Ultimate was first conceived in 1968 at a school in New Jersey. The school newspaper and the student council decided to make up a new sport, part as a joke and part to have something to do at school in the evenings.

Student Council member Joel Silver led the development of modifying American Football to be played with a Frisbee. The result was fast, exciting, skillful and loads of fun. Silver described the game as the “ultimate sports experience” and vowed that one day people all over the world would be playing it.
Initially the rules were very poorly defined, but clearly quite heavily based on American Football. Over time, the key developers looked to other sports for inspiration, and began to remove elements such as lines of scrimmage and running with the disc. By 1970 the first edition of the official rules were printed (still vastly different from today’s game), and some inter-school games began to be organized.

Today, Ultimate is a world-wide sport becoming extremely popular in North America, northern Europe and Asia. Canada and USA are the long-standing powerhouses of world Ultimate, but in recent years a number of other countries have been pushing hard. Currently, Australia features in the top 10 and we are continually recruiting and training to improve on this.

The relative newness of Ultimate means that tactics and strategies are constantly evolving. This provides exciting opportunities to tap into both people from other sporting backgrounds and those who bring a completely pure outlook to the sport. Every season sees a new dominating strategy emerge, which is quickly refined, but then countered. Teams and coaches have to perpetually adapt and improve, or risk being left behind.