SUMMER

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 - Boomerang Extravaganza, Howe Meadow, 11:00AM - 4:00PM  (practice field opens at 9:00AM)
Enjoy a fun filled day of boomerang flying instruction and friendly competition.  Whether novice or experience flyer, everyone is invited to come out and throw today.  Flying instructions, use of boomerangs and various competitions will be going on all day.
Fee:  $3 per participant includes use of boomerangs.  Spectators are free.
Extravaganza T-shirts, $8
Prizes will include bottle of real Australian Outback.

ANY DAY, ANY TIME

The Special Event Site at CVNRA is available for practice all year, whenever there is no event scheduled on the field!

Boom Out!

However, to help guarantee our continued excellent and safe record of year-round Boomerang flying fun for everyone, the staff of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area recommends you attend one of The Cleveland Boomerang School classes offered here at the park, or available in your area, before you plan to fly Boomerangs at the Special Event Site.

JUST THE FACTS…

Boomeranging could be the World's Oldest Flying Sport. This precision flying device has an obscure historical record which has hidden the brilliance of this clever flying machine. Through instruction and practice, in about 30 minutes, the program class brings most adults up to speed with the Australian Aboriginal. We are rediscovering a flying machine, learning an art - a craft and a skill - while continuing to educate and extend knowledge of the Boomerang's origins.

Since there exists only one way to fly a Boomerang, the year-round workshops include science and history based instructions on how to construct-fly-read the wind. The Boomerang flyer must constantly adjust throwing force and direction to accommodate the changing and invisible wind, just as the Australian Aboriginal did 10000 years ago!

Since 1982 at the CVNRA:

• 15,000 Adults of all ages have been educated in the art and skill of this ancient sport and construction craft. Fun, Education, Entertainment.
• More than 100 Boomerang Education Workshops, learn-to-fly and construction classes, Tournaments - including the 1987 USBA National.!
• More than 40 Volunteers have donated more than 5000 hours to the CVNRA to develop and implement this program.
• The big small stick book. was published in 1989 to document the results of bringing the Boomerang into a community park setting on a user-controlled and permanent basis.
• This research program found that Boomerang flying is complicated and for persons with an average athletic ability, it can be difficult to master. However, like other recreational activities which can be practiced by an individual or shared by a group (like bowling), the activity is Social and Fun - great exercise and an education.
• Participate, bring your friends to any of the year-round programs.
• You will learn about the World's Oldest Flying Sport.
• Enjoy flying.
• Appreciate how the Australian Aboriginal combined the physics of the airfoil with proper force and knowledge.
• To enjoy the fun of human powered and controlled flight.

For further information, contact Ranger Vickie Mates, (800) 257-9477.

Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area Map