Ultimate Frisbee

Introduction

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.

Objective

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

History of Ultimate Frisbee

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.

Events

Men's Event

Women's Event

Mixed Event

(Played mostly in leagues and in some competitions as well).

Participants

Each team consists of seven players on grass, five indoor and five on beach games. The players include throwers, markers and receivers.

Playing Area

The approved field of play is a rectangular area with dimensions as displayed in the figure above. The field measures 100m by 37m; including end zones each measuring 18cm deep. The brick mark is 20 yards from each end zone midway between the sidelines. The proper playing field is the field with an exclusion of the end zones. The cones mark the corners of the playing field proper and the end zones.

Techniques

Throwing And Catching Drills

The game is completely dependent upon the throwing and catching of the Frisbee by the players. Thus, one should master both. Here are some of the basic throwing techniques that will help the player to improve his or her game:-

The forehand

The throw is also known as the flick, two-finger, and side-arm throw. The movement comes from the flick of the wrist.

Hammer

The throw is held just like the forehand but the disc is brought over the head and leaned forward and upward with a flick of the wrist. This motion is very similar of hitting something with a hammer.

Scoober

It is the variant of the forehead; scoober is somewhat similar to the hammer and is thrown from the backhand.

High Release

The variant of the backhand, high release throw releases the disc above the shoulders of the thrower to get near a defender.

Backhand

This throw is made when the thrower twists and curls the arm around the disc and tucks it into the body then straightening the arm and throwing the disc in the desired direction with a final flick of the wrist.

Officials

Ultimate relies on the spirit of sporting behavior that places the responsibility of fair play on the players. It is a self-refereed sport that means there is no referee or officials used; it is up to the players to comply with the rules and to make the suitable calls. If desired by the captains and the organizers of the tournaments then the observers may be used. Observers are nonplayers whose task is to watch the action of the game correctly.