Poll Results

So the poll "how pumped are you for regionals '10" has closed

I'm glad to see that 62.5% of you are "super pumped" and a respectable 12.5% are "big pumped"

but what is frightening is that 1/4 of you said "nah, im just chill"

I sincerely hope this is just a strategy for getting yourselves from a state of chill to chill-tense. Being chill about the prospect of regionals is absolutely unacceptable

-Kevin

Tricks of the Trade: The Swim Move

While watching the Gobies, I'm sure a lot of you have taken note of our incredible skillset of effective and stylish ultimate moves. So I'd like to take this opportunity to dissect the anatomy of my own special ability: The Swim move

Step 1: Begin Your Approach


















Show your defender that you mean business and start coming at him like an angry freight train carrying a shipment full of cuts. He'll be too busy wetting his pants thinking about you burning him deep to be prepared for the trickery you're about to pull


Step 2: Plant and Turn
















The swim move starts like many other cuts. It may be hard to slow down your burly, hulking, glittering mass of muscle (see picture), but this is one of the most important parts of the move




Step 3: Get low and close






























Lowering your center of gravity helps keeping you from tipping over while making your cut. Also, staying close to the hips of your defender confuses the crap out of them. While they turn around to see you go past them, you duck out of sight and begin your path towards the disc.




Step 4: Confuse Your Defender













The gentle, non foul contact will not only confuse your defender into thinking you're going to the endzone, but also cause him to be confused sexually. While he faces the endzone in frustration wondering where you went, you'll be hurtling headlong towards the thrower wide open with a defender left stuggling with his inadequacy.





Step 5: Attack the disc











With the swim move complete, all thats left is for you to grab the disc, lock and load, and fire off a huck to a waiting teammate. However, make sure you let them know you're about to swim move. They may get distracted and aroused while watching you swing your hips around your defender.


class dismissed:

-Kevin

Essentials #2: Chill-tense: for your listening pleasure...

It's been a long tradition of any sport that a player/team listens to pump-up music before a big game. You know, listen to pump-up music, chest bump, yell out of sheer adrenaline, rip off your warm-up apparel and roar like a lion defending his land; every team does it to get psyched for the game. But is this music selection really the best choice?

I think not.

Sure, getting pumped up will help intimidate the other team, but in the great sport of Ultimate, patience and "chilly"ness is usually more important than sheer manliness. How do you think our short and small team dominates wild beasts of nature from larger D-I and D-II schools? We play smart and conservative, and wait for an opening and take advantage of it by striking quickly and effectively (example: K. Poke lulling his defender to sleep by looking like a lazy chump while the handlers are swinging it. Just when his defender gets distracted, he busts deep and catches a perfect huck from The Bulge).

We've found out that we need to listen to music that represents this play style. We call it chill-tense music (chill + intense, duh). We first tested out this music pre-game at High Tide, and look how well we did there. Listening to this music will get you pumped up, but in a more intelligent way. We know we gotta play chilly, but always be ready to take advantage of a big play opportunity.

If we get the whole team to embrace this new musical way of thinking, we will be the chillest and the ill-est of the teams out there. You better be ready.

Some artist recommendations of chill-tense music:

- Minus the Bear - the music listened at High Tide, recommended by Kevin.
- Explosions in the Sky - this music will make you explode in your pants from its awe-inspiring mixture of chill, intensity, and pure epic-ness. THE definition of chill-tense; also recommended by Kevin. Recommended song: "The birth and death of a day".
- Sigur Ros - my personal favorite of chill-tense (I know the ac and evan love them too). If anything, they just make you feel all good inside. They sing in icelandic, so you know it's legit. Recommened song: "Saeglopur"
- EDIT: thanks to Andy for pointing out one of if not THE MOST chill-tense composers of them all: Clint Mansell, the man behind the Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain soundtracks. Recommended song: "Death is the Road to Awe" (The Fountain)

Get yo chill-tense on; it's good for the heart and soul.

- Marky Mark

It Has Begun

Yesterday I completed my first offseason workout. With the help of alumnis Matthew, "Wendy" Lehman, and Daniel "Cumminghard" Cunningham, I blasted almost every major muscle group into the next dimension. That would be the buff dimension. We maxed out pretty hard, and just when we thought we were totally maxed out, we pushed it even further to the limit. We even did these sweet sit ups while we threw medicine balls at each other. It was legit.

Wendy is training for the new cleveland club team thats forming this summer. And I guess I am too, because I'm totally ready to get in shape to play some ultimate at a higher level. Even though the two of us are going to be teammates this summer, I made it clear to wendy that my heart is with the gobies, and with every workout, I'm thinking about how it will help us get to our one goal:

Regionals

-Kevin

Player Profile - Ed Yanosik

Name: Ed Yanosik
Nicknames: Big Chill, Big Captain, Big Calves
Age: 20
Height: ~5' 11" + 20" from Air Alert
Position: D-line Master/Cutter/Handling Threat
Major: The best major around, Computer Science
Special Move: Smooth fakes, the opposite foot foot block

Description: Ed is basically the Jack of all trades of frisbee. When it comes to defense Ed will make your job of getting the disc almost impossible. If you do manage to get the disc (which usually only happens when he is poaching the lane and actually wants you to get the disc) he will put on a mark so sick that he’s still contagious.
On offense Ed usually starts off the cutting making a perfect short/deep threat. If he cuts in he’ll beat you to the disc and then be more than capable of throwing the up field continuation. But don’t be tempted to cheat in on him because he will burn you deep and sky you if he has to. Ed also has the hands to drop back and handle if he is needed.
Off the field, Ed is the chill-est of the ill-est. He’s always voted best dressed and most lovable person on the team, and for good reason. Overall, Ed’s the man and we are looking forward to having him as a captain next year.

A Fellow Bro,
Andy

Ladies

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Lady Gobies: The Road to Nationals

Kevin's GL Regionals Wrap Up

So great lakes regionals has come and gone. It was pretty hard to see the ladies come up just a bit short for the nationals bid. Still, watching them suck wind on the sideline and keep themselves in the game because they wanted to do everything in their power to win was pretty endearing. It really shows how great ultimate can be. Every tournament we go to, we see people going out and dying for a game that most people regard as little more than recreation. We've always said that the first step to improving your game is start to love ultimate. I'm pretty sure everyone out on the field at regionals today, guy or girl, loves what they're doing and if our whole team can get that sort of passion, we've got a chance of being there next year. I'm proud our girls got as far as they did, and I know they'll get even further next year. After all, Its better to have lost, and gave a shit about what you were losing than to just fail and write it off. Even if we don't make regionals next year (but we will), I'll be satisfied that we actually cared enough about something to change our approach to the sport. Its even pretty satisfying just to care enough about something to make a freakin' blog about it.

Gongrats to Timmy Lee and Magnum for making nationals. Too bad it had to come at the expense of OSU. It wouldve been nice to see both teams at columbus this year.

-Kevin