, Brunei | Brunei Flying Disc Association (BFDA) , Bulgaria | Bulgarian Flying Disc Informal Federation (BFDA) , Cambodia | Cambodia Flying Disc Association (CFDA) , Cayman Islands | Cayman Islands Ultimate Association (CIUA) , Chile | Asociación Chilena de Ultimate (AChU) , Costa Rica | Costa Rican Ultimate Frisbee Team (Tocadiscos) , Croatia | Croatian Flying Disc Federation (CFDF) , Indonesia | Indonesian Ultimate Discindo (IFDA) , Islamic Republic of Iran | Iranian Flying Disc Association (IRFDA) , Jordan | Jordan Flying Disc Federation (JFDF) , Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan Flying Disc Association (FFDRK) , Kenya | Kenya Flying Disc Association (KFDA) , Lebanon | Lebanon Flying Disc Association (LBN) , Malawi | Malawi Flying Disc Federation (MFDF) , Republic of Moldova | Moldovan Flying Disc Federation (MFDF) , Nicaragua | Federación de Disco Volador de Nicaragua (FEDIVONIC) , Qatar | Ultimate Players Association of Qatar (UPAQ) , Romania | Romania Flying Disc Association (RFDA) , Rwanda | Rwanda Ultimate Frisbee Association (RUFA) , Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan Flying Disc Association (SLFDA) , Tanzania | Tanzanian Flying Disc Association (TFDA) , Uruguay | Ultimate Frisbee Uruguay (UU) , Virgin Islands | US Virgin Islands Ultimate (USVIU) History Flying disc sport rose with the invention of plastic and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. The early years of international flying disc play were dominated by the influence of the International Frisbee Association (IFA) which was founded by Ed Headrick in 1967 as the promotional arm of the Wham-O Manufacturing Company. Many of the international affiliates began as Wham-O distributorships that sponsored tours of well-known Frisbee athletes. Several groups of individual disc event stars like Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner touring Canada in 1972. The brothers Jens and Erwin Velasquez and the team of Peter Bloeme and Dan "Stork" Roddick made several tours of Scandinavia and the rest of Europe in the mid-1970s; Jo Cahow and Stork went to Australia and Japan in 1976 and Victor Malafronte and Monica Lou toured Japan around the same time. Stork—starting as head of the sports marketing arm of the U.S.-based Wham-O in 1975—played a crucial role in encouraging the establishment of national flying disc associations (FDAs) in Sweden, Japan, Australia, and in many of the countries of Western Europe. The FDAs began with freestyle and accuracy competitions but as Ultimate and disc golf caught on, the associations began to broaden their focus. The concept