Manually Entered Results
Novice Freestyle:
1. Kaiser Ahmad
2. Dave Vermillion
3. Bill Kling
4. Amos Schumacher
Intermediate Freestyle:
1. Scott Fitzmorris
2. Jim McCoppin
3. Ian Brill
4. Jonathan Jessen
Open Freestyle
1. Eric Wulff
2. Tu Huge
3. Steve Goldberg
This is the first of a new, annual professional footbag event in New York City!
Hosted by the
New York Footbag Association, this event will take
place in beautiful Central Park on Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29, 1997.
Sanctioned by the International Footbag Advisory Board, this prize-
money event will be attended by professional footbag net and freestyle players
from around the U.S. and Canada.
First-time and intermediate competitors in all events are welcome to compete
(see all the information below) or just come and kick it on the sidelines!
This is a must-see event in NYC!
Event Details:
The freestyle site is located in, and in front of the Bandshell, next to
Summerstage, at about 68th Street. The nets will be set up on either
side of the mall, which is just south of there.
REGISTRATION is Friday night (June 27, 1997)"
Quality Hotel 5th Avenue (3 East 40th St.)
Steve Goldberg's room (ask at front desk)
7-10pm
Hotel phone: 212-447-1500
Directions to hotel:
-- From the Great white North:
87 to the Palisades Interstate Parkway to the George Washington Bridge.
Take the Henry Hudson Parkway to 42nd street; the exit is on the left.
Take 42nd to 5th avenue, turn onto fifth, travel two blocks to 40th and
turn left. The hotel is right there.
-- From the South:
Take 95 to the Lincoln Tunnel and you're on 42nd street, on the west
side. Follow your nose or read the other directions.
The toll is $4 US.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
Setup and extremely late registration at the site at 9am.
Net starts at 10am, freestyle at 11am.
If things go quickly (which they won't considering the heat)
then we'll start later than that Sunday.
Right now the Quality Hotel 5th Avenue is offering the best deal
($109 per night)in NYC. This is for an indeterminate time so call and
make reservations now, at (212) 447-1500.
The address is 3 East 40th street. That's just east of Fifth Avenue, a
block away from the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Created Saturday, March 29th, 1997, 09:41am (PST); last
update Thursday, August 7th, 1997, 11:30am (PDT).