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Frisbee champ urges kids to lead healthy lives

By Lisa Di Gianfelice
The Sentinel-Review Reporter

OXFORD CENTRE– Gary Auerbach didn't have a coach help take him to the world Frisbee freestyle championships. He relied instead on his ballet instructor. The Toronto native, who paid a visit to students at East Oxford Elementary School Friday, said he purposely took ballet lessons to improve his Frisbee game. "It's body control, getting your legs higher and looking better when you spin," Auerbach said.

World frisbee champion tosses some tips

Sarnia - This Week

Students were spinning at Ecole Saint-Thomas D'Aquin last week, when world champion Frisbee thrower, Gary Auerbach showed up to spin a few lessons. Auerbach was invited by physical education teacher Pat DuFour, who learned about the frisbee champ and his free flying education and invited him to Sarnia from his Toronto-based office. With waves of giggles and applause, Grade 2/3 students viewed Auerbach's collection of Frisbees, including a red plastic disc which a student had adorned with feathers in an effort to make Auerbach's Frisbees fly better, and an original tin plate from the Frisbie Pie Company.

Auerbach's back in spin as world frisbee champ

By Paul LUNGEN
Canadian Jewish News Staff Reporter

TORONTO – Manipulating a frisbee must be something like riding a bike — it’s something you never forget. How else to explain that Gary Auerbach could give up freestyle frisbee throwing for 10 years, resume practising for two weeks and then go on to become one-half of the 1995 Freestyle Players Association (FPA) world pairs champions.

Catching the fever

By Rita DeMontis
Toronto Sun

Gary Auerbach figures a major chunk of the world’s problems could be resolved if everyone stopped for a moment and tossed a Frisbee. Auerbach, 29, along with his partner Brian McElwain, 33, are world champions in the competitive world of freestyle Frisbee – traditionally the exclusive property of U.S. competitors who relinquished the honor to our heroes this past August in Jacksonville Florida. "It was such an emotional moment," recalls the handsome Auerbach earnestly. "I mean – we were the first non-U.S. team to win the World Freestyle Frisbee Championship and it really brought into focus how amazing this sport is."

Frisbee is a game for the ages

By Carol Phillips
The Spectator

Gary Auerbach was nine years old when he first learned to throw a Frisbee at summer camp. It had first caught his attention when he attended festivals in the 1970s with his family, and he saw people throwing around the flying disc. "I just thought it was the neatest thing and I wanted to be like them," he said. The 30-year-old from Toronto was the 1995 world freestyle champion and continues to travel the world for competitions. But he has also formed the company Spinning Bees, which visits schools and camps, corporate workshops and festivals, putting on demonstrations and teaching people the art and the fun of throwing a Frisbee – as well as a few tricks like spinning it on their index finger and hitting targets.

Frisbee for the Masses

By Lori Littleton
Review Reporter

NIAGARA FALLS – Teaching children lifelong skills and an alternative to traditional sports, has taken 1995 world freestyle champion Gary Auerbach away from competitions and into small, elementary school gymnasiums. "It (competing) occupies a lot of time and this (teaching) is my passion," Auerbach said. "Competing is fun, but until there are some large crowds, I don't see the point in getting together against those who know me."

Frisbee whiz sings sport's praises

The Daily Gleaner — Fredericton, New Brunswick

Children in elementary schools throughtout Fredericton are learning to have a ball — with a frisbee. Gary Auerbach, the 1995 world freestyle Frisbee champion, has been visiting schools in the city and surrounding areas with his Frisbee sessions. He developed these sessions to introduce kids to Frisbee-games in the hopes they'll grow to love the sport and develop lifelong skills in throwing, catching and handling the plastic disc.

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