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14.12.2005
From :
An announcement about a men's skills day happening in London:
Dear All
We are pleased to announce a single-day skills workshop aimed at beginners and intermediate level
male ultimate players (although all levels are welcome).
It will be jointly planned and coached by Clapham Ultimate (National and European Champions) and
Fire of London (Tour Champions). We will have a number of stations with different skills to work
on and some tactics and gameplay too.
This should be an excellent opportunity to brush up on your skills and to pick up some tips from
some of the top players in the UK.
To register your interest please email and I will send you more information
nearer the time. This can be a team contact if appropriate.
Also, info will be put here:
On behalf of Clapham Ultimate and Fire of London, we look forward to seeing you there.
Lars
Fire of London
Sounds like a great opportunity for all players in the South East, especially the students who will be playing Outdoor Regionals the weekend after!
14.12.2005
From :
An announcement about the Uni Southern Women's Indoor Qualifiers tournament opening for team entries:
Ladies of Uni Ultimate,
I'm overjoyed to announce the Uni Southern Women's Indoor Qualifiers will be held in Brighton on 28/29th January.
Accomodation will be provided by the most hospitable Squaws & Mohawks of Sussex Uni, there'll be cheap food (50p sandwiches) & drink on sale throughout both days, and a party of Mohawk & Squaw proportions - all for the rarely seen non-ridiculous fee of £90 per team.
Make sure you write on the back of any non-union cheques:
Team name
Cheque guarantee number (card number)
Expiry date
Contact number
Make them payable to USSU and send them to:
Felix Shardlow
35 Edburton Avenue
Brighton
BN1 6EL
I will accept 'holding' cheques because some universities aren't in term time - just attach a note asking me not to pay it in yet and I'll hold onto your space. Deadline for entries is 15th January!
Also email me with numbers/days for accomodation & to confirm your entry & contact details. I'll be sending out more info later, but you can always check the website at http://www.seultimate.org to satisfy your information desires for the meanwhile.
If your club doesn't have enough women for a full team then you should've already been contacted by me with a suggestion for who you could join up with. If you don't and I haven't, then get in touch (Mwnci See, Picnic, UWE)! I'm running a No Woman Left Behind policy for this years' regionals, so whoever you are, wherever you are, you'll be able to play. Unless you're not southern, natch.
To recap, that's £90 a team, and:
Who: Ladies of the Southern Universities (SE & SW)
What: University Southern Women's Indoor Regionals (U-SWIR)
Where: Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton
When: 28th & 29th January
Why: To decide the top 6 southern women's uni teams for Nationals
How: Catch the frisbee in the end zone more times than the other team, score score score!
Felix & Cat
USWIR co-TDs
sic.
So, what are you waiting for, get those cheques in! And if you don't have a team to play for, get in touch and I'll find you one, so you too can be part of this wonderful tournament.
08.12.2005
From :
Feng Qian from LSE has written a report on the games held yesterday in London between LSE, UCL and Holloway Hammers.
Hi everyone,
thanks for the great games today! The games kicked off at 1435 with Holloway and UCL taking on each other in an exciting match. UCL threw a zone defence which surprised Holloway quite a bit with the mild wind conditions, but Holloway recovered sufficiently to score a few times in succession, taking the match 4-1....
Mohawks 1 & 2 also played Roehampton in Brighton, winning 11-4 and 6-3 respectively. These games in London and Brighton have shuffled the table around somewhat before the end of the term - Holloway have moved up to third (just above UCL) with less games played than anyone else in the top 8, Mohawks' lead extends as their games played reaches double figures, Mohawks 2 are scything up the table with persistance, nipping at Surrey's toes for 5th place now, and Roehampton put a gap between themselves and Strange Blue / Aye-Aye to assert themselves in the top 8.
Next fixture: 11th Jan, UCL vs LSE 2nd half.
Next event: Saturday 14th January, Brighton.
06.12.2005
From :
Online now is the Brunel Women's video of frisbee, fun and frolics, taken from various women's events over the 04-05 season.
It's three and a half minutes long and contains some women's ultimate action, lots of random clips, some funny stuff, some bendy stuff and loads of photos, all to a catchy soundtrack. Gives us a taste of what to expect from the Brunel Flair Women's team this year at regionals. Gemma says:
Its a quick highlight of the high's and lows of Brunel Flair 04/05 + friends. It was made as something for us to keep so that we never forget the best year in the teams history... yeah Flair! + everybody needs to own a bad picture of Becky!!
The footage was taken by Gemma Taylor and compiled by Matt Gorham, so without delay to up your anticipation of USWIR even further, and provide an insight into an active, successful SE women's team!
Don't forget about all the other wonderful videos that can be found on the .
Most updated page at the moment? That's got to be the for this year's ...
02.12.2005
From :
Women's Regionals is on its way!
That's right, history is going to be made, as the first ever Southern Women's University Indoor Regionals is going to be held on 28/29th January at Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton. We're hoping to have at least 16 teams in attendance, women from as far west as Plymouth to as far east as Norwich will all be congregating in Brighton for two days of all-female intense Ultimate and awesome partying with each other & their hosts the Mohawks....
There's a whole load more info up about this exciting tournament - check out the all-new page.
01.12.2005
From :
There are plenty of fixtures for the end of this term and the beginning of next - so if you want your team to play some more games then don't delay and email the people on the !
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Sussex Uni
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Wednesday 7th December
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LSE, UCL, +
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Wednesday 7th December
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Saturday 14th January
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The 7th December matches will decide the positions in the table for the end of the first half of the season - will Brunel make an appearance at LSE's event, or are the Mohawks going to be running away with it? What can UCL pull out of the bag from 3rd place?
01.12.2005
From :
A word from Meg about the upcoming Women's Skills Day in London on 4th December:
Hello,
Just a quick reminder that we do have a women's skills
practice this Sunday at 1:30 in Hyde Park. (South side
in between Hyde park Corner and the Albert Memorial,
you will have to look amongst the footballers for some
frisbees!)
All skill levels welcome. We will be focusing on
throwing technique (including faking), cutting, and
the strategy and execution of a successful dump and
swing.
We also encourage women from the same club/university
team to work together so that they can build on the
connections that will serve them in a game situation,
so groups are welcome!
Spread the word!
-Meg
(Iceni #5)
29.11.2005
From :
Dan Sidders has written a nice detailed report on the recent Surrey Scorpions Fresher Training Day:
On Saturday 19th November Surrey hosted a unique event, aimed specifically at university beginners the Fresher Training Day was meant to be fun and informative climaxing in a good night out...
It can be safely said that all of these objectives were met, from the awesome zone D that Mohawks beginners took back to Brighton and challenged their experienced players with to the Beer Festival which just happened to be organised by one of the Surrey committee to be on the same day! Freshers were expected from Brighton, Holloway, Roehampton, Reading and of course Surrey but when the fog lifted and the frost receded...
It's well worth a read as it was a fantastic event, I hope it happens again next year (providing the beer festival is held on the same weekend!) and carries on increasing in size, bringing in freshers from across the region to learn together.
28.11.2005
From :
Please forward this to any junior women that may be interested (I.e. aged 18 or under in 2006)
GB Junior Women South practice
10.30 - 4pm Kings Meadow, Reading, 3rd December.
All Junior Women welcome, including complete beginners.
Come and learn new skills, drills and improve your throwing.
For more information contact:
or
22.11.2005
From Open news:
A message from Nick about some open Beginner's sessions kicking off this weekend for anybody interested in trying Ultimate..
Evening all,
Pyramus and Frisbee will be running another of their highly popular and
famed Beginner's Sessions on Saturday 26th November.
The session will be open to all and, although the session is aimed at
beginners, experienced players are encouraged to come along to help out.
The session will run from 12pm.
We'll be at the Eagle pitch on Clapham Common, nearest tube Clapham South.
There's a map here:
We'll run through the basics of the game, followed by some simple drills,
then play a game.
Let your non-ultimate friends know, and we'll see you and them on Saturday.
Pyramus
Bring along anyone who's ever vaguely suggested they should start playing frisbee - they'll have a wonderful time.
21.11.2005
From :
Matt from Kings has written a report on the recent Ladder League event hosted in Hyde Park by Kings College. Four clubs spread over seven teams attended the Saturday event, which saw a few upsets as teams battled the Indoor Regionals grudges out of their systems...
See the page for a full detailed report.
21.11.2005
From :
Last weekend saw the Surrey Scorpions Freshers Fun day, which was attended by beginners from the universities of Surrey, Sussex, and Royal Holloway.
The day started as it meant to go on, as a frenzy of freshers bought up the Surrey Scorpions discs on sale so they could get Rich White to add a personalised signature to each one. Expect to see one on eBay very soon.
The rest of the day was a big success, with players moving between four 'skills stations' where they learnt about hucking, zone and stack amongst other things. The frisbee for the day finished with a mini hat tournament (where all the players were randomly dispersed between four teams), in which you could see people putting into action the skills they had learnt throughout the day in two exciting games each. The winners received a bag of goodies, and the MVP of the final was honored with a Surrey disc signed personally by Rich White.
The evening saw, for those hardcore enough, a beer festival organised by Special, a celebration of Rich White's birthday (where more discs were signed, including two to be given away as prizes), and a rather drunken post-festival venture into the union nightclub.
Thanks to Dan Sidders and Surrey for organising such an awesome event! Hopefully we'll see more like this in years to come, on bigger and bigger scales...
18.11.2005
From :
There's a new South-East junior team on the scene. Actually, there are two new South-East junior teams, and one of them has been playing for two years! They're due to play each other in Canterbury this week.
Find out everything I know on the page.
15.11.2005
From :
The video of Mohawks' Ladder League event on 19/10/2005 is !
After being previewed on a big screen at the indoor regionals party, anticipation for the release of has been high. Now, in the comfort of your own home, you can watch the caught point block over and over, yell Yeah Rich White along with the sideline, dance with Dancing Felix, laugh at Dan wondering where'd everybody go, and cry as Nick drops a beautifully placed huck.
14.11.2005
From :
Wow,
What a weekend, I'm still waiting for my voice to come back! Thanks to
all those who came, played, sweat, bled, shuttled minibuses, layed
out, partied, cheered, smiled and laughed.
The final standings, 1-3 qualifying for Nationals, 4-6 qualifying for
Division 2 (NTN):
1. Strange Blue
2. Brunel
3. Aye-Aye
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4. Sublime
5. Holloway Hammers
6. UnderCoverLovers
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7. Mohawks
8. Disc Doctors
9. Surrey Scorpions (Plate Winners)
10. Thrown
11. Strange Blue 2
12. Brunel 2
13. Reading (Spoon Winners)
14. Mohawks 2
15. Roehampton
16. Thrown 2
3/4 playoff MVP: Dave from Aye-Aye
Spirit of the game: Aye-Aye
Party Award: Mohawks
Fancy Dress: Brunel
3 Pint Challenge Winners: 18.3 seconds, Mum & Dyson - Kings
3 Pint Challenge losers: 87 seconds, Chris & Ben - Brunel
MPP (Most Pissed Person): 1st: Old guy at the table, 2nd: Chris - Brunel
Sharking award: Dave & Tess
Loudest Team: Reading
Congratulations to those who made it to Nationals and Div 2, go
represent the South East!
Ladder League highlights video (Brighton event) will be up on
www.seultimate.org shortly... Yeah Rich White.
Small snippet of a funny story I heard: Thrown 2 v Reading, someone
from Reading lays out in the endzone for the score, drops the disc.
Picks it up anyway, and starts playing in the other direction.
Everyone starts playing in the other direction, they score. Someone
(Ham?) thankfully pointed out they were going the wrong way AND it had
been a turnover...
Lost property left on the balconies at Sussex:
Green 'Nice Pear' T-shirt
Blue & Grey 'Brasil' jacket
Black 'I can show you the way' T-shirt
XL black Helly Hansen long-sleeve shirt with white stripes along the
top of the sleeve.
Red Puma tracksuit bottoms with a white stripe down the sides
Small grey 'Rebel Sports' joigging bottoms
Medium Old Navy long-sleeved white shirt
Large white burton shirt
Dark blue 'Quicksilver 69' shirt
White 'Lost in music' shirt
Nike black headband
Medium topman white shirt
Lion King CD
Red 'Southampton FC' towel
'forty winks' mask
Black Surrey Scorpions shirt #3
3 odd socks.
Anything else in particular that someone has lost, e-mail me and I
will go in and ask at the sports centres/hosts/ party venue
respectively.
Cheers again guys!
Bob
PS: I would like to dediacte this tournament to Rich White. Couldn't
have done it without you.
10.11.2005
From :
Hello All,
Just wanted to drop a quick email as I have scheduled
two more women's skills/beginners practices to take
place in Hyde Park before Christmas. We had an
excellent practice despite high winds on Oct 30th and
want to continue to provide structure and coaching for
women who want to develop their game.
We ended up splitting into groups so that more
experienced players could focus on specific skills and
the beginners could learn about the basics. So really
anyone in the beginner/intermediate range can gain
from these sessions. In the new year we plan to offer
these sessions on a fortnightly basis.
Please pass these dates along to any of your ladies
who might be interested. They can send me their email
addresses and be added to the group list that gets
regular updates.
Sunday, 20th of November: 1:30 Hyde Park (southside
near the Albert Memorial)
Sunday, 4th of December: 1:30 " " "
Regards,
(Iceni #5)
08.11.2005
More news updates regarding SE Uni Qualifiers on the page, including first games and seedings.
There have also been a whole bunch of games played at Brunel, and rumours that a new Ladder League highlights video is about to be released...
21.10.2005
A couple of newsbites from the SE Uni Ladder League; one from Matt Gorham, Brunel, on an upcoming Ladder League event, and another summary of the recent event hosted by the Mohawks:
From :
I'm hoping that the first league event went well in Brighton. To
follow it and jump on the bandwagon Brunel Ultimate are offering a
fixture:
Where? Brunel University campus West London
When? 1.30pm 02/11/2005
Who? At the moment Brunel 1&2
After the games we're more than happy to head off to the bar on
campus with anyone that is up for it.
If you want to get involved then email:
We will only be able to fit 3 pitches in max so spaces may be
limited. Contact Shimmy for more details.
Cheers
Matt
Brunel Ultimate.
From :
The first SEULL 05/06 event hosted by the was a huge success - at 2pm on Wednesday there were about 80 people gathered on the Sussex University campus, getting accustomed to throwing discs in the wind. Games kicked off at 2.20pm, between three Mohawks teams, one Disc Doctors, and Surrey Scorpions 1 & 2. Everyone got to play three games, meaning the positions on the have been shuffled around considerably - with Surrey and Mohawks now occupying the top spots.
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After the games, the teams headed to Falmer bar where the three pint challenge relay race commenced. Mac & Nick from the Mohawks were passing their straws to Sarah Archer (Vomit Girl) and Louise Davey (Baloo/Dave) from Surrey, and Bob & Greg from Mohawks were passing to George & John from Imperial. After an impressive 17.7s by Mac & Nick gave them a few seconds head start, Sarah and Louise were fighting against George & John for victory. It was neck and neck the whole way, and when it came to the last few seconds Imperial just pipped the Surrey girls to the post, each of them finishing in ~40sec. Has a new Ladder League tradition been started?
18.10.2005
A word from Gemma about the recent Women's Skills Day in London:
From :
South-East Women's Skills Day hosted by Bliss and Iceni in London.
Well, the sun was shining, the rain held off, and I can't believe...that I'm sun burnt in October.... London skills day anybody?
This Saturday (15th) around 100 women from all over the south gathered on Clapham Common to learn from two of the great open women's teams this year; Iceni and Bliss. Skills were covered, shirts were muddied and games were played - fantastic!
For anyone who was there; handouts are available on the drills and skills covered. Contact Aura at backspin.co.uk (aura@) to get hold of a copy.
In addition, any feedback from the event itself would be much welcomed:
Any ideas for the future?
Events or tournaments in your area you'd like to see happen?
Skills you'd like us to cover next time? (Don't worry there will be a next time '06!)
All input welcome, email brunel.ac.uk - me01gmt@
Lost property:
Dark Blue adidas jumper
Black "Mill Stones Big Band" T shirt
Get in touch and I'll try and get it back to you.
Cheers,
Gemma.
See the page for a photo of the ladies.
11.10.2005
From :
Announcement from Bob:
After much pulling of strings, Mohawks are proud to present SE indoor regionals 2005:
When - 12/13 November <-- clashes with LWL, sorry, unavoidable.
Where - Brighton
Who - 16 teams from the SE competing for spots at nationals (1-3) and
div 2 (4-6).
How much - £80 / team
So, get your cheques in asap, deadline November 1st, priority goes to
1st teams, 2nd teams allocated on first come, first served basis.
Make cheques payable to:
USSU
If sent from a student union then that's great, but if sent from a
personal account, please write on the back:
cheque guarantee number (card number)
expiry date
contact number
Please be sure to also include with your cheque:
TEAM NAME
expected number of players
accommodation required for Friday or Saturday
contact number and e-mail
Once you've done all that, you can post them to:
Alizé Clough
45 Hollingbury Road
Brighton
BN1 7JB
East Sussex
and you're done. Any queries please e-mail me. More details about
tournament coming soon...
SE Indoor regionals TD
11.10.2005
From :
The results from the Kings College One-day Beginners tournament are in:
Spirit : Holloway
1. Brunel
2. Roehampton
3. Brunel
4. Holloway (Hammers)
5. Kings (Thrown 1)
6. LSE (Equilibrium)
7. Imperial (Disc Doctors)
8. Kings (Thrown 2)
9. UCL 1
10. UCL 2
Check out the photos:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kclultimate/album?.dir=71bc&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kclultimate/my_photos
Sam
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Excellent that so many beginners teams made it to Hyde Park for this - it's especially awesome that the region's newest team, Roehampton, came as high as second!
Congratulations go to Brunel for winning this tournament for the second year running, and a big hand to Sam Hird for making it happen - I'm sure all the newbies must've had a great time, maybe a few are even hooked...
22.09.2005
Hmm, I've been thinking - at the moment this front page is where I make notes of which sections have been updated after I've updated them, and where the new news is at... but it might be better if I have some kind of a system which collates all the recent updates from the various pages and displays them all neatly onto one page a couple of times a week. Well, here's a start anyway:
From :
I've picked up on a rumour that the Iceni girls are up for visiting universities near London for freshers fairs to help at the ultimate frisbee stands... See what Maria Cahill says:
"We're particularly interested in helping recruit and retain women players. Not sure what help we can be exactly, but hoping to be able to rustle up a few volunteers to help man stands, throw discs around, show videos, talk people thru the game and hand out fliers or whatever else you'd like us to do.
I realise this is late notice, but if you would like Iceni help.... let us know dates time etc and we'll try to be around"
These girls can do a lot for recruiting both ladies and gentlemen into your club - how can you refuse an offer from the Iceni girls of doing anything you'd like them to do? Get so your women's team can be sure of competing in women's indoor qualifiers and outdoor nationals!
From :
I've got news from that he'll be running a free outdoor beginners one-day tournament at the start of term:
Hello,
Kings and Imperial are going to be holding the former UCL Beginners tournament in Hyde Park this year on Saturday 8th October. So, the usual plan, turn up at 10, captains meeting 10:15, games start at 10:30, 5-2 beginner experienced split, experienced cant score etc. etc. Lets hope for some slightly better weather.
if youre interested, as soon as possible please, with contact details, (inc. mobile number) how many teams youre bringing...
Last year's event was absolutely awesome by all accounts. Brunel entered two teams who came first & second, prophetic of their domination of the region last season. No doubt entering an outdoor tournament and getting their beginners playing so soon helped them immensely.
There's also been word on the grapevine of an indoors happening on 22nd&23rd October - check out the link for more info from Alex (Aye-Aye TD).
21.09.2005
Hey, a few pages have been updated: an announcement from Gemma Taylor about the university women's season ahead has been posted to the page, and a brief update about the university indoor regionals is on the page.
07.09.2005
The site has been updated in many ways - the latest big addition being a which will fill out in time. I've added a 'Prizes' section to the South East Uni Ladder League section, where teams can donate prizes which'll be given to the top finishers and spirit winners of the league at the end of the season, and a few more teams have been added / updated in the University and Womens sections.
Discuits are coming to Brighton on the 8th October for some games and some drinks. Hopefully Discuits will be able to bring enough players for a number of showcase games - Brighton Ultimate 2 vs Discuits 2, BU Women vs Discuits Women, Reading Dragons vs Mohawks, and then a finale of Brighton Ultimate 1 vs Discuits 1 - which turned out in Discuits' favour at Nationals last weekend. Maybe even a BU Juniors vs Mohawks 2 game could happen...
02.09.2005
Hello. Do excuse me, I've just redesigned the website... I suppose this is where I should give you the general gist of the site, what you can expect to find here, why you'd want to ever come back. And why on earth am I writing in this horrible light green?
That's better. Or is it? Yes, it'll do for now.
Anyway, so hopefully you will have glanced at the links on the left - they all have content in, except the bracketed entries, which I've not got around to yet. I particularly recommend the Women's pages, and the SE Uni Ladder Leader, which has just started its second season. Of course the Videos page right up at the top there took ages, pasting together clips and applying soundtrack, so you might find that interesting.
I'm in an awful rush at the minute, so will have to leave it at that for the time being. Enjoy!
Felix
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