Author: patrick

Lei-Out 2009…Epic?

Lei-Out 2009 shattered all previous tournament records on the Beach of Santa Monica with over 1,400 participants and a party at one of the most popular venues in Santa Monica.
Celebrating its Tenth year, the Santa Monica Beach Ultimate staple, Lei-Out, hit a record number participants and a record number of teams. 90 teams competed to be crowned the 2009 Champions.
The finals saw two former championship teams competing for the title again. Crazy Go Nuts University defeated defending champions Antimony becoming the second team in Lei-Out history to win Lei-Out more than once.
But the party was the talk of the town. Monsoon Cafe for the second year in a row hosted the event participants for an epic party. The party has several rooms, a VIP section for volunteers, and multiple DJs spinning tracks throughout the night.
Colt 45 was the beer sponsor and Below 42 Vodka, Fiji Water, Four Energy Drink, and Function Drinks were also represented!
Check out more about the tournament at www.leiout.com
Lei-Out just keeps getting better…!

Kenyan Beach Ultimate tournament

It is always wonderful to see Beach Ultimate tournaments start anywhere on the planet, but when it is done in Africa it makes it even more special. There is so much potential for the sport there.
FEAST (Frisbee East Africa Sand Tournament) is held at Tiwi Beach, Kenya April 11-12 2009 (Easter Weekend). Organized by Nairobi Ultimate, in a few years this could be the African Paganello.
If you like to travel to interesting places and play Beach Ultimate, you will love going to Kenya. Check it out www.kenyaultimate.blogspot.com
Pass the word!

SAMBURU – Nairobi

The 1st women-only Beach Ultimate tournament

Spanish Beach Ultimate is booming! Only surpassed by the US they host the most Beach Ultimate tournaments in the world! Last year there were 7 Beach Ultimate tournaments in Spain and that is growing already. The latest edition is a world premier: The first women-only Beach Ultimate tournament!
Organized by Corocotta from Santander (North of Spain) this event will take place 28-29 March. (If you want to play: registration closes 24 January). Great initiative. Perhaps that will help take European female Ultimate player off the endangered species list… 🙂

Spanish women at the World Championships in Portugal

Winter Beach Ultimate

The last few months there has been a fair bit of Beach Ultimate in Spain and Portugal. The Porro Open tournament in Barcelona, several tournaments in Punta de Umbria (South of Spain) and at Praia do Meco (Portugal). There wasn’t a lot of sunshine, some rain and wind, but that made it special. With waves crashing, fresh sea air in your nose and the disc in your hand you realize that life is great!… until you have to huck into the wind… 🙂

Asian Championships Beach Ultimate in Boracay!

Today BULA and the Boracay Beach Ultimate Association are proud to announce that the Asian Championships Beach Ultimate for national teams (ACBU 2009) will be held 28-31 October 2009 on Boracay Island (the Philippines).
National teams in the Open division and the Mixed division will compete for the title of Asian Beach Ultimate Champions, a title they will retain for 4 years (the next ACBU will be in 2013). Registration and openings party are on Wednesday 28 October. The semi-finals and finals will be held on Saturday 31 October.
Download the Team and Player Manual
More info to follow
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We are waiting for you!

A Dream About Beach Ultimate

My friend Alex Wells from Seattle recently had a dream about Beach Ultimate and playing at Lei-Out that I thought was worthy of sharing Enjoy:
I had a strange and frightening dream this morning that I feel compelled to share…
I’m at what appears to be a dance party filled with a bunch of ultimate folks, many of whom I know. As I circulate around the room I see most people are wearing jerseys that I don’t recognize, many of them the same. Some of my good friends are wearing some incredibly stylish pajamas(tops and bottoms). Wait a second, everyone in PJ’s is a fellow member of my team, Darkhorse…or should be at any rate. The pajamas are the latest and greatest in the line of Darkhorse uniforms! I realize that it is January 19th. Everyone here has just returned from Lei-Out! Except Me!!! I FORGOT TO GO TO LEI-OUT!!!!!!!!. I had a plane ticket and everything and I just forgot to go to the airport. I was so furious and distraught that I started pitching a tantrum worthy of a two-year old and tearing up.
At this point I woke up, very disoriented and breathing hard. It took me a few seconds to realize that Lei-Out wasn’t for another month and to calm down. Phew. I hope I never have that dream again.
Alex Wells
www.leiout.com

The Disc Gods captured on camera?

I can’t believe I left this weird story from the BULA Blog until now. It is a true story, nothing has been modified.
Two years ago we played we played Beach Ultimate in Meco (Portugal). The weather was unstable. There was a lot of rain around us, but on the beach it was perfect. Enough sun to heat us up and not too much wind. For years we had been joking that each time we play on that beach we are helped by the ‘Frisbee Gods’ because 95% of the time, 12 months a year, we have good weather to play, irrespective of weather forecast or the weather a few days before.
I decided to take a picture of the sky. After I came home I uploaded the picture to our team’s blog. Here is where the weird part starts…
Upon uploading the picture the result was not really the picture I took. What showed up was a grainy picture of a girl with a bathing cap from the 1920’s, multiplied several times. But that is not all, a small thumbnail of the actual uploaded picture can be seen in the left top corner.

Weird… Did we capture the Disc Gods on Camera?
(and are we therefore captured on Google Earth?)
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