What is Ultimate Frisbee?

Series Summary

Ultimate Frisbee is an exhilarating and exhaustingly athletic game. After only a few minutes of playing in a pick up game of Ultimate Frisbee you will find that there is as much or more running than in a game of soccer. Ultimate Frisbee is most easily described as a hybrid of soccer and football. There are two teams, two endzones, one field, and one Frisbee. The game begins with a "kickoff" as one team yells "Ultimate!" and throws the Frisbee to the other team. The receiving team then passes the Frisbee to each other as in soccer but once a player has caught the Frisbee the player must stop and throw to another teammate. There is no tackling and the Frisbee cannot be taken out of an opponents hands; however, if the Frisbee is not caught by a teammate or is intercepted by the opponent, the opponent gets the Frisbee. A point is scored when one player throws the Frisbee to a teammate in the endzone. There are various rules for this exciting sport and numerous techniques for playing Ultimate Frisbee that you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free how-to video series, learn how to play Ultimate Frisbee from Ultimate Frisbee player David Gelber. David will teach the rules of Ultimate Frisbee, what equipment you need to play Ultimate Frisbee, how to throw a Frisbee with a backhand throw, how to throw a Frisbee with a flick throw, how to play Ultimate Frisbee pick up games, how to score in an Ultimate Frisbee game, and how to play Beach Ultimate Frisbee.

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is David Gelber, I represent the Hilo Ultimate Frisbee community and I'm here to do a little talk on Ultimate Frisbee on behalf of Expert Village. Ultimate Frisbee is a great team sport. It was developed in Maplewood New Jersey back in the sixties. It involves two teams playing on approximately a soccer field. It's very very competitive, about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people play it all throughout the world. There's about forty two different countries currently playing ultimate Frisbee. I first got into it back in 1979 in San Diego state and I've been hooked ever since. It's kind of a fringe sport in the sense that it's not recognized as your typical Olympic sport or you don't see it on TV or anything but none the less there is hundreds of thousands of people all through the world playing it. I think forty two countries have actually Frisbee teams at the moment. Certain countries even have state sponsored teams such as Sweden and Japan. The game is very addictive; most colleges will have an Ultimate Frisbee team on campus and usually the players once they pick up the Frisbee they are hooked for life. Many of them dedicate their life styles to it, they'll go to tournaments, parties their whole social circle will revolves around the Frisbee. It can be very amusing. I highly recommend it, it's a great way to meet people. Very spirited, good natured intelligent people playing the game and it's just a wonderful pass time."