The first time I played ultimate frisbee, or just ultimate for short, was back in freshman year. My good friend Tanner invited me to play with a couple of buddies and because we had nothing better to do, we went to check it out. It's a very competitive and demanding game and if you want to win you'll need to actually apply yourself. We played a lot that summer after freshman year and, being a freshman, I was always one of the youngest there. Regardless, I always found that I would get drafted higher and higher as I proved my value to the team so I was showing signs of improvement. I had a lot of fun that summer but after a lot of the older guys left for college we really didn't play all that much. That is, until this year. This past spring we have started playing again and although my throwing is not yet back up to par, I'm still having tons of fun.
In a nutshell, ultimate frisbee is a passing only football game... only with a frisbee. To explain this better let's use a hypothetical. Image you're playing and you have the frisbee. You have to throw it to one of the other members of your team before the person guarding you, assuming someone is, counts, or stalls, you to ten. If you either throw an incompletion, an interception, or don't throw it in time possession changes and you are on defense. Defense is pretty self explanatory but there are some more advanced techniques that help you become a better defender. On offense though, you're biggest objective is to get open. By faking out or loosing your man you can attempt to find some open space on the field so that your team can move down the field and hopefully score. We typically play games to seven with five people on each team but depending on personel and how everybody is feeling we can adjust the length of the game.
Now that it's junior year and we've started up playing again I can tell that I've gotten better or just more athletic. My defensive skills are pretty up to par but I think that's just because I'm one of the only people who try to defend. I'm exited to keep playing through the summer because a lot of my friends play and if we can get consistant turn outs it should be a fun way to get some exercise.
In a nutshell, ultimate frisbee is a passing only football game... only with a frisbee. To explain this better let's use a hypothetical. Image you're playing and you have the frisbee. You have to throw it to one of the other members of your team before the person guarding you, assuming someone is, counts, or stalls, you to ten. If you either throw an incompletion, an interception, or don't throw it in time possession changes and you are on defense. Defense is pretty self explanatory but there are some more advanced techniques that help you become a better defender. On offense though, you're biggest objective is to get open. By faking out or loosing your man you can attempt to find some open space on the field so that your team can move down the field and hopefully score. We typically play games to seven with five people on each team but depending on personel and how everybody is feeling we can adjust the length of the game.
Now that it's junior year and we've started up playing again I can tell that I've gotten better or just more athletic. My defensive skills are pretty up to par but I think that's just because I'm one of the only people who try to defend. I'm exited to keep playing through the summer because a lot of my friends play and if we can get consistant turn outs it should be a fun way to get some exercise.
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