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Johnny Throw Down

Johnny Leys was in town this weekend so we decided to have a little throw down.  PT hammered out a deal with our local Bushrod Recreation Center obtaining it for Saturday afternoon.  We put out a local announcement and 11 folks showed.  Not hella half bad considering it’s early December.  Hardly footbag season, eh?

@#$*!...  what footbag season… it’s always footbag season!

Anyway, we drew up a round robin bracket, had a blast, and enjoyed a bevy or two afterwords over plans for the coming, err, footbag season?

It was generally a warm and fuzzy afternoon - of CRUSHNG! 

It’s cool that so many made it, props to Sage and Jeremy for coming all the way from Santa Cruz, and congrats to Pat and Alexis for crushing everyone out!

Results - wins/losses:
1. Pat/Alexis - 5/0
2. John/Eric - 4/1
3. PT/Jack - 3/2
4. Chris/Tuan
5. Jeremey/Sage
6. Edwin/Dynamic

Next up - a Takraw Saturday in January, followed by the Wedding Invitational in Brasil in February, and now rumors are flying… perhaps a Montreal War of the Windchill!   

Chaos Footbag and Bushrod - Together Again

Starting October 24th Chaos and the City of Oakland are, once again, offering footbag as a community program over the winter months!  Only difference is, this year we have an extra half hr, so TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS from 6:00-9:00pm!

If you aren’t yet familiar, know that we fit THREE courts in a one basketball court gym and, although they are set relatively close togehter, the scene is ideal considering we get to play footbag ‘regular like’ throughout the winter months.  Like last year, we will have two courts reserved for footbag net and one reserved for takraw.  Hopefully we’ll see more takraw players this season.

Many thanks are due The City of Oakland!  The fee is just $25.50 per person per month AND you can sign up and pay online securely.  Just follow the link below and create an account.  Your account will be live within 24 hours and then you can handle everything online securely.  You can find the Takraw/Footbag activity by searching under ‘location’ - ‘Bushrod Rec Ctr’ or simply enter our activity no. in the search box on the right and hit the ‘Go’ button.

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Register and Pay online: https://securerw.oaklandnet.com/registrationmain.sdi
activity no: 70546.301

Bushrod Recreation Center
560 59th Street - Oakland, CA 94609
Phone (510) 597-5031, Fax (510) 597-5008

Nothing Can Stop The Funtastik Summer Classic

Neither rain, nor wind, nor mud, nor… well, you get the idea.  Tropical storm Ernesto gave it’s all on opening day at “The Classic”, but he was no match for the legball die hards that have been making this tournament great for 21 years.  Ernesto was beat down so badly he did not dare rear his ugly head on Sunday, and by Championship Monday he was long gone - weather perfect!

Footbag Net’s Super Power
Montreal Quebec Canada, brought 9 players to the tournament and they wound up qualifying for all 4 spots in the singles semi-finals and 3 of the 4 spots in doubles semis.

Emmanuel Bouchard, of Montreal Quebec, once again dominated the Open Singles Net event - winning the final match in 2 sets over his opponent, JF Lemieux.  While JF continues to improve and climb the International rankings at an impressive pace, he has yet to figure out Emmanuel, and he is in good company.  Emmanuel dazzled the crowd in the final match - time and again demonstrating his amazing ability to cover the court and gain control of the footbag before ruthlessly placing it on his opponents side with pinpoint accuracy.

This is Emmanuel’s 1,354th singles title in 1,355 tries.

Want more on net, a freestyle swan song, a little “h.o.f.iness”?

Summer Classics

2006 Funtastik and Beaver Open

First let me be clear, Ernesto is NOT welcome at Funtastik this year.  Surely Brenda and Joe would be happy to host anyone and everyone else, but Ernesto better stay away!

Please help us out and do a sun dance for Funtastik this weekend… please!

Ok, two of the longest running tournaments in footbag history take place this weekend.  The Funtastik Summer Classic in Harrisburg, PA is in its 20-something annual.  The 26th Annual Moonin/Noonin Beaver Open is taking place at the Oregon Country Fair site in Eugene, OR.

Players to watch and stories to follow are numerous.  To mention a few…

Beaver may be billed as the most fun that can be had at a footbag event and many of the sport’s most legendary players, such as Kenny Shults and Tricia George, are from USA’s Northwest region.  The great ones will surely be in attendance.  In fact, I think Tricia’s runnin the moonin noonin.

In the Classic’s golden years, early to mid 90’s, Funtastik was a sequal to the WFC and has always been a cutting edge freestyle tournament with an imppressive prize purse - for footbag .  This year’s Summer Classic is showing signs of a return to grand slam status with the strongest net contingent in 3 or 4 years committed to the event.  Montreal will be there in force, Chaos is sending a team, and of course the DC All Stars and team Net Wrecker, among others, will represent.

Funtastik’s shred will be off the hook as usual and Tuan Vu has picked this year’s event for his freestyle swan song.  It was fifteen years ago this weekend when the Disco Ninja performed his first competitve freestyle routine and we’re hoping to see him do a couple more at this event.  One more time Tuan!

to be continued…

Chaos Galleries - US Open

Many thanx to Jarno Terho for once again sharing some photographs with us!  You can check out his US Open gallery, and all other chaos galleries, via the link above.

Of course, thanks again to Ted Huff who also sent some great digital pictures to help us document last weekend�s action.

Also, you can see more of Jarno�s photography, not of a footbag nature, via the link below.  Beautiful work!

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Weekend of Legends

(The 2006 US Open - continued)

Do you know the names Scott Mag Hughes, Dave Robinson, Tricia George, Ken Shults, and - uh - John Stalberger?  The US Open is simply over-flowing with footbag legends.  Many of them just stop by to make a cameo appearance, while others are still playing at the highest level and directing footbag events.  Make no mistake � there are probably more legends of the game showing up at the US Open than any other tournament in the world, except perhaps the Beaver Open.  Not too surprising I guess since Portland is real close to where it all started.  Again I must say - US Open rocks!  Considering it?  Get here next year.

Unless of course, you are forced to choose between The Green Cup Presented by Chaos or this event.