What is Ultimate?

by Dave Liepmann

Ultimate is a game. You play it on an Ultimate field with people, and a non-brand-name "flying disc" which we never call a Frisbee. Ever. Once, an Ultimate team was in a diner, and someone dropped their double bacon cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onion, and this scrumptuous bleu-cheese (it's French) and hot sauce combination, and the Ultimate team totally flipped out and tossed a couple discs in the parking lot for, like, twenty minutes!

FACTS:

1. Ultimate is a sport.
2. Ultimate players throw a disc ALL THE TIME.
3. The purpose of the Ultimate is to flip out and make mamma jokes.

Half of playing Ultimate is making jokes and diving into the dirt, being totally awesome. We run all the time, except when we're flying, because that's what Ultimate players do. Ultimate is about running really hard then flying and being dirty awesome.

The Ultimate Players' Association has a more detailed description of the game.