Columns

The Grind Skyd Magazine

The Grind features words from athletes and minds at the highest level of the game.

It Takes A Village DeAnna Ball

Championship Coach of Ohio State Fever, DeAnna Ball focuses her column on team development from a philosophical and emotive perspective.

Training Blog Skyd Magazine

Training tips, techniques from our expert contributors. Three Thursdays a month

Ultimate Globe Trotter Elliot Trotter

Elliot Trotter is traveling the globe to produce a web series on ultimate. Here’s the latest from abroad. Follow Elliot’s adventure at ultimateglobetrotter.tv

Beau Knows Blog Beau Kittredge

Beau Kittredge sets his mind free in his column about nothing.

Strings Spike Friedman

I’m Spike Friedman, I’m a sportswriter for Grantland and The Stranger, and I’m going to do my best to become an ultimate fan this year covering the Seattle Rainmakers.

Contested Strip Megan & Meghan

Ultimate’s only comic!

The Zemelist Matty Zemel

Matty Zemel invites you along on his journey coaching Team India Open in preparation for WUGC 2016.

Transultimate Jenna Weiner

Discussions about transitioning and transgender issues in ultimate.

Scooberlicious Ultimate Lawrence McKendell

Scooberlicious is a FB Live show hosted by Lawrence Mckendell. It’s designed to highlight and celebrate the people and events that make the sport of ultimate so cool! As a player, I’ve discussed and debated with teammates and friends, on many facets of the game, and now I am looking for new people to have thoughtful, and engaging conversations on the various topics of this ever-evolving sport.

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Pressure

by August 21, 2013, 2:22pm 0

I spent last weekend cooking and watching the West Coast Cup.  It’s hard to express how delightful it is to have live ultimate to watch from home.  The tournament got…

Wednesday Dumps: ULTImate, EUCF Mixed, CUC Highlights

by August 21, 2013, 6:35am 0

Check out ULTImate, an interesting new Facebook page focused on connecting the international ultimate community. The MLU’s San Francisco Dogfight share their 2013 highlight video. Great news for European mixed teams:…

Tuesday Dumps: Zue Theft, Five Sale, CUC Juniors Final

by August 20, 2013, 1:22am 0

The stockroom of Colombian ultimate clothing manufacturer Zue was broken into and their entire stock of clothing was stolen. They need help tracking down the thieves: if you catch someone…

Monday Dumps: CUC Results, Plus-Minus, Pitt Highlights

by August 19, 2013, 3:33am 0

Canadian Ultimate Champions 2013: Furious George (Open), Union (Mixed), Traffic (Women’s). Watch the entire finals stream on I Am Ultimate. Chesapeake Invite Champions: Sub Zero (Open), Scandal (Women’s) Is plus-minus…

National Character

by August 14, 2013, 6:00am 0

I’m sorry I’ve been gone, there are some big changes coming to Win the Fields (see below) that needed sorting out.  In the meantime, I’ll have some odds and ends…

Wednesday Dumps: Expected Contribution, YCC Plays, Kung Fu Throwing

by August 14, 2013, 1:37am 0

This may be the most impressive article written about ultimate statistics in the history of the sport. Ultiworld’s stats team is killing it with their new Expected Contribution metric. Tanner…

Tuesday Dumps: Minderhout AMA, Sexy Spinners, CUC 2013

by August 13, 2013, 3:55am 0

NexGen’s Kevin Minderhout is doing an AMA on reddit. Just don’t call him Freshy. Off-topic news of the day: Philadelphia Spinners captain Nick Hirannet has been selected as one of Philadelphia’s…

Monday Dumps: YCC, EYUC, Georgia Tech Highlights

by August 12, 2013, 3:28am 0

Finals recap from YCCs on USA Ultimate. Winners: Seattle for U19 Girls, Boston for U19 Mixed, Atlanta for U19 Open, and Seattle for U16 Open. Europe also held their own…

Friday Dumps: WFDF Observers, New Approved Discs, AOUCC Streaming

by August 9, 2013, 3:33am 0

Kyle Weisbrod’s piece on why WFDF events should have observers is garnering a large amount of positive responses and some healthy debate. Check it out. USA Ultimate approves the Discraft Ultra-Star,…

Thursday Dumps: USAU Rankings, Carnegie Outta Nowhere, Top 10 AUDL Final

by August 8, 2013, 8:40am 0

The newest USAU rankings came out yesterday. Familiar names sit atop the Men and Women’s division, while a relative newcomer takes top honors in the Mixed division. Did you miss…

Wednesday Dumps: Pulled Disc, AUDL Expansion, Light-Up Discs

by August 7, 2013, 12:58am 0

Pulled Disc, a new blog from former Chicago Machine player and coach Brady Meisenhelder, has just launched and aims to help with ultimate skill development. I Am Ultimate has started…

Tuesday Dumps: EYUC Scoring, Shriwise Layout, One Day at Windmill

by August 6, 2013, 4:39am 0

There won’t be any official livescoring from the European Youth Ultimate Championships this week, but the Ultiorganizer scoring system will be updated directly after matches end. Check out Pat Shriwise’s ridiculous layout…