Eleonora Imazio

I got to know freestyle frisbee in summer 2003 when Fabio started playing. At the beginning, I wasn't really enthousiastic about it because I've never been a sporty type and Fabio kept on practicing all day long (it's not a metaphore, it's the truth). By the way, in September we went to FPAW in Rimini and, as I wasn't playing, I became the unofficial camerawoman of the event. At FPAW, I started understanding what the community was like and something began to change. In spring 2004, Steve Hays and John Titcomb came to Trieste: that was the time when I started playing and my first delay was celebrated with great enthousiasm and a bottle of beer each. This enthousiasm was so strong that I started playing more seriously even if I didn't have much time to practice.
In September 2004, I participated in my first tournament (EFC) in intermediate division and in December I just jumped into the pro division at Rome Hat tournament; this event marked my freestyle frisbee path. At the train station I couldn't stop crying: I didn't want to leave, for the first time I strongly felt the community spirit. Now, every time a tournament finishes and I have to greet everybody, I feel a bit sad because I know the people I'm leaving, probaly for a long time, belong to a special community: freestle frisbee community.