I play ultimate frisbee a lot in my spare time. It's a non-contact frisbee throwing sport.
That sounds like a lot of fun. Is it a team or individual sport?
It is a team sport and it was developed in 1968 by students at Columbia high school in New Jersey.
Cool. So it is fairly new. Is it similar to football or soccer?
Yes similar. Points are scored by passing the frisbee into the opponents endzone.
Okay I got you. Are there leagues to play or watch?
I'm not sure but the coolest thing about Ultimate is that there are no referees. The whole game is self-officiating.
It sounds like a cool laid back sport.
From its beginnings in the American counterculture of the late 1960s, ultimate has resisted empowering any referee with rule enforcement. Instead it relies on the sportsmanship of players and invokes "Spirit of the Game" to maintain fair play. Players call their own fouls, and dispute a foul only when they genuinely believe it did not occur. Playing without referees is the norm for league play but has been supplanted in club competition by the use of "observers" or "game advisors" to help in disputes, and the professional league
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate, originally known as Ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc (frisbee). Ultimate was developed in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Although Ultimate resembles many traditional sports in its athletic requirements, it is unlike most sports due to its focus on self-officiating, even at the highest levels of competition. The term frisbee, often used to generically describe all flying discs, is a registered trademark of