History of disc sports

Answer 1

Disc sports (Frisbee) 1970's

There were a few guts and distance tournaments before 1970, but the sport of Frisbee (disc sports) really began in the 1970's, gut's, ultimate, freestyle, disc golf, distance, accuracy, MTA, SCF, discathon and DDC, became disc sports first events.

There are certain people/players and events that stand out when acknowledging who laid the ground work for the transition of playing with the Frisbee as a toy to disc sports. The Healy family (guts), Joel Silver and Jared Kass (ultimate ), Tom Kennedy and Irv Kalb, (ultimate, Ultimate Players Association) Ken Westerfield (utimate, freestyle, touring Frisbee shows and the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships), Jim Kenner (Discraft, freestyle and the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships), Dave Marinni (Freestyle Players Association), Jim Palmeri (AFDO, American Flying Disc Open, disc golf, DDC), Tom Schot (Santa Cruz Tournaments), Tom Monroe (Frisbee South show tours, tournaments, disc golf) Dan Roddick ( IFA, WFC and WFDF), Ed Headrick (Whamo, IFA, WFC, disc golf). These are people that not only excelled with the Frisbee when it was still considered a toy, but help create the formats and concepts through their own tournaments and or organizations that produced the events and organization of disc sports we see today

International Frisbee Tournament (IFT), Marquette, MI, the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships, Toronto Canada, American Flying Disc Open (AFDO), Rochester, NY, Octad, New Jersey, Santa Cruz Flying Disc Championships, Santa Cruz, California, and the World Frisbee Championships (WFC), held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, were the most progressive and trend setting tournaments of that time.

These events are where the sport of Frisbee really began.