Frisbee is a sport. Now i have seen everything.

BrokenArrows

How exactly can you classify frisbee's as a sport.

Quball15

In fairness its got a better claim to be a sport than synchronised swimming or curling...i mean they just take the biscuit. Its a sport cos its a team game with rules drawn up and theres tournaments and whatnot...thats prolly the worst explanation ever but oh well :-)

BrokenArrows

I dont agree with u about synchronised swimming. That would take alot of work etc. As for curling lol.

OFDM

BrokenArrows wrote:

I dont agree with u about synchronised swimming. That would take alot of work etc. As for curling lol.

You realise they're talking about Ultimate Frisbee - just because they use a frisbee instead of a ball doesn't mean that it's not a sport.

crazy angel

so is dodgeball!

Lord Panic

http://www.whatisultimate.com/index.asp

Dont knock it till ya'v tried it, trust me! I laughed my ass off when i heard about it, (and still do sometimes) but its fantastic! Extremely athletic, skilled and keeps ya fit as hell too!

And if ya're interested in more from an irish point of view...

http://d132213.u41.host.ie/index.php

OFDM

It's more of a sport than snooker, table tennis, golf or archery tbh...

tadhgrrr

heres the definition (www.dictionary.com) of ....

sport
(noun)

1.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.


nuff said.....all of the above are sports, if youre still in doubt try taking any one of them up and see how you do....

Jonny Arson

I've played frisbee I can tell you it is a really enjoyable SPORT.

Danno

Elfman

It's a sport cos it requires skill and athletisisum (i cant spell sorry)

throwing perfect frisbbe is like kick the perfect free kick it takes practice and no matter how much u practise u still wont get it right 100% of the time

everyone thinks they can throw frisbbe..till they try (-;

scargill

OFDM wrote:

It's more of a sport than snooker, table tennis, golf or archery tbh...

you are spot on there - I can never get my head around golf being a sport ?

Shedite

I reckon to be calssified as a sport, you must sweat and require skill.

ie. Chess, Darts, Snooker = not a sport (not physical)
Weightlifting = not a sport (not mental)

tadhgrrr

sheddite ou say sport reequires sweat and skill....and then you go on to say you dont think weightlifting is a sport cos its "not mental".
i dont do weightlifting but have you ever actually watched the Olympic weightlifting competition??? theres sweat, theres skill and theres a hell of a lot of mental!

Zombienosh

holy crap, I just seen that website........ theres like actual teams!?! I thought it was just a bunch of stoners throwin a frisbee... :eek:

now I've seen it all.

Lord Panic

Well, quite a lot of it is a bunch of stoners throwing a frisbee! Its so great!

BrokenArrows

wow this thread is still going. two more posts and it will be the longest post in Frisbee history. lol.

scotsmurf

Just to nudge the thread towards its record.................
Why is it that some people will have a go at any sport that a minority?
Has anybody ever tried to lift a curling stone?How hard can it be to kick a ball?or throw a Frisbee?
None of these things are in themselves difficult to do.Its the constant practice and honing of the skill and then the application of that skill in direct competition that makes a sport, whether that skill is sprinting, hurling, chucking a dart or throwing a curling stone.
And why is there no skiing/boarding topic?
And why.............................


Glad to get that off my chest.

ajmurphy62

WEll..i read one of the links above and it actually sounds like fun. Love to try it.

ed6hellsfresh

yeh check out the videos they are great

Easily_Irritated

There was an irish frisbee team last year, which was all set to go to the frisbee world cup ( I **** you not!) but they didn't have enough funding to go to the games so couldn't. They were all qualified and everything. Although I do think the entire process consisted of one match... lol but yea, my point being its pretty popular mainly in colleges!

Funkstard

There was a guy who used to throw around frisbees last summer when we were summer training. Apparently he was on the Irish frisbee team or something. Its the best fun ever

tadhgrrr

Just for the record ireland was represented by a mens and a womens team at the last world championships held in finland last summer. the mens team finished 14th out of 18 beating teams from russia, china, brazil and lithuania along the way. ireland had never won an international game before this (they also competed at the european championships in 2003)

All the results and some pictures can be found on the official website and pictures of the irish team can be seen here

Markham

Why not merge curling and frisbee? Trying to fling those stones about would mean ULTIMATE ultimate frisbee. And a lot of blunt trauma wounds.

AndyWarhol

Markham wrote:

Why not merge curling and frisbee? Trying to fling those stones about would mean ULTIMATE ultimate frisbee. And a lot of blunt trauma wounds.

Might not be a bad thing. I'm in Trinity and the place is full of these frisbee wasters faffing about in the afternoon when they should really be studying.

Markham

To faff is not to fail.