A blog about all things Ultimate

Amazing layout at the Malaysian Open Finals 2012.

hermzz — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:31:48 +0200

Amazing layout at the Malaysian Open Finals 2012.

European Ultimate Championships 2011 DVD Trailer. Some hot shit...

hermzz — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:01 +0200

European Ultimate Championships 2011 DVD Trailer. Some hot shit right there.

super-sonic-boom: 2nd ever proper layout today. hopefully the...

hermzz — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:36:28 +0100

super-sonic-boom:

2nd ever proper layout today. hopefully the start of many more to come. sadly, landed on my specs and crushed it in the process :(

Coman Fruta Cabrones

hermzz — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:38:08 +0100

Coman Fruta Cabrones:

My friend Mark Earley started a new blog called Ultimate Interviews where he interviews people about all things ultimate. He asked me to write a piece about my favourite tournament and here’s my contribution. Do take a look around the other articles, there’s some really interesting stuff.

littlemissfrisbee: To anyone else, this is a random collection...

hermzz — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:46:14 +0100

littlemissfrisbee:

To anyone else, this is a random collection of words (well and a couple added by my mother). To us, it’s who we look up to and who we aspire to be. Smurf is a South Australian team, by the way. They went to WUCC 2010 and did really quite well.

eurotripped: Some photos from my time in Madrid. The city is...

hermzz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:53 +0100

TINY BUS!

Repping Jabberwock Ultimate in Madrid

COLGATE!

Playing ultimate with Los Quijotes.

eurotripped:

Some photos from my time in Madrid. The city is really awesome and I’m having a great time. Enjoyed the bars, tapas joints and table service at Kapital. I’ve got a bit of a sinus cold right now which is quite unfortunate, but other than that all is well. Hunter and I have gotten into mild (but good natured) arguments with Begoña about how best to cook an egg for use in a dish of pisto. Mama Bego seems to think that cooking eggs poco hecho (the runniest cousin of sunny side up imaginable) means raw. We’d prefer them a little bit more well done. Other than that, all is well. I’m spending too much time reading A Song of Ice and Fire series…finished A Game of Thrones and am well into A Clash of Kings. If there’s anything you’d like to know, you can ask me by clicking the green link under the blog title at the top of the page.

Love JB

Hey! That’s my field! I couldn’t go this weekend, but I’m sure we’ll coincide soon.

Looks like the NGN Network managed to raise $20,000! I’m...

hermzz — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:32:58 +0100

Looks like the NGN Network managed to raise $20,000! I’m looking forward to some hi-def college Ultimate. In the meantime, here’s the top 10 plays from the Nexgen tour they posted.

Sample Nexgen footage of the first three points from the USAU...

hermzz — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:22:00 +0100

Sample Nexgen footage of the first three points from the USAU Open Club Championships 2011 final game between Revolver and Ironside.

This is the kind of stuff to expect from the future NGN Network and it’s only $2,675 short of happening. If you haven’t helped out, head over to their kickstarter page and give them some money!

Edit: includes ridiculous layout D by Jon Levy at around 2:15.

Tell that to The Kraken.

hermzz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:01:33 +0100

Tell that to The Kraken.

Guilty as charged.

hermzz — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:56:04 +0100

Guilty as charged.

Fantastic promotional video from USA Ultimate.

hermzz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:17:38 +0100

Fantastic promotional video from USA Ultimate.

2011 in tournaments

hermzz — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:59:24 +0100

Halfway through last year, some teammates of mine noticed I was going to a lot of tournaments (ie: everything I could possibly sign up to) and they mentioned that the most tournaments they’d gone to in one year was 18. Naturally, I decided to take up the challenge and aimed for at least 19. To keep track, I created a tournament list on ffindr that you can see here. In the end I managed to attend 20 tournaments, although I think the list may be missing one or two minor tournaments and includes a women’s only tournament I went to, to help out the team and provide moral support.

Teams: Los Quijotes (7), Hat tournaments (4), national Spanish Open (3), pickup (4 teams in 5 tournaments)

Best/worst:

Best tournament: Coman Fruta, great team, great weather, great games, great party, and I kicked ass. Followed closely by Las Palmas Hat for the same reasons.
Worst tournament: European Nationals, played like crap and finished last. The great fields and getting to go to Slovenia made it slightly better.
Best fields: grass field at Dr Sand & Mr Grass. Oh god, dat grass.
Worst fields: the Costa Brava beach. Calling it gravel would be too kind. Good thing the rest of the tournament makes up for it. (Free herp derp layout D face). Followed closely by the Beach Worlds sand at any time between 1pm and 4pm. Playing ultimate inside an active volcano would have been more pleasurable.
Best party: Dr Sand, Costa Brava, Talampaya, and the European Nationals closing party.
Worst party: Rising High (although the live band was pretty awesome), and Cremas Beach Challenge (although a women’s only tournament, single sex tournaments are expected to have crap parties).
Best team: Los Quijotes at Costa Brava, improved our historical best result by about 6 places finishing 3rd. Grullitas at Coman Fruta, with a huge roster for a beach tournament of about 16 players we still all managed get a fair amount of playing time and everyone was awesome. Eurotrash at Talampaya, with a small roster of only 10 people we managed to finish 5th.
Worst team: Spanish national team at European Nationals, we never clicked and the team was very divided from the start.

Memorable moments:

Layout catch for the score at Dr Sand & Mr Grass that earned me the best grass layout prize (pictorial evidence).
Skying an unsuspecting defender at Las Palmas hat for the last point and victory (finished 3rd I think) of the tournament on universe point.
Finished last at a tournament for the first time ever, twice, at European Nationals and Chiripones.
First proper layout D during the last game at Windmill Windup, broke my Talampaya bracelet.
Getting smoked by one of the Five brothers (Xtehn) at Beach Worlds. To make matters worse, there’s video evidence.
Playing the Black Bonsai all-star team at Talampaya. My only good game of the tournament, squared off against a dude who’s played for Ironside and GOAT at USAU Nationals and managed to do some damage.
Missed layout D on universe point against Venus Funk Trap at Coman Fruta after a 5 point comeback. I managed to actually touch the disc, but it still floated to it’s intended receiver for the point.
Played all but 10 points at the 2nd division Spanish Nationals, five (or was it six?) 90 minute games in two days proved to be too much and I ended up messing up my back.
Playing European regionals the next weekend was an epic adventure worthy of it’s own post.
Threw my first lefty backhand in a game a for an assist at Piticli’s Sand Party.
Finally got my hucks under control. Threw two picture perfect backhand end-zone to end-zone hucks at spanish beach nationals and just generally killed it at Chiripones, Piticli’s, and the Madrid autumn league.
Winning the most assists prize during the Madrid autumn league.

All in all, an amazing year full of great tournaments.

Madrid Autumn league finals.

hermzz — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:18:36 +0100

Madrid Autumn league finals.

Ridiculous layout D from the Voodoo @ NW Sectionals highlight reel

hermzz — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:04:12 +0100

Highlight reel here, and layout at around 1:35.

Full PAUC 2011 final, Sockeye (USA) - Warao (Venezuela).

hermzz — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:35:50 +0100

Full PAUC 2011 final, Sockeye (USA) - Warao (Venezuela).

Played a beach hat tournament this weekend and I captained the...

hermzz — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:32:00 +0100

Played a beach hat tournament this weekend and I captained the team that won the spirit prize for second year running. The prize is this awesome plush pink squid.

How many Ultimate players does it take to use the phone?

hermzz — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:53:35 +0100

onehundredones:

14. One to make the call, 13 to discuss it.

Tournament this weekend, I’ll be telling this to anyone who’ll listen.

thezebramousecollective: Frisbee freedom

hermzz — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:35:13 +0100

thezebramousecollective:

Frisbee freedom

I refuse to post that 'Dude- What do you mean you can't find the frisbee' picture. I refuse!!!

hermzz — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:10:35 +0100

Same here, it’s easily the most repeated post on the frisbee tag… and it’s not even funny. Thankfully, it’s showing up less and less lately. Just like that annoying “I was wondering why that frisbee was getting bigger, and then it hit me” joke…

stumblesandblisters: Boston’s Ironside v. Atlanta’s Chain...

hermzz — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:43:06 +0100

stumblesandblisters:

Boston’s Ironside v. Atlanta’s Chain Lightning from the 2011 Club Ultimate Championships

Fantastic game, I wish there was better footage of it. Check out 16:30, and 42:22 for two great layouts.