Ultimate Frisbee is a team disc sport where players throw a disc down a rectangular field with the intention of putting it in a goal at the end of the field.

Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact team sport played with a frisbee, or disc. Players throw a disc down a rectangular field in order to score on their opponent�s endzone.

The goal is to be the first team to reach a predetermined score.

Regulation ultimate is played between two teams of seven players. The objective is to score points by receiving a teammate's pass in the opponent's end zone. To start the game players line up at the edge of their respective endzones, and the defensive team throws, or pulls, the disc to the offensive team. The disc may be moved in any direction by completing a pass to a teammate. After catching a pass, a player is required to come to a stop as quickly as possible, and then can only move their non-pivot foot. Upon receiving the disc, a player has ten seconds to pass it. An incomplete pass results in a change of possession. When this happens the defense immediately becomes the offense and gains possession of the disc where it comes to a stop on the field of play, or where it first traveled out of bounds.

The game was created in 1968 by Joel Silver while he attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Silver adapted the game from a form of Frisbee football taught to him by Jared Kaas at a summer camp in Massachusetts. When he arrived at Lafayette College in 1970, he brought the game with him and it quickly spread. Two years later, Rutgers and Princeton played in the first intercollegiate match. In 1979, the first National Ultimate Championship was held at Penn State with five teams representing five geographical regions across the country. By 1980 the sport had spread across the Atlantic taking hold in the United Kingdom. That same year the Ultimate Players Association was formed to help organize regional events and championship tournaments. In the 2005 the BUSA, the NCAA�s equivalent in England, accredited the sport for university play.

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Ultimate frisbee is a high paced game with little stoppage time, thus requiring some level of physical fitness. The rules of the game are easily learned so it is an easy sport to pick up.

Backhand - throwing the frisbee from the left side of the body for right-handed players, and the right side for left-handed players

Cut - a sudden change in direction in attempt to get free from a defender

Dump - short pass executed when the thrower is under heavy pressure

Flow - series of passes to well-timed cuts

Forehand - throwing the frisbee from the right side for right-handed players, and the left side for left-handed players

Hammer - a high, overhead throw

Huck - a long pass, usually the length of the playing field

Pull - the throw at the start of each point that initiates play

Swing - a lateral pass across the field

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