Comments on: Perspectives on Ultimate Frisbee

By: peter b

peter b — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:47:57 +0000

Nice shots from the old days, Friedl… it really was a lot of fun playing out there by the dump – a much better field than the first one. I wonder if the guys still play. It’s hard to get a hold of Filo on IM these days, and I’m living down in LA, so I’m out of the loop. I miss it all, too.

the question Zak asked: “Was the Yahoo! team very competitive/serious?” made me smile. Answer: “Yes, brutally competitive. Deadly serious.”

hope all is well in Japan.

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:17 +0000

I used to play Ultimate for PE at high school. Really liked it, but in college it was waaaay too competitive for me. Was the Yahoo! team very competitive/serious?

"team" is way more serious than we were; "mailing list" was more like it. Some people took it more serious than others, but it was all about fun.

I never did much sports, but when a mailing went out in 1997 about frisbee, I gave it a try, and really liked it. It was the first Yahoo Ultimate get-together, and I ended up doing it for years, more or less giving up on it when I started work on the 2nd edition of my book. It was really good when I did it, both physically and mentally. I miss it and the people. —Jeffrey

By: nils

nils — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:15:42 +0000

I just came to the comment page to say how I like the “Impending Arrival” shot. Somehow it works better without the Frisbee even in the shot. The timing and tension and expressions are so good, it’s like Cartier-Bresson himself picked up your camera and took it.

There was an amazing Cartier-Bresson exhibit at the Kyoto Museum of Art (one Frisbee throw from your front door, just about) just a few years ago, in conjunction with a disappointing DaVinci exhibit that included a grand total of ONE painting by DaVinci. The photos made up for it.

Yeah, if that Filo guy isn’t satisfied with fundamentally changing the world, he could try photography.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:57:44 +0000

It’s nice to see that Dave Filo has found work taking photos for your blog. I bet it will be on his resume now. Maybe now he will amount to something!