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Who is BULA?
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BULA is an organization promoting and assisting
Beach Ultimate worldwide. It is run by an international
group of volunteers who all share a great passion
for the sport and agree to work on projects through out the year. BULA is divided into 5 regions:
BULA - EUROPE
Mike Palmer
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Mike has been playing for ten years since his first tournament on the world-famous Rimini beach. Born in the UK, he now lives in Brussels, Belgium. It's grim up north, so any excuse to hit the beach is welcome. Some of his happiest moments have been spent playing Beach Ultimate at the Porron open (Barcelona), Viareggio, Bar Do Peixe, Tenerife and Figeira de Fos, with hopefully many more beach fun and games to come |
Paulo Bre
| When i was kid, the summer was to play on the beach . At that time in Portugal it was easier to see a UFO than a Frisbee! It was even more dificult to play frisbee, because i didn't have a dog :) And so when I went to study Industrial Electronic, and I found some friends who played Ultimate in Palmela it gave me the oportunity to start to play on the Porto team and meet the Frisbee "Family". Now i dont lose the opprotunity to play at the WCBU and BDP.
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Daniel Dui
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I am from Sardinia, in Italy, and the beach is my natural habitat.
I started playing Ultimate in 2002 while doing my PhD in London. Tempered by mud, wind, and rain, which are the common playing condition in the UK, I started to attend various national and international tournaments to quickly realise that Beach Ultimate is the best way to invest most of my holidays and a substantial portion of my income.
I believe the beach has the apparently magical power of making people happier and that who has never tried Beach Ultimate is missing something. I joined Bula because I like to contribute to the development of this exciting new sport.
I live in London where, in "real life", I am a researcher and a freelance IT consultant.
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Kristina Cernusakova
| My name is Kristina, but most of the people know me as Kika or Kiki. I started playing ultimate when I moved to Spain in spring 2006 and jogging in the park became a sort of a bore to me. It's been a year and seven months already I am in the ultiworld and I still love it.
Currently I am member of our Madrid team Los Quijotes, Portuguese BUFA team and an international pick up team The Splasssh. And what I do in my spare time when I am not playing? Well I am traveling, visiting my ultifriends and yes, unfortunately sometimes even working in order to finance my tournaments. |
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BULA - ASIA
Karen Cabrera
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Graduated with a degree in Architecture at University of Santo Tomas. Was the team captain of the UST Womens Football Team and member of the UST Swimming Team. She is also into kite boarding and enjoys playing poker with friends.
Loves living in Boracay! blue sky + crystal water + powdery white sand + cold beer + refreshing cocktails + friendly and hospitable people + beach ultimate all you can = BORACAY
She started playing beach ultimate with the Boracay Dragons in 2005. Practically a newbie in the sport, but trying to learn every training day and gain more experience in every tournament. Number 9 in the WCBU 07 in Brazil and the only female in the Philippine team line up. Plans to spread the love of beach ultimate by conducting and organizing clinics and hat tournaments for kids and tourists in Boracay. She also aims to help start promoting grass root level of beach ultimate. |
BULA - JAPAN
Matt Kass
Matt was a player and an organizer for the US Team (Master's Division) that participated at the World Championships Beach Ultimate, Figuera do Foz, Portugal in 2004. Playing ultimate since the late 70s, he has volunteered and organized tournaments, leagues and presented compelling value propositions to sponsors for tournaments for BULA, UPA, WFDF, HULA (HI, USA), and SF's (CA, USA) SFUC, SFUL (now jointly known as the Bay Area Disc Assoc "BADASS") and in Japan, Tokyo (JFDA/KFDF/FFDA/Ebashi Cup) Taj Ultimate, Hakata/Fukuoka Ultimate, Kyushu, Japan). Matt continues to plays, volunteer, organize and sell sponsorships for teams, leagues and BULA, not only in Japan and US, but at WFDF events including: 1992 WUGC (Utsunomi, JPN), 2002 WUCC (Honolulu, US), 2006 WUCC (Perth, AUS), 2010 WUCC (Prague, CHE).
Currently residing (and probably tossing a disc at this very second) in Tokyo, Matt runs a boutique entertainment advisory and management agency for live and produced entertainment events in arts, culture, music and sports, including comprehensive media development, traditional and digital strategy planning, project management and execution. iem's services extend to hospitality, event production, operations, revenue generation and expansion, license management, sponsorship and ticket sales and all forms of delivery, operations and execution for worldwide brands and leagues (NBA, NFL, PGA Tour, PBA, and smaller, lower profile sports brands and brands which support them). Matt co-founded www.sportscharities.org in 2000 which has raised in excess of ~$3.0MM for a host of 501(C)3 charitiable, US government audited, causes/organizations including, since ~2005 the US's UPA (Ultimate Players Association). With his passion for Beach Ultimate in particular, Matt has been a valuable asset to BULA for many years and recently agreed to make BULA JAPAN an official entity, especially in light of the productive communications with WFDF and JFDA to rally support for BULA and Beach Ultimate in general, and Beach Ultimate in Japan specifically.
For any questions or inquiries Matt can be reached at:
Matt Kass
BULA Japan, Representative Director
makass@me.com
m: +81-90-9857-7070 |
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BULA - LATIN AMERICA
Raoni
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I live in São Paulo, Brazil, and I have 30 years old. I am an ultimate player since 1999. The first time that I played in the beach was in 2002. Since 2004 I am technical director of my local federation, and I am with BULA since 2006. I am already played 2 WFDF WUGC, and 2 BULA WBUC. I am PhD in Physical Education, and now I am keeping my focus on Olympic education studies. My plan is to write about the value of the practice of ultimate as a tool of the propagation of the Olympic ideals, and its use as an important educational element. |
Marco Aurélio Sanches
I've been playing since 1994 and after 1998 I played in several major Tournaments around the world.
1998 - Minessota - USA
1999 - St Andrews - Scotland
2000 - Hellbron - Germany
2001 - Rimini - Italy (Paganelo)
2002 - Hawaii - USA
2003 - Sta Cruz - USA
2004 - Figueira da Fóz - Portugal
2004 - Turku - Finland
Since 2002 I played and help to organized several tournaments in Brasil;
2002/2003/2004/2005 Beach Mundialitos
2003 - South America Championship
2004 - Copa América Championship
2005 - Panamerican Championship
1999 to 2007 Brasilian National Championship.
2007 WCBU - Maceió - Brazil
I just love to play Ultimate and be in contact with great people who play and understand what this game is all about!!!
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BULA - NORTH AMERICA
Chris Hurwitz
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Chris Hurwitz's addiction to Ultimate started in 1986. Clinical signs
included the rapid abandonment of all other sports, investing
significant time and money traveling nearly every summer weekend, and
the odd proclivity of carrying a plastic disc everywhere he went.
Chris first played Beach Ultimate at Paganello 1997, and has been
hooked ever since. He organized and captained Pele Mana, one of the
first American open teams at Paga, and later Thrill Ride, mixed Paga
champions in 2001. Most recently, Chris played 2007 Worlds in
Maceio, Brasil, with the USA masters team, winning a close finals
against the Great Britain masters.
Chris will be living in Munich, Germany, for most of 2008 and is
happy to help organize European beach events this summer. He will be
at Paganello, Bar do Peixe, and all other beach events he can attend.
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BULA - President
Patrick van der Valk
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Patrick started playing disc in 1979. He organized several Dutch DDC championships, was the coach of the Toronto Women's Ultimate team that
became Canadian Champions in 1989, and was the founder of many Ultimate teams: Ultimate Stars Leiderdorp (Holland 1981), The Zoydz (Toronto 1991), and Diz-Cu (Portugal 1996). After organizing the Bar do Peixe Beach Ultimate tournament (Portugal) for several years he started to coordinate BULA in 2001. Patrick has Master degree in Organic Chemistry and is co-founder of ChemConnect Inc. He now works as a Startup Specialist for Archimedes in San Francisco. Patrick is father of 2 children: Sara and Tomas and is married to Sofia. His personal homepage can be found at http://pereiravandervalk.com/patrick/ |
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