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Photos by Fabio Vinciguerra (161)

Photos by Tom Leitner

Event Review

Frisbee freestylers from Italy, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and America played and competed and battled the wind on the beach at Corallo Beach in Ostia at the 2009 Italian Open.

Saturday the wind was perfect and the level of play in the Open Pairs semifinal soared to new heights with several teams hitting remarkable routines, including Tom Leitner/Edoardo Favorini (US/Roma), Luca Mazzucato/Claudio Massaro (Roma), Lorenzo Apriani/Andrea Rimatori and Mark Regalbuti/Fernando Botrugno (US/Roma).

On Sunday the wind gusted to 20-25 knots during the finals but the teams battled well and the defending champs Edoardo Favorini and Tom Leitner took the title in the Open Pairs division.

In the co-op division Luca Mazzucato, Mark Regalbuti teamed with Edoardo to win the Co-op title in what turned out to be the routine of the day.

Event Videos

Mark, Luca and Edoardo's winning co-op routine

Tom & Edoardo's winning pairs routine

Video montage from Saturday

About Freestyle

The foundation of the sport of freestyle frisbee is based on what freestylers call 'moves'. A move is usually a series of tricks which can involve spinning, tipping, brushing and rolling the spinning disc. These moves are combined together to make a 'combo' (combination) of moves. Each 'combo' receives a difficulty and artistic rating. Combos can include 2 or more players passing the disc back and forth or just one player doing a solo.

Freestyle 'combos' are also intregrated with the music as part of the routine's choreography which can add to the artistic rating of the performance. In the finals the routine last 4 to 5 minutes.

The challenge is for teams to try to do the most difficult moves with the fewest drops while presenting a professional and entertaining choreography to judges and the audience.

Open Pairs Final

1) Tom Leitner - Edoardo Favorini - 18.8
2) Lorenzo Apriani - Andrea Rimatori - 18
3) Fernando Botrugno - Mark Regalbuti - 16
4) Luca "Moxie" Mazzucato - Claudio Massaro - 15.4
5) Manuel Cesari - Fabio Percario - 15
T6) Danilo Torzolini - Andrea Stazi - 14.7
T6) Fabrizio De Rossi - Paolo Cippo - 14.7
8) Raffaele Pilla - Marco De Lucia - 14.6
9) Paolo Mirabelli - Serge Marconi - 14.2
10) Andrea Marciano - Davide Bianchi - 11.6
11) Francesca Cherici - Fabio Vinciguerra - 10.1
12) Fabrizio Nino - Lorenzo Modarelli - 9.6

Open Co-op Final

1) Luca "Moxie" Mazzucato - Edoardo Favorini - Mark Regalbuti - 16.3
2) Paolo Mirabelli - Manuel Cesari - Tom Leitner - 15.9
3) Lorenzo Apriani - Andrea Rimatori - Fabio Percario - 15.1
4) Fabrizio De Rossi - Fernando Botrugno - Marco De Lucia - 12.9
5) Danilo Torzolini - Serge Marconi - Claudio Massaro - 11.2
6) Andrea Stazi - Paolo Cippo - Francesca Cherici - 10.8
7) Andrea Marciano - Davide Bianchi - Raffaele Pilla - 9.6
8) Fabrizio Nino - Lorenzo Modarelli - Fabio Vinciguerra - 8.7

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Open Pairs Semis

1) Tom Leitner - Edoardo Favorini - 23.6
2) Lorenzo Apriani - Andrea Rimatori - 22.8
3) Luca "Moxie" Mazzuccato - Claudio Massaro - 21.6
4) Fernando Botrugno - Mark Regalbuti - 19
5) Manuel Cesari - Fabio Percario - 18.9
6) Paolo Mirabelli - Serge Marconi - 18.6
7) Danilo Torzolini - Andrea Stazi - 17.7
8) Fabrizio De Rossi - Paolo Cippo - 16.6
9) Raffaele Pilla - Marco De Lucia - 13.3
10) Andrea Marciano - Davide Bianchi - 12.9
11) Francesca Cherici - Fabio Vinciguerra - 11.8
12) Fabrizio Nino - Lorenzo Modarelli - 10.2

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Links:

Freestyle frisbee web sites:


http://www.fristail.it/ (Non-profit Association for Freestyle Frisbee in Italy)

http://freestyledisc.org// (The FPA is a non-profit, player run Association promoting freestyle frisbee around the world)

http://www.ciakkauakkateam.com/ ('Ciakka Uakka'Italian Freestyle Frisbee Team - available for shows)

http://www.freestyle-frisbee.com/ (freestyle-frisbee.com - news, instructions, photos and videos about freestyle)

http://www.shrednow.com/ (shrednow.com - online freestyle community)

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Group photo (by Photo by Fabio Vinciguerra)

Tom Leitner - Flying Bad Attitude catch (by Photo by Fabio Vinciguerra)

Trophy presentation (by Photo by Fabio Vinciguerra)

Mark, Edoardo & Luca (by Photo by Fabio Vinciguerra)

Audience (by Photo by Fabio Vinciguerra)