Partners:: Greg Nelson,Jay Moldenhauer, Tom Lasher, Josh Casey,
Joe Eagan, but over the last 23 years Ive done shows with about 30 different
folks
Sponsors:: we sponser ourselves, although Wham-o gave us a van
in 1977 & Discraft used to give us givaways for our shows. Right now we're on
our own
Occupation:: Booking & performing freestyle disc demos as well
as a few footbag & snakeboard demos ( my full time partner, Greg Nelson is also
the 4 time world pairs footbag freestyle champ, & a good bet to finish high in
the standings this year in singles
Home town:: Detroit Michigan
Current Home:: Milan, MI moving to Manchester, MI hopefully
this summer (want to buy a nice house in the country just outside of Ann
Arbor?)
Preferred Disc:: Sky-Styler from the batch that didn't break
(the last batch we got was terrible, but Jim was nice enough to dig out a
couple dozen of the old ones)
Type of Nails:: homemade from crazy glue container
Adhesion Method:: crazy glue
Mentors:: Stork, Tom Lasher, Jay Moldenhauer, Bill Wright,
Harvey Brandt, Dave Jewell, Pete Hembro,Skippy,Tom Hemmer,Craig Simon, Jim
Kenner, Ken Westerfield,Larry Imperiale, Deaton Mitchell, really anybody who is
cool enough to appreciate the fun of jamming oops, I forgot John Jewell & Gordie Howe.
Strangest thing you've seen at a Freetyle Event:: An unnamed
person hanging upside down from a tree doing a bongi jump before competing, but
seriously, after doing as money shows as I've done not much strikes me as
strange in this world
Notable accomplishments:: Seeing the smiling faces of literally
hundreds of thousands of kids over the past 20 years, ? feeling that I was
hopefully instrumental in getting some of them inspired to get off of their
butts & get out & get some exercise (hopefully with a disc)
Favorite move::: long series of various consecutive tips into a
flying constorktion catch (although there's nothing like a full or half court
hoop to bring the house down at a basketball half-time)
Movie:: don't watch many movies, but probably The Gods Must Be
Crazy
Food:: cubed, well done, fried tofu, veggies & brown rice, with
a handful of blue green algea
Kitchen Utensil:: sharp knife, juicer, beer glass
Song:: tough call here: Take The A Train
jah: Not to take it very seriously: play time is VERY important to me, my
wife, family (no kids) & friends are very important to me, & as I get older