Roll Call 2010 – Are you in?

January 28th, 2010

The time to be a part of the biggest event in East Coast Ultimate is now. Sign up your squad now for the third annual Roll Call. Roll Call (March 27-28)  held just outside of Washington DC at the Capitol Polo Club.

The tournament will be a great opportunity for taking stock of your squad’s strength, and making final team adjustments before heading into the UPA Series. The field will be composed of 64 open and 32 women’s teams.

This tournament promises to be everything people have come to expect of a Cultimate event, with great competition, gear for sale from FiveUltimate, and plenty of top notch amenities for teams.

Submit a bid here.


TiV Club 2010 – Trouble Achieved

January 28th, 2010

Despite apocalyptic rains and other minor complications, TiV 2010 turned into a hell of a weekend for all involved. The weather complied beautifully both Saturday and Sunday, and the free-entry party at Studio 54 was bumping until 3 AM. Huge thanks to everyone that dropped by HQ to give us a ‘good job’ and a thumbs-up. Congrats to City Wok (West Coast / Irvine Alums) and Karma (Montreal / General North America) for winning the Open and Co-ed divisions, respectively. Each championship team received a TiV flag courtesy  of 5ultimate and free burritos from Chiptole.

Thanks again to our sponsors: 5Ultimate (apparel), Chipotle (championship burritos), and Pirate’s Booty (snacks) – we encourage you guys to support the companies that support ultimate. We look forward to seeing you all again in Twenty11.

For a glimpse of some of the action, Jake Thomas of White Rhino put together a brief video highlighting some of his team’s game play. Enjoy:

Observe This! – Observer Training at PLU BBQ

January 21st, 2010

Are you or anyone you know interested in becoming a certified UPA observer? A training and certification clinic will be held in conjunction with the 10th Annual PLQ BBQ tournament (March 13/14, 2010). Participants must register beforehand and clinic space is limited. The clinic will take all of Saturday and most of Sunday, so participants cannot play in the tournament. Contact jonotc@shumi.org if you are interested.

Ben Wiggins Training Sessions at Siege

January 20th, 2010

Play Quicker, Play Smarter

Ultimate ECC Kanner-Wiggins

My name is Ben Wiggins, and I’ve spent the better part of my life striving to play better Ultimate. I’m an average athlete, and I’ve had to find ways to compete against bigger and better jumpers and runners. I’ve been lucky enough to play with and against some of the greatest players in the game and around the world, and I’ve stolen liberally from their training methods, strategies, and techniques. Along the way, I’ve won more than my share of tournaments from Paganello to Potlatch to UPA Nationals. The skills of this game can be mastered without being the tallest or swiftest natural specimen.

I love teaching Ultimate. Do you want to learn more?

Thanks to Cultimate and the directors of the Siege of Limerick tournament this February, I’ll be traveling to Ireland to learn and teach as much as I can. I’m available to put on mini-camps for individual players (either near Dublin or Limerick) or to work through training sessions with teams at any level that want to find new ways to master their craft. Below are the synopses of two camps I’ve run recently: one is a training session with the Boracay Dragons (the World 2nd place beach team from the Philippines) and the other is a mini-camp focusing on individual defense that I hosted in Medellin, Colombia.

If you are interested, please contact Jim Heneghan at toreadordivinity@hotmail.com to make arrangements. Costs of the sessions will be kept as low as possible, are negotiable, and will be used by the tournament to help subsidize travel costs (with any overage going back to the tournament itself). In addition, we may be able to do bye-round practices or sessions at the tournament itself, schedule willing.

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested and have more questions about myself or the types of sessions that we could run. I have been fortunate enough to coach players ranging from the Seattle Sockeye to the Team USA Boys to 4 different University teams to Seattle youth and women’s teams (Moho and Viva).

I will promise you the same thing that I have promised every other player I have worked with: I take coaching Ultimate seriously enough to give you the same level of training and techniques that the best players in the world use against each other in the biggest games. If that sounds like fun to you, we should talk more before the Siege!

Sincerely,

Ben Wiggins

Read on for training session breakdowns

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Announcing the 10th Annual 2010 PLU BBQ – March 13/14

January 13th, 2010

Parkland’s own, Pacific Lutheran University Ultimate Club in conjunction with the world’s most eminent tournament management organization, Cultimate, is pleased to announce the first PLU BBQ of the decade.

Join teams from across the Northwest for a weekend of top notch games, top notch fun, top notch FiveUltimate gear and top notch BBQ on Saturday.

The BBQ can currently accommodate 16 Open and 8 Women’s teams, but we’re working to reserve a large field space that can host more teams. We will announce this if it can be secured. Sign ups are handled on a first come, first serve basis. Bid cost is $295 per team. All bid payments must be received by March 1st. Your team will receive an email once your bid has been accepted. Your squad must be paid before your spot is officially reserved.

Get your disc on.

Tournament website – http://cultimate.com/plubbq2010/