I play Beach Ultimate 2-3 times per week. I don’t want to think about what I need to take each time, so I take everything! Of course the standard shorts, dark and light shirts, a hoodie, and sweatpants, but there is a lot more!

Beer glove – I hate warm beer
Beer opener – Duh!
BULA badge – To give to special people
Cold spray – Sprain anyone?
Cones – Always bring!
Disc – Go figure
Garbage bag – Extremely useful when it starts to rain
Hackysack – Timeout material
Hat & Gloves – It does get cold sometimes
Holy Seat – For those dirty toilet seats
Pen – To help me remember
Powerbar, Dextrose, Gatorade – Anything to help my old body
Sandskins – Like Sandsocks but better
SAS survival guide – I don’t know why
Sunblock – Of course!
Swiss Army knife – Because you never know…
Tabasco (mini) – I like my food spicy
Towel – The sea is always tempting
Visor – Get the sun out
Water battle – For when there is no beer
WFDF Rules – Don’t leave home without them
I think I am covered… 🙂 Or did I forget something?

What do you think? Is Facebook the new email? When BULA started 10 years ago, email and mailing lists were our main source of communication. Now email is starting to lose ground. People are joining this newsletter much less frequently then 5 years ago.
Now players on Facebook are ‘liking‘ Beach Ultimate, ‘joining‘ BULA, ‘supporting‘ Spirit of the Game, and ‘promoting‘ all three.
Sounds somewhat familiar? If you are on any of the BULA webpages, look at the top of the page and you will see that the BULA mission is to “assist, educate, and promote the spirit and the game of Beach Ultimate”. Clearly these players are all BULA 🙂
Mind you, there are many other ways people can be BULA’ers too… Tournament Directors and volunteers fulfill the BULA mission perfectly too.
Fernando Najera and his group in Acapulco are a good example. For the last 10+ years they have been spreading (Beach) Ultimate in Mexico, and put on a great international tournament.
Every year I write about this tournament. Every year I really want to go. But coming from Europe is no always easy. It can be a long and pricy trip. Nevertheless, if you are closer, or have the time and means, I highly recommend you check it out. I heard great stories about the tournament:
www.acapulcotournament.com
Be BULA: ‘Join’ us, and/or ‘Like’ our Game and our Spirit:

NoTsuOh, the legendary Beach Ultimate team that dominated Paganello for many years is raising money to complete their documentary. The final project will highlight the story about the team during their last year in Rimini, Italy.
They have hired an editor to put together the trailer and complete the project. To finish they need to raise $9,100. It would be great if players can contribute. I know I will.
For more info and a cool trailer, go to:
greatestultimate.com

In an article about the commonwealth games Paul Beckett and Tripti Lahiri recognize that the sports played in the commonwealth games are all sports spread around the world through the British Empire.
Then they wondered, just for fun, what sports might appear in an American equivalent of this extravaganza and which countries would be invited into the “U.S. Commonwealth” to compete.
Naturally Ultimate Frisbee was included. They wrote:

“A quintessentially American sport that derives its name from the flying discs made by the Wham-O Corp. of California. Ultimate has elements in common with both (American) football and rugby, to the extent that it involves two teams trying to move an object over a touch line. It also has the best name of any sporting organization we’ve found: The Beach Ultimate Lovers Association. At least, we hope it’s a sporting organization.”

🙂
The whole article can be found here