{"id":3885,"date":"2014-10-14T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:57:37","slug":"the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Game: Ultimate Frisbee (in Doha)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since <a title=\"Curriculum Vitae (Resum\u00e9)\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/curriculum-vitae-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaving Nepal<\/a> for the first time in 1988, in addition to pursuing <a title=\"Curriculum Vitae (Resum\u00e9)\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/curriculum-vitae-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">further education and an international teaching career<\/a> around the world, I also played Ultimate Frisbee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started playing the sport at Grinnell College when I discovered that I could throw a mean forehand! Until I got into the sport, my favorite had been football (soccer), a sport I had grown up with and really enjoyed playing. But I injured my right ankle playing it, also at Grinnell. Unable to continue with it, I started playing Ultimate Frisbee considerably more and that became my sport of choice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing the game in as diverse countries as the US (at UWC-USA in addition to Grinnell College), Malawi, Norway, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Qatar and Nepal, I also met a diverse group of people and made a lot of friends too!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following video is that of the Doha group playing at the American School. We could do this only in the &#8220;winter&#8221; months, when the temperature was low enough! Otherwise, we would play indoors at one of the American-University-in-Qatar&#8217;s gyms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to look really carefully to spot me though! (The video was made by some Dutch visitors, if I remember correctly!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Frisbee in Doha, Qatar\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSIayFp_sds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have Ultimate Frisbee stories? Share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimate Frisbee in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163],"tags":[185,184,189,159,192,196,144,186],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure-musings","tag-azerbaijan","tag-malawi","tag-norway","tag-ultimate-frisbee","tag-united-kingdom","tag-uwc-usa","tag-videos","tag-vietnam"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/discraft-2-resized.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-10F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}