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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.

Latest

Musings on D-III

by May 18, 2012, 12:37am 0

Tomorrow brings the first day of the D-III championships.  In addition to giving me a chance to spend two days refreshing Score Reporter and Twitter (teams, add your accounts below),…

The Best Thing

by May 16, 2012, 3:45am 0

Foolishly, I am attempting to do real journalism this week, so I am behind deadline while I wait for replies to emails I sent out at the last minute.  I…

Throw Your Fire…

by May 9, 2012, 4:00am 0

…before it’s too late.  Seriously. I know I really should be talking about seeding at Nationals or how Fugue is preparing or who I think is going to win Open…

Dub Regs

by May 2, 2012, 10:49am 0

It’s short for Double Regionals.  I know Dub Regs is the most awkward name of all time and I don’t have the foggiest idea of how to pronounce it, but…

Only Once

by April 25, 2012, 6:09am 0

I have been on five teams in my career: Carleton-B, CUT, Syzygy, Sockeye and Fugue, but a more honest count is 24 teams.  Each season, each team is different.  Certainly…

Drill Theory

by April 19, 2012, 7:29am 0

I’ve been thinking about drills a lot recently.  At Oregon, we are in the process this year of implementing a new offense, so there are all sorts of little problems…

Wrap it Up, B.

by April 11, 2012, 6:11am 0

It’s nice to be back after a bit of a hiatus.  I know we have beat the rankings and bids like a dead horse, but I can’t pass up the…

Rankings: Solutions

by March 13, 2012, 5:52am 0

This is part 6 in a 6-part series.  Here are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. In this last installment of Skyd’s series on the rankings and bid allocation, I’d like…

Rankings: Implications

by March 12, 2012, 4:00am 0

This is part 5 in a multi-part series on the USAU ranking system and bid allocation.  Here are 1, 2, 3 and 4. In the short two seasons the rankings…

Rankings: Under the Hood

by March 8, 2012, 4:57am 0

This is the first piece in a multi-part series that will look in-depth at the way the rankings are built, examine some specific examples, look at the implications of the…

Expert Panel Responds: Flexibility

by March 1, 2012, 10:00pm 0

Last week, Skyd introduced our panel of training professionals and elite level athletes (Andrew Berry, Samantha McClellan and Jamie Nuwer) for our training topic of the month. If you have follow…

Team Talk

by February 29, 2012, 6:20am 0

A big thanks to Bill Mill for cutting the video for me. Let me set the stage.  It is power pools in Sarasota.  Ironside is playing Doublewide to win the…