State of Victoria Travel Tips - State of Victoria Travel Guide

Enjoy the people of Australia. It is a beautiful place with a small population, which must lend to the irrepressible friendliness of the inhabitants. No matter where you are or what you are doing, you will somehow remember the people more than the place.

I had seen the name of a disc (Frisbee) player in a magazine and wrote him in hopes of maybe checking out the local scene. He replied and we kept up a correspondence right up to our departure, explaining that we should try and make the Nationals in Melbourne. We arrived there two weeks in advance and headed down to Tasmania to meet up with another local player. Called some more in Melbourne who offered to put us up and bring us to the tourney each day. This was working out like a charm and soon we were treated like visiting royalty. It was the National Championships and involved competition in all aspect of disc play. There was distance, disc golf, accuracy, discathon, Ultimate, and my personal favorite, freestyle. It was great to meet players from all over Australia and New Zealand. Everybody was super friendly and we competed in all events for the week. The most fun was freestyle. Freestyle is a dance-like routine you do with the Frisbee involving spinning it on your nail and doing trick throws and catches. See links below for more details if interested. Kristin had never competed but had jammed quite a bit the previous summer and I was without my usual partner so we teamed up for our first time. I was pretty rusty and pressure was mounting as the locals were expecting a show of sorts. Did a lot of jamming that day with players from all over and the younger players from Western Australia had taken a liking to me. I spent a lot of time showing them things and just hanging out. I really felt like a bit of a celebrity. As the prelims were about to begin, a storm threatened and the venue was changed to inside the gym, which I wasn’t too thrilled about. I grew up playing on the beach and using the wind was my forte. Now, I’d be playing in a vacuum more or less, something I’d never done in competition before. We got into the gym and I nervously waited our turn. When it was our go, the crowd was more than welcoming, it was quite loud. Okay, more pressure. We met at center court and as the Spin Doctors’ “Two Princes” boomed through the speakers, we began a jam that I couldn’t have dreamed possible. The song wasn’t released there yet and the crowd loved the tune, so that just got us pumped up more. We hit everything. I think we were drop-less the first three minutes. I hit a patented gitis split and the WA kids went crazy. It was one of those rare moments where the moment seems to freeze and you are suspended in time. It lasted forever and was over before we knew it. We walked off the court to a standing ovation and full knew that we had shredded. We went on to lose and actually finish third in the finals, but for that one moment, we were the best.

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