You’ve Fallen, but you CAN Get Up!

You’ve Fallen, but you CAN Get Up!

Jan 2, 2017 | 2 Comments

I have certain beliefs about athletes. Some of these I have about humans as a whole as well. One of these is that, in general, we don’t take pleasure in each other’s physical pain. As athletes, we try to win. Sometimes that involves hoping that our opponents will fail. That’s sports. Very few of us, in […]

Gametime Calculations for The United States-Philippines WCBU 2015 Open Semifinal

Gametime Calculations for The United States-Philippines WCBU 2015 Open Semifinal

Jun 26, 2015 | No Comments

In response to a special request (Wolf), I did the game time math on the US-Philippines Beach Worlds Men’s Semifinal. Is it helpful to compare stats between beach and field, worlds and nationals? Maybe not. Maybe so. Here are the stats anyway…veroxybd.com   United States vs. Philippines World Championships of Beach Ultimate Dubai, United Arab […]

Game Play Calculations: Ironside-Bravo, US Nationals Men’s Final, 2014

Game Play Calculations: Ironside-Bravo, US Nationals Men’s Final, 2014

Jun 23, 2015 | No Comments

I know this isn’t about Asian Ultimate, but with the possible development of an observer system in the WFDF, the gameplay issues in US ultimate may foreshadow what we will see in Asia in the near future.соответствие качества и цен при строительстве. I don’t watch many US club games these days, but I like to […]

Self-Officiation and the Senses

Oct 10, 2013 | No Comments

(This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on self-officiation. Part 1 can be found here.) Referees on TV are dumb. They get every call wrong, especially against the Patriots, Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox. Maybe they’re just blind. That could be it. Frickers. It’s easy to criticize officials on TV. Because they suck. Also, […]

Self-Officiation and Ultimate Gameplay

Sep 3, 2013 | 2 Comments

(This is part 1 of a 3 part series on self-officiation in ultimate. I decided to break one long incoherent post into three shorter incoherent posts)Лев We came to this game for many possible combinations of reasons: 1) Hotties of the opposite sex 2) Hotties of the same sex 3) I couldn’t make my college […]