japan ultimate

to kick this off, jo and i have been in Japan for over a year! whoah! and happy easter to those who are eastering!

the following is a fairly... well, if you don't play ultimate or aren't familiar, feel free to skim the net chunk!

cheers

let's see, so this weekend, well sunday only, I played in an ultimate tournament in Okazaki. Iwas one of 2 foreigners on the team and the one with the least Japanese. Which made some things very very difficult. I have a decent level of experience with the game but a lot of the time it felt like i was playing... I'm not really sure. stall counts were in English, even though Japanese numbers are not an issue, pick, foul, travel the same, just with a heavy katakana feel. flick is called side and backhand is back. no break is ura, strike is either inside or open, and i think straight up is FM... i think. oh, the games are timed 50 mins and stop. even if you are tied the disc is in the air you jump catch (buzzer) you land, NO POINT, time ended before you touched down. After each game both teams line up facing each other and listen to someone read the scores and then you bow and say arigato gozaimashita (thank you very much), shake hands with the person across, arigato gozaimashita and then do the traditional line shake arigato gozaimashita, arigato gozaimashita, arigato gozaimashita. then you circle up for the cheer, which is the other team name then shout something, then your team name shout something. very fun.

we played zone, sweedish, ho stack, stack, man.
great group of guys, very fun, and since it's been... a very very long time since i've played
my legs are sore and tight today.

I had to work saturday so i missed out on the 1st 2 games, they lost, then on sunday we won the first two mainly due to the other teams' incompetence to convert our mistakes and then lost to the third team.

I played ok, few big mistakes, some great flow moments and a couple worthy d points.
not bad

as much fun as it was, im not sure i'd like to play another tourney mainly due to the language barrier (my bad for being not so great at japanese)

but i may start practicing with the guys

sweet.

anyway, if any of you disc fellows have any questions, feel free to ask!