Sunday, May 25, 2008

Heading overseas? Try ffindr.com!

One of the great things about frisbee is the community that surrounds it. Frisbee seems to attract a fairly good sort, generally open, active and friendly. When travelling overseas, this lends to a great experience.

I have managed to play in tournaments in Europe, Taiwan, Hawaii and NZ. The hosts and players at these tournament have always been extremely inviting and accommodating and these tournament have been fantastic highlights of my trips overseas.

With my travels in Europe, I used an international frisbee event listing call ultilinks. This gave me the details of a hat tournament in Halle, Germany. After playing in this tournament I was also invited by the host team to play with them at one of their warm-up tournament before German nationals. Both of these tournament were fantastic and I really hope to catch up with the friends I made there when I head to Europe.

Unfortunately, ultilinks died some time in 2007. This made dreaming up exciting frisbee side adventures to my travels much harder and I mourned for its loss.

Thankfully, earlier this year the hole was plugged by a new European run site, http://ffindr.com

If you are heading overseas, take the time to check out the site and see if you can't catch an extra frisbee or two while you are away.

http://ffindr.com
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  1. GarethMay 28, 2008 at 2:01 AM

    here's a question - if i'm coming TO canberra, how do i find a game of ultimate?

    is there an email addy i can mail to ask some questions about where the discs are flying please?

    gareth
    (from south africa, coming to canberra on monday)

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  2. PookieMay 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    Ahh yes.

    This is on the 'to-do' list. We are pretty fresh on the blogging scene so not everything that we have planned to down has been done.

    A page on the basics of the local ultimate scene is on the cards

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  3. UnknownMay 31, 2008 at 12:23 AM

    Hi Canberra,


    thanks for introducing ffindr on your blog! Indeed European Frisbee is very well covered on ffindr, but the service is meant for the whole world. So why not using it for Aussie events too? Some of you might not know the legendary Gladstone Crusade in QLD... does is still exist by the way?


    Greetings down under from en ex-Brizzy,
    Christian

    # http://ffindr.com/en/blog
    # the blog of the frisbee event portal

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