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Big weekend

European Championships Finals are afoot as of right now and there’s likely quite a bit of excitement over there (Twitter trend) . Locally Eastern Championships are in London (hosted by UWO Sharks). Steven Trainor has a Women’s Preview on his blog. It’s going to be a soggy weekend for all teams that compete and even soggier for those that watch from the sidelines (namely me). I’m going to head to London to try and provide on-site coverage (Twitter feed: http://twitter.

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Ooooeee Windy City

Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to inform you that you will likely see photos and possibly even video on this site over the weekend. You see, a few of us here in Canada (ladies and gents) have decided to be invited for Chicago Heavyweights and there’s supposed to be a showcase game on Saturday evening. Progress, news, and media will be available this weekend or shortly thereafter.

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Oh the glory…

This past weekend concludes my Canadian summer touring season for the year and I suspect that for most it was a rather exciting season. Over the last few seasons I’ve started playing with Hamilton players (Mayhem in particular) quite a bit more and have expanded my core group of Ultimate friends. More often than not I find people don’t pickup enough on other teams and try to stay in their “safe zone” by playing almost exclusively with the same groups of people year after year.

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Yikes…

A bit of neglect so a few updates. Playing at Unknown Legendsthis weekend where we shall defend our title from last year. The teams this year appear to be tougher than in the past and I look forward to the challenge. It’ll be a great way to wind down post CUC and get ready to windup for CHC. Lenny and I chatted a few nights ago about how to make Ultimate more TV friendly and spectator friendly (drawn out of a conversation on how to perhaps get people playing full time when they’re in their prime).

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CUC 2009: Even more photos

As people get back to their normal lives and recover they manage to find time for processing and posting of photos. Jon Hines (of Karma) has posted his photos online and they can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.plays.ultimate/CanadianNationalUltimateChampionships2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_Q8tSB3-fFRw&feat=directlink#

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Saturday Bloody Saturday

Every season comes down to a moment or a game or a situation where everything hangs in the balance. For those of us who enjoy professional sports it may be early in the season as we see the Boston Red Sox sweep the Jays out of the pennant race in August, or it may be later on as we see a pivotal game 7 with LeBron vs Garnett. In each situation there are winners and losers.

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Players Needed

This fall I’m captaining two squads that will head to Boracay for the 1st Asian Championships Beach Ultimate. It will be an intense four days of Ultimate against the best teams in Asia. You may be asking which team I’m captaining and I’ll reply (sheepishly): Currier Island. If you know the history behind the team then you know we play hard, do quite well, and are fiercely patriotic. Which is why I need you!

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CUC 2009: More photos

A couple more links to photos: Jaleel Paje: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuttybeat/sets/72157621946149923/Alexandre Chabot-Leclerc: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexchabot/sets/72157622079278158/and http://www.

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Continuing bid…

Since I played on Too Bad this year, a team known for not practicing, I needed some way to keep in shape throughout the year. In addition to practicing with a local Mixed team (The Company) a few times, playing league as many nights a week as I could, running track, and crossfit I also have attended a tournament every weekend for the last few months. Surprisingly the running has not taken a toll on my knees but rather has made them stronger.

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CUC 2009: Open Finals

During our live broadcast the server first went down at the end of the Open game (I could feel the frustration). Here is the end of that game to all those that missed it. Mephisto in black, Phoenix in white. [flv:http://s1.iamultimate.com/cuc_2009_open_finals_end.flv 400 320] Sorry, no iPhone version this time around.

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