Poletamate

Has anyone heard of the game poletamate?
If so please email me some details on it

I really appreciate your help

Robb Rob_kathys@hotmail.com

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I believe it was an issue or 2 ago in the DGWN that an article appeared re: Poletimate. Bruce Hudson and company in Topeka, KS started an indoor game/league based on basketball with a twist of Ultimate. Ching Skillshots are used.

Here in Lawrence, KS (20 miles East of Topeks), we're going to start our own league very soon...already have a community gym reserved for Sunday evenings. The "official" disc is the Innova Sportdisc...those light little Rhyno-like ones...

I've not tried this game yet, but it looks fun, and working up a sweat sounds mighty good!

Third option on the poll, C. Never heard of it

:p

[pterodactyl]

The game looks hot!!I would love to play.

Our local club has been playing weekly since November. We have free access to a gym through one of our sponsors, and play pick-up games of 3 on 3 up to 5 on 5, depending on who shows up. After trying out a few golf discs, our disc of choice is the Aerobie Superdisc, which moves the game closer to ultimate.

The game as we play is like full-court basketball. Lots of running, passing, and trying to feed someone close to the basket. It is exhausting, but tons of fun.

[Chris Hysell]

When I was a kid, we always knew what we were having for dinner the day after we had mashed potatoes. Poletamates.

Sorry, isn't this the MRV thread? I meant potato cakes.

[tbender]

Hmmm...Ultimate. Indoors. On hardwood. With Baskets in the way.

:eek:

Ouch.

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All shots are taken from behind the arc/3 point line...with a hand in your face! :o

^ That sounds like netball.

I've played a similar game on a soccer field (across) with an Ultimate disc, but we use lacrosse goals instead of baskets, so the emphasis is more on getting a lane than trying to hit someone near the goal. It's called foccer.

[Blarg]

One of the cool things possible with 'poletemate' or 'basketdisc,' is the possibility of bank shots. Discs will bounce like hell off a wall. We've all seen it happen in disc golf with trees, sometimes to the advantage of the player.
If you play basketdisc (disc basketball with a portable pole hole played indoors on a basketball-sized course) and the gym is small enough, you can also get incredible billiard-like
bank shots off the walls.
I once took some discs into a racketball court and invented about eleven games in half an hour, but that's another story...


Basketdisc. Disketball. Disketching.