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  Guts frisbee
Guts frisbee is a frisbee team sport, similar to murderball.
One team starts with the frisbee after "flipping the disk", an action similar to a coin toss, but using the frisbee itself.
That member then raises their arm to indicate they are ready to throw, at which point the members of the opposing team "freeze".
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Guts_frisbee.html   (175 words)

  
 Frisbee
While the word Frisbee is claimed as a trademark of the Wham-O[?] toy company, the term is often used generically to describe flying discs similar to those made by that company.
The Flyin-Saucer, originally invented by Walter Frederick Morrison[?] and codeveloped and financed by Warren Franscioni[?] in 1948, was unsuccessful, but a later model made by Morrison in 1955 and sold as the "Pluto Platter" was bought by Wham-O in 1957.
Wham-O renamed the toy "Frisbee", a (probably deliberate) misspelling of the name of the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, whose pie tins had been used by college students in the area for similar purposes.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Frisbee.html   (169 words)

  
 Frisbees - Bad Fads Museum
A Frisbee is a plastic disk about the size of a dinner plate thrown between players by a flip of the wrist.
Frisbees have become a staple on college campuses, beaches and parks since its invention in the 1950s.
Eventually Guts Frisbee evolved into a game where a competitor would take a normal plastic Frisbee and attempt to throw it as hard as possible at another competitor, challenging him to be able to catch it.
www.badfads.com /pages/collectibles/frisbee.html   (708 words)

  
 Frisbee - Background, Design, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing, Quality Control, Byproducts/Waste
This is why frisbees, which typically are thrown backhand to spin clockwise as viewed from the top, tend to roll left from the thrower's perspective in flight.
To make a frisbee, a high-speed process called injection molding is used, which is based on the injection of a fluid plastic material into a closed mold, usually of the multi-cavity type.
Frisbees are produced in a high-speed process called injection molding, which is based on the injection of a fluid plastic material into a closed mold, usually of the multi-cavity type.
www.madehow.com /Volume-5/Frisbee.html   (2454 words)

  
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GUTS FRISBEE HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES CLASS OF 2005 HANCOCK, MI - The United States Guts Players Association has announced that five new members will be inducted into the International Frisbee Hall of Fame during festivities associated with the 48th International Frisbee Tournament (IFT) in Houghton, Michigan.
He was a founding member of the Guts Players Association, editor of the Guts Frisbee newsletter, wrote the Guts Players Observer's Handbook, and served as tournament director for numerous events, including the U.S. Nationals, IFT, and World Flying Disc Federation World Championships.
Guts Frisbee pits team two teams fourteen meters apart, throwing and catching the 110-gram fire-orange Professional model Frisbee at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour.
www.wfdf.org /news/20050630_guts_hall_of_fame.txt   (700 words)

  
 Frisbee - ExampleProblems.com
While the word Frisbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company, the term is often used generically to describe flying discs similar to those made by the company.
The modern day frisbees are developed from the "Flying-Saucer", originally invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and codeveloped and financed by Warren Franscioni in 1948.
In the next year, Wham-O renamed the toy "Frisbee", a (probably deliberate) misspelling of the name of the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, whose pie tins had been used by Yale University students in the campus for similar purposes.
www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Frisbee   (501 words)

  
 It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane? It’s a Frisbee!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As some frisbees are solid and round, artists have found these a perfect artistic medium, decorating many with cartoons, company logos and sometimes team names.
The aerodynamic property of a frisbee is unique in the terms that shape, weight, angular momentum and lift are all considered in order to determine how far the disc will fly.
Frisbee associations are appearing all over the world at universities and as City sponsored sport events.
www.msjones.com /frisbee.html   (1077 words)

  
 Frisbee Summary
The Frisbee, a plastic flying disc, has been a required component of any American child's toy collection for most of the latter half of the twentieth century.
This new generation of Frisbee fans invented Frisbee Golf, Guts, and Ultimate Frisbee, but it was freestyle frisbee, with its behind-the-back and between-the-legs catches, trick throws, and leaping, Frisbee-catching dogs, that did the most for visibility of the growing sport.
Frisbee is the most common name for flying discs or flying saucers, which are generally plastic, roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8–10 in) in diameter, with a lip.
www.bookrags.com /Frisbee   (1268 words)

  
 Biosport Lab -- Frisbee Flight Simulation and Throw Biomechanics
Stilley (1972) and Mitchell (1999) used wind tunnel studies to measure the aerodynamic lift and drag forces on the Frisbee as a function of angle of attack, the angle between the velocity vector and the Frisbee plane.
The initial flight conditions of the Frisbee were determined from the kinematics of the throw model at the point of release.
The Frisbee was marked with three reflective tape markers or emitting LEDs in a triangular configuration on its upper surface.
mae.ucdavis.edu /~biosport/frisbee/frisbee.html   (1140 words)

  
 Guts frisbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guts frisbee is a disc game similar to murderball.
The International Frisbee Tournament (IFT) is played every year in Houghton, Michigan.
This year the 50th annual will be played on the 4th of july weekend.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guts_frisbee   (299 words)

  
 Aerodynamics in Sports Equipment, Recreation and Machines - Frisbee - Instructor
Frisbee's over the years have pretty much remained the same size and shape.
Even though the shape of the Frisbee may generate lift, lift is not the only requirement for flight.
For a Frisbee it is the spinning motion generated from the Frisbee throw, which stabilizes the Frisbee as it flies.
wings.avkids.com /Book/Sports/instructor/frisbee-01.html   (820 words)

  
 Area46: Flying Disc Sports: Guts
The team member who succeeded in catching the disc makes him/herself ready to throw, as the other team prepares to make an attempt to catch the throw.
The disc you use is a Wham-O "Pro Model" frisbee, that's nowadays produced especially for guts...
Guts is normally played in best of 3 or 5 sets to 15.
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Honored in the Overall Division is Joe Youngman of Laurium, Michigan, in the Guts Division, Bob Hansen of Calumet, Michigan, and John Hodges of Calumet, and in the Freestyle Division, Erwin and Jens Velasquez (vell-OZ-kwez) of California.
Guts Frisbee pits two teams fourteen meters apart, throwing the orange Professional Frisbee at speeds up to 80 miles per hour.
The International Frisbee Hall of Fame is located in the Houghton County Historical Museum in Lake Linden, Michigan.
www.usgpa.net /about/inductees.asp   (1108 words)

  
 Original Frisbee® Disc :: 70 Years On the Fringe, 40 Years as FRISBEE!
Now if that’s not extreme, what is? Guts is still around and widely popular on the collegiate circuit, although the saw blade has long been replaced by the plastic FRISBEE flying disc.
Like extreme surfers, skiers or snow boarders, FRISBEE freestylers are extended families with their own collection of living legends—truly great jammers and shredders, that is. By the hundreds, these extended families congregate in parks or sporting arenas year–round for freestyle events, jams, or expression sessions.
With lamposts, buildings, trees and other landmarks as their designated holes, the world is their FRISBEE Golf at a dizzying 11,000 feet, and a FRISBEE disc has even been thrown from the peaks of Mt. Everest.
www.frisbeedisc.com /about/pressroom/newsitems/70years.html   (1257 words)

  
 guts
Guts is one of the team events in the flying disc sports.
For informal play, a lightweight, blunt-rim disc such as the 100 G DDC is sometimes used.
Like all flying disc sports guts is played without a referee.
www.bcdss.bc.ca /other/guts.html   (575 words)

  
 History of Professional Model Frisbee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As one of the self appointed historian of GUTS frisbee I thought I wouldanswer a few of the question that have appeared on the guts line recently about the pro disc, its origins and colors.
Then probably the most famous of pro guts discs were the yellow, mold 15, double gold band, gold hotstamp, with a fl and gold "1974 Rose Bowl Invitational Flying Disc World Frisbee Championships" label.
Back then the winner of the IFT was invited to the Tournament (despite the fact guts was not offered as a event), where they played a California all star team.
www.sas.it.mtu.edu /~dkwalika/frisbee/prohistory.html   (591 words)

  
 Frisbee
For the more clueless amoungst you, a frisbee is a plastic disc, right, which when thrown with enough spin will glide and hover through the air.
When the frisbee comes towards you at knee to waist height raise one leg and catch the disc with the same hand, beneath the leg.
The courts are 13m apart and the aim is to throw the frisbee to land in your opponent's court.
www.smoothartist.com /frisbee   (646 words)

  
 WFDF Rules: Article III - Guts
The Pro model Frisbee disc is the disc to be used for guts.
The WFDF rules of play shall govern play for guts, except that a game may be played under any variations of the rules, if said variations are agreed upon by the two teams.
With respect to the vertical plane relating to the throwing team, the plane shall be infinite in nature, defined only by the proximity of the foul line and its perpendicular angle to the field.
www.cs.rochester.edu /u/ferguson/disc/wfdf/wfdf-guts.html   (2200 words)

  
 Aerodynamics in Sports Equipment, Recreation and Machines - Frisbee - Advanced
The Frisbee has been around for a long time and has become as common to us as the baseball or the football.
Other games, such as Ultimate Frisbee and Guts were inspired by the Frisbee itself.
Frisbees, over the years, have remained the same size and shape.
wings.avkids.com /Book/Sports/advanced/frisbee-01.html   (773 words)

  
 frisbee.net :: Guts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Guts was the first frisbee sport played at tournament level.
The first guts tournament was played in Eagle Harbor, Michigan in 1958.
The tournament was held every year and became the mecca for gust players.
www.frisbee.dk /sw12105.asp   (158 words)

  
 Guts & DDC in Las Vegas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Guts is a game of lightning reactions, extreme eye-hand coordination, and daring unlike any other sport.
But what you may not know is that the birth of all other disc sports, including Ultimate and Disc Golf, arose out of the festival atmosphere that was the International Frisbee Tournament (IFT), a Guts tournament started in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan USA in 1957.
Guts is truely the "Grand-daddy" of all disc sports and the "original" X-treme sport!
www.lvdiscgolf.com /guts   (453 words)

  
 Flying disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flying discs (commonly called Frisbees) are the general name for any number of discs which are generally plastic, roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8–10 inches) in diameter, with a lip.
The shape of a disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while rotating.
The name Frisbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company, but is often used generically to describe all versions of the flying disc.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frisbee   (1001 words)

  
 Inventor of the modern Frisbee dies
Headrick had improved in 1964 the drawing of the frisbee, adding to this machine dating from the end of the 19th century of the grooves which make it possible to control the trajectory.
History frisbee begins in 1871 at Bridgeport (Connecticut) in the depots of the society with the rough taste of William Russell Frisbie.
I've played frisbee for years.In my circle of friends, the disc players were all mostly conservative types (OK we had long hair).In fact,it is a truely right-wing game in my opinion.There are no ref's in an ultimate game.If you foul,you forfeit possession on your own.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/732989/posts   (2352 words)

  
 Guts Frisbee
By the end of the day, the game of Guts was invented-two teams of five players stand fourteen meters (fifteen yards) apart and throw the Frisbee (less than vertical and within reach) to be caught by the other team with one hand.
In 1969, the IFT was highlighted by the attendance of Julius T. Nachazel, a professor at Michigan Technological University.
Now the "International" Frisbee Tournament, Jon Davis took over as director in 1970 and saw Mel Visser bagpipe in the Foul Five as they defeated a bunch of kids known as the Highland Avenue Aces of Chicago.
www.eagleharborweb.net /archive/frisbee.htm   (707 words)

  
 Tech Tidbit -- November 25, 2002
The modification, which was patented in 1967, helped reduce air resistance and made it possible to throw the Frisbee® with greater ease and accuracy.
Yet another form of Frisbee competition brought to you by the friendly folks at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, where this version of Frisbee apparently was invented.
Frisbee Association of the Czech Republic (don't miss Prague's Terrible Monkeys)
www.alteich.com /tidbits/t112502.htm   (711 words)

  
 Fun With A Frisbee: A Wide Variety of Disc Games & Events - from Jim and Lynnette's Fun Times Guide
Freestyle Players Association ("Freestyle" "Freestylers" "Freestyle Frisbees") -- Established in 1978, the FPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth of freestyle disc play as a lifetime recreation and a competitive sport.
In Freestyle Frisbee there are no set rules about how to do a move, players are encouraged to create new moves and to develop their own style.
Guts Frisbee ("Guts Frisbee" "Flying Discs" "Flying Disks") -- A sport played between two teams of one to five players each.
thefuntimesguide.com /2006/06/frisbee_games.php   (1257 words)

  
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Bottle Guts involves two teams of six facing each other in a line, with each player having a cone in front of them (the bottle).
In frisbee soccer, you are not allowed to run with the disc, but the disc is allowed to touch the ground, or roll along the ground.
Once the disc is on the ground, either team may pick it up, but maintain the non-contact rules, so once a player has picked it up, their marker must retire 1m away.
www.afda.com /juniors/games.htm   (1950 words)

  
 Lost Tribe Disc- Disc Golf in the KIng Country
Hundreds, and maybe thousands of different models and designs have been created to cater for the many new sports that have evolved and developed, since Fred's inventive mind was spurred into action by two truck drivers, flicking empty pie pans to each other in a parking lot, just over 50 years ago.
It has been described as netball, played on a rugby field with a frisbee, a essentially applying the same rules, but players may move anywhere and if a pass is dropped or intercepted, there is a turnover.
The aim of the game being to get the disc to one of your team members standing in the end zone at your end of the field to score a point.
ngatai.orcon.net.nz /ltd/otherdiscsports.html   (2111 words)

  
 Frisbee Hall of Fame
The Hall features the original inductees, and new members will be added each year at the International Frisbee Tournament, next year, early July in Atlantic Mine, Michigan.
A major component of the Hall celebrates Guts Frisbee.
Original Members of the International Frisbee Hall of Fame (1978), and the Classes of 1980 and 1987
www.sas.it.mtu.edu /~dkwalika/frisbee/Hall.html   (103 words)

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