Anecdote

 Hey guys, sorry for the lack of recent posts, the past week of my life has been filled with homework and studying so there hasn't really been much worth posting but I feel bad so, I'll leave you all with a personal anecdote. 

So, I'm on my school's Club Ultimate team and every fall, they organize a tournament for people playing ultimate more or less for the first time. My roommate, myself and about four or five other guys we know organized a team to compete with. So, now our team is actually playing in the tournament. We have the disc and are about half way down the field so I decide to make a deep cut. The guy with the disc sees me streaking deep and throws the disc. However, in order to do this he had to sort of throw over his defender instead of throwing around him. Due to the fact that the throw had to go over the defender, it was sort of high and floaty. As the disc catches up to me, I've just entered the end-zone. Unfortunately, the disc is still going rather fast so I have to jump, layout and catch the disc. At this point the disc is comfortably and firmly in my grasp, however, in the heat of the moment, I forgot how physics works...  When you launch yourself into the air, there's no way to stop your forward motion unless you hit the ground or an object in your path. So, my momentum carried me out the back of the end-zone before I hit the ground. At this point, I realized two more things that I had forgotten in the heat of the moment. First, just behind our end-zone, there is a large metal trash can. Second, behind the trash can, the ground slopes upward into a rather steep hill. So as you can imagine, my momentum carried me through the metal trash can (which probably weighed a solid 50 or 60 lbs) and then to add insult to injury, straight into the side of the hill. It hurt. A lot. That being said, would I do it again? Absolutely, it was probably one of the coolest things I've ever done.

 I suppose then, the moral of this story is if you think laying out into trash cans  is a good idea... It's really not... Unless you're laying out to catch a disc. In which case, you fly through that trash can. You won't score the point but at least you'll have a sick story to tell your friends!

~A. Turtle

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