Frisbee

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A Frisbee , also called flying disc , sailing disc or as in the GDR throwing disc or floating lid is a disc-shaped sports and leisure device usually made of plastic. It is kept in the air by aerodynamic lift and gyration . In addition to its well-known use as a lawn or beach toy, this piece of sports equipment can also be used to play numerous individual and team sports. Originally from the USA , the Frisbee sports ultimate and disc golf have now spread around the globe. The term Frisbee is, although it is mostly used as a generic name , a registered trademark of the toy manufacturer Wham-O .

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David Wiggins, Jr. from the USA holds the record for the longest Frisbee throw with 338.00 m.

history

The current name "Frisbee" can historically be traced back to a transfer of the company name "Frisbie Pie Company". This family business was founded in Bridgeport (Connecticut) on the American east coast in 1871 by the baker William Russel Frisbie . This bakery sold, among other things, cakes in round cake tins (pie tins).

In the 1940s, children began to play with the discarded shapes, but they were only able to fly over very short distances.

Walter Frederick Morrison , who had bought cakes from the "Frisbie Pie Company" himself in his childhood, observed this and set about improving the flight characteristics. He started by stabilizing the shapes with metal rings, but this did not bring the desired success. After further tinkering, in 1948 he held the first self-made disc in his hands. In 1951 Morrison created his second disc, the "Pluto-Platte", which was manufactured and sold commercially by Wham-O from January 13, 1957 . This model already had some important features that today's discs still have, for example the grooves in the outer third on the top of the disc, which stabilize the flight path.

In 1959, Rich Knerr, one of the owners of Wham-O, heard the expression "Frisbie / Frisbee" for the first time. He knew nothing about the origin of the name, but had the flying discs registered under the trade name “Frisbee”.

In 1980 Rainer Pawelke presented the Frisbee game as part of an educational sports theater project at the University of Regensburg , where he worked as a lecturer in sports teacher training. In a research project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Science in 1986, new movement games with the Frisbee were developed under his direction, including: a. Frisbee baseball.

sports

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF ) has recognized the following Frisbee sports :

Other sports are:

See also

  • Aerobia - A throwing toy that resembles a frisbee, but consists of only a ring instead of a complete disc.
  • Discus throw - traditional sport with a similarly shaped throwing object

Literature and film

  • Peter Neumann (et al.): Fascination Frisbee - exercises, games, competitions. Limpert, Wiebelsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7853-1696-8
  • Ralph D. Lorenz: Spinning flight - Dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras and skipping stones. Springer, New York 2006, ISBN 0-387-30779-6
  • Charles Panati: Universal History of Ordinary Things , Frankfurt a. M. 1994, pp. 98-99 (unfortunately without references).
  • The Invisible String (Germany 2012). Documentary about the origin and history of the Frisbee. Direction and camera: Jan Baess, co-authors: Michael Osterhoff and Gregor Marter.
  • In the successful film Back to the Future III , Michael J. Fox eats a piece of cake from a Frisbie Pie and makes an allusion to the future of the Frisbee

Web links

Commons : Frisbee  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Frisbee  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of world records on WFDF.org .
  2. ↑ Walter Frederick Morrison .
  3. ↑ Invention of the Frisbee - The world is a disc Article on einestages.spiegel.de, accessed on April 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ The Invisible String in the Internet Movie Database (English)