The United States Boomerang Association
Spreading the word about an ultra-modern sport
with pre-historic roots
While the boomerang has existed for at least 15,000 years in Australia, boomerangs as an organized sport began in the 1960s in Australia and the United States. In the United States, the boomerang movement was triggered in part by a milestone article on boomerangs in a 1968 Scientific American, and nurtured by the Smithsonian Institute which sponsored yearly educational workshops in the making and throwing of boomerangs. The United States Boomerang Association(USBA) was formed in 1980. Now the sport is practiced worldwide, with team and individual world championships held every two years.
Based upon boomerang sales estimates by the many cottage industry manufacturers, there are now hundreds of thousands of recreational boomerang throwers across the US and the numbers escalate annually. These people are competitive athletes, recreational throwers, master woodcarvers, casual woodworkers, aeronautical engineers, high school science teachers, artists, anthropologists, and every other walk of life. The USBA brings them all together into a society that offers a forum for discussion, a vast information resource, and news of the boomerang world.
The USBA is a 100% volunteer organization charged with promoting the sport, science, and art of boomerangs in the United States and worldwide. We work toward these goals on many levels, and grooming players for the international circuit is only one of many USBA activites.
The Toss Across America event is the USBA’s premier grassroots effort. The annual event introduces thousands of people to the sport at locations all over the country on the same day. Local boomerang enthusiasts, with the help of the USBA, organize events designed to teach their communities about the sport, science and art of boomerangs.