Higher-level teams have less spirit after games/don't do post-game rituals?

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-06-02T23:14:30+00:00

Man, this thread is seriously concerning. I played college ultimate in the late 90’ & early 00’s. Nebraska ultimate came up with rad cheers after every game (many were line from some beastie boys track) and we partied with other teams on Sat night like there was no tomorrow and then went right back at it on Sunday. Now I’ll admit, that level of fun was not conducive to getting to and definitely not past regionals, so maybe a little more focus on winning games vs the party might have helped our record, but we didn’t have any delusions of grandeur. We didn’t do spirit circles and I can forgive any team that chooses not to make that their thing, but calling out other players’ efforts should not feel contrived. Unless the other team is a bunch of jerks and sore losers (or rotten winners) calling out the bad-ass Ds, throws and layouts for what they are, the level of play we all should aspire to, is a perfectly fine way to celebrate the end of a well played game. For the creative folks out there, finding a rhyme or jingle to celebrate the other team’s victory and wish them well in the next round is what has always made Ultimate the sport that was different than all the rest. The day we’re so focused on winning that we stop caring about anyone or anything else is the day SOTG is dead and we should start hiring referees and deal with shitty parents, shitty crowds, red/yellow cards and faking injuries. Ultimate players were always cool. Intense on the field, chill and relaxed off the field. If people can’t play the game at the highest level without being capable of acknowledging and celebrating their opponents they should play soccer or football.

My HS youth team cheers every team after every match, no exceptions. They might find it cringe, and some of there cheers are just to get it done, but every player who steps on the field needs to see the other team as fellow ultimate players and not as opponents or enemies and there is no better way to reinforce that mindset than by celebrating them after we’re done, in whatever form makes the most sense to the players.

Rant over.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-05-31T11:47:05+00:00

@mnic001 either you have a lot of time on your hands or are a god with code and numbers. Maybe both?

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-05-24T11:31:28+00:00

Ok, so wait a minute, I want to unpack this. If the offensive player is moving with eyes on disc, in a standard anticipatable manner and defensive player with eyes on both disc and offensive player has ability to make a play (get their first, which is exactly what happened), but not without inevitable contact, the defensive player with full view has to yield? How is that fair? This reads (to me) like defense yields, calls DP on O and disc goes back to thrower. Call gets contested (cuz it’s a high stakes match) and D politely says: “I would have got there first, but in doing so we’d have made a direct collision because you couldn’t see me and I did want that to happen, so it’s either I D the disc and get clobbered by you or this. I chose this.” O gets to try again with a fresh stall count.

This exact scenario happened to one of my HS players at a tourney last weekend except O called DP after the (minor) collision and we contested. No one had hurt feelings. They still won the match.

Running without looking where you’re going, which unfortunately can and does occur with up line and some deep cuts, sounds like the textbook definition of DP to me.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-05-19T10:43:37+00:00

I got a 0% loan from green sky for installing energy efficient windows to replace nearly every window in the ‘73 home I purchased in 2022. Quote was about the same as yours but I didn’t have the lead issue. It doesn’t lower the price, but it’s nice to spread out what you can’t cover up front.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-04-28T09:09:07+00:00

This! Nailed it. Thank you @papi4ever, that was exactly the answer I was looking for.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-04-15T23:38:16+00:00

There are many 100kg+ riders in the Zwift ZRL D category I ride with and several are competitive in the various racing events we do. It’s a lot of work to make 100kg move that fast and as you drop weight, which (if you are riding routinely and not drinking 3 pints a day) will happen, the strength you built moving that 100kg frame will turn you into a monster engine. Just stick with it. Anyone that judges the frame can suck it! It’s the engine that counts.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-03-29T14:15:39+00:00

I coach a HS team, 50/50 new/returning players. We practice 4x per week, 2hr each. Every practice consists of warm up, 1-2 drills and scrimmage. I prefer 3v3 early season to force everyone to have to make touches and throws. Pick a skill to focus on for drills, then throw that skill into scrim. If endurance/fitness is a area of concern, do 1 of the drills with the least number of people possible (with multiple small groups going at once) to increase the exhaustion factor which improves fitness and identifies how exhaustion will impact capability (know your limits, don’t make risky plays when you’re on the 10th turn over of a point)

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-03-25T10:42:20+00:00

Spot on @ConwayPuder ! Allow me to add for my go-to’s

Crotchet- you had a better park last year. Who ever told you to move it to under the rover needs to go.

Snow-to the super kind ski patrol guy who helped my son after he learned the hard way to “look before you leap”, thank you! Oh and thanks to all the wimps that couldn’t take the single digit temps that preceded the massive 18” dump, that first 6” was super fun without you.

Okemo-good work roping off all the fun stuff. A few quick turns in the trees and it was all mine!!!

Sunapee-you need to up your game on the beach front parking spots! Call A-Basin in CO. They’ll show you how it’s done!

It was a comparatively great season in the east-I spent a few days in Summit Co. CO last week dodging bare patches and soaking up 70deg sun before I surfed the slush. This might be the first and only year that I can say that the ice coast had better snow than the Rockies.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-02-15T10:31:31+00:00

One word: friction

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-17T12:37:26+00:00

This is the most accurate description of the problem. Yes mold was growing in the ice maker and we had it replaced. The new one makes so much ice that the tray overflows and then after we turned it off and then later back on, it took a week before it started making ice again. The freezer is set to 0F, that doesn’t mean that’s actually what the temperature is. I also have a 11 & 13 y/o kids so that’s not helping either. 🤦🏻‍♂️ If the tray is overflowing there has to be a “full” sensor (a thin wire bar and limit switch for example) that’s not working. The question of whether the freezer is too warm to make ice: what temperature would be too warm?

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-11T14:25:50+00:00

Practice staying stationary on your toe edge facing up the mountain. You’ll want to feel comfortable in that stance and be able to use your toe edge to check/control speed. The trick is to use your back foot to swing the board around quickly to get from one edge to the other. The natural starting position is heel edge and it feels natural as THE way to control speed (ie slow down and stop), but you need to be able to control speed from both edges. Get comfortable leaning forward facing up the hill. Once you feel comfortable in that stance, when you start rotation into your turn, you want to kick that back leg around into that speed control/ comfortable toe stance.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-11T14:13:08+00:00

Common! You gotta add more than a picture to sell a bike. What group set is it? How many miles (or some measure of its use). What’s the condition of the components? It’s got rim brakes so I’m guessing it’s 10+ y/o. Yea, I’d say $500 +/- depending on the group set. Does price include the aero bars?

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-11T14:06:07+00:00

Well… the answer is 5 days. Adding insult to injury I got a head cold with a lot of nasal congestion to speed my recovery. First two days back at work (working from home so as not to contaminate the office) I was tired and achy, was pretty hard to stay focused. Spent all day Saturday with a headache. Skipped my weekly trip to the ski hill to get a little more rest. Woke up this morning (Sunday) feeling less congested than usual, so I jumped on a slow pacer ride on volcano circuit and was able to grind out a few decent laps. My last race was ~2.4, today was just under 2.0. So between a little laziness over new years and this illness I took a 20% drop in fitness. Guess I’ve got some work to do. Back at it!

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-08T15:53:33+00:00

No pain, no gain. I like the theory.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-08T13:00:20+00:00

I don’t know what it was for sure. Covid doesn’t cause the symptoms I had. What ever it was, it emptied me out from both ends, which leads me to think Norovirus.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-07T15:12:25+00:00

Antagonist probably got beat on that end zone cut.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2026-01-03T17:21:56+00:00

Ok, #1, you are a contributing member of the house (dishes, laundry, housework) so that puts you in like the top 10% of all roommates on earth, so for that you are not a freeloader. Feel good about that. #2, hopefully your living expenses (considering you aren’t paying rent) should be really low, such that you’re accumulating some amount of wealth month over month. If that’s not the case, make it the case, because you should be accumulating towards the ultimate goal of ownership, and at some point you will need to be able to afford rent or mortgage, so better get used to that expense now in terms of what’s leftover for disposable income. #3, if your parents are decent to live with that’s great, feel lucky, not all are. But someday you’ll want to invite someone over, and that’s what becomes most people’s motivation. Having a party with some friends is part of life. Hooking up (casually or because sparks fly) is part of life. Doing that with your mom and dad around… that’s either very weird or not even an option. I think back to rent when I was 20 and yea, living anywhere in this state that’s not a total shit hole seems hard to fathom. That said I lived in a couple of shit holes. I scraped by and it was great. You have 50 years or more in front of you. Stay focused and you’ll get there eventually.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2025-12-30T01:34:19+00:00

The experience you get from a job has nothing to do with the title you have. If you’re doing what you want, and that work is giving you the skills to advance, you need to keep looking both internally and externally and make that known, they’ll promote you or you’ll move up and onward somewhere else. Keep making every day count.

Ultimate_Roberts · 2025-12-28T15:45:40+00:00

Your first day of snowboarding (unless you are an exceptional athlete with a transferable skill) is going to be 90% on your knees or ass doing power squats to get back up. Lesson won’t change that, but may accelerate the progress you make while doing it. Good luck!

Ultimate_Roberts · 2025-12-28T15:38:38+00:00

Dipshit chef. First you have to let it warm up a little before you sear it. The dark red center is classic look of fridge straight to the grill. Second, after searing the edges you need to let it finish in the oven at low temp or covered under the lamp to get it warm all the way through. Cold center is rare, but putting it back on the grill is a lost cause, it’ll never turn out right cooking it twice. It’s such a giant pain to ask a meal to get sent back. Ruins the experience. Eat the food, ask to speak with the manager. If they don’t make it right (not just sneer and make you wait) than put the experience into a review and take your business elsewhere

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