I love firsts…
Here is a first: the 1st Dominican Beach Ultimate National Championships.
THIS IS A MUST SEE VIDEO FOR ALL BEACH ULTIMATE LOVERS 🙂
Thanks Pepito!

On Sunday Oct 16 the 7th season of the LA Beach Ultimate league starts with 12 teams participating. There will be 6 weeks of league games (no games the Sunday after Thanksgiving) and a one day tournament the first Sunday of December, the 4th. All Games are on Sunday mornings at 10am.
For more information, check out laout.org/beach-league-2011/

On Oct 29th, the 3rd Phuket Hat will take place in Thailand.. But this time on Nai Thon beach, Phuket’s finest stretch of sand.
There is everything you need…beach bar, snorkling, massage. It’s basically the last undeveloped beach on the island, and so the experience is that much better.
Registration is simply by sending an email to jforsythe08@gmail.com and let James know that you are interested. More info can be found on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249008471804829

Doesn’t this look like Beach Ultimate paradise?

Although 5-on-5 Beach Ultimate is still the preferred sport for most players, 4-on-4 Beach Ultimate is still alive and kicking.
It was invented by Florida player Tim Finan in an effort to speed up the game and make it even more spectator friendly. The field is somewhat shorter and a slightly wider than 5-on-5 Beach Ultimate. The stall count is only 6 seconds and an endzone-to-endzone score is worth 2 points (beachultimate.org/4on4rules_short.html).
Wildwood in New Jersey is by far the largest Beach Ultimate tournament in the world, irrespective of the format, and they have 400+ team playing 4-on-4. In Boracay (Philippines), the 4-on-4 game has resulted in them playing the finals at the recent 5-on-5 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU2011).
In France the 4-on-4 league will go to its 4th season next year and this league keep on growing. Check out the 2011 French cup:

Last weekend saw a group of 12 adventurous Ultimate players travel to Sandwood Bay for what we believe is the most remote/north-western game of Beach Ultimate ever played on the British mainland. Sandwood Bay is 6 miles south of Cape Wrath (The most NW point on mainland GB) and requires a 4 mile hike from the nearest road to access it.
They camped out for 2 nights and played 3 full games over the weekend. The Saturday night ‘party’ featured dinner at the beach watching the sun setting, a few fireworks and then a large amount of whisky and stargazing. Luck was definitely on their side with the weather for the weekend, however this also seemed to suit the local population of ravenous midges!
Look at this amazing picture:

With all the Beach Ultimate going around worldwide, we shouldn’t forget what is happening in the US. Wildwood is the largest Beach Ultimate tournament in the world! Last time I talked to the organizers they already had 409 teams registered. Amazing!
Here is a some more info that was published this morning on Yahoo:

A lot of people remember Ultimate Frisbee from high school gym class and college campuses.
The unique game is a niche sport that is popular in intramural leagues as well. On the weekend of July 30 in Wildwood, N.J., Ultimate Frisbee will take center stage. Wildwood will host a tournament that takes place on July 30 and July 31. The “World’s Largest Beach Ultimate Tournament” is just that. This is the biggest Ultimate Frisbee event to take place on sand. More…

The Ugandan team is getting ready for the World Championships of Beach Ultimate in Italy this summer. As a lead up to this they participated in F.E.A.S.T. (Frisbee East Africa Sand Tournament) in Kenya. They seem to be ready… The finals was between Team Uganda A and Team Uganda B. It will be very interesting to see how they do at the world’s stage…

The first Dubai Beach Ultimate tournament turned out to be a success! They ended up with some sponsorship from Pizza Hut and Gatorade. Everyone loved it. Lots of requests to do it again.
Not only was the tournament a great success but a reporter from one of the two big paper covered the event. http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/ultimate-work-out-at-dubai-frisbee-tournament. This story actually resulted in some new players, and also one of the biggest talk radio stations in Dubai spotted the article too and did a live radio interview on Sunday morning.
Here is a picture (I love the camel in the background! 🙂

And the finals:

About six months ago, I became aware of a group of Ultimate players in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). They have been growing slowly but steadily in numbers and on Friday April 1 (no joke) they will hold their inaugural Beach Ultimate tournament!
For more information: http://dubaiupa.com/?page_id=711
They are also preparing to send a team to the World Championships of Beach Ultimate! I can’t wait. Here are some scenes from the group playing in the sweltering heat on the beach.

The No TsuOh documentary that we wrote about last October is ready to preview on: www.greatestultimate.com.
This is the version before the title edits and the audio balancing. The hope is that they get the film viewed more than 10,000 times before April 4th and that more than a third will choose to donate a minimum of a $1. The funds will be used to complete the film and screen the film at as many festivals as possible such as Atlanta Documentary Film Festival, Adventure Film Festival, Amsterdam Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and more. Enjoy…