I found a new blog today, The Ultimate Shubbard, written by Stephen Hubbard. I was actually planning to do a writeup on this post, which I’ll probably come back to in some way. But then I saw the latest post from this Sunday, started watching the first video and instantly realized that the music was “ripped off” from Jason Lippman’s remix of the Ultivillage original that I can’t find right now.. Then scrolled down a bit and found the next video to feature the same soundtrack. And after that, Jason’s remix. Stephen couldn’t be more correct in stating that it’s “the best song for a highlight video”.
Last year I wrote a piece on “Videos and the lack of good ones“. It was more trash talk than anything. Of course there are good ultimate clips out there. Ultivillage is a good source, but not free for all. Back in the day when I made videos, I tried to connect as much of the action to the music, to make it fit, just like Jason. In the beginning the raw material was shite because of bad cameras (not mine..), but it picked up in the end. I’ll do some prowling for new great stuff, but I’d be happy to get tips from everyone. So what’s your favorite Ultimate clip?
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Yesterday I posted a link to the Facebook-group “1,000,000 for Ultimate in the Olympics”. Not that I think it will happen anytime soon (or at all..), but Christian over at Ffindr! pretty much killed the hope for the near future (read “at least 10 years”). But it’s not like disagree with him, more the contrary. I think we’re bound to World Games for a long time, if we don’t get kicked out. As I see it, there are a number of World Games-sports that should be banned long before Ultimate. Billiards, Body Building, Boules, Bowling, Casting, Dancing, Life Saving, Roller Sports, Tug of War and Water Skiing? I’m laughing.
Tommynomad from New Zeeland got a sane view on the olympic discussion over at Ultitalk:
Ultimate doesn’t need the Olympics to be great, international, and top-level: it already is, and growing. Maybe someday the IOC will come to us. I’m not holding my breath, but I hope when the day comes, we turn them and their anachronistic ways down flat.
I’m not holding my breath either. It’s their loss, I say.
By the way, No Breaks seems to have come to a halt. Too bad.
In the Swedish Ultimate community, there’s a new actor on the scene: Swediscsport (in Swedish). Daniel Engdahl from Nora (close to my hometown Örebro) is behind it. If he’s on a ultimate team, I guess he’s on either KFUM Örebro or Frövi. Don’t recognize him off the back of my hand.. They hope to become the new meeting point for people that are into disc sports, mainly Ultimate and Disc golf at the moment. We’ll see how that turns out. At the moment, they just got two members. Hope it grows beyond that.
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We can just wish for the same weather as back in 2007. Paganello is a week earlier this time around, so hopefully it’s only a degree colder or so. The forecast for next Thursday (it’s as far as The Weather Channel dares to tread) is rain and 9C/49F. The Norwegians at yr.no thinks it’ll be partly cloudy and 6C/42F. Swedish SMHI says cloudy and 5C/41F. For first time in a while I hope the Norwegians win.
It seems like the Paga site got a bit of the Cut & Paste Hick-up. I wonder if there’s something else that should be there or if it’s just a filler. Either way, the 100 teams from 25 countries are probably just as eager to get to the beach as me. The open division contains 40 teams from 13½ countries (the half category being “International”). I recognize most of the teams from previous years and I’d prefer not playing against UTI, 45 Giri, FSL, Tailspin or Stinks at all, just for the sake of variation. The teams I WOULD like to play again is:
Super Mannschaft (three is a charm or three strikes?)
MILF (beat us in 2007, love at second sight?)
Black Panthers (same as MILF)
Inglorious Basterds (to get a speed check of the Polish Ultimate scene)
Since we’ll have Alex from Ukraine on the team and he’s the only one (as far as I know) with a connection to another team, I guess we will cheer a bit extra for “Dyki Krali” in the womens division.
The lineup is pretty much final now. There’s Swedish west coast, east coast, Bible belt, winner-of-Swiss-nationals almost-Swedish-ex-pat, Paga Spirit winners, Titanium rods, fiance and fiancees, fathers, ze Germans, Canadians ey, Colt .45-players and critics. Will we have an Italian wedding this time around??
To finish off, yes, Sweden and Switzerland are different countries! We got hard-to-sell car companies and Ericsson mobile phones while Switzerland got chocolate, cheese and great slopes. You might wonder why one would stick around up here instead of hitting the European mainland? The rest of the country seems to suck when it comes to government, opening hours, etc. Someone to contradict me?
A Stockholm Syndromes website update is en route.. Hopefully better looking and easier to maintain than the present..
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Another edition of Winter Trophy has ended. Our performance was pretty piss-poor. Lost every game on Saturday. Against Carnegie, I probably played one of my worst games ever. We played Frizzly Bears (L:11-13), Viksjöfors (L:4-13), Frövi (L:9-12), Carnegie (L), Mönsterås (W:13-(something less than 8)) and Farmers (W:12-11). We lost 5 consecutive points to Farmers before winning..
Viksjöfors (SWE) won the open final against Karhukopla (FIN), and Viima (FIN) won the women’s final against The Animals (GB).
I must commend the Winter Trophy TO’s for the whole setup with the accommodation/dinner/party included in the player fee. Apparently the Saturday buffet kept running out of chicken, but I never really suffered from it since I had sushi somewhere completely different.
No Breaks #6 saw the light of day around February 5th. I’m bringing my LED discs to Paga for sure. The Thursday night party with free pasta and red wine wouldn’t be the same without LED discs!
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Precis sett gnaget vinna supercupen på Råsunda. Jag har aldrig gillat råttorna och nu ogillar jag dem än mer. Annars har jag idag hunnit med ett löppass med gubbarna i Skatås på svår isbana.se. Efter det fick visa kortet brinna lite på stan. Dags att bygga upp en riktigt smutt garderob nu. Ikväll skall jag och [...] […]
Wow. My first tourney on "grass" (Tempe in January = a lot of brown) since Labor Day 2007. W0w again. Lots goes through my head. Sure, I've played plenty of games since then, but not that much. Winter and Summer leagues with a stellar record of course, but probably never more than 5 straight hours of play. This is two days. And while there was […]
xEUCF was simply wonderful. Quote "The most civilised tournament ever seen in the UK". Sure the weather was a big part of that, back to back cloudless days tend to have a positive effect on the mood of a tournament. However, I'd argue that the logistics, volunteers, facilities, food, care and preparation that went into xEUCF had a bigger part […]
Another UCSD Tourney Win. Yep, they did it again. Santa Barbara could have been better, but since Pres Day the ol' squiddies are 14-0 with 2 tournament victories. There is some obvious redundancy regarding their victories (i.e. UCLA, SDSU, Davis and Cal), but much like a Boise State, TCU or Cincinnati, they are winning the games put in front of them and […]
Don't think that I'm back in Ulti blogland, and thanks for all the emails to egg me on to get back into writing here.This post is a quick Christmas gift for all Ultimate players, and the name of this game is "Bing" (though only for shopping). This morning I was running through my reading as usual and I hit this article about shopping onli […]
In this episode I talk to Pad from Discraft. We talk about the history of Discraft, recycled discs, his favorite tournaments, and his thoughts on the future of Ultimate. […]
Empirically,President's Day Invite 2010 from Tim Gilligan on Vimeo.its obviously the best song for a highlight video.Anyone can throw together some clips with this song; its practically made for a highlight video.Using a song you'd never think of; now that is art:More sweet work (and high quality music choice) from Shy and the Brains: […]
