Just a quick word about Ultimate being featured on BBC's Sportsround tomorrow.
Quick warning about the cheesy bits. Their target audience is really 10 year olds, so the producer felt she had to include all the usual clichés like the apple pie, disc glued to camera doing a fly by of players failing to catch the disc (I really hope they edit that bit out), naff bit to show spirit of the game and lack of referees, etc. I'm sure Sam will come across well, but not too sure about some of the others that had to stage stuff. I'm sure it will be good, but hopefully there is no such thing as bad publicity (apart from embarrassing performances on 'You Bet'). Lots of Lookfly shirts on display which is good. I didn't get to see much of the filming as we had 7 PE Development officers from neighbouring schools in to see Ultimate being demonstrated (we had 6th form one side of the hall showing quality ultimate to the PE teachers, and 12 year olds on the other being filmed and showing slightly less quality Ultimate, God I hope they edit it well). What was great to hear from these very enthusiastic teachers were comments like... "I notice they can take more than 2 steps after catching the disc. God I wish netball would adopt that rule so we could save some knee joints" "This sport really does seem to teach sportsmanship whereas we're stuck with this football culture of teaching gamesmanship" "This really does seem to encompass the Government's view on Citizenship" "If we paid you £20 an hour, can we hire you to coach at our school?" Tempting as it is to quit teaching and go and get paid coaching at 7 different schools, it does highlight a recurring theme we've encountered on the junior ultimate committee. We have numerous requests for experienced players to go into schools and coach. They don't seem to have a problem with players not being trained coaches since so many have run training sessions with their University or Open teams (some actually prefer to have people with good playing experience rather than paper coaching qualifications). If you would be willing to give up some time (and probably earn £15-£20 an hour) to help develop the next generation of Ultimate players, then please send me an email. We especially need players close to Romsey (Hampshire) and Mitcham (South London) for some holiday playschemes and fundays. Check out the interactive map at http://www.ukultimate.com/wmslib/Juniors/junior_map.html to see if you live around the corner from an existing junior team that could benefit from some encouragement and expertise. Kev. -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
