~ ~' ->'.J ·· . DISC WARES UNLIMITED. INC. ' .3:;t St..::·"'cr1t., BULK RATE P.O. BOX 333 U.S. POST AGE AMHERST, MA 01004 PAID Permit No. 10 PH.'FN ~X A1.. Amherst, MA 01004 Forwarding Postage Guaranteed Address Correction Requested Plecue Fonvard If Necessary From the Editor Amid this season of exciting tour­ league; subcribe to regional newsletters; AMF VOlT INTRODUCES naments, yet more new discs on the teach a disc class in your school or park; market, and more popular recreational support clubs and player organizations; Vol. 2, No.2 disc play, Disc Sport Magazine is seeing invite media personnel to disc events; THE ULTIMATE IN ULTIMATE™ new growth, and strong support from the -sell quality discs, etc. Together, we can disc community. We have plans for con­ build flying disc sports. 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We have dinating tour schedules between player Three yeat·s: $16.00 a three-pronged strategy to convince you organizations, and would represent all Six issues per year to subscribe. disc interests unifiedly when dealing One, our sub. rates will be going up to with the World Flying Disc Federation P.O. Box 333 compensate for improvement related (see Vol. II, #1,page 16). It could attract Amherst, MA 01004 costs. Two, you may be dropped tem­ sponsors more easily and take some (413) 253-5674 porarily or permanently from our list if burden off of the individal player you haven't subscribed in the next month organizations in this regard. It could as we will be using other mailing lists to assist new manufact~rers with disc­ over Photo: Mike Barreda of 'KAO ' raise our subscription base. And three, a industry data. and consultation to try to from anta ruz catching a tough one. request: please support disc sports by make sure that all new discs coming onto Photo taken by hri Perry. subscribing to Disc Sports. the market are of a reasonable quality. It The comics on pages 12, 20 and 22 are by Greg While discussing supporting disc could be listed on disc packaging to at­ Wakabayashi and are reprinted with permis· sports, one topic area that we will be tract new disc players, and to direct sion !rom Frisbee by Horowitz and Bloom. covering on a regular basis is promotion. them to the player organization, tourna­ The disc Aerodynamics article is reprinted by ment or festival of their interest. It could permission o! Tom Schot Sports. I'd like to initiate this by listing some ideas about how to promote disc sports also publish objective disc flight test reviews and book reviews. Let's think CONTENTS to help our sports grow: hold a tourna­ Editorial 3 ment or festival; initiate a disc program about it and discuss it. Any volunteers? Letters 3+4 at your school; start a Guts team, Daryl Elliott Tournament Results 4,5,7,8+24 Ultimate team or disc club; design a disc Wheelchair Di c Golf 7 golf course; organize an Ultimate or golf TheMarket 9 Di c Aerodynamics 10+ 11 To the Editor Cross-section Guide 12 Dear Editor, Skills Development 12 Dear Editor, Please keep sending DSM! International 13 Just a note of appreciation for the fine job you're doing. I am enjoying it thoroughly. Being here Upcoming Tournaments 15 in S.E. Georgia after being in New England Comment by Eric Wootten 16 I would also like to comment on the AMF Voit's new state-of-the-art Our Ultimate Ultimate tops a long line for 21 years is culture shock! When I ftrst Jeff Watson Interview 18+ 19 opinion article by Tom Soda I have been Ultimate Sport Disc™ is scientifically of Sport Discs, with moriels tailored to arrived here two years ago, no one (except a Flatball... , Disc Care, World playing disc golf since 197 8, and joined the designed and engineered to help you match your favorite form of your chosen few) had ever heard of ultimate Records, The Disc-tionary, PDGA in 1982, and I can't quite figure out frisbee, not to mention disc golf, DDC, etc. play your best. Grab on to the largest favorite sport. Including Maximum Short & Long Flights 20 the point that Tom is trying to make. Well, I have started an ultimate league diameter in our line-28 em.-and Time Aloft™, Distance™, Golf-even a School Disc Program 22+23 Perhaps he is correct in saying that the I K -9 doggy disk. A Peaceful Flight-Poem 24 word "Professional" should be left out, at the college at which work, and we are stay in control with our textured, now 6 teams strong. I am also designing a Resources 25 since anyone in the midwest will tell you aerodynamic, non-slip grip. Take a flyer at a Voit dealer near you. disc golf course on campus. Parting Shot 25 that they play for sport, not money. There I At 170 grams, weight is optimized for The Disc Wares Catalog 26-31 are no big money tournaments in Ohio. In So, soon feel you will be hearing more peak performance. Anq weight's fact, we aren't allowed to have a tournament from GSC in the sound of subscriptions! If I can be of any help, please let me concentrated on the outside rim for Advertisers on our course in Columbus, because of the Page edict against gambling in the Park! The know. longer, smoother flights with less AMFVoit 2 players' association, to me, is a way for the Jim Arenouski turnover. Destiny Discs 8 competitive players to get together and Statesboro, GA Discovering the World 13 play. And playing golf without competition, Construction? Tough polyethylene Discraft Products 9 Dear Editor, thermoplastic to hold up to Ultimate's Ed Headrick - DGA 14 to me, is boring, even if I never win! I think DSM is far and away the best Innova - Champion Discs 32 Andy Myers disc publication right now. rugged action. Plus an exciting, Sipa Sipa Footbags 11 olumbus, OH Ace Mason colorful decal to appeal to the Tri-State Disc Golf 15 Independence, MO collector in you. Voit Buena Park, CA 90621 Wham-0 Mfg. Co. 6 Di c ports Magazine 3 Dear Editor, 1984 World FPA I enjoyed your interview of John Dwork Tournament Results and the progres11, he has made in forwarding Championships disc sports. With much of the world now FPA Championships ton, Wisconsin and then swept their arch Minneapolis, Minnieota finally beginning to take disc sports seriously, rival, the Cupola Bandits from Detroit. in July 2o-21-22 Minneapolis, MN Winners there are many unsung heroes along the 20, 21, 22 July two straight games, 21-11 and 24-22. With road of the past several years. Hartland already in the fmals all that Place Winners Prize Money Some 6 ~ years ago, Phillip Cotroneo, a needed to be determined was their op­ Hosted by The Minnesota Frisbee Novice ponent and that team would come from the graduate student at Cal-State Hayward, Association (MFA). This event has a long 1st Brian & John Wolf earned his MS. degree after completing an history of successful productions. Most losers' bracket. But what a tough losers' exhaustive thesis on the question of whether players have been on the road for several bracket With teams like Marquette's Stroh's Women's 1st Stacy Ander on $150 the forehand or the backhand is a better weeks now tuning up for this event. Four Queen City Flyers, the already mentioned Carolyn Yabe shot for distance. With sophisticated stop Cupola Bandits, Mid-Michigan's the Wedge, divisions were contested here for freestyle. $ 60 action photography and other techniques, Womens - Once again Anderson and Chicago's Mental Toss Fly coons, Houghton, 2nd Joan Amberg Phil analyzed some of the top disc players Yabe walked away with this division. Talk Michigan's Buzz Saw and Florida's Cheap­ Gina Sample on the west coast. including Victor Mala­ began on elimiating a women's division nis, it was anybody's guess who would sur­ Mixed Doubles $202 fronte. His in-depth study delved into form because of the lack of competition. Hopes vive and make it to the fmals. The sanc­ 1st John Houck and musculature as well as bio-mechanical are that mixed pairs will become the strong tioning format allows for only a single game Gina Sample processes. event for women to compete in. in the losers' bracket so it was to be one­ 2nd Doug Branigan $140 Fredrick Fisch Mixed Pairs - John Houck and Gina game sudden-life to make it to the fmals, Carolyn Yabe Arvada, CO Sample came up from Austin, TX to blow where there it would be a 2 out of 3 match. 3rd Stacy Anderson $ 60 Dear Editor, away the field Their superbly choreo­ Slowly teams started to drop by the wayside.