Southern DisCartell

Spreading the Jam in Southern Germany

A new, small Freestyle Frisbee scene is currently emerging in Tübingen. After thirteen years, I left the Berlin Jammers with a heavy heart to move to southern Germany for my master’s degree. With its 90,000 inhabitants—about half of whom are students—the university city of Tübingen is the youngest city in Germany and, therefore, the perfect place to spread the jam.

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Since the winter semester, I’ve been giving a weekly Freestyle Frisbee course as part of the University of Tübingen’s sports program. This cooperation came about through my membership in the regional Ultimate team Maultaschen, which has been offering Ultimate courses at the university for years. Thanks to the warm welcome and infrastructure support from the Maultaschen team, as well as the support from FPW (in the form of 30 Discraft Skystylers, 15 Whiz Rings, and 15 nails), the course is growing steadily and is now in its fourth round. Starting with just six participants, we now have ten enrolled in the current course.

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The long-term goal is to build an active and committed Freestyle Frisbee community. Initially, the aim is to spark interest through the university course and eventually transition participants into the club’s freestyle frisbee division. In the short term, our goal is to gain five paying jammers for the club by the end of the year—this is the minimum number required to secure gym time for the winter season.

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I’m currently working on promoting Freestyle Frisbee in Tübingen through Instagram, stickers, and live shows. As part of these efforts, we performed a demo during halftime for the Tigers Tübingen basketball team in front of 2,500 people, together with Jessie and Harry Skomroch this past April—which was an absolute blast!
Watch the demo here

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What makes me especially happy and hopeful is that more and more jams are now happening outside of the university course. I’m also thrilled to announce that we’re organizing the very first Freestyle Frisbee tournament in Tübingen, Shred and Ride, on the weekend of June 14th–15th. This will undoubtedly give our scene another boost. Stay tuned—details can be found in the Telegram group.

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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the FPA, the Maultaschen team, and Toby Künzel, as well as Harry and Jessie Skomroch, Daniel Weinbruch, and Sascha Scherzinger and my better half, Lisa Nardin, for supporting the spread of jam in southern Germany and helping push forward the sport we all so dearly love.

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Benno