
F! Archive: The True Art of Freestyle
This article written by Mark Emmoth in 2002 is one of the more “academic” articles ever published on F!, and we’re glad to be able to drag it out of the archives.
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This article written by Mark Emmoth in 2002 is one of the more “academic” articles ever published on F!, and we’re glad to be able to drag it out of the archives.
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.
Even in the mid-2000s, Tony Gale had strong thoughts on these things. He hasn’t changed much.
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.
What is the WFSA? What are our goals? Where are we going? And why are we here? Some of those questions are answered here.
For a long time, the original F! Magazine was the only real source of freestyle-related news and articles in the world – and we’re dragging some of those historical articles out to republish them here for posterity.
After a lot of technical issues the WFSA website is back. We will work on the website to bring back all the old information as well as new content. Stay tuned!