One of the best things about Ultimate is the sportsmanship. The game (even professional games) is self-judged. People call fouls, and even call fouls on themselves. A player may contest a foul and the decision will go to an observer (only there to call travels, and settle disputes). But players do not contest fouls unless they truly believe it was a clean play. Please do not try and lie, it ruins the game and takes away from the major difference between Ultimate, and other sports.
Sportsmanship includes respect to all players. If a man is guarding you to close (when you have the disc), just tell him to back of a little bit. This does not mean you bop him on the head with the disc, or push him out of the way.
The point of Ultimate is physical endurance, not physical strength to push the other guy around. What makes Ultimate exciting are the ways the defense tries to recover the disc, without pushing the guy with brute strength (and it looks really cool when you layout to knock a disc away).
Please keep this in mind. It's not just a school rule protecting students. It really is the way the game is played; the result of it, is intense playing, but not fighting, making the game better for everyone (cliche, but true)
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