2004 Texas LD Shootout

The Armstrong boys spent the weekend in Houston for the first annual Texas LD Shootout, a long-distance boomerang tournament. Ace and I didn’t expect to be able compete with our lone phenolic LD boomerang, but we knew we’d have some fun. It was amazing to see so many boomerangs fly over 100 meters with a full return. Everyone was super-nice, especially after our only LD boom ended up in two pieces. Roy Dempsey and David Bacque loaned us very nice boomerangs that we were able to achieve personal-best throws with (Ace-69m, me-83m), and I ended up purchasing a super-high-tech model from the tournament champion and new Canadian record holder, Andrew Cross.  Hopefully with it, I’ll be joining the 100 Meter Club whenever I can make it to another tournament. Even though Ace  was the only junior  thrower, he represented himself quite well, and he definitely deserved to be Junior Champion. His pick from the prize table was a very nice “Anaconda” boomerang by Alberto Sabal of Mar del Plata, Argentina. My pick was a neat sport model that maker David Bacque says will go around 60 meters. I gotta find a decent field to try it out.

Though I didn’t take as many photos as I’d’ve liked, I have put up a gallery of the pictures I was able to take.