Is it possible to know who is the team behind the MLU:UK? Adriano
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hurt Sent: 13 January 2009 03:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BD] Major League Ultimate 2009 Great quote on the end there... must remember that. As for making Ultimate "accepted" I agree that the self-officiated nature of the game is an obstacle. But that could be fixed with: 1) a few officials with whistles timing things 2) a scoreboard that spectators CAN ACTUALLY SEE CLEARLY 3) playing to time 4) banning subs from walking up and down the sideline - what other team sport is there where non-playing team members can and regularly do stand on the playing field? No need to actually remove the players' responsibility for making calls. In fact, get a sound guy in there with a boom mic so that the spectators can hear the discussion! They tried some of this at World Games a few years ago, and it seemed to work. Paul On 13 Jan 2009, at 00:35, David Greenberg wrote: > > > Spirit of the game is both the greatest thing about Ultimate and the > biggest pick to it becoming universally accepted and becoming the > massively commercialised, marketed, popular spectator sport next to > Football, American Football, Basketball, Rugby, Baseball...and you > know what? If it was like any of those I'd go and find another > sport, or join the masses still playing the original form of > Ultimate with SOTG. Having said that, I would love to experience a > refereed format of the game. It doesn't sound too bad not having to > watch for travels while stalling, maintaining disc space and > ultimately trying to get your hand in the way of your opponents > released disc. Let someone else do the rules and just focus on the > throwers movements ready to get the hand-block-catch-callahan. Not > to mention the impartial view of whether or not the foot was on the > line or if the disc was up. What do we value more, playing a sport > involving a disc to the best of our abilities or playing Ultimate? > My opinion, let it evolve into the two distinct sports it wants to > be, everyone will still be able to play both forms seperately and > when they do they will know by which rules they are playing. 'If you > want to truly understand something, try to change it' - kurt Lewin. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
