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Disc Sports History (Frisbee)

1970's Frisbee Becomes a Sport

Guts, Ultimate, Freestyle, Golf, Distance, Accuracy, MTA, Self Caught Flight, Discathon and Double Disc Court became this sports first events.

There are certain people that stand out when acknowledging who laid the ground work for the transition of playing with the Frisbee as a toy to disc sports. The Healy family (Guts), Tom Kennedy (Ultimate and UPA), Ken Westerfield (Utimate, Freestyle and Canadian Open), Jim Kenner (Freestyle and Canadian Open), Dave Marinni (FPA), Jim Palmeri (AFDO), Tom Schot (Santa Cruz Tournaments), Dan Roddick ( IFA and WFDF), Ed Headrick (Whamo and Disc Golf), Joel Silver (Ultimate). These are people that not only excelled with the Frisbee when it was still considered a toy, but help create the formats and concepts through their own tournaments and or organizations that produced the events and organization of disc sports we see today.

The Canadian Open Frisbee Championships, Toronto Canada (the beginning of Freestyle Competition), American Flying Disc Open (AFDO), Rochester, NY, Octad, New Jersey, International Frisbee Tournament (IFT), Marquette, MI, Santa Cruz Flying Disc Classic, Santa Cruz, California, and the World Frisbee Championships (WFC), held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, were the most progressive and trend setting tournaments of that time. These tournaments are where the sport of Frisbee ( disc sports ) really began.
Disc Sports History (Frisbee) are documented in
FPA Freestyle Players Association, also in several articles on Wikipedia.
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Disc Daddy

The person responsible for introducing another person to the sport of Disc Golf.
I am better than David now, but he is my Disc Daddy.
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Disc Locked Content

A form of DLC included with games where instead of paying for downloadable content, you pay for a tiny (around 80 kilobytes) file that unlocks the content that is already on the disc.
I was going to buy additional characters for SF x Tekken, but then I realized it was disc locked content.
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Disc-jockey

A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience
Oh man!, You are an excellent Disc-Jockey.
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disc jockeying

A form of female masturbation.

A female will rub her clitoris in a circular motion, resembling a DJ, or disc jockey.
Dude, I was going to my girlfriends house, and when i got inside i found her disc jockeying it on the couch.
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Disc race

Disc drinking and disc races are common acts of initiation in the ultimate community. A disc race consists of filling up a disc (a.k.a. frisbee) to the brim with approximately 4 and a half beers and watching as two or more competitors race to finish the disc without allowing their lips leave the edge of the disc.
I did my first disc race last night. I finished in under a minute, puked, and rallied. Overall a solid night. Let's go toss.
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Disc him a miss.

Originated on the US Marine Corps Rifle ranges to indicate the shooter missed the target. A "disc" is a metal disc 12" in diameter with one side painted red, the other white attached to a 6 foot wooden pole. Depending on the location of the disc on the target, it told the shooter what the score was for that shot. A miss was indicated by moving the red side of the disc back and forth in front of the target. The Marines from Marine Corps Security Force Company, Charleston, SC started using the term when another Marine screwed up or did something unpopular.
Dude, did you see Smith mess up that inspection?

Yeah, disc him a miss.
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