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 […]
A wee perspective on ultie down under
The line’s been called; they’ve pulled. Game on. Shaun picks up the disc, but doesn’t take the early offload. He’s held it too long now and he’s looking to me for the dump. Where to cut? The obvious option is an international perspective on Ultimate in Scotland. I can see Shaun’s suggested it so I […]
University Club Leadership and Development (pt 2)
Part one of this post can be found here Transition Of Club Administrative Positions The committee’s job is to keep the boat afloat, find novel ways to attract new passengers and aim to transform the club from tug boat to tanker to cruise liner. But it is also your duty to help the new crew […]
University Club Leadership and Development (pt 1)
Prologue [singlepic id=47 w=320 h=240 float=left]Far Flung and I have been on/off lovers for around 13 years. I first met her as a fresh faced beginner, fell in love as a national champion, finally agreed to be her first team captain in my post-grad year and now have the privilege of watching our children grow […]
Siege of Limerick 2013
[singlepic id=36 w=200 h=160 float=left]February 22nd saw the initial advancement of the Glaswegian force heading towards Limerick, Ireland. The troops assembled in Dublin, dropped off courtesy of the air regiment where we proceeded to retrieve our chariots for the weekend. After splitting Glasgow company into our zafira and ‘roomy’ micras we marched into the night […]
Glasgow Ultimate AGM 2012
We held our AGM a couple of weeks ago on the 2nd of November. We reviewed the past year and set out a number of goals for the coming season. The highlights were: Glasgow Ultimate will attempt to have an open team this year that trains regularly and competes in the UK open season New […]
Club indoor regionals 2011
Scottish indoor open club regionals was held Nov 12th and 13th in Edinburgh this year with Glasgow sending two teams to compete for the four indoor nationals qualifying spots on the line. Glasgow 1 entered the tournament seeded 3rd and drawn into a pool with Mother Huckers (aka Dundee 2), Sneekys 2 of Edinburgh, and […]
Glasgow Ultimate 2011-12 Meeting
We held our AGM a couple of weeks ago on the 15th of November and discussed what we are aiming to achieve as a club over the next few months. Please take the time to read through the minutes, especially if you were assigned a responsibility at the meeting. The main points covered were: Coaching […]
DiscMen 2010
In 2008 a band of Frisbee vigilantes took an oath to revolutionise and dominate the indoor game and to never play a quarter final sober. In 2010 they succeeded. 2010 Season: UK Indoor National Champs UK Mixed Indoor National Champs Mix and Mingle Champs With home advantage at UK Nationals, DiscMen were able to sweep […]