I mailed your reward today. You will be receiving your reward next week. Thank you for your support of Freestyle Jam Camp. May others back your projects like you have backed mine. Happy 2010.

Tita

Freestyle Jam Camp was a success! I thank you again for your contributions and words of encouragement.

News flash: I promised that I will organize another Freestyle Jam in 2011 so stay tuned. Maybe you can attend and make it that much more special. Remember- Freestyle Jam Camp is open to kids from ages 7 on up - that means you : )

Did you notice that there were last minute pledges raising the amount well over $ 1,000!?
These pledges came from checks via mail, donations at Freestyle Jam Camp, and through PayPal.
You won't see their names as backers on Kick Starter so here they are: Carsten, Beth, Marie, Rick, Alfred, Eileen, Ron, Erin, and Brad.

That comes to 27 backers believing in this project. How cool is that?

I will be reporting this information to the Freestyle Players' Association as they will be matching up to $1,000. If you haven't already checked them out, here's the link to their home page: http://freestyledisc.org

Sometime soon I will write a Freestyle Jam Camp report and copy you on it.

Have a wonderful 2011 and I wish for you that other people believe in your ideas like you believed in mine.

Sincerely -

Tita

Sure - Freestyle Jam Camp starts with an idea. But it becomes successful with the help and support of many people like you:

Amy Schiller, Carolyn Yabe, Christopher Horn, Cindy Kruger, Danny Cameranesi, Dave Lewis, Dave Schiller, Freddie Haft, Gregg Hosfeld, Jake Gauthier, John Ahart, Lori Daniels, Mark Horn, Mike Miller, Ray Trevino, Stacy McCarthy, and Dan “Stork” Roddick for sharing their valuable freestyle, Disc Dog, and Double Disc Court skills;

Carsten, Marie, Rick, Alfred, Eileen, Beth, Ron, Patti, Dave, Carrie, Heidi, Jesse, Lawrence, Z, Tony, Jim, Paul, Arthur, Bill, Craig, Ken, Mandy, Bethany, Conrad, Tami, and John for donating to the Kids’ Kick Starter Scholarship fund;

Arthur Coddington for the Kick Starter invitation that made fund raising successful;

Beth Verish for providing housing and transportation;

Bill Wright (www.wrightlife.com) for providing the FPA Membership 2010 kits;

Brian Boate for advertising on Craigslist;

Carolyn Yabe (chdesigns@comcast.net) for designing this year’s Freestyle Jam Camp Logo;

Dan and June Mangone (www.dtworld.com) for providing discs at discount prices;

Danny Yarnell (fris_B_dude@live.com) for providing jamming nails;

FPA Board of Directors (www.freestyledisc.org) for sponsoring 40 FPA memberships and for matching funds up to $1,000 raised through Kick Starter;

Freestyle Magazine and Jason McGlade (http://freestylemagazine.co.uk/blog/buy-online/) for promoting/blogging Freestyle Jam Camp in an article written by Carolyn;

Gina Sample (www.sampledesign.com) for providing Verde Eco Bags;

Jim Palmeri for donating discs for fund raising;

John Baldwin, (webmaster) for designing and maintaining the website;

John Kehrbaum, for being an incredibly supportive husband,

Jim & Rick Kroh at Kroh's Screen Graphics for printing up the cool T-shirts;

Mark and Susie Horn for providing housing and transportation;

Matt Gauthier (www.heinsville.com) for providing jamming nails;

Rick Sader (www.loneeagledigital.com) for donating stickers and a banner;

Sam Ferrans (www.herodiscusa.com) for providing goodies for fund raising;

Volunteers Annette Chacon, Benny Wong, Christi Ann Franck, & Erin Hart;

Z Weyand for volunteering to digitally document the event;

and,
the Freestyle Jam Campers for coming together to learn something new, fun, & healthy.

Thank you,

Tita Ugalde

With one week left before Freestyle Jam Camp things are starting to look a lot like Christmas!

A renowned disc collector is donating a Space Saucer plus other discs from his collection to auction/donate/sell. How about that?

The t-shirts are ready to be picked up on Monday, offers of help are coming in, a box from Herodiscs arrived with more disc related donations, name tags are being printed out, my living room is piling up with the discs that will be given out to the kids, and the instructors are fired up and ready!

Did I mention that the instructors are coming from as far away as Florida, Oregon, Sacramento, San Diego, and Michigan?

And , did I mention that there are 23 instructors total? And 50+ "campers"?

Yes- it's turning out to look a lot like Christmas!

I've done it. My goal was to target a group of kids that need options and alternatives for having fun and I met my goal.

As of today I've registered 30+ kids for Jam Camp. This is very exciting because these kids come from an impoverished area in Los Angeles where some are not able to go outside at night because it's too dangerous or there is no play area nearby. It also means that the families will need to travel to an unknown location about 10 miles from their neighborhood or - from a Spanish only speaking neighborhood to a mostly English speaking neighborhood.

I've spoken with the parents and they are really happy to be able to take their kids to learn something new, fun, and healthy.

Personally I think that the parents are as excited as the kids about Jam Camp.

Thanks for your donations and good wishes.

Now we need at least one day of good So. Cal weather!