More Innovation

Over the past few years, I've seen all sorts of innovation in Ultimate. I'm interested to see how the latest innovation in Ontario turns out: Eastern Canadian Ultimate Conference. The concept of a team getaway without the high stress of constant ultimate (like at a tournament) seems like a very appealing concept to me, and should pay dividends over the season. It's like having 6 practices focused over one weekend.

Pictured Above: A photo from the Sunday night Paganello party as DJ Keene hit the decks (photo courtesy of Tom Styles).

Having gone to this weekend in its earlier form as a tournament I found it to be a brilliant weekend. I can only imagine how good this weekend will be with an early training and bonding session with your season's team.

In addition to basic training, it looks like there will be some additional information provided in the form of a conference. The listed talks are on:

1. Leadership
   
2. Medical
   
3. Training
4. Fun

I can't say fun seems like an interesting topic, but maybe some teams need some lessons in this area. I think one of the main topics missing on the list is "sports psychology", but finding a strong speaker in that area would be difficult.

PJ