Klub Frisbee Jakarta: The Inaugural Lapangan Prumnas Klender Weekly Pick-Up Game

We had our first of what will hopefully turn out to be many pick-up games on Sunday afternoon, and it was absolutely heartwarmingly fantastic. Unfortunately the time slot clashes with Discindo training in Senayan so I was almost 3 hours late. Apparently around 10 kids from the school we visited the previous day (see below) had gone home just before I arrived, but there were still around 25 kids there throwing discs around. Most of the leftovers were from Kampung Melayu (aka Jakarta's frisbee heartland) but there were still around 7 from the general neighbourhood.

We had a few games, one with some of the older kids, and one with the younger ones. Play is getting quite fluid with the older kids; they seem to have picked up the give-and-go instinctively and the flow is good. Defence is still somewhat erratic, but the stacks are normally so disorganised that it doesn't really matter too much. That will be the first lesson next week.

In terms of management issues, Ardy did a spectacular job of keeping the whole show running with help from some of the Kampung Melayu students. I am starting to think that we should give him a raise, considering the time he puts in every week what a good job he's doing and lots of other reasons that I will detail in a separate post.

The kids did a great job keeping track of our stock of donated discs (Thanks to Manoah, Liz and Boom for collecting them, and everyone at Worlds and the Manila Spirits who donated them) and we only lost one disc. That loss was to the 6 year old son of the caretaker of the stadium showed such promise and enthusiasm that the KFJ committee unanimously decided to give him one on the proviso that he keep coming to training (not hard since he lives there).

The one downer, well, not so much a downer as something to improve on next week, was that there was only one girl there. Desti from Kampung Melayu (who also took some of the photos you'll see below) is a great handler and does a great job on the field, but I'm sure it's hard as the only one. I'm hoping we'll see some more next week.

I asked the kids as we were packing up what they thought of the field and the day's play. The time is a bit of an issue, they'd much prefer to play in the morning, but when I asked them if they wanted to get the same slot next week the answer was an emphatic (and shouted) yes.

If anyone wants to come and teach (or learn) next week, then drop us a line below and we'll work something out. Also, if anyone who has a decent camera (still or video) wants to come it would be much appreciated.

For more photos see below: