End of Season Review 2014
For me, it’s been quite easy to look at one sudden death point and a failure to make Nationals and think we regressed as a team this season. Having trained a lot but only played one competitive open outdoor match it’s been a bit of a disappointing year personally. But when I started writing this […]
Glasgow Ultimate Summer Holiday: Windmill Windup X
[singlepic id=87 w=320 h=240 float=center] The weekend saw 14 honorary Glaswegians descend upon Amsterdam to partake of what it’s most famous for – some damn fine ultimate. It all started with an early morning rendezvous at the airport with Jonny and sufficient slagging of his farmer tan. After our flight we picked up the stragglers […]
CUBE 2014
CUBE is a wonderful time of year. Where else do you get to play on sandy white(ish) dunes, in amazing(ish) weather, with all your best mates(…ish). It is of course the Nation’s famous five-a-side beach tournament, where even some English teams make the long, uphill trip to sample some of the best nights out Aberdeen […]
Summer Ultimate in Glasgow
Once again Glasgow Ultimate is taking up residence at Hillhead Sports Club and together we are bringing you a full programme of Ultimate over the next few months. These excellent facilities allow us to offer you twice-weekly training and a summer league competition open to all. We’ve put together a variety of summer membership options […]
Mixed Tour 1 – 2014
Glasgow’s first competitive outing of the 2014 Outdoor season commenced with an epic pilgrimage in the GUSA flagship down to Cardiff. 13 heroes undertook the 10 hour journey which was punctuated by the usual service station delicacies, contact, and Yahtzee. Such is our love of the M6 at Glasgow Ultimate (any real member spends 48 […]
Knowing Me, Knowing You
I’ve been trying to write this blog post for far too long – mainly because over the course of the season i’ve had to rewrite it a fair number of times due to the subject matter i’ve wanted to talk about: The Identity of Glasgow Ultimate. Personally, i’ve had plenty of times where i’ve been […]
2013 Glasgow Ultimate Awards
We’ve had a great first season as an open team and that has been down to the hard work, commitment and talent of our players. While it wouldn’t have been possible to achieve this season’s goals without everyone, it’s time to recognise a few players in particular. Please scroll through the players below […]
Tour 1 – London Calling 2013
Location: St Albans Date: 1/2 June 2013 Opponents: The B Tour Game 1: Glasgow Ultimate vs Fusion The big derby, both teams keen to prove that they are the best in Scotland. Both teams came out to prove that there is a difference from playing at Stirling to playing at tour, and they did. Both […]
What everyone should know when teaching ultimate to freshers
This article is a guide for experienced university players on how to teach basic catching and throwing techniques to incoming freshers, and how to play with and against the freshers at the start of the year. When experienced players are able to teach basic techniques to incoming players, the speed at which freshers improve increases […]
Can Far Flung be a Div1 Team?
So far we have read about university level leadership and development, having survived the AGM I think I’ll leave that subject well alone, then Dick told us all about ulti down under, given you’d stop reading now if I followed a similar route of discussing my pre-Glasgow career I’m going to write about how to […]