Flying Disc Games - Disc Golf, Ultimate, Guts, World Flying Disc Federation, USA Ultimate, Disc Dog, Joel Silver, Disc Northwest, Goaltimate (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Disc golf, Ultimate, Guts, World Flying Disc Federation, USA Ultimate, Disc dog, Joel Silver, Disc Northwest, Goaltimate, Kan-jam, Pender Island Invitational, Flying disc freestyle, Schtick, Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association, Polish horseshoes, Canadian Ultimate Championships, Fricket, Durango boot, United States Disc Golf Championship, United States Amateur Disc Golf Championships, Hot box, Professional Disc Golf Association, Henry Callahan, Millennium, Bernard Hellring, Innova discs, Discraft, PDGA World Championships, Dodge disc, Taj Ultimate, Caledonia's Ultimate Beach Event, Masters Cup, Ultimate Canada, Brevard Ultimate Club. Excerpt: Ultimate is a non-contact sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The objective of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby. Players may not run with the disc, and may only move one foot while holding the disc (pivoting). While originally called Ultimate Frisbee, it is now officially called Ultimate because Frisbee is the trademark, albeit genericized, for the line of discs made by the Wham-O toy company. In 2008, there were 4.9 million Ultimate players in the US. In the fall of 1968, Joel Silver, a student at Columbia High School, proposed a school Frisbee team to the student council on a whim. The following summer, a group of students got together to play what Silver claimed to be the "ultimate game experience," adapting the sport from a form of Frisbee football, likely learned from Jared Kass while attending a summer camp at Northfield Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, where Kass was teaching. The proportion of rules developed by Kass, and those developed by Silver, is disputed. It was discovered in 2003 that the game that Kass and Silver played may have been more similar to Ultim...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Disc golf, Ultimate, Guts, World Flying Disc Federation, USA Ultimate, Disc dog, Joel Silver, Disc Northwest, Goaltimate, Kan-jam, Pender Island Invitational, Flying disc freestyle, Schtick, Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association, Polish horseshoes, Canadian Ultimate Championships, Fricket, Durango boot, United States Disc Golf Championship, United States Amateur Disc Golf Championships, Hot box, Professional Disc Golf Association, Henry Callahan, Millennium, Bernard Hellring, Innova discs, Discraft, PDGA World Championships, Dodge disc, Taj Ultimate, Caledonia's Ultimate Beach Event, Masters Cup, Ultimate Canada, Brevard Ultimate Club. Excerpt: Ultimate is a non-contact sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The objective of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby. Players may not run with the disc, and may only move one foot while holding the disc (pivoting). While originally called Ultimate Frisbee, it is now officially called Ultimate because Frisbee is the trademark, albeit genericized, for the line of discs made by the Wham-O toy company. In 2008, there were 4.9 million Ultimate players in the US. In the fall of 1968, Joel Silver, a student at Columbia High School, proposed a school Frisbee team to the student council on a whim. The following summer, a group of students got together to play what Silver claimed to be the "ultimate game experience," adapting the sport from a form of Frisbee football, likely learned from Jared Kass while attending a summer camp at Northfield Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, where Kass was teaching. The proportion of rules developed by Kass, and those developed by Silver, is disputed. It was discovered in 2003 that the game that Kass and Silver played may have been more similar to Ultim...

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July 2011

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978-1-156-47365-8

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