A new beginning for the old

Sydney Uni's oweek has just finished and the first week of uni is about to start. Suufa had a club meeting last weekend just going over plans for the year. More people, more tournaments, and more teams (with more spirit) were the main things on the agenda, as well as the super 3 year plan. Its really good to be working with a bunch of people so dedicated to improving the club and the game, a lot of planning and work went into o-week preparation and recruiting was (in my opinion) the best by far out of any of the sport clubs, mostly becuase suufa was willing to do the things the union said we couldnt, like walk outside of our stall and hand out pamphlets.

There was few new recruits but there was a few things I noticed and had Brett point out to me as we spoke about it during out learn to play session (with free pizza and drinks on the thursday afternoon).

The first thing I noticed at the learn to play was the amoutn of experience showing, there has been some successful high schoo development coming through. there was 5-6 peopl from my old school north sydney boys, i ran into a couple of girls who when asked if they knew what ultimate was their reply was "We already had too much at highschool." They were from north sydney girls. Brilliant.

There was a lot of people who could throw reasonably well and I asked a few ofthem and the common one was 'oh we used to throw a frisbee around at school but it was lighter than this one,' and a lot more people know what this sport is. Even my sister who had some americans come to her school in year 8 can throw a forehand now becuase of that, there is going to be a lot of talent coming through in the next fews.

Most of the people who have joined were not completely new to frisbee, with some experience and knowledge of the game before.

oh yeah.

At the learn to play we had a few fun games, brett calls 'hey all in for the spirit circles!'

"A spirit circle is something we have at the end of every game ... "

At the end of one, i over hear someone in an american accent: "I've been playing ultimate for 4 years and I've never been in one of those." as he walked away laughing and smiling.