The beginning

Hello readers, my name is Tim, I'm currently 18, and a freshman at the College of William and Mary. I have played ultimate frisbee since my sophomore year in high school, and have thrown a frisbee for a lot longer than that. My sophomore year, I played for the B-team, as a handler. I was pretty upset, considering that I thought that I could make the A-team. However, it turned out to be a really valuable experience. Because I was one of the better players on that team, I got to play a lot. I played as a handler, and began to learn, and love the game. The playing time I got on the B-team was so much more valuable than if I had been on the A-team, and got no playing time. My junior year was exactly as I had worried my sophomore year had been. I got on the A-team, but didn't get to play that much. But, I did learn to play as a sideline player, giving callouts and such, and staying engaged. By the time senior year came around, I was named captain. I was a pretty bad leader, I mean, I was nice, but I didn't know how to teach anything, or how to enforce people to go to practice. But I understood the difficulties of being a captain, and found out what it was that I looked for, and probably what other captains look for. So, continuing to the present, I just recently had my first day of tryouts. I was incredibly out of shape, gasping for air after just a little sprint. However, the captains were (or at least seemed to be) impressed with me.

So, that tryout was really what inspired me to start this blog. The captains said in the email, that they were looking specifically for athleticism. I am a 5'8" freshmen who sat at a desk all summer, and somehow, it seemed like all of them were going to remember my name. I'm not being cocky (hell, I haven't even made the team yet), but during the tryout there were stations, and at every station, people were asking me if I had played before, because it was evident that I had. So, you're a beginner. You're an intermediate player. You're an advanced player. You'll find my advice useful. You'll find my advice to be worthless. Whatever it may be, the tips that I give here are what I have observed during the past couple of years. I have a perspective from both the player, and the captain, and so can tell you what you can do to make yourself stand out, or how to become a better player in general. So yeah.