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Freestyle Flying Disc is a disc sport, also known as freestyle Frisbee, in which creative, acrobatic, and athletic maneuvers are performed with a flying disc. This sport combines aspects of gymnastics and dance with the basic game of throw and catch.

Freestyle Flying Disc

Freestyle is performed indoors and outdoors, on fields and on the beach. The style and technique of players will depend on the conditions they play in, particularly if it is windy.

One important feature of freestyle flying disc is the technique called the nail delay, that involves balancing the disc on the fingernail while the disc continues to spin. This technique allows freestylers to change the flight path of the disc and perform numerous technical maneuvers such as restricted pulls, holds, turnovers, and shoots.

Competitions are usually conducted in the form of freestyle jams, usually involving teams of 2 to 5 people. Each team performs a choreographed routine of three to five minutes in length, and are evaluated by judges scoring the routine on the difficulty, artistic impression and execution. The team with the highest score wins.

Freestyle is performed with a lighter, usually 160 gram disc. In addition to the disc, the other piece of equipment used in freestyle disc is fake nails. Yes, most advanced players wear fake nails to aid in the performing of their tricks.

Freestyle flying disc was on the program for the inaugural World Urban Games.

There are also freestyle disc events as sport of the sport of Disc Dog.

Flying Disc at the World Games

Flying disc was first featured as an invitational sport at the 1989 Karlsruhe World Games. Then, it was featured as a major sport at the 2001 Akita World Games.

This sport was among the major sports at the 2005 Dulsburg World Games, the 2009 Kaohsiung World Games, the 2013 Cali World Games, the 2017 Wroclaw World Games, the 2022 Birmingham World Games, and the 2025 Chengdu World Games.

Flying Disc had two disciplines at the 2025 Chengdu World Games - Disc Golf and Ultimate.

Disc Golf is played on a course with 9 or 18 holes, and each hole consists of a teeing area and target. An athlete completes a hole by throwing a disc from a tee pad or tea area towards, and throws again from where the previous throw came to rest, until the tee stops in the designated basket.

Here are the medalists who gold at the end of the Disc Golf event:

Similar Sports

• Disc Dog — dog frisbee competitions of distance catching and choreographed freestyle catching.
• Ultimate Frisbee — a team game played with a disc (frisbee), with points scored by passing the disc to a teammate in the opposing end zone.
• Freestyle Footbag — performing various tricks with a footbag.
• Freestyle Football — athletes compete to perform various tricks using a football.

Related Pages

• More flying disc sports
• Complete list of sports
• The Encyclopedia of Sports — a list of every sport from around the world.

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