{"id":11399,"date":"2011-11-29T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-29T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:11:21","slug":"Ultimate-Frisbee-in-North-Korea-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Frisbee in North Korea, part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my last post on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultimate_%28sport%29\">Ultimate Frisbee<\/a> in North Korea for a while, I&#8217;ll post some far-reaching ideas, link to articles about it, and give thanks and credit.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein said &#8220;you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.&#8221; And George Santayana said &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you want peace, I suggest you begin with fun and games, or at least make them a major part of your plans. And if you think fun and games is nothing more than fun and games, learn your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ping_pong_diplomacy\">ping pong history<\/a>, because it makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>And play Ultimate!<\/p>\n<h5>Credit<\/h5>\n<p>I owe my gratitude for perhaps the greatest tournament of my ultimate career to Andray Abrahamian, who did the bulk of organizing the tournament and <a href=\"http:\/\/38north.org\/2011\/09\/aabrahamian091311\">wrote up his experience here<\/a>. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/?id=657100968\">mauled me in the end zone here<\/a> ;). I also thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koryogroup.com\/about_contact.php\">Koryo Tours<\/a> for their part in making it happen. I don&#8217;t know what North Korean counterparts to thank in particular, so I&#8217;ll just thank them in general.<\/p>\n<h5>Resources<\/h5>\n<p>Besides <a href=\"http:\/\/38north.org\/2011\/09\/aabrahamian091311\">Andray&#8217;s article<\/a>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Koryo posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UdltLWP381w\">great video on the experience<\/a>, starting off with me throwing twice to a North Korean for what would be goals, but once a guy twice her height went off-man to sky her and the other time it bounced out of her hands. Later I had a fun high-release break-mark backhand, but also got D-ed in the end zone.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HbJiS2uYuhY\">Associated Press posted a great video<\/a> too.<\/li>\n<li>The Associated Press also released an article, &#8220;Ultimate Frisbee Comes To North Korea&#8221; picked up in many publications, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/08\/31\/ultimate-frisbee-comes-to_n_943241.html\">the Huffington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/top\/news?slug=ap-nkorea-frisbee\">Yahoo! sports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2016061072_apasnkoreafrisbee.html\">Seattle Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Global Times published an article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/NEWS\/tabid\/99\/ID\/673965\/Ultimate-diplomacy-in-a-Pyongyang-park.aspx\">Ultimate Diplomacy in a Pyongyang Park<\/a>&#8220;, written by one of the players.<\/li>\n<li>Skyd magazine wrote about the tournament preparations, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/skydmagazine.com\/2011\/04\/ultimate-north-korea-tournament-announcement\">Ultimate in North Korea, Tournament Announcement<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>I consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/josephferris76\/sets\/72157627490517029\">my tour-mate Joseph&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kinabalu\/sets\/72157627618325052\">my other tour-mate Andrew&#8217;s<\/a> pictures of the event phenomenal. They captured the emotion of the event, especially in the children, masterfully. They also covered some of the nearby Youth Day events, like a tug of war (other Youth Day activities on this <a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/joshua-spodek-official-north-korean\">official North Korean video<\/a> too).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/?id=657100968\">my video of me scoring here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Any my own pictures will come soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Koryo&#8217;s video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UdltLWP381w<\/p>\n<p>The AP video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HbJiS2uYuhY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my last post on Ultimate Frisbee in North Korea for a while, I&#8217;ll post some far-reaching ideas, link to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3442,"featured_media":69238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"randalwfhnapifzecroc","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9bbe0d5419ed1301488f7790d59766f31160ba1d73ace6c537ff0e9a08c5f56?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"For my last post on Ultimate Frisbee in North Korea for a while, I&#8217;ll post some far-reaching ideas, link to","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":136,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"randalwfhnapifzecroc","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=3442"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9bbe0d5419ed1301488f7790d59766f31160ba1d73ace6c537ff0e9a08c5f56?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}