building a rep during beijing ultimate

This is a quickie. Yesterday I was trying to go play ulitmate, but was too confused by the metro here, so they told me to about another group which is basically all beijingers playing. I played for almost 5 hours and it was beautiful. Some things are universal, like hand signals during the game and getting excited about good plays. it was one of the best experiences i've had yet.

Anyways, first off, Darkside (Carolina's Ultimate Team) apparently has a horrible rep in China, i'm not sure how, but they do. so do better all you people still at unc, stop causing international strife!

So let me tell you how to make an impact in china at ultimate to quickly build a sweet rep. Step 1: be really friggin tall, they like that. Step 2: fail to realize the rules they play by (i'll explain) Step 3: be really bad at their drinking game, but smile a lot.

Step 1 is easy being american, plus being tall for that, they love it when you sky and go over the top of the people who normally cna bully the shorter chinese

Step 2 was funny if you play ultimate, for the rest of you, maybe not. Anyways, most pick-up games i play with don't care if you drop a pull because we are slack. I didn't really think twice about asking (1 because i didn't know how the best, 2 because i was just excited to play) and about 5 points in after i had established the job of defending handlers and going deep, i took off as soon as they pulled. it was a very low pull by most standards and i had a good lead so just for the heck of it I jumped as high as I could which surprised even me, because i normally don't have a vertical worth shit. however, the disc nicked my left hand and i snagged it with 2 fingers, landing near midfield. everyone just froze then gasped and cheered. after the point, the other person told that they play dropping pulls is a turnover here. oh well... he said i looked like a badass.

Step 3 was easy because it was one of the leaders b-days the next day so they went out to dinner and brought me. (17 chinese and andy) and it was fun, i learned some chinese and did my best to converse. anyways, they played a chinese drinking game that i was fine at, i messed up once only to the average of about 5 and it was good. however they then moved to 7's which we play in the states. this is a game i don't think i've ever messed up on (you count in a circle and skip/say "fuck"/pass on numbers with 7 in it or are multiples of 7 and you go fast) this game isn't hard to me in chinese. however, counting really fast when the skip is in front of me, is... I CAN'T COUNT THAT FAST! at first one guy was worse then me, he got drunk and tapped out and then i was losing everything, but they laughed and thought it was great so woot!
thats beijing frisbee. happy birthday to haimin