{"id":193,"date":"2012-10-08T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ultimate\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-10-08T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:54:33","slug":"practice-practice-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/2012\/10\/08\/practice-practice-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Practice Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What has Butler Ultimate been up to? Well I&#8217;ll tell you right now: we&#8217;re revolutionizing the sport of Ultimate Frisbee on Butler&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/09\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/09\/image-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team out at practice. Photos courtesy of the Butler Collegian.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are we using new equipment? New fields? Going to new tournaments? I answer yes to all of them, but that&#8217;s not how we are changing our image. What we have had to do is take a few steps backwards in order for giant steps forward to be possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After getting in contact with Nate, a Butler staff member who plays extensively with club teams in the Indianapolis area, he agreed to get a few of his buddies and come out to run a practice. It was a great moment. Not only were the freshmen learning basics that had slipped through the cracks, but the older players were learning just as much. I was corrected twice as much as I expected to and half as much as I wanted to.<a href=\"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/09\/image2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/09\/image2-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These practices signal a change from playing casual games of pick-up into a more serious look into the mechanics of the game. As long as the weather remains above freezing and the it doesn&#8217;t get too dark out, we hope to have as many similar practices in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has Butler Ultimate been up to? Well I&#8217;ll tell you right now: we&#8217;re revolutionizing the sport of Ultimate Frisbee on Butler&#8217;s campus. Are we using new equipment? New fields? Going to new tournaments? I answer yes to all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,6,7,8,9],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-butler","tag-club","tag-frisbee","tag-practice","tag-team","tag-ultimate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubsports.butler.edu\/ultimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}