Today we are publishing the second in a series of translations of the BULA rules.

Many thanks to Nadia Sillano and Luca Giordano for their work in translating the BULA rules into Italian.

Italy, the home of Paganello (which gave birth to BULA) has a strong potential for the sport with lots of beaches and many tournaments and players. We hope that with the help of this translation growth will continue and a national Beach Ultimate league will not be far away.

Download the Italian Rules here

The next translation we'll be releasing with be the long anticipated Portuguese rules. Something that will come in handy for the World Championships in Brazil :-)

It's pretty amazing that in one of the first stories ever recorded in a book, tossing a disc on a beach gets a mention...

"...and his men beside the break of the sea-beach amused themselves with discs..."

- The Iliad of Homer (Richmond Lattimore transl. Univ. Chicago 1967, Book II, line 773-774)

Thanks to Melissa Clarke and Chad Woods for bring this to our attention :-)

Today a new (Beach) Ultimate magazine was launched in Brazil. Sent only via email (smart!) the publication keeps everyone informed about new teams, local tournaments, the story behind the national Beach Ultimate team and other disc news in Brazil. More information can be requested from ultimate_journal@yahoo.com.br

Frisbee inventor Walter F. Morrison test flies a re-issue of the Pluto Platter Frisbee disc Thursday, Dec. 28, on the beach in Carpinteria, California. The original Pluto Platter Frisbee disc, designed by Morrison, made its debut in 1957.

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Panama, the fledgling Ultimate nation that is organizing its first international tournament this year, has shown interest in attending the World Championships Beach Ultimate in Brazil in December. This means we now have 51 countries interested in playing!

Today we are publishing the first in a series of translations of the BULA rules.

Many thanks to Gemma Perez and Arcadio Diaz Diaz for their work in translating the BULA rules into Spanish.

Download the Spanish Rules here

In a few weeks we are expecting to publish the BULA rules in Italian and Portuguese. French is scheduled for later this year.

Stephen Chiang, photographer extraordinaire, has published his pictures of Lei-out in Los Angeles online: http://www.stephenchiang.com/LEIOUT07/index.htm

Pictures from Chris McT

Today is the 50th birthday of the Frisbee!

          Congratulations Wham-O!

Link to "The Frisbee Celebrates its 50th Anniversary" story on WFDF website

Since 2002 Dimitry Strelchin and his friends have been organizing the Kiev Hat tournament in the Ukraine. The location is great and look how popular this tournament has become:

More pictures at http://ultimate.com.ua/ru/?g=photo&album=49

I especially like the picture of the baby with a beer bottle on page 2 :-)

This year they are thinking about an international tournament at the Black sea beach in Crimea (South of Ukraine). We will keep you posted.

Version 1.3 of the National Team and Player Manual (0.1 MB .pdf) for the World Championships in Brazil can be downloaded by clicking on the link above. The updated manual has some spelling corrections and the long-awaited entry for Currier Island.

A quote from the manual:

"Currier Island— The Beach Ultimate Paradise— is different things to different people. To native islanders, it is home, the sweetest spot on the globe, the hidden treasure on the high seas. To laymen, it is the unnamed tropical haven they dream about when they have their “Hawaii, but better” dreams..."

Today we changed our website. We added a few more links on the navigation to make it even easier for you to find what you are looking for. In addition we added a Google Map where anyone can add information about locale Beach Ultimate. It doesn't matter if you only have 5 players that want to play, or are organizing a league or tournament. With the Google (Beach Ultimate) Map people can find you!