Ken Westerfield
Ken Westerfield, Santa Cruz, California, 1970s
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| Full name | Kenneth Ray Westerfield |
| Nickname(s) | Legend |
| Nationality | |
| Born |
May 23, 1947 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Years active | 1963–1988 |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 184 lb (83 kg) |
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| Country | Canada and the United States |
| Sport | Disc sports (Frisbee) |
| Event(s) | Freestyle, ultimate, disc golf, double disc court, distance and overall events (TRC, MTA, and accuracy) |
Ken Westerfield (born May 23, 1947) is a pioneering Frisbee disc player.
In the 1960s, as numbers of young people became alienated from social norms, they resisted and looked for alternatives. They formed what became known as the counterculture. The forms of escape and resistance manifest in many ways including social activism, alternative lifestyles, experimental living through foods, dress, music and alternative recreational activities, including that of throwing a Frisbee. Organized disc sports, began in the 1970s, with promotional efforts from Wham-O and Irwin Toy, a few tournaments and professionals using Frisbee show tours to perform at universities, fairs and sporting events. Disc sports such as freestyle, double disc court, guts, ultimate and disc golf became this sports first events. Two sports, the team sport of disc ultimate and disc golf are very popular worldwide and are now being played semi-professionally. The World Flying Disc Federation, Professional Disc Golf Association, and the Freestyle Players Association are the official rules and sanctioning organizations for flying disc sports worldwide. Major League Ultimate (MLU) and the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL) are the first semi-professional disc ultimate leagues.
Ken Westerfield is a Frisbee (disc) player from the 1960s. A Decade Awards and five-time Hall of Fame inductee in freestyle, ultimate and disc golf. Westerfield produced numerous tournaments, world records, many competitive wins in freestyle, ultimate, disc golf, distance and other individual events in over-all tournaments. Invented freestyle moves, including "body-rolls" and introduced the first freestyle competition at the 1974 Canadian Open Frisbee Championships, Toronto, Canada. Westerfield was one of the original freestylers from the 1960s and used his expertise in several company sponsored touring promotional Frisbee shows for Irwin Toy, (Frisbee distributor in Canada 1972–76), Molson Frisbee Team (1974–77), Adidas Canada (1974-1979), Goodtimes Professional Frisbee Show (1978–82), Orange Crush Frisbee Team (1977–78), Air Canada Frisbee Team (1978–79), Lee Jeans Frisbee Team (1979–80) and the Labatts Schooner Frisbee Team (1983–85).
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