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Freespeedies an der Schweizer Meisterschaft

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Am vergangenen Wochenende wurde die Vorrunde der U20&U17 Indoor Schweizer Meisterschaft gespielt. Die Freespeedies waren mit zwei U20 und einem U14 Team vertreten.

Das kompetitive U20 Team konnte im ersten Pool alle Spiele gewinnen und qualifizierte sich für den Upper Pool. Im Upper Pool führten 2 Siege und eine Niederlage zum 2. Schlussrang. Damit wurde eine hervorragende Ausgangslage für den Finaltag geschaffen, an welchem das Team im Viertelfinal auf die Panthers 2 treffen werden.

Das weniger erfahrene U20 Team konnte viel Erfahrung sammeln und hatte ihr Highlight im Spiel gegen Flying Angels, in welchem das Team mit 5:7 hinten lag, 4 Sekunden vor Ablaufen der Zeit mit dem 6:7 einen weiteren Punkt erzwangen, das Break zum 7:7 holten und dann das Spiel doch noch knapp verloren. Kompliment an die Truppe, die sich super geschlagen hat!

Das U14 Team bekam in der U17 Division die körperlichen Unterschiede zu spüren. Trotzdem kämpften unsere Jüngsten wacker um jeden Punkt, holten sich mit spektakulären Flugeinlagen die Sympathien der Zuschauer und konnten sich ein knappes Resultat gegen Flying Angels Eichholz erspielen (4:6)!

Vielen Dank an alle Coaches, Captains, Betreuer und Eltern, die die Teams begleitet und unterstützt haben!

Am 15. Februar geht es weiter mit dem Finaltag in Sursee!

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breaking news: Freespeed at WUCC 2014!

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after a few long weeks of waiting, World Flying Disc Federation announced, that Switzerland is granted another spot in the open division of World Ultimate Club Championships 2014:

http://www.wfdf.org/news-media/news/press/2-official-communication/560-wfdf-approves-additional-bids-for-wucc-2014

first of all, we want to thank all the persons who were involved in the decision to give this spot to us. we know it has been a „mission impossible“ to find a bid allocation system that matches the development and complexity levels of all countries around the world. while the chosen system probably worked for most teams, some teams like us were neglected. frustrating for us, but a logical and justified effect of choosing a system that works for the vast majority. we are happy and thankful that ways could be found to consider some of the teams (like us) without original legitimacy !

these great news come just about right in time, since we are moving towards the end of a process of finding a new coaching team for the 2014 season. after many meetings and long nights of considerations, we’re on the way to have a great solution, implementing longtime experience, professional physical training knowledge and sneaky tactical brainpower.
since a participation at Worlds has a major impact on the course of the season, the decision about the WUCC spot was the last big missing link to start with the season planning.
with this motivation boost, we will shortly be back in the gym and on the field, to prepare for another tough season!

meanwhile, let us surprise you by our… hmmmm… rather fashionable… appearance at the Gaggloo Indoors tournament this weekend in Bern!

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Freespeed Open – end of the 2013 season…

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After some years of playing close to or at the top of big european tournaments, we are looking back at the 2013 season as another very successful one! Hard work in countless practice hours, tactical adaptions before and during the season and great execution by everyone led to the obvious highlights of this season: Defending the title at Tom’s Tourney, coming 3rd at Windmill Windup and playing the finals at XEUCF!

Probably less obvious, we’re about to reach another milestone in our club history. After starting a junior program a few years ago, we now start to integrate the oldest and most experienced juniors into the competitive open team. This might be a big opportunity for further step-ups as a team. We can now integrate young players who don’t have to start from the simple basics, but already are familiar with some of our strategies and have solid skills and athleticism.

Overall, we’re proud and happy with another awesome year as a team, in which we overcame very difficult moments, celebrated great games and took steps into the future of the team!

Seeing many new talents from all parts of europe, as well as teams improving in various aspects, we are looking forward to the european 2014 season as a probably more competitive one than ever!

For our preparation, we still have one big question mark: Despite the mostly great performances from Flying Angels and Freespeed on an european level in the last years, Switzerland has only one spot in the open division of the 2014 World Ultimate Club Championships (taking place in Lecco, 40km off the swiss border…). Since we lost the 2013 national championship finals to Flying Angels in double game point, we have no spot yet. We’re still hoping for some changes on the WFDF side to make the current european number 2 club team play at WUCC 2014…