From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jul 16 09:54:21 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id JAA11014 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:47:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from relay2.mail.uk.psi.net (relay2.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.107.6]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA11003 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:47:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net [154.32.106.14] by relay2.mail.uk.psi.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ywjhC-0006km-01; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:47:22 +0100 Received: from geosys.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.8.5/) with UUCP id JAA03013 for csv.warwick.ac.uk!britdisc; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:41:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:29:10 +0100 From: Ian Batty <batty@geosys.co.uk> Message-Id: <199807160829.JAA06551.batty@geosys.co.uk> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: A view from elsewhere Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: O605k0GHMnqn4pHtGKBtow== Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I have been reading the latest mailings on geo teams and finally felt that I could make general comment. I now live in Calgary and have at LEAST 5 potential practices a week with the same people in the city. Tournaments happen with about the same frequency as here in the UK where you get to play with the same people again. Maybe it is just me, but I am bored with playing with the same people that often. I enjoy building a playing understanding with someone, but feel that this understanding improves at an immeasurably faster rate by playing with someone in a tournament rather than at any number of practices. I find that I am actually missing only practising once a week (or less) and a part (I am not sure how major) of the attraction to the game is the social aspect of meeting friends and aquaintances on a less regular basis. When you combine this with playing at a high standard (and I accept that my standard is not as high as some) then the fun really begins. My point is simply that you do not NEED to live near to all the other members of your team. You do not NEED to practice 4 times a week to enjoy the game at a high(ish) standard. If you want to play to play for a team several hundred miles away you should be allowed to do so. And if you being part of that team helps them to play with passion, skill, spirit and most importantly FUN then surely that is to be encouraged. Just my overseas view Batty (VH, Cynics and Alberta Masters) PS Thanks to Wayne for remembering the Strollers- and watch out at Ross; the Strollers and Stan are BACK!@#$!