BULA Blog tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1 2010-03-11T15:49:38Z Beach Ultimate tips, product reviews, stories, and pictures Movable Type 4.34-en Bids for World Championships are in tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1.258 2010-03-11T15:45:59Z 2010-03-11T15:49:38Z Yesterday was the deadline to submit bids for the World Championships in 2011. We received bids from Italy, France, Turkey, and Mexico. The WCBU Committee will examine the bids and announce the winner at the end of this month. All look like good places to play at :-)... Patrick Yesterday was the deadline to submit bids for the World Championships in 2011. We received bids from Italy, France, Turkey, and Mexico. The WCBU Committee will examine the bids and announce the winner at the end of this month. All look like good places to play at :-)

]]> BULA needs help with Blog HTML code tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1.256 2010-03-08T00:59:46Z 2010-03-08T01:16:24Z BULA hasn't published much on the blog lately. The main reason is because we upgraded our blog software from Movable Type 3.5 to 4.34. Some of the tags are now 'depreciated'. This means that comments no longer are available, and the archive is not shown. Our in-house knowledge of HTML... Patrick BULA hasn't published much on the blog lately. The main reason is because we upgraded our blog software from Movable Type 3.5 to 4.34. Some of the tags are now 'depreciated'. This means that comments no longer are available, and the archive is not shown.

Our in-house knowledge of HTML coding is not what it used to be. Anybody that knows Moveable Type and can give us a hand?

Thanks in advance

Patrick (patrick@beachultimate.org)

]]> Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, dies at age 90 tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1.255 2010-02-12T13:25:55Z 2010-02-12T13:37:32Z Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, has died at his home in Utah at the age of 90. Morrison traced the idea for the Frisbee to a Thanksgiving Day family picnic in 1937 when he and his future wife tossed the lid of a popcorn tin back and forth for... Patrick Frisbeex-inset-community.jpgFred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, has died at his home in Utah at the age of 90.

Morrison traced the idea for the Frisbee to a Thanksgiving Day family picnic in 1937 when he and his future wife tossed the lid of a popcorn tin back and forth for fun, the Deseret News reports. He took the idea to the beaches of Santa Monica where he sold the "Flying Cake Pan" for 25 cents.

Various versions -- and various names -- came and went over the years, especially after Morrison learned aerodynamics as a bomber pilot in World War II. There was the Whirlo-Way, the Flyin-Saucer and the Pluto Platter until Wham-o signed on with Morrison and registered the name Frisbee.

More at USA Today

]]> Blockstack TV and the Asian Championships tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1.254 2010-01-31T15:00:47Z 2010-01-31T22:56:02Z Vince and Hilco from Blockstack TV, and players on the New Zealand Beach Ultimate team, finished their video report on the Asian Championships Beach Ultimate in Boracay (the Philippines) and the subsequent trip to the Asian Championships Grass Ultimate in Manila. Great stuff! Thanks guys. It was great playing with... Patrick Vince and Hilco from Blockstack TV, and players on the New Zealand Beach Ultimate team, finished their video report on the Asian Championships Beach Ultimate in Boracay (the Philippines) and the subsequent trip to the Asian Championships Grass Ultimate in Manila.

Great stuff! Thanks guys. It was great playing with you!

http://www.blockstack.tv/home/episode/3109381

]]> Request for bids for 2011 World Championships tag:www.beachultimate.org,2010:/blog//1.253 2010-01-07T16:05:09Z 2010-01-07T16:12:02Z Yes! BULA is ready to accept bids to host the 2011 World Championships Beach Ultimate. If you, or your local disc organization is interested in hosting the 2011 BULA World Championships Beach Ultimate, send an email to wcbu2011@beachultimate.org and put "Bid Request" in the subject line. You will receive a... Patrick Yes! BULA is ready to accept bids to host the 2011 World Championships Beach Ultimate.

If you, or your local disc organization is interested in hosting the 2011 BULA World Championships Beach Ultimate, send an email to wcbu2011@beachultimate.org and put "Bid Request" in the subject line.

You will receive a Word document that has to be filled in as complete as possible and send back by March 10. The winning bid will be awarded by March 31 2010.

Submission and questions to wcbu2011@beachultimate.org

Thanks and see you on the beach!

]]> Learn to layout! tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.252 2009-11-26T22:21:14Z 2009-11-26T22:34:08Z Laying out is probably one of the best feelings in (Beach) Ultimate. I don't do it enough, but when I do I feel great! (even if the layout is not always successful) On the beach laying out is easier, but it still requires some guts and instinct. London's women's ultimate... Patrick Laying out is probably one of the best feelings in (Beach) Ultimate. I don't do it enough, but when I do I feel great! (even if the layout is not always successful)

On the beach laying out is easier, but it still requires some guts and instinct. London's women's ultimate team Iceni put together a great video on the techniques of laying out and how to practice it. I highly recommend the video to anyone who has not perfected their defensive and offensive layouts:

http://tr.im/FTdc

]]> Gazos Gambit and the beauty of northern California's coast tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.251 2009-11-21T23:59:55Z 2009-11-22T00:15:05Z Edmundo from San Francisco is a passionate player, musician and DJ extraordinaire. This year he is organizing Gazos Gambit again. Gazos Gambit is an amazingly fun tournament set on a remote and pristine beach where camping, party, food, and fields are all in walking distance and where they throw one... Patrick Edmundo from San Francisco is a passionate player, musician and DJ extraordinaire. This year he is organizing Gazos Gambit again. Gazos Gambit is an amazingly fun tournament set on a remote and pristine beach where camping, party, food, and fields are all in walking distance and where they throw one of the finest parties in ultimate.

This is a great opportunity to explore the beauty of northern California's coast in traditionally the last good weather before the rainy season. And, there is a great surf spot just down the beach.

Check it out: December 5-6, Pescadero, California www.gazosgambit.org

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]]> Lei-Out 2010- Registration Now Open! tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.250 2009-11-20T00:06:09Z 2009-11-22T00:17:47Z In case you have not heard, we are now accepting bids for the eleventh annual Lei-Out Beach Ultimate Tournament: Santa Monica, California's Coed Beach Ultimate tradition. Go to Le-Out for to register and for all of the juicy tournament information! Here is some brief info: Lei-Out is a coed,... Brian www.leiout.com n43440791082_8526.jpg

In case you have not heard, we are now accepting bids for the eleventh annual Lei-Out Beach Ultimate Tournament: Santa Monica, California's Coed Beach Ultimate tradition. Go to Le-Out for to register and for all of the juicy tournament information!

Here is some brief info:
Lei-Out is a coed, 3/2 Beach Ultimate Tournament.
We do not have Roster Cap. Make your team as big as you would like it.
Dates: January 16 and 17, 2010
The registration fee is: $300 for 10 players and $30 per additional player.
Sign up by December 15th. We are accepting a very limited number of teams so apply for a bid ASAP.
(If you need a team or are interested in the pick up team, email Registration.)
This year's lei-out will feature some awesome upgrades including...
-An Upgraded Party with VIP lounge hosted at Monsoon Cafe, Sponsored in Par by Sam Adams Beer!!!
-Lots of Free Giveaways at the fields including Function Drinks, Clif Bars, VC Ultimate Apparel, and More
-Lot's of New Field Food
-Sponsorships
-And So much more!

Also, if you want custom jerseys for your team, we negotiated a sweet deal for you with VC Ultimate: Lei-Out Jersey Deal
Registration is completely automated this year! Just go to www.leiout.com and be one of the teams to make it to the biggest Beach Tournament in
the WORLD (...besides that other little beach tournament in Italy!)

Tell a friend or two!

]]> Asian Championships wrap-up tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.249 2009-11-15T13:00:35Z 2009-11-15T13:38:54Z It already has been 2 weeks since BULA's 1st Asian Championships Beach Ultimate saw its finals.The Philippines ruled. They won the Open and Mixed division without any problems. Neither team dropped a game and they showed supremacy on the beach as I have never seen before. The championship was a... Patrick It already has been 2 weeks since BULA's 1st Asian Championships Beach Ultimate saw its finals.The Philippines ruled. They won the Open and Mixed division without any problems. Neither team dropped a game and they showed supremacy on the beach as I have never seen before.

The championship was a lot of fun. It was unfortunate that most Asian countries still prefer to play grass Ultimate and apart from some strays that played under the flag of New Zealand, only Australia made the trip to paradise (and Boracay IS paradise!). However, that did not stop the quality of play and partying. It was really a wild and crazy time.

If you want to see pictures, go to http://danekalbo.blogspot.com or check Facebook for ACBU

Thank you Karen and everyone else for making us feel welcome and putting up a great display of sportsmanship and fun.

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]]> Help a player create a Beach Ultimate field tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.248 2009-11-08T14:14:34Z 2009-11-08T14:30:29Z I just received an email from Judith Laforest, former team Canada player (Maceio, Brazil) and player for Tondeuses Volantes in Paganello. Judith is trying to bring a positive change in her community of Edmundston, New Brunswick. She submitted an idea to the Aviva Community Fund to create a Beach Ultimate... Patrick I just received an email from Judith Laforest, former team Canada player (Maceio, Brazil) and player for Tondeuses Volantes in Paganello. Judith is trying to bring a positive change in her community of Edmundston, New Brunswick. She submitted an idea to the Aviva Community Fund to create a Beach Ultimate pitch in the city, much like the one we had at the World Championships in Maceio.

It is like a very big sandbox that can be used for Beach Ultimate or other sports.If her idea receives enough votes, it will have a chance at sharing in $500,000 to bring the idea to life.

I voted yes! I had to register with my email and a password, but I unchecked all the 'newsletter' options and I should not receive any spam. If you want to help out Judith, and grow Beach Ultimate I would really appreciate your help in pushing her idea to the finals. Please vote for her idea at http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf2698. The voting closes Sunday Nov 15, so do it now :-)

Thanks in advance

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]]> New 2010 SOTG scoring system in 27 languages tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.247 2009-10-19T21:10:53Z 2009-11-08T15:07:44Z As the Chairman of the WFDF Spirit of the Game Committee I am very pleased to announce the 2010 Spirit of the Game Scoring system. The Committee looked at all the feedback on the 2008 system and worked hard to make the system better and easier to use. I think... Patrick As the Chairman of the WFDF Spirit of the Game Committee I am very pleased to announce the 2010 Spirit of the Game Scoring system. The Committee looked at all the feedback on the 2008 system and worked hard to make the system better and easier to use. I think we succeeded :-)

The reduction of the number of scoring criteria from 8 to 5 is one of the main changes. Each team is now scored on: 1) Rules knowledge and use, 2) Fouls and body contact, 3) Fair-mindedness, 4) Positive attitude and self-control, 5) Themselves (did the team play with worse, same, or better Spirit than the other team?)

The other major change in the 2010 Spirit of the Game scoring system is the rating. Each of the criteria are now rated "Excellent", "Very Good", "Good", "Not so Good", or "Poor", and teams awarded 4, 3, 2, 1, or 0 points respectively, yielding a score range of 0-20 points per team per game. I believe that this correctly reflects the overall Good Spirit seen in the (Beach) Ultimate community and allows us to maintain this level of Spiritedness worldwide. As of November 8, 2009 have translations of the SOTG scoring sheet in 27 languages(!) and we will continue to add new translations. (download translation template and send it to patrick@beachultimate.org by the end of the year)

We also created an official press release. If you have contact with local or national press people, forward the press release at http://beachultimate.org/New_Fair-Play_scoring_system_released_in_25_languages.pdf. Spirit of the Game is what makes our sport special.

Of course, spread the word in you local (Beach) Ultimate communities as well. Show people the new SOTG scoring sheets or send them to www.wfdf.org/index.php?page=rules/spirit.htm or www.beachultimate.org/blog/2009/10/spirit.html

In any case, here are the 27 languages available until now:

  1. English
  2. Catalan
  3. Chinese
  4. Danish
  5. Dutch
  6. Estonian
  7. Finnish
  8. French
  9. German
  10. Hungarian
  11. Icelandic
  12. Italian
  13. Japanese
  14. Latvian
  15. Lithuanian
  16. Norwegian
  17. Polish
  18. Portuguese - Brazilian
  19. Portuguese - European
  20. Russian
  21. Serbian
  22. Slovakian
  23. Slovenian
  24. Spanish
  25. Swedish
  26. Turkish
  27. Ukrainian

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Chris Schneider (CH), Christian Jennewein (FR), Dan Engstrom (SE), Daniel Bailey (VE), David Raflo (US), Ethan Milberg (CA), Jerry Rosenberg (US), Momme Butenschön (IT), Natalie Visser (CO), Paul Bernier (IT), and Rue Veitl (DE) for their work on making this happen, as well as all the volunteers that translated the document.

]]> Watering the seeds... tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.246 2009-10-17T17:24:23Z 2009-10-17T17:51:24Z I love getting emails from people like Edgardo Martinez. Edgardo is a Beach Ultimate tournament director in Colombia. He wrote: Hello Patrick, I am from Colombia, South America, and I am organizing a beach ultimate tournament in my city Barranquilla. The tournament is going to be next week (24-25 Oct).... Patrick I love getting emails from people like Edgardo Martinez. Edgardo is a Beach Ultimate tournament director in Colombia. He wrote:

Hello Patrick, I am from Colombia, South America, and I am organizing a beach ultimate tournament in my city Barranquilla. The tournament is going to be next week (24-25 Oct). I just wanted to say that your web page have really help me a lot, specially the pictures. I would love someday to make an international beach tournamento here in colombia, specially that the sport is growing really fast down here. You can visit the tournament web page www.diskologia.com

Apart from the fact that it is great that our work at BULA is helping him, look at his Colombian website and you a great Google map of the beach but also two pictures from Paganello, one from Portugal, one from Boracay. Different pictures to make a complete feeling of the sport. Nice!

Keep up the great work Edgardo!

P.S. If you are in Colombia next week... first time tournaments are always special!

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]]> WFDF Ultimate Rules on your iPhone tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.245 2009-10-15T12:39:37Z 2009-10-15T12:50:27Z Claudius Kirsch from Germany just released a small application which brings the WFDF Ultimate Rules to your iPhone. It's just the right thing if you need a quick look at a certain passage between games. And of course a good chance to show your newest gadget to your teammates! Here's... Patrick iphone-gloves.jpgClaudius Kirsch from Germany just released a small application which brings the WFDF Ultimate Rules to your iPhone. It's just the right thing if you need a quick look at a certain passage between games. And of course a good chance to show your newest gadget to your teammates!

Here's the iTunes link which brings you to the free app: http://tr.im/BS5w (make sure you have iTunes installed on your PC before clicking the link)

The app is pretty easy to use and allows to view the rules in portrait or landscape mode. The text is zoomable and you can switch between translations in the app. Right now this includes English and German. More languages may follow.

]]> An amazing Beach Ultimate picture! tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.244 2009-10-10T17:36:02Z 2009-10-10T17:54:10Z This picture completely captures one of those great feelings playing Beach Ultimate. An amazing picture! Thanks Bommie! (more great pictures at beachultimate.org/pictures.html)... Patrick This picture completely captures one of those great feelings playing Beach Ultimate. An amazing picture! Thanks Bommie!

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(more great pictures at beachultimate.org/pictures.html)

]]> Beach Ultimate Leagues in the US tag:www.beachultimate.org,2009:/blog//1.243 2009-10-04T13:30:21Z 2009-10-04T13:49:45Z Beach Ultimate in the US has mostly been in the form of annual tournaments. However that is changing. For many years Los Angeles was the only place with a Beach Ultimate league. This fall they are starting their 5th of Beach Ultimate league season with 16 teams (about 200 people)... Patrick Beach Ultimate in the US has mostly been in the form of annual tournaments. However that is changing. For many years Los Angeles was the only place with a Beach Ultimate league. This fall they are starting their 5th of Beach Ultimate league season with 16 teams (about 200 people) taking over a good chunk of Santa Monica Beach for 7 weeks. They even have an all-star game, where every team sends a male and a female player.(www.labeachultimate.com)

Chicago kicked off a 6-week Beach Ultimate league this year after their annual Sandblast tournament. The experience was very positive for new and experience players. Ultimate Chicago (a local social organization) ran the league and is going to host an even bigger one next summer in two different sessions.

There is even rumor of Beach Ultimate in Boston next year... but that is just a rumor...

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Mojo Jojo - Lei-Out Beach League Winners 2008

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