Windy Shao windysjf@hotmail.com MORE than 110 players from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, the United States, Canada, Germany, India and the United Kingdom participated in an ultimate frisbee competition at Mission Hills Shenzhen in Longhua District yesterday. Team Mission Impossible won the event. Ultimate frisbee, also known as ultimate, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc. Points are scored by passing the disc to a teammate in the opposing endzone. Other basic rules are that players must not take steps while holding the disc, and interceptions, incomplete passes and passes out of bounds are turnovers. The sport was developed in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in New Jersey, the United States. Although ultimate resembles many traditional sports in its athletic requirements, it is unlike most sports due to its focus on self-officiating, even at the highest levels of competition. Ultimate frisbee has gained popularity in China in recent years. The first ultimate frisbee association in China was registered in Shenzhen in 2013. “I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee because it is a non-contact sport, which is very suitable for friends to play together,” said a participant surnamed Lin. |