If you aren’t familiar with the sport of Ultimate; you should read this post on understanding the sport. There are many reasons why you should consider playing my favorite sport. I’ll try to outline a few compelling ones here and see if I can get you to try it. Once you try it you’re going to be …
What is Ultimate? How does the sport work? Wikipedia ‘defines’ Ultimate as a team sport played with a flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football. Players may not run with the disc, and must …
Former Australian cricketer, Adam Gilchrist, hits the nail on the head in his biography ‘True Colours: My Life’. Gilly explains beautifully about how pushing yourself in training and in practice games is akin to making ‘deposits in the bank’. He cites the example of how they once chased down 315 runs (a big score then!) He says …
Agni Nakshatra is Chennai Ultimate Frisbee’s free annual introductory bootcamp + mini-tournament in which volunteer coaches spend time teaching new players the sport. I got to spend some time with some enthusiastic folks who turned up to try out Ultimate for the first time ever. Some of them had heard about the sport from our media coverage for Chennai …
Ultimate is a team sport. There is no reason to be anything beyond outstandingly mediocre. There are 6 other mediocre players on the line who can put in the hard work. Why should it be you? ..but why take a chance? Here are a whole bunch of ways to be outstandingly mediocre: Don’t be flat-out awful. The way …
Just like in most parts of the world, at any tournament or pickup game, there is always a shortage of women in Indian Ultimate. Even a hugely popular tournament like Chennai Heat seems to often struggle finding enough women for all the teams. This in spite of all the clubs in India focusing on mixed Ultimate only! …
