Finnish Footbag Open 2004

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 02 Sep 2004 05:33

24th and 25th of September Helsinki will tremble under some serious footbagging!

The official website has been launched: http://www.footbag.fi/ffo2004/eng/. Go and find out about this great tournament. The pages are in English.
From the front page:

FOOTBAG FINNISH OPEN '04

Welcome to the Footbag Finnish Open '04 site. Its already eighth edition of the event and its going to be spectaculous.

The messiah of footbag, just seventeen year-old 3-time worlds champion Vasek Klouda will be there competing.

More information on the event on Competition Information page. But first and foremost, you can tune in to the atmosphere by checking out Vasek's amazing skills here.

Finnish Footbag Open '04 finals, at Vanha Ylioppilastalo, on saturday Sep. 25, beginning at 1 p.m.

Enjoy!

mentor · Post by **mentor** » 08 Sep 2004 02:31

Wow!

This website is really cool and functional and it is nice to see that you have put such an effort in to the job. Usability and design are key factors on a good website and yours reflect that very well.

It is super nice to see that national tournaments are being approached in such a professional way.

I am not sure if any of the Danes can make it up there but if we get some unexpected $ it would defiantly be the tournament to choose.

We look so much forward to next years Worlds and wish you all the best with your preparations. If you need anything please let us know.

Mads Hole

Finja · Post by **Finja** » 08 Sep 2004 03:32

Thanks a lot Mads,

We have been working hard and now at least we have a nice website

It would be really nice to have some of you dynamite guys in our event.

If possible, It´d be really useful for us to get some kind of raport of your Euros. It´s different then Worlds but I´m really interest of that Orange co-work that you did. Where they satisfied? Are you still doing co-work with ´em etc.

Actually it´s better if you response me personally so we can continue this discussion more easily.

C ya all in Helsinki 2005,

Jukka Peltola

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 25 Sep 2004 02:43

Here are the results from Friday (qualification rounds)

Open Singles Freestyle semi finalists

Pool A

9. Lasse Salmenhaara
8. Hector Köhler
7. Mikko Haario
6. Markus Tyrni
5. Oleg Donner
4. Tuukka Antikainen
3. Juho Marjo
2. Felix Zenger
1. Ales Zelinka

Pool B

8. Antti Lehikoinen
7. Juha Linnanen
6. Aaro Wichmann
5. Toni Pääkkönen
4. Jere Vainikka
3. Mikko Lepistö
2. Jere Linnanen
1. Vasek Klouda

Shred 30 finalists and their score in the qualification round:

1. Vasek Klouda 208,47
2. Mikko Lepistö 189,93
3. Felix Zenger 186,86
4. Jere Linnanen 181,90
5. Toni Pääkkönen 176,67
6. Jere Vainikka 173,40
7. Juho Marjo 170,43
8. Oleg Donner 156,52
9. Ales Zelinka 138,00
10. Lasse Salmenhaara (wild card)

Open doubles net

Final: Tuomas Kärki / Olli Savolainen vs. Matti Pohjola / Oskari Forstén

Bronzegame: Jani Markkanen / Jukka Peltola vs. Janne Uusitalo / Tapio Karhunen

Others:
5. Jekke Ruotsalainen / Aleksi Öhman
6. Jani Lirkki / Juha-Matti Rytilahti
7. Jyri Ilama / Otso Konttinen
8. Jaakko Lindström / Jarno Terho
9. Roman Gornitsky / Oxana Prihodko
10. Teppo Harju / Janne Villikka
11. Iisak Liukko / Sakarias Liukko
12. Jaakko Inkinen / Mikko Inkinen
13. Mikko Poikonen / Timo Vorne
14. Eric Malmi / Tommi Terä
15. Jouni Niemelä / Juho Taavetinkangas

Intermediate freestyle final:

1. Iiro Sunila
2. Jesse Sippola
3. Jussi Kaivola
4. Santeri Karvinen
5. Miika Valle
6. Eric Hoznour

.. I'm off to the final site! More later tonight or so.. It's been awesome so far.

mentor · Post by **mentor** » 25 Sep 2004 08:11

It is really nice with some fresh results. Thanks!

Super strong pools you have at FFO so I really look forward to se some video from the finals.

Mads Hole

mouseman · Post by **mouseman** » 26 Sep 2004 07:03

Some results as I remember them:

pro finals:

8. Jere Vainikka
7. Tuukka Antikainen
6. Mikko Lepistö
5. Juho Marjo
4. Ales Zelinka
3. Jere Linnanen
2. Felix Zenger
1. Vasek Klouda

So finnish master was Felix, this was he's second time in row.

Shred Finals:

Vasek 242
Felix 188
Jere L 185
Ales 177

More information / videos coming soon. I will write some raport in my blog.

Tuukka · Post by **Tuukka** » 26 Sep 2004 07:08

Net results (top 4):

1.Matti Pohjola/Oskari Forstén
2.Tuomas Kärki/Olli Savolainen
3.Janne Uusitalo/Tapio Karhunen
4.Jani Markkanen/Jukka Peltola

So, both open doubles net and open freestyle gold medals travelled to Turku.

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 26 Sep 2004 08:39

I was just reading through these results and then it hit me:

In a country as small as Finland (compared to the US for example), you guys have sooo many heinous (awesome) shredders its unbelieveable. There must have been absolutely no room for error in your pools. I feel like Finland as a country (as well as the Czech Rep.) will push footbag freestyle to higher levels because of the competitiveness of its players and the extremely high ability levels of its players. Anyway, congrats felix on the Finnish vectory.

Can anyonewho was there please describe some of the wicked combos that were hit? Or cool moves that were hit/attempted?

Virppa · Post by **Virppa** » 26 Sep 2004 09:09

Senor Grommet wrote: Can anyonewho was there please describe some of the wicked combos that were hit? Or cool moves that were hit/attempted?

Well as far I can remember at semis Felix tried something like janiwalker > Motion(?), and ended his final routine to surging paradox blender!

Well Vasek was hitting insane like allways. I can´t really remember nothing else right now. I hope someone will tell more what I have missed.

_Dimi · Post by **_Dimi** » 26 Sep 2004 09:33

Senor Grommet wrote:
Can anyonewho was there please describe some of the wicked combos that were hit? Or cool moves that were hit/attempted?

Vasek hit a run that included Triple ATW, Triple Over Down, Triple Pickup (set from clipper), Symp Whirling Swirl bs, Blurry Whirling Swirl, Stepping Whirling Swirl and Reverse Swirling Blender.

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 26 Sep 2004 09:50

I remember seeing that somebody filmed Vasek hit Symp Whirling Swirl blinded like looking to the camera the whole time from dropping the bag from and to catching it still without watching.

I saw Vasek and Felix trying Triple Spinning Osis but I didn't see them hitting it. I saw Vasek hitting clip set Triple Pickup midstring.

Vasek had many new juggling styles in his routines. I can't really explain what and how but I've seen Ryan doing one of them. Well Vasek was trying trying juggling with clipper (not in his routine) but it didn't go very well yet.
In circles Vasek hit some weird tricks like Spikehammer ending to inside stall and so on.

In his semifinal (or final? I'm not sure) routine Vasek hit midstring Whirlwind > freezed the bag there for a couple of seconds

> Symp Whirling Swirl --- Pure sickness. His final routine was dropless.

mentor · Post by **mentor** » 26 Sep 2004 11:41

Holy macaroni….wicked combos you are describing! I must have been some weekend. Thanks for sharing all of it with us and keep it coming.

Mads Hole

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 26 Sep 2004 14:00

You can find the official results online in http://www.footbag.fi/ffo2004/eng/

Here are the results as well:
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Open freestyle

1. Vasek Klouda (Cz)
2. Felix Zenger (Finnish Champion)
3. Jere Linnanen
4. Ales Zelinka (Cz)
5. Juho Marjo
6. Mikko Lepistö
7. Tuukka Antikainen
8. Jere Vainikka

9. Toni Pääkkönen
10. Oleg Donner
11. Lasse Salmenhaara
12. Aaro Wichmann
13. Markus Tyrni
14. Antti Lehikoinen
15. Juha Linnanen
16. Mikko Haario
17. Hector Köhler

Shred:30

1. Vasek Klouda (Cz) 242.00
2. Ales Zelinka (Cz) 191.90
3. Jere Linnanen 183.30 (Finnish Champion)
4. Mikko Lepistö 174.90
5. Felix Zenger 174.85
6. Toni Pääkkönen 168.00
7. Oleg Donner 155.46
8. Juho Marjo 142.20
9. Lasse Salmenhaara 97.36
10. Jere Vainikka 90.25

Open doubles net

1. Matti Pohjola / Oskari Forstén
2. Tuomas Kärki / Olli Savolainen
(Final: 11-4, 7-11, 11-9)

3. Tapio Karhunen / Janne Uusitalo
4. Jani Markkanen / Jukka Peltola
(Bronze match: 11-6, 8-11, 12-10)

5. Jekke Ruotsalainen / Aleksi Öhman
6. Jani Lirkki / Juha-Matti Rytilahti
7. Jyri Ilama / Otso Konttinen
8. Jaakko Lindström / Jarno Terho
9. Roman Gornitsky / Oxana Prihodko (Ru)
10. Teppo Harju / Janne Villikka
11. Iisak Liukko / Sakarias Liukko
12. Jaakko Inkinen / Mikko Inkinen
13. Mikko Poikonen / Timo Vorne
14. Eric Malmi / Tommi Terä
15. Jouni Niemelä / Juho Taavetinkangas

Intermediate freestyle

1. Iiro Sunila
2. Jesse Sippola
3. Jussi Kaivola
4. Santeri Karvinen
5. Miika Valle
6. Eric Hoznour

It was a great event. Thanks for all the organizers and competitors.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 26 Sep 2004 14:42

_Dimi wrote:
Senor Grommet wrote:
Can anyonewho was there please describe some of the wicked combos that were hit? Or cool moves that were hit/attempted?
Vasek hit a run that included Triple ATW, Triple Over Down, Triple Pickup (set from clipper), Symp Whirling Swirl bs, Blurry Whirling Swirl, Stepping Whirling Swirl and Reverse Swirling Blender.

Was anyone filming?

Tuukka · Post by **Tuukka** » 26 Sep 2004 15:18

I was filming, and there should be some short video coming out as soon as possible.

mouseman · Post by **mouseman** » 29 Sep 2004 14:15

There will be some videos coming, keep your eyes open :) And be sure to look for the shreds and routines in the official website: http://www.footbag.fi/ffo2004/eng/

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 29 Sep 2004 15:01

hey .... whats the move that felix hits at the end of his run ... that looked awesome .... did it begin with an arctic set?

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 29 Sep 2004 15:57

hey .... whats the move that felix hits at the end of his run ... that looked awesome .... did it begin with an arctic set?

You mean his routine? If so, he hits surging pdx blender (7 adds). It might have a name as well.. anyone?

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 29 Sep 2004 16:04

yea i meant routine, sry about that