Black Betty Gets a Mailing List

If you have ever been along to a Black Betty squad training, or think you might like to join us (for frisbee training, fitness or weekend activities with fun frisbee chicks) in the future, sign up to the yahoogroup mailing list and stay informed about training dates, weekend hikes and runs, fitness resources etc.

(You can set your yahoogroup membership to only recieve daily digests of messages, or special notices only, so don't fret about an inbox full of spam.)

Send a blank email to: Black_Betty_Ultimate-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

This will be the official channel for squad communication, so you need to sign up if you want to stay in touch!

Want to play competitive Ultimate?

'Black Betty' is Brisbane's newest women's ultimate disc club.
We invite you to train with us.

***Squad Training Closing Soon!***

If you've been thinking about coming down but just haven't got round to getting off the couch, it's time to make your Thursdays count!

Coach Mat Ryan will run practices open to all women who wish to develop their skills further and take your game to the next level.

Thursdays, fortnightly (from 24 Sept)
Oakman Park, Toowong

If you're keen to put your names forward for selection for the Nationals team in April 2010,
we'd also love to hear from you.

Questions? - email or call
Molly Young piggysweetheart@yahoo.com.au 0405 660 863
Laura Keating ljkeating@gmail.com 0431 392 190

Women's Month is Here

Want to improve your ultimate game or learn to play ultimate? We have the thing for you. Click on the below flyer for existing player information.

Click on the below flyer for new player information.

Winter Activities

The 2nd season of women's league is over and congratulations go to UQ Rocks for their win in the final. Thanks to those who did come down to watch the final! It was a cold and damp night so well done to the ladies who played.

What's next on the women's calendar? Read on...

MIXED HAT LEAGUE
5 week league (names in a hat for the first game and then you stay in those teams for the league). We may try and run this as a 4 women / 3 men tournament so first in best dressed for your spot on a team!

Dates: Tuesday 28th July - Tuesday 25th August
Location: Oakman Park, Toowong
Cost: TBC.
Sign up by 23rd July (we need to work out if we can progress with the number of people etc)
REGISTER:
http://www.afda.com/rego/showcompetition.php?competitionid=688

Contact: Maylin Chuah - missmaylin@gmail.com

GOLD COAST DEVELOPMENT CLINIC
There will be a women's only skill development day for the women of south sast QLD and northern NSW. This is a great way to improve your ultimate game. Coaches will help you learn about the game and test your personal skills.

Date: 8th August
Location: Gold Coast - Pizzey Park (Miami)
Time: All day
Cost: TBC

Contact: Megan Barnes - meganbarnes84@gmail.com

REGISTER:
http://www.afda.com/rego/showdivision.php?divisionid=1117

WOMEN'S MONTH
Come along to these skills clinics for players of all levels. We have nationally qualified coaches coming down to instruct activities for new and experienced players. If you want to improve your skills and understanding of Ultimate Frisbee, at any level, come along!

This is a great opportunity to be coached by some excellent instructors and learn some new frisbee skills.

Dates: 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th September
Location: Oakman Park, Crn Union St and Mogill Road, Toowong
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $20 for 4 weeks ($5 a session to be paid on the night)
Bring: Light/Dark shirts, water bottle, running shoes/soccer cleats
REGISTER: Keep your eyes open for the rego email.

Contact: Maylin Chuah - missmaylin@gmail.com & Blair Sheard - bsheard@bigpond.net.au

WUFL Season 2 Final

WUFL season 2 is coming to an end this Tuesday, so come and check out the final.
This season we have Mellow Black defending their title against UQ Rocks. The teams are 1 and 1 this season and are ready to fight it out in the final. There will also be Beers and a BBQ for all our supporters.

Who: Anyone and everyone
What: WUFL Final, BBQ and Beer
Where: Oakman Park, Toowong
When: Tuesday July 7th, game starts at 7:15
Why: Support women's ultimate in Brisbane

See you Tuesday!

Laura

WUFL Draw for 30 June

WUFL Draw for

WUFL Draw for 16 June

Women's Sa-HAT-urday Game

Mark Saturday the 20th of June into your little black frisbee books because Sa-hat-urday is on again.

A 'hat' is a name for a type of game format which basically has everyone coming down to form teams for the afternoon - its a way to play with different people from your usual Monday or Tuesday night team.

You need to register online:

http://www.afda.com/rego/showteam.php?teamid=6530

Here are the particulars:

Oakman Park, Moggill Rd Toowong

1-3 PM Saturday 20 June

Bring light and dark shirts

BYO picnic stuff if you'd like snacks or drinks (BBQ gas and equipment will be provided)

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Molly Young

piggysweetheart@yahoo.com.au

WUFL Draw for 9 June

WUFL Draw for 2 June

If you would like to send us in a better logo, go for it.

If you would like to take on the job of promoting the League via posting the draw, let us know. Its easy.

Interested in improving your game?

Steph Levasseur is holding a brief (pre-women's league) info session on excercise science and sports training program development.

Come along and gain tools to plan your own fitness program.

Tuesday 2 June
6:30 - 7pm
Oakman Park (BBC Oval off Moggil Rd.)

for more info contact Steph: s.levasseur@uq.edu.au

Stars Reaching for the Stars:

Continuing the pre-Nationals tradition of BUFF vs Sultry, the Brisbane women are taking womens Ultimate to the next level, demonstrating their committment to Women's Ultimate all year long and forging some true community in Brisbane Ultimate in the process. On Saturday May 3oth, as you should all already know, we are holding a high level womens hat game!! And it's such a great idea that the guys have copied us and are joining in the fun. So come down and play, come down and watch, come down and cheer, come down and learn from the top tier of the Brisbane Ultimate Community. Bring your doubting-Thomas friends and awaken them to Ultimates awesomeness!! I sadly will not be attending this time, as I am making my way to Newcastle for another great frisbee event, the Eastern Junior Nationals, but I encourage everyone to embrace this new level of Ultimate in Brisbane and head down to Oakman park at 1pm on Saturday May 30th for an incredible game and a post game BBQ (byo food, BBQ and gas supplied : )!!!

xoxmegs

Hucking off overseas...

This week, BrisbaneWomensUltimate Blog pays tribute to two of Queensland ultimate’s starlets, who are, sadly, preparing to leave us for foreign climes and ever-greater heights of academic achievement.

Photo: Tam getting a block on Italy at 2007 EUC

This Monday sees one of Sultry’s fearless leaders set off for her yearly pilgrimage to Denmark. Tam Davis is heading to Copenhagen where she will play the European tournament season, inject some of her ulti-expertise into the small but blossoming Danish Frisbee scene, party it up a bit... and possibly even find a little time to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos as part of her research into dark matter.


Tamara’s extensive experience on Australian representative and club teams, European championships as well as world-reknown international tourneys in Rimini and Kaimana, of course, pales into insignificance against the name she has carved for herself since coming to Brisbane in 2008: dual record consumption of long island iced teas at the RE and Regatta. On a side note, Tamara is pioneering sports science research into injury recovery and prevention through her innovative ‘sit in the kelvinator’ method of post-game muscle treatment.

Amy “Thurbs” Thurber -- our US import who flew into this year’s nationals under the radar and took the place by storm with a swag of MVP nods from opposing teams -- also heads homeward at the end of the month where she will undertake her PhD in biochemistry.

Thurbs arrived in Brisbane two years ago an avid basketballer with all of her hamstrings, Achilles tendons, calf muscles and quadriceps intact. All that was fated to change when lucky chance intervened in her sporting aspirations: UQ Ultimate on Wednesdays turned out to be more conveniently scheduled than b-ball training and a star was born. Something obviously clicked with Amy and Frisbee, and within weeks she had been recruited to a team for the 2008 National Championships.


Amy’s natural athleticism, unstoppable D and extensive and consistent, repeated injury record have all meant that she and ultimate are a great fit. Amy has been a key member of the UQ ultimate fraternity, as well as an invaluable addition to QLD’s nationals teams, on Minx in 2008 and Sultry this year. Whether rugged up at training, hobbling along the sideline, pushing the sultry squad with her sadistic ab-workouts or cheerily admonishing us to ‘cmon ladies, suck it up!!!’ from the wing, Amy will be sorely (hahah) missed.

Photo: Amy throwing a frisbee.

QLD Women's Meeting 13/05

Thanks to everyone who made it to the meeting on Wednesday night. It was productive and interesting. It is certainly exciting to see so many women keen to help make things happen in QLD women's ultimate. Please let myself or Blair know if you have any queries or would like to help with any projects lists in the document. We will be in touch soon with the summary of plans for the rest of the women's year for 2009.

Link to Minutes of Meeting

Email: women@quda.org

Where do you play on wednesday?

Wednesday?? There's no frisbee on wednesday... right? ... Wrong!!

There is now frisbee at UQ, Gold Coast and just down the road at the Nathan Griffith campus!! So pick your poison frisbee ladies because all of them love good girls. For more information see the contacts below.

xoxmegs

UQ - Wed 6pm, Field 7, UQ Campus, St Lucia - natman82@gmail.com
Gold Coast - Wed 7pm, Pizzey Park, Sunshine Bvd, Gold Coast - srappazzo@hotmail.com
Nathan - Wed, ??pm, ??Field, Griffith Nathan Campus -jjderooy@yahoo.co.uk

So here's all about Sultry's trip to Perth and Nationals 2009

Day One
Sultry came out looking hot in their sexy new shirts on Thursday morning, fired up to be at Nationals! Everyone looked fitter, stronger and better than ever before. We found our fast running short game to look impressive with a 13-6 win against Bush combined with some SA ring-ins.

Game Two and we went in fired up and played hard against the beautiful Factory Girls'(Canberra) long game, but in the end lost in universal point 16-15, basically, to some awesome Tara grabs - that girl can catch anything!!

Game Three and a bit down after the loss to Factory Girls, we started by going down a few points to Sugar Mags and needed Captain Tam's inspiration to bring us back. In the end Sultry came second 14-12, to a small but strong Newcastle roster that ended up placing 3rd.

Day Two
Primal lost three on the first day and came out angry, to say the least. The lack of spirit in this game brought the Sultry girls down ten minutes in, and though we clawed back three of the points and had the FS boys on the sideline to cheer us on in the end, we couldnt finish it and went down in universal point again (I forget the score). Special Commendation to Mel who turned into a LAYOUT D MACHINE !!!!

The three losses bumped us to the second bracket, but a circle of wins put us in the second slot in the bracket and into the 5-8 playoffs. Unfortunately draw-wise, our game against Primal counted, and we now we had to beat the JD-coached WA Kaos to make the 5-6 playoff.

The ongoing onslaught of 2 hour games, the challenging spirit and the speed, flukey hucks and determination of Kaos were too much for us though. Kaos got up early and we never got it back, going down 12-6.

Next up, Indies. The Adelaide team had also lost a few times and were keen to get some points on the board. They had some strong handlers in the wind and some great layout D's but after so many close games we were out to finish what we had started and took it out this time, with a wicked fence and some of our own layout D's... universal point again: 17-16.

Day Three
Our turn for the late start, we came out at 11am for the final pool game against Honey G's. They said they were out to win the party and were certainly fun to play against (and with). We defeated them 17-1 to us, but dont think they'll be so easy to beat next year when they've been playing together'longer - they are already taking layout grabs and generally being spectacular, just werent able to string it together especially in the face of 5 double happiness points, endzone conversions and án Eireann-layout-d-to-hammer-score!! Followed up with licorice fun provided by Molly and some Honey-bee evolution.

After lunch, we had a Kaos re-match to see who would go into the 5-6 playoff. This time we gave them the game they (and we deserved) and went head to head. We were excited for the fun rematch and this time traded points, going down universal point in yet another nailbiter!! I think the hammers of the previous game had gone to our head and as the wind rose, they turned out to be a bit risky, though Bree smashed a great one in with the wind for Mel to score in the corner.

Day Four
Sultry joined the Perth boys, Sublime, in the party madness on the night of Day 3 (one of the best frisbee parties I for one have been to) and a few members (who shall remain unnamed) may still have been drunk in the last game. I also have it under advisement that someone (certainly not me) wore hotpants for the entire last day! The game, another rematch, against the Factory Girls, was once again a points trader. I cannot for the life of me remember the final score, but in the end we did go down (by two i think), though not for lack of effort... !!

Endurance
The only Sultry game that went for less than TWO HOURS was the Honey-G's game on Friday arvo. I am a bit of a flake so some of the order in days two and three may be mixed up!! We had dancing delightfulness provided by Lauras great playlists, the Sultry MVP pose-off and the Sultry speakers and laminated rules for spirit provided by Molly and co.

Final Thoughts
The Womens Final was (not unpredictably) Team Box and Wildcard. Relinquishing an early lead Team Box went down to the Nic-Footer-less (broken collarbone) Wildcard by 2??. 16-14?? Despite the snobbish slap-in-the-face-to-Womens-ultimate lack of commentary, it was an awesome game... better, perhaps, than the Dowle-less Fyshwick vs Chilly final, where Fyshwick put up a token resistance, hardly resembling the team I saw play two days earlier, before Chilly steamed home to reclaim the title.

In case you all havent noticed yet, I am not the best with scores, so please feel free to let me know if I have them wrong!!

Thanks to Perth for having us!

xoxmegzz

WUFL Flings Again...

Brisbane Women's Ultimate Frisbee League is back on!

Tuesday 12th May is Registration Night.

Sign up for a team, meet other players and hone your skills. (Includes a FREE intro session to ultimate disc for newbies)

Who: Women of all ages and fitness levels
Where: Oakman Park, Toowong (Cnr. Moggil Rd. and Union St.)
When: Tuesdays 7-9pm, 12May til beginning of July.

For more info contact info@quda.org or women@quda.org

Women's Development Camp 2009

Lots of ladies in Brisbane attended this camp last year and had a great time. It is hugely advantageous to us that its in our home town (and not too far from the Gold Coast). Hope you can come and a) be coached by top coaches b) meet women Ultimate players from all over Australia c) improve and have fun.

Registration: http://www.afda.com/rego/showteam.php?teamid=5711
Where: JF O'Grady Fields, Fairfield (where we played Regionals)
When: June 27-28
What: Training camp to help players of all levels of ability to improve their individual skills and game. It is run in the style of a national team training camp.
Who: The camp is open to all women, and we have a large coaching staff to ensure that new players learn the basics and more experienced players are pushed by Australia’s top coaches of women. All in a friendly environment
Cost: $200 - this helps to pay for the cost of fields, food, flying coaches in, and helping interstate people to come.

Sultry at Nationals 2009

So here's all about Sultry's trip to Perth and Nationals 2009Day OneSultry came out looking hot in their sexy new shirts on Thursday morning, fired up to be at Nationals! Everyone looked fitter, stronger and better than ever before. We found our fast running short game to look impressive with a 13-6 win against Bush combined with some SA ring-ins.Game Two and we went in fired up and played hard against the beautiful Factory Girls'(Canberra) long game, but in the end lost in universal point 16-15, basically, to some awesome Tara grabs - that girl can catch anything!!Game Three and a bit down after the loss to Factory Girls, we started by going down a few points to Sugar Mags and needed Captain Tam's inspiration to bring us back. In the end Sultry came second 14-12, to a small but strong Newcastle roster that ended up placing 3rd.Day TwoPrimal lost three on the first day and came out angry, to say the least. The lack of spirit in this game brought the Sultry girls down ten minutes in, and though we clawed back three of the points and had the FS boys on the sideline to cheer us on in the end, we couldnt finish it and went down in universal point again (I forget the score). Special Commendation to Mel who turned into a LAYOUT D MACHINE !!!!The three losses bumped us to the second bracket, but a circle of wins put us in the second slot in the bracket and into the 5-8 playoffs. Unfortunately draw-wise, our game against Primal counted, and we now we had to beat the JD-coached WA Kaos to make the 5-6 playoff.The ongoing onslaught of 2 hour games, the challenging spirit and the speed, flukey hucks and determination of Kaos were too much for us though. Kaos got up early and we never got it back, going down 12-6.Next up, Indies. The Adelaide team had also lost a few times and were keen to get some points on the board. They had some strong handlers in the wind and some great layout D's but after so many close games we were out to finish what we had started and took it out this time, with a wicked fence and some of our own layout D's... universal point again: 17-16.Day ThreeOur turn for the late start, we came out at 11am for the final pool game against Honey G's. They said they were out to win the party and were certainly fun to play against (and with). We defeated them 17-1 to us, but dont think they'll be so easy to beat next year when they've been playing together'longer - they are already taking layout grabs and generally being spectacular, just werent able to string it together especially in the face of 5 double happiness points, endzone conversions and án Eireann-layout-d-to-hammer-score!! Followed up with licorice fun provided by Molly and some Honey-bee evolution.After lunch, we had a Kaos re-match to see who would go into the 5-6 playoff. This time we gave them the game they (and we deserved) and went head to head. We were excited for the fun rematch and this time traded points, going down universal point in yet another nailbiter!! I think the hammers of the previous game had gone to our head and as the wind rose, they turned out to be a bit risky, though Bree smashed a great one in with the wind for Mel to score in the corner.Day FourSultry joined the Perth boys, Sublime, in the party madness on the night of Day 3 (one of the best frisbee parties I for one have been to) and a few members (who shall remain unnamed) may still have been drunk in the last game. I also have it under advisement that someone (certainly not me) wore hotpants for the entire last day! The game, another rematch, against the Factory Girls, was once again a points trader. I cannot for the life of me remember the final score, but in the end we did go down (by two i think), though not for lack of effort... !!EnduranceThe only Sultry game that went for less than TWO HOURS was the Honey-G's game on Friday arvo. I am a bit of a flake so some of the order in days two and three may be mixed up!! We had dancing delightfulness provided by Lauras great playlists, the Sultry MVP pose-off and the Sultry speakers and laminated rules for spirit provided by Molly and co.Final ThoughtsThe Womens Final was (not unpredictably) Team Box and Wildcard. Relinquishing an early lead Team Box went down to the Nic-Footer-less (broken collarbone) Wildcard by 2??. 16-14?? Despite the snobbish slap-in-the-face-to-Womens-ultimate lack of commentary, it was an awesome game... better, perhaps, than the Dowle-less Fyshwick vs Chilly final, where Fyshwick put up a token resistance, hardly resembling the team I saw play two days earlier, before Chilly steamed home to reclaim the title.In case you all havent noticed yet, I am not the best with scores, so please feel free to let me know if I have them wrong!!Thanks to Perth for having us!xoxmegzz

NY Times Article: Go women's ulty!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/fashion/30fitness.html

Women's League Final

Thanks Eireann for this roundup of the recent WUFL final at Oakman Park

Hello Brisbane Ultimate!

The first women's league of 2009 finished up with a bang. Thanks to everyone who came along and offered support on the sideline and on the bbq.

The game was a bit of a nail-biter with Mellow Black taking an early lead only to have it snatched back by the Titanium Nachos a few points later. Mellow Black managed to take out the half, but only just. Points were traded back and forth for the majority of the game with Mellow Black as the eventual winners.

The game saw some impressive stuff from some of the league's newer players. Titanium Nachos had Mel and Adrienne cutting up the field receiving passes left and right from Jen "Red Death" Campbell and Dominque. Delyse had a standout game making some amazing grabs in the endzone. Stalwarts Maylin and Carol were always there for the dump or ready to give or receive a pass.

Mellow Black just proved a force to be reckoned with! Steph, Phoebe, and Katrina were out for blood in the cup; Jenny was determined not to let anything get past her deep. Emily had positive baby vibes from the sideline and Laura was an O-machine!

Mellow Black took out the chocolate cup this time, but I'm sure Titanium Nachos will be back next season, ready to rumble!

Thanks again to everyone for a great season and your support of the Brisbane Women's League. The more we put into our women's league here in Brisbane, the more we'll be able to get out of it.

The next season will start up in mid-May(running until the end of June), following that, there will be a bit of a break before the next season and women's month in November!

We really do appreciate all of the folks that came out to support the final (and the Firestorm boys for cutting their training session a bit short to cheer us on)! I hope you all enjoyed the bbq and beer (and of course the game as well! See you next season ladies!

- Eireann

Videos for frisbee tragics

My recent attempts to blog about women's ultimate in Brisbane have been foiled by a combination of computer-related bad juju (which even Dan B couldn't fix), and sheer lazy-ass procrastination.

Here's something from the vault to keep us interested in the absence of any real news.

In the lead up to last year's WUGC in Vancouver, Sydney's Tattersalls club hosted the AFDA Gala Dinner - a celebration of 20 years of Australian representative ultimate, and a bon voyage to those heading off to compete in Canada.

A series of videos featuring well-known frisbee faces from around the country were put together for the event. Watch it and get a giggle out of Piers Truter trying to deny that he is a frisbee tragic:
First Impressions from Jonno Holmes on Vimeo.

The first few minutes of this one might make you feel better about shelling out for tickets to Canberra and/or Perth:
Standout Moments from Jonno Holmes on Vimeo.

Also entertaining if you've ever actually had a dream about playing ultimate. Raunchy or not...
The Road to Worlds from Jonno Holmes on Vimeo.

Super cool all-lady layout reel

Welcome!

Welcome to the home of women's ultimate disc in Brisbane. This blog is for anyone who's interested in our fantastic sport, be they rank rookies or seasoned veterans of the plastic disc.

Why Ultimate?
Ultimate is an EASY, CHEAP, FUN game played with a frisbee. Ultimate is excellent for women seeking a good cardio-vascular workout and the competion of sport, mixed with the fun and comraderie of the good sportspersonship required for our non-contact and safe game. Most adults are completely new to Ultimate, making it exceptionally beginner friendly - even Queensland and Australian reps can still remember the challenges of first starting to play.

Ultimate features unlimited substitutions, making the sport suitable for people getting back into sport, or those with "sideline obligations" like bubs in prams and small toddlers.

What is Ultimate Disc?
Ultimate is a seven-a-side team sport played with a frisbee on a touch-football style field. It is non-contact and self-refereed - you play by passing the frisbee down the field amongst your team like netball, with defenders trying to intercept and knock down passes, and score by catching the frisbee in the endzone like gridiron. For more on the rules and history of the sport, visit www.whatisultimate.com or www.afda.com for the Australian players home page.

Where is Ultimate played in Brisbane?
Brisbane has a special Women's Ultimate Frisbee League on Tuesday nights at Oakman Park, Toowong. We're usually there from 7pm-9.00pm. Men's Ultimate is played on Thursday nights at Annerley, and Mixed Ultimate is on at Yeronga on Monday's and UQ St Lucia on Wednesday. Ultimate is also played in a dozen cities around Australia, and in over 80 countries worldwide.

How do I join in?
In Brisbane we are really keen to get more women playing Ultimate - so you'll be really welcome to our Tuesday night sessions. We usually run 10-12 week seasons with a few weeks of 'Learn to Play', and then form teams to play games for the remainder. But new people can join in at any time.
Women can also play in the Mixed Leagues at Annerley and UQ St Lucia.


What about tournaments?
Tournaments, which are usually held over a weekend, are held across Australia all year round. They're a great way to improve you game and have a great weekend away. Check out the national tournament calendar for other events www.afda.com

Is there an easy way to keep up to date?
Yes! Join the WUFL email list. Its free, easy, and you control how many emails you get. Theres news about what's happening in terms of play, but we're also a community where people advertise parties, nights out, and general gossip. You can join the list by sending a blank email to wufl-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or visit the YahooGroups web site.