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World Champion Throws Distance in the USA Ultimate Skills Challenge

August 31, 2020January 10, 2021Ultimate Rob Comment

I take on the Distance event as part of the USA Ultimate Skills Challenge, which is a new feature in their app. My best was […]

Let It Fly – Ultimate Rob on the PhysEdCast with Nathan Horne

June 11, 2020November 10, 2020Ultimate Rob Comment

SO excited to finally get to share my episode on the #PhysEdcast! I’m so honoured to be featured alongside Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Jace Ferguson, Doug […]

A Good Pull is Like Having an 8th Defender

November 16, 2018June 10, 2020Ultimate Rob Comment

A good pull is like having an 8th defender on the field. The goal is to get the disc as far down the field with […]

From Ultimate to Disc Dog

October 9, 2013July 24, 2019Ultimate Rob 3

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 […]

Ultimate Frisbee World Champion Thomas Kuhn

May 16, 2012January 28, 2019Ultimate Rob Comment

Thomas Kuhn, a member of the 2008 World Champion Canadian Open team, was recently selected to be a member of the Open Team which will […]

John “Friz Whiz” Kirkland

November 5, 2011January 28, 2019Ultimate Rob 1

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 […]

Ultimate Needs a Name Change - Ultimate Rob - This Is How It All Began

[…] you’ve read my post about How It All Began, where I share an interview between Willie Herndon and Jared Kass (who invented ultimate and […]

HESK Digital - Ultimate Needs a Name Change

Great article. As a person who has never played ultimate frisbee. But watching a few games on YouTube the name doesn't do it justice. Go with something like flat ball implies its like football which is the type of audience I would imagine you would want to appeal to. You could also just mesh the two names and call it Ultimate Flat ball?

russell - Imagining Ultimate As A Major Sport

Now imagine what ultimate as a major sport would to to spirit of the game

Book Review: "Anthropica" Spins Wild Web Through Time, Space, and Ultimate | Ultiworld - Mini Ultimate – 3 on 3

[…] be surprised to even know existed, like “Cojones” (who made semis at Nationals!). He also is credited with inventing mini, at least in a standardized […]

Maxime - More Surprising Findings from the World of Biomechanical Analysis!

Hey Melissa! I understand the most of the explications on this page, but I didn't understand what's wrong with the hands shaking? I mean, this is really how beginners throw I remarked that one coaching cue I constantly heard about is "use your wrist when you flick the disc" or something like that. And... You mean that we need to use the flipping the pie... I don't really understand well how to transfer it to a throwing mechanics... I mean... By your explanation I refer myself to the flick throw mechanics Rowan McDonnell show in one of his video. He take the disc, do an abduction with his forearm (at this moment, the disc is up ready to throw like an archer who is ready to shoot, and the forearm face down in a ~45 degrees), so his wrist is in a pronation position (the pie is going down) and when he throw he place his wrist in a supination to proantion position. I tried to figure out the entire throwing mechanics. He explain here how to do this at home (to practice the motion) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49u9-IznjRc