Jonathan Neeley is a volunteer editor at Skyd. He plays for Truck Stop in Washington, DC, and he has coached teams and clinics all around the world. He plays pro on the DC Breeze. Neeley thinks the best place to watch an ultimate game is from the empty side of the Olympic stadium in Cali, Colombia, but if that's not an option the front cone of an endzone will do just fine.

At Home with Herbie: Windmill Windup 2013

by June 16, 2013, 3:56am 0

“Where’s Herbie?,” the DJ playfully asked the crowd. It was Thursday night and they had just been locked into the Iggy, Windmill Windup’s bigger of two carnival tents. “Where is…

Windmill Windup 2013 Day 1 Recap (Open)

by June 14, 2013, 11:55am 0

Skyd Magazine’s coverage Windmill Windup is brought to you by Five Ultimate. Open Day One Recap Mixed Day One Recap  Women Day One Recap  Ultimate is full of universal truths:…

Philipp Haas talks Sieben Schwaben

by June 13, 2013, 11:53am 0

I caught up with Sieben Schwaben captain Philip Haas about what to expect out of his team at Windmill. Sieben Schwaben 2013 is looking different from previous years. Experienced players…

Mads Bakkegaard talks Ragnarok

by June 13, 2013, 10:42am 0

Denmark’s Ragnarok took third at last year’s European Ultimate Championships and is consistently among the continent’s best competitors. Mads Bakkegaard joined Ragnarok in 1994, its inaugural year, and along with…

Windmill Windup 2013 Preview: Ka-Pow! (Open)

by June 12, 2013, 3:10pm 0

Preview submitted by Matthew Hodgson. Feature photo by Ka-Pow’s Richard Taylor.  Team Name: Ka-Pow! Location: London, England Year Founded: 2012 Website: www.kapowultimate.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/kapowultimate Twitter: www.twitter.com/kapowultimate Previous Windmill Appearances: none Captain: David Pichler Playing in…

Catchup: Europe’s Best Youth Program

by June 11, 2013, 10:30am 0

Catchup Ultimate rolls deep. The club from Graz, Austria-based turns 25 this year, and on top of its Windmill representatives Catchup (Open) and Eyecatchers (Women’s), it boasts a second Open…

Pool Placement Probabilities from a Stats Geek

by May 24, 2013, 9:35am 0

Reader Tom Murray just sent us the following. I thought some of his fellow stat heads would enjoy taking a look.  I’ve been working on a fully Bayesian approach to…

Product Review: Patagonia Black Hole Duffel

by April 22, 2013, 5:57am 0

As a college freshman, I used to go to practice with my gear in a plastic Harris Teeter bag. It was all I needed to transport my loot: a water…

Oregon and Tufts on Tape: Give and Go

by March 23, 2013, 7:10pm 0

Joaq and I sent a few emails back and forth about the Oregon-Tufts semifinal from the Stanford Invite while talking about Easterns coming up. We haven’t been about to write…

A Fragmented Florida

by March 22, 2013, 1:52pm 0

This article is part of of Skyd’s continuing coverage of Easterns in Wilmington, North Carolina on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th.  “It’s weird that there’s not one team that comes out of…