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When it’s not going your way…

By abhinav • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Game

Am talking about the days when you seem to be dropping everything coming your way and throwing away the disc every single time you do manage to catch it. The mark on you seems larger than life. You seem to be running in exaggerated slow motion. And whats worse no one seems to be catching […]



Why We Play Ultimate?

By abhinav • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: General

Excellent article with some thoughts on why we play Ultimate…
 It’s now been a complete decade that I have defined myself as an ultimate player first and student/teacher/writer/freestyler/etc. further down. A quick glance at most of the pictures I’m tagged in on Facebook will show me either playing Ultimate, or laughing and enjoying my life with […]



CUF - Evening Exhibition Game - 27th September 2008

By abhinav • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Chennai Ultimate Frisbee is dedicated to teaching and promoting the sport of Ultimate. In an attempt to create public awareness about the sport of Ultimate, we are holding an exhibition game on 27th September 2008. This exhibition game is a prelude to the All India Tourney that we have scheduled for the last week-end of […]



Ego Talk

By abhinav • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Game

“I’ll go for every conceivable catch on the condition that someone makes the throw first, i’m not going to go run somewhere and wait for a throw. I expect the disc to arrive at the same time as me, like it’s destiny or something. Oh yeah, if the end-zone is free, regardless of where I […]



Kodaikanal “Fly Baba” Ultimate Invitational - 26, 27 April 2008

By abhinav • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Bryan Plymale from KIS Kodai writes:
“Vanakam!… Yesterday we all agreed that the Semi-Occasional Kodaikanal “Fly Baba” Ultimate Invitational will be Saturday 26 April and Sunday, 27 April 2008. All are welcome! Get the word out. The more the better. We can even find you floor space if necessary. ”
So if you play Ultimate […]



Catching on: Ultimate Frisbee Tournament Fosters Friendship And Teamwork Among Youth Across The Nation

By abhinav • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: General, News, Tournament

This is the post tournament press release from Indicorps..
Contact: Roopal Shah
(93776.99951)
ultimate@indicorps.org
www.indicorps.org
Ahmedabad, Gujarat – The Ultimate Spirit of any game – sportsmanship - got a big boost this past weekend when Indicorps-Manav Sadhna under the banner of “Ahmedabad Ultimate” hosted the first National Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Ultimate Frisbee is a fast-paced, […]



Back from Ahmedabad

By abhinav • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Tournament

By Siddharta Govindaraj
Wow, it was a totally AWESOME trip.
Great matches, super hospitality and awesome matches. We finally won 1 and lost 1, but the spirit throughout the trip was fantastic.
Excellent coordination and arrangements by everyone at IndiCorps and Manav Sadhna, including a lovely welcome.
The quality level of the games was a couple of notches […]



My ‘Ultimate’ Training Story!

By abhinav • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Drills, Tournament

21st Feb - 7AM – Mumbai
I was going through our usual fitness routine doing shuttle runs, stretches, horizontal nietchzes, power jumps and all the plyometrics that Sukrit had ‘drilled’ into our systems. There was this fruit vendor with a cart that I had kept passing during the course of my shuttle runs but had been […]