The niche movement "breaks the circle", how does a Frisbee blind date unfold
Frisbee fever has been upgraded to a new social model and even a carrier of blind date activities
A disc with a diameter of 27 centimeters has become the hottest "social currency" nowadays, and it has also swept social media while occupying the football field.
Even if you haven't played Frisbee before, you must have seen sports photos and read articles discussing Frisbee sports clothing and social attributes.
The popular Frisbee sport has even become the carrier of blind date activities, sparking a new round of heated discussions.
How does a frisbee matchmaking match unfold?
Can the love dopamine be secreted on the sports field?
How did Frisbee become a form of blind date?
Behind the introduction of new forms of blind date, has love become easier?
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A boom in outdoor sports under the epidemic
Frisbee takes advantage of the situation to "get out of the circle"
Because of the limited scope of promotion in China, Frisbee is often regarded as a casual game, and many people even question it with a joke.
In fact, Frisbee, which emerged in the United States in the last century, is a competitive sport. It joined the World Games as an official event as early as 2001, and may become one of the events of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the future.
If you want to improve your Frisbee skills, it also takes time to practice basic skills. An extreme Frisbee game is no less than football and basketball.
In China, Frisbee activities were mostly held in a small area before, and it will become a trendy sport in 2021.
According to the "Top Ten Life Trends in 2022" released by Xiaohongshu at the beginning of the year, Frisbee is one of the most popular outdoor lifestyles for young people today, and the release volume of related notes in 2021 is 6 times that of 2020.
This spring, Frisbee fever has exploded.
The search volume related to Frisbee of Xiaohongshu in April increased by about 30 times compared with the same period last year, and the year-on-year growth rate in May increased to 62 times.
The "out of the circle" of Frisbee is related to the outdoor sports boom.
In the high-density, fast-paced modern life dominated by rules and rationality, urbanites who are physically and mentally exhausted need to constantly escape from continuity, and nature has become the best place to heal wounds.
In the past two years, the epidemic has affected the previously fashionable outbound travel, inter-provincial travel and other mobility methods. Exquisite camping has become an alternative experience with both comfort and novelty, while the lightweight and portable Frisbee is a new choice for outdoor entertainment in the camping circle.
With the help of visual culture, Frisbee has moved from a sports field to a social platform.
A part-time photographer told reporters that about two months ago, he frequently swiped frisbee sports photos in Xiaohongshu, so he took the initiative to contact the club to shoot.
For a two-hour event, he takes thousands of photos and then selects them, almost guaranteeing a moment for every participant.
Frisbee "Blind Date Bureau"
Significant increase in frequency in 2022
Compared with other sports, Frisbee has a strong tolerance based on the age, gender, number and sports of the participants, and it can include friends around to the greatest extent.
In Frisbee, men and women can compete on the same field.
A novice with no sports foundation can quickly get started within 2 hours and feel the fun of team sports.
After being familiar with the basic rules, tactical cooperation increases the opportunities for participants to interact and communicate.
Epidemic, outdoor, photo, social friendliness, these characteristics have pushed Frisbee to the forefront of the trend movement, and it has also made it a novel form of blind date.
Some dating platforms have organized Frisbee events in 2021, and the frequency will increase significantly by 2022.
In the Frisbee Blind Date Bureau, a male guest mentioned that in terms of the experience of participating in blind dates in recent years, offline activities can directly meet others and bring him better feelings than online chats.
frisbee blind date
"Players" are not very familiar with the rules
The game became a "supporting role"
On the evening of July, the ground was still steaming, and a woman walked to the corner of the football field outside the East Fifth Ring Road and sat down.
She traveled from west to east, spanning half of Beijing, to see a female colleague's Frisbee blind date.
"You are so beautiful today! Have you added WeChat?" The female colleague had just come off the field, and the two of them whispered. There was a man on the field who was "very handsome", but he hadn't added it to WeChat.
This is a frisbee match organized by a single dating club.
In addition to sports, more than 20 single men and women participated in it more or less with the expectation of making friends.
A man walked up to the two and said, "Why didn't you guys go up and play?" The man said that he was the one who won one point for the group in the previous set.
"What industry are you in?" "Are you from Beijing?" After answering a few questions, the man said that he had invested in related industries, but the returns were not very impressive, and then he talked about the hot weather on business trips in the south. , return to the hometown seaside city for vacation and so on.
The chat in the corner continued.
Not far away, blind date guests are playing a Frisbee competition.
According to the "silky" degree of the game, it is not difficult to see that most of the guests on the field are novices, and no more than 5 people can pass the game smoothly, quickly, accurately, and over a long distance.
Many guests were not familiar with the rules of the game. When the Frisbee landed, some guests were stunned on the spot, neither picking up nor running.
The guests off the court are either watching the game, discussing the rules, or practicing the game.
Compared to the normal Frisbee activity, there seems to be a slight difference here - less cheers.
This is not only a sports field, but a performance field: how should I present myself?
On the sports field, whenever there is a beautiful passing or receiving action, the audience can't help but cheer loudly, and the people on the field are also encouraged by the cheers off the field.
Here, the interaction through the movement itself seems to be less, and the guests may pay more attention to people.
10-Minute Stretching "Transformation"
30 minutes self-introduction
Ordinary novice activities organized by the Frisbee Club usually include 5 parts: warm-up and basic skills explanation, focus on playing practice, running training, competition, and finally stretching and sharing.
In the Frisbee Dating Bureau organized by the Singles Dating Club, the running training was cancelled, and the original 10-minute stretching and sharing was expanded into a 30-minute self-introduction.
During these 30 minutes, the male and female guests sat in a circle and introduced their basic information such as their age, occupation, and mate selection requirements.
The age range of the guests present that day was not small, ranging from the early 1980s to the "post-95s", and the youngest was a 26-year-old woman.
Most female guests are more willing to directly express their mate selection requirements than male guests: they are older than themselves, have a sense of humor, and look handsome...
The shortest self-introduction came from a "post-80s" male guest. In addition to his name and year of birth, he only said ten words: "Beijing native, working in an institution." The man who had accosted the two ladies in the corner of the stadium before. The guest stated that he worked in the financial industry and worked abroad for several years. He recently invested in a company.
But his professional history has not attracted much attention.
It was a post-90s male guest. When he introduced himself, several female guests smiled and said that they should add a WeChat.
While chatting and laughing, this two-hour frisbee blind date is coming to an end.
The sky was getting dark, and the floodlights were on.
The male and female guests packed up and gradually dispersed.
The male guest who had chatted up earlier pointed to a black Mercedes-Benz outside the venue and issued an invitation: "This is my car, I can give you a ride." The two women did not get in the car and left in a Tesla.
"I just wanted to practice Frisbee
I don't think about dating at all"
"I just wanted to practice Frisbee at first, and I didn't think about falling in love at all." As a couple in the Frisbee club, Shen Qin (pseudonym) and her boyfriend met by chance during Frisbee training. She thinks that her "chemical reaction" with her boyfriend is more about off the field.
Previously, because of "inconvenient appointments", Shen Qin chose more solo sports such as rock climbing and surfing.
In her opinion, this is contacting nature and competing with herself.
At the end of 2021, under the leadership of her friends, she was exposed to Frisbee, and she was able to throw a good disc soon after she first got in touch, which brought her a sense of accomplishment.
She also met many different friends and experienced the fun of team sports.
"Multiplayer sports require teammates to cooperate and cooperate with each other, which increases the contact between people."
She and her boyfriend met at an indoor random combination match in December last year, but she can't remember whether they were on the same team. At that time, there was only one thing in her mind - "playing the game".
At that time, the Frisbee circle in Beijing was not as strong as it is now.
For people with high frequency and little difference in level, it is common to encounter them in training, and they will feel "familiar" over time.
In the process of improving Frisbee skills, people with the same frequency naturally come together slowly.
"If you participate in a certain sport with a clear social or other purpose, I personally don't think it is a good choice. Frisbee may be selected as a blind date carrier only because it is popular now, but it does not mean that Frisbee itself has this property." Shen Qin said that people who love the same sport naturally have the same hobbies and are more likely to find the same kind.
But in her opinion, there are many kinds of sports, and sports are only a part of life. In the end, when the two come together, it depends more on the reaction between people than the role of sports.
Many people of different ages who like Frisbee sports said that any hobby actually has a social function. For them, the social attribute of Frisbee is more like acquaintances.
In most cases, participants prefer to practice with familiar teammates and improve their skills.
It may be possible to engage in Frisbee for social purposes, but that is a personal choice.
At present, the Frisbee Club still organizes training and competitions with the core of improving technology. "Frisbee Blind Date" is an activity organized by part of the blind date platform, and is a very small part of the entire Frisbee activity.
Dating platform
The probability of becoming a couple through activities is less than 5%
A staff member of the dating platform said that the platform had organized the smashing "eight-minute blind date" event in the past few years. Compared with the quick exchange of key information between the two parties in a short period of time, both male and female guests hoped to have a more natural way of getting to know each other.
The staff told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that the platform will organize reading clubs, game boards, outdoor sports and other activities on a daily basis. During the epidemic, indoor activities are limited, and there are fewer options for offline blind date activities.
Frisbee sports has gradually become a trend. It has the characteristics of quick start, weak confrontation, strong interaction, and both men and women can participate at the same time. Therefore, it has also become one of the choices for offline blind date activities.
To sign up for an ordinary Frisbee event, you only need to make an appointment, pay, and at most fill in your name and mobile phone number.
To participate in a Frisbee blind date with strong social attributes, applicants need to complete real-name authentication, fill in height, weight, place of birth, place of residence, graduate school, industry, workplace, average monthly salary, relationship and marital status, real estate Information about circumstances, interests, and hobbies.
The staff of the blind date platform told the Beiqing Daily reporter that the platform currently does not set a threshold when organizing Frisbee blind dates, but will limit the number of men and women (usually 15 or 20) in the registration system.
The platform staff said that the same situation exists in most blind date activities, and female guests are more active in signing up than male guests.
"A lot of times, male guests don't reach the quota until the day before or on the day of the event."
Taking this Frisbee blind date as an example, when the number of female guests reached 15, only one male guest signed up.
The seventh China census data released in 2021 shows that there are 34.9 million more men than women, and there are nearly 500,000 more men than women who live in Beijing. Among the single groups such as the Jingfang Jinghu group, the male to female ratio is mostly more than 1:2.
Through observation on the platform and exchanges with industry practitioners, the staff member found that in the Beijing blind date market, the ratio of male to female is about 1:3 or 1:4.
"The platform organizes activities just to give everyone an opportunity to get to know each other, and the rest depends on personal circumstances." According to the staff, according to the experience of the platform organizing hundreds of blind date activities every year, the probability of becoming a couple through activities is less than 5%. .
This edition of the article / our reporter Chen Jing
Coordinator / Zhang Binlinyan
Graphics / Yuan Guoming