From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Apr 30 18:49:14 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id SAA03778 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:37:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from imo24.mx.aol.com (imo24.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.68]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03697 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:37:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from AWorman290@aol.com by imo24.mx.aol.com (IMOv14.1) id 1CPYa02743; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:33:51 -0400 (EDT) From: AWorman290 <AWorman290@aol.com> Message-ID: <81602e2d.3548b601@aol.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:33:51 EDT To: alan.baldwin@eml.ericsson.se, britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Re[2]: Women's Ultimate Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0.i for Windows sub 164 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Yeah..Alan made the point about women players in the top 6-10 teams, I'm one of them (Red Shift) but to be quite honest, I have spent most of the two tours marking the only women on the opposite team. This isn't a criticism of Red Shift; it's the tactical way to play the line. What's the point? I may as well play for a women't team? Colin...couldn't agree more. I really pushed for GB to not enter the tour together this year, so that I and a few others could play for mixed teams. However, although I have really enjoyed playing for Red Shift, I have found a huge difference within the two games. I feel that the best way for me to develop my game of Ultimate is to play women's ultimate. I can't really match the speed and strength of the average male player ( and I'm currently training for GB so it's not like I'm slacking off). My one hesitation about a women's tour next year is that it will be dominated by about 2 really good teams (probably Bliss and Twin Peaks) and then there will be a chasm between the 3rd and other teams. Should we mix up the all the women players available...but doesn't this do even more damage for the development of women's club teams? Also, what about women's teams entering Worlds 99? Will entering the tour screw up the chances of having a women's division? (I'm assuming that there will only be about 2/3 women's teams entering) Locks was right...let's start encouraging women players at university level..women's ultimate is a great game to play, and perhaps women will find themselves more involved in the game if they play in a COMPETITIVE women's league. It seems to me that there are women who want to play, but there aren't many women who really want to play competitively and who are prepared to commit to improving the game. Diana (Red Shift) (WIB) (BEACH ULTIMATE WORLD CHAMPION NO LESS)