modified.in

Iron Clad Ben

Hello world.

The Austin Footbag Club presents The 2006 Lone Star State Footbag Tournament in Austin, Texas, October 20th-22nd.

http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1156300267

This tournament will be a chance for footbaggers from all over to kick together in the capitol city of Texas, Austin. We hope to get footbaggers from all over Texas and the southern united states, but of course footbaggers from all over the world are invited and encouraged to come! October in Texas is still warm, the summer's too hot, so we have our tournaments in the fall!

Events
EDIT: Events pending. This may end up just being an informal jam. Good new is I will be hooking up http://www.freezeclothing.com/ for t-shirts.

Prizes
Looking for stitchers to donate bags.

Informal kicking
Plenty of time for circle shred, foursquare, net kicking and hangin' out with your footbag peeps!

Cost TBD. Trying to keep participation investment around $10 and then a few bucks entry for each event.

Possible Other fun stuff:
-Swimming @Barton Springs!
-Party at my apt Sat night. Email me for details.

Location:
It will be EASTWOOD PARK near the University of Texas Campus. 32nd and Harris Park

Lodging/Crash space
We are pretty much booked up at my apt. If you are planning and coming and need a space to crash, email me, we'll see what we can work out.

Confirmed Attendees
Andrew Koller
Rob Creel III
Mike Stokely
Curtis Taylor
Cody Rushing
James Geraci
Sam McAulay
Jesse Lindley
Tina Lewis
James Harley
Grant and some other dudes from Lubbock, TX
The Rinowski Bros
John Fanuzzi

Tentative Attendees
Travis Iden
More Houston Skyliners?
Other Tulsa guys
You. Yes you. Are you coming or what?

Austin rocks!!! Here's a shot of the skyline, the Colorado river and the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan (statue).

Email me at ironcladben at footbag dot org.

Ben
_________________

freestyler4life · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject:

I might just come for the Competitive Eating event Laughing

_________________

Mathochist · Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: not that far at all

I will be there. I'll shred me some, and I'll tear up some net and golf if given the chance. I'm hoping to bring two or three others, but we'll have to see.

Let's pick up this southern scene!
_________________

vettehunter123 · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:14 am Post subject:

hope i can come dude. i will try to be there!
_________________

HackMaverick · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

im there
_________________

Stoke · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

Oh HELL yeah I'll be there. Houston always represents.
October 20th. I'm getting the word out.
_________________

gangsta · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:

Sweeeeeet. We hope to make it, but I will probably be in basic training by then Confused

However, I can probably donate a Dutchmaster footbag Cool

_________________

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

Thanks for the interest guys! I've been a total slacker about planning this (I haven't done jack other than set a date), well I've still got 2 months. It may be more of a jam than a real tournament, no one here's really ever competed in anything. Who would judge?

Oh also, this will be the weekend that the Rolling Stones are playing Austin. So come for the shred, stay for the Stones!
_________________

JoFa · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:49 am Post subject:

I'm not a Stones fan.

But I am a footbag fan!!!
_________________

bluntobj3ct · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:27 am Post subject:

i have come to believe that sadly im the only san antonio shredder Sad

im more than down to take any prizes from whomever i can Smile

hehehe

but really- this would kick ass. i vote for austin as the location, because otherwise i dont think ill make it due to school/work. ill donate a bag for a prize and im gonna go out on a limb to say i might request richard a. to maybe donate one as well... and definately my buddy ben who knows he might make like 10 for us cause hes crazy like that and generous enough to feed the world if he could.

but i dont know about all that no matter what count me in!
_________________

Stoke · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

Ben- I've competed plenty. I'll judge intermediate, cuz I'm gonna be competing in the open division..
And you need to make a footbag.org event listing asap. That should be the first place you put updates and stuff. Just tryin to help.
_________________

Zeb Jackson · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

i would be glad to donate some bags for the event ben just let me know a couple weeks in advance so that i have time to mail them to you and what not Smile

_________________

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

Hey y'all I have been working on setting up this event a lot. Please check the first page for lots of updates!
_________________

moreon25 · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

A couple of us from Denver are trying to make plans to come to this tournament, don't know if we're actually going to be able to make though.

Hope the tournament/jam goes well.
_________________

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:37 am Post subject:

Hey so as far as shirts, I am considering putting the slogan "Where's the money at??? Where are all the chicks???" on them. What do you think?

Any other ideas? Everybody still planning to come?
_________________

freestyler4life · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

bump

Man, Ben I sure would like to come to this, but it looks like I'm gonna miss out. Sad

I'll see what I can do to make it.
_________________

Stoke · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

I'll be there. Haven't been kicking very much lately though.. I need practice.

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:

Well guys, I am admittedly very unprepared for this event. I had a dream last night that 700 people showed up and I shat my pants.

I've got a few calls/email from some more peeps who are planning on attending. Last minute charlies, come on down!

Thanks to all those who are stitching bags! Very Happy

_________________

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:09 am Post subject:

Hey can anyone bring a CD player to play people's routines music on? I'm trying to borrow one from someone but a lil help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Tournament in 4 dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysssss!! Yowsa! Very Happy

_________________

Iron Clad Ben · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:36 am Post subject:

Fun times for sure, son.

First off thanks to everyone who made it out:
Rob Creel, New Orleans, LA (Mathochist)
Mike Stokely, Houston, TX (Stoke)
Curtis Taylor, Houston, TX (PIMP C)
Cody Rushing, Austin, TX (morsecode)
Ben Rinowski, Tulsa, OK (blurryben)
Louis Rinowski, Tulsa, OK (gangsta)
John Fanuzzi, Austin, TX (DaGoodSmoke)
James Geraci, Austin, TX
Dustin Patterson, Lubbock, TX
Grant Weldon, Lubbock, TX
Wes ?, Lubbock, TX
Plus a whole bunch of net players including Tina Lewis, James Harley, JR Roberts, CL and others.

Second off, thanks to the stitchers who made bags for the event
Zeb Jackson, Boise, ID (Zeb Jackson)
Travis Iden, Dallas, TX (vettehunter123)
Andrew Banewicz, Hagaman, NY (jrstubs)
Cody Rushing, Austin, TX (morsecode)

The Rinowski brothers pretty much swept the competition with Louis winning both Novice events and Ben winning 2 of 3 Open events. "Big Trick Mastablasta" Curtis Taylor took 1st in Sick 1 with Janiwalker.

A bunch of people hit new tricks during the event:
Rob: Spinning Osis
Me: Spinning butter
John: toe DLO
Cody: Surge
Ben R: Bedwetter

Probably more I'm sure, but I can't remember.

Well it was a great time. I could write another two pages about stuff that happened. I'm glad eveything worked out. We are definitely going to have another event down south sometime soon.
_________________