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. …
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…
Clown Tent
by December 14, 2011, 6:15am 0
Clown Tent is a team philosophy that shifts the nature of responsibility in an unconventional direction. Clown Tent is incredibly flexible and powerful, but also really dangerous. When it goes…
Warts and All
by November 30, 2011, 6:16am 0
It’s time for Hall of Fame voting again and with it, the annual debate over Kenny Dobyns. The question of in or out is simple: he should be in. Kenny…
Ham, Sweet Potato Pie and Defense
by November 23, 2011, 6:18am 0
Happy Thanksgiving. I am giving thanks for defense, one of my greatest joys in ultimate. Most teams don’t give defensive strategy much thought. It’s man-force-forehand and maybe a zone. It’s…
Toward a Healthy Ecosystem
by November 16, 2011, 6:43am 0
The ecology of Ultimate offenses is in a state of flux. After years of horizontal stack monoculture, we are seeing an increase in teams running vertical stack. All four of…
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