Freestyle and Ultimate

Freestyle is a cooperative sport that combines the basic game of throw and catch with aspects of gymnastics, dance, martial arts, and other physical disciplines. It’s both a creative art and an athletic challenge. In competition, pairs or trios perform choreographed or spontaneous routines set to music all while spinning, twirling, tossing or rolling one or more discs. Routines are judged on their artistic merit (composed by 5 subcategories: teamwork, music coreography, flow, form, variety), difficulty (based on the difficulty and risk of the moves attempted in each phrase), and execution of the attempted moves (Ex: from a perfect score of 10, a dropped disc is a 0,3 deduction, a minor bubble is a 0,1 deduction..). Judges are always other players competing in the same tournament.

Outside of competition, freestyle is an improvisation between players in which each move, throw, catch, hoop, or touch of the disc inspires and encourages the next one. This is called jamming, and to most players, it’s the most important part of the sport. Like skateboarding, snowboarding, or surfing, freestyle has its own lexicon of names for body positions, disc maneuvers and techniques.

Ultimate is a team sport seven on seven or five on five with a Flying Disc. It is played on a rectangular field, about half the width of a football field, with an end zone at each end. Variations to the basic structure and rules may be used to accommodate special competitions, number of players, age of players or available space.