Research we found interesting
This list is papers we've stumbled upon and read, it is not exhaustive! We hope you find something interesting in here. If you spot a piece we should add to the collection, let us know at [email protected]!
Athleticism (fitness, load, injury)
- Yoopat et al., (2025), Comparative Analysis of Handgrip Strength and Handgrip Strength-to-BMI Ratio Among Male Thai Ultimate Frisbee Athletes, Male University Athletes, and Male University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
- De Castro (2025), Ultimate Frisbee as an Alternative Team Sport for PATHâFIT 4
review of Ultimate for youth fitness and coordination - Abustan (2024), Effectiveness of Fartlek Training in Anaerobic Performance of Ultimate Frisbee Players
- Palmer (2022), Physical Demands of Elite Women's Ultimate Frisbee Between Halves and Across Matches in an International Tournament
- Kajiki et al. (2021), Physical, Physiological, and Technical Demands in SmallâSided Ultimate Frisbee Games
- Pulido et al. (2020), Epidemiology of Injuries in Ultimate (Frisbee): A Systematic Review
- Hess et al. (2020), Descriptive Epidemiology of Injuries in Professional Ultimate Frisbee
- Koebnle & Seiberl (2020), Functional Adaptations in Isokinetic Performance and Shoulder Mobility in Elite Ultimate Frisbee Players
- Byra & Czernicki, (2020), The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation in
Patients with Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis - Krustrup & Mohr (2015), Physical Demands in Competitive Ultimate Frisbee
physical match demands - âUltimate Frisbeeâ (injury overview chapter, MusculoskeletalKey)
Skills / Technicalâtactical
- Miller & Sandholz (2025), A Machine Learning Approach to Player Value and Decision Making in Professional Ultimate Frisbee
- Lam et al (2021), State Transition Modeling in Ultimate Frisbee: Adaptation of a Promising Method for Performance Analysis in Invasion Sports
- review of the state of knowledge
Weatherwax et al. (2015), Leicht et al. (2019), Madueno et al. (2017), Palmer et al. (2020) â physiological and metabolic responses (summarised in 2021 SR) - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.664511/fullÂ
- review of the state of knowledge
- Kajiki et al. (2021), Physical, Physiological, and Technical Demands in SmallâSided Ultimate Frisbee Games
- Latinjak et al. (2018), GoalâDirected SelfâTalk Used During Technical Skill Acquisition: The Case of Novice Ultimate Frisbee Players
selfâtalk during throwing skill acquisition - Silva et al., (2016), Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: manipulating player numbers shapes behaviours during football smallâsided games
- Akinbola et al. (2015), Koeble & Seiberl (2020),
- throwing biomechanics & disc trajectory
- see citations in Lam et al. (2021)
- Vilar et al., (2014), The influence of pitch dimensions on performance during small-sided and conditioned soccer games
- Davids et al. (2013), How Small-Sided and Conditioned Games
Enhance Acquisition of Movement
and Decision-Making Skills - Wulf, (2012), Attentional focus and motor learning: a review of 15 years Balague et al., (2012), Overview of Complex Systems in Sport
- Bennett et al., (2010), Structural Organization of Practice: Effects of Practicing Under Different Informational Constraints on the Acquisition of One-Handed Catching Skill
- Zentgraf & Munzert (2009), Effects of attentional-focus instructions on movement kinematics
- AraĂșjo et al., (2006), The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport
- Handford et al, (1997), Skill acquisition in sport: Some applications of an
evolving practice ecology
Mentalâgame / Psychology
- Amoroso et al. (2024), Assessing Ethical Behavior and SelfâControl in Elite Ultimate
- Amoroso et al. (2021), Teamwork: A Systematic Review of Implications From Sociological Constructs for Research and Practice in Ultimate Frisbee Games
- Piepiora et al. (2020), Personality traits of Ultimate Frisbee players (neuroticism differences)
- Latinjak et al. (2019), Methodological / conceptual reply on selfâtalk (includes Ultimate context)
- Latinjak et al. (2018), GoalâDirected SelfâTalk in Novice Ultimate Frisbee Players
- MĂ©ndezâGimĂ©nez et al. (2015), Sport Education vs Traditional Teaching in Ultimate units (achievement goals, needs, sportsmanship)
- https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2018_ChuZhang_EPER.pdfÂ
- (lists the UltimateâFrisbee unit and outcomes)
- Original Spanishâlanguage PDF is referenced inside the teamworkÂ
- Smith et al. (2013), Differentiated Transformational Leadership Inventory validation in Ultimate (often referenced via Callow et al.; Ultimate sample)
- Callow et al. (2009), Measurement of Transformational Leadership and its Relationship with Team Cohesion and Performance Level (Ultimate sample)Â
- samples ~350 ultimate players
- https://ipep.bangor.ac.uk/docs/DTLI%20sport.pdf  Â
Coaching / Pedagogy
- De Castro (2025) â Ultimate Frisbee as an Alternative Team Sport for PATHâFIT 4 (curricular / PE positioning)
- Wilhelmsson (2017) â The Relationship Between Coach and Peer Leadership, and Team Cohesion (includes discussion of Callow et al. Ultimate data)
- GilâArias et al. (2017) â Impact of a Hybrid TGfUâSport Education Unit on Student Outcomes (includes Ultimate)
- MĂ©ndezâGimĂ©nez et al. (2015) â Sport Education vs Traditional Teaching in an UltimateâFrisbee unit (achievement & friendship goals, fair play)
- Perspectiva de enseñanzaâaprendizaje del Ultimate Frisbee a partir del modelo TGfU (teaching/learning perspective for UF via TGfU)
Other (sociology, ethics, Spirit of the Game, conceptual)
- Amoroso et al. (2021) â Teamwork, Spirit of the Game and Communication (systematic review â core conceptual anchor)
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712904/full
- Thesis / longâform version at:Â https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/516391754.pdf
- Crocket (2013) â âThis is menâs ultimateâ: (Re)creating multiple masculinities in Ultimate Frisbee
- Crocket (2012) â Playing with ethics? (ethnographic work on SOTG and ethics in Ultimate)
- https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstreams/0809a340-c7d4-49d1-8d17-d974fe63210d/downloadÂ
- (collection including this work)
- Griggs (various, 2009â2011) â Spirit of the Game, social control, and selfârefereeing in UK Ultimate
- TGfUâbased conceptual essay for Ultimate teaching (Brazilian journal â TGfU lesson plans)
