2017 World Footbag Championships; footbag freestyle Videos – Results – Recap — Footbag Net

2017 World Footbag Championships –  Recap – Results – Freestyle Finals Video Collection

The World Footbag Championships: Return to the origins

Women Singles Routines finals

The night started with women’s routines and the first up was Caroline Birch. Caroline has some skills and a very good presentation, so, she got the crowd going. She was followed by Cass Taylor, the 2013 World Champ from Canada. Her music was very engaging and she has a lot of skills but she seemed nervous and dropped the footbag a little bit too much. Then Paloma Mayo came to do her magic and clinched the title with a very nice routine.

Open Singles Routines finals

This was a strong open contingent and at this point there were only 8 players left. TJ Boutorwick launched the competition in orbit with a nicely executed dropless routine putting the pressure on for the other open freestylers. Brian Sherrill followed with a very honest performance. Gordon Bevier’s was ok too. I wish that Ken Somolinos would have lost the sunglasses before he entered the stage as it seems it made him miss a trick early on in his routine which broke the rythm and made him drop some more…Ken has great moves but he often drops too much in the big moments, focus on the task at hand Ken, forget the costumes.

Then entered the top 4 dogs starting with Jim Penske who had some great strings, very entertaining but a couple of drops. Taishi Ishida went dropless with a very nicely constructed choreography, the crowd went wild with him. The great Vasek Klouda set his usual standard but missed once which was enough for the judges to put him second. Pawel Nowak also went for a dropless routine with plenty of well executed tough moves and that got him the title. Poland is on top of the World, for now.  There’s always another Worlds coming.

Open Teams Routines finals

Team freestyle was absent in 2017, the discipline seems less attractive suddenly.

Open Circle Contest finals

For those who know nothing about footbag freestyle the circle contest may seem a little bit esoteric. The 4 finalists have to display their abilities in two phases; variety which is self explanatory, and density which is harder to explain but, basically, the kickers have to show all their best moves, in long strings of craziness and ankle twisting frenzy. Our 4 players are virtuosos at what they do, and they all went on to impress the spectators with their great mastery of the footbag craft. Vasek Klouda finished on top, followed by Lon Smith – who was my favorite – just because he seem to be the one having the most fun out there. Jim Penske and Nick Landes also offered some great moments, it’s all well worth watching again.

2017 World Footbag Championships – Non Freestyle or Net events  – results

Open 2-Square

1. Alex Dworetzky
2. Wiktor Debski
3. Adrian Dick
3. Tom Kotsakos
5. Dave Leberknight
5. Bruce Li
5. Sean Nyman
5. Aleksi Airinen
9. Bob Green
9. Anton Britting
9. Timo Aarnio
9. Jim Hogan

Open Singles Golf

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1. 2017 World Footbag Championships Open Singles Routines ALL – 20:06

2. 2017 World Footbag Championships Women Singles Routines ALL – 08:11

3. 2017 World Footbag Championships Freestyle Finals Open Circle Variety – 13:35

4. 2017 World Footbag Championships  Freestyle Finals Open Circle Density – 10:04

5. 2017 World Footbag Championships Freestyle Finals Trailer – 02:49

6. 2017 World Footbag Championships – Open Circle -Variety – SHORT teaser – 05:02