Dear member federations

The EUF is happy to announce that the Education & Development Committee appointed Davide Morri from the Federazione Italiana Flying Disc (FIFD) as "EUF Trainer Instructor". He will be responsible to plan and run the Train the Trainer Program in Debrecen on July 14th-16th. EUF will adopt the FIFD Level 1 Trainer Manual for this first camp, which will coved following points:

• Role and Reposibilities of a Trainer
• How to teach the Spirit of the Game
• How to teach fondamentals (throws and catches)
• EUF approved FIFD Drill Book: Methodology, Skill Level, Context for different drills
• Didactic progression for schools and beginner teams
• Adapt drills to space, players' number and skill level
• How to plan and structure training

Davide Morri is 34 years old and he is Lecture of Ultimate at the Sport University of Bologna. He is FIFD Level 3 (highest level possible) Trainer since 2010. He has developed as member of the FIFD Education and Development Committee the actual Italian Trainer Curriculum, which he has applied for several years in Italy and in other coutries for the development of junior and student programs. His core team is CUSB Bologna but he played various seasons for FAB and for teams in the USA and in South America.

Davide will be assited in Debrecen by Marc Michael "Schlumpf" Huber from the Austrian Federation and from Leontine Sonneveldt from the Dutch Flying Disc Association.

Schlumpf is in progress of obtaining an official Trainer License from the Austrian National Sport Committee and worked as Trainer and played in almost all continents.

Leo is a certified Trainer and has a master degree at the Johann Cruyff Institute. She has been coaching for almost 15 years at club and national team level. She is running the trainer level 1 course of the Dutch Federation.

Together with Davide and with other trainer professionals, they will enhance the FIFD Trainer Curriculum and create a EUF one, which can be used by other EUF members that haven't an own one yet.

We wish Leo, Davide, Schlumpf and all other Trainer Professionals that will volunteer to create the EUF Trainer Curriculum all the best for this extremely important task for the development of Ultimate in Europe!

Dear member federations 

The EUF officially opens the call for bids for the EUCF 2018. This will assign the title of European Club Champion in the division Open, Women, Mixed.

Deadlines and requirements are here.

Shortly we will also open the call for bids for the EUC 2019 (National Teams in the Divisions Men, Women, Mixed) and EMUC (National Teams in the Divisions Men Masters, Women Masters, Mixed Masters).

After the summer we will also open the call for bids for the EUCF 2019.

Please consider that only federations can bid or clubs/individuals with a letter of reference from a EUF member federation.

Dear Ultimate Community,

EUF is very happy to announce our partnership with the FIVE Ultimate to act as the Official Merchandise provider for all 2017 EUF events!

Dear Member Federations

The WFDF Competition Rules 2017 introduced new possibilities to determine the Men/Women Ratio in the mixed division.

The EUF Board would like to inform you that following option will be used in all EUF sanctioned tournament in the mixed divisions

A7.3. Ratio Rule B (“end zone decides” rule):
A7.3.1. At the start of the game, after the first disc flip, an additional disc flip happens with the winner selecting which end zone is “End zone A”, with the other end zone becoming “End zone B”. At the start of each point the Team that is at End zone A must choose the gender ratio. This process applies for the first half. For the second half, at the start of each point the Team that is at End zone B must choose the gender ratio.

 

1. recommend professional trainers that will be available to lead the
   1. Level One TtT Session (Step One) in Debrecen on 14. (afternoon) – 16. July 2017. The session will be of 20 Units of 45 minutes (2 on Friday, 12 on Sat., 6 on Sun.)
      (*) Trainer must arrive already on July 13th evening in Debrecen.
   2. and  a Level One TtT session (Step Two) at a “EUF Regional Culture Camp” in the summer of 2018.
2. Provide a short Curriculum Vita of your recommended professional so we know with whom we are dealing with.
3. Allow the recommended professionals to use parts of the existing script in English to provide an agenda for the Level One TtT Session (Step One) in Debrecen. Please provide a copy of the script in English to be applied - we would like to see the topics to be addressed. Changes to existing scripts are not required at this time. The script will remain the property of the party providing the information and the EUF will not forward it to any third parties.
4. Provide a summary of drills that can be used during the training session.  
   
5. Provide an estimate to the EUF for travel costs of the professional trainer to the Level One
6. TtT session (Step One) in Debrecen.

Full call of bid in PDF

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