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Frisbee!
Secret Frisbee Beach, Del Mar, CA
Home of the Torrey Pines Beach Freestyle Frisbee Association
(Michael McCafferty, co-founder)
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Stancil Johnson
This beautiful thought makes me want to ask: What is your dream?
"To Fris Is To Be"One of my favorite works of art, an original, byKate Van der Wende, my Frisbee partner for many years. From this airbrushed piece, Kate made one copy, and one t-shirt, which I have worn many times, always smiling.
"It's Sunny. It's Summer. It's Saturday. It's Southern California." But wait! There's More! I'm driving a Jag, south from my place to Torrey Pines State Beach only one mile away, with the intent to commit frisbee thereupon... well, that's just got to qualify as a Perfect moment. "What could be better? Nothing!" I ask and answer. "We could put the top down" says Mark. Damn if he doesn't have a point. The top retracts as we roll through the stop sign at the end of my street. Still in the shade, no sunlight was lost in this maneuver. The moment remains perfect. This is proof that Perfect can be Improved, and also that Multiple Perfects Can Exist Simultaneously. More on this later, because I don't want to lose the moment, which remains Perfect, and now recently Improved.
"Now! What could be better?" I say, once more into the moment in all its newly Improved
Perfection.
The beach conditions were .. A lingering Red Tide lurked beyond the surfline, yet the barely-waves were clear and clean. A huge area by the inlet was deep ankle-to-knee, with rolling mini-swells over a smooth sand bottom ideal for running. No better conditions exist on this planet for jammin' with a disc.
The water was just Deep Enough.
A wise man* once observed: "When a ball dreams, it dreams it is a frisbee." And I can say no more.
The World's Greatest Frisbee Party
Paganello 2002
I was there!
Paganello Video 1
Frisbee Video clips
Mark airbrushing to a diving catch! 3.9MB .mov file
MM doing a back roll 1.9MB .mov file
A Good Way to Die
Playing Frisbee on the beach
The disc is coming fast and wide. And then it ends.
From the other side of Life
© copyright 2001, MM
The Beaufort Wind Scale The Beaufort scale was introduced in 1806 by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) of the British navy to describe wind effects on a fully rigged man-of-war sailing vessel. It was later extended to include descriptions of effects on land features as well. Today the accepted international practice is to report wind speed in knots (1 knot equals about 1.85 km, or 1.15 mi, per hour). The TPBFFA has determined, after extensive research, that the ideal wind conditions for Frisbee on the beach are in the range of 2 to 4 on the Beaufort scale.
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