[BD] Ultimate in Japan

[Bartlett, Amy]

Additionally, check this website.  Some of the info might be old, but
there are email addresses you might try to get a conversation going with
someone in the community.

http://www.upa.org/pickup/listings/Japan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: britdisc-bounces at ranulf.net [mailto:britdisc-bounces at ranulf.net]
On Behalf Of aura at backspin.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:40 PM
To: Disrail
Cc: britdisc at ranulf.net
Subject: Re: [BD] Ultimate in Japan

Hi Doug, 

Buzz Bullets and MUD of Japan are the current World Club title holders
in Open and Women's respectively, so that should tell you something. 

 From what I learned of women's ultimate in Japan from asking a few club
players at Worlds '06, it is roughly 4 times bigger than in the UK (60
competitive women's club teams).  I'm guessing you could probably
extrapolate in a similar way for Open?  Anyway, I'm willing to bet
ultimate in Japan is a fair bit bigger than in the UK. 

However, I also know most of Japanese ultimate is strongly developed
through Universities, and most club teams have close links to a Uni
team.  
Therefore, I don't know how easy it would be to find a team in cities
without a university.  So depends how small these places are that you
are intending to visit. 

Aura
Iceni 

Disrail writes: 

> Hi, sorry for the spam
> 
> Does anyone have any recent knowledge / experience of ultimate in 
> Japan? I wanted to gauge how developed the sport is, particularly the 
> likelyhood of finding teams outside of the major cities.
> 
> I've tried the JFDA website and emailed them, but have not been able 
> to open a dialogue with them.
> 
> Any experiences, comments welcome,
> 
> Cheers
> Doug
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