The verbosity, the jargon, the omission of summary or baseline scenarios to give you a mental framework for the game or the goals of a set of rules before diving into edge cases and specifics, it all drives me insane. If I ever have to consult the official rules, I anticipate no less than 10 minutes of pure frustration. Four team tournaments that take one day and three games are played should be the norm.
All weekend events should be special occasions. Passing a rigorous rules knowledge test should be required to participate in the college or club series. The game would be much better if we just had refs already.
You can have spirit of the game with refs. I like boring play. I like 50 throw zone offense points that run a cup ragged and score with a three yard pass. I like defenders who are such a presence that their man never gets the disc. My ultimate would never make it on Sports Center.
I would like to experiment with a penalty box. And then, in , that stopped. Rewind to and Ultimate Frisbee saved my life. The sport brought me almost all of the dearest friends I have today, it forced upon me a physical fitness which I would almost certainly have avoided otherwise, it took me to places I never would have visited both at home Leicester!
It brought me success within the sphere. I played for Great Britain for the first time in and for the last in And finally, in , the team that my friend and I started back in Manchester, became European champions. In fact I was pretty good at it. Now, as I approach my 40th birthday, what use is that?
I gave my years of focus and concentration to a sport which I became an expert in, and which I cannot play for much longer at all. Recently, reading fascinating books by or about Stewart Lee and Chris Morris , I recognised the sheer devotion they have given to their crafts, Lee on stage learning to read the swells and riptides of a live audience, Morris in the editing room, taking the scalpel to anything he could get his hands, ears or eyes on.
I realise that I will never again practice anything for 10, hours. Of all the things that I could have worked at, I chose one which could not sustain me forever. You have forgotten the other thing that you have spent hours practicing and which I think that you will practice for another before you finally manage to crack it….
No one in their right mind gives up all the hours for the glory — if they do they are missing out on the real point — developing the memories with your mates which you look back on.
Matt, I guess this is how you would feel if you suddenly had to give up swearing loudly in inappropriate situations. V interesting post and one which cannot be adequately replied to in a comment.
But here goes: 1. What would a taoist say about this? Life is best lived when you go with the flow. If you fight the flow you cause tension and unease. Your life as described is a great example of taoism. You flowed with the river and went with ultimate. It could just have easily been writing, but for whatever reason, it was Ultimate.
Regrets — no point having them. You made your decision. It was the right one at the right time. There's the basics. Anyway onto the gayness , ultimate players believe in "spirit" which is basically not being a knob when you're playing and being fair. It also involves not showing off when you win, something I'll never ever be able to do.
You also have to sit at the end of a game and talk about it GAY! There's no escaping it either, believe me I've tried. You then take turns to do "calls" which are basically mini games, sometimes they are fun but mostly they are shit. When playing a team who tried to cheat us I had to do the talk at the end of the game, I told them that we hated them, that is an ultimate frisbee no no Take calls out of ultimate frisbee, much more fun that way.
An absolute crap sport that sissy metrosexual guys who are useless at all other sports play, along with women, most of whom are again lacking in athletic ability. The only skills required in this game are the ability to throw a frisbee, and run.
In many cities in Canada this joke of a sport is monopolizing public fields that should be available for practices to those who play on teams in serious sports leagues soccer, rugby, football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football , etc. Ultimate frisbee teams have used the sexism card to monopolize these public fields, arguing that since their teams are mixed sex, they should get priority over the single sex teams in these other sports, the vast majority of which are male.
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