Why Metal
Congrats to myself and the rest of Jive this weekend for our win at Ship this weekend. Our performance was metal to say the least, which brings me to the subject of metal on which I have some thoughts I’d like to share. Blaze and I briefly talked about the positive virtues of metal Sunday night. There are some obvious intrinsic ones—like blistering solos, apocalypse-themed lyrics, and head-banging. But I think for our team, our often comical and always absurd focus on metal is a very positive thing (in spite of satanic undertones). We dominated this weekend, and I think most of us would agree that that it was due in large part to our energy level. We came out fired up from the first point every game on Sunday and had essentially won each before half.
All teams need energy to play well. A screaming crowd always gives the home team an edge. In ultimate, a large sideline can be that same deciding factor. I think this is especially true in the case of competitive ultimate and is why you all teams storm the field after every point at the Stanford invite. I tend to find competitive squads a bit obnoxious in this respect. Take pitt-b this weekend for example—those guys were loud, and we promptly labeled them as obnoxiously competitive. Fortunately, we’ve got that same energy level and we owe it to metal. Metal gives us the opportunity to get loud, and get obnoxious, but in a way that is less offensive than a pitt-b. All our metal screaming and metal rocking, and metal flag bearing is somehow more jovial. Its obnoxious, but not in the way that draws disgust from other teams. I think it draws more confusion than anything. Yet I know for sure it gets my energy level up, and the team’s too I’d say. And its energy that translates into trouncings.
Jive is new to the realm of winning, and I like our style. I also honestly and proudly believe that we are just as spirited as we were I was a freshman in spite of our amped up energy level. So I hope that metal rocks on as part of our team. Are we better than we were in the fall? Yes. Is it because of Dio and Iron Maiden? Also yes.
So in light of our recent metallic developments, I think a couple things should be in order. One is obviously a metal party where we get seriously metal and seriously drunk (even though that’s redundant). Secondly, we need a boom box so we can rock all tourney long. So lets get on that.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
