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| | Frisbee is known to common folk as just a flying saucer or disk. Respectively flying disk is the same one as is Frisbee.
History of Frisbee started as early as in the beginning of last century, when students tossed pie tins of Frisbee Pie Company. At the end of 40’s, Walter Morrison created first plastic flying disk. In1957, Wham –O patented word “Frisbee” as its own.
Types of sports with flying disc
Most popular sport all over the world is Ultimate Frisbee, a team game (5-7 players in each in team). Also very popular is Disc Golf where one is needed to hit the aim in minimum of attempts, and Double Disc Court (DDC) – a game with 2x2 discs. Popular sport among four-footed sportsmen is Dog Frisbee.
Every body of us remembers when as a girl we twisted hoop around our waist. Now we reached adulthood and took that old hoop away into shelf to dust. We parted with our childhood, but not with our dreams: We, like before, dream about beautiful slender body and smooth skin. There is a simple way to make the dream real. The way what we used in our childhood - that is Hula-hoop,- which is a combination of words: hula is a Polynesian dance, hoop is an English word. From that time a lot changed including the hoop itself. Today modern sport stores have various models of hula-hoops.
Widespread hoops are: 1) Ordinary hoop. This hula-hoop can be iron or polyethylene, but hollow inside. Our moms and grannies used this one
2) Portable hula-hoop. Made like an ordinary hoop but folded into twice, some models can be folded into fourfold. Very convenient if there is no enough place for storing it.
3) Weighted hula-hoop. This hoop weighs abut 0.5 to 2 kg. This type of Hula-hoop more intensively massages waist and thigh areas, and also provides extra workout. We, on own can cut an ordinary hula-hoop, weight that with peas or sand, and later seal hula-hoop with adhesive.
4) Hula-Hoop with massaging elements. Its surface is pegged with suckers. They would stick in or stick out to body as you twist hoop.
5) Hula-Hoop with a meter. A small meter working on finger-sized batteries is fixed to the hoop. It gives out number of twists and spent calories. But it can be very much inaccurate because this hoop considers only the time and twists, but not your age and weight.
Plus points in playing with a hula-hoop: It trains cardiovascular system. When you go up to the second floor, you have shortness of breath and the heart is wallowing out of your chest? Then with such untrained body you should not do power or dancing aerobics.
Take hoop into your hands. Put forth abdominal muscles and loin, and try to keep in that same position throughout the exercise. Now you can release hoop by setting to twist. By moving body, legs and neck we compel hoop to twist around waist and thighs. But don’t forget that everything is your own hands. As soon as you start your way to ideal shape, you will reach it quickly. |
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This week America bids farewell to Richard Knerr, whose company Wham-O made many "legendary" American toys including Frisbee and Hula Hoop. Knerr died at the age of 82 this Monday at his home in Arcadia, California.
