The Grapevine - 27/12

Christmas Edition of The Grapevine, bringing cheer to you from the Ultimate world.

Ultimatum has been shipped and people have started receiving them including our great partners Get Horizontal ... what do you all think? 

Talking of GH, they will be at BubblePest this year (indoor 3G tournament in Budapest). Where Good Lord (London) will be defending their title in 2014. See the trailer here.

 

Bubblepest 2013 teaser from Get Horizontal on Vimeo.

UK Ultimate need you! An events coordinator is needed for all UKU events and it's a paid job! Apply here.

We want to wish all our readers, contributors, friends and families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

DP @ tSG

The Grapevine - 20/12

The Grapevine this week has a lot going on...

Fire of London have opened their trial applications..

Post by Fire of London.

...as have Ka-Pow! who claim over 70 applicant already!

Post by Ka-Pow Ultimate.

Next up Shut Your Cake-hole ... sorry SYC have released a little photo montage from the 2013 season.

Finally my personal favourite. We see many foreign students playing Ultimate in UK Universities and one lucky Turkish player (Eylem Caner) did so with Sussex University in 2012. From there he has gone on to represent his country at ECBU in their very successful WFDF debut and about a year ago he created this wonderful mini-documentary about the love of the sport. Includes some great UK and European Ultimate clips plus interviews with some of the central characters in Brighton (and UK) Ultimate. TheShowGame is very proud to (re)present "Love at First Flight". 
Love at First Flight from Eylem Caner on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas everyone! 

DP @ tSG.

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The Grapevine - 13/12

The Grapevine covers this weeks Ultimate from near and far...

Get Horizontal (our European partners) gave us a promotion on twitter whilst reminding us there is no 'I' in team (although there is a me?) with Brummie's "No Heroes" piece.

Iceni and SYC released their trial schedules for the coming season, London and South East women get to both and enjoy some high level women's ultimate! See their FB posts below:

Post by SYC Ultimate.

Post by Iceni Ultimate.

Our German friends who came to London's Calling last year (coming back?) took some advice from us in Bordeaux airport and did an english episode!! And it was awesome, watch it here.



Nice one! We always love to hear your suggestions and really want more contributors for the coming seasons, keep your eyes open for a big announcement soon. Especially if you love frisbee chat... DP @ tSG. 

The Grapevine - 06/12

The Grapevine - this week in ultimate news!

Benji brings us the second part of his detailed breakdown of the IO break throw

As well as featuring in a UTalkRaw podcast discussing his coaching methods

This week Nakul's piece on ultimate and Depression was joint published both here on The ShowGame and on Skyd Magazine - check out and share this great article!

The GB and World Games coach Sion 'Brummie' Scone has been making waves overseas with this article on how to improve your team's offense. The piece stirred up plenty of discussion, which can be found here...

Finally the yearly UK Ultimate magazine Ultimatum is soon heading to the printing press! Take this opportunity to ensure your membership (and address!) is up to date so you don't miss out on a copy...

As always like, comment and share! JCK @ tSG

How Ultimate Helped Me Beat Depression

At a time where sport and mental health is very much part of the cultural zeitgeist, Nakul Pande brings us a touching and intimate insight into how Ultimate has affected his own life.

Well, not ‘beat’ exactly. You don’t come back from depression in quite the same way as you do a torn hamstring or a busted knee. Even the best therapist in the world can’t take a broken mind and reconstruct it so it works as good as new. They certainly can’t just tell you to stay off your head for a few weeks or months and avoid any heavy thinking. But I am me again. Perhaps a different, more thoughtful, more emotionally attuned me, but me. And I don’t know if that would have happened without ultimate.

Here’s when I knew I wasn’t going to make it on my own. It was the last day of Burla 2012. We’d finished our last game a few hours before and were having a post-lunch snooze on the beach. I’d been with my best friends, playing my favourite sport, in one of the most beautiful parts of my favourite country on earth for five days. But there was a void where what I had always thought of as me used to be. I was so empty inside I couldn’t even cry.