They’re going to have the expert testimony from the best players in Ultimate, game play demonstrating the particular skill or strategy being taught, all in crystal clear streaming videos. One of the appeals will be the high production quality.įrom the promotional video, it is clear Rise Up will be the go-to resource for all teams looking to get better. In the videos will be four-time club champion Ben Wiggins, coach of the first two seasons, who will methodically teach and demonstrate individual and team skills based on the theme of the season.
“subscribers will have to pay for access to thematic seasons of 10-12 videos," O'Brien added. The videos are will be available solely online at, where “The international market has been extremely intriguing so far-funders from over 15 different countries, five continents,” said O’Brien. Ultimate continues to grow internationally as its popularity has spurred talks about being added as an Olympic sport. This remains a reality for teams not just in the US, but in other countries as well. Wiggins won three club championships with Sockeye and a Callahan award in 2003. We generally taught ourselves.”īen Wiggins is the coach of the first two seasons. We didn’t have anyone who played at a high enough level to teach us what was right, wrong, good, bad or otherwise. We would have believed in it like the Bible. “Rise Up would have been a godsend for my team. “I had been a successful multi-sport athlete in high school, but I did not want to commit to college athletics,” said O’Brien. It's a gap created mainly because a lot of teams just don’t have the guidance to train their players, not because there is a lack of talent. This creates a gap in the competition level among the college and club Ultimate leagues. Many schools, like the one O’Brien went to, don’t have that luxury.
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They make it because their schools have had longstanding Ultimate traditions, the older dudes who teach the freshmen how to properly execute the dump swing (a skill learned in episode one), how to properly execute an offense and how to defend-not just how to drink.
Those teams in Boulder, Co, the ones like Carleton College and Wisconsin, they don’t just make it because of talent. Anyone who saw the College Championships in May, or the AUDL recaps on Youtube, knows Ultimate has evolved into a high intensity team sport played by world class athletes. These aren’t hippies with smokers' cough tossing around a disc anymore.
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