From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Wed Aug 1 21:47:55 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05883 for announce-outgoing; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:47:55 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.16]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id OAA19518 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:05:35 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.14.147.189]) by femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010801210526.NNGM9905.femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com@[192.168.1.100]> for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:05:26 -0700 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:05:25 -0700 Subject: [announce] Sunday Aug. 5th Kick and registration info. for Worlds From: Lisa McDaniel To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Greetings all Worlds bound kickers! It's time to pack up your fog gear (it's been cool here, bring long sleeves) and head out west! Here's the info you will need for activities on Sunday Aug. 5th. Registration and check-in are available in two locations and two time slots on Sunday. You may check-in at the host hotel, Berkeley Marina Radisson Hotel, in the lobby from 6:00 to 8:00p.m. Then, beginning at 8 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. we will have a check-in party at the Pyramid Brewery and Restaurant. They are having an outdoor film festival starting at 7:00 p.m. with outdoor food, great mico-brew and a great time for all. All ages admitted, reasonable prices, plan to have dinner there! Pyramid Alehouse 910 Gilman St. (510) 528-9880, From the hotel, go east/north on I80 one exit.( about 1/2 mi.) exit Gilman , go east, 1/4 mi. on left. Micro brewery, great beer, brewery food, inexpensive to mid-range. Sunday afternoon kicking for net players and freestylers: There are two options for you to choose from. First you can stay in the East Bay and play at the net pre-lim site in Albany. This is the easier option, especially if you don't have a car or know your way around the Bay Area. Option 1: At 3:00 p.m. some of us will meet at the site in Albany. Ocean View Field is at 400 Buchanan ST. in Albany. Take I80 east/north in Berkeley, exit Buchanan St. Go Right or East on Buchanan about 1/3 mi. on the right. Buchanan is 2 exits past the University/hotel exit on I80 in Berkeley. The second option is more difficult to get to and more time-consuming. Choose this option if you have a car/ride and can start early in the day. Remember you will need extra travel time to get back in time to ckeck-in. Option 2 Some people will be kicking at Golden Gate Park at Sharon Meadow (also known as Hippie Hill) starting around 1-2 p.m. Sharon Meadow is just off John F. Kennedy Drive, just inside the main part of Golden Gate Park. On Sundays JFK Dr, is closed to cars and filled with skaters , bikes etc. Park anywhere nearby and walk into the park on JFK DR. After you pass through the barricades that stop cars from entering, leave the road on a walkway to the left. You should be able to hear the drum jam, about 2 min. through a grove of trees near a small hill. If not for this hill you could see the drums and the kickers. Good luck deciding hoe to spend your first day in the Bay Area! Can't wait to play with you all! Lisa Mc and the Worlds Crew From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Sun Aug 5 07:15:05 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA11956 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 07:15:05 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from llic.net (sql.market.net [209.125.90.2]) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11953 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 07:15:04 -0700 Received: from I (p60.footbag.org [209.125.90.60]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id AAA02733 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:07:49 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: brat@209.125.90.2 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:07:43 -0700 To: announce@footbag.org From: Steve Goldberg Subject: [announce] Announcing the International Footbag Players' Association (IFPA) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Footbag players, fans, family, and friends: It is my sincere pleasure, along with the other founding board members Brent Welch, Julie Symons, and david Butcher, to announce the formulation of the International Footbag Players' Association (seven years in the making). IFPA is a non-profit corporation and "international governing body" for the sport of footbag -- a membership organization for footbag players, forged from the World-Wide Footbag Foundation and the IFC, in association with the World Footbag Association, sanctioned by the co-inventor of the sport of footbag, John Stalberger, and with the support of the Finnish Footbag Association, the Quebec Footbag Association, the Canadian Footbag Alliance, the Swiss Footbag Association, the German Footbag Association, and many others. The IFPA is officially kicking off this week at the 2001 World Footbag Championships (in the San Francisco Bay Area), with a presentation to the players and public at the official opening ceremonies, which start at 3:30pm on Tuesday, August 7. There will be a brief presentation on the IFPA by the board members (see below) as well as a question and answer session. The annual dues for IFPA are currently set to US $10 (without IFPA T-shirt, $20 with IFPA T-shirt). All players registered for Worlds 2001 will automatically become 1-year members of the IFPA (dues are included with their registration). Anyone may join at the official Worlds booth throughout the event, or on-line at the IFPA website (to be announced). Elections will be held for all official positions in the Association in November -- all members at that time will be allowed to vote. More on the elections, the positions available, and other information during the World Championships. In the interim, pending the November elections for the 2002 operating year, the following is the list of current board members: Interim Leadership Team: Board of Directors through Dec. 31, 2001 ---------------------------------------- Steve Goldberg - President Brent Welch - Vice President david Butcher - Second Vice President Julie Symons - Secretary/Treasurer Note, again, that positions will be up for election in November for the 2002 operating year, and there will be several committees and committee chairmanships for appointment/election as well. Nominations will be accepted after the official launch at Worlds (more information will be on the IFPA website once it launches later this summer). The interim leadership team above has spent a significant amount of time over the last 7 years to create this organization, forming the non-profit corporation, writing the bylaws, building the website, applying for tax-exempt status at the state (California) level and the U.S. (federal) level, etc. Currently, IFPA's U.S. 501c(3) tax exempt status is *pending* -- this is the final legal requirement that has not been completed before the organization can truly function within its intended charter. (Anyone who is interested in helping us with this, please contact Julie Symons directly at julie@footbag.org. We have finished the application but still have work to do to make sure it goes through.) IFPA is today a recognized volunteer-run, non-profit sports corporation, incorporated in Santa Clara, California (USA), but will not be "charitable" until our 501c(3) status is granted by the federal government (hopefully later this year). THE PREMISE BEHIND IFPA: The concept of an "international governing body" exists for most organized sports. The International Olympic Committee, for example, requires as a precursor to inclusion of any sport in the Olympic Games, that the candidate sport have at least one international governing body, and at least 7 "national governing bodies", governing the sport within 7 different countries. While it will be a long time before we are ready for the Olympics, it's good to have a framework in mind as we move forward in organizing the sport. In creating the IFPA, we used as our model two organizations: the International Freestyle Disc Players' Association (aka Freestyle Players' Association/FPA - http://www.freestyledisc.org/) and the International Sepaktakraw Federation (ISTAF - http://www.sepaktakraw.com/). We were also influenced by a host of other organizations we looked at over the last few years. IFPA's charter is centered around the following goals (in my words; the official charter and bylaws will be available online later this summer): - to be the international governing body for the sport of footbag, even if most countries playing it don't have official national governing bodies; - to foster education to the general public and to the players of the various forms of footbag sports, as a healthy, alternative sport; - to be a membership organization of footbag players, organizers, and anyone interested in footbag, to work together towards the furthering of the sport as it grows world-wide; - to formalize and standardize, as much as makes sense, tournament organization and formats, including: a. formal tracking of player rankings and results b. tools and instructions to aid with tournament registration (both pre-registration and on-site registration) c. education and verification of official rules (sanctioning) d. tools and instructions to aid with the running of tournaments (e.g., making pools and/or brackets, and allowing easy collection of results) e. oversight of the World Footbag Championships, which is the ultimate annual determination of ranking of the active players/members within the sport as well as the ultimate opportunity to present the sport to the public. - to provide a central, on-line resource (footbag.org) for members to manage their IFPA memberships, interact with and share various types of footbag-related materials with other members, promote tournaments, festivals, instructional opportunites, and clubs to the general public, etc. - to provide a central, on-line resource (footbag.org) for the general public to learn about footbag, find events and clubs, find people to play with, get instructional materials, etc. MEMBER BENEFITS: As an IFPA member, you'll be guaranteed that, if you compete at an IFPA-sanctioned event, your results and ranking information will be tracked and used at each tournament. Not only that, you will be guaranteed that the tournament will abide by official rules that the rules committee, which will be elected by members, has set forth. Furthermore, you'll have access to a wealth of information, resources, and help in running footbag events, promotions, and instructional sessions in your area. The website provides a single centerpiece around which all of these services will be provided to members. Finally, you'll have the opportunity to vote in elections for key positions, and to contribute your own energy, passion, enthusiasm, and vision by putting yourself up for election to an elected position, or by volunteering for one of the many volunteer positions that will be available. Creating a sustainable, long term future for the sport of footbag will be no small feat. We'll need as much help as we can, and we need to plan to go slowly and steadily towards our end goals. To that end, we must have patience and begin pulling together our resources to help define the next level of details that have not been fleshed out. The creation of the non-profit corporation and the basic infrastructure for the IFPA is only the beginning. That step is essentially done with the kick-off at Worlds. The next step is where we will need help from everyone who can afford the energy. Phase 2 begins after the elections in the fall, and means the methodical step-by-step implementation of all of the things described here, as well as several more rounds of definition and proposals. Starting in January, 2002, IFPA will kick off the new sanctioning process, and will begin supporting tournament organizers and competitors with basic results tracking, ranking, registration, and website services, many of which already exist today via footbag.org. IFC (IFAB) AND IFPA: The International Footbag Committee (IFC) which recently changed its name from the better-known International Footbag Advisory Board, has been the single governing body of the sport of footbag for as long as many people can remember. Created originally as the "Player Advisory Board" within the World Footbag Association (see some of the history below), the IFC has long been the brain trust of the sport of footbag, primarily through the standardization and publication of the Official Rules of Footbag Sports (or, the "rule book" for short). The rule book is the foundation of any sport, and footbag is no different. Without the IFC, we simply would not have gotten to the point we are today. The IFC is composed of a mix of some of the very early leaders in the sport's organization, some of the key players and organizers who helped footbag become the sport it is today, and a diverse collection of contemporary players and organizers. The plan is not for the IFPA to displace the IFC, but rather to give it a home and better supporting infrastructure -- so that the governance of the sport might thrive as we enter a new phase of the sport's development. Next Friday night at the annual IFC meeting, the current membership will decide whether the IFC will become a committee within the IFPA, instead of a separate, stand-alone entity. If the IFC moves under the umbrella of the IFPA, its membership rules and bylaws will be amended to comply with the IFPA's charter -- to include the concept of "representation". We still have to define how this will work, but in theory there will be a class of members of the IFC who will be "representative" -- meaning they are subject to election. The details will be worked out later, and will undoubtedly include "grandfather" clauses for existing committee members, but it's important to have IFPA be truly a player-run organization, especially as footbag (the organized sport) explodes in Canada, Europe, and around the world, creating a need for change to accommodate different cultures, ideals, goals, laws, and opportunities. SOME HISTORY AND CONTEXT: It's very important for everyone reading this to understand the context and what has happened in the sport of footbag that has led us all to this point. Believe me, this is just another chapter in a reasonably long history of individuals pouring energy and time into the creation and organization of this wonderful sport. Suffice it to say that none of the work we have done to date in creating the IFPA could have been done without the tireless effort of several generations of footbag enthusiasts, organizers, promoters, and players, going all the way back to the founding fathers, John Stalberger and Mike Marshall, and their friends. John Stalberger and friends launched the National Hacky Sack Association in August of 1977, with the first ever Hacky Sack Kick-A-Thon for Easter Seals. They held a membership drive at the Oregon State Fair that same month. The core organizers of the NHSA were John Stalberger, Ted Huff, Garwin Bruce, Jane Wievesick, and Dave Hill. The NHSA headquarters were in Oregon City, Oregon. In March of 1978, the NHSA was written up in Newsweek Magazine (distributed world-wide), and within 24 hours the NHSA was contacted to do a demo in Germany -- and footbag made its leap across the Pond to Europe; it was no longer just an American sport. Very soon after the first tours in Germany, footbag began to catch on in Europe as well as all across the U.S. as the NHSA toured and demonstrated the unique kicking discipline. The NHSA (which soon changed its name to NHSPA, the PA for "Players' Association") had several functions -- from publication of newsletters, to distribution of information on the sport and promotional and instructional tours. The core group of players at that time began to experiment with tennis court nets, and settled by 1980 on the badminton net set at 5 feet height, and dimensions of the court to be what was already marked on gym floors for badminton or volleyball. By 1983, the NHSPA had begun to focus more on making Hacky Sack brand footbags and decided to spin off the players' association, which Bruce Guettich and Greg Cortopassi, who had been involved with NHSPA for some time, stepped up to run. They called it the World Footbag Association (WFA), and opened their doors on May 12, 1983. The WFA took footbag to the next level, from an organizational standpoint, creating and running the World Footbag Championships year after year. The WFA created the Player Advisory Board (PAB) to help define the rules, which evolved into the IFAB (now IFC), and which still publishes the Official Rules of Footbag Sports. By 1994, there were enough strong clubs around the U.S. and Canada that the Worlds began moving around from year to year. The IFC's "Worlds Oversight Committee" picked the venue for Worlds based on interest from possible host clubs, and helped each club with many of the aspects of running the event. As with the NHSPA before it, the WFA became the central point of contact for the sport of footbag, organized demonstrations at a grass roots level all around the U.S. and Canada (as did several other independent groups and companies), published a magazine and mail-order catalog, and labored tirelessly to promote the sport and to be a focal point for sponsorships and media during the key growth phase of organized footbag. Today, the WFA is focusing on the promotional aspects of footbag, spreading the word around the World and around the U.S., as well as helping literally thousands of new footbag players each year get into the sport, in part because the WFA maintains a catalog of the single largest collection of footbag equipment, instructional materials, and related products in the world. Over the last eight years, Footbag WorldWide (which was created by Yours Truly and Jim Curtis in 1993, and which became footbag.org in 1994) has been slowly and steadily building yet more momentum for the sport of footbag. Because of the ubiquitous nature of the Internet, footbag.org has made it possible to promote footbag like almost no other medium before it. Players all around the world can now download and view video demonstrations, rules, club listings, and event listings, as well as join and participate in online forums. The sport's growth internationally has been reinvigorated in large part due to the availability of footbag information on the Internet. Over time, footbag.org has naturally convened the single largest community of footbag players in one "virtual" place the world has ever known. Literally 60,000 players a month visit the site today to get connected to the sport, advertise their clubs and events, find other players in their areas, and more. Footbag Worldwide is actually three computers sitting in my basement on a rather expensive full-time internet connection. And now we're back to the present... (And rest assured we skipped a lot of details...) The IFPA is essentially building itself by combining several valuable assets in the sport. It will center itself around the footbag.org internet service (which until now was mostly the work of one person), it will hopefully incorporate the existing International Footbag Committee, it will take on the financial backing and sanctioning (with this year's event) for the World Footbag Championships, and it will work hand in hand with the WFA and with all of the fledgling national associations around the world. WHAT NEXT? Stay tuned for more information, and look for an IFPA website to launch later this year. Remember -- the fun starts with the World Championships, but the serious business begins with the November elections. If you didn't get a chance to sign up by registering for Worlds, you will find entry forms at the booth all throughout the event, and we will have a very simply way for all footbag.org members to join the IFPA within the next few weeks. Thanks to those of you who actually read this far. :-) Steve P.S. Thanks very much to everyone who contributed to the content of this announcement. You know who you are. I really appreciate your help. From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Sat Aug 11 17:49:54 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA21764 for announce-outgoing; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:49:54 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from bucky.excite.com (bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id JAA08752; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:01:32 -0700 Received: from ringo.excite.com ([199.172.152.145]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010811160102.JWQB28081.bucky.excite.com@ringo.excite.com>; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:01:02 -0700 Message-ID: <21206038.997545662135.JavaMail.imail@ringo.excite.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tuan Vu To: announce@footbag.org Subject: [announce] Worlds article in San Francisco Chronicle Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 209.178.165.47 Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Hi all, This morning's San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday August 11th, has a pretty good write-up of last Thursday's Freestyle semi-finals. It's on the front page of the Datebook section! For those of you who can't get a hard copy, here's the link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/11/DD238935.DTL Cheers, Tuan _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Tue Aug 14 08:04:57 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA30062 for announce-outgoing; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:04:57 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f From: Brenda Solonoski Received: from imo-m09.mx.aol.com (imo-m09.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.164]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id VAA11678 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:28:17 -0700 Received: from BSolonoski@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id z.db.18395ee9 (1840) for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:27:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:42 PDT Subject: [announce] Funtastik Summer Classic Footbag Tournament - September 1-3 To: announce@footbag.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10532 Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Greetings everyone. Yes, it is that time of the year for me to "speak" up and remind you the Summer Classic Tournament is Sept 1, 2 & 3 ( Labor Day weekend). We are all excited in hopes to see lots of you again and hope to see a lot of new faces too. We have a great tournament that competitors and spectators have a FUNtastik time. We are part of the Kipona which is a 3 day fair that hundreds of thousands of people attend. There are lots of people that come just to watch our event. Our tournament schedule is posted in the newspaper with all the Kipona events. Tournament info is on the http://www.footbag.org/events list. Online registration is now available at: http://www.footbag.org/registration/register?tid=991757909 The highlights of last year's tournament are also posted on funtastikonline.com in case you are interested. If neither of those sites answers your questions, give me a holler at BSolonoski@aol.com Hope everyone has a great Worlds and a super last few weeks of summer fun. Brenda, Joe & Julian Solonoski From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Tue Aug 14 08:05:40 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA30069 for announce-outgoing; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:05:40 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from bucky.excite.com (bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id GAA14184 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:21:39 -0700 Received: from goochy.excite.com ([199.172.152.233]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010802131852.DUUU14020.bucky.excite.com@goochy.excite.com> for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:18:52 -0700 Message-ID: <11895405.996758332856.JavaMail.imail@goochy.excite.com> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:18:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Davidson To: announce@footbag.org Subject: [announce] New Years Jam at Chicago's Holiday Sports Festival Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 207.208.189.7 Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Hi Footbaggers! New Years Jam Freestylers AND Net Players Unite... for the greatest shred and spike fest that footbag has ever seen! Never before have Freestylers been able to offer space for an indoor Net jam, this is a spectacular first! This is the PREMIER holiday shred event of the season, and upholds a tradition of over 10 years of "Christmas Jam's" that started in the Midwest (Michigan, of Jay Moldenhauer and Paul Munger fame). Out of towners, start making plans now! We want you to travel from both coasts and from anywhere inbetween. This is THE PLACE TO BE to shred in the new year (AND to play net, if that is your preference)! Mark your calendars! Saturday and Sunday... December 29-30, 2001 (We can also have access on Friday, December 28 if anyone is interested in coming out early) Chicago's McCormick Place Main Convention Hall. If you made it out last year, you know the size of this event is immense! This is called the Holiday Sports Festival and is run by the Mayors Office of Special Events. We will have subflooring (like the Volleyball had last year) for 4 net courts AND still more for the freestylers. There is a giant banner being hung from the 50' ceiling that says "FOOTBAG" and we are included in this years program as an official event. There will be the Harlem Globetrotters and some of the Bulls at the Basketball area, there is soccer, baseball, fishing and many other events going on all weekend. Free admission. (If we are allowed to do a prize money event, then there will be an entry fee associated with that) Reduced ($5) Parking at adjacent lot to event. (Usually $10 per car, it is extremely rare that they reduce the parking rates at the convention parking lots, we are thankful for this) If you are coming into town and want to stay in a hotel, we are arranging a deal at the Hyatt. If you want to save money and stay at one of our host homes, please contact us ASAP, first come first served (we have lots of space though). The City of Chicago Web Site for Special Events is: http://www.cityofchicago.org/SpecialEvents/Festivals.html but they don't have this event listed there yet. Sponsors include: Mayors Office of Special Events, McCormick-Pier Authority and Communications Direct (Eric Cokee). Stay tuned for more information! See ya! Scott Davidson Enlightener@footbag.org From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Thu Aug 16 00:42:04 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA03730 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:42:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from web11606.mail.yahoo.com (web11606.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.58]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id RAA04665 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:03:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20010816000344.33385.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [172.182.168.15] by web11606.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:03:44 PDT Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:03:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Eli Piltz Subject: [announce] Footbag on Nike.com To: announce@footbag.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Hi players, Recently four of the top players in Southern California had a video shoot with Nike. Big Add Chad, Jason Crook, Richie Abshire, and myself met the Nike crew in L.A. and blew them away. Check it out at http://www.nike.com/play Please watch the movie and VOTE FOR US! Even if you can hit the tricks on the movie, vote "Totally Sick!" This is what it's all about. Since the shoot they have hired us to represent Nike and their Play campaign, and that's all I'm going to say. Please no rumors. We would like to thank all the players in Chicago who represented and introduced Nike to freestyle. Eli Piltz http://ZoharPro.com San Diego From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Fri Aug 17 20:08:00 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA16540 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:08:00 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.17]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id IAA19368 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:54:53 -0700 Received: from juliework.Home ([24.11.141.18]) by femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010817155446.YCMF12909.femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com@juliework.Home> for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:54:46 -0700 Message-ID: <001e01c12736$aa769560$6501a8c0@Home> From: "Julie Symons" To: Subject: [announce] RESULTS: 2001 World Footbag Championships Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:07:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Greetings from the 2001 World Footbag Championships Headquarters! Whoa, what a week! We just concluded a great week of exciting competition at the 22nd World Footbag Championships. We had some great sites, nice weathers, and some awesome kicking. There were over 180 competitors, including many 1st time worlds competitors. Kickers from Montreal showed once again that they are serious competitors not only in net, where they dominated in the Open category, but also in Freestyle. This year's worlds marked the kick-off of the International Footbag Players Association. We also had the first ever player BBQ that was lots of fun, bringing freestylers and net players together for the Opening Ceremonies, the IFPA Kick-off, and lots of good food, drink, and shredding. This year, the Hall of Fame Society honored 5 great players who made significant marks in footbag's history. Yves Archambault, Constance Constable, Jeff Johnson, Andy Linder, and Dennis Ross were all honored Sunday night at the Awards and Hall of Fame Dinner. For those close enough to hear, it was a fine tribute to some great past and living legends of footbag. This event would not have been possible without support from our Sponsors and Boosters Club members. We'd like to thank our sponsors MrFootbag.com, IFPA, david Butcher, World Footbag Association, Flying Clipper, Footbag Hall of Fame, Christopher's Designs, Planet Footbag, Solano Chiropractic, Tommy's Tequila Bar, Surf Metro, Howerton and Associates, Bill Langbehn, Zands, Foot-C, Pyramid Brewery, Five Star Video, Ananda Fuara Restaurant, Crazy Copy, Funtastik, Front Street Chiropractic, and the Canadian Footbag Alliance. We'd like to thank those who donated through the Booster Club or otherwise: Tina Lewis, Jim Caveney, Ron and Caroline Spillers, Brent Welch, Reggie McDaniel, Forest Schroedt, Brent Allard, Greg Durrett, Larry and Carmen Westberg, Mike Niday, Lisa Mc and Dennis Jones, Arien Santesteban, Brian Parsons, Dashiell Love, Lonya Julin, Mike Scheele, Ted Fritsch, Yves Archambault, Matt Quint, Steve Goldberg, Kendall KIC, Kenny Shults, Julie Symons, Chard Cook, Valeria Davidson, Joel Dion, Hugh Harrell, Jake Leong, Paul Munger, and Chris Siebert. And special thanks to IFPA founding members, Steve Goldberg, Julie Symons, Brent Welch, and david Butcher, and thanks to Eric Cote for the IFPA logo and design of the IFPA membership cards and T-shirt. We couldn't have done without our great staff: Lisa McDaniel, david Butcher, Eric Wulff, Bill Langbehn, Brent Welch, PT Lovern, Will Guyette, Iain McKechnie, Sam Conlon, Steve Goldberg, John Leys, Pat Keehan, Sunil Jani, Chris Ott, Bill Regan, Sloan Fiddler and his wife, Alexis Deschenes, Tim Kelley, Tu Vu, Carol Wedemeyer, Vince Bradley, Alan Haggett, Bruce Guettich, Jimmy Caveney, Jody Welch, Brian Pihl, Scott Cleere, Brent Allard, Dave Wedertz, Darlene House, Randy Pace, Mike Scheele, Hung Chang, Nancy Symons, Lisa Monti, Pascale Tremblay, and many many more. The weather and the sites were great. Thanks to the City of San Francisco, City of Albany, City of Berkeley, Theater Artaud, and the Berkeley Marina Radisson. In Freestyle, the competition was held at the Theater Artaud in San Francisco, staged as a theater performance, hosted by founding BAP member Tim Kelly, produced by Eric Wulff. This year's competition featured for the first time at worlds two new events, 30-Second Shred for Open and Women's and the Big 3. Finals Night was a great show. The house was packed, probably in part because of an article on the front page of Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle Datebook section. Carol Wedemeyer, the She-Blade, proves once again that she is the Worlds best woman freestyler as she repeats, shredding up her routine to some awesome music making by Alex Zerbe. It was exciting to see lots of up and coming female shredders. The evening culminated with an spectacular performance by Ryan Mulroney, as he repeats for the 2nd year. Other highlights include Montrealer Yacine Merzouk's brilliant and dropless in the finals, apparently the 1st non American in the open singles freestyle finals in the BAP-era (or ever?) and Lon Smith, who breaks into the top 3, barely missing 2nd place with his slow, smooth style. In Net, it was exciting to see several new faces in the finals, including Open Doubles Champion Yves Archambault, Mixed Doubles Champion Marilyn Demuy (I heard she's the first non-American woman to win a Worlds title), and Chris Siebert. Emmanuel Bouchard wins singles for the 4th year in a row. Jake Leong makes a strong showing making it to the singles finals again in SF. Jake was a singles finalist last time Worlds was in SF. Jody Welch takes the women's singles title back this year after three kids and a five year absence from the top. And finally this year we have new champions in Open Doubles after being tightly held by a small handful of previous winners. Not since '96 when Manu and Seb took the title from Kenny and Randy has there been first-time winners. Yves Archambault and Alexis Deschenes beat Chris Siebert and Martin Cote in the Open Doubles Final. By the way, Chris was the only non-Canadian of all of the Open Net Finalists. And lastly, another long winning streak finally ends as two new women's doubles champions are crowned. Amy Westberg and Lisa McDaniel showed some awesome setting and spiking on their way to breaking Julie Symons and Jody Welch's 5-year winning streak. In Footbag Golf, Jamie Lepley once again crushes the field for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all of the winners and to all of the competitors! Thanks for being there. Here are the unofficial results to 3rd place or 4th place. Complete, official results will be available soon, including overall and club winners. Open Singles Net 1.. Emmanuel Bouchard 2.. Jake Leong 3.. Yves Archambault 4.. Peter Shunny Women's Singles Net 1.. Jody Welch 2.. Lisa McDaniel 3.. Julie Symons 4.. Marilyn Demuy Open Doubles Net 1.. Yves Archambault/Alexis Deschenes 2.. Martin Cote/Chris Siebert 3.. Jake Leong/Yo Kelley 4.. John Leys/Dave Bernard Women's Doubles Net 1.. Amy Westberg/Lisa McDaniel 2.. Julie Symons/Jody Welch 3.. Tina Lewis/Kelly Kelley 4.. Marilyn Demuy/Maude Landreville Open Mixed Doubles Net 1.. Marilyn Demuy/Emmanuel Bouchard 2.. Jody Welch/Brent Welch 3.. Julie Symons/Alexis Deschenes Open Singles Freestyle 1.. Ryan Mulroney 2.. Scott Davidson 3.. Lon Smith Women's Singles Freestyle 1.. Carol Wedemeyer 2.. Sam Conlon 3.. Jane Jones Open Doubles Freestyle 1.. Daryl Genz/Rick Reese 2.. Greg Nelson/Adam Kieth 3.. Eric Wulff/Tuan Vu Open Mixed Doubles Freestyle 1.. Greg Nelson/Sam Conlon 2.. Eric Wulff/Carol Wedemeyer 3.. Scott Davidson/Valeria Davidson Open 30-second Shred 1.. Ryan Mulroney 2.. Ahren German 3.. Eric Wulff Women's 30-second Shred 1.. Carol Wedemeyer 2.. Mel Schneider 3.. Jane Jones Intermediate Singles Freestyle 1.. Brian T. Parsons 2.. Dan Klokow 3.. Stan Sagalovskiy Intermediate Singles Net 1.. Patrick Schrickel 2.. Tim Melnyk 3.. Florian Goetze Intermediate Doubles Net 1.. Patrick Schrickel/ Florian Goetze 2.. Tim Melnyk/Joel Dion 3.. Kayla/Marcus Open Golf 1.. Jamie Lepley 2.. Steve Dusablon 3.. Hugh Harrell Women's Golf 1.. Becca English-Ross 2.. Kelly Kelley Open 5-Minute Timed Consecutives 1.. Scott Davidson (794) 2.. Peter Shunny 3.. Chard Cook Women's 5-Minute Timed Consecutives 1.. Sam Conlon (660) 2.. Tina Lewis 3.. Kelly Kelley Open Doubles Distance One-Pass 1.. Andy Ronald/Maude Landreville 2.. Jimmy Caveney/Bruce Guettich 3.. Peter Shunny/Chard Cook Women's Doubles Distance One-Pass 1.. Tina Lewis/Kelly Kelley 2.. DJ Williams/Laura Zeller From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Fri Aug 31 15:26:06 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA05968 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:26:06 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from hercules.ihermes.com (hercules.ihermes.com [206.180.207.9]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id IAA22203 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:33:09 -0700 Received: from intouch.bc.ca (206-180-207-74.ihermes.com [206.180.207.74]) by hercules.ihermes.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7UFX4b19639; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:33:05 -0700 Message-ID: <3B8E5D40.871D37B9@intouch.bc.ca> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:35:28 -0700 From: Juliet Pendray X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: announce@footbag.org Subject: [announce] RESULTS: 2001 Vancouver Open Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org The Vancouver Open is now over -- it feels like waking up after a dream. It's been said many times, many ways... But I must repeat my personal paean to the community of footbag. I love being part of footbag events, due largely to the excellent people that attend. You enrich my life... Thank you. -scrappy- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VANCOUVER OPEN FOOTBAG NET TOURNAMENT AUGUST 25-26, 2001 Hosted by the Kitsilano Footbag Association Jericho Beach Park (East), Vancouver, B.C. Enormous appreciation to all the folks that made this happen; Jim Derricott our fearless leader, the KFA crew of organizers and helpers, and all the kickers who pitched in by helping with set-up and tear-down, and by keeping the site garbage-free all weekend! Thank you to the CFA for your generous contribution of footbags, to the Sunset Grill for your ongoing support, and to Leanne Makcrow for donating water, pop and prizes! We were blissed with beautiful weather and a lovely site. The willow trees draped over our encampment made for a really peaceful place to be. Regions represented at this tournament included; B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Washington State, Oregon, California, Montana, Switzerland, and Germany. Although not enough freestylers were interested in competing, to hold that event, there was some great shredding on Sunday. There were many amazing net matches, all weekend. In the open division, the incredible digging and low altitude shots of Andy -The Frustrator- Ronald, along with his lucky number 14, brought him the triple crown! Katia Couture and Maude Landreville, with the strength and consistency of their shots, cut swathes through the crowd of open doubles competitors; causing many a hat to be flung to the ground -- ya know. In intermediate singles, Tetsu Hirutaís dogged determination and calm, made him a daunting opponent. Rounds of nine were kicked throughout weekend: The Master from Montana, Rick Bates thwarted the others with a comfortable 3 stroke lead. It was a challenging course with, as you can see from the scores, experienced golfers to test it. Womens golf was a success, and drew in women who had not kicked before. It would, however, be appreciated next year, if there were attentive males to provide libations during their round ?. First place winners in Net and Golf received plaques, netbags, and a smooch from Jim. (we suspect it was the latter that was the real motivation to win!). Freestyle bags went to second place for both events and certificates for second and third place winners. We pulled names for random prizes all day Sunday -- most kickers came away with a diverse selection of prizes, from waterpistol-armed smiley faces to T-shirts, CDís to diabolos and juggling sticks. The snakeboard, at the annual Sunday draw, was scooped by our own past Worlds director, Crass Eddicott. This was however an upset from Seattleís point of view, as members of Sound Footworks have won a Sunday draw prize at the VO for several years running. We are pleased to announce that the money raised from the snakeboard draw will go to the purchase of another JimmyC net set for the club (Jimmy -- if/when you see this, please consider this our purchase order :-) -The Kitsilano Kickers- VANCOUVER OPEN FOOTBAG NET TOURNAMENT AUGUST 25-26, 2001 RESULTS Note: Results for the remaining places will be posted to the results section. MIXED DOUBLES 1. Maude Landreville (Vancouver, BC) Andy Ronald (Vancouver, BC) 2. Katia Couture (Vancouver, BC) James Holkko (Vancouver, BC) 3. Leanne Makcrow (Vancouver, BC) Iain McKechnie (Oakland, CA) 4. Darlene Goodridge (Vancouver, BC) Jim Derricott (Vancouver, BC) OPEN DOUBLES 1. Andy Ronald (Vancouver, BC) Thomas Loria (Vancouver, BC) 2. Jake Leong (Vancouver, BC) Yossarian Kelley (Seattle, WA) 3. Jim Derricott (Vancouver, BC) Crass Eddicott (Vancouver, BC) 4. Iain McKechnie (Oakland, CA) Jim Cobb (Seattle, WA) 5.&6. Andre Lemaire (Vancouver, BC) and Jon Hayduk (Vancouver, BC) Pat Quinn (Edmonton, AB) and Ben Cochrane (Edmonton, AB) INTERMEDIATE DOUBLES 1. Darlene Good ridge (Vancouver, BC) Francois Leh (Vancouver, BC) 2. Leanne Makcrow (Vancouver, BC) Marc Studhalter (Vancouver, BC) 3. Tetsu Hiruta (Vancouver, BC) Reaon Ford (Vancouver, BC) OPEN SINGLES 1. Andy Ronald (Vancouver, BC) 2. Jake Leong (Vancouver, BC) 3. Rick Bates (Kalispell, MT) 4. Yossarian Kelley (Seattle, WA) INTERMEDIATE SINGLES 1. Katia Couture (Vancouver, BC) 2. Leanne Makcrow (Vancouver, BC) 3. Tetsu Hiruta (Vancouver, BC) 4. Darlene Goodridge (Vancouver, BC) OPEN GOLF par = 62 (2 rounds of 31) 1. Rick Bates (Kalispell, MT) 60 2. Andre Lemaire (Vancouver, BC) 63 3. Steve Dusablon (Portland, OR) 64 4. Jim Derricott (Vancouver, BC) 70 5. Chard Cook (Vancouver, BC) 73 WOMENS GOLF 1. Darlene Goodridge (Vancouver, BC) 2. Leanne Makcrow (Vancouver, BC) 3. Joanne Dubois (Vancouver, BC) --------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Fri Aug 31 15:31:01 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA05975 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:31:01 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from web13801.mail.yahoo.com (web13801.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.11]) by llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id LAA18346 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:37:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20010831183744.88241.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.66.37.115] by web13801.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:37:44 PDT Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:37:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Dion Subject: [announce] 3rd Annual Winnipeg Open - Sept. 15th To: announce@footbag.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org The Winnipeg Open Footbag Tournament is in two weeks (Saturday, September 15th) in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). The details are on the footbag.org event listing at: http://www.footbag.org/calendar/show/998269177 This is our 3rd annual tournament in Winnipeg sponsored and run by the club HACKRIFICE. For the first time this year we will have "Open" categories in both Net & Freestyle. For all events there will be trophies and prizes. This year there will be an entry fee of $10 Cdn. This will get you entry, a tournament T-shirt, a footbag, and a few other goodies. This is a one day event again and will start at 10:00AM and run till 8:00PM at R.O.C.C. with live music all day from some local DJs. It is being promoted locally as Footbag Festival with a tournament. We are expecting a few people from out of town this year. Anyone coming in from out of town please contact us and sleeping arrangements will be found. The event is taking place at (R.O.C.C.) River Osborne Community Center with Net taking place in the field outside and Freestyle in the Gym. In case of rain (or snow ;-)) Net will be in the Gym and Freestyle will be in the large Common Room. R.O.C.C. is located at 101 Pembina hwy in Winnipeg. Right on Confusion Corner across from Dark Zone. * Confusion corner is the intersection of Osborne st. ,Corydon st. ,Donald st. , and Pembina hwy. Don't get intimidated, it is VERY easy to find. If you are from out of town ask a local eh! The Tournament will start at 10:00 AM and will run until 8:00 PM . Detailed schedule is available on the Hackrifice web site. There will also be a player party after. (Location TBA) We have had a lot of publicity this year so we should have a pretty good attendance.It is being promoted locally as Footbag Festival with a tournament. Last year's tournament was a HUGE success and we expect this year's to blow it away. See you there! Joel Dion Hackrifice