Indoor Nats in Palmy
This weekend I played at the National Indoor Championship Ulimate Frisbee. The tournament was held in Palmerston North (or Palmy), two hours driving from Wellington. Gert came along to cheer for the two teams from Wellington: the Crew Red and Black.
Palmerston North is a strange city, it’s a town with 25.000 inhabitants with streets that form one huge grid. At night,`pimped’ cars with neon lights, noisy enlarged exhaust pipes, gear shifting sounds, and blinded windows filled the streets in the inner city. The cars are owned by boys that are too young to get access to a bar (21 years), but are allowed to drive a car (16 years). What else can you do….
The tournament was wonderful. Well-organized, very relaxed atmosphere and with a great spirit. The indoor game is played a bit differently than in Holland. The teams are four against four with always at least one woman on each team. The game is played on a basketball field. The endzone, the part in which you need to score, is the bucket of the basketball game, so it’s very narrow, but it also leaves some space on each side to throw the disc around until you can score. I had to get used to the tactics, but my hammer-throwing skills came in quite handy. So we came out tenth in the social league. Not too bad as our team was initially seeded as 17th out of the 18 teams. Check out the event’s photos.
