Phoenix Open '08, January 19th-21st

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 14 Jan 2008 10:27

Phoenix Open, 2008

If you are at all interested in watching or playing footbag net, this weekend there is a Net tournament in Phoenix, AZ.

It will have many top players and teams from this year's world championships!

The main organizer of the tourney is Amy Westberg, whose contact information is amy dot westberg at intel dot com
Phone: 480-917-8908

The venue for the event will be:

Snedigar Park (Venue)
4500 S Basha Road
Chandler, AZ 85248
Soccer field #4

The tourney schedule is:

Schedule for tournament
Friday January 18
Registration at Amy's house for Mixed Doubles

Saturday January 19
8am-9am Registration Singles Deadline
9am-12pm Mixed Doubles finish through semi-final, play off 3rd and 4th
1pm-dark Singles (Open, Women's, Intermediate)

Sunday January 20
8am-9am Registration Doubles Deadline
9am-12pm Finish Singles through semi-final, play off 3rd and 4th
1pm-dark Open Doubles, Women's Doubles, Intermediate Doubles

Monday January 21
9am-12pm Doubles play through semi-finals, play off 3rd and 4th
12pm-1pm Open Singles Final
1pm-2pm Women's Singles Final
2pm-3pm Open Doubles Final
3pm-4pm Women's Doubles Final
4pm-5pm Mixed Doubles Final

yyz · Post by **yyz** » 17 Jan 2008 20:13

I will be there! Hey any shreeders in the area I love too shred in between matches.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 23 Jan 2008 14:51

For all interested in results, I ended up placing 4th in Open Doubles Net with my partner Mike McCarthy (out of 9 teams), and 3rd in Open Singles Net out of 9 (or 10?) players. Essentially, I made the semifinals in both events, which was sweet. I had a good showing in my doubles semi but got stomped out pretty hard in my singles semi by Alexis Deschenes, the guy who went on to take the singles title. I won 50 bucks for 3rd place in singles though (my opponent scratched due to injury)!

I'll be sure to post any cool pictures or footage for your viewing pleasure if I come across anything cool. Oh I got to meet John Caveney, inventor of the modern day JimmyC Net Set and one of the best net players of all times. I also got to hang out with tons of cool people, including Mike Jauss (who has a blog).

I hit an ayatollah in one of my pool play matches (where you reach over the net and spike the bag into your opponents side of the net), which is extremely rare (happens once in 20-30 events or so). The match judge told me that I just did what he had been trying to do all of his life

-Grom, a.k.a. "Air Jer," The Jerggernaut, Little Juggy, Jergy, Sky Planet

Elliott · Post by **Elliott** » 25 Jan 2008 06:31

congrats on making the semi's with such tough competition. what's the total number of injuries at the tourney? it sounds like it might be a record.

i'm beginning to grow disheartened with net due to this isolation. apart from moving i cannot think of how to resolve the issue.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 25 Jan 2008 09:17

Well, if you know that memphis has weekend sessions, why not inform them in advance of your intentions to come up at least 1 weekend a month (possibly 2, 3 or 4), so that they may put together a good session or sessions for you to attend. You could prolly stay overnight at someone's house and have both a Saturday kick and a Sunday kick.

Other that that, man, you just have to be motivated to practice certain skills on your own. Set up a net and practice spiking, practice serving, practiceconsec setting with both outsides, practice bag control by doing consec insides (as if with a freestyle bag).

Or move to a place with a net scene

Elliott · Post by **Elliott** » 25 Jan 2008 10:05

i travel to memphis at least once every 2 months for a session; although i need to try it with a greater frequency. honestly, it's not like i play myself in singles every saturday, we have a decent scene in nashville... always 4-5 players at the court. however the level of play has been stagnent lately and a couple guys who are solid intermediates just cannot seem to improve on their skills any further. i've tried to incorporate more drills with practices, although this doesn't really seem to interest anyone. i don't think my problem is self-modivation (i have the practice space in my garage to prove it) it's getting the others modivated in the club.

how many players do you have in sata cruz? how often do you make the trip to chaos land? is mike m. back in cali now?

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 25 Jan 2008 18:10

9 players +/- 3 each sunday. I play with Chaos at least 1x weekly. Mike is not in Santa Cruz, still in FLorida, and will be in Memphis for the tourney.