Beau's Blog!

Announcing the kickoff of "Beau's Blog" 

Deep Breath.

Here we go:

Beau's Blog

*Note: Anything said on Beau's Blog should be immediately considered disavowed by the leadership of Revolver.  Even though Beau technically is part of said leadership.

2012 Club Gear for Sale

We are now accepting, for a limited time, pre-orders of replica gear of Revolver 2012 jerseys.  Get a great jersey and support team USA at the same time.  $45 without a number, $50 with a number.  E-mail our sales rep (and defensive mid) Ashlin Joye - asjoye at gmail dot com

Worlds Prep Complete

Revolver, as team USA, put the finishing touches on the worlds prep at practice this weekend, concluding with a 17-12 victory over a scrapy, up-and-coming Boost Mobile team flush with new talent from around the Bay Area.  Sky'd magazine's Gil McIntyre was on hand for some pre-worlds coverage of the Bay Area open teams, and promised to make us look good in his footage - which we only sporadically managed to do on the scrimmage field.  Happily USA dodged a bullet as Bart Watson survived a loud and painful collision with a defender's foot on a huck point-block attempt; just a serious bruise and he should be ready for the kickoff in Sakai.  Stay tuned for day-by-day write-ups and the latest hilarious cultural faux pas Beau commits as the team heads to Japan.

Taylor Lahey

Name:

Taylor Lahey

Nickname:

Taco*

(pending nickname acceptance)

Height:

5'10" 

Date of Birth:

April 18, 1988 

Place of Birth:
San Francisco, CA

Current Residence:

Davis, CA 

College Team:

UC Davis (2007-2011) 

Previous Club Teams:

CVHS Red Hand (2003-2006)
Las Positas College (2004-2006)
Yeah Right! (2006-2009)
Polar Bears (2011)

Accolades:

2006 World Champion, Team USA (Juniors)
Northwest Region FOTY 2007
Northwest All-Region 2nd team 2009
Northwest All-Region 2nd team 2010
Southwest All-Region 1st team 2011

Favorite Tournament Moments:

Southwest Regionals 2012, coached Dogs to first Nationals in club history

Any game vs Cal in 2011

Favorite Ultimate Player in Formative Years:

1. Russ Corbett-Detig - One of my best friends in college, caught a number of my throws for goals. Amazing competitor and always under appreciated and under the radar.
2. Ashlin Joye - Freakish talent and friend that fell in to the Davis Dog program's lap in the second half of my college career and nothing was ever the same after that point.
3. Kevin Cissna - Mentally tough, amazing work ethic, inclined to do the right thing on the field every time, and a dork.
4. Patrick Lahey - Freakishly athletic and dominant and a Lahey.
5. An-chi Tsou and Greg Marliave - They have so much to give. How they still have enough in their tanks late in tournaments I have no idea.
6. Gabe Saunkeah - I've always been in awe of how he's played growing up in the bay and playing against him in numerous Sectionals.

Favorite Tournament:

Junior Worlds 2006
Club Nationals

What makes you so dangerous?

You - me, pivot-off. You'll see.  

Theme Song:

Sugarhill Gang - Apache (jump on it)
Tenacious D - To be the Best

and if I ever end up having an explosive deep game...
James Brown - Get on up

Pre-tournament ritual:

I try to find ways to get what I need in the warmup - hit 100%, warmup my breaks, hucks, attacking the disc. 

If I didn't play ultimate, I would be:

employed. Nah, but I would have gone to Art/Design school.

Favorite non-ultimate teams:

Los Angeles Lakers
San Francisco Giants
San Francisco 49ers

Favorite Revolver player so far:

Tom James - Insane defender, especially on the mark, great competitor, and fuels the D-line with confidence.  Sam Kanner is a close second for similar reasons.

I have crushes on both of them.

Something unknown about me:

I want to dunk some day.

Team USA Discs!

Support the Team USA effort in Japan and get your own Team USA Disc, (optionally signed by your favorite team USA players).  Discs are $15, plus s&h if you need it mailed to you.  To get your signed Team USA disc, email Ashlin Joye - asjoye at gmail.com 

Jordan Jeffery

Name:
Jordan Jeffery   

Jersey #:
23

Height:
6'4   

Date of Birth:
November 9, 1988   

Place of Birth:
Anchorage, AK   

Current Residence:
Stanford, CA   

College Team:
Stanford Bloodthirsty (2008-2012)   

Club Team:
Boost Mobile (2010, 2011)   

Awards:
1st Team Southwest All-Region 2012   

Favorite Tournament Moment:
Beating Cal in the Backdoor semifinals at SW regionals 2011. Games against Cal are always a battle, and this one saw 3-4 point runs by both teams early in the game, and a ton of big plays. We ended up winning 11-10, and would go on to beat SDSU handily in the backdoor finals to go back to Nationals after a year absence. I also got my first and only Callahan during this game.   

Favorite Player(s) in Formative Years:
Mark Sherwood - Playing every point and being being dominant on both sides of the field.  "More me! More me!"

Tom James - Captain of the team my freshman year and a great, confident team leader. He's got a devastating mark, pinpoint hucks, and generally makes the difficult things look easy. He also did an 8 minute plank once.

Mac - Not on my team, but I liked watching him play when we played Colorado. I respect a man who uses his lank well.

Favorite Tournament:
College Nationals & Kaimana Klassik   

What makes you so dangerous?
Precision bombs... just keep running.  Also, gangle.   

Theme Song:
The Second Coming-Juelz Santana and Just Blaze   

Pre-game ritual:
Listen to my own or the team's music. Munch on a clif bar. Get loud during warmups to get myself pumped. Throw for 5-10 minutes. Eat more clif bar, retie my cleats, and have an energy drink if needed.

If I didn't play ultimate, I would be:
Playing basketball   

Favorite non-ultimate team:
Michael Jordan era Bulls
49ers, Saints
Any team with an Alaskan on it

Favorite Revolver player so far:
Devon, because he drives my sorry car-less self to practice. Also Ashlin, because he kept going deep for me at Flowerbowl and he's willing to throw the jump ball.   

Something unknown about me:
I'm from the farthest north town in the U.S. (Barrow) and I taught myself how to throw with those free frisbee dvds you get when you buy a Wham-o disc from a department store. I also have the finger-length of a 10 year old.

Kurt Gibson, Worlds Team 2012

Name:
Kurt Gibson      

Jersey #:
30

Height:
6'2"  

Date of Birth:
August 28, 1985  

Place of Birth:
New York, NY  

Current City of Residence,
Houston, TX  

College Team:
University of Florida

Previous Club teams:  
Bulge (2003)
Vicious Cycle (2004-2006)
Ironside (2007)
Doublewide (2009-Present)    

Favorite game or tournament moment:
Winning 2006 College Ultimate National Championships      

Favorite tournament:
Centex

Favorite tournament dinner Saturday night:
Chili's

Favorite Song:
Backstreet Boys - The One      

If I didn't play ultimate I would be...:
In a boy band  

Favorite sports team outside of ultimate:
Tampa Bay Rays  

Favorite player on Revolver (so far):
Mark Sherwood.  I have a ton of respect for Mark - we played against each other a significant amount in college and it was always a dogfight.  He is a great player, the ultimate competitor, and one of those guys you would take on your team any day.  I can't say enough good things about him and I'm glad we have the opportunity to play with each other.    

Something unknown about me:
I am a cancer survivor of 3 years.  I was diagnosed Aug. 4 2008 with Stage 3 Colon Cancer.  I underwent surgery and 6 months of chemotherapy causing me to miss the 2008 UPA Club Ultimate season.  I have since bounced back and am very blessed and thankful to be playing at a high level again.

Revolver 2012 New Additions

Revolver concluded the tryout process for the 2012 club roster last week and is pleased to announce that Jordan Jeffery and Taylor Lahey will join the rest of the returning team from 2011 to compete for a third national championship in the Fall.  Jordan and Taylor will be filling the roster spots left by the departure of Bart Watson and the leave-of-absence by Eric Halverson, two players who will be sorely missed for their significant contirbutions to the team in past years.  The tryout candidates this year were extremely impressive, the talent level in the Bay Area provides us with a wealth of very good players and some very difficult choices.  Thanks to all the players who participated, in particular Davide Morri for his commitment to trying out all the way from Italy and for showing us a new level of dedication to improving at the sport of ultimate. 

Humble Hill

Humble Hill, Tuesday Night workout in SF.

Flower Bowl, Sunday

Day Two.
Our first game was against the USA part of Sockeye.
We broke on our first D point with a nice huck from Taylor L. to Mac.
Halftime score: 7-3, (the actual) Team USA.
We went up 12-7, then gave up 2 breaks before closing it out.  The rule for the day is "Contact".  Kurt learns more about doing push-ups for missed contact calls than the actual contact rule.
Final score: 13-10, Team USA
 
Game two was against Nomads, the Canada masters team.
Cruikshank and Mauro highlighted a crafty Canada masters team.  They had a good clam defense that we spent a few points figuring out.  Russel sparked a run with a huge layout D on Shank and we got a few breaks to take half Halftime score: 7-4, USA.
In the second half, Chicken hucked to Kurt full field after getting a nice block in the endzone, redeeming a Kurt turnover.
Final score: 13-6, USA


Sockeye USSR beat team Canada during pool play, so we would play a combined Sockeye in finals.
Ashlin started the game off with a deep huck to Kurt on the first pull.  Sockeye was loose and made some errors that we were able to convert into breaks.  Sherwood hucked to Martin for the first break.  Martin later went on to get a huge sky D on a floaty huck.  Joel cleaned up a huck with a huge layout after the intended receiver, Josh, collided with Reid at the front of the endzone.
Halftime score: 8-3, USA.
Davide got another point block.  Greenwood came down hard on the pull and got a run-through Callahan goal off the first pass.  We got another break when Funk got a deep D and Sherwood hucked it to Russel who boxed out a crowd of people to bring it down.
Final score: 15-6, USA.


All in all, a good weekend for the moons, but there is still a lot of work to be done and only 5 weeks until the first games in Japan!

Flower Bowl, Saturday

Revolver, representing Team USA was in Vancouver, BC this weekend for Flowerbowl.  Flowerbowl is usually an early season tournament that serves Furious & Sockeye by testing their try-outs.  Since this is a worlds year, we played Team Canada in an exhibition game as part of the regular tournament.

Saturday morning started out a little overcast for our first game against Rhino.  Warming up in deep wet grass meant lots of sock changing during the first game.  Team USA came out strong, starting the game on Offense and then converting two break points off layout Ds by Ryo & Zach
Halftime score: 8-4, USA.
Rhino appeared to have a number of tryouts and was missing most of their Ego players.  Who were likely taking some time off after a deep run at college nationals.
Final score: 15-7, USA.


Round two was a bi, the sun came out, we snacked & some players caught up on missed sleep.


We moved to Thunderbird Stadium, turf fields, for a much faster game against the USSR half of Sockeye.  This game was full of turnovers for both teams, lots of miscues & overthrown hucks.

Halftime score: 7-6, USA.

Sockeye USSR scored 3 out of half to go up 8-10.  Inspired by Schlag pulling down a disc over a pack of defenders, the D came out strong on the next point and converted a break, 10-10.  At 12-12, the game was hard capped to 13.  Tom James came down on the pull play to catch a layout poach d.  Two throws later, Mac to Russ in the end zone for the goal & the win!

Final score 13-12, USA.

 

Game 3 was back in the tall grass, against Tonka - the men from Mixed Team Canada.  A few familiar faces from Furious of past seasons.  We broke a few times in the first half, pretty low energy from both teams.

Halftime score: 7-4, USA.

Same flat energy from us.  Tonka took advantage and scored a couple of breaks to bring it to 11-9, but we still manage to put the game away.

Final score: 13-10, USA.

Game 4 - the showcase against Team Canada.  Back at the stadium, with about 100 fans in the stands.  In a gritty first half with tight D and lots of passes needed to score, we gave up a break early, but got 3 back before half.

Halftime score: 8-6, USA.

The grinding continued on offense, but our D came down in some junk/zone sets and converted on Canada turns to widen the lead.  The defensive run was punctuated by a Tom James shoulder-high footblock on a Kirk Savage backhand huck.

Final score: 15-11, USA.

 

Dinner at Tanpopo - all you can eat sushi.