Commentary

Update posts early in the week as well as photos from No Borders…for now though…rest.

Do I need to take a break? Pause for a bit? These are questions I’ve asked myself recently and for good reason as well. For the last few weeks, months perhaps, I’ve played at a tournament each weekend or been involved in running one. It’s at a hectic pace that I’ve played and traveled in order to feed the passion. As I look ahead to the next month I see that there is no break available until perhaps September.

Ever have one of those games? I feel like I had one on the weekend while playing LouEvil. Normally things click when I play Ultimate and every pass gets there before the D, I know what the cutters are thinking, and I select the right throw. That game though…sigh! Let me explain what happened. We had won our crossover game first thing in the morning and now we played LouEvil in the pre-semis.

I’m in Detroit for a wedding before I head to Cleveland for No Surf and it feels almost like a ghost town. On the way in I was asked by the border guard what Ultimate Frisbee was and where my dog was. I tried to hide my disappointment but what resulted was a five minute Q&A about what Ultimate was, whether I play for money, what size the disc is, where I’ve played before, what playing on beach is like, and a bit of history on the sport in the US.