Santa Cruz Invitational (AKA Emily's Birthday Pajammy Jam)

[Moxie]

(EVERYONE IS INVITED!)

This is the event you've been waiting for...
The First Annual Santa Cruz Invitational,run by two of your favorite Modified personalities and overall attractive people (Moxie and Senor Grommet), and an up-and-comer, who is also more attractive than your average footbag player (FunkLovesFootbag). The Santa Cruz Invitational (AKA Emily's Birthday Pajammy Jam) will be held on June 10th and 11th, 2006, the weekend after my birthday. We will be celebrating that weekend so bring your presence, jammys, party hats, and Lavers. We are expecting players from all over California and hopefully from several surrounding states. Several high level players will be present including Jeremy Mirken, Lon Smith, Big Add Chad, Nick Landes and others.


Our venue is the Aptos Academy which has a thinly carpeted gym floor and a stage. The weather will be nice enough for us to kick outside as well. The high in that part of June is usually about 72F and the low is about 50F. So bring warm and cool weather clothing.

Aptos Academy
1940 Bonita Drive
Aptos, Ca 95003



Event Schedule: ***Subject to revision

Friday Night (June 9th):
7PM-12PM Player's party (dinner) for all ages at "99 Bottles" in Downtown Santa Cruz. Private room upstairs, food and drink, darts, enjoy socializing.

Saturday (June 10th):
10AM event doors open
11AM- Start warm-ups for events
1130AM-Intermediate Competitions
-Shred 30
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
12:15PM- 15 minute warning for Open competitors
12:30PM- Open Competitions
-Shred 30
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
1:15PM- Lunch for players arrives and is eaten
2PM- Digestion or shred happens
3:00PM- Novice Competitions (watch, shred, or hang)
-Consecutive kicks
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
3:45PM- Shred and be happy
5:30PM- Clean Facility, leave by 6pm-ish. (saturday night dinner still being arranged)
8PM- Beach Bonfire
10PM- head to Jeremy's place for party.
11PM- Jeremy's house: Emily's Pajammy contest and prize handed out.
11:20PM
-eat, drink, be merry,
-shred at Grom's Grotto (space for 4 players in garage), or
-head back to event site for late night kick instead


Sunday (June 11th):
10AM Facility set up
11:30AM 4-Square competition
1PM- Award ceremony (when the 4-S competition is over)
1:30PM- Lunch and Shred
2PM- Unofficial festivities and competitions (last man standing, mirage races)
3PM- 5 on 5 basketball tournament outside (if interest)
5:30PM- clean up and get out by 6pm. Some players leave, others stay, hang at Jer's house.
8PM- bowling is an option. Sounds fun, right?

The site is minutes from Jeremy's house, the beach, and highway access. On the highway, downtown Santa Cruz is about 12 minutes away.


Pre-registration is over.


All Open competitors will be required to be IFPA members. If you are not a member at the time of the event, we will collect $10 cash or check at the event- not during pre-registration.


4-Square competition: Our 4-Square event will be run by Joe Crain, the inventor of Footbag 4-Square. A $5 entry fee will guarantee prize money for the winner.


T-shirts will be sold at the event for $20.

Music: (This is neat-->) All pre-registered players have the option of sending in one song they would like added to the music selection at the event. *NOTE* We may not play all music that is submitted, but we will do our best. After you register, send your song as attachment to Fletcher at FunkLovesFootbag@footbag.org.


Prizes:
Videos donated by Big Add Chad
Hand-stitched 32 panel footbags from several well-known stitchers including but not limited to:
Jeremy Mirken
Richard Abshire
Johnny Suderman
Jeremy O'Wheel
Joshua Raye
Jake Raye

There will also be bags for sale.

We would like to thank our sponsors:
Freedom Footbags
Planet Footbag
Aptos Academy

Non-Footbag Related Fun:
Players party
Late night beach fun
Pajammy contest/party

Crash Space/Lodging info:

-The KOA campground is full, and the Manresa campground was almost full a few days ago when I checked. Please find lodging ASAP.


I think this is the updated list.

Confirmed for this event:
Gray Chadwick
Mark Chafe
Joe Crain
Chad Devlahovich
Fletcher Funk
Daryl Genz
Sunny Freeman Genz
Steve Goldberg
Mike Hansen
Richard Iannucelli
Emily Kulczyk
Nick Landes
Andrew Lecher
Nate Linscott
Jeremy Mirken
Dave Morawski
Isaac Noyes
Jim "Pimpske" Penske
Dat Phan
Chris Pinkus
Dustin Rhodes
AJ Shultz
Lon Smith
Ken Somolinos
Michael Stokely
David Wright

Hopefully attending:
Farzon Almaneih
Ted Anderson
Blurred Vision
Justin Dale
Rory Dawson
Bryan Fournier
Ahren Gehrman
Jesse Lindley
Samuel Drake McAulay
Eric Palmer
Chris Pinkus
James Randall
Shredmonton
Stanford
Stu
Sole Purpose Footbag Club
Tsiangkun
You?


And here are some pictures.

[C-Fan]

This sounds so cool. I'll apply to some jobs in Cali and cross my fingers.

[funklovesfootbag]

hell yeah it sounds cool. beautiful california AND its emily's birthday.. you'd be a horrible person not to come.


Also, a few people.. maybe 5 or 6 can crash on my friend justin's floor for $10.. it's comfy carpet, and pretty close to downtown.

[David Morawski]

Count me in! I can't wait..though you'll see me much sooner than this jam.

Oh, and that's the North Redondo Foot Clan to you. Hmph.


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[wolfpac444]

Hmm... I'll have to see. It is a month after I leave California and a week after Euros.

[crazydwarf]

Awesome, I'm glad you guys are really doing this, I'm pretty sure I'll be there. I'll have to check with my parents first so I'll tell you when I'm posotive I can come.

Edit: OK I just checked it with my parents and they said I can deffinatly come so I'll be there.

[Shred a Dex]

im there.

[bluntobj3ct]

wow im going to be looking forward to this all year...

gotta represent with my homies-- NRFC


but seriously im going to go practice now, gotta start my training.. *cough*clippers*cough*

[Reid]

happy birthday

[Moxie]

Thanks.

[Iron Clad Ben]

Flights from Austin to San Jose are cheap right now! My girlfriend and I are thinking about getting there a few days early and making a vacation out of this. I guess Santa Cruz doesn't have an airport. Are there cheap buses/shuttles that go from San Jose to Santa Cruz?

Also, we want to take surf lessons. It seems like there are a jillion places that offer surf lessons... any suggestions on which one is good? I was there once about 7 years ago with my family, I saw the boardwalk, but I remember there was a lot more there that we wanted to but didn't have time. What else is fun in SC?

[funklovesfootbag]

uhhh the airporter is one way that i know of, its $40 from san jose airport to santa cruz. im positive there are cheaper ways to get here using the buses, but not sure on the details. downtown and the boardwalk are the big attractions, there's also the mystery spot... not sure what else. lots of theatres, the forests...Not sure on surf lessons.

[Dat]

I can probably take people from san jose to santa cruz.

[Moxie]

Ben: It's great to hear that you and your lady are going to try to make it. This is the perfect place for vacationing. Santa Cruz doesn't have an airport but you can fly into San Jose (SJC). Dat will bring people from SJC and I'll make one to a few trips to get people too. It's 45 min from Santa Cruz. We'll just figure out when the best times will be to make airport pick ups. Fletch was right about the Airporter. Besides getting a ride from someone or renting a car, it is the easiest way to get here. But the bus system works well and we'll find out the exact routes and post them in case people will need that.

There are a ton of surf lesson places, so I will get some numbers for you from some local surfers. There are a ton of beautiful/fun spots here; we're going to work on making a list so people can find out about a bunch of options while they're in town. How old are you both?

[quadgun]

If this is an Invitational, does that mean you have to be invited?

[Iron Clad Ben]

If this is an Invitational, does that mean you have to be invited?

Emily's sig says you're invited!

Emily: sending you an email about this offline to discuss. Thanks!

[Senor Grommet]

There's no excuse for not showing up to this event. I expect to see eveeryone in AZ at this jam (all 2-5 of you ), everyone from Oregon (only a 6-8 hr drive), hopefully more than 1 Texan, and several Chicagoans. Some Canadians would be nice , maybe some Washingtonians, some Coloradoans (S.B. is very close to S.C.), and every California shredder I know.

[Zeke]

Cool Chick Jammy Jam... your next!

[shredzilla]

That must be cool to have a footbag tournament for your birthday

[sidekick]

I'm requesting those days off right now, if there is a place for me to crash it would be great, just becuase I need to save as much money as possible so I can go to worlds this year. I'm down for sleeping in the garage, I gots me an air matress! As soon as I get confirmation of days off, I'll buy tickets.

P.S. I don't know who's coming, but I'm sorry that I put in hte wrong name, that;'s the name in the e-mail red sent out I thought... I fixed it in the post though