Author: patrick

Request for bids for 2011 World Championships

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!

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

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

Lei-Out 2010- Registration Now Open!

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

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.

Help a player create a Beach Ultimate field

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

New 2010 SOTG scoring system in 27 languages

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 https://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:

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…

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!

WFDF Ultimate Rules on your iPhone

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 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!

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)