Spike the Triangle

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Matt Ph.D. Caniglia. Spike the Triangle

INTRODUCTION

WHERE IT BEGAN

EXTRAORDINARY BOOMERANG

SPIKE THE TRIANGLE

DIFFERENCE IN THROWS

REGULAR THROW

SIDEARM THROW

DEATH SPIRAL

CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIKE

WHAT THEY DON’T TELL US

THE TRIANGLE CAN HELP

LET IT FESTER

A place to work on eye-hand coordination

BALL WALL

GAMES

CULTURE

WISHES

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The following is a study in the sidearm throw of the Aerobie® Orbiter™. This high-performance boomerang is manufactured in the United States by Aerobie, Inc. Imagine three twelve-inch plastic rulers fused equilaterally to form “the triangle,” a thin, rigid flight toy that harbors a secret. When thrown overhand, as intended by the manufacturer, like the quarterback in American football, it behaves like a traditional boomerang: taking a low, circular flight path, and ultimately returning to its thrower. However, when thrown sidearm, the triangle does something radical!

The sidearm motion is an atypical way of throwing a boomerang. It travels flat for a brief moment then dramatically spikes upward into the sky. Reaching an abnormally high apex, it then blends swiftly into a speedy and equally dramatic death spiral. Capping off its ascension, the flight stalls at one hundred, sometimes one hundred twenty feet in the air. The Aerobie® Orbiter™ is a windstorm, fanning broadly from left to right, entering a death spiral by way of centripetal whorl back to Earth. The fall is a downward corkscrew with coils measuring fifty to sixty feet in diameter.

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“Throw only in 150FT. clear, well-lighted area.”

“Never throw in wind or crowd.”

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