Frisbee Fellowship and the UFR

I'll admit that sometimes I question whether or not somethings are really
going to make a difference eternally. I talk about prayer, preaching, and
the lot, that is obviously spiritual work, but how is playing soccer or talking
about school going to save anyone? Well I am realizing that while telling a Bible
story or praying is a key witness, bring someone to Christ involves being their friend too.
And so even by just spending time with someone that is work for eternity.
That's why I am so glad for the frisbee. Around these parts soccer is the game of choice,
some few are into basketball and handball, but most everybody is a soccer
player, and good ones too. I have never been a great player, in high school I could
make the cut, but as goalie my first year, we never won a game, well it was not allmy fault, but I sometimes wonder. The next year was better playing defence or midfield,
we won a few more. But here those who play at my level are usually around the age of 10-12. If
I play with guys my age, I will see the ball most, and not really touch it. But in general
I like real good team sports. Since soccer rules here, people play seriously, no one really
plays just for fun, unless the crowd is below 12 but even they get into some heated
arguments at times. So the solution I have is ultimate frisbee. While Manny still
promotes soccer as better, I have some arguments for the benefist of UF. Mainly
it is such a team sport. If you play the way I have been taught, once you've received the
frisbee, you have to stop or you can only take two to three steps before you throw
the frisbee, and you have to throw it within 5-7seconds after catching it! Thus the focus
shifts from the one in play to the team, it is up to your team to get open and move about. Sure
the skill of throwing becomes evident, you just can't pull athleticism out of the picture, but
unlike soccer, you have to pass. I can't try to be a ball hog or loose the play. And it is fast
too, I just introduced it pathfinders and after a good twenty minutes those kids were wipped.
But in soccer they play for hours, no standing around in UF! And it is harder to cherry pick, if
one or two of the team waits on the offensive end and leaves the other side, the game collaspses,
there is no one nearby to pass to if your team retrieves the frisbee. Plus here it is novel and that
always rouses curiousity. I took the frisbee out yesterday to play, and the kids loved it. They
had fun learning, we had some frisbee fellowship. And while have loads of fun, I build a better
bond with them! And bond that I hope will affect for eternity.

Here goes the Ulitmate Frisbee Revolution, to God's honor!