http://www.casualultimate.com play ultimate. stay casual. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My team, CGNU (Crazy Go Nuts University) lost in semis at Lei Out in an effort to defend our title from ’09, and we lost to some of my favorite people out there: CarBomb. I draw parallels between CarBomb and Jam for me personally because I really like CarBomb a lot, ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2010/01/29/carbomb-the-beach-ultimate-team/ I've been listening to Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA a lot since Natties. I think I'm slowly letting myself out of the box, and it feels really good. I remember in high school all I listened to was Floyd, Zeppelin, and usually darker stuff. I ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/11/13/follow-the-stream/ This weekend is SW Regionals in Phoenix (which is also called "Scottsdale" and "Tempe" and "a bad place to live"). I'm heading down with BCBC, a team that has grown to mean a lot to me. Not as much as Revolver or Brass, but certainly more than Machine ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/09/30/scottsdale-say-no-more-squire/ I'm playing for a coed team out of LA. It's a really special team with a great spirit and a commitment to using our women. My kind of coed team. So I started thinking about what I want to get out of this season with this team. I ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/08/07/brown-chicken-brown-cow/ I posted this on my personal blog and got such a huge response from frisbee players, I figured I'd better put it up on Casual Ultimate with a much better picture courtesy of Whit. Enjoy: I went to a Frisbee tournament called Potlatch in Redmond, WA this weekend. I camped ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/07/09/tired-man-walking/ I played Potlatch with a bunch of people that played on the two teams that ended my seasons in ’06 and ’07 on Brass Monkey, those teams being Shazam and Slow White. I had a story in my head that we were good enough to beat those teams or ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/07/08/black-and-white-thinking/ I was playing out at Ocean Beach this weekend in a relatively weak beach game, and I noticed two things. 1) I was being sort of arrogant out there as I am prone to do in games where I am the best or one of the best players, and ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/05/22/my-arrogance/ Maybe my biggest gift as an Ultimate player is not what I do between the lines. Hector wrote a blog post called “Invisible Fence” a few weeks ago criticizing teammates that don’t move up and down the sideline to follow the team and help their teammates from the sideline ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/04/27/what-would-you-sayya-do-here/ A few months ago, my mom and I talked about an issue that has been tough for me my whole life. Isn't it arrogant to be a really out there, expressed, loud, flashy star with your talents? Do you need to be quiet to be humble? Is ... http://www.casualultimate.com/2009/04/15/humble-or-hova/