JR's Frisbee Page

I started throwing Frisbees as a kid. Then as a teenager it at times was a popular group activity. A lot of fun and some exercise too. My neighbor Mike Overacker started a Frisbee club. The R.F.D.A. (Roanoke Frisbee Disc Association). We flew for fun and learned trick throws and catches.

Then came Ultimate. If you are not familiar with Ultimate it is some what like soccer except you throw a Frisbee instead of kicking a ball. You can't run with the disc (akin to dribbling in basketball) but must attempt to pass it to someone else. Of course you can run while not in possession of the disc. It is a very fast and demanding game. Really a bit to much for me.

Eventually came along Disc Golf. Disc Golf is played with the same basic principles as golf, except again the disc is substituted for the usual equipment. This was more my speed. We set up "invisible" courses in some of the local parks where the hole was some predetermined object already in the park, such as trees, garbage cans, fence posts. We did have some tournaments where we actually put paper number tags on each "hole". Mike started a campaign to raise money to buy real official "pole holes" which consist of a steel post, steel wire basket, a wire frame on top with chains hanging from it.

Fishburn Park 9th "Pole" Hole

You toss the disc between the basket and frame, hitting the chains which deflect down towards the basket. They are not cheap, but we raised the money for eighteen pole holes, some from individual and local business donations. We were going to install all eighteen holes in Fishburn Park permanently, but objections of one neighboring homeowner prevented this. So nine are installed permanently and the other nine have portable bases so they can be put up for tournaments or in other parks.

LINKS

Here is a link to more info on the Fishburn Park Disc Golf Course .
http://www.overacker.com/fishburn.htm

And one to the R.F.D.A. (Roanoke Frisbee Disc Association) web site.
http://www.overacker.com/rfda2000.htm

And Mike Overackers home page.
http://www.overacker.com/

Visit the Professional Disc Golf Association http://www.pdga.org

You may notice that this disc spins in a direction opposite of the rest.
If thrown by a right handed person the disc will spin clockwise.
If thrown by a left handed person it will spin counter clockwise.
This disc was thrown by a lefty!

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All of the animated gifs on this page. (With the exception of the SETI@home gif.)
Were created by me with Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 7 and Jasc's Animation Shop 3.
Animation Shop comes packaged with the last few releases of Paint Shop Pro.

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Revised: 5/09/2002