What is frisbee freestyle competition?

Answer 1

Disc freestyle is an event where teams of two or three players perform a routine which consists of a series of creative throwing and catching techniques set to music. The routine is judged on the basis of difficulty, execution and presentation. The team with the best total score is declared the winner.

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Answer 2

Two or more Frisbee competitors displaying various creative throwing and catching techniques, judged by fellow competitors on difficulty, variety and execution.

The first freestyle competition event was held at the 1974 Canadian Open Frisbee Championships in Toronto Canada. Today freestyle competitions are a popular event at flying disc tournaments worldwide.

Answer 3

Flying Disc (Frisbee) Freestyle

Players that shaped the beginning of flying disc (Frisbee) freestyle. Jim Kenner, Ken Westerfield, Kerry Kollmar, Dan Roddick, John Z Weyand and Victor Malafronte. Long before Frisbee was ever considered a sport these individuals were the first to achieve the equivalent of what would be considered a professional freestyle Frisbee athlete. Many of the present freestyle techniques as well as competitive formats came from these pioneers.

Freestyle Competition

Disc freestyle is an event where teams of two or three players perform a routine which consists of a series of creative throwing and catching techniques set to music. The routine is judged on the basis of difficulty, execution and presentation. The team with the best total score is declared the winner.

In 1974 Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner teamed up with Jeff Otis, event coordinator for the Canadian National Exhibition, to produce the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships. It was at this tournament that Ken and Jim introduced an event called Frisbee Freestyle and won it.

This was the first Frisbee Freestyle Competition ever. A year later the AFDO (American Flying Disc Open) Rochester, New York, and the 1975 World Frisbee Championships, held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, adopted Ken and Jims Freestyle competition format as one of their events. Today this same Freestyle event is now accepted as one of the premier events in flying disc tournaments worldwide.