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- The United States Boomerang
Association
- Spreading the word about an
ultra-modern sport
with pre-historic roots
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- While the boomerang has existed for at least
15,000 years in Australia, boomerangs as an organized sport began
in the 1960s in Australia and the United States. In the United States,
the boomerang movement was triggered in part by a milestone article
on boomerangs in a 1968 Scientific American, and nurtured by the
Smithsonian Institute which sponsored yearly educational workshops
in the making and throwing of boomerangs. The United
States Boomerang Association (USBA) was formed in 1980. Now the sport is practiced
worldwide, with team and individual world championships held every
two years.
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- Based upon boomerang sales estimates by
the many cottage industry manufacturers, there are now hundreds
of thousands of recreational boomerang throwers across the US and
the numbers escalate annually. These people are competitive athletes,
recreational throwers, master woodcarvers, casual woodworkers, aeronautical
engineers, high school science teachers, artists, anthropologists,
and every other walk of life. The USBA brings them all together
into a society that offers a forum for discussion, a vast information
resource, and news of the boomerang world.
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- The USBA is a 100% volunteer organization
charged with promoting the sport,
science, and art of boomerangs
in the United States and worldwide. We work toward these goals on
many levels, and grooming players for the international circuit
is only one of many USBA activites.
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- The Toss
Across America event is the USBA's
premier grassroots effort. The annual event introduces thousands
of people to the sport at locations all over the country on the
same day. Local boomerang enthusiasts, with the help of the USBA,
organize events designed to teach their communities about the sport,
science and art of boomerangs.
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