Ultimate in Canberra

Well, in a terrifying twist of fate, it turns out that there are people (thankfully only a few) actually reading this blog. And asking pertinent questions. Gareth has kindly noted that we've given absolutely no indication of where ultimate is being played in Canberra. So, here's the remedy.

Unfortunately, it's cold and nationals was not that long ago, so frisbee here is in a bit of a lull. Thankfully that will be changing over the next few weeks. Currently, Autumn League is reaching its dramatic finale at Dickson Playing Fields (on Antill street, in Dickson) on Wednesday nights. Divisions 2 and 3 run from 6:30 until 7:50, and Division 1 runs from 8:00 until 9:20. Unfortunately, this league ends this coming Wednesday, so there's not much frisbee to be had there.

Winter league will start shortly after that, but we're having trouble finding courts (we play indoors because it's cold and we're a bunch of wimps) so the location isn't yet known. Once we find a booking (hopefully at the Australian Institute of Sport, their courts are sweet) we'll get more details out. Winter League usually runs on an inconvenient night of the week because that's when we can get courts.

With any luck there'll also be a league running outdoors in a mini-tournament format, but again, more word on that later.

There's not much training going on. The ANU team is training (for the university folk among us) at Willows Oval at the Australian National University on Friday nights from 5:30 until 7:30. If you're interested you'd best contact James "Prince" Kingsmill at aynsof@hotmail.com to find out what the details are, as he runs the ANU frisbee kids.

Rumour has it that people are looking to get regular worlds training going on in the next few weeks but you'd want to be a pretty sharp player to be attending those. Plus, the mixed ultimate players of the ACT must be thinking about training sometime soon. More details on that stuff should be coming out soon as well.

So, after all that, there's bugger all frisbee being ACTUALLY played, but there's quite a lot in the pipeline. Once leagues do get finalised the details will be posted here and also on the ACTUA homepage (www.actua.org.au) and registration will be available through the AFDA website (www.afda.com). More should be known after the ACTUA committee meeting being held on Monday (details on that soon, but I really should go do my rehab or I'll be a gimp forever).