Spring Break! Part 2: Follywood (3/17-3/21)
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Loading ...One part hat tourney, three parts scrimmaging/B-team tourney. Lots of wind, which was better than windless and gnat-filled.
Beach Houses. Beach. Ahhh, Beach. Sun, lots of sun. Lots of sunburning.
A wonderful week.
Ultimate-related components:
Hat Tourney
A pretty good time, though the wind really hosed the level of play. It’s a lot tougher to be a ballin’, play-makin bomb-thrower when the wind means that precision throws are tough and completions depend as much on the capability of the cutter as that of the thrower (in contrast to calmer conditions, where I could place throws such that the receiver’s ability is relatively less important).
Of course, I’m no Alex Crew, whose (mostly) unstoppable flick, upwind or downwind, carried his team into the finals and ultimately to victory. A “5″ on the 1-5 scale, indeed. Did I mention that he’s single?
Follywood Proper
B-teams had two squads, each playing a couple games a day I think. They didn’t place terribly well, but they made a shitton of progress in just a short while. Especially fun to watch friends of mine who’d never played ultimate before come on spring break and go from recreational tosser to on-field baller.
A-team, we(as well as the women) had a few scrimmages. We wound up playing Arkansas, Carleton GOP, and Oklahoma…we beat GOP pretty handily, were tight with Arkansas (I *think* we may have opened up a bit more of a lead late that game, but I can’t recall if we actually won or not), and dropped one to Oklahoma in some pretty windy weather as our glaring lack of outdoor experience manifested in numerous short turns. A good swift kick in the nuts to us, we spent a fair bit of time afterwards getting back to basics, working on throwing, doing some general zone work with specific situations, and dialing back in our dump-swing.
So it was that we left Folly feeling more confident in our ability to play in conditions. A half-day’s road trip later, and we were off to Statesboro for Southerns. More on that next time…
Mack-attack, congrats on a successful spring break, and send my congrats over to TD Socks. What do you think Dartmouth has to do to make Follywood better than High Tide? A possibility in the future? Perhaps only if Alex Crew takes a fifth year to become team President.
Thanks Sam! Congrats have been passed. Man that guy worked hard.
Better than high tide? Right now we’d need more field space to make that a reality–we only had space for 4 fields. There was some other space that we used to practice at one point, but it was swarming with red ant nests. Not fun to step on/lay out in.
Field space is probably the #1 thing to make it a bigger draw. Right now Folly Beach is much friendlier to frisbee types because they haven’t established a bad rep there, and the tournament fee for Follywood is obviously cheaper than the $500 of High Tide.
I’m sure Crew could do it if he really wanted, though at this point it’s likely he’ll be a stud handler for Minesota or BU or a stud everything for UNH in physics grad school next year.
I see this is all a ploy to actually get me to comment on your blog. While we’re doing self-calls I’ll point out that far and away the worst game I had was when I was being covered by a certain dreaded gentleman. coincidence, who knows. I agree that the biggest obstacle to making folly better is field space. Perhaps, if we had a good local contact (like Charleston the year before) it might be possible to find more fields.
As for what I do next year, it’s still up in the air. All I know is that I plan on handling.
–crew