Frisbee

History

The principle of the frisbee was known good before its “official” invention in 1948. It is precisely by observing students have fun to launch out moulds to tarts of the Frisbie Pie Company that Walter Frederick Morrison, helped and financed by Warren Franscioni, had the idea to manufacture discs in Bakélite which he baptized “Flying-Saucer”. The Wham-O company repurchased its idea in 1957 to him and marketed later “Pluto Platter”, famous one year “Frisbee”, a reference hardly buckled to the Frisbie Pie Company which had inspired the creation of the Jouet.

Types of frisbees

The form and the quality of the frisbees vary considerably and they have a significant influence at the distance which these discs can traverse while planing. Some frisbees have the shape of ring; called sometimes “aerofoils” or “aerobes”, they usually flies at distances larger than the traditional frisbees. The discs of Disc golf, as for them, are generally of smaller diameter, but are denser and they are conceived especially for a stability and an optimal distance from flight. In addition, the dogs adoring to catch up with the flight these plastic discs, of the particular frisbees, more flexible and more resistant, were designed for them. Competitions of “Disc dog” were even organized.

Sports and plays using a frisbee

The play of frisbee more practiced is certainly the play of beach which quite simply consists in launching the disc to its partner, who must start again it in his turn.

Although the handling of the frisbee and its planed flight is a source of recreation which can compete with the fact of playing with a ball, the sports in which intervenes the frisbee are not very widespread. One finds with that several explanations: of course, the frisbee is a recent invention, but the difficulty in finding a principle of play adapted to the so particular trajectory of the disc and obtaining a rather fast rate/rhythm of play is probably the main cause (the frisbee does not rebound like the ball with tennis or the balloon of volleyball; time before the disc is started again is thus longer).

With the passing of years, however, of the sports using the frisbee appeared.

Most popular of these sports is the Ultimate frisbee. It is an car-arbitrated and mixed sport, where two teams clash on the same ground. The goal of this play is to bring the frisbee in a zone of enbut located at the one of the ends of the ground, a little as with the American football or the Rugby. Many alternatives of this sport exist, such as for example the Goaltimate, the Friskee or the Schtick. Other plays, without being alternatives of the Ultimate, can also be classified in this category, like the Durango Boot. Some are based only on the skill of the player to control the movement of the disc and to make him make long, precise flights or simply esthetics (Freestyle frisbee, Disc dog, Disc golf).

Certain sports take again the principle of the basic play: to launch the disc to its adversary which must try to catch up with it (a little as with the Tennis or the Volley): DDC, Guts frisbee…

Lastly, there exists quantity of plays and less known sports, which do not fall into the categories quoted above, and which generally try to transpose an already existing play of ball by using a frisbee to the place of the ball or balloon, like the Basket-ball or the Balle with the prisoner.

All these sports were invented recently and are still relatively confidential. The most known sport is without question the Ultimate . To note that in certain plays like DDC , one uses one but two not frisbees at the same time.

External bonds

: ''' Frisbee is 50 years old! '''
: Lmi & Fox and the page on the technical ''' of launching frisbee '''
: Frisbee, about.com
: Site of Wham-O on the frisbee
: Federation Flying Disc France
: The magazine of the sports of frisbee

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