April 13, 2009 @ 9:10 am
Ultimate (Frisbee) @ Sunken Garden
(I really need all the distraction I could get. I need to be occupied every single moment that I am awake. If you’re curious to ask why I need to be a busy bee, hmm… yes, it is something that personal. And I don’t want anybody asking if I’m okay, okay? Of course I’m not. And I don’t want to talk about it. Not now. Not to anybody but to Beng and Berj. Wow, special. Haha)
Finally. After wanting to try this out a couple of years ago (or I think its just last year), I got to try it out with my newest bff’s last Black Saturday at the UP Diliman Sunken Garden. The sport is actually called Ultimate pala. Frisbee is just a brand of the disc. Actually, I just forced myself with their company haha it was Beng’s Kuya Sean’s friend who plays the sport and drilled us through the basics.
So, Kuya Enteng (forgot his real name but they call him Enteng because he looks like Vic Sotto daw) led us through the stretching. Then he showed us the two basic throws: backhand and forehand. Parang tennis lang. Pati how to catch the disc, pancake style. Then we broke off into pairs then just went through the drills of throwing the disc back and forth.
My throws were directionless and wobbly, weak. Beng’s were actually good. Berj’s and Baby’s were usually too strong but has direction unlike mine. Frustrating. I usually have good enough coordination. We’ll get there with practice naman daw. They’re actually encouraging us to join the game already! Ha! I might injure someone if we did join them.
Basta join ako sa Ultimate on Saturday’s sa UP. Actually there are a lot of other groups practicing Ultimate during weekdays din. May Wednesdays pa daw, around 7PM at the Sunken Garden din. So far, the Ultimate sites that I know of are the Meralco field, UP Sunken Garden, and the Marine’s field at The Fort. I’m never much into team sports, I am anti-social like that, but maybe if get the hang of this soon, this could be my first? Hahaha Anyways, you know me, I easily get excited with novelty but just as easily get bored of it.


