4th annual Montana Freestyle Jam â€¢ April 27-29

qphox · Post by **qphox** » 29 Apr 2007 20:38

Quick notes on this jam, personal or otherwise:

- Riley was a spectacular host, more than willing to make breakfast for 25 people
- Byrin tagged a couple of 8's, Jim "hit" a really really long friggin' string, and Daryl continues to blow everyone's mind
- If Gray chooses to be disciplined in his practice, he is going to be kicking everyone's ass sooner rather than later
- I've got 11 tapes of footage coming back home with me

I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing with the footage I've got specifically, I suspect it may end up happening like SJFF4 did. It'll probably be a Byrin and Jim show, with a separate "general footage" short. I've got a ton of non-shred footage. But yeah, Byrin and Jim. Byrin hit flurricane at least 7 times this weekend, and it seems as though Jim has resolved to pretty much never drop ever.

Unfortunately, I kinda choked in competition, and there's no one to blame but myself. Yet again, I was unable to hold myself back on the first day, and ended up taping a 3 hour barefoot session (albeit a really GOOD session). By mid-day Saturday I was ready to give my hip a rest. I was only able to land a shit-bail-style sick 3, but I did manage to throw down a quad-dex for sick 1. At least there's that.

Thanks again Missoula. I love this town.

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 30 Apr 2007 19:07

adding to that....

- riley makes a BOMB apple pie
- ive never felt roomier sleeping with 12+ people in the same room before
- red sucks at bomberman, but hell never admit it

- the comps were good, i felt like i did okay in sick 1, and shred 30, but i sucked at everything else
- the mfa is one of the coolest groups of people ive ever had the chance to meet, thanks for holding such an awesome jam. Ill school my frolfin skills, and play better next mfj fo sho!

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 30 Apr 2007 21:00

Disclaimer
*Both Nick Landes and Jim Penske moved off camera during shred30. Someone with one of the other cameras pm me and lets get this figured out.

Unofficial Shred30 Results:

Intermediate:
1. Zeb Jackson 108.6
2. Jake Wren 106.5
3. Kyle Hewitt 102
4. Zac Jackson 86
5. Scott Behmer 78.9
6. Ben Benulis 60.9

Open:
1. Jim Penske 249.8
2. Andrew Grant 178.2
3. Byrin Wylie 174.2
4. Nick Landes 168.9
5. Rory Dawson 166.8
6. Daryl Genz 149.5
7. Kevin Regamy 145.5
8. Luis Monhollon 79.5

Rippin Run Results:

Intermediate:
1. Zac Jackson

Open:
1. Jim Penske

Sick Trick:
Intermediate:
1. Gray Chadwick--PS Eggbeater, Fairy Symposium Eggbeater
2. Jake Wren--Blurriest, Spinning Whirl, Sumo, Blurry Whirl
3. Kyle Hewitt--Symposium Atomic ss Symposium Mirage
4. Zeb Jackson--Spinning Ducking Butter, Blurry Whirl, Zulu Osis
5. Zac Jackson--Double Pixie

Open:
1. Byrin Wylie--Surging Ducking Paradox Whirl, Surging Paradox Blender, Gyro Butter Reverse Swirl
2. Nick Landes--Spinning Ducking Paradox Barrage, Flipwalk
3. Jim Penske--Nemesis
4. Andrew Grant--Stepping Paradox Symposium Eggbeater
5. Kevin Regamy--Sailing ss Eggbeater, Symposium Atomic ss Symposium Illusion
6. Daryl Genz--Some sort of crazy double bag foot juggling action (smog with a bag on each foot?)
7. Rory Dawson--Pixie Torque

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 01 May 2007 03:43

A big thank you to the MFA for making yet another year such a huge success. You guys really know how to throw down a jam

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Also a big thank you go out to the host Riley for putting up with all of us and for all the food you've cooked over the course of the weekend. You're the man!

See you guys next year!

LEGOMAN · Post by **LEGOMAN** » 01 May 2007 04:43

Cool. I finally broke 100 in shred 30!

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 01 May 2007 08:08

Man what an event

A big thank you to the Missoula guys for putting together an awesome event and being excellent hosts: Riley, Jer, Evan, Kevin, Ty and Tom (hopefully didn't forget anyone). Special thanks to Riley for cooking for us every day, letting us stay at and subsequently befoul your home.

It was great meeting everyone else too, Portland guys, Canada guys, plus seeing some people I'd met at the US Open like Luis and Nick. Big thank you to Zeb Jackson for giving me a ride and to and from the considerably cheaper Idaho airport. Canadians, it was really fun meeting all you guys, I'm glad you all made it out. Thanks to Kevin R for the one on one lesson on Saturday, I will definitely be working on the stuff we talked about.

I'm glad my body held up as well as it did considering all the shred I did. I choked in competition, but then again I think part of me expected myself to do so. I shredded like 3 days in a row in the days before the competition, I should have taken it easier, not that that would have made a huge difference. I wasn't shredding to the best of my ability, but I have only myself to blame for that.

Sometimes I feel like I am pushing the progression in this sport from the bottom up. Now matter how much better I get I am still the worst player at every tournament I go to (or best case, very close to the worst). I school hard only to find out the gap has only widened more as people have made more progress than I have. It's definitely lit a fire under my ass to pratice more, smarter and harder. But on the other hand part of me is thinking what the hell am I doing, should I even bother to try to be a contender when everyone else is younger and has way more time to practice? But it's really fun seeing people like Zeb, Zac and Kyle get really really good.

Disc golf was absolutely awesome both times. That Blue Mountain course was like a disc golf wet dream. I have a ton of pics from it. I'll post them soon. Many thanks to Ty, Evan and Jer for all the tips with disc golf. I think I'm going to get more into now that I'm back and Austin has like 10 courses.

Oh and I was totally lazy about filming. I think I have a total of 2 minutes of footage. That's OK, I'm sure Kevin R will put out some totally sweet videos once he can find the time to edit all of those hours of footage he has.

Hopefully see you guys soon, definitely at worlds. Peace.

Jimpenske · Post by **Jimpenske** » 01 May 2007 11:00

Thanks to the entire MFA!!! You guys put on a hell of a jam. A few highlights for me are:

watching those crazy people dance at the event!
Here's a link to a few videos my brother took

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 21e309f38e

The beer on Saturday!
smoking with Evan
watching James yo yo
watching the Jackson brother BATTLE for rippin run
shredding with Bryrin (that guys good)
Talking with KR
Hitting 2 4 dexes in a row in a circle
BLUE MOUNTAIN DISC GOLF
having awesome weather the whole weekend!
Seeing Kevin on Sunday!!!

Seeing both my brothers and hanging out with Hunter
smoking with BEN and Kevin after a long night of drinking
Watching Jere completely destroy everyone in folf
everyone throwing there disc into the canyon on that one whole.

What about the Sick 3 results? Also does anyone have my shred 30 on camera?

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 01 May 2007 11:38

I swear I didn't miss Nick and Jim's shred30 and I used Evan's camera. They should all be separated into clips perfectly.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 01 May 2007 14:14

Sporatical_Distractions wrote:Disclaimer
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5. Kevin Regamy--Sailing ss Eggbeater, Symposium Atomic ss Symposium Illusion

Were these in shoes?

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 01 May 2007 15:37

They sure were

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 01 May 2007 20:08

hey if any one found my camo truckers hat please let me know! it's my lucky hat. i think i left it at evan's place on sunday, but i'm not 100% on that.

i had a blast!!! i will do a quick synopsis like jim's when i get a couple minutes.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 02 May 2007 05:06

brief synopsis in the montana footblog

footjam_heger · Post by **footjam_heger** » 02 May 2007 10:20

Sounds awesome. What we need now are videos...

redshredz · Post by **redshredz** » 02 May 2007 13:25

This was a great event! Good people, good times, good town. Special thanks to the MFA for running, hosting, and showing everyone a fun time. Thanks to Riley for putting us up, and to Evan, Kevin, and Jere for orchestrating such a solid event. We will certainly be back next year, Missoula is great, as is the freestyle group that represents it!
Red

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 02 May 2007 16:48

footjam_heger wrote:Sounds awesome. What we need now are videos...

I didn't film shit compared to last year. I have about 30 minutes of footage. You are going to have to look at Kevin Regamey for all the videos this year, he stole all my hot spots

Dick.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 03 May 2007 09:42

Sick3 results will be up sometime later today.

Sorry for the delay, been real busy with school it being the last week before finals.

James: Evan told me that his camera died during filming, but you would know better since you're the one that used his camera and it was working for you. I'll ask him again and force him to check.

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 03 May 2007 10:03

uh oh sounds like evans holding out on us

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 03 May 2007 10:41

Yes, it did die on me. But we did shred30 first correct? It didn't die until like the last couple sick 1s or something.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 03 May 2007 18:57

Sick3 Results:

Intermediate:
1. Kyle Hewitt -- Ripped Warrior>Ripwalk>Blurry Whirl, Smear>Dimwalk>DLO

2. Gray Chadwick -- Fairy Butter>Ripwalk>PS Eggbeater, Blur>Dimmiest>Bubbabeater

3. Jacob Wren -- Ripwalk>Whirl>Spinning Butter

4. Zac Jackson -- Ripwalk>Pdx Mirage>Legbeater, Ripwalk>Pdx Mirage>DLO

5. Zeb Jackson -- Smear>Dimwalk>Whirl

6. Benjamin Benulis -- Pdx Mirage>Butter>Pdx Mirage

Open:
1. Jim Penske -- Nemesis>Mullet>Spinning Blender, Whirlygig>Spinning Blender>Food Processor, Furious Illusion>Dolomite>PS Whirl

2. Nick Landes -- Gyro Diving Butter>PS Whirl>Void

3. Daryl Genz -- Matador>Sumo>Phoenix, Blurry Whirl>Pdx Torque>Pdx Mirage

4. Kevin Regamy -- Smog>Sailing ss Mirage>Dimwalk

5. Rory Dawson -- Phoenix>Stepping PS Mirage>Pixie Osis

6. Luis Monhollon -- Ducking Butter>Gyro Butter>In-Spinning Butter

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 03 May 2007 20:10

favorite events/people from the jam (no particular order):

-drinking beer with stephane, brings back old memories
-kyle hewit asking me what freestyle footbag is, i still don't know.
-my gigantic sub, of which i ate half and gave the rest to kyle.
-skeletor- "nyeaaaah!"
-practicing my tap dance routine at 10am on sunday morning, waking up nick in the process.

-scott "crazy eyes" behmer
-jim laying it down in shred 30 and sick 3
-k-reg hitting on young girls, who had to get home for their curfew.
-sleeping in byrin's car untill 4am
-bumming mad cigs to james
-watching james tear up the yo
-highway driving fun
-"what the hell is this world coming to?"
-boarder guard fun
-beef jerky
-k-reg getting his sun glasses ganked while taking a crunch at a gas station
-sing alongs
-riley's amazing ability to put up with our shit... quite literally.
-taco del sol
-walking around down town for an hour saturday night trying to find beer and food.
-going back to the second place we tried and talking with Ben, K-reg, and stephane
-fake mustaches
-k-cro's sunday best
-allergic reactions to dog hair
-a ginormous plate of waffles, fresh from the iron, complements of chef riley.
-riley's amazing pizza and pie
-riley's cooking in general!!!!!!!!
-laying on the grass, soaking up the sun and watching crazy footbag players do crazy tricks.
-byrin going huge (no seriously, HUGE!) all weekend (WTF i used to be better than that guy! lol)
-talking with sunny about the joys of working in the food service industry.
-paying off my debts to daryl
-my "montana freestyle jam shred dress"
-kevin's b2b t2t quad dex combos
-kyle hewit's sick 3 celebration
-meeting luis and watching him play
-watching red get pwned at bomberman
-seeing evan again and his outgoingness and constantly making sure i was doing alright, or if i needed anything
-every one's general concern for the state of my foot (i'm touched guys *sniffle*)
-ice and ibuprofen
-canada #1

thanks for the memories guys! i plan to be back next year, hope to see some of you up at shredmonton!!!