lei-out
played at the beach tourney this weekend. hamstring held up well, started to feel a little weak after the long downtime before our semi and i wound up playing very little in that game.
a few things reminded me why i don't like playing casual ultimate. one big one was at the time when our games were supposed to start on saturday we had only 4 people, 3 men and 1 woman. 20 minutes after the first game was supposed to start it was the same story. ultimate time is definitely far less prevalent than it was when i first started playing, but even still it rears it's ugly head at these casual events. if we're going to say "games start at 10" then let's be there at 10. if games aren't going to start until 11 then just say that. if i was our opponent i would have forced us to put 4 on the line or start assessing points. we're only screwing them by showing up late.
of course, when push came to shove in the semi-finals we showed that it's really difficult to play well when you're out late drinking on saturday night, and that sometimes the things that work when you're sober don't always happen the same way when you're hungover/drunk. of course, we also showed tremendous resilience in continuing to huck even after it didn't work the first 25 times. so after winning the first 2 or 3 of these lei-out events, i now haven't made the finals in 4 (3?) years.
a few things reminded me why i don't like playing casual ultimate. one big one was at the time when our games were supposed to start on saturday we had only 4 people, 3 men and 1 woman. 20 minutes after the first game was supposed to start it was the same story. ultimate time is definitely far less prevalent than it was when i first started playing, but even still it rears it's ugly head at these casual events. if we're going to say "games start at 10" then let's be there at 10. if games aren't going to start until 11 then just say that. if i was our opponent i would have forced us to put 4 on the line or start assessing points. we're only screwing them by showing up late.
of course, when push came to shove in the semi-finals we showed that it's really difficult to play well when you're out late drinking on saturday night, and that sometimes the things that work when you're sober don't always happen the same way when you're hungover/drunk. of course, we also showed tremendous resilience in continuing to huck even after it didn't work the first 25 times. so after winning the first 2 or 3 of these lei-out events, i now haven't made the finals in 4 (3?) years.
posted by greg at
3:45 PM
2 Comments:
bode husak:
stop the presses. what? you were drunk while playing frisbee? i'm going to have a fit. you could have seriously hurt some coedder, and have already damaged your reputation. that is so irresponsible. and the olypmics are coming up.
By
Anonymous, at 1/18/2006 6:34 AM
no, no, no, the rest of the team was drunk... greg was half the reason we even made it to the semis.
Starting with the very next run of discs to emerge from the discraft factory, all ultimate discs, including custom printings, will be printed with a warning label on the top. The label will read:
"Warning: when intoxicated, teammates are closer than they appear."
By
Idris, at 1/18/2006 9:29 AM
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