Ultimate Frisbee in CIT

johnny-fatality

Ultimate Frisbee is one of a new breed of fast growing sports in Ireland.

For those of you (probably all!) who think that a frisbee is something that you throw to your dog on a beach in July, I recommend checking out the following Youtube vid for a rough idea of what a game of Ultimate looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoj_9wtgec&feature=related

This sport, like soccer, hurling, rugby etc demands a reasonably high level of fitness, composure and skill.

UCC (where I am a fresher who just started playing this year) boasts a strong Ultimate team. In fact, most third level colleges have teams, UL, NUIG, Trinity, DCU, UCD, DIT, ITT, etc etc.

I cannot speak too highly of my experience of this sport in the 6 months that I've been playing; my personal fitness is through the roof and the craic is great at tournaments. The people you meet at these events (which are held quite regularly, tournaments vary from intervarsities to open internationals) are for the most part just like you and me, although there are always some eccentrics about the place!

Basically, if any of ye CIT guys or girls would be interested in setting up a CIT Ultimate Frisbee team, give a reply to this thread and we'll try get some wheels rolling.

Cheers.

For more information

http://www.irishultimate.com/beginners/what_is.php

Dr.Millah

My buddy plays this over in Edinburgh, told me about the game over Christmas and i thought it was great! I would seriously consider playing it in cit.

Lia_lia

Yeah, a friend of mine that goes to UL is very into it! I'd do it

johnny-fatality

very good stuff !

Talk to yer friends about it, and flick through youtube to get more of an idea of the flow, gameplay and methods etc if you want to.

If more interest is shown here, or if either of ye find a few folk with a similar mindset, pm me or something and we'll start something concrete.

If you want to check out your local Ultimate team, come along to watch a UCC training session, pm for details.

Good to hear the interest!

brillianthenry

its not a real sport!! reprezentin....

Glico Man

i tried to sign up for this in 1st year cos i used to go and play with my buddy down with the UCC team...but there was no ultimate frisbee society at cit..so i just got him to sign me up for the UCC team, great fun and good exercise.

i remember wanting to throw up after the first warm ups

johnny-fatality

aaronh007 wrote: »

i tried to sign up for this in 1st year cos i used to go and play with my buddy down with the UCC team...but there was no ultimate frisbee society at cit..so i just got him to sign me up for the UCC team, great fun and good exercise.

i remember wanting to throw up after the first warm ups

Yeah, I remember at the start of the year i hadn't done much exercise (besides my K.U.S.I exploits BrilliantHenry!) and it was pretty tiring, but nowadays after the few months I'm as fit as a fiddle, it's great not going out of breath walking up the hill to UCC from western road!!

evil-monkey

I'd be well up for it, and I know one or two of the lads in my class would be too. If ye're looking for numbers, we're the boys. But if you're looking for athletes...

Send me a PM with the details...

caoiwi

just wondering if anyone is from wexford, and interested in setting up an ultimate frisbee team? Summer without ultimate wont be fun

mrmeindl

caoiwi wrote: »

just wondering if anyone is from wexford, and interested in setting up an ultimate frisbee team? Summer without ultimate wont be fun

From wexico but absolutely no interest in playing frisbee