Break throw and the famous Abbs poach (lazy)

Hello everyone,

This weekend we went to Ulsan on the east coast of the peninsula to play in a Hat ultimate tournament. (To inform all you none ultimate players, a hat ultimate tournament is tourny were people come together and new teams are formed on site. You don't know who you will play with before hand and you there will be a lot of different caliber players on each teams. ) We had a great time and even made it to the finals. We left work a little early and made our way down to the North side of the island to Jeju City. We cut it a little close and arrived 15 minutes before the plane was set to leave. It's a good thing you don't need to be there 1 hour in advance. We took a flight to Busan and then had to talk another 1 hour bus ride to Ulsan. We were playing at the University of Ulsan campus. One of our buddies works there and he organised it all. The campus is really beautiful although we really don't know how nice the city is because we didn't venture downtown or to the port. It's a industrialized port city so I don't know if we missed much. We had a lot of fun running around on the lush green fields (They're hard to find in the mountain terrain of Korea).

A break throw (Throwing through the defender to were he doesn't want you to throw.)We arrived in Ulsan on Friday night. This was the night of the final Korea game against Swiss. Everyone was getting ready for the game at 4AM and a lot of people were enjoying themselves. We registered for the tourny on the campus and everyone was in red and ready to cheer on the national team. We had enough players to make six teams and I was chosen to lead a team. I think people like to think I want to control everything while I am playing a sport. The rest of the night, we mingled with the other players and met our teamates.

Campus students were getting ready for the big soccer game but we passed on it since we knew we had to play 5 games on Saturday. Everyone else partied and we went had to find a hotel. The only hotels around were the famous Korean MOTEL D'AMOUR and since there was a big game going on at 4 AM all the rooms were booked up and we ended up in a pretty dodgy place. The place was cheap (30$) and it had a round pink bed with gold trim. You walked out of the elevator and you found a hugh shelf of naughty videos. To say the least, we slept in our clothes and were out the next morning pretty early.

Saturday was amazing, the sun game out and we had a pretty good day for people who had never played together before and we also some three players that were playing in their first tournament so we had to explain the rules to them. We went 2 and 2 on the day. I was happy with the performance and we learned to play together.

We then had a fun, barefoot allstar game on this luscious green green grass. We had to play barefoot because we couldn't put divits in the grass. The game was fun and there were a lot of great players and plays. The game ended in a tie 13-13 called due to lack of light. People were going all out and enjoying themselves. It was really intense. It would awesome to get all these players together to play for one tournament in Asia but it's really and expensive to go to a tournament out side of Korea. Karina had an awesome catch in the endzone and I handled pretty well all around. There are some really good players here although it's hard to get them altogether for a tourny. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed themselves.

After the allstar game, we went and showered and made off for the restaurant. We had a quick bite and then went to party at the local foreigner bar near the campus. We headed home not to late and passed out in a better looking love motel.

The next morning, we got up although we could of stayed in bed for another few hours and played three games in the rain. We ended up winning our first two games and making it to the finals. I played pretty much every point in the first two games so by the time the final game, I was out of gas. We got beat pretty bad (10-5) but we had fun and I hope we learned alot. It was great playing again after a two month layoff but our muscles are really sore now. We ended up staying Sunday night in Ulsan and watched the England game before passing out. We didn't get the greatest sleep on the floor of our buddies place. We left the next morning at 6 Am to catch the intercity bus back to Busan airport and to make it to the island.

We are dead tired and are going to sleep when we get home tonight. The weekend was fun and as any ulty tourney, we didn't get much sleep. We had fun and there are some pretty good fun people to play ultimate with hear even if we only get to do it once every two months. I can't for the next tournament to come up so I can run around some more.

Later

Christian and Karina

A poach is when you are really far away from your man as you can see in this picture. You are supposed to be right on the your man's heals and even a step in front but it didn't happen on this point or maybe as I like to think it's the camera angle or I have just thrown it down the field and we've just caught it in the endzone. Poaching is not good defense, it's lazy defense.