2010 IFPA World Footbag Championships Results and Video

Wow! What a worlds it was this year! It is so awesome to see the level of play going steadily up every year. I didn’t compete this year – it was nice to be able to sit on the sidelines and simply watch the routines without the pressure of being a competitor or a judge. While there were other events, the freestyle routines are my favorite and considered by many to be the standard by which “the” world champion is judged.

There were notable moments from each of the three rounds. Lon Smith had an incredible routine first round and it was the highlight of the day for me (Thanks to John Goode for the slightly shaky video) :

Unfortunately, Lon’s semifinal routine was not quite as solid, and the competition for making it to finals was extremely difficult!

Nick Landes (stitcher of the Fourkast 14 footbag, which, coincidentally is the footbag that Lon Smith used in his dropless first round routine) had an epic semi-finals routine:

Thanks to Evan Lovely for capturing and posting this video (and rooming with us at Worlds).

The singles finals routines were absolutely incredible. My good friend Peter Irish was the emcee for the event. Woman’s Champion Tina Aeberli dominated the field and clinched her 5th straight world title with this awesome routine:

A honorable mention goes out to Sunny Freeman Genz (co-owner of Freedom Footbags) for making it to the finals and placing 6th in the world.

The open finals pool was incredibly densely packed with talented shredders. Two players, David Clavens and Milan Benda had two of the best routines ever… All I can say is I’m very glad that I didn’t have to be the judge.

Second Place, David Clavens:

And the 2010 World Champion, Milan Benda (using a Bear Bag footbag):

I believe this is the first time in history a player with the last place seed managed to clinch the world title. Very well done!

Most of these videos are available at Evan’s YouTube channel where you can watch these videos in high definition (720p):

Nick Landes
David Clavens
Milan Benda

Complete results are available on footbag.org. Also there is a nice writeup of the event on the Fourkast website.