WUGC 2016 - USA vs Japan Men's Gold Medal Game

[@4d1ce]

As a shorter player myself, I love watching team Japan and the Buzz Bullets to remind me that you don't have to be tall to disc

[@eramahmed8743]

Lol for me Im a shorter player as well but ive got spring so i can deal with taller players

[@Philip4454]

No

[@ipass9]

This game really showcases the international flavor of Ultimate. One of most entertaining game on the internet. wow.

[@Graveltongue]

I played this a few times back in London in the 90’s. Great fun. I’m a bit older now and play with my 2 boys in Stroud, Gloucestershire. They love it. My eldest has been invited to trial for the U17 GB team this Autumn. He’s 15 and has a phenomenal side arm! Fast and fit too!

[@Traplicano]

I grew up in nailsworth and have always been interested but never played or knew there was anyone/anywhere to play around here. Never thought I’d see a cotswolds neighbor in the comments of a ultimate frisbee vid haha!

[@sonyafeinberg7378]

Think about this. Japanese are all shorter (primarily). So they've got to work these huck blades that slice in where only the receiver can catch them at the last minute, which makes catching and throwing it much more difficult. The US could just air out flat 50 / 50 and catch most of them (they might still have to get a good jump). But on the mark, you have people like Nathaniel White whose armspan is like twice theirs. How hard is that. So Japan just has very fast handler movement and very fast disc movement. Such an awesome game to watch!

[@stewartgude3830]

Dude, Yao Ming is Chinese.

[@jitsmapper4438]

Jesus christ youtube

[@humblelongboards]

You're right...the Japanese definitely are at a slight disadvantage. Got to give it to them for their hustle on the field.

[@samuelbousfield4342]

@@ADeeManz exception not the rule

[@micahross3621]

Where was the first travel at around 3 minutes? I'm an American but I hate to see soo many violations called for no reason

[@juural5808]

1:04:59 lowkey badass in the background

[@lowkeyjays]

Lmao

[@NightOwl-ki8yo]

Too bad not a lot of people know about this game

[@EdwardFalkexJ]

2020! Here!

[@in9748]

Here!

[@eliaszmyroniuk8760]

2021 mate

[@rafiy7150]

got here in 2021

[@Elberu69.]

2022 here

[@mapmom965]

just start played this game yesterday in college , so glad to know this game in my life !

[@twallace6262]

Welcome!🥏🤗

[@drsch]

This was great to watch. Two teams respecting each other, having fun playing a game. Unlike when Canada played Japan and gooned it up with all the physical tackling and phantom foul calls.

[@robtaylor7212]

8 years ago....time to let it go.

[@challenges-dl3yu]

What a game, shows off two teams’ skills, athleticism, characteristics 🎉🎉love it 100%

[@danielheltberg6202]

Watching this in 2020 hearing Corona ;(

[@sunaymishra8562]

same

[@Dachosenpro2864]

same

[@leoclaudiodasilvaconceicao7827]

Same!! Hello from Brasil

[@jaketruong6598]

Me too!! Hi everyone

[@janaspengler4169]

21:35 very funny

[@michaelmikkelsen1627]

Those catches by Matsuno(sorry if I spell name wrong) were crazy!!!

[@kdriehuys]

45:21 that's the spirit of ultimate right there

[@helvetica3666]

My favourite player in Team Japan is Masahiro Matsuno❤️❤️❤️

[@leoclaudiodasilvaconceicao7827]

Here in Brazil this game is not so popular. I was introduced to this game by a friend of mine from the USA and i love it!!!!!!!!

[@ryanvela608]

Damn I needa play this sport

[@raycheng6374]

no you dont

[@ric5210]

Saucey Boy yup you do

[@checkershoes]

comparing this game to the USAvJapan game in pool play, it just shows how great Matsuno is.

[@tarek2901412]

I love how the Japanese respect the Disc :)

[@davidkpukumu6303]

My best sport I like playing this am part of the youth team in sierra leone I wish we have someone to support us we need strong team to play against

[@abdullatheef6187]

Today I have seen few people playing this game. Then later came back home and searched in youtube to know more about it. :-)

[@antoine1191]

The U.S. team played a tremendous game and clearly deserved the win - although it's a disgrace how many wrong calls they made concerning travels and picks. This kind of missing spirit is what drags this wonderful sport down

[@tylerobrien5786]

Kinda disagree. Freechild called a bad travel and White called a bad foul (which he took back after the observer said he thought it wasn't a foul), but those were really the only bad calls from the US. All pretty balanced when you consider that Japan had a few bad calls too (contesting an obvious foul in the endzone even when the observer said it looked like a foul and a pretty questionable call to take back the callahan) Pretty spirited game all around if you ask me. Teams are always going to make a few questionable calls. That's just human error.

[@kohbeatbox]

Very very very cooool！Thank you USA！from japan

[@zzarseniczz1]

The catch at 1:04:00 looks like he lands with his back foot just before the end zone first tbh

[@RajSingh-lj4vg]

the pro game should use these field dimensions. much more entertaining

[@songunsongun6253]

Frisbee sport is fun, simple, beautiful... I think its more fun than football....

[@jame7093]

Japanese distance from US when marking: 6 inches. US distance from Japanese when marking: 2 feet.

[@arpitranasaria4878]

29:00 feel bad for the dude named corona

[@piroskakallos-balogh2858]

I knooooow XD

[@maartenvanbever3251]

because of that he might not feel well xD

[@yasyas3780]

😂

[@SasvariAdam]

Wow, at 1:28! All the players are happy, JPN and USA as well! Great!

[@chrissullivan7984]

Very cool that Kitchikowa played in finals 18 years apart, but Japan lost to Canada in the finals in 1998. Canada beat a Death or Glory/USA squad in pool play and semis.

[@ChrisCro]

match starts at 3:35

[@smwad7103]

I miss playing ultimate so damn much

[@danielwilcox5231]

Great commentary!!!!!!! Only brought up another sport once

[@ProxyAddress]

There's alot of talk here in the comments about travel calls and how USA ruined the game by making so many nit picky calls. Anyone watching film on this Buzz Bullets team would notice two things almost immediately. Their ability to put OI forehands into spaces outside of a defenders reach. Second being how much they travel. They are constantly moving their pivot foot up and down the field, not to mention the subtle rounding of cuts to establish better position. I understand that calling travel over and over stops the flow, but the rules exist for a reason.

[@AL-nj9kw]

Interested the Japanese all wear gloves! Fun team to watch man

[@monstrellsf-w8277]

I can’t believe that all these people came from across the world to play in the Watford football stadium, sad they couldn’t get anywhere better

[@yishaiwhite9730]

This is Allianz Park, which is the stadium of rugby team Saracens. Although interestingly, before this stadium was built they did play at Watford's stadium

[@paulkrenik8579]

Such a nice break throw from Ashlin Joye at 18:12

[@AustenSummers]

So difficult

[@EdwardFalkexJ]

Me gusta! me gusta mucho!. Ojala mas gente se entere de esto.

[@jame7093]

"Goose has hops." "That he does."

[@jame7093]

(45:58)

[@SamLee-tm6jn]

#2 for Japan travels BAAAAAD almost every time he touches the disc.

[@yootooberkev15]

29:15 i counted like 5 travels lol

[@lebronjames5287]

@@Lily-dg5zi he clearly moved both his feet lol

[@zematynnad]

seriously, what's with all the travels from the US?

[@zachlincoln1379]

@@lebronjames5287 I don’t know if you should be calling other people out for traveling lol

[@disyellaaa5734]

How could this sport isn't in the Olympics....

[@xlionyx]

Not yet 😉

[@majeczka.kozakk]

2023, anyone?

[@bharathal8090]

2024

[@sonyafeinberg7378]

Okay, 38:40 replay - very clearly the Japanese defender fouled, is it Cassidy Rasmussen here. So maybe Japan is getting the best of a bad call. Let's see if the disc doesn't lie.

[@jacobwh2366]

Looked like a foul, but not a strip, which unless my knowledge is out of date (or potentially a rule has changed since this since it was a few years ago) means that the disc goes back to the thrower.

[@daltonsteinkamp384]

Nick Stuart seems to have suck great spirit. I bet people love playing with him

[@byroncastillo1107]

this looks Hella fun.

[@jonahgeremia1921]

Do u need a mustache to play

[@zachwruk4210]

of course thats how all of this works

[@Magratheazaphod]

1:16:09

[@4d1ce]

Oh. My. God.

[@sunaymishra8562]

What happened

[@Gutsy_213]

I love this game but I can’t play for any leagues where I live the closest one is a hour away and all of the clubs are for people older than me

[@ultinew6328]

Arakawa amazing~~

[@waktab]

Think about this, wugc 2016 USA vs Japan Men,s Gold Medal Game

[@cheonnamhunter8107]

That pivot switch doh 13:37

[@soka4197]

His pivot didnt switch?

[@vincentbulloch9784]

@@soka4197 after the call he switches pivots and hands. i think goose just likes to have fun

[@3rdyagi863]

初めて見た競技です、フリスビーの浮遊感が、面白いですね。非接触プレーなのは見てて理解出来たけど、時々止まるルールが、解らない。　色んなスポーツ有るんですね。

[@richardmendoza7852]

@37:29 why wasn't there a turnover?

[@90日間で腹筋割ります]

15:21からの展開すげぇ

[@ららちゃ-x4p]

めちゃくちゃ綺麗ですよねちゃんと奥も見れてるのが流石日本代表って感じです！

[@sonyafeinberg7378]

On the 9th point, 4 / 4, with Japan trying to hold to go up 5 / 4. The US makes two calls before Japan turns it over. A travel call, which on review might've been legit. The thrower does lift and reset his pivot foot. But I wanna know were they screaming travel immediately, or after there was a goal scored? And then they call a disc that was scooped right above (posssibly off) the turf down. There's an observer right there. And it seems to me that Nathaniel White is always making these calls (he called the disc down). I've seen him roll his hands for a travel call. And I just think, I'm not sure, but my first impression is that this isn't good spirit of the game. It disrupts Japan's flow. On the travel call, it was actually a goal, otherwise. I haven't (yet) seen Japan get nit picky or make a lot of calls. I just watched an AUDL game where Seattle, I wanna say, made calls against itself. Seattle vs. Wisconsin in the Semi Finals. They obviously wanted to win it decisively and completely unobjectionably. Like there was no doubt we scored and no doubt we didn't travel, or whatever. They didn't make a lot of calls against Wisconsin. And they didn't contest calls WI made. I wish the US would take the higher road. Like make it obvious that they're not using calls to get an advantage or stop Japan's flow. I may be wrong.

[@doktarr]

Travel call is clearly correct and nobody argues. It's not bad spirit to make a correct call, and there's certainly no pattern of questionable travel calls before this point. Up/Down was extremely close, and White actually retracts his call after other people chime in within 6 seconds. Matsuno's slide carried him out of bounds so there's hardly any flow being disrupted. Mentioning that an observer was on top of the play isn't relevant since it's not an active call, and you would have to stop play in order to solicit his opinion. Overall the spirit in this game was pretty great.

[@holgermurcia7749]

Sonya Feinberg USA won making any call. Bad Spirit. Japan is better.

[@jimmyewald]

Sonya Feinberg I completely agree, I thought the USA was being all nit picky. I hate that. I just want to play the game or watch it, it drives me insane when they stop every few seconds for little tiny things.

[@emmetholton1489]

Japan has a history of being pretty petty with calls as well : See 2014 WUCC Buzz Bullets - Ironside final point. It's understandable, they lack size on just about every team they play and may come from a community where a lot less contact is acceptable, but overall I don't think either team in this game overstepped any bounds. Also, basically everyone on Japan travels like BJ Sefton on almost every throw so a travel here and there is probably good to remind them that the rule does, in fact, exist. Plus in terms of fouls the worst treatment of a foul all game was committed by the Japanese at 38:40 when Rasmussen is clearly fouled and the defender staunchly refuses to change his stance. In the end I don't really see where people's annoyance with the calls is coming from. Game was played cleanly but for a few calls, US was clearly the better team and deserved to win, and the calls had no tangible effect on the game... A lot of people seemed to just be annoyed with the US for sweeping in such dominant fashion.

[@emmetholton1489]

Oh yeah and Ryan Farrell had a callahan called back on the most b.s. foul on a throw I've seen all year save for Noah Saul in semi's at US nationals.

[@yootooberkev15]

21:33

[@ninetales1234]

Music playing from start to 1:55 is FIRE!! Music source?

[@lecatogan]

MPSI5 combrouze encore une fois on est là

[@temple_ninja]

How is that not a foul by Kittredge at 55:00

[@yoavreininger8865]

How many turn overs there are in the game?

[@firdausshariman1083]

1:04:01 The Goat of Frisbee(Beau Kittredge) ✨

[@jawadashraf7138]

Love this game.. ❣️

[@Sam-ts9gw]

1:16:11 highlight of the game

[@池上ナルガクルガ彰]

意外と疲れるスポーツやな 面白そう

[@sonyafeinberg7378]

I like the very next turnover / break on the very next point US 5 / Japan 4. Allen Collick (spelling?) sees the Japanese cutter coming under with no one in front of him and just books to the spot where he would've caught the goal. Allen seems very alert and agile. He looks funny with his hunched shoulders, but I think he's one of my new favorite players - just noticed him on DC in the AUDL recently. Very heads up and totally destructive to a finely tuned Japanese machine. Like dropping a wrench in a spinning engine. it hurts.

[@baerzf]

I love Tom Doi!

[@Alex-nv7gk]

52:38 Even though it would not have changed anything to the game, that is a really bad travel from number 2 from Japan

[@wunsch_lauter995]

Wer wird auch gezwungen das anzuschauen? Während 29:00

[@biusbush7671]

At 32:55 he ran 5 meters with the frisbee in his hand... Bwoah... Referee ?!!

[@antonrealfive]

1:04:02 observer said that it is a goal, but it is not...

[@beckyk023]

This is WFDF rules so they aren't observers - He's simply indicating what the call was on the field (i.e. the players said it was a goal, so that's what he indicated)

[@benedictperezrubia1025]

What type of brand the Japanese wearing gloves?

[@benedictperezrubia1025]

What brand the Japanese using frisbee Gloves?

[@danissdaglass6674]

Это куда захватывающее зрелище чем игры РПЛ

[@fsbagent711]

Ух ты , русский появился ! Кстати , капитан команды Дэнни Карлинский #23 говорит по русски.

[@RainingRain314]

52:38 how is the handler not travelling? i though one foot must be on the ground at all times. are there any experienced players who can explain this to me?

[@eriktheginger99]

It's a travel, #2 traveled a ton throughout the game but in this scenario they didn't call it I assume because it didn't necessarily have any impact on the play

[@jeanbillault1506]

1:11:49

[@Fakeslimshady]

so uhh, how do you even defend in this game?

[@TheReepe]

What's the name of USA player 2?

[@trooton]

1:11:45 throw catch throw goal

[@benedictrasilim5132]

32:52 Thats some unnecessary travel after catching there. Could have stop in fewer steps but gotta take that extra

[@user-hl1hk3cs7j]

what's the name of this sport?

[@coffeespy1133]

Ultimate frisbee

[@timothypilli]

Wow... First bad Japanese contest to a clear foul by the player 97 right on the cusp of half. There were 2 nonexistent travel calls by team USA that gave them their first break, taking the credit away from a brilliant bid by Freechild unfortunately, but one mistake doesn't justify another

[@multiyapples]

Great game.

[@zoloob8839]

great game JAPAN

[@069yeohkhaisyuen7]

55:10 slam down by his own team mate after scoring

[@apostolicworship238]

i screamed

[@ajfjsjdndkaotunsjaicyshabs6271]

20:20 no travel by miles

[@Christopher-Lenz]

Is Brodie Smith considered the best to play this sport???

[@tyfleming5216]

Nope, he was good when he played, but I don’t think anyone would consider him the best or in that conversation much.

[@pboudreau55]

Japan's huck game tho👌👌👌

[@mag1k42]

52:27 terrible travel call.

[@holgermurcia7749]

mag1k42 they just wanted to win.

[@kakotepako6538]

Incorrect. Good call, look at 51:45. The travel was not a drag of the pivot. The travel was that the Japanese player changed direction before setting his pivot after the catch. Was headed in, rounded the corner, threw. Clear travel.

[@bricksaver]

i counted 5 or 6 steps there. that's definitely a travel

[@holgermurcia7749]

Maybe! I don't really know if He needed six steps to stop completely

[@mag1k42]

It's not about the number of steps you take -.- its the number of steps you need to stop your momentum as quickly as possible. Also if you're actually paying attention he establishes his pivot on the 4th step. The 5th step with his right foot is around the pivot.

[@HyarionCelenar]

Is it me, or does this field look super narrow?

[@zematynnad]

Japan: so fun to watch.

[@francesco5254]

Some rules mechanics should be changed in order to get a more fluid gameplay, but it's a very interesting sport overall

[@crietzsche]

There ain't a more fluid sport, save for swimming.

[@francesco5254]

@@crietzsche I've actually been playing ultimate for a year now so yeah I definitely like it 😂 but I still think that some improvements could be made not to have continuous pauses during the match.

[@JoanneMartinLucas]

At 1:04:02 the point was actually a straddle

[@TheOctoJon]

Such an advantage on line plays to be tall...

[@cagamolo350]

quarantine brought me here

[@guerrinoguerrini3136]

Why there isn't al salaam?

[@Luchardys]

Khalif plays mixed

[@emerssoncabreraquintero5160]

No, si en verda esta bien

[@truly7305]

Hella travel at 1:01:40??

[@EmptyHouseGuy]

Why is the field so tiny.

[@GreenyJerry]

55:04 omg what a catch

[@creatusultimate]

Buen partido

[@willpurnell6161]

The Japanese travel so much it hurts.