Frisbees
Flying discs (commonly called Frisbees) are disc-shaped objects, which are generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8-10 inches) in diameter, with a lip. The shape of the 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 flying discs.
Flying discs are thrown and caught for recreation, and as part of many different flying disc games. A wide range of flying disc variants are available commercially. Disc golf discs are usually smaller but denser and are tailored for particular flight profiles to increase/decrease stability and distance. Disc dog sports use relatively slow flying discs made of more pliable material to better resist a dog's bite and prevent injury. Ring shaped discs are also available which typically fly significantly farther than any traditional flying disc. There are illuminated discs meant for night time play which use phosphorescent plastic, or battery powered light emitting diodes. There are also discs that whistle when they reach a certain velocity in flight.

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Disc Golf: All You Need to Know About the Game You Want to Play
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Disc Golf: All You Need to Know About the Game You Want to Play
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This handy reference provides techniques for mastering disc golf. Equipment and throwing techniques are detailed. Cleverly done illustrations, tips, and photographs depict various grips and stances of the game.
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Frisbee
Wham-O co-founder, Richard Knerr, in search of a catchy new name to help increase sales, and hearing of the colloquial name "Frisbie", gave the disks the trademarkable brand name "Frisbee" (which is pronounced the same as "Frisbie") on June 17, 1957.
Frisbee links
- UK Ultimate Association
- UK Ultimate Association.
- The History of the Frisbee
- The empty pie plates of the Frisbie Baking Company become the prototype for the Frisbee - inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sold his Pluto Platter to Wham-O for one million dollars.
- Original Frisbee
- Original Frisbee disc site.
- What is Ultimate Frisbee?
- "..ultimate frisbee combines speed, grace and powerful hurling with a
grueling pace." - Frisbee
- The SmoothArtist's site. This is the Frisbee page, it contains information about Frisbees and the different Frisbee games.
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- lukafer2 lukafer2 May 14, 2008 @ 9:41 am
- Hey, I've been playing ultimate for about 9 months now and it's a really fun sport. I even wrote a lens about it, check it out and i can link your to it if you would like, and maybe get you more traffic ultimate frisbee lens...check it out!
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- lukafer2 lukafer2 May 7, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
- Hey this is a pretty good frisbee lens....you should join my disc sports group http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/disc-sports/9dd8a23dcfc0dc95bca3348479efc6e7
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