In the beginning...

I think that I "invented" this game around 1985. (Other people have written to say that they invented it too.)

But the value of the idea lies in its use, not in its ownership.

Besides, I couldn't figure out how to make money on broomsticks and someone else's patented toy.

In the moment...

For all I know, at this moment thousands of people may already be catching their Aerobies all over the world using broomstick handles. But I kind of doubt it. I've never seen anyone do this but me and the people I've shown it to.

I'm sure this is the ONLY web page devoted EXCLUSIVELY to the world wide promotion of the sport of catching Aerobies with sticks. I think of this as a small but passionate interest group.

Boomerang finesse.

In the future...

Once you realize that you are liberated from the pain of catching an Aerobie with your bare hands, and from reception velocity limitations, and once you realize that that your arms are four feet longer than you knew, the horizons of creative Aerobie potential open before you.

For example a skilled, yet slightly insane, stick user could potentially catch heavier, and larger spinning rings ("chakrams"?) than the Aerobie.

However the risks to spectators and innocent bystanders impose some kind of upper limit on the ring's weight. I speak from personal experience. Already, there is a certain physical risk associated with the response of a startled bystander to the experience of being hit in the face by an Aerobie. And why is it they always get mad at the guy running after it? It was the guy at the other end of the field who threw the thing! Good thing you're holding that stick as you run toward the pissed off guy with a large red welt on his cheek... But remember grasshopper, "The Way of Aerosticks is the Path of Nonviolence."

Someday, Aerosticks could become an Olympic sport... right after the nuclear holocaust, in a Mad Max or Blade Runner world. But someone would probably have to invent some rules first, and that would probably wreck the Calvin Ball spirit (see Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson) in which this was conceived.

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