Dungeons and gold short shorts

8.31.2008

My team just ended our ultimate frisbee season. Determined to go out on a bang, we all wore costumes for our final game. They are supposed to be Dungeons and Dragons characters, but you can tell by the outfits that many of us don't actually play the game.

Female Ultimate Frisbee Footage

7.27.2008

These ladies are super hardcore. I aspire to so fearlessly lay out for the frisbee.

Introducing the Natural 20's Blog

7.25.2008

My Ultimate Frisbee team, the Natural 20's, have started a blog. We'll be updating it periodically unless we all burn out and abandon the project. (Hopefully not, though)

Super Saiyon Ninjas

7.18.2008

Our team recently played the Super Saiyon Ninjas . After each Ultimate Frisbee game, each team comes up with cheers for the other team and performs them for each other. For this team our cheer (written by yours truly) went like this:

(set to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Super Saiyon Ninja Players
Super Saiyon Ninja Players
Super Saiyon Ninja Players
Hammer in the endzone
Ninja power!

They're the world's most fearsome frisbee team.
Superstars, you know they are extreme.
Even though we form a stack,
This frisbee team don't cut us no slack.

Super Saiyon Ninja Players
Hammer in the endzone
Ninja Power!

And, if you played Ultimate Frisbee, you might think those jokes were funny. To over explain it, a hammer is a frisbee that is thrown high into the air so that it falls upside down or lands on the skinny edge. A stack is a offensive play. And a ninja, is a hero in a half shell and green.

The Nads Have It

6.16.2008

This Spring, I joined an beginners Ultimate Frisbee league with my friend Cecily. Our team name is the Nads, thus the cheer, "Go-Nads!" Our team tied for last at the tournament. Here are a few pictures.
I also played a little naked Ultimate, of which, thankfully, there are no pictures.

The Countdown to the Tournament

6.13.2008

One week and counting until I leave with some friends to go to an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Eugene.


Check out this wicked cool footage of the Rhino's, Portland's team.



My team is made up of pickup players from the games I play on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Think of it this way: if you took all of the kids who got picked on in High School and put them on a team together, this would be us. They are some of my best friends. Our name is the "Natural 20's" which is some kind of Dungeons and Dragons reference. (See how cool we are?) Our team design (to be put on bright pink T-shirts) features a Frisbee, a beer, a d and d die, and a unicorn smoking a joint. Go team!

Computer Geeks Go Head to Head in the Ultimate Sport

5.22.2008

"Every few weeks during the spring, stalwarts of the Internet economy — companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Yahoo — meet on an open field to shout out their brand loyalties and throw things at each other. It's not the downturn in the economy that has blood pressures high. It's ultimate Frisbee."

-Mallia Wollan


Check out the podcast.

If they can do it, so can you! (And, not to get in your face about it, but you really should play.)

Even more Ultimate Frisbee pics

5.09.2008

My friend Isaac (an Ultimate Frisbee player) is a professional photographer and videographer. He brought his camera to Wednesday's game. Here are a few of the pictures:

Ultimate Frisbee fight to the death

4.29.2008

Check out this picture of my friends Arjohn and James duking it out for the frisbee in this morning's game. That's hard core. (More pics on flkr)