Dear FPA members, Just this past Monday, it was announced by the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) that the World Urban Games (WUG), originally scheduled to be hosted in Los Angeles, California USA, has been moved to Budapest, Hungary. The dates for the 2019 WUG in Budapest are 13-15 September (one week earlier […]
The committee would like to explain some of its preliminary changes to the judging system and to address some of the feedback we have received. We ask, however, that the community reserve final judgment until the new system undergoes further testing and until the players have experienced it themselves. We are still at the beginning […]
The FPA is currently accepting bids for both: the 2020 FPA Worlds (in 2 years) and the 2019 American Freestyle Open (next year). Those of you in South America (Medellin) and Canada (Toronto) should also consider applying for AFO! Below you can find the applications. Contact any of us on the FPA Board if you […]
All, We have gotten a great volunteer response from membership stepping up to help develop the recently approved judging system changes. In discussing the scope of effort and the number of volunteers, we will be able to set up a more robust system for implementation. We are setting up the process with both a […]
Ryan Young has offered the sport an opportunity to take advantage of his unique skill sets. Specifically, if FPA membership supports Ryan’s proposal, he and a newly created committee will develop a new FPA Judging System* that combines the best of current FPA Judging**, as listed in the competition manual, with the best parts of […]
If you want to get your hands on the new DIAL judging system which has been successfully used at Frisbeer Cup 2018 and which everybody talks about these days, now you can easily do it (and we encourage you to)! Ryan (who programmed this judging software from the scratch) prepared an easy 10-step instructions […]
Members, The FPA is required per it’s bylaws to have an election for specific positions each year. This year we have 2 positions open, the Competition Director and Education Director. While we have only one person running for each, we still are required to have this election. We are asking all members to vote […]
NEW FPA MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE All, The FPA has revised our membership structure for the upcoming year based on significant input and to motivate new membership. All members will be allowed to compete at Major and FPAW events. As part of the new membership structure, there will be no physical membership packages. A big benefit of […]
FPA is proposing a new European (and potentially also American) MAJOR tournament to fill in the gap years between EFO and AFO It will not be a regular FPA tournament, on the contrary, we want to support new approaches, encourage TDs to experiment and push the sport forward Read the detailed proposal below […]
Dear FPA members and other interested parties: As you may have noticed, there have been a series of surveys recently emerging regarding the FPAW 2017 in Bibione. Zanardi, the tournament director for FPAW 2017, released two surveys via email listservs and Facebook. The FPA Board of Directors emailed a Survey Monkey survey to current […]
All, Join me in congratulating the following folks who have been selected to Spread the Jam at the Africa Beach Games! Mehrdad Hosseinian, Daniel O’Neill, Benedicte Audet, Ayal Benin, Andrea Festi and Michal Maciolek All have strong credentials Spreading the Jam and are certain to bring more women and youth to the […]
African Beach Games Fellow jammers, here is some exciting and urgent news! WFDF has asked the FPA to help recruit new freestylers in Africa. They have identified the African Beach Games in Cape Verde https://www.sal2019.com/ June 14 – 23 as a good place to spread the jam! To help with the trip expenses, WFDF will provide $750 […]
After careful consideration, the Seattle crew has decided to change the venue for FPA Worlds in Seattle. The tournament will be held at Mitchell Activity Center. Website: https://www.facebook.com/scccmac/ Map: https://goo.gl/maps/XVnqcgw7PbUc9Urv6 This decision has been made for a few reasons. The first is the Mitchell Activity Center provides significantly more playable space. This is […]
