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Name:
Frank Huguenard
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Born:
Sixth child of
eight and one of seven boys (we could have fielded an
Ultimate team!!)
June
1, 1960
Height 6'0
Weight 180
Education
Purdue
University, Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science, 1982
Personal
Strengths
Inventive & Innovative
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Best ever single paper airplane
design at age 10
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Inventor of
Universal Telecommunications
in 2002 and CEO of
Mediaware Communications,
Inc.
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Creator of Disaster Relief Fund-Raising
Operation (www.bountiful-garden.org)
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Architect of
Dischoops, perhaps the
greatest team sport created in the past 100
years.
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Proprietor of
Crazy Frank's Desi Pizza,
a specialty gourmet pizzeria in Sunnyvale,
California that serves Indian cuisine based
pizzas (currently closed but will someday be
resurrected). Virtually every day we
were told by many customers that our pizza
was the best pizza that people had ever had
in their lives.
Diverse & Comprehensive Silicon Valley Technical Background
Father
of two (Shelby and Sean); coach, mentor and dad
to them.
Frisbee Related Strengths:
A little ownage
on Paul Wilson, Purdue Campus June 1981
Frisbee Throws Invented:
Professional Experience
20+
years working primarily at obscure silicon
valley start-up companies, most of which you've
never heard of, designing and implementing
everything from kernel internals, embedded
systems, word processors, telecommunications,
VoIP, streaming multimedia, video conferencing,
device drivers, middleware, n-tiered
architectures, data bases, instant messaging,
remote access servers, mobile telephony,
robotics, networking, graphics, GUIs, emulators,
routers, compilers, communications protocols,
etc.
Frisbee Experience:
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Over
4,000 games of Ultimate played (League,
Tournament, Practice, Pickup) in over 28 years
At Purdue,
as I had already been playing Frisbee for ten years,
I immediately made the club (impressive only because
the team was fairly popular at the time, there were only
a couple of available spots and a lot of people tried
out).
We had a
strong team and probably our best game was in 1981 when
we beat Windy City, a national powerhouse, on their own
turf. There wasn't a collegiate national series
until after I left Purdue but we probably would have
done well.
I quickly became a defensive specialist on the mark.
Back in the Midwest, where players more or less honored
the rules of the sport, I was known for my hand and
foot blocks. For what it's worth, I've
probably gotten more hand and foot blocks than
anyone.
It was at
Purdue in around 1981 that I began working on a
throw I called the reverse air bounce. I had
always been fascinated by and was a big proponent of
the air bounce and wanted to develop a counterpart
to it. The air bounce was typically thrown
upwind with a downwards thrust and so I began
playing around with a toss that worked downwind with
an upward thrust.
This effort later resulted in
what are now known as the Backhand Lift and the Backhand High
Release (two separate throws, although you can throw a high
release that has a lift component to it as well). As odd as it might seem for throws that are a
staple for many contemporary player's games, when I started
playing Ultimate in the late seventies, those throws simply
did not exist.
(right; Purdue
Beatitudes, Sectionals 1983, Chicago)
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Frisbee throwing began in the late 1960s
(photo of me in my backyard with a Wham-O Fastback® from around
1970)
