It's always good to spend time with like-minded, flying disc obsessed people. They never complain when you suggest heading to the park to throw a disc around or playing a game of ultimate. We can also share ultimate goodness. We've taught our team here what I'm calling Aussie Indoor (it must have come from somewhere?).

On the weekend John and Leah introduced us to a flying disc game called Frickets (aka Cups or Suzy sticks). The name comes from a combination of Frisbee and Cricket (and it does have some similarities to cricket). It's good. It's really good. We'll definitely be bringing this one home with us. Why have we not played it before?

It goes like this:

Equipment:

• 4 x bamboo poles (~1500x10mm)
• 4 x large plastic cups (reinforced with tape or bring spares... a lot of spares).
• Beer

Setup:

• 2 x bamboo poles placed each end of cricket pitch, ~7-15m apart (they are the wickets). The width between the bamboo poles is a disc and 2 finger widths.
• Place a plastic cup upside-down on the top of each bamboo pole.

Rules of play:

• Participants must have a beverage of some description in one hand at all times. Beer is the preferred beverage.
• Teams take turns throwing a disc at the other team's bamboo poles / wickets from behind the line of their own wickets.
• If a cup is knocked from the bamboo poles the defending team attempts to catch the cup without trapping it against any part of their body.
• A point is scored by the defending team if they catch the cup.
• A point is scored by the offense if the cup hits the ground.
• Two points are scored by the offense if a goal is scored. That is, the disc passes through the bamboo poles without touching either pole and without touching the ground before the poles.
• Two points are up for grabs if both cups are knocked off.
• No defense of the wickets is allowed.
• First team to 10 points wins the game.

We played several games of Girls vs. Boys on the weekend. The girls performed admirably but the boys triumphed in the end. (It was suspect though. On day 2 we played a best of three tourney. The girls had 2 upwind ends and the boys only had 1. In some of the rules I've read the teams swap ends at 5 points. I'll definitely be including this rule when we import it to Australia.)