sporting goods, outdoors sportA few friends were talking about going down to the beach this weekend so I started to brainstorm fun games we could take down to the sand since the water is still a bit cold to swim comfortably. There is always beach volleyball or skim boarding. Personally, I love playing Ultimate Frisbee on the beach. The key is playing on a stretch of sand where there aren’t a lot of other people. I know of the perfect place up the coast where fewer tourists go leaving much room to throw a Frisbee really far without worrying about hitting someone sunbathing or building a sandcastle. After going into my closest to make sure my favorite Frisbee was still in there, I couldn’t find it anywhere. Must have lost it in the move or it just is buried somewhere else. This was sort of disappointing but at the same time a reason to visit a sporting goods store for new summer outdoors sports products.

Instead of leaving the house, I jumped on my computer and visited Olis Outdoors at http://www.olisoutdoors.com/. They have a beach section that had exactly the kind of sporting goods I was looking for. The Wham-O Freestyle Frisbee, 160g seen above is the exact kind of disc a person would want for the beach. It is designed for freestyle disc tossing, which means it floats slower in the air. Since sand is harder to run in than grass, a slower floating disc makes the outdoors sport more interesting. The disc is affordable and just what I need to replace my old Frisbee. Online shopping once again saved the day or I should say Ultimate Frisbee on the beach for this upcoming weekend. The goal now is getting enough people to play.

Like all outdoors sports, it is always better to have more people than not enough. Temperatures this weekend are said to be around the mid 80s so I don’t think it should be that difficult to get two teams together. Then again, the World Cup is on and a lot of people around here can’t get enough. I’m excited to see how America does in their next World Cup round after tying England to the horror of football fans across the pond. World Cup in the morning and Ultimate Frisbee in the afternoon sounds like a fantastic way to spend a day off work. From now until then I may have to go back to a sporting goods store for more summer gear.