my report about the austrian championships:
friday:
i got a ride with joseph and tommy (the freestyle disc player) and we arrived in linz at around 1 o'clock. i spent the whole afternoon preparing the players' packages.
around 6 o'clock joseph, our spokesman, told me that i should go to the main road in linz, take 2 or three people with me, shred like crazy, talk to people and give out lots of flyers.
so i took around 500 fylers with me, and got accompanied by rené (who later ended up winning second place in intermediate), peter (another shredder who took part in the intermediate competition) and tommy, the disc freestyler.
it went great. first i only wanted to shred for one hour, because i was already sweating like crazy after only shredding for an hour (because i was often playing by myself, because the others were talking to other people...and also i tried to have really long runs). after an hour tommy and peter left, and it was only rené and me playing. i actually wanted to stop, but then i continued to play, always with 20 flyers in my hands. i talked to a lot of people and got them really interested. it was great.
after playing for two hours we both stopped and went to the registration which was located in a bar where the after party was as well.
soon our international guests arrived. ian (yeah...australia representing!), stefan and max. later that night the car with the czech players arrived as well. it was a really fun night.
at around two or three o'clock we headed to the gym.
saturday:
i got up at 9 o'clock, because roman and me, joined by joseph, the spokesman, and chrisi, our footbag photographer, had to go to pasching (which is close to linz) and make a little footbag demonstration (for an hour or a bit less...can't remember) at a shopping mall, where kellogs is doing its kick contests at the moment. it went quite good. the organizers there kept telling the kids participating in the kick contest that if they showed their participation certificate at the austrian footbag championships, they would get a special surprise from us. great idea!
then we arrived at the "stadtwerkstatt", the club where the freestyle contest took place. i hung around for half and hour and then i had to start warming up.
i was pretty nervous before my qualification routine, because my last routines had all been really crappy. i did pretty well though. i had four drops and finished my routine with paradox torque. what i liked best was that i felt good on stage competing, like my legs felt good and not as tired as usually when competing. also, i started to really like my new routine music.
then i judged the open competition. alex had an awesome routine. so well choreographed!! big props for that again, mr. alex! ali was in the other pool and he also did well. he played nicely to the music. klemens also did well, because he had a really nice song.
then after another hour or so it was my turn again. as usually the competition wasn't on time and so i asked schubi when it's gonna start. he told me that after double freestyle there's gonna be a break, so i shouldn't be starting warming up yet.
okay.
unfortunately there was no break though. so i was super stressed, because i could just warm up for 10 minutes while the other four girls were playing (i was playing last).
also, of course i wanted to do well and defend my title. and i wanted to perform well in front of my parents (who came all the way from vienna with my sister and two friends of her), and my boyfriend's parents.
i never thought that all those people would be coming to watch me.
at this point my legs were really tired. it was already my third time warming up that day.
i did really well though!! yahoo!! i had three drops this time and also hit pdx torque as last trick. i would really like to see my routine on video. i'm still happy when i think about my routine, because my qualification routine was good, but my final routine was even better. it's so nice to know that i'm able to do a good routine again.
later i got to know that hanna also did really well, hitting a three drop routine.
yepp. then it was time for open finals. i was really curious whether the austrian champion was gonna be ali, the favorite, or not.
klemens was first, he hit a really nice routine. 7 drops and the best routine of his life. his music was great and the crowd went crazy.
then ali's turn. he used one of vasek's songs (which he knew well, because we had done lots of shows to this song), because he lost all his cd's. he also had 7 drops. the difficulty wasn't really high, but not bad either. the aristical interpreation was good, but not perfect either. not as good as klemens'.
okay. alex was up. he did really bad in the beginning, but then had like a one minute dropless. amazing actually. still 10 drops.
it was so frigin' hard to judge that.
klemens is our new austrian champion now!!
vice is alex and third place ali. really surprising results!
i would have liked to see alex winning, but 10 drops was too much!
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okay. i'm getting bored now of writing all that stuff. but now i've gotta continue.
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stefan did so well!! he did a three drop routine and the crowd went crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!! really!! wow! it was so good. props, stefan. he won! ...and beat honza who did also well, but he had three drops as well, and we all know that honza can do a lot better.
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then we had a pause for 2 or 3 hours. at 9 o'clock sick3 started. it was my fourth time warming up and i was completely spent at that time. i tried to hit my sick3 combo which is fairy whirl>blender>pdx torque, but couldn't hit it. it rolled off my foot twice.
later was shred30. i sucked, but so did everyone, except stefan and max.
then we did most rippin' run. it was a bad idea. the stage was very small and all of a sudden 8 or 9 people where shredding on there. all of a sudden i fell to the floor, because i did a pdx whirl but landed with my one foot on the other and sprained it. it really hurt a lot. fortunately i soon got lots of ice cubs and that helped me so much.
it's not a bad sprain, but my ankle is swollen and blue now. it's so stupid, because it was my las run of the day, and also i was looking forward to shredding for the whole day on sunday. that's the best thing about tournaments.
yeah. i hope that i can start to shred soon again, but it probably will take for a week, i don't know. and ian is vienna now as well!!
okay. i got bored now.
good night, modified!!
edit: @gravityfighters: thanks a lot for hosting such a cool tournament!!
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