F! Archive: Paderborn BBQ Contest 2001
With 2025’s Paderborn BBQ Contest right around the corner, I thought it was worth digging through the F! Archive to look at how the world’s longest-running freestyle contest got started…
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Results: World Freestyle 2025
The biggest freestyle event of 2025 took place in Brandenburg, Germany between the 5th and the 8th of June – click through to find out who your world champions are for this year!
F! Archive: What’s in a name?
Lillis Åkesson and Angela Lamadrid give some thought on how you should name new tricks back in 2004.
F! Archive: How do I get sponsored?
In this article from 2001, Bill Robertson tackles a question that young kids have been asking seasoned skaters since the dawn of time.
F! Archive: The brilliance with freestyle skateboarding
Rijal Mbamba shares his thoughts on the nature of freestyle skateboarding back in 2003.
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.
F! Archive, 2011: Bob Staton, founder of the WFSA dies at age 68
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.
F! Archive: The Importance Of Trick Names
Even in the mid-2000s, Tony Gale had strong thoughts on these things. He hasn’t changed much.
Introducing the WFSA Ranking System
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.
F! Archive: The Roots
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 .