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Photos from Worlds 2005

Photos taken during the week in Helsinki This gallery has other related information; click here to see the related information.

 
First Circle at Worlds
This was the first circle I saw at worlds, featuring Jorden, Matt and Tom. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Mikko Lepist?
Mikko at the players meeting on the first night. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Elukka
Elukka (the animal) at the players meeting also. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Weird Guy
Some weird guy I don't know that looked stupid, so I took his picture. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Manly Man
Saw him when we were walking to the Kaivopuisto park on the 2nd day of worlds. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Kaivopuisto
Something that looks like footbag players in a park somewhere in Helsinki. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Kolo
Kolo and Tuukka in Kaivopuisto. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Players in Kaivopuisto
     
More players in Kaivopuisto
     
Shred Circles in Kaivopuisto
     
Shred Circle in Kaivopuisto
Canada, Finland, Poland, Russia and Czech representing. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Steve and Friends
     
Shiny
Steve had some shiny thingies, which he remembered to use throughout the week. Here you can see one used as a earring. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
The Net site
The net site on the first day of competition just before intermediate singles net first round . Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Players at the net site
It's raining and people are taking shelter under the roof, hoping that the rain would stop so the worlds can start. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Jukka arrives
Jukka Peltola arrives with his trusty transportation and brings the sunshine with him. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
German battery moped duel
     
a Finnish Circle at the Net site
     
4Square
     
Toni and Jonathan
     
Tuukka warming up
     
Josh "Josh" Benham
     
Steve and Mike competing
     
Freestylers at the Net site
     
Wolf spiking against Wulf
     
Tuukka ducking
     
Mads from Denmark
Mads showing off his armpit hair. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Diabolo on the street
As we left the net site I saw a man doing Diabolo on the street right where the cars usually drive. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Reni and Henrik
Reni from Switzerland and Henrik from Finland warming up for intermediate doubles. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Eric and Petteri
Eric, who's been living in Finland for the past year, and Petteri warming up against Reni and Henrik. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Intermediate Doubles Net starting
     
Peter Shunny and Bruce Guettich
Peter (left) and Bruce (right) warming up before open doubles. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Sotku eats breakfast
     
Open Doubles Net starting
featuring team USA shirts. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Open Doubles Net starting 2
featuring team Germany shirts. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Otso and Jyri
Otso (left) and Jyri (right) showing off their net uniform. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
PT & Johnny vs Tuukka & Janne
Tuukka and Janne played doubles against last years world champions and lost. The games were 11-2 and 11-7. Not bad for freestylers. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Jorden and Honza shredding it up
     
Mikko and Ole racing
Battery moped race. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Footbag Basketball
Jere Vainikka, Arkady Labonkov and Sami Hirvonen versus Juho "Super" Marjo, Alex Strassman, and Ken Somolinos. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Roaaar
     
Mads and Mads playing hockey
Mads and Mads playing table hockey at the judges meeting. This is how you get certified. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Private Lasse
Lasse came straight from the army to the net site. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Smile!
Jere and the director of the worlds documentary chatting at the Jagellonica restaurant. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Elukka sad
Elukka feeling sad because he only has half of his whisky left :(. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Ilkka trying to look important
     
Mika trying to look cool
     
Kolo and Eric in the sportshall
     
Mika broke his chair
     
Matthias feeling old
Matthias in the circle with Tina, Manu and Takumi. Average age of the circle 16,5. . Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Ken looking like he doesn't like having his picture taken
     
Ken and Tutta talking about languages
     
Brett and Matt eating
     
Ales Strassman
     
Alex and Ales
Alex Strassman (left) and Ales Zelinka (right). Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Tuukka trying to lick shiny balls
     
Samuel making coffee
Samuel and most of the swiss team lived in the cottage next to us at the Rastila Camping site. Samuel had some weird thing to show for every morning. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Peter Shunny spiking
Peter Shunny spiking hard with the Adidas Rod Laver net shoes. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Oskari doing a good job
     
Wolf vs Wulf again
the Battle of the Wolves. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Casual Shred at the Amfiteatteri
     
Big 3 qualification rounds
     
Still at Amfiteatteri
     
Reverse Amfiteatteri
     
Jere the day after the Video competition
Jere celebrated his success in the Video competition so hard that he woke up with a bike lock on his ankle. He's still looking for the key. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
My Shred:30
This picture pretty much sums up my shred 30. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
I saw a squirrel -Gir
a Squirrel checked out the swiss teams cottage for some breakfast. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Tuukka feeling happy
     
Me feeling hungry
     
Next Generation Freestyle Shoe
     
Shred at Linnanm?ki
     
More Shred at Linnanm?ki
     
Elukka looking Good
     
Vasek and Felix
the World Champion and the Bronze medalist helping with the cleaning of the Finals site. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Max and Tutta
Max and Tutta chilling at the amphiteather on the day after the finals. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Chilling at the Amfiteatteri
     
Manu's been partying too hard
     
Three Danes and a Finn
Chill Chill Chill. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Manu shredding Hip Hop style
     
Tuukka and Wilson
Tuukka and the world famous ball Wilson from the movie Cast Away. He was travelling with Tom Mosher. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Ninja Style
Team Japan showed up to chill and showed us some ninja skills. Photo by Ville Laakso.
     
Huh?
     
Tuukka trying to stack cups
His current record is 43 seconds! Photo by Ville Laakso.
     


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