How and Why World Frisbee® Championships
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TM VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3 FROM THE FRISBEE WORLD is a publication of the Intern ational Fr isbee Association EDITOR: Editorial Offices We at the I.F.A. offices hope you FRI SBEE WORLD have enjoyed the first few issues of % The International Frisbee Assoc . Frisbee World. We have been P.O. Box 664 Alhambra, California 91802 gratified by your responses. Subscriptions are being received at Subscription Rates $5.00 per year (6 issues) a rate greatly exceeding our expectations. Beginning in the next Article Submission issue we will be introducing a Deadline for next issue- August 15. Letters to the Editor column so I WE5rERN Dan Roddick Ed itor encourage your comments on Jo Cahow Asst. to the Ed itor ~ rt ic le s or Fri sbee matters in Managing Editor NATIONAL Sheila Heintz general. I also invite your Gunter Tschiedel Graphic De sign submission of any material you feel Gary Seubert Eastern Editor may be of interest to other readers. FRISBEE Bruce Koger Mid-Western Editor Tom Monroe Fly Well , Mike Collins Sou thern Editors GOLF Tom McRann Western Editor Ken Westerfield Jim Kenner Canadian Editors CHAMPIONSHIP Daryl Elliott Eldon Mclntre The Honker Contributing Editors Irvine, California Frisbee Golf is going to have a major impact on 3 IFA National Championship Series the public. There could be no clearer dem Western National Frisbee Golf onstration of that effect than the re su lts of the 6 Taking the Choke Western National Frisbee® Golf Championships. 8 Short Flights There are currently three municipal Frisbee Golf Courses in the Los Angeles area, the oldest and 9 1976 Air Aces Open most popular of which is Oak Grove Park. A 11 Coming Up good weekend at Oak Grove sees 2,000-3,000 15 Ten Commandments of Frisbee players on the course. The other courses are 16 Close-Up gradually increasing in popularity. The result is All rights re served. Reproduction in whole or in part an increasingly large number of very talented without written permission is prohibited. Printed in 18 Is There A Catch to K-9 Frisbee? U.S.A. Copyright 1976 Wham-0 Mfg . Co . San Frisbee Golfers who are seemingly coming out Gabriel, California 91778. 20 IFA National Championship Series of the woodwork. ®Frisbee is a reg istered trademark of Wham-0 Mfg. National Invitational Ultimate Frisbee Co. for flying discs used in sports games. The field at Irvine was full of new and unfamiliar 22 The Factory Connection faces. The winner of the National itself is new to COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Classifieds Vanguard Photography snapped Patti Hipsky Frisbee competition and relatively unknown 1n ac t1 on as shown on ou r back cover. David 23 World Records Cohn caught the Ultimate expression of Tom Future Issues throughout the Frisbee world. He is Don "The Gockel of Rutgers closely guarded by Wal ter Rocket" Hoskins and he took the meet by storm. Wh ite of Hampshire College on the front cover. First Annual Fri sbee World Photo Contest 3 2 Over the weekend at Irvine he turned in the low est round of the event (55); won the National by Results of Western National Series points two strokes over Tom McRann; won the Maximum Time Aloft over long-time veteran Golf Championship through Steve Gottlieb; finished fourth in Throw, Run & Chicago Catch; and scored 17 Series Po ints in Freestyle. Not a bad weekend for a "new guy." Th e meet featured the introduction of the new 36 HOLE TOTAL MTA MEN collegiate course on Irvine Campus designed by 'John Kirkland 578.1 Tom Boda. The course was very popular with 'Dan Roddick 553.5 MEN MEN 'Doug Corea 434.5 players and featured a marking system de 1. Don Hoskins 113 1. Don Hoskins 11 .2 seconds 'lrv Kalb 432.5 signed to fit completely with the natural aesthe 2. Tom McRann 115 2. Steve Gottlieb 10.5 seconds 'Steve Gottlieb 420 3. Galen Preston 117 3. Galen Preston 8.3 seconds 'Tom Monroe 389.1 tics of the campus. The wind is always a factor at 4. Steve Gelsmger 120 4. John Kirkland no catches Tom Kennedy 368 Irvine and holds the potential to change the na Steve Gottlieb 120 in final round 'Krae VanSickle 348.5 Jeff Soto 120 ture of the course entirely. Plentiful out-of WOMEN John Weyand 337.5 John Jewell 120 'Mark Banghart 336.5 1. Patti Hipsky 5.6 seconds bounds areas and a capricious wind combined 'Don Hoskins 333.5 WOMEN 2. Cybil Perkins 5.4 seconds Bruce Koger 331 to unsettle all but the steadiest golfers. 1. Jo Cahow 68 (one round) 3. Michele Bloedau 5.3 seconds Rourke Trlvell 330.6 2. Tita Ugalde 71 (one round) Jo Cahow took the Western Women's National Tom Field 326.5 3. Patti Hipsky 75 (one round) SENIOR Golf title with a 68, followed by three other Los 1. Ed Headrick 5.8 seconds Mark Horn 326 SENIOR Gary Perlberg 325 Angeles Club members, Tita Ugalde at 71 , Patti 1. Ed Headrick 64 (one round) Tom McRann 321 Hipsky at 75, and P.J. Callender at 79. Los 2. Ra lph Williamson 68 (one round) Ken Westerfield 307.6 Angeles also took the Senior Division of the Na FREESTYLE Galen Preston 300.5 Scott Dickson 293 tional Golf with Ed Headrick throwing a 64 fol MEN Ron Dorn 279.1 lowed by Ralph Will iamson of the Seattle Club THROW, 1. Kennedy/Shepherd 9.4 'Dave Marini 261 .6 with a 78 . RUN & CATCH 2. McRann/Gottlieb 9.0 Hal Campbell 255 3. Stork/Kirkland 8.9 Fred Haft 254.6 The field events were greatly enhanced by the 4. Harmer/Soto 8.6 Don Cain 249.5 MEN John Connelly 249 use of a large sound system which put a pleas 5. Bird/Steele 8.1 1. Steve Gottlieb 186 feet 6. Sebastian/Horn 7.3 Loren Alsbury 247 ant musical ambiance behind all of the perfor 2. Galen Preston 154.6 feet Alan Friedman 246.5 3. Bruce Koger 150.6 feet WOMEN John Pickerill 245.5 mances in the finals. Al so included was a public Jose Montalvo 245 TOM McRANN 4. Don Hoskins no catches Patti Hipsky Fourth in address announcement of the running time on in final round preliminary pool 'VIctor Malatronte 219 all the MTA attempts which proved to add Tom Kennedy no catches Ugalde/Cahow Fifth in Vaughn Frick 218 in final round preliminary pool Alan Blake 209 greatly to the spectator appeal of the event. The 'Jon Cohn 208.5 Freestyle was also enhanced by the existence of WOMEN SENIOR 'Kerry Kollmar 200.5 87 feet Ralph Williamson Third 1n the music and the event was marked by the 1. Jo Cahow John Sappington 195.6 2. Tita Ugalde 61 feet preliminary pool Carl Krohne 187 emergence of an exceptionally strong team from 3. Michele Bloedau 37 feet Carl Baker 183 Santa Barbara, California. Tom Kennedy and SENIOR Lenny Carpenter 180.5 Herb Englehardt 174.5 Tom Shepherd pulled off their first major Frees 1. Ed Headriqk 101 feet tyle Pairs victory with an amazingly consistent WOMEN and delightful performance which included a Jo Cahow 646.8 wide range of techniques such as long airbrush Monika Lou 522 Gail McColl 266 combinations, multiple kicking and some amaz Patti Hipsky 265.5 ing nail delay variations. Michelle Harrington 123.3 Susanne Lempert 120 In the Maximum Time Aloft competition, prelimi Michele Bloedau 82 nary round , Steve Gottlieb set a U.S. record with Cynthia Kelly 75.5 Tita Ugalde 73 a 12.9 second performance. The final of MTA Debbie Strasser 73 ended up in a tie between Don Hoskins and Al icia Marris 67 Gottlieb at 10.5 seconds for each man. The final was won by Hoskins with an 11 .3. SENIORS Jack Roddick 420 Steady Ed 330 Ralph Wil liamson 225 • = automatic invitat ions 4 5 " STORK ... ! source of the adrenalin ru sh that ' \ You see it all the time . A super tight in the triceps? That's muscular "' player who all week was hitting tension and unless controlled , the puts the whole choke in motion. As f: ,# putts from forty yards; catching beginning of the choke. a primary source, it of course holds ' everything they threw at him; This tension is particularly relevant the greatest potential for curing the / throwing 12-second MT A's; and in Frisbee play because of the problem. You can try to cure the making outrageous catches without nature of the things we have to do. symptoms. There are muscular a drop. Then the competition rolls The execution of a Frisbee throw is relaxation techniques that are around. The super player is gone based upon the combination of a somewhat useful. They include and in his place is a guy who looks number of complex factors , almost learning to be aware of the like he just cured the turn-over all of which relate to controlled existence of excess tension and problem. The putts aren't hitting; the muscular tension, including the removing it through such exercises MT A won 't shelf; he can 't close his driving of the arm forward , the as over-tensing and relaxing. With hand on a flat backhand; and all at intensity of the grip during this practice, the results can be good, once the one-finger catch is a powering period and the precise but difficult to maintain in active challenge again. It's our old friend , relaxation of that gripping which competitive situations. The ultimate the choke.