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JUNE 2017 Hong Kong Ultimate Player's Association

Dear Reader,

2017 has started off with a bang and the board has some big plans for HKUPA this year!

We have some fresh faces stepping up this year with Steve Man, Jenna Bergeson, Troy Jones and Alicia Lui taking over as Treasurer, Activities Director, League Director and Communications Director respectively. The new energy they have brought to the board is infectious and I'm excited to see what we can achieve together this year. I can't thank Kingi Lau, Giovanni Lion, Jason Cancel and Karen Mok enough for their time and efforts last year, and in many cases, for their efforts in the past several years. Give them a high five the next time you see them, they damn well deserve it!

As most of you will know if you're currently playing league or on a club team, the board is actively promoting single-gender ultimate in the first half of each year moving forward, with mixed play coming back in the second half of the year. We are seeing similar developments across Asia and we are hoping to really build up some momentum within the region for this kind of structure. We are hoping that single-gender ultimate will give everyone the platform and space to develop as complete and well-rounded ultimate players, and that is why we have converted our Hong Kong Hat Tournament into the Hong Kong Hidden-A-Gender Tournament, Hong Kong's first single-gender tournament. Fans of hat tournaments will be pleased to know that our Beach Hat will remain a hat, and the annual Hong Kong Pan-Asia Tournament will remain one of the premiere mixed tournaments in Asia.

In 2017, we will be doubling down on our efforts to develop the growing youth scene in Hong Kong. Nick Tsao is doing fantastic work with the half-yearly inter school tournaments, and Derek Cheng, Tommy Fung and Alicia Lui are leading the U24 programme which have their sights set on the U24 World Ultimate Championships which will be held in Perth, Australia in early 2018. The next generation of ultimate players in Hong Kong are coming through, so watch out, they're ready to make their mark on the scene!

Finally, HKUPA will be sending one team in each division to compete at the 2017 Asia-Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Club Championships held in Manila on 17-20 August. Double T, Black Kites and Boys Weekend! will be representing us in the Mixed, Women's and Men's Divisions respectively. This is the first time we have sent a team in each division to a WFDF tournament (excluding AOUC2015 which we hosted). Best of luck to all teams, I know the community will rally around each campaign. 

That's it from me, I hope you enjoy the articles in this edition of the newsletter! As ever, many thanks to Jak Lau, Holly McHugh, Conor Quigley and Jackie Fan for putting this all together.

See you on the fields,

Kevin Ho

Kevin Ho, HKUPA President

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continued... reporting by ConorHIDDEN A-GENDER UNVEILED

The Open tourney was divided into two pools and consisted of clubs and pick up teams from around East Asia. Going into the tournament the two favourites were Hong Kong?s own Boys? Weekend! and a Beijing-Shanghai-Hong Kong pick up team, Friends and Foes (FnF). This tournament also saw the first outings for Chinese International School?s open?s team.

The two pools were hotly contested on the Saturday with all teams adapting to the new format under the hot Kowloon sun. Sunday?s final saw Friends and Foes match up with Boys? Weekend!. The two sides were well known to each other and the final was played with a gritty familiarity. FnF had lost a few players early but still pulled off some big end zone plays with their height advantage coming into play as both teams grew tired.

Boys? Weekend! didn?t give up despite going down in the early exchanges. Their fight was personified late in the game with our President, K-Ho, getting a monster hand block on a deep huck a meter or two after it left the handler?s hand. That block caused an audible gasp from the crowd and spurred the Boys on to get back in the fight.

Sadly, time was against the Boys from HK and FnF managed to hold on to their early lead and take the final by two points.

In other news, Club 7 were fielding their first Open team and took home the spirit prize despite facing a tough pool and struggling to convert yards in their games.

The tournament was successfully run by our host of volunteers and Tournament Director JB was pleased with the event and happy things ran off without a hitch.

We?ll all be right back there in October for the Pan-Asia Tournament when Mixed ultimate returns to Hong Kong.

A big congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the volunteers,

sponsors, board members and the players for a spirited and competitive weekend!

Champions:Women's- Black Ki tes (HK)

Open - Friends and Foes

Runner-Up:Women's - Mega Mad (GZ)Open- Boys Weekend! (HK)

Final 's MVP:Women's - Tammy (MM)

Open - Jamie (BW!)

Spiri t :Women's - CIS FRISBEASTS (HK)

Open - Club 7 (HK)

Mythical 7:Women's - Ashley (CIS), Fanghui (YF), Krist ina (SH), Hannah (YF), Wenjun

(SZ), Sarah (RK), Jul ia (BK)Open - Sam Axelrod (FLICK), JJ (WW), Dennis (FLICK), Jeremy (Club 7), Ying Cheng (SH), Chung Tung (T8), Kwong

(GZ)

Henry from T8 skies over Club 7

Jamie from Boy's Weekend! scores for the MVP title

Hong Kong Ultimate Player's Association

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Josh's Corner SPORTS DRINKS & ULTIMATE

Supplementing with sugar or carbs during exercise can help achieve two things. First, it gives your muscles energy so that they don?t have to use the stored carbohydrate in the muscle (glycogen), which leads to fatigue. Second, it can help raise low blood sugar levels, which can reduce technical performance (skill).

However, this doesn?t mean everyone should always be drinking sports drinks. As long as you?ve had a balanced pre-exercise meal, your blood sugar levels should remain steady, and as long as you eat carbs regularly you don?t need to worry about glycogen stores running out. So, for one-off games such as league or pickup, sports drinks aren?t necessary and are essentially extra calories. However, there are times when being able to save glycogen, and regulate blood sugar becomes important: Tournament play. Our bodies can store roughly 1500-2000 Calories worth of carbs in our muscles as glycogen. One study looking at the energy requirements of Ultimate found that an 80kg man can burn up to 900 Calories per hour of game play.

During most games, our time spent on the field will almost certainly be lower than an hour, also positional differences, body weight, and gender will further reduce the amount of energy used during a game. But if you are a very active player playing in multiple games, especially back-to-backs, your muscle glycogen stores will likely get used up by the end of the morning.

Moreover, the sodium, potassium, and carbs in sports drinks increase your body?s ability to pull in the water, and reduce how much you pee out; which make them hydrate better than plain water. The major sports drinks i.e. Pocari sweat, Gatorade, and Powerade, contain roughly the amount of sodium, potassium, and carbs that the research suggests optimizes hydration status.

If you absolutely hate sports drinks, to increase the hydration of plain water, you can add a pinch (1/8 tsp) salt/ litre of water. Also, for re-hydrating between games plain water is fine as long as you are eating as well.

Like everything in sports nutrition context is key. If you have done an excellent job optimizing your Muscle glycogen levels, play a position where it is unlikely that you will make several high intensity cuts on every point, and feel your schedule gives you enough time to refuel on real food between games, then a sports drink probably isn?t necessary.

But if you feel you use lots of energy during game play, have multiple back-to-back games, and are worried about ?hitting the wall? this is what I suggest:

- Have a sip of a sports drink after every point, and drink more if you?re thirsty - Between games, eat real food that have both carbs and protein- Stick to carbs only if eating solid food during game play- The key is to eat and drink small portions regularly, as this will minimize stomach issues, and is easier

on your body as it won?t lead to sudden spikes in blood sugar.

Pro Tip: Carbohydrate Mouth Rinsing

If you?re look ing to get the most out of your sports drink try holding i t in your mouth for 5-10 seconds before drink ing.

Studies have shown that receptors in your mouth that signal your brain that you are consuming carbs/sugar can increase exercise performance. This is mainly through a reduction in perceived exert ion. In other words, you don?t feel you are work ing as hard when exercising.

So before running on for Universe point have a long drink of Kool-aid wi th your teammates, and i t might just give you an edge.

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Open for Business Club 7Hong Kong?s newest development side, Club 7, made a brave showing at the Hidden A-gender tournament fielding their

first Open side. Led and inspired by Jason Cancel, JV and Joe, Club 7 have been training as a Mixed team since their formation in 2016. Looking to strengthen the guys experience, Jason took the decision to field an Open side at HKHAG.

Club 7 faced many set backs before the tournament began with players dropping out for travel, business or even moving house (I mean, who moves house on tournament weekend!?! Moron.) But the boys in green fielded a patched up team and played with heart.

Their first opponents were Flick, a pick up team arranged by players from Taiwan and further afield. Flick showed their superior athleticism early in the game and blitzed Club 7 in the opening exchanges. As the fast food breakfast settled for 7 they managed to rally back into the game but found themselves too far behind with too little to go. Next up was Friends and Foes, one of the tournament favourites. 7 took this as a chance to face high level opposition and play without fear. Things looked good in the first point with some good defence but sadly the Club couldn?t quite gel and lost again. Still, their spirit and generosity with the post game beverages won them more Friends than Foes.

A post-lunch match up against William?s Wallace from Shenzhen went down and the Club were clearly still digesting their kimbap lunches as they failed to show up on the score card. After an epic double-bye before the last game, they found themselves having to warm up and stretch again to play CIS. The boys from Braemer Hill really pulled it out of the bag and stunned Club 7 with the calmness with the disc. The students are known for their fearlessness and athleticism but the maturity with the disc and their awesome spirit carried them to a narrow victory. Still, it?s the Club that never ends and they managed to win the party playing hard all night. The saying goes leave nothing off the field and Club 7 always make sure they leave nothing from the party as some of their players came down with a rather suspicious morning poisoning which really hampered efforts on the Sunday.

Coach Jason was still rather proud of the Club and they showed great improvements during the tourney. Club 7 now have their sights firmly fixed on Shanghai and a return to Mixed Ultimate and winning ways.

Some dude.

E.R.I.C. Clin icCoach Evan Boucher from E.R.I.C. (Early Recognition is Critical), along with Candice Tse, Sally Mimms and Will Herold, ran a free-of-charge clinic for us on New Year?s day. Over 50 players joined the clinic to start the New Year Ultimate action-packed!

The clinic introduced warm ups and drills for us to do before big games. While we all know it?s important to keep the force and well, ok, to allow your mark to throw into open side, but the coaches challenged us to beat the open side throw as well. To do that we are taught on the best distance from the mark and the way to side shuffle. Sideline talk is vital too ? in drills it was demonstrated to us just how to react instantly to sideline talk (a delegated person), stop

hucks/open and break side throws. There was a touch on communication too. To sum up, let the thrower decide should the cutter cut under or long (you know the trick, fake!) All the defense and cutting drills progressively built up to a three-on-three scrimmage ?game?. On a side note, Candice shared with us how to train for her signature fakes (my favourite part!)

Coaches started the clinic by emphasizing staying active and healthy, and speaking up ? be it when you are refereeing your own play in the game or about the scary c-word cancer. At the end of the clinic a friend of Hsu, a cancer survivor, shared his story.

A New Year Day well spent! by Wanda

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Contributed by: Lynden

STUDENT ULTIMATE SCENEThe HK ultimate scene is evolving, and it?s starting with kids.

My name is Lynden, and I?m very glad I discovered this sport. Although I have interests in other sports like soccer, lacrosse and touch rugby, Ultimate has a very unique vibe even as a team sport and I?ve learnt to become a better more fair player.

Ultimate in the SAR has, predominantly speaking, long been a thing for expats and hippies on the beach. However, in recent years, the student ultimate scene is Hong Kong has really picked up and increased in participation rates and skill level. Student ultimate differs from the regular HKUPA-run programmes in the sense that there is little established club/ program for students (apart from the U24 training) to join.

All of the current students playing ultimate on a more regular basis are high schools students aged around 15-18, but in the yearly inter-school tournament HKUPA hosts, many of the students participating are still in middle school (Renaissance College (RCHK), King George V (KGV)) and playing very well, with RCHK winning the 2016 B pool championships. I hope, when I come back from college, that student ultimate will have grown, with HK having an established student ultimate scene and participating in various U24/ youth tournaments.

For me, the biggest difference playing with adults versus students is the amount of help/ tips/ knowledge I get from adults which really helps me improve and learn faster whereas with the student side, I?m having to figure things out instead of drawing on the knowledge of players with years of experience. I also experience a shift in confidence. Playing with adults, everyone is so much better that unconsciously, I tend to take a step back and play safe. But with students who are on pretty much the same level as I am, I?m more willing to take risks. It?s also a bonus that I?m not the JTM (Junior Team Member) when playing with students.

If you?re interested in joining student ultimate in HK, check out: http:// www.hkupa.com/ to find out when open pick-up dates are and come join. Or you can email us for more information:

HKUPA email: [email protected]

U24 Captain Derek Cheng?s email: [email protected]

JUNE 2017 Hong Kong Ultimate Player's Association

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Contributed by Alicia

FITNESS FOR MENTAL PERFORMANCEWe?re well into spring season, so it means many of us are playing league, attending club practices and

competing at various tournaments on weekends. In between all these activities, it probably feels like we?re getting enough fitness, especially if we play sports or go to the gym too. Regardless of how often you?re doing something physical, I?d encourage adding yoga / stretching; fitness and conditioning before practices or league, and active recovery.

For the purposes of this post, I?ll focus on fitness and conditioning. But let me preface by saying: if you?re not doing yoga / stretching, start adding a few exercises daily and build up over time. Too often I hear teammates commenting they don?t stretch, but WE ALL NEED IT! While I know some of you hate Tom Brady / Patriots (I?m not a fan but I do admire how he?s able to do what he does at the age of 39), do have a read of this interview with him where he shares the importance of nutrition (additionally see Josh?s articles) but also the importance of muscle pliability, i.e., working on f lexibility, mobility, and relaxing and lengthening your muscles. Yoga / stretching helps!

Onto fitness and conditioning ... it?s not unknown that I?m a huge fan of doing it year-round on and off the pitch (except for those 1 ? 2 months off each year to allow for recovery from the duress of our sport). When I say fitness and conditioning, some of you will immediately think of the physical (strength, stamina) or the nutritional (carbo-loading pre-tourney, protein after workouts) aspects; I want to add the mental aspect.

Why fitness before practice or league? Because you condition yourself to work through pain and fatigue -- come tournament season when you have to push through on day 2 to get that d, to cut for a score, sky your opponent for that oh-too-high pass, you?ll be much better prepared for it. That?s the physical aspect. The more important mental aspect is that fitness before practice or league over time builds your mental strength.

By sufficiently fatiguing yourself before practice even starts, you?re more likely to simulate game situation when your body begins to break down by the 2nd or 3rd game and is sending your brain signals in the form of pain or soreness that it doesn?t want to push through. If you?re not tired by then, you haven?t pushed yourself hard enough during the points that you?ve played! Come Sunday going into the 3rd game of the day and maybe the 7th game of the weekend ... well, it?s tough and sometimes very painful. If your mind gives in to these signals, you?ll start to run slower, to jump less high, to make less sharp turns, to forget to clear space. The better adapted you are mentally at resisting these messages and able to tell your body to keep moving just as hard as you did on Day 1 (or even harder!) the easier it becomes to overcome fatigue. Being adapted requires training and preparing, and it starts from before practice even starts, before the tournament season even starts. Think about it, the brain is a muscle and just as we do fitness to train our muscles like our legs, backs, arms and shoulders, we also need to do fitness that trains our minds.

What kind of fitness? I don?t mean just stairs and sprints (though those of course are great) but incorporating functional movements with a disc. With a disc you ask? Yup. To get more reps on throwing and catching ? and doing so while running, sprinting, squatting, lunging, and even planking. The idea of fitness here is fairly simple and all it takes is 20 ? 30 minutes. You already know of a few exercises because I?ve seen you do them and all you need to do is take 3 ? 5 exercises and rep them 3 or more times.

For example:

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continuedFITNESS FOR MENTAL PERFORMANCE

- 45 ? 60 seconds of pendulum drills- 45 ? 60 seconds of the cutting tree drill (with discs)- 45 ? 60 seconds of air squats with a partner at 5 yards distance while throw a disc back and forth- 45 ? 60 seconds of side to side shuff les with a partner at 5 yards distance while throwing a disc back and forth. One last thought. If you are looking to do fitness outside of disc, may I suggest trying out crossfit. I know

there are mixed reviews and doubts on the benefits of it as it pertains to Ultimate Frisbee players, but speaking about mental training, I?ve found that for me it?s been one of the best ways to build my mental strength: not just learning to push myself through fatigue and pain, but also building endurance, learning to focus on myself and not the competition, learning to focus on what?s on hand and not what comes later in the workout and self-belief when I?ve completed workouts without crumpling into a heap at the end. There is something about doing AMRAPs or EMOMs or going for time that really motivates me to keep going. And I hope some of you feel the same way.

Back to fitness before practices and league. I have many ideas for how to incorporate fitness drills with a disc. Often it does take a partner, but hopefully trying to schedule to meet 20 ? 30 minutes earlier with one other person won?t be too difficult. I?m always up for it, and if you want ideas, I?m happy to suggest (or share a Google document that I started creating) with you!

TOSSCARSGetting the email asking me to be one of the Tosscars hosts

actually filled me with slight sense of dread. Maybe it?s just my personality to worry about organizing events, but honestly, Tosscars is a pretty big deal, and you don?t want to disappoint all of the fun loving frisbee friends, some of whom only really come out for Tosscars (looking at you Kirk). I quickly got over those fears once I learned who my awesome co-hosts would be.

Getting to work with Jenna and Steve made planning, prepping, and putting on the event a grand old time. Special thanks also goes the HKUPA Board and associates for all their help.

The tradition of this annual party, and the return to its roots was cool to orchestrate, because we basically got to demand that everyone dress up. And, although we long held these suspicions we were able to confirm that, as JB says, "we clean up nice." Dresses were worn, suits were donned, everyone looked pretty dang nice.

The day of the event, we had all our supplies prepared, everything had been arranged with the venue, we were feeling good and ready to go. We arrived at the venue early to set up,

and that?s when we get a little bit of a hiccup. Turns out the alcohol related part of the evening would be starting earlier than anticipated. Given the fact that we could do very little about this, and that the venue sets the hours, we forged ahead and hoped people could hold it together long enough to make it through the awarding of Oscars.

They kind of did. No offense guys, but you just can not pipe down, especially Tommy. Despite the shouting, the desperately looking for the nominees cause no one could hear the names, and the late arrival of food, everyone had a great time.* Hangouts were had, grooves were gotten on, pictures were snapped, and beverages were consumed. We were able to celebrate another year of fun tournaments, practices, trips, relationships and community. It turned out being more fun than I had originally anticipated, and I had fun hosting, but I am pretty ok with letting someone else take the reins for next year. Best of luck to all of you future Secret Tosscar Hosts.

*This statement has not been confirmed because I have not actually checked with every single person who attended this year. Sorry. I might have misled you there.

Contributed by Secret H ost (M alindi)

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and where to find them by GigiFANTASTIC DOUBLE T

Off-season, the dreaded off-season for Frisbee players. The same bunch of Frisbee players who are so used to seeing each other 3 times a week practicing, heckling, and tearing up the fields in Hong Kong now have nowhere to go and no Frisbee to play. What else are we supposed to live and breathe for the rest of winter? How else do we expend our youth, fire, and hot desire? This might be a confusing time for many, but luckily for Double T we have long found our answer and savior: Tichu. The very card-based partnership game our team is named after, Team Tichu.

At first we never thought of forming a team to compete at tournaments, because at the end of the day we are just a bunch of off-season, ridiculously good-looking Frisbee players playing an old Chinese card game and winning (or losing) some lunch money on the side.

However, at the end of the year, Double T competed in our first major tournament, the 2016 FuJian Open.

For the majority of us this was the last tournament of the year so we really wanted to make it count and proudly display how intense and competitive Hong Kong Ultimate can be. Coming into the tournament as the 4th seed, we were determined to upset everyone above us and conquer their fan base. Having cruised through our first 2 games on Saturday against Pride of Dongguan (POD) and Xiamen, our final matchup and also the one we looked forward to the most was against Puxi Patrol (one of the two split teams of Shanghai Huwa). Hong Kong and Shanghai have had a long and rich history of competing against each other in big and small tournaments all over Asia. Looking across the field there were many familiar faces and styles of play, they were both our friends and foes. It wasn?t an easy start, Shanghai players are athletic, experienced, and have practiced together on Huwa for many months. We on the other hand were still trying to figure our lines and build chemistry with one another, especially with our pickup players. However, after initially trading points, Double T was able to seal a break and win the game 10:9. This win put us over Puxi Patrol as the top seed of our pool and in prime position for the title contention. After the game, we had a hunch that we would meet them again on the biggest stage: The Finals.

Waking up bright and early on Sunday (mainly from my roommate Casey not being able to sleep from her alco-?water overdose), we were motivated. Semifinals was a matchup that we were all too familiar with, Pride of Dongguan. Stopping their biggest receiver, Yuri Melnychuk was our top priority and having succeeded the day before gave us a great confidence boost. 20 points later and Double T was through to the finals.

Finals, in hindsight is such a bitter sweet word. All that we?ve been working for builds up to this stage and we were ready for a rematch with Puxi Patrol. At the very beginning they employed a brilliant girl-poach strategy against our less experienced players, and coupled with our own mis communications and turns they were able to go up 4-8, with halftime at 9 points. We were stressed and disappointed but we didn?t make it to the finals to go down in this fashion. Led by fantastic defense and slow and steady offense, we broke Puxi not once, not twice, but 5 times in a row and took half at 9-8. With the crowd and momentum on our side we were feeling good, if we had kept this up we could complete the Cinderella story and make the biggest comeback of the year!

But alas, just as your team?s magnificent plays can make you, bad plays can also break you. Every Frisbee player knows that as long as a team can hold on their offensive points, you just need one defensive break to take the game. Coming out from half, although Puxi Patrol?s offense wasn?t running as smooth as before, they were very experienced and calm. When we were able to force a turnover on D, our own string of errors would deny a score and Puxi would hold, making it frustrating for the players both on and off the field. This slow frustration and desire to push for a break eventually ruined our earlier chilly playstyle as we gave up another break chance and Puxi went up 11-12. Time was running out and halfway through the next point we heard what we didn?t want to the most, 3 horns, signaling the hard-cap and the end of game. Whatever we did then wouldn?t change the reality that Puxi Patrol had secured the championship and prize, but although game is over, it didn?t mean we would surrender easily. Putting forth everything we had left in our tank, we successfully held on and the game ended at 12-13.

Everyone had a long and hard reflection after the finals, the finals that we lost to ourselves; the finals that we didn?t prepare for enough mentally. But reality is we enjoyed our time playing and hanging out together and that happiness is immeasurable, nothing in the world can replace it.

Greatness is not measured by how many times you succeed, but by how many times you bounce back after falling, and you can bet that we?ll be coming back better, stronger, and faster.

~We got the juice, we got the fire. We got the juice and the fire and the hot desire! *3-2-1* DOUBLE T!~

Hong Kong Ultimate Player's Association