I think both Dan and Ben want the same end-result: an athletic sport that
has a high Spirit. Just their roads are different. Ben focuses on the
athleticism of the sport and hopes the Spirit will remain. Dan focuses on
the Spirit and hopes athleticism will remain/grow.

Personally I thing Dan has a better chance to reach the end-goal, but it
will take longer. Ben's focus on Universities etc.. has a higher likelihood
in resulting in the North-American growth where Spirit is not what is was
used to.

BULA (the Beach Ultimate Lovers Association) will focus on Spirit and hope
that the sport itself will get the sports-jocks with the right attitude to
the game. It's a long way, but Spirit is key!

Keep 'em flying!

B U Patrick van der Valk
* Coordinator
L A http://beachultimate.org




-----Original Message-----
From: British Ultimate Federation [mailto:buf@...]
Sent: 03 February 2002 15:56
To: WFDFMemberLink@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [WFDFMemberLink] Article Posted


Interesting article indeed.

Spirit of the Game is certainly one of Ultimate's 'unique selling points'
(as is the frisbee itself.) Congratulations to the Swedish association for
getting other sports interested in this via the Swedish National Sports
Movement. Congratulations also for getting a sports goods company to sponsor
your SOTG award.

Unfortunately from a British point of view, I don't think working with a
theatre company is a useful way to promote disc sports. In fact this kind of
thing is a sure way to keep disc sports on the fringes of what is consider
'proper' sport. Most British peoples' concept of what a 'frisbee player'
might be like is a hippy or a show-off with an obsessive hobby! Such an
ignorant bunch we are ;-)

When I'm recruiting players I want to say to them "look this is a truly
athletic sport with a fantastic fair play ethic that you won't find
elsewhere". If I started getting all cult-ish on people it's a big turn-off
in Britain.

Your desire to promote discs sports is admirable - and has opened up some
interesting avenues in Sweden. However there is only one promotion method
which can guarantee results and that is the hard work of recruiting new
players in our schools, colleges and universities. No sponsor, government
agency or spectator will ever be interested in us until we can demonstrate
significant numbers of players.

With this in mind, would the WFDF like to suggest practical ways to promote
discs sports in schools. We in the UK are contemplating such a campaign this
year. How should we approach this? How should we present the sports? What do
we put on our leaflet that will make a school teacher choose us over all the
other sports they could play?

Can we have more practical help and less tree-hugging please!

Ben Ravilious
President
UK Ultimate


----- Original Message -----
From: "cyberstork003" <cyberstork@...>
To: <WFDFMemberLink@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 02 February 2002 17:44
Subject: [WFDFMemberLink] Article Posted


WFDF Members and Officials,

We have just posted a very intriquing article in the Member News
section of http://www.wfdf.org/ under "Fair Play Initiative in
Sweden."

The article is written by our newly-elected Secretary General, Dr.
Dan Engstrsm of Sweden. Please take time to read the article
and share some of the thinking with your national associations.

We welcome other such articles as well, especially those which
include information that will be valuable for our member
associations.

Stork
WFDF Executive Director



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