For the Love of the Game – a Conversation with Lightnin’ Lyle Jensen
Lightnin’ Lyle Jensen’s love affair with flying discs began in the summer of 1957 and by the spring of ’75 he and a handful of […]
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Frisbee is About Participation and Inclusion
Cormac FInn O’Brien, a frisbee player from Ireland, is the first athlete to compete at the WFDF World Overall Championships with a disability. Cormac has […]
From Ultimate to Disc Dog
Meet Andrea Rigler, the 2012 UFO Freestyle World Champion and a former ultimate player turned disc dogger. Andrea used to throw to her dog during […]
Learning to Throw From Others
Over the years, there have been numerous instructional videos produced – some good and some bad. On Facebook a few days ago, I shared a […]
Disc Sports is An Ageless Game
Dan “Stork” Roddick, who has been throwing a frisbee for 55 years, talks about what he likes about disc sports and why he still loves […]
What is an Overall?
I’ve been asked by a few friends what events I compete in at an Overall Disc Sports Competition. There are 7 events: accuracy, discathon, freestyle, […]
Passion vs Obsession
Some would say there’s a fine line between passion and obsession. First of all, what is the difference? I found a great explanation that I […]
2011 Year in Review
2011 was a huge year for me – I was flown to Mexico in June to coach Malaki UFC, I competed in the WFDF World […]
Future of Disc Sports
In this video Dan “Stork” Roddick gives his thoughts on what the future of frisbee will look like. He doesn’t think that disc sports should […]
The Evolution of Disc Sports
Prior to 1968 there was no cohesive unified “Frisbee’ culture, and really no discs sports per se. Regionally isolated pockets of Frisbee activity existed all […]
Favourite Frisbee Quotes
My favourite frisbee quotes both come from the same man, Stancil Johnson. According to Wikipedia, Stancil Johnson is a psychiatrist and frisbee enthusiast, a member […]
John “Friz Whiz” Kirkland
A tremendous all-around competitor, Kirkland was voted the disc athlete of the seventies. He won the men’s World Overall Championships in 1977 and finished second […]
Where It All Began
Eleven years ago, I bought a frisbee at the University of Alberta’s club week from the University of Alberta Ultimate team. I started throwing that […]
Rob McLeod to Compete at Worlds
Robert McLeod, an ultimate frisbee player and coach from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will be travelling to Fort Collins, Colorado on July 18 to compete in […]