By Angie Leung and Victoria Yuan
Is it a bird? A plane? Nah, just a frisbee.
When students see circular disks flying through the air, the question of it being a sport has been cropping up more and more often. It has sparked numerous recent debates among Lexington High School students, but after multiple surveys and interviews, all signs point to the affirmative.
“Frisbee is the best sport in the world! Nothing is more fun than trying to throw a football—oops, I meant a frisbee—into the endzone,” Fritz Bee, a freshman and member of the JV frisbee team, said.
Compared to other sports, helmets and back-breaking gear aren’t necessary for frisbee. Heavy equipment is not required because all someone needs is a disc, some gloves, and a pair of cleats.
“One thing I enjoy about frisbee is that people can get prepared easily...Do I play frisbee? No. I don’t play any sport, but I wish I did,” Fritzee Lee, a senior, member of the SciOly team and president of the math club, said.
Some students take offense to the question itself; when asked to comment on whether frisbee is a sport, Caitlin Lian, a member of the LHS Ultimate Frisbee team, looked down, refused to comment, and walked away.
Many people believe that frisbee is a trivial game of catch, but, in reality, it is a highly competitive sport that involves rigorous training of coordination and agility, as well strenuous demands on the mind, body, and psyche.
“I think that frisbee players are amazingly strong. I mean, in baseball, we try to throw curveballs. But for those frisbee players, almost every throw curves in the air so they must be really strong,” Jock Batter, a senior on the baseball team who is currently failing AP Physics, said.
Recently, frisbee has influenced major governmental and administrative initiatives on the national scale. In fact, the United States Department of Defense has implemented a weaponized frisbee project, drawing inspiration from the ancient militarized art of ninja stars.
“A frisbee is a multi-purpose, holy object, whether it's used to play a game of catch, to trick someone into believing in UFOs, or as a weapon,” Frist Beetle, sophomore and founder of the Church of Frisbee, said.
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