Ultimate Insights

Jamie visits Johnny in Glasgow, brought his mic and with no plan, hit record

As the qualification for worlds edges closer, Johnny and Jamie look to predict UK Nationals 2025

Oh the back of the 4NU tournament, Johnny discusses his time commentating for the first time and then he goes on to share Frisbee Academic Research with Jamie

This episode dives into what's been happening with UK Regionals and Windmill and looks forward to the chaos of the Summer Tours and the 4 Nations Tournament!

Johnny and Jamie check out the WFDF census and decide to create an impromptu quiz with mixed results!

It's the most wonderful time of the year as Johnny and Jamie discuss all things callahan

After a short break, Johnny and Jamie return to give an update on the last 2 months of frisbee action with a Spring Tours and Toms Tourney recap!

25 episodes in and it's time to explain who we are as and our worst moments playing frisbee

In one of the more chaotic and fiercely debated episodes, Johnny and Jamie discuss the effectiveness of zones, and go on a tangent quite quickly.

This week the tables have turned as Jamie and Johnny start by discussing the nuanced topic of 'what makes a good force', and immediately Jamie goes on a wild tangent.

In the 22nd episode of the Ultimate Insights podcast, Johnny and Jamie discuss benchwarmers, the idea of being part of a team as a training squad member but not playing much or even not going to tournaments at all...

In the episode dubbed "The Trial of Trials", Johnny and Jamie discuss some of the problems associated with the current way in which teams are selected during trial processes

In the 20th episode of the Ultimate insights podcast, Johnny and Jamie discuss what is the pinnacle of the sport as well as transfer news, international developments and more!

In arguably the most controversial and clickbaity episode to date, Johnny and Jamie discuss potential abolition of the current single-gender matching and mixed division options!

In the last epsiode of 2024, Johnny and Jamie have a quick recap on the year they've had and discuss what they're looking forward to in 2025

Twas the night before Christmas, and here on the pod, we spoke of great plays that would make you applaud. A special guest joined with tales so breezy, of glory and grit in Ultimate frisbee.

In another mailbag episode, Johnny and Jamie discuss the nuances of starting of offence vs defence as well as a continuation of the difficulties in tournament structures!

In this 2 parter, Johnny and Jamie discuss the changes to the upcoming EUCF Algorithm as well as announcing a super secret that Johnny has been quietly working on!

Johnny and Jamie react to the up-and-coming changes to the Euros presented forward by the EUCF!

In an appropriately numbered episode 13, Johnny and Jamie (with special guest Dr. Harry Mason) discuss the results of a data-driven study around the number of teams entering UK University Mixed Indoor Regionals across the country to see if the sport, in fact, is declining in popularity.

In this episode, Johnny and Jamie discuss the concept of stats - where in a game, goals and assists are tracked to see, at least in concept, the best player.

In episode 11, Johnny and Jamie discuss their biggest hates around the tournament structure and discuss alternative ways to fix them!

In the first fully live episode, Johnny and Jamie respond to listener questions about travelling, gloves, electrolytes as well as discussing the complicated dynamic between coaches and captains

Just touched down back from Portugal, Jamie and Johnny discuss the World Beach Club Championships as well as talk about their favourite tournament player gifts

Jamie and Johnny discuss 'positional specialisation' as a concept for sport, and whether or not it's something we are moving closer towards, or further away from as well as discussing the possibility of forfeiting games.

In the first Q&A episode, Johnny and Jamie tackle their first listener question on their biggest rules pet peeves as well as discuss their most over and under rated frisbee equipment!

With the Europeans Championships behind us, Johnny and Jamie react to how their predictions matched up against the results in Belgium! (00:00) - Introduction (01:30) - Mixed (10:40) - Women's (23:34) - Open (34:50) - Outro

In the final of the three parter, Johnny and Jamie discuss the mixed division and predict the final top 5 *including* a special prediction of Johnny's team, Glasgow Ultimate!

In the second of the three part series, Johnny and Jamie tackle predicting the Women's division for the upcoming European championships in Belgium!

In the first of a three part mini-series, Johnny and Jamie deep dive into the open division, breaking down all pools and predicting who will get to the top 5 of the European Championships!

In this guest episode, Johnny and special guest Mihael 'Jimmy' Dimitrov explore the different aspects of the EUCF ranking system introduced for the 2024 season!

In the first episode of the Ultimate Insights podcast, Johnny and Jamie dive into the new draft of the 2025 Rule, and theorise about what changes they'd like to see in the game they love!