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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Expert Panel: Call for Questions – Flexibility

by February 23, 2012, 4:00am 0

Our Expert Panel of top notch training professionals and elite players are back to weigh in on your questions about strength, conditioning and becoming a better athlete. How it works…

Kung Fu Throwing

by February 22, 2012, 10:49am 0

In light of Paul Illian’s series (4) this week and my own schedule coaching Oregon (Prez Day, Stanford), Elliot and I decided to re-print the Kung Fu throwing routine. I’ve…

The Thrower’s Eye

by February 15, 2012, 4:56am 0

Between the reality of technical skill and the black-and-white world of good and bad decisions lies an ocean of space.  This space is defined by possibility; a possibility that is…

Vision

by February 8, 2012, 6:10am 0

It was with great enjoyment that I read Ben’s excellent series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)  last week.  Since Ben and I can’t talk about ultimate for…

Breaking the Mark

by February 1, 2012, 8:00am 0

We usually think of breaking the mark as an individual skill, but the structure that surrounds it is often as important as individual brilliance.  While there are as many ways…

Expert Panel Responds: Strength Training

by January 26, 2012, 4:00am 0

Last week, Skyd introduced our panel of training professionals and elite level athletes (Melissa Witmer, Tim Morrill and Alan Janzen) for our training topic of the month. If you have follow…

The Birth of Modern Offense: NYNY v. Big Brother Game Analysis

by January 25, 2012, 11:36am 0

I hadn’t had a chance to watch this particular piece of history (game footage of NYNY vs. Boston Big Brother at the 1991 World Championships), so I was thrilled to…

Size Matters: AUDL and Women’s Ultimate

by January 18, 2012, 11:57am 0

The birth of the AUDL brings with it three major changes: professionalism, refs and a wider field.  Justifiably, most of the attention has gone to the first two of these. …

Expert Panel: Call for Questions – Strength Training

by January 17, 2012, 6:00am 0

Our Expert Panel of top notch training professionals and elite players are back to weigh in on your questions about strength, conditioning and becoming a better athlete. This week we’re…

Watching Ultimate in the Video Age

by January 11, 2012, 11:18am 0

I am swimming in video right now.  USA Ultimate is releasing the footage from Club Nationals and friend-of-Fugue Luke Johnson sent me all the footage from Oregon’s trip to Boulder last May. …

Northwest: 2012 Women’s Preview

by January 5, 2012, 6:19am 0

We have an awkward big-little region up here in the far corner of the country.  The geographic area is vast; the drive from University of Alaska – Fairbanks to BYU…

Clown Tent: Successes

by January 4, 2012, 11:40am 0

This article is part 2 of 4 in a series. Writing about Clown Tent is tricky.  By its very nature, CT is designed to deal with individual idiosyncrasies.  On a…