I'm remembering in fragments, so I doubt this will be in chronological order. Bear with me on this (and I'm still awful with names as always).
Labor Day Weekend, 3-5 September 2005
[Saturday]
Gather around and read this story well, as Funtastik was merely what it was meant to be - freakin' FANTASTIC. The expenses were worth it, and I enjoyed my trip there. Car lag was a big bummer for me on the first day, but I managed to do some nice tricks to pass along the day. Met Dan "The Man" Johnson of the Eerie crew, and although he was a bit intimidating at first, I loved socilaizing with him. His sense of humour was perfect for me to ease up in Morrison Park at Harrisburg (even showed him a really nice blind sole to his broken in Fuzzy Alpha, just to bless it

) Met with a lot of great freestylers as well, though be it I was shy at first (I guess I needed alcohol and some weed to loosen me up for that one night

). Matt Cross and Jack Keller are great people to socialize with, just to add. Peter Irish was there and I shared a hit of weed with him, making great compliments in his work on the DVD "Fourkast."

African drums really set the whole feeling into place at their stay in the Host Hotel, as though I was there and accepted in their after party. It was very open and homely - while the dacquiris were just killer and translucent.
Also, me, Alex and Pascal of the NYFA crew (as well as two others I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting their names) went to the local Eat'n'Park to get some munchies for the night. Decent place I suppose, I loved the design of it all. Anyway, with our orders made we socialized openly with many a good jokes and weird stories we had to pass along the time. Pretty wicked. Of course, that wasn't the best part of our lives, and you'll have to be there - the waitress dropped our food as she was going to serve it to us (aside from Pascal's, since she served it to him first). Anyway, with our food on the floor those appetizers we ordered before our main meal didn't seem all too important compared to the cheese steak that he ordered. Of course, I made the suggestion of eating off the floor, but my comrades restricted me from doing so. Plus, I was sitting between two others to even reach for food aside from the fallen fries that were near my feet. 5 second rule and the night was young, so give me a break on this will ya?
[Sunday]
Woke up with a hangover and a sore body. Translucent dacquiris and a few hits of weed can do that to you, but it was alright. I remember having a faint taste of Honey Brown beer on my tongue as I woke up. Anyway, it was good to see the active NYFA crew in full force together as we went to the new site. It was pretty amazing - net, freestyle, people of all skills and manners - it was great. Not Morrison/Sunshine Park, but playing in the middle of the street was pretty awesome. Heard some stories in my after-party daze that of which I'm still thinking whether it was great of me to miss it or not. Like Matt Cross projectile vomitting on the bathroom wall, which for some reason stood out pretty well in my memory as one of the stories I've heard of Jack's party. Dunno why, but it might be because I couldn't read Matt as one to be extremely inebriated that night. Maybe extremely high from the weed, but not drunk. Who knows? I just know I wasn't there to witness it.
So back to the new site. The Net Competition was pretty awesome, as is the Ironman/Superman competitions. The one truly remarkable thing that I remember that day was Jack Keller schooling me on how to do proper shin stalls, and how to properly set them to do Sole Stealer. Definitely hard, as my body was still a bit sore, but Jack was pretty amazing to work off the alcohol he drank at the party. He forced me on working on those shins even more, and I guess I submitted to his sagely whim.

Couldn't have met a better guy.
Great players came and strut their stuff as far as I can remember that day. Just to name a few - Jon Schneider for his amazing coordination and control on both sides, Greg "The Smoothie" Neilson for his jaw-dropping routine with jazz music, Peter Irish with his routine with classical music that just left me wanting more, Nate Pipenburg for his amazing skills at the age of 14 and stitching pretty awesome bags along the way. Steve Goldberg was killer at 4-square (at first I misinterpretated what this game was, but now I know). Josh Benham (sp?) was a pretty cool and easy guy, and I regret not talking to him as much as I had wanted to. Adrian was a pretty kickass shredder, and I was pretty happy to shred with her briefly (I think she was Dan's partner at Net yesterday). She had a routine that really stood out with her choice in music - I totally loved it. And there were a lot of Johns that I keep forgetting to note. One was from Chicago and another downed plenty of Budweiser 40s as night came. Poor memory has struck me again, but I know faces pretty well. Must be the amount of beer I drank that night, but I felt easy to remember someone nailing a paradox ducking x-body rake, to which me and Steve helped him in performing that move. Or was it on a whim that he nailed it?

Anyway, it was pretty freakin' awesome. I also saw and learned some of the movements for moves that came that night, and was pretty thankful to learn the names of them as well since I keep forgetting. Thanks Steve and Stan (of NYFA).
[Monday]
Woke up pretty early, I guess. Went to eat breakfast eating a meatless meal for once (or what Alex calls a meaningless waste of chewing). Anyway, I was hoping for Raspberries to be open so that I can have some breakfast there for only $10, but it was closed for Labor Day. Had to go to the hotel where we stayed (Crowne Plaza) and eat breakfast for $2 more.

Having my fill and meeting up with Alex with checking out of the hotel, I went straight to the site and reaching there by 12 o'clock in the afternoon. The net competiton that was taking place was pretty awesome - extremely intense. Nothing much had happened today except to wrap up with the final competitions. Some shred happened, but I just wasn't motivated too much to kick today unlike yesterday. I guess you can say I was still in the learning phase of watching people play, examining their routines in person step by step. I was still thinking on how to do Sole Stealer as always (getting a little obsessive over it as well

) but it was all good. Purchased a succulent Foot Fighter from Steve Goldberg personally before the finals began, so that's an added plus.
A lot of goodbyes, fairwells, and good memories to boot. It was pretty eventful to say the least, but I think I regret not getting at least one contact for the most part so that I can contact them personally. But hey, there's always the next Funtastik, and that's what I thought when the sun was setting ever so slowly down to the horizon, and that Joe and Brenda were gathering up everything to clearing the site. And with modified, I can at least have a nice chat online whenever possible with some people. I find that they're all revering in their skills in footbag, and great friends to have met at such a wonderful event. At least that's something to keep me steady for the trip back home, even with a bum calling me cheap on the L train back when I bought some donuts for my "home welcoming" from a 3 day long trip. Maybe, I'll get to meet all of you at Chilly Philly again.
Wrapping it up, Funtastik was
great.