Ultimate frisbee - in short it's like an to man soccer with a frisbee.
I got introduced to it one Wednesday evening where people were practising and I went to watch. It looked like a lot of fun and I read about the rules online over the rest of the week and was all set on Saturday to play (or so i thought).
The hardest part is that when you are on offence and the frisbee drops and you suddenly become the defence and need to run back to cover your person to prevent them from scoring!
This happens a bunch and so you have to constantly be watching the frizbee, your man and the rest of your team.
Everyone is "ball handler", everyone has to have an element of defence and offence in their gamet to be good.
It's an amazing stamina building game. You end up running the length of a soccer field maybe once every 3 minutes.
When they stopped for the first time o think we had played just 20-25 minutes and I was dead tired.
The had stopped for the halftime and continued for a second half. This was during a time I was playing some sport or the other daily and was in good physical condition!
Size of field - like soccer
Offence defence - like basketball
Scoring - like American football
Going with your heart out at the start means you can't sustain later, so it's better to pace yourself to be able to play and be competitive throughout the game.
Having or building the ability to throw well is key along with stamina.
Other points:
Playing dehydrated is a killer.
Bananas after dehydration helps you some.
Throwing underarm and overhead is a super useful skill.
Faking short passes to break away for a long pass can be super thrilling.
Seeing the disc float towards as you are running towards the end zone is a Wonderful feeling.
Seeing a hand come and knock the disc down right when you thought you had a touchdown is heart breaking.
