first and second world championship titles in winning both the pairs and co-op events at this year’s Brooklyn, New York world championships.
Unpredictable winds and the threat of rain moved the worlds finals indoors this year, resulting in a high level of play on finals day.
The Champions
Women’s: Lori Daniels/Amy Schiller Open Co-op: Flo Hess/Christian Lamred/Alex Leist Mixed Pairs: Lisa Hunrichs/Matt Gauthier Open Pairs: Christian Lamred/Tom Leitner
New All-Time Bests
This year’s world championships resulted in a number of new all-time bests and set other records up to be broken at next year’s championships in Italy.
Flo Hess, Christian Lamred and Alex Leist become first-time world champions.
Veteran and legend Tom Leitner shatters the record for the most time between first FPA world championship titles and most recent. His first was in 1989. The record increases from Larry Imperiale’s previous best of 22 years to a new mark of 27 years!
Tom Leitner picks up his sixth Open Pairs title. He is only the second player to win six, behind Arthur Coddington who has seven. He has now won with 4 different teammates (Skippy Jammer, Dave Schiller, Matteo Gaddoni and Christian Lamred), which establishes a new record.
Lisa Hunrichs and Matt Gauthier win their fourth consecutive mixed pairs title, tying Amy Schiller and Dave Schiller’s all-time record for consecutive mixed titles. This title is their sixth mixed pairs together, one behind the Schillers’ all-time record.
Lisa Hunrichs extends her lead as the winningest player in the Mixed and Women’s divisions with 19 titles (11 women’s and 8 mixed)
Jess Phillimore, Alex Sans and Will Baxter made this fun short film of them freestyling at Brockwell Park in London. Frisbee. I love their production on it.
Choppy48 on Instagram and Twitter user choppy48 shared this video. Is the disc hitting the ball, or is the ball hitting the disc? Love the caption – “I have no words for this other than lucky”. As with all trick shot videos, I’d love to know how many attempts it took. Whether it’s 1 or 1000, pure skill or pure luck, it’s still fun.
The 2013 world championships team will be streaming video of the competition from Santa Cruz live throughout the weekend. Watch your favorite teams here, or go to the streaming page to chat live with other viewers.
People stop and watch freestyle jams all the time. Some whip out their smart phones or video cameras and film the action. Only rarely does video footage surface. Here’s one featuring Roger Meier and Doug Simon from a winter bandshell jam in NY’s Central Park.
What other “civilian” video clips of freestyle have you found?