I was browsing Youtube and Vimeo for some motivational clips to get everyone in the right mood for Paganello. I did find this:
Even though it’s staged, it’s pretty amusing. It was shot at the tournament Sun of the beach in Rostock 2009 at 210 fps. I wish I had gear that could do that.. Anyhow, the slow motion clip shows just how much force the body takes when hitting sand. By the looks of it, concussions should be more common in Ultimate.
Among the videos that I came across, there’s one that made me come up with an idea: To try and document Stockholm Syndromes visit to Paganello XX. The clip that got me thinking about it was this:
Everyone on the roster is stoked. It’ll be awesome to meet up with most of the guys from last year. I better find a indoor beach volleyball pitch so I can do some shuttle runs.. I’m not sure that I’ll make it to another practice before I get on the flight, so the next time I’ll throw a disc, will probably be a Flashlight disc on the Rimini beach with a glass of free red wine in my left hand.
There’s not much I know about the other Swedish teams this year except that they are going. By the looks of it, Tailspin diverted from their idea of keeping it a Swedish talking team, picking up Tushar Singh from Canada. Crash course on the Swedish language on the flight over? Tushar, I can record some common Swedish words for you if you like
Today, Stinks is a bit like the intro to this video, i.e. in the fog waiting to emerge, and Paganello is at 0:28 into the video.
I’ve also taken on the challenge of translating Ffindr into Swedish. The graveyard shifts next week will be a suitable time to bury myself deep into the linguistic Swedish mine field.
And in other Swedish Ultimate news, there’s a new blog up, but it’s in Swedish and devoted to recruiting new players from schools. I hope the project is successful so we can see a lot of new clubs spawn in the coming years. Keep up the good work, Jacob!
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Right after midnight, a mail slid into my mailbox. It was from Jumpi. The subject line said “Party theme and others”. I became a bit excited. What supercal.., meh, idea did they come up with for this year? As I wrote back in January, this year Paganello is dedicated to “Amarcord“, Federico Fellini’s Oscar-awarded movie from 1975, so I was a bit right about the party theme: “The Oscar Night: Movies and red carpet”. I just felt a bit “bleh“. There was a movie theme back in 2007, and there was an actual Oscar award on the freestyle arena held by a Swiss or German team (I think), with hardwood manikins painted in gold. We’ll discuss whether we’re going for some kind of costume or not for the Saturday party. I guess a bit of red carpet glued to a fake tux teeshirt would do?
On a happier note, but still talking tops, the mockups for the Paganello 2010 edition jerseys is complete and will start printing today in Seattle by Five Ultimate! The logo will spread across the chest, about 33 cm in total. And the cost is unbeatable compared to the other big companies as far as I know. Can’t wait to put it on!
Since this years Paga is named Amarcord which means “I remember”, here’s some questions for you:
How many times have you attended Paganello?
What themes have you experienced?
What’s your best Paga experience?
If you are playing this year, what team are you playing for?
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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.
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