EDITOR’S LETTER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DAVE BROWN
PHOTO EDITOR BRIAN BURKE
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Andre Liem, Danny Saunders, Jim Parinella,
CUPA launches Canada-wide
Elise Ulrich McGrath, Sonia Krajicek, Cam Taylor,
Eric Zaslow, Marcia Morris, Steven Trainor,
Brian Gisel, Jeffrey Edward Bischoff,
Christopher Lowcock, Cory Young,
digital magazine
Adam Zagoria, Dr. Geoff Outerbridge, M.Sc.,D.C.
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Brian Burke, Greg Probe, Tom Styles,
Ultimate, Disc golf and other disc sports get
Randall Quon, Kendra Wamont,
Scott Chapman – Saskatoon, SK, Corry Berghout,
Cory St. Croix, Erik Price, Dan Anderson,
published in this quarterly Free digital mag
Avery Jenkins, Kirsten Taylor, Nathan Doss,
Neil Gardner — www.nzsnaps.com,
Steve Brinster, Dusan Nedelko – ODSA Board
Member, Ed Summers, Gwen Williams,
CANADA – Welcome to the launch issue of the Ultimate Canada Magazine! When the
Canadian Ultimate Players Association (CUPA) contacted me about pulling together and designing a quarterly
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Dave Brown, Editor-in-Chief
magazine on Ultimate and other disc sports nationwide, I jumped at the opportunity. Having played for 17 Ultimate Canada Magazine is an independent
years and with many Nationals and Worlds under my cleats, I’m stoked to bring you articles, updates, tips,
publication published quarterly every three months
and digitally distributed FREE to approximately
photos and more as these disc sports continue to spread throughout the country.
30,000 Canada-wide Ultimate players via email,
It was a lot of work getting this first issue together, but now that we’ve hit our stride, we’ll be able to bring
websites and clubs. It is owned by the Canadian
you future issues in a timely manner with strong content in each and every issue.
Ultimate Players Association (CUPA)
I couldn’t carry on further without thanking the many contributors in this issue and in future issues to come.
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Website: www.canadianultimate.com
Your regional directors for CUPA helped get the word out to pull together articles for this issue. The countless Tel: 613-860-8687 / 888-228-2918
photographs — which totally rock — came together with the work from our volunteer Photo Editor (Brian
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Burke). He not only has great shots himself, but was able to liaise with many other photogs to bring you the
CONTRIBUTIONS
Ultimate Canada Magazine welcomes story and
best of the best. Huge kudos to the photographers represented in this launch issue!
photo contributions. All photos should ideally
I’d also like to mention the software you’re using to look at this issue. Pretty cool eh? This new be shot with a high resolution digital camera,
‘greener-approach’ to magazine reading is terrific and truly enhances your experience. Not only is it easy to
but otherwise scanned at 300dpi resolution
and burned onto a CD-ROM or e-mailed. No
click once to zoom-in and once to zoom-out on the pages; but the entire digital magazine comes to life with
unsolicited contributions will be returned unless
animation and videos. As well, all the email addresses, web links and most importantly advertising links are live.
accompanied by a self-addressed stamped
envelope. Editor assumes no responsibility
On that note – please, please not only click on the digital advertisements you see, but peruse their websites
for return of unsolicited manuscripts,
and order some product. These local disc-related advertisers are on the cutting edge of new clothing, cleats photographs or artwork. Editor may publish
and plastic to make your game better in every respect. So in our Spirit-of-the-Game way....please visit their site
any and all communications with Ultimate
Canada Magazine, and may edit for clarity and
to show your support for them as they support our new digital magazine.
style. ©Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.
So, this issue. In this issue we’re bringing you articles from different cities in the country. They include
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league updates; environmental moves you can begin in your city; ideas on how to get funding to build your
without consent of the editor unless otherwise
own Ultimate park and much more. There’s insight from players about their personal and team experience agreed between partners. Printed in Canada.
playing competitively. And of course, there’s a spotlight on Canadian Nationals held in Calgary, and the World
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Championships recently held in Vancouver.
Ultimate Canada Magazine aligns with international
environmental groups. Recently Ultimate Canada
All of these articles come with full colour, high-quality photos which really sum-up the rush and charge of
Magazine joined and supports the following
the awesome sport that is Ultimate. But wait, that’s not all! We’re also going to have regular features on the groups. We encourage you to do the same.
other disc sports too. Look for articles large and small on such sports as: disc golf, beach Ultimate, freestyle,
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double disc court, Goaltimate and others (including Cups). As long as we get tips and articles from you, we’ll
responsible outdoor recreation
publish them for all to enjoy.
through education, research and
partnerships. Leave No Trace
As this issue goes to its digital-press, UPA’s are going on — we’ll tell you all about it next issue. As well in
builds awareness, appreciation and
our next issue you can read about indoor Ultimate; other updates across the country, updates on the league, respect for our wilderness areas.
provincial and national-level Juniors programs; and regular features on offense, defense, training, nutrition and
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tons more.
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Until then, write-in anytime with your comments, rants, photos, article ideas or anything else, and we’ll
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build these future issues together.
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