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From: "Peter James Coy" <POA96PJC@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject: Banning indoor ultimate
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Si, I hope you are joking.

Banning indoor ultimate would have serious implications for student
ultimate.  If we had to play outside all the time, we would get
nowhere near as much interest.   The advantages of indoor for 
attracting beginners are huge, it not wet, cold or windy, everyone has 
a pair of trainers, but not everyone has the appropriate footwear for
a mud playing field.   If you doubt indoors potential for attracting 
beginners, Ask your self this, why is Edinburgh beginners all ways 
oversubscribed?  We in Sheffield don't doubt it's benefits, we have 
three teams on their way to Edinburgh as I'm typing this.
      Don't get me wrong, outdoors is important, once we have people 
hooked we push playing outdoors.  But You will find very few
people attracted enough by ultimate to start playing it in autumn and
winter (the start of the academic year) when the days are short, its
cold, wet and windy.

Whilst there is a greater risk of injury when playing indoors, 
there are a number of steps which can be taken to minimize this risk.
Firstly exercise caution, if making a bid for the disc means you are
going to run into the wall, then don't make the bid.  Secondly where
possible don't play up until the walls, try and give some space
between the wall and the edge of the pitch.

Pete (Phat' Eds).