Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

Overall Standings – http://modified.in/footbag/viewtopic.php?p=450568#450568
Video 1 – Bsos 3 http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/bsos-3-results-video/
Video 2 – The Luns http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/shred-global-event-2-video-released/
Video 3 – FDS http://www.shredglobal.com/archive/shred-global-event-3-results-announced/

As a tribute to the one of the founding fathers, Flipsider.com, Shred Global is happy to announce the 4th and final event of the First Annual Shred Global Footbag Season. The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST April 20th. The concept of this event is to show your versatility with the 4 main sets (each toe and each clipper) and then give you a 5th trick shot at something huge!

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) The final points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST April 20th.
2) The combo (5-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the combo) and finished with a hand catch after the final trick.
3) The only rules is that the first 4 tricks must be set in the following order with the fifth being your choice
trick 1) Toe
trick 2) Flipside Toe
trick 3) Clipper
trick 4) Flipside Clipper
trick 5) and surface / set
–The Flipside designation meaning it is done from the other side then the original for the sake of this contest–
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity , cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on any of this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions, and may the best contestant win!

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

And here we go … Halfway through the inaugural Shred Global Season with everything still up for grabs.

Official Info can be found here:
Current Standings
Video 1 – Bsos 3
Video 2 – The Luns

So the third event has come to fruition, and in association with Freedom Footbags, Fourkast, and BombFootbags, are pleased to announce “Flying – Ducking – Spinning”!!!

The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST February 12th

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST February 12th.
2) The combo (3-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the combo) and finished with a hand catch after the third trick.
3) The original set can be from anywhere you want, But the first trick must be a jumping contact or stall (with the bag leaving your foot before you hit the ground), the second trick must have a Ducking, Diving, Weaving, Zulu element, and the third trick must have a Spinning or Inspinning Element.
EX. Drop to any surface>(Trick ending on flyer)>(Trick that includes a duck)>(Trick that includes a spin)>hand catch
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity (Show me your Zulu and your Inspinning), cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions!

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

This is the video everyone has been waiting for, as it reveals the winners of Event #2: the Luns.

The point of the contest was to see who could catch and set from unusual surfaces the best.

The placing of all the submissions is in order from last to first…… so ENJOY!!

Big thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the prizes:
Freedom Footbags
Fourkast Footbags
Bomb Footbags

And to the Judges for taking the time to judge all the submissions:
Milan Benda
Mark Monistere
Jeremy O’Wheel

And to Eric Chang for the video!

With money on the line, and first place in the Shred Global Season standings, 22 freestylers took to the challenge of having the best 3 trick combo, with the first and third trick being the same trick started on different feet. This video, shot in order from lowest point score to highest point score, shows how the competition panned out.

Enjoy! (And please leave comments on the youtube video as well as this page to show your support for events like this!!!!)

After the awesome reception to event number 1, Shred Global is pleased to announce the opening of event #2: the Luns. The Luns stands for Link of UNusual Surfaces.

The deadline for this event will be 11:59 PM PST January 1st

The prizes being awarded for this event are:
1) points towards the $500 grand prize given to the person with the most points after all 4 events
2)$50 to the winner of the event
3) a Hania bag.
4) some various sponsored items from Freedom Footbags, Fourkast Footbags, and Bomb Bags.

The rules are as follows.
1) One submission video per person, sent to submissions@shredglobal.com on or before 11:59 PM PST January 1st.
2) The link (2-tricks) must be started from a drop (with warmups kicks allowed prior to the first trick in the link) and finished on the stall of the second trick (No Hand catch is needed on this one)
3) The original set can be from anywhere you want, but the first catch cannot be done to a toe stall, a clipper stall, or an Osis position. Anywhere else is legal. (EX: a legal combo would be clipper -> stepping Heel -> ducking outside)
4) the judging criteria will be Creativity (having to set off one of the UNS catches should be fun to watch), cleanliness, and of course difficulty of the trick, with all three having the same importance for the sake of this event.
5) Any questions on this please email to submissions@shredglobal.com

Have fun guys, we look forward to all of the great submissions!

Well here we go folks. It is time to get this season started, and as previously announced we will be holding a 4 event season where the winner gets 500 dollars cashola! Aside from that, there will be numerous prizes handed out for each event, along with prizes for people who place high in the final standings.

The prizes for this event as of now (but possibly to grow between now and the end of this event)
1) Points in the season standings for the $500 prize
2) $50 to the winner
3) A Hania bag to the winner (with a letter of congratulations from the Footbag Princess herself)
4) A Fourkast Shirt / Pair of Shorts to the second place contestant
5) A Freedom Footbag Shirt to the third place contestant

The first event will be the BSOS 3. This event be judged on on three factors by objective judges of our choosing.
1) The cleanliness of the combo.
2) The creativity of the combo.
3) The difficulty of the combo.

The Rules for the BSOS 3 are as follows..
1) The combo must start from a drop and end on a catch
2) The only tricks allowed after the drop are the 3 moves of the combo (Warmup kicks/stalls allowed after drop)
3) The Combo must consist of any trick sandwiched between a trick done on each side
-Trick A > Trick B > Trick A other side- is the correct format
[EX.] Clipper > Ripwalk > Flip Clipper would be a valid entry
4) One Entry per contestant will be submitted by Email before December 1, 2010 to Submissions@shredglobal.com along with your Name and postal address (for prize sending)

So lets to it guys, we wanna see some creative, flashy, innovative combos!!!

Location: San Diego
Website: www.shredglobal.com

Here it is…. the next contest from the Shred Global team to you!

As some unexpected funding has come through, we are able to hold another contest for all you avid browsers!
Shred Global has plans to unveil a new site design, along with some new clothes for the Footbag society to purchase (or should they not be purchased… giveaways yeehaw!)

This contest has 2 sides, with each side having one winner! The winners will receive a bag of their choice from any of the top stitchers, clothes from Shred Global or Fourkast or Kolo sport, or a rubber chicken…

Here are the Rules!

1) the contest ends June 1st, 2010

2) each person is allowed to submit one slogan and 3 pictures during the contest!

3 – a) Slogans / Mottos (that symbolize the company’s involvement with Freestyle Footbag) will be submitted to the Facebook page of Shred Global, under the Discussion Tab (Shred Global Contest #3 (ends June 1st).

3 – b) Logos / Pictures containing the word “Shred Global” or “SG” or “ShredGlobal” will be submitted to Editor@shredglobal.com

4) Have fun, get creative, and we look forward to browsing all the submissions.

Past winners:
Jay Boychuk (contest 1 & 2)
Ben Skaggs (contest 2)
Donovon Thakur (contest 2)
Matt Cross (Contest 1)
Mark Monestere (Contest 1)
Mike Angeski (Contest 1)
John goode (Contest 1)
Brian Sherril (Contest 1)

Name: Scott Davidson
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://footbagfreestyle.blogspot.com/

As a long-time event director in the sport of footbag, I have hosted events every year for the past 25 years! During that time I have come to a few realizations that I am going to outline on this blog, over several postings.

Promotion vs. Production…
As an event director, you will need to distinguish the differences between Promotion vs. Production.
Promotion happens on several levels, and I will be addressing each of these in future posts as well. Promotion generally happens in advance of an event, where Production mostly happens ‘during’ the event.

Promotion is easily broken into three parts,
1) Promoting to the athletes to get the competitors to show up.
2) Promoting to the sponsors to offset the costs and hopefully be able to make money on the event.
3) Promoting to Media to make the sponsors happy, and attract spectators to the event.

Production of the event refers to the actual ‘doing’ of the event, the leg-work per se. Setting up nets (and lines, etc…), sound systems, tents, banners, and all the things that make the event run smoothly, once the event gets started. Most Production items happen on the days before an event, during an event and for a day or two afterward. Some things that are always on my event production checklist are:
Having forms ready to be filled out, having equipment ready to be set up, loading the van (sometimes renting a van). Think about what you need to do AT the event and that all falls under “Production” of an event.

It is also a good idea to send a summary report to all your sponsors individually, letting them know how well the event went, focusing on how well you marketed their brand… how did that particular sponsor benefit from sponsoring your event. I’m not sure if the follow up falls under Production or Promotion, but it still is good form to complete.

Shred notes: 3/1/10
Still not at 100% but getting better. Had some great long strings. Skooled a wide variety of trix but nothing spectacularly unique. Lots of x-body rakes. Used new warm-up strings and got warm really fast.

We are looking for every word, phrase, or term used in the Freestyle Footbag Community. What we are looking for is to create the central database for freestyle nomenclature (whoa big word) on the internet. Since everyone does not play together (they obviously should) we are attempting to bridge the language gap between the west side, east side, and all other sided shredder across the land.

For prizes, we may have a:
legendary Hania Bag leftover from our first competition,
a Macro bag from the extremely talented Marco Hartig,
some really sharp Fourkast Footbag T-shirts,
Some awfully designed Shred Global T-shirts,
and a gaggle of other useful stuff!

The rules are as follows.

1) head to this page and look at the current list of words and phrases! Freestyle Footbag VOCAB Page

2) You are allowed to add one Vocabulary word plus definition (as a comment on the vocab page) per day. You may also attempt to change an existing definition if it appears to be wrong.

3) On March 25th, you can add up to three vocabulary words plus definitions (as a comment on the vocab page) per day in case you started late.

4) The Winner(s) (from 1 to 5 depending on the amount submitted) will be based on the amount of usable vocabulary words and definitions added to the page!

Any questions? email Editor@shredglobal.com

Paulo Castro just completed editing the submissions he received for the three contests he ran. There were some really good submissions, and the winners will be announced once the judging is completed. Here are the videos!

CONTEST EXTENDED TO MARCH 1ST

The most original, the most difficult, and the most dedicated.

From now until March 1st, 2010 Shred Global Will be holding a online competition, where the winners will win one of three hand stitched Hania bags, (considered by many to be one of the best stitchers in the world right now).

Here is a picture of the bags that will be distributed to the winners!

a picture of the three bags to be given in the Shred Global contest #1

The rules are as follows.

1) All videos must be sent to editor@shredglobal.com in a downloadable format for review before February 1st, 2010, (please contain name, contact information, city/country, and the name(s) of the submitted trick(s)

2) Each video can contain as many tricks as you would like, and there is no limit on the amount of videos you send in, but each trick needs to be done by itself (no strings allowed – serve / set / trick)

3) The three winners will be decided by the Shred Global staff (all 3 of us) with the deciding factor being Originality, Difficulty, and most Dedicated.

3a. – The person who submits the most original trick (spinning sole delay Mr. Moir ?) will be declared a winner!

3b. – The person who submits the most difficult trick (cleanliness of said trick will matter) will be declared a winner!

3c – The person who submits the most tricks that are not found here Shred Global Trick Vault will be declared a winner.

Shred till your dead fellas! and have fun with it! We are looking forward to everyone’s submissions and cannot wait to judge them all

Any questions? email Editor@shredglobal.com

-By submitting you are allowing Shred Global to post your video on the site for other shredders to learn from-