Some of the more notable freestylers include: Hee Young Woo (Mr. Woo) of South Korea, Pawel Skora (Polish), Michal Rycaj (Polish), Beto (Mexican), Azun (Norwegian),Palle (Swedish), Reynoldz (Irish), Victor Rubilar,Kamalio. Four time Guinness World Record Holder[3] and John Farnworth, who appeared in Britain's Got Talent in 2009. Also in the same year of Britain's Got Talent (series 3) Uefa Training Grounds skill experts[4] Woody & Kleiny were the first freestyle double act to ever hit the programmes screens and the duo were branded by Simon Cowell as the Anty & Decky[5] of football juggling. Moreover, men are not the only ones capable of training this sports discipline. Since it started spreading all over the world more and more women have been taking up freestyle football. Some of the most notable women in the sport are current World Champion Kitti Szász (Hungarian) as well as runner up Mélody Donchet and North American non-competitive but high level freestyler Indi Cowie.
Freestyle has also become very popular in South America, with countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile forming freestyle crews of dozens or even hundreds of freestylers, some of the most important Latin Freestylers are Charly Iacono who got to the Semi finals of Talento Argentino, an Argentinian talent show, and Cristian "Rocky" Mayorga who came third in the South Africa 2010 Red Bull Street Style world finals.
There are several freestylers who have had an astonishing impact like the famous upon influencing the varying styles within freestyle football. Perhaps most notably is Rickard "Palle" Sjolander, nicknamed the "godfather of airmoves." Palle invented many lower body tricks which are now used abundantly by the majority of freestylers. For many years, Palle pushed the progress of lower body freestyle. However, around 2007, this role was taken over by another legend within freestyle: Pawel Skora from Poland. Since 2010, the progression within lowerbody freestyle has been led by a group of around 10 "limit pushers." These are Pawel Skora, MP,Hasip, Ars, Mirko, Gunther, Akim, LKR, Ethan, Memo and more.
A lot has to be said about the power of the hit movie In the Hands of the Gods which is the only film ever made surrounding the talent of football freestylers. The film followed five lads (Mikey Fisher, Paul Wood, Sami Hall, Danny Robinson and Jeremy Lynch) on a journey of a lifetime in search of arguably the best football player of all time Diego Maradona. The film became the largest release of a documentary ever in the UK, forth biggest in the world when it came to screens on its opening weekend, was on show at the Cannes film festival and had a red carpet Leicester Square premier which was green AstroTurf for the boys.[6] I started freestyling when i turned 15 and tried a lot to be able to do simple tricks'. I first tried to do ATW and i became perfect in that trick and i tried a lot of tricks' even i don't know how i am involved in this world of freestyle but i love to be here and rock the world !!!!
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