Ultimate Insanity

Every Tuesday and Friday we have a group of students that gets together to play ultimate frisbee. At the end of last year Michael and I taught some students how to play and when I got home I received an email. One student told me that they had been playing for 12 days in a row! They like it.

Yesterday we were on the field trying to take over a place to play. There were hundreds of freshmen practicing for their "sports meeting" - a week of competitions between classes. I walked up to a group of guys and started talking to 2 or 3 of them asking what they were doing. I figured they were required to be there to practice some event so I asked if they wanted to join us thinking that they probably weren't allowed to leave there spot but that one or two might come anyway. To my surprise the 3 I was talking to all came and the 10 guys around them as well! Ooops. So suddenly our group was doubled. We had another student give them the basic rules and began playing.

It was so funny. These guys were pure energy! They had the idea that they couldn't hold onto the frisbee after they had it so they would just throw it up in the air once they caught it. We were absolutely stifling on defense but could hardly keep the frisbee for more than one throw. They did score once like that and the string of catches they put together was actually quite amazing. Fun times.

Our usual group which plays until the cows come home