For as long as I have been playing “The Thursday Party” at Medborgeren has been the most important weekly session in Copenhagen during the winter. It was also where the first Danish Champs in recent time was hosted, it was an important place during Euros in 2004 and it was where I organized my first big tournament (Danish Footbag Open 2013) which led to us hosting Worlds.
Last winter the municipality in Copenhagen decided to not renew our weekly time slot and it was a big blow. Pretty much since then Nis and Mathias has been working hard to find us a new spot and about a month ago they succeeded.
The new spot is an old gym at a school. There is no cafeteria and no stage but everything else is pretty much better;
- The floor is good for footbag
- There is a choir of about twenty girls in their twenties practicing right next us
- The showers are better
- The room is a bit bigger, but not too big for us
- Our time slot is better (moved from 21 – 23 to 20 – 22)
- And most importantly – it is located only 500 meters away from where I live and a 100 meters from where Kim does
Kim and Mathias played there last week, but this week I made it.
In attendance: Mathias Blau, Kim Mortensen, Jasper Johansen, Nis Petersen and Yours Truly
It’s been a while since Copenhagen have seen five people at session and it definitely felt like the start (restart) of something!
I played with Jasper and Kim. Kim didn’t play the best I’ve seen but I always love playing with him. Jasper has been battling weird injuries for the past couple of years, but I think he looked good. He also said he felt fine, so he plan on showing up regularly.
I played surprisingly well for not having played for a while. Short runs but I think I hit pretty much everything I can do and a lot of it first try.
I am already looking forward to next week. I hope we can keep this up.
Here is something cool I made for school: