Alright so it is awesome that there are a lot of teams forming all
over maine and that it is getting much easier to contact people from
other teams and affilated with maine ultimate to set up scrimmages and
games and all that stuff. However the impression that i am getting
from emails and messages posted here is that the emphasis is purely on
getting out and scrimmaging another team or amoung your own team,
don't get me wrong thats awesome people are playing. But... there
needs to be an emphasis on learning the game which is not going to
happen from running around throwing a disc in no organized manner at
all. Captains you need to hold practices you need to teach your kids
how to throw the disc, the rules of the game, basic offenses and
defenses and run them over and over again, just showing someone on
paper isnt going to do it you need to practice. If you dont know
enough about ultimate to teach your kids this look for someone in your
area to help you coach the team even if its only once a week or so. It
is going to be especially hard and frustrating to do this having to
deal with the AD, with teachers, with the kids, with organizing, but
it needs to happen if ultimate in maine is going to become anything at
all. As far as i am concerned a bunch of people running around with
absolutly no idea of what they should be doing is not ultimate.

Now dont get me wrong im not saying that everyone needs to be an
allstar and know how to do everything perfectly or even execute what
is supposed to happen correctly, just to know how things should look
in the most basic way. There is no way to improve without knowing
where you are going wrong.



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