We bring to you a podcast and vidcast that's packed with 32 years of coaching experience in Ultimate!
Coaching is a wonderful thing. Coaches get to truly influence the lives of athletes in ways that affect their regular life. This is more so true in Ultimate because of the self-officiation and the 'Spirit of the Game' aspects. Hence, we wanted to dive deeper into the intersectionality of gender and Ultimate coaches.
So, we called upon coaching experts from India and the USA. Jaidip Patel, co-Host, first got together with guest hosts Sumedha Kandpal and Nandan Ravi Latha to set up a line-of-questioning. Sumedha and Nandan are familiar faces in the Indian Ultimate sphere as they've coached various teams at national, regional, and grassroots levels. With their depth of knowledge, work, and curiosity it was a tough task to finalize 'what would we speak about'.
After a bunch of trimming down, Jaidip, Sumedha, and Nandan chatted with one of Bay Area's most respected coaches - Manisha 'Slap' Daryani. Slap has been playing Ultimate for 17 years and coaching Ultimate for 10. If this wasn't enough, she has won a bunch of World Championship medals and titles.
Watch the four coaches talk about gender and coaching, mixed-gender at a pro-league level, competition structures, Olympics and Ultimate, and more. A BIG SHOUT OUT to Munis Thahir, captain of San Jose Spiders, for connecting us to Manisha and providing constant support.
We guarantee you will fall in love with Ultimate a little bit more. Hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed producing it. For any ideas, thoughts, feedback message us on IG/FB @91Ultimate
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:20 Episode introduction
00:35 Sumedha's intro
01:33 Nandan's intro
02:54 Manisha's intro
07:01 Pioneering the Western Ultimate League (WUL)
09:41 You cannot be what you cannot see
11:54 The beauty of coaching
13:12 How do you address 'we are past these issues'?
17:50 Differences in spirit across divisions?
25:50 Mixed at a pro level?
28:40 We create the narrative for our sport
30:07 Competition structures that work to grow Ultimate?
36:09 Youth Ultimate, BUYA & BADA
41:43 Olympics & Ultimate
47:20 Money changing sports
49:59 Fan questions! Munis asks long term plans
55:07 Fan questions! Srikanth asks about safe spaces for minorities
59:29 Rapid fire questions!
01:02:30 Outro
Podcast available on:
Spotify
Gaana
Apple podcasts
Google podcasts
91 Ultimate website
Amazon Music
Overcast
