Archive for the Ultimate / Frisbee Category
A friend and fellow fan of the one true sport sent me this link. Here’s a quote:
A study (slated for release September 1) by Dr. Michael Norden of the University of Washington shows that among all 86 private national universities, those ranking in the top half for Ultimate have a graduation rate of over 85%, while those in the bottom half graduate just 60%. The difference in the totals of Rhodes scholars and Marshall scholars among their graduates during this decade is even more dramatic – 208 versus 15. (The odds of this happening by chance are truly infinitesimal). Moreover, the top ten schools based on Ultimate ranking have a slightly higher mean graduation rate and more winners of top scholarships than schools chosen by - not only SATs, but any standard metric including: grades, faculty resources, and financial resources.
Another friend sent this link that shows how to play “half-court” ultimate when you don’t have enough players for the full field. I haven’t had time to analyze it thoroughly but it looks promising.
I purchased a flashflight frisbee today. Now I’m just waiting until dark to test it out. Update: My brother-in-law and I tossed this frisbee around in the dark and it worked very nicely. It’s really quite a cool item. I think it would be fun to have a large group of people outside at night with five or six of these flying around. Besides being fun it would probably look a little surreal.
Last Saturday my wife and I went with some friends to Central Park. We added up to five couples and four frisbees. After eating our bologna sandwiches we started to toss the frisbees around. We were having fun doing this for about two or three hours. There were some other people around us but gradually they went away and we had the field pretty much to ourselves.
Towards the end of it all I was in the process of turning when a frisbee hit me smack in the nose and eye, knocking a lense out of my glasses. I was so stunned that I actually fell to the ground, thinking as I went down that I probably had a broken nose. Fortunately, all that was broken was my dignity.
Next week, weather permitting, we’ll head back out to Central Park with some friends and do it all over again.