Team Build with Ultimate Frisbee! (new)

Try our new ultimate frisbee challenge, it is suitable as team building activity or just for team bonding. Ultimate Frisbee is a team sport that is easy to learn, fun and it can be played at a location near your office!

Ultimate Frisbee requires team work, communication, strategy, and most importantly, integrity. Like most ball games, ultimate frisbee bonds participants as they pitch their skills against competition teams. The difference is that, this time, there is no referee.

Participants will realize that, in order for a team to win, we have to understand the people around us, their strengths and weaknesses. only when we are able to understand our team mates and listen to their opinions will we be able to build an effective relationship in the workplace.

Ultimate Frisbee – Fact Sheet

• Ultimate Frisbee is a seven-a-side (usually) team sport played with a frisbee.
• Ultimate Frisbee was invented in 1968 by school students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey USA. In fact, one of them residing in Singapore right now. By the way, he married a local gal here.
• Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact, self-refereed sport - players are responsible for calling infringements and resolving disputes on the field of play.
• The name Ultimate comes from the central idea of "ultimate spirit of the game" which refers to the high level of sportsmanship in Ultimate Frisbee.
• Even World Championships are played without referees.
• The official Frisbee used for Ultimate Frisbee is a 175 gram disc.
• The playing field is a half-width soccer field with an end zone at each end. (37m by 64 m and with a 18 m deep end zone on both side of the proper playing field) we don’t have to play this standard size.
• When a player catches the frisbee in the end zone they are attacking, their team scores a point.
• Players are not allowed to run with the frisbee, they must advance the frisbee by completing passes down the field.
• The thrower has ten seconds to throw the frisbee.
• A team loses possession if they drop the frisbee, throw it out of bounds or it is intercepted by the opposition.
• Ultimate Frisbee is played in over forty countries around the world.
• World Championships are held every two years and attract teams from every continent.
• The Singapore Top local club Freakshow, is currently the top Team in Asia.(outside Japan)
• The strongest countries are the USA, Canada, Sweden and Japan.
• There are approximately 1400 people playing casual or competitive Ultimate Frisbee in Singapore. (This not including school student playing in schools)
• The 2004 World Ultimate Frisbee Championships was held in Turku, Finland in August 2004 attracting over 2000 athletes from 30 countries.
• Ultimate Frisbee in Singapore is supported by Singapore Sports Council.
• Last year in May, there are about 500 primary school (Primary 5 and Primary 6 level) competing in an inaugural East Zone School Frisbee Competition.
• And annually in September, the largest Ultimate Frisbee competition will be held here in Singapore. 20 Asian Ultimate Frisbee Club will be participating.

What participant will learn:

- Basic handling of the Frisbee (for backhand and forehand)
- Footwork, body balancing and throwing the frisbee
- Catching of Frisbee (various methods of catching the Frisbee)
- Basic rules of Ultimate Frisbee
- Introduction of Ultimate Frisbee
- Game of Ultimate Frisbee and applying the rules.

other team building games:

team building index page
indoor board game: paramount conquest
indoor team building game show: brains, brawn & bucks
outdoor team sport: combat skirmish team building