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Tennessee Flying Disc

Frisbee throwing is an American Pastime shared by family members and friends for nearly a century! It's good fun and good exercise. Whether your just throwing it back and fourth between a few friends, tallying the score on the disc golf course, playing a daring game of Guts Disc or tricking it up freestyle, the Frisbee is a great way to spend your time. Tennessee has many parks, schools and fields to get your Frisbee on!

 

The History of The Frisbee

1920s Yale students discover the fun of throwing pie tins from the Frisbie Baking Company of Bridgeport, CT
1948 Fred Morrison, California carpenter and building inspector, manufactures the first plastic flying disc.
1955 Rich Knerr and A.K. "Spud" Melin invite Morrison to join WHAM-O.
1957 WHAM-O® introduces the Pluto Platter, a flying plastic disc.
1958 WHAM-O modifies its plastic flying disc and trademarks the name FRISBEE for its flying disc.
First International FRISBEE Tournament is held in Escanaba, MI.

Guts is introduced as a sport.
1964 The Professional model FRISBEE disc is introduced.
1967 The International FRISBEE Association is founded.
1968 The U.S. Navy spends nearly $400,000 to test FRISBEE discs as vehicles for keeping flares aloft.
1969 Ultimate, another FRISBEE disc sport, is invented by Columbia High School students in Maplewood, NJ.
The first major Disc Golf competition takes place at the International FRISBEE Association meet in Brookside Park, CA.

1973 The first intercollegiate Ultimate game is played between Rutgers University and Princeton University.
Goldy Norton writes the first book on FRISBEE called The Official FRISBEE Handbook.

1974 Flying Disc World, a bi-monthly magazine, is introduced.
The first all-dog flying disc competition is held at California State University, Fullerton.
The World FRISBEE Disc Championships are held in the Rose Bowl.

1975 Dr. Stancil Johnson reveals the growth of a sport by writing FRISBEE: A Practitioners Manual & Definitive Treatise.
1978 The FRISBEE Disc Hall of Fame is established in Houghton MI.
1979 Tom Kennedy wins a $50,000 disc golf tournament in Huntington Beach, CA.
1980 A Freestyle team called the Coloradicals redefines Freestyle and wins the World FRISBEE Disc Championships in the Rose Bowl.
1981 The first Senior Championships, exclusively for players over age 35 is held in Springfield, MO.
1982 The sport of Discathon is introduced in Sacramento, CA.
1985 The first World Flying Disc Congress is held in Helsingborg, Sweden with representatives of 19 nations in attendance.
1986 Cub Scouts introduce an activity badge for participation in Ultimate.
1987 The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) (www.gaisf.org) accepts the World Flying Disc Federation as a member.
1992 The Worlds Biggest Disc Golf Competition features over 12,000 players participating on 200 courses around the world.
1993 The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports accepts flying disc sports as a new category for the Presidential Sports Award.
1994 Anni Kreml of San Francisco breaks the women's distance world record with a throw of 136.31 meters (447.2 feet) on August 20 during the 1994 U.S. Open Flying Disc Championships in Fort Collins, CO.
1998 Scott Stokely of Fort Collins, CO sets the men's distance world record at 211.32 meters (693.3 feet).
1999 The World Flying Disc Federation Overall Championships will be held in Kalmar, Sweden from July 11-18.
2001 Flying disc sports become part of the World Games in Akita, Japan.

 

Disc Golf Courses

Middle Tennessee DISC GOLF COURSES

Algood, Tennessee, Church On The Hill DGC
Brentwood, Tennessee, Crockett Park
Chapel Hill, Tennessee, Henry Horton State Park
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carver Rec Center DGCShepherd Recreation Center DGC, The Sinks
Cookeville, Tennessee, Cane Creek Park
Gallatin, Tennessee, Triple Creek Park
Hendersonville, Tennessee, Sanders Ferry Park
Lebanon (Bairds Mills), Tennessee, Cedars of Lebanon State Park
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Barfield Crescent Park
Nashville, Tennessee, Cedar Hill Park Seven Oaks Disc Golf Course Two Rivers Park
Shelbyville, Tennessee, H. G. Griffen Park
Smyrna, Tennessee, Sharp Springs DGC
Summertown, Tennessee, The Farm
Winchester, Tennessee, Winchester City Park

 

 

Guts Frisbee

Guts or guts disc (sometimes guts Frisbee in reference to the trademarked brand name) is a disc game inspired by dodgeball, involving teams throwing a flying disc (rather than balls) at members of the opposing team. One to five team members stand in a line facing the opposing team across the court, with the two teams lined up parallel to each other. Which team begins play is determined "flipping the disc", an action similar to a coin toss, but using the disc itself. One member of the team is then selected to start play.

That member then raises an arm to indicate readiness to throw, at which point the members of the opposing team freeze in position. The thrower then throws the disc as hard as possible at someone on the opposing team. If the thrower misses the "scoring area" (a demarcated area a bit larger than the space occupied by the opposing team), or if a member of the receiving team catches the disc, the receiving team scores a point. If the throw is within the scoring area and the receiving team fails to catch, or catches but drops the disc, the throwing team gets a point. The receiving team then picks up the disc and becomes the throwing team.

The receiving team must catch the disc cleanly in one hand, and may not move from position until after the disc leaves the hand of the thrower. The disc may not be trapped between the hand and any other part of the body, including the other hand. This frequently results in a challenging sequence of "tips", rebounds of the disc off of receivers' hands to slow the disc down, often involving multiple players on the receiving team.

Play continues until at least 21 points have been scored by one of the teams and there is a difference in score of at least 2 points.
source: Wikipedia

 
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