Last weekend was amazing! (Yes, I know it's almost a new weekend, but I've been traveling and have been unable to write about last weekend until now.)
I played in the Narragansett (Rhode Island) Beach Jam, a flying disc (frisbee) freestyle tournament, and my teammate Carl Emerson and I managed to take 4th place. Not bad, considering the fact that 5 of the top 30 and 10 of the top 50 players in the world were also competing. A very cool aspect of the tournament was that Joey Hudoklin, widely considered to be the greatest player in the history of the sport, was competing (his team took 2nd). He won his first world championship in 1979, and was a member of the Bud Light Frisbee Team in the 1980s. Yep, he basically had my dream job: getting payed to play frisbee! He was an amazing player then, and is still an amazing player now. I had never met him before, so it was quite an honor for me to hang out with him.
But right up there with taking 4th place was the fact that Joey and Rob Fried, another fantastic jammer, are both also amazing guitar players, and I happened to have my harmonicas with me, so we played a couple sets -- blues and a lot of Hot Tuna -- for the party after the tournament. We'd never played together, but you wouldn't have known it. It was a blast, and judging from the compliments we got, everyone really enjoyed it.