While this article was originally posted 18th February 2011, this now marks fourteen years to the day since Bob Staton left us; without what Bob did alongside Lillis in the 90s and early 2000s, freestyle probably wouldn’t be here today.
Holden Bystry’s annual grass-roots anarcho-punk freestyle tournament, the Tucson Thunderdome, took place last weekend. Here’s the results!
The first-ever Kona Classic started off the 2025 events calendar on the 11th January, and the results are in!
Even in the mid-2000s, Tony Gale had strong thoughts on these things. He hasn’t changed much.
Who made the top of each division in the first ever WFSA Ranking for 2024? You’ll have to click through and read the article to find out.
The WFSA Ranking system is an attempt to bring structure and meaning to the international contest scene for the riders while also encouraging growth and more contests overall. Want to understand how it works? You’ll have to read this.
A lot of the F! Archive consists of “Thinkpieces” from Lillis, who, as the webmaster and founder of F!, often used it as a personal blog of sorts – making them unique little snippets of freestyle in the early 2000s .
It only seems right to start off the F! Archive with the earliest post we could find, covering the very first freestyle contest of this century. This is where the “freestyle revival” began – none of us would be here without this event.
