Frockey  “Flying Disc Hockey”

The new alternative skating sport that takes your focus off the ice and into the air.  Combining multiple athletic skills, advanced hand eye coordination and superior peripheral balance; Frockey elevates “Traditional Hockey” to a higher level.

Do you have what it takes ?

Frockey05@aol.com

Photography by Stephen Lacko – Belmar, N.J.

Frockey, (Flying Disc Hockey) a new and exotic sports sensation, is seeking investors – sponsors and partners to usher in a new age of sports entertainment.  This is a ground floor opportunity to own a part of sports history. 

Frockey combines the thrills and excitement of Ice Hockey with the hand/eye coordination required to play the long established flying disc sport of “Ultimate”.

Frockey’s rules are designed to allow players the freedom to skate with the intensity of Hockey and, at the same time, the gracefulness  of a Figure Skater.  Add a flying disc into the mix and what you get is the most dynamic sport yet to hit the ice.

Eclipsing all existing professional sports, Frockey is by regulation “co-ed”, requiring mixed teams of men and women on the ice at all times.

Since Frockey is such a unique sport, drawing audience shares from among a multiple array of established sport fan bases, the revenue potential is enormous; if not unlimited.

And unlike other sports franchises i.e., indoor football, arena soccer and minor league baseball, Frockey has no direct competition. 

To learn more about this exciting investment opportunity and to gain access to proprietary marketing strategies, demographics, revenue projections, etc.; contact owner Bob Vidal at Frockey05@aol.com . 

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Copyright 2003,2009

People ask me all the time how or why I came up with Frockey. And, why do I put so much emphasis on sportsmanship and the importance of just having fun. I guess its just the way my mind works. 

As the youngest boy in a family of eight kids, my personal involvement in athletics began as soon as I could run.  Competing with my older siblings and their friends allowed me to excel faster than most of my contemporaries.  All of the Vidal’s were outstanding athletes whether it was wrestling, football, lacrosse or surfing.  But the hallmark of the Vidal family, consistently fostered by our parents, was a strong sense of chivalry and appreciation for good sportsmanship which we’ve all carried into our adult lives.

In my High School years as a member of The Leaders Club, I was a volunteer running gym programs at the YMCA in the city of Orange, NJ.  The Leaders Club was a national youth organization devoted to identifying and developing young leaders.  Moreover, every kid in the club was a stand out in their chosen sport.  We had swimmers, football players, basketball players, wrestlers.  You name it. 

Individually, we were just jocks.  Together, though, we were a team of specialized teachers with a diverse set of skills. We were also highly encouraged by the club to use our imaginations.   As such, The Leaders Club was also a hot bed of athletic innovation. 

In order to keep Saturday morning gym classes from becoming Saturday morning “basketball”, which is all the kids wanted to do, The Leaders would create new  and exciting activities by incorporating elements from different sports with whatever old equipment we happened to find stored away in the closets of the 100 year old building.  These included anything from ancient bowling pins to WWII parachutes. 

In fact, Paul Jackson, the founder of the Orange Leaders Club and my personal mentor, preceded paint ball by thirty years, introducing a version of capture the flag using “Flour Grenades” (baking flour wrapped in wax paper, tied with a rubber band).  These were used for throwing at and knocking your opponents out of the game. We played  in the dark, having created an elaborate obtical course in the gym with vaulting horses and tumbling mats to make it interesting. It was a blast.

As a result of being exposed to such progressive inovation, what we ultimately provided for the kids on those Saturday mornings, most of whom came from poor inner city homes, was FUN.  And we showed them that they didn’t have to limit themselves to only those things that everyone else was doing. 

I really believe it was through these experiences , growing up in a big family where respect for others was the rule and with The Leaders Club where I was given the tools to unlock my imagination, all these things somehow led me  to create Frockey.

“Remember the Duck”

By Bob Vidal

The sport of the future inspired by the past

Frockey game footage from South Mountain Arena in West Orange New Jersey.  We experimented with an optional rule allowing skaters to travel over one blue line with the disc in hand.  The official rule is that you can’t travel over any blue line with disc in hand.  Preferences among the players issplit.  Our decision was made in favor of  preventing too many breakaway’s and  encouraging more passing.

A firsthand account recalling the origins of  Frockey                 

by Bob Vidal
 

On May 23rd 2003, at South Mountain Arena  in West Orange New Jersey,  ten brave hearted  adventurers skated into history, playing the first ever game of a Quixotic new sport called Frockey … Flying Disc Hockey.
   
I invented the game of Frockey simply because someone had to.  It always seemed unfair that the only sports allowed in ice arenas were Hockey and Figure Skating.  The rest of us were relegated to travelling in endless circles with no objective but to avoid falling.  Then I thought, well maybe no one ever tried bringing a flying disc out here.   So, I put pen to paper and devised a game that anyone could play.

After weeks of organization and covert planning, the first Frockey Experiment was a huge success.  Everyone who played was totally stoked by the exotic sensation of throwing disc while gliding effortlessly across the ice.  I immediately knew I’d created something special and totally unique.   The game is extremely challenging and requires multiple athletic skills.  But once you’ve  mastered the basics and experienced the freedom of skating, combined with the beauty of disc flight, you’ll wonder why no one ever thought of it before.

The first game proved that my decision to limit contact between the players was definitely the way to go.  The extreme physicality and peripheral concentration required to simultaneously track a flying disc through the air while skating at high speed leaves players far too vulnerable to allow checking.  The rules were kept simple to keep the action moving with as little down time as possible. 

The flying disc, as it gracefully soars and arches over the ice, draws spectator’s into the action unlike any traditional linear sport where pucks and balls travel primarily in one direction or another.   Throughout the game, driving up-beat tunes play at club volume.  In short time the skaters, the disc and the audience all seem to flow together as one with the music. 

There’s really nothing in the world like it.
 
To quote a phrase, Frockey is beyond ultimate… it’s the hottest game on ice.