by Boompop | May 27, 2018 | Mta boomerangs, science
Why use a carbon fiber boomerang? The answer is not simple, since there are many reasons. In competitions you can find many competitors that use carbon boomerangs and others do not, specially for MTA and Long Distance. I will try to explain what carbon fiber is, and...
by Boompop | May 16, 2018 | Interviews, Mta boomerangs, Uncategorised
Manuel Schütz has been rising the bar in the boomerang sport for so many years: his Long Ditance records during the 90´s and then his individual World Champion Title in Australia 2000 were just the beggining of a legendary carreer. Manuel has been a reference for many...
by Boompop | Apr 18, 2018 | Mta boomerangs
Throwing an MTA boomerang is a joyful experience. The nature of its flight, the hovering, the running, the catch. All these things make throwing a MTA boomerangs so special. Last weekend I met my team mates in Switzerland for a training camp, as a process for warming...
by Boompop | Mar 18, 2018 | Mta boomerangs, science
The following article has been written by Manuel Schütz after the Autorotation discussion on twobladers came up. The ideas and concepts explained are revealing, but the open questions as well. The full article is available for downloading in the button at the end of...
by Boompop | Mar 10, 2018 | Mta boomerangs, science
Bernoulli and Isaac Newton Can we merge this two approaches for explaining lift? It is true that air, when surrounding an airfoil travels faster on one side than on the other, the pressure of air in the area where it moves faster is smaller than in the area where it...
by Boompop | Feb 16, 2018 | History, Interviews, Mta boomerangs, science
1. How did you get involved with boomerangs? The first time I saw a boomerang in flight was in Panama when I was 7 years old. Older boys had a cross stick that flew really well, but they would not let me throw it. When I was 9 years old (1959), my mother bought me a...
by Boompop | Feb 10, 2018 | History, Mta boomerangs, science
The concept behind the Braket MTA or better < Bra | Ket > MTA. I won MTA at my very first boomerang tournament and got hooked by it. Right after I came home from Viareggio 2001, I started making my own. After some attempts using birch plywood, I started using...
by Boompop | Feb 9, 2018 | Mta boomerangs, science
A closer look to a hovering MTA Boomerang Lift Let´s start with the basics: a boomerang wing, like an airplane wing, can generate lift as it moves through air, or, equivalently, as air streams around it. Lift depends on the pressure difference between the top and the...
by Boompop | Jan 27, 2018 | Interviews
Alex Opri is by far one of the most solid throwers out there. World Boomerang Champion in 2010, he has been away of the throwing fields for a few years but now he is back, strong and smart as usual. The first time I saw Alex throwing was in Rome. I was shocked by his...
by Boompop | Jan 8, 2018 | Interviews
Fridolin Frost has been a reference for boomerang throwers for more tha 20 years. An exquisite and powerful thrower athlete who have very high standars in boomerang competitions. He is also a prolific boomerang designer of competition boomerangs: The Icerunner fast...
