Hey guys!!
Haha, thanks for the great comments. lol
Matt, I got your message. That was awesome!!
I have been sleeping soo much since returning home. Jetlag finally caught up with me.
A full writeup would take suuper long, so here are 20 highlights (plus a couple lowlights) of World Footbag Championships 2006:
(Not in any particular order)
+ Meeting so many new freestylers (esp. Phil Morrison) and learning more about the people I had met previously
+ Competing for the first time in 2 freestyle events (Circle, Doubles) and performing respectably
+ Seeing the sport grow in numbers significantly from last year (around 10% more in open routine and shred, way more women competitors -- women's DOUBLES for the first time ever!)
+ Witnessing he unveiling of 2 groundbreaking developments in freestyle: the quantum footbag shoe (not only a quality product but the final step towards our independence as a sport) and Bringing Out The Shred!! (First professionally edited shred video with narration and storyline. Woo!!
+ Having only one drop each in 1st and 2nd rounds of open routine. Both were on the last trick. D'oh!
+ Winning my first 4-square games ever! Seeing my knowledge of the game and playing tactics improve substantially.
+ Having a solid 1st round of sick3, landing 3/7 attempts and making 2/7 attempts in final
+ Achieving an add average in Routine Finals 0.4 higher than Helsinki Worlds
+ Eating quite healthy relative to most tournaments. The event site had free fruit, smoothies, bottled water which all the players hugely appreciated
+ Seeing the Canadians do so well despite being badly underrepresented!
+ Playing probably my strongest ever in my semi-finals Circle
+ Receiving craazy amounts of congrats after award ceremony on Saturday
+ Participating in tons of juggling circles throughout the week. Many of you have crazy skills! I learned some cool new moves too!
+ Seeing Juho get 3rd place in routine at the ceremony. HUGE PROPS!!!
+ Tom Mosher made it to routine semi-finals! Your semis routine was hilarious!!
+ The winnings were totally dispersed this year! Everyone had something to be stoked about.
+ I invented a couple funky tricks: "monster swirl" (an opp foot reverse swirl between monsters) and pdx whirling symp swirling monster!
+ Getting sponsored by TRIO and doing some intense tricks with Honza for their website
+ Learning how to play 'Pigs' in our Ernst Reuter Schule classroom. I sucked.
+ Making the finals in all 5 freestyle events I competed... and winning shred!
- Hearing that some stuff was stolen at the School and having tighter security around us setting curfews and waking us up earlier
- The distance from the event site/parties to the school was too freaking far!!! Spent a lot of euro on taxis for the week.
- Nobody got their CDs back after giving them in at registration. I had a sick shred mix on that one CD.
- for Circle Finals, we were arranged in a line rather than a circle b/c of the size of the stage. 1st round, I had to receive a pass from Ales
across the stage and if I dropped the pass I would miss my turn.
So that's my writeup

. Once again, huge thanks for all your support and props. To those who didn't make it, you missed an important page of footbag history that truly can't be described.
Peace out ganstas,
Jorden