Ultimate Frisbee

Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc by the players. It is an exciting sport that blends the element of football, soccer and basketball in one. The sport was invented in the late 1960's which is now played in more than 42 countries around the globe with more than 800,000 people estimated to play in the United States alone. Ultimate is the most popular flying disc sport. World Flying Disc Federation is the approved governing body of the sport that organizes world championship events, establishes uniform rules and set standards for and recording of world records.

To win a game a team needs to score more points than the opponent.

General

In 1968 Joel Silver presented his concept of Ultimate Frisbee to the Columbia High School student council in Maplewood New Jersey, USA. The following year, the first game was played between two gatherings of understudies students. They utilised a Wham-O Master disc.

In 1969 a group had been shaped at the school, and they played in a parking garage. The main lines that existed were the objective lines, usually set apart by the telephone poles or heaps of the players' jackets.

The first and second set of principles were written in 1970 by Joel Silver, Buzzy Hellring and Jon Hines. On Nov seventh, CHS played the first interscholastic diversion. They prevailed upon Millburn High School by a score of 43 to 10.

The first college ultimate game was played among Rutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1972. Rutgers won 29-27. The two colleges had played the main intercollegiate football match-up on a similar ground precisely 103 years sooner. Rutgers won that diversion by 2.

The first organised competition, The National Collegiate Championships, was played on April 25th in 1975. Eight groups participated in a competition in Yale. Rutgers University won the finals against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with 28-24. In 1976 the Yale competition was extended and renamed into the National Ultimate Frisbee Championship. Rutgers won once more.

Ultimate was brought into the World Frisbee Championships in 1975.

In 1983, the first genuine World Ultimate Championship was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Two club groups, representing the USA, won open and women's divisions. National teams represented the European nations.

In 1989, ultimate appeared as an exhibition sport amid the World Games in Karlsruhe, West Germany. That year additionally observed the first World Club Ultimate Championship, in Cologne, West Germany.

In 2001, Ultimate was incorporated as a medal sport in the World Games in Akita, Japan alongside disc golf. Six nations were welcome to contend dependent on their completions in the WFDF 2000 World Ultimate Championships in Germany. Canada won the World Games gold decoration with an extra time triumph over the United States. In 2009 the World Games in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, Ultimate outdrew every other game with in excess of 50,000 paid participation.

Extreme is presently played by an expected 5,000,000 players in more than 100 nations, with USA Ultimate having more than 31,000 individuals. The 2010 WUCC in Prague, Czech Republic was the biggest ultimate meet to date, with more than 2800 players and 136 groups from 36 nations partaking.

VARIANTS

Goaltimate

Goaltimate is a half-court flying disc variant of Ultimate Frisbee, which is quite similar to Hot Box.

Hotbox

Hotbox is a non-contact team sport which is similar to Ultimate Frisbee which is played on a smaller field and with fewer players.

Mini Ultimate

Mini ultimate is a high energy urban variant of Ultimate Frisbee played on a smaller field.

D-Hoops

D-Hoops, which is also known as Disc basketball, is a flying disc sport variant of Ultimate Frisbee played on a regulation basketball court to specified rules.

Schtick Disc

Schtick disc is a variant of ultimate Frisbee played with two discs where running with the disc is allowed.

Kan-Jam

Kan-jam is a flying disc game variant of Ultimate Frisbee played with a flying disc and two cans in which you swerve the disc into the can.