10 Ultimate Celebrations That Take It Too Far

I'm angry. If you've ever seen ultimate played competitively, you know that people often celebrate after scoring. Sometimes these celebrations take it way too far, and frankly, it's just annoying. All all of us that aren't going nuts after catching an easy push pass in the end zone will agree that it's time these guys got called out.

The 10 Worst Ultimate Celebrations:


10. The No-Look Toss: Catching a score while barely getting a foot in bounds and then throwing it over your back with the hand you caught it with toward the end zone right after you catch it.

Why it's bad: Do it too quickly, it might be a turnover. Do it too late, and you may have missed the chance to celebrate. Do it at all and I'll punch you.


9. The Clap Spike: Catching a wide open score may seem like the sweetest thing in the world, but for no reason should you ever clap spike.

Why it's bad: It actually is a turnover in the 11th edition rules, and your celebration is clearly not creative enough to warrant any sort of respect. You're basically pushing the disc to the ground with two hands. In fact, it's probably the same as dropping it with two hands. Either way, everyone else on the field still dreams of strangling you in your sleep.


8. The Dance: Everyone's seen the guy who does the prime-time leg kick when he gets a wide open huck that just floats and floats into the end zone and he just runs with it until it's good for a score. More often that not, this idiot usually follows that move up with the Heisman pose.


Why it's bad: Who is this guy kidding? I'm waiting for the day that someone two-steps into the end zone. He might challenge this guy for the "Biggest Moron to Ever Play Ultimate Award. " If a guy does this against your team, tackle him on the ensuing pull. Then do the Heisman pose.


7. The Inverted Skip: After catching a score, the person who does this move looks like an idiot by lining up and then skipping the disc as hard as he can while it's inverted.

Why it's bad: There's not really a lot of wrong involved with this celebration, but the reason it's so bad is because of how purely lame it is in the first place. Just give the disc to the guy who's pulling it, unless you're the guy that always pulls. Skipping the disc makes you look like an idiot because of how unoriginal you are. It's like stealing jokes that still aren't that funny, and that puts you on the same level as guys like Dane Cook. Dane Cook.


Dane Cook.


6. The Callahan Over-Celebration: Nothing is more rewarding than catching a Callahan against a team. Nothing ruins it more than celebrating like you just won the presidency because everyone hates the president.

Why it's bad: I respect the guy that makes a huge play and gets pumped for achieving something most people never do in the game of ultimate. One of the guys on my team actually thought he caught one this weekend and started running around (which was hilarious by the way and something that will not be forgotten because of how hilarious the timing was), arms fully out like he was doing the Leonardo DiCaprio "I'm the king of the world" pose from Titanic. He didn't look bad until someone called travel. He was 10 yards out of the end-zone.


5. The Heave: Catching the disc for a score is awesome, but is it really necessary to throw the disc up as high as you can in the air? This guy obviously has something on his agenda that no one else in the world knows about.

Why it's bad: Everyone looks at this guy with a very confused look. Launching the disc up in the air is just bad news, because it's going to get tacoed when it lands straight down . When it's your disc, you get even more angry because the guy who throws it just watches to see how high up it goes in the air. Drop kick this guy while he's watching and you've done your job well.


4. The Late Celebration: Nothing makes me laugh more than the guy who gets protected by the new rule change. He catches the disc on the line, sets a pivot foot, throws, and then gets d-ed in the end zone and then takes a step forward and says he was already in. I absolutely hate that guy.

Why it's bad: Very few things are more enraging than a guy who sets a pivot foot (which basically means he acknowledges that he's not in) gets his throw d'ed, and then claims he's in. Everyone usually gets in an argument with this guy. For the record, nothing says "I'm an idiot" more than the 30-second delay in which this guy tries to do some kind of mathematical explanation as to how the angle didn't look right or something was wrong with the placement of the cones and then tries convince you that he should have actually called himself in. The only thing worse, of course, is the manner in which this guy celebrates: a loud yell followed by some jumping around while his teammates stand around confused by his actions. This guy is probably the guy who fingers cups in beer pong and says it's legit. Nobody wants to be this guy's partner at parties.


3. The Kick: Here's an idea... let's do something no one should ever do: kick the disc after a score.

Why it's bad: Unless you're going for a foot block, I see no reason to kick the disc. What is tempting you to attempt a field goal through the back cones? Seriously, recreating the Doug Flutie drop kick is so two years ago. Everyone wants to see this guy pull a Bill Gramatica and tear his ACL after nailing a 12 yarder through the back end-zone cones with absolutely no crossbar for the height measurement. This guy got cut from his middle school football team. He's always the "older gentleman with a rough past" in your summer league ultimate games.


2. The Punch: This move might be one of the less frequented celebrations in ultimate, but that doesn't stop it from being one of the most hated. What happens here: catching the disc in front of your opponent, then holding it straight up to his face and punching it out of your hand right past him.


Why it's bad: No move says "if I do this you should probably get in a fight with me" more than this one. After seeing this done, there was almost a "benches clearing brawl." And you'll never guess who did it (if you really want to know, you can ask)...just know it's been done, and yes it actually happened in a game in NC Sectionals my freshman year. That's one of those things that you never forget on an ultimate field, and might be the reason for this post. This guy clearly needs some kind of release to bring him back to reality because he clearly has no idea how bad he looks. Any guy who does "the punch" is the serious version of the "My New Haircut" guy, except he's not as jacked and actually showers in Jager bombs. Kudos to you, "brosky."


1. The Spike: Everyone knows spiking the disc is the most hated celebration in all of ultimate, so let's examine this further.

Why it's SO bad: Spiking the disc might be the action that demonstrates the least amount of respect for the game of ultimate. It's not a football, so just stop. I always joke about people spiking the disc and yell "spike it, spike it" when they score on a long point. In fact, I almost expect it when I play certain teams. When a guy spikes the disc, I just want someone to clothesline him or table-top him afterward. Take comfort in knowing that if you ever get to score the disc when he misses a layout and is lying there on the ground, you have a free shot to spike it in his nuts. You owe him one. Maybe two.




Honorable Mention:

The Swipe: Sky your opponent and get him on the way down with the disc. That's just embarrassing and if you got skyed, you probably deserved it if you got beat that badly.