now i know what a dog feels like when he thinks you gonna throw the Ball/Stick in my mind im always like "OK NOW hes gonna throw it " waaaaaiting..... waaaaaaaiting....
I remember getting one of these as a kid in the early to mid 90s. Never in a million years did I think that triangle was going to come back to me when I threw it, but it suuuuuuuure did. Years later I exclusively brew my coffee in an AeroPress--and am having some right now. You've had quite an influence on my life, Alan! PS, my kids love the Orbiter as much as I did when I was their age.
Just bought an orbiter recently, I can't get it to come back to me at all.. I followed his tips, maybe I need to bend it? Not sure what I'm doing wrong
I have 5 boomerangs and the Aerobie is the only one I cannot get to return yet. I've been experimenting with it for about 2 weeks now. Last two times I tried was in no wind conditions in order to eliminate that factor. After staying out until 5 am last night trying again, here are my thoughts and discoveries. When I throw it following the directions it comes with (which are basically the directions in this video) it makes half an arch and plummets. Overall, if I throw it at 30 degree angle it loses altitude rapidly and can barely make half a circle. One of the comments under another demo video recommended throwing at 45 degree angle. That helps a bit with the altitude problem, but it still loses height around 3/4 into the circle. On a few occasions I made up for that loss in altitude by throwing slightly above the horizon, but still not a full circle. All demo videos including this one, regardless of what they say, seem to be throwing slightly upward. Logically, trying to bend the ends and the flips up seems like it should solve the problem, but doesn't make a difference. No matter how much I try to bend them up, they don't seem to stay up. Today I might've even tried bending them a bit too hard since I heard a slight crack from the plastic. At this point I'm even thinking maybe the one I bought was defective and am thinking about buying another one. As far as the strength - I'm an athlete so I tried anything from soft throws to throwing it as hard as I can to the point where my arm would start hurting, but that doesn't do it. The successful demo videos seem like there is almost minimal effort in the throwing motion. Any troubleshooting tips?
Hello Martin, If you will post a video of you throwing the Orbiter (on youtube, or dropbox). Then post a link to it here. I'll do my best to suggest corrections. Are you throwing with your right hand? Where are you located? Best regards, Alan Adler
a1257 Thanks for the quick reply! I made some progress last night by placing a marker on the ground about 100 ft from me and aiming at it. To my surprise, lowering the aim like that resulted in the slight elevation needed to make a full circle. I'll keep at it and see how it goes.
Great explanation and demo Alan. I've owned a few aerobie rings over the years but never an orbiter. My son just received one as a gift so we're off to try it out. Glad I stopped here first.
Man, dude, i bought this boomerang yesterday and im struggling quiet a bit after a short experience with a tri-stand (not trinagle) boomerang. This man just throws it so easy, great explanation, great vid!
Got my first one ever just the other day and even though I was terrible, I had a lot of fun chasing it around regardless. Looking forward to giving in a fresh go! Thanks for the video!
So, I've had another three outings in my park outside and of the dozens of throws I did in 45 mins today, very few came back even vaguely near me. I mean, many, many throws that went into the dirt; others that hit the dirt and pinwheeled away along the ground, many yards away; sidearm throws (out of desperation and experimentation) that went up....and down...also many yards in front of me; one where I thought the trees had eaten it; several that turned frisbee-like and settled like a flying saucer 50 yrds away from me (that was actually progress after all the other throws). Finally, I managed to get two, TWO, to come near enough that I could chase them down and caught one of them. I don't even know what I did right to get that throw correct! I feel like I am having WAY more trouble than the average person with this Orbiter, but I am willing to keep trying; the cardio at the very least is worth it. Persistence, persistence, persistence!
@@bonkers46 I cant get them back for shit either. Ive always liked frisbees and I can throw one pretty good but I cant for the life of me get this thing to turn more than like 90 degrees. You can throw it just like a normal frisbee too, which is what I started off doing before looking for a video like this. But even after changing the technique I still cant get it around >.< Im sure it takes some patience and repetition though so will keep trying. Like you said its good cardio chasing them down regardless :D Im just worried one of the wings are gonna break off from hitting concrete side-on over and over again lol its already showing some cracks
He invented this ? That’s crazy we had this at my school in 8th grade. Best outdoor toy EVER. I threw it underhand , and it just goes super high and then back down to u
Thanks for the video. I have one and never could get it to return. I'll try it now that I have seen your video. I love your Aerobie Frisbee. Amazing and smooth.
My buds and I found one in a tree the other day. I started throwing it totally flat at the hip, like you would to skip a stone on water. Thing would curve straight up like 100ft, then come straight down and curve again right before the ground. It's like it was going up and down some invisible quarterpipe. Lots of fun.
I have found that if you greatly bend up the wing tips and throw with as much force as you can muster. It is able to get the aerobie to fly in a large almost treble clef or vertical figure 8 path. Very cool and if experimented with enough I've had it come directly back to me.
After much consternation, I started bending the wings tips today. A bit. That's when it started to vaguely start turning back. I'll REALLY bend them up after seeing your post. Thx!
I just recently found my old boomerang, just like the one in the video and I could quite get it to work. Hopefully following the techniques of this video it can help me.
Hello Chris. I visited your beautiful country and enjoyed your friendly people in 1973. Auckland, Wellington, Mt. Cook, Lake Manapouri and Milford Sound.
Thanks for the reply and compliment Mr Alder, and pleased you survived the sandflies and likely rain to appreciate Manapouri and Milford Sound. My one visit to Yellowstone Park was the highlight to my recent stay in your beautiful part of the world.
@@a1257 Hi Alan, I've been struggling to find genuine, Made in USA Aerobie products for a couple years now. It seems they have outsourced manufacturing to China, and the quality and performance isn't the same anymore. It's very unfortunate. My last Orbiter (made in USA) was fantastic and I'm struggling to find a replacement. Do you know where I can find non-Chinese Aerobie products to buy? Thanks.
I can't get the thing to even come *close* to a return flight. I've tried a number of different holds and the one in the video. Light throw, hard throw, with a breeze, no breeze. I've tried about every single degree of angle I have 3 other styles and started throwing as a kid but this thing flys out in a near straight line or rolls over and flys into the ground and then I have to go get it.. it KIND OF comes back, like a minimum of 40 feet from me if I throw it as *hard as possible* which is no fun at all. It's the second to worst product I've gotten from areobie. #1 was the flash flight large size. It stress fractures around where the screws are holding in the led assembly (which is huge) in the first few catches... I own 4 of the super disks including the purple center and yellow edge when they were better made and had colors. Product quality is 100% on a downward slide now. Stuff feels weaker and the grips look much more ruff and not a precise as the older versions that made me a fan of areobie. Pretty disappointing
Any right-handed boomerang can be thrown with the left hand as follows: Hold it in your left hand and position it above your right shoulder with the upper surface of the boomerang facing the top of your head, leaning about 30 degrees right of vertical. Now throw it forward. You can find instructions online.
I bought this to throw around with my daughter before I realized it only works as intended for right handed throwers, which we're not. It's a shame it doesn't come in a left-handed model.
@@boredincan No, right-handed. Trying to throw it with the left hand so that it returns to you requires a bizarre, awkward throwing technique. You can't just freely throw it with your left hand as you can with your right hand.
Alan, out of interest did you invent the circular aerobie as well? Well done on your success by the way. I use to own a whizzback albeit it was a bluebird product
I invented the Bluebird Whizzback and licensed that design, first to Wham-O which they sold as the Whamorang, then later to Bluebird. Bluebird also made Aerobie rings under license from me.
a1257 no way, that’s fascinating. The Whizzback was my favourite looking product of the three. I actually tried to buy one last night on EBay, the seller had three used ones but I missed them. I hope you have one of each on the walls at home!
fantastic product, but only if it is made in Palo Alto.....I recently bought two of these boomerangs that were made in China from a company called Spinmaster and these boomerangs do not fly as well as the ones that were made in the USA...They look the same but do not fly back to you the same.....I owned 10 of these boomerangs that were made in the USA and all of them flew great....The packaging on the box says you can throw them left-handed which is not true even the Alan Adler say in his video that it can only be thrown right-handed...If possible get one made the USA
I think the Chinese molded Orbiter can be tuned. The tips should be bent upward slightly. It's best for the Orbiter to lie flat near the end of the Orbit, just before you catch it. Bend them up more to accelerate that tendency to lie flat. Bend the down more to retard that tendency.
I lost one on the roof of a gazebo at my local park. Had to get it down... let's just say, cops may have been called on a man moving tables and climbing on a roof... but I got it back! Haven't gotten my $10 out of it yet! Haha. I just can't get that angle right!
Jose Drummond, a professor of Environmental Science in Brazil, was introduced to the Orbiter while attending University of Wisconsin. He found it on a roof. He went on to set a record of over 700 consecutive catches without a miss.
a tale from my nitwit file one day I went to a parking lot of a stadium near where I work there were ZERO cars in the parking lot so I threw the Orbiter as it was coming back a woman drove over from the other side of the stadium not sure how she saw it but she got scared and almost crashed into the medial strip at the exit if she had crashed I am sure the cops would have worked me over for being a nitwit
Hello Aimmie, Left-handers hold a right-handed boomerang in their left hand, elbow bent, and the boomerang above their right shoulder and leaning to the right about 30 degrees from vertical. Then throw straight ahead, at constant height and maintaining the 30 degree angle at release. Boomerang seller / maker Ted Bailey is left handed and can make left or right handed boomerangs, but he told me he prefers to throw as described above, with a right-handed rang.
No.I've been throwing frisbees for over 35 years and thus have not inconsiderable experience. I cannot get this thing to work, and have to say that the printed instructions, as well as the intstruction on this video, are no help at all. In fact, it ranks as the most annoying and overrated flying toy I've ever used. Also, this video is particularly bothersome because it has such little advice on how to throw, and no demonstration of how not to throw, which would be more useful than sandbagging about how well it works. Perhaps the designer might try again and spend a lot more time to make a better video, which would reflect the enormous amount of time the users of this orbiter put in to figure out how to make it work. For that matter, those commenters who wax rhapsodic about its virtues could also make an instructional video themselves. It would be much appreciated.
I have one of these things too and its useless if you don't trim it, you have to bend the ends up and it will actually start acting like a boomerang, hope this helps!
Hi Max, I'm sorry you're having difficulty. But the Orbiter throw is the same as a boomerang throw. So perhaps you can learn from other boomerang teachers. Or, we could meet in the San Francisco Area for a lesson.
All boomerang are "handed". But you can throw a right handed boomerang with your left hand as follows. Hold it in your left hand and draw back with your forearm diagonally across your chest and the boomerang next to your right ear and leaning 30 degrees right of vertical. Then swing your arm forward to throw. Ted Bailey has won contests with this throw.
It can be done with wood. But plastics that are light enough to float, bend so easily that they won't keep their tune. Try making an Orbiter out of 1/8" plywood.
THIS is why the Aeropress is so horribly underdeveloped as a product line - Alan is still busy doing Aerobee demonstrations in 2016 instead of improving and building upon his largest success to date. Now that Hasbro owns everything but the Aeropress you'd think we'd see more than just the Aeropress Go model. Thumb twiddler.
@@TheLarryBrown except I never said those words. Weird that you felt like you had to create a strawman argument in order to make your comment. Interpreting my comments as an attack takes a real big stretch, so you just went ahead and just made shit up whole cloth. Nice work, twat.
3:41 That face is all about: "I invented this. It works just they way it's supposed to. All those haters can go home."
Just wanted to see him throw it
The same,
Skip to the very end.
This guy is responsible for so many fun memories in my past. Love the Aerobie.
now i know what a dog feels like when he thinks you gonna throw the Ball/Stick
in my mind im always like "OK NOW hes gonna throw it " waaaaaiting..... waaaaaaaiting....
I remember getting one of these as a kid in the early to mid 90s. Never in a million years did I think that triangle was going to come back to me when I threw it, but it suuuuuuuure did. Years later I exclusively brew my coffee in an AeroPress--and am having some right now. You've had quite an influence on my life, Alan!
PS, my kids love the Orbiter as much as I did when I was their age.
ditto, hours spent in a field throwing one of these around in the early 90's. Never knew when I looked up an AeroPress it would lead back to this!
I just got one I'm 13
this. what a hero.
Just bought an orbiter recently, I can't get it to come back to me at all.. I followed his tips, maybe I need to bend it? Not sure what I'm doing wrong
We old inventors love posts like yours. Thank you.
Alan
Well done sir, fantastic invention. Excellent.
This man walking back after getting the flying triangle like a bad ass
How about an actual throw during a demonstration of how to throw?
@@g4life78 who gives a f***?
I have 5 boomerangs and the Aerobie is the only one I cannot get to return yet. I've been experimenting with it for about 2 weeks now. Last two times I tried was in no wind conditions in order to eliminate that factor. After staying out until 5 am last night trying again, here are my thoughts and discoveries. When I throw it following the directions it comes with (which are basically the directions in this video) it makes half an arch and plummets. Overall, if I throw it at 30 degree angle it loses altitude rapidly and can barely make half a circle. One of the comments under another demo video recommended throwing at 45 degree angle. That helps a bit with the altitude problem, but it still loses height around 3/4 into the circle. On a few occasions I made up for that loss in altitude by throwing slightly above the horizon, but still not a full circle. All demo videos including this one, regardless of what they say, seem to be throwing slightly upward. Logically, trying to bend the ends and the flips up seems like it should solve the problem, but doesn't make a difference. No matter how much I try to bend them up, they don't seem to stay up. Today I might've even tried bending them a bit too hard since I heard a slight crack from the plastic. At this point I'm even thinking maybe the one I bought was defective and am thinking about buying another one. As far as the strength - I'm an athlete so I tried anything from soft throws to throwing it as hard as I can to the point where my arm would start hurting, but that doesn't do it. The successful demo videos seem like there is almost minimal effort in the throwing motion. Any troubleshooting tips?
Hello Martin,
If you will post a video of you throwing the Orbiter (on youtube, or dropbox). Then post a link to it here. I'll do my best to suggest corrections. Are you throwing with your right hand? Where are you located?
Best regards,
Alan Adler
a1257 Thanks for the quick reply! I made some progress last night by placing a marker on the ground about 100 ft from me and aiming at it. To my surprise, lowering the aim like that resulted in the slight elevation needed to make a full circle. I'll keep at it and see how it goes.
@@martin984 hi, did you made it finally?
@@martin984 I'm having trouble also, any updates?
Not design for lefthanders
Great explanation and demo Alan. I've owned a few aerobie rings over the years but never an orbiter. My son just received one as a gift so we're off to try it out. Glad I stopped here first.
Just got one today tell me if it works😁😁
Man, dude, i bought this boomerang yesterday and im struggling quiet a bit after a short experience with a tri-stand (not trinagle) boomerang. This man just throws it so easy, great explanation, great vid!
Got my first one ever just the other day and even though I was terrible, I had a lot of fun chasing it around regardless. Looking forward to giving in a fresh go! Thanks for the video!
So, I've had another three outings in my park outside and of the dozens of throws I did in 45 mins today, very few came back even vaguely near me. I mean, many, many throws that went into the dirt; others that hit the dirt and pinwheeled away along the ground, many yards away; sidearm throws (out of desperation and experimentation) that went up....and down...also many yards in front of me; one where I thought the trees had eaten it; several that turned frisbee-like and settled like a flying saucer 50 yrds away from me (that was actually progress after all the other throws). Finally, I managed to get two, TWO, to come near enough that I could chase them down and caught one of them. I don't even know what I did right to get that throw correct!
I feel like I am having WAY more trouble than the average person with this Orbiter, but I am willing to keep trying; the cardio at the very least is worth it. Persistence, persistence, persistence!
@@bonkers46 I agree, I'm having lots of trouble as well, any tips? are you getting them back to you every time now?
@@bonkers46 I cant get them back for shit either. Ive always liked frisbees and I can throw one pretty good but I cant for the life of me get this thing to turn more than like 90 degrees. You can throw it just like a normal frisbee too, which is what I started off doing before looking for a video like this. But even after changing the technique I still cant get it around >.< Im sure it takes some patience and repetition though so will keep trying. Like you said its good cardio chasing them down regardless :D Im just worried one of the wings are gonna break off from hitting concrete side-on over and over again lol its already showing some cracks
Had 2 of theses over the passed 4 years and they are truely great fun. Great when you nail the perfect throw.
Yeah. That's the tricky part.
He invented this ? That’s crazy we had this at my school in 8th grade. Best outdoor toy EVER. I threw it underhand , and it just goes super high and then back down to u
Thanks for the video, Mr. Adler - enjoy the Aerobie very much. Congrats on such a great series of products!
Hell yeah. They're the best.
Thanks for the video. I have one and never could get it to return. I'll try it now that I have seen your video. I love your Aerobie Frisbee. Amazing and smooth.
I need to get my act together. I've owned these for years and have only caught it a few times.
Haha! Yep. Same here.
3:36 is when inventor finally chucks the Orbiter!
Cheers bud 👍🏻
This and the ring are still fantastic. Getting ready to get my 10 y/o into it just like I was.
Also...I loved you in MASH.
That was another Alan
Alan
My buds and I found one in a tree the other day. I started throwing it totally flat at the hip, like you would to skip a stone on water. Thing would curve straight up like 100ft, then come straight down and curve again right before the ground. It's like it was going up and down some invisible quarterpipe. Lots of fun.
I use the Orbiter since decades; love it.
Thank You Very Much!
I'm getting powerful dad-vibes from these instructions
wow! you're the man! I bought mine back in the year 1993 at toys R us in Fallschurch VA
Best Orbiter tutorial, I tell lots of people to search for this specific video!
I have found that if you greatly bend up the wing tips and throw with as much force as you can muster. It is able to get the aerobie to fly in a large almost treble clef or vertical figure 8 path. Very cool and if experimented with enough I've had it come directly back to me.
After much consternation, I started bending the wings tips today. A bit. That's when it started to vaguely start turning back. I'll REALLY bend them up after seeing your post. Thx!
Respect Mr. Adler, I love Aerobie freesbies!
Awesome memory of my childhood! Fantastic
Good tutorial. Thanks for the upload!
That was a blah yet educational video. Great invention and awesome beach toy though! I got 3! Multi-Throw is a blast!
I just recently found my old boomerang, just like the one in the video and I could quite get it to work. Hopefully following the techniques of this video it can help me.
I just bought one today :) I'm so excited to try it when it's not raining out🙂
Awesome product Alan Adler, currently entertaining school children in Auckland, New Zealand. Thanks.
Hello Chris. I visited your beautiful country and enjoyed your friendly people in 1973. Auckland, Wellington, Mt. Cook, Lake Manapouri and Milford Sound.
Thanks for the reply and compliment Mr Alder, and pleased you survived the sandflies and likely rain to appreciate Manapouri and Milford Sound. My one visit to Yellowstone Park was the highlight to my recent stay in your beautiful part of the world.
Thank you grandma
Just ordered mine ;)
Very good explanation, thank you!
Great video Alan and so happy to see you throw and catch it at the end.
Jose Drummond, a professor of environmental science in Brazil, has caught it over 700 times without a miss. My record 75.
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@@a1257 I always play with my nephews. As a Brazilian I was very curious to know more about this
@@a1257 Hi Alan, I've been struggling to find genuine, Made in USA Aerobie products for a couple years now. It seems they have outsourced manufacturing to China, and the quality and performance isn't the same anymore. It's very unfortunate. My last Orbiter (made in USA) was fantastic and I'm struggling to find a replacement.
Do you know where I can find non-Chinese Aerobie products to buy? Thanks.
Sir
If you had ANY idea how much time I spent throwing your invention to my dad, or what it means now that he is gone you would be amazed.
I got one for Christmas this year 😁
My son and I are so frustrated with this toy! We just cannot get it to work! So annoying bcuz i want to play with him
I can't get the thing to even come *close* to a return flight. I've tried a number of different holds and the one in the video. Light throw, hard throw, with a breeze, no breeze. I've tried about every single degree of angle I have 3 other styles and started throwing as a kid but this thing flys out in a near straight line or rolls over and flys into the ground and then I have to go get it.. it KIND OF comes back, like a minimum of 40 feet from me if I throw it as *hard as possible* which is no fun at all. It's the second to worst product I've gotten from areobie. #1 was the flash flight large size. It stress fractures around where the screws are holding in the led assembly (which is huge) in the first few catches... I own 4 of the super disks including the purple center and yellow edge when they were better made and had colors. Product quality is 100% on a downward slide now. Stuff feels weaker and the grips look much more ruff and not a precise as the older versions that made me a fan of areobie. Pretty disappointing
Even after all these years the original aerobie is still the best flying ring on the planet. That's quite an accomplishment. Well done sir. 🥏
Apparently he invented this while waiting around on set when filming M.A.S.H... 😀
He was great on MASH.
Thanks mr Adler!
Any right-handed boomerang can be thrown with the left hand as follows:
Hold it in your left hand and position it above your right shoulder with the upper surface of the boomerang facing the top of your head, leaning about 30 degrees right of vertical. Now throw it forward. You can find instructions online.
It's very hard to get any real power or precision throwing like that.
I just bought one few days ago and it went over the neighbors house and I had to crawl through the fence to get it and the other neighbors too
Thanks from Australia
That man yeeted that
10/10 i hit myself in the face
How's the 'rang?
@@TheLarryBrown rangs doing fine
My son has a aerobie orbiter boomerang and he to throw like a frisby
What about the instructions to bend the tips? I didn’t see a way to do this but the packages tells me to.
Scroll up for comments on tuning Chinese-molded Orbiter.
Do you have to be 13 and older to throw it Cuz I’m 11 and I throw it good
We'll file your comment under "People who answer their own questions."
this is a serious question, Can the aerobie Orbiter be thrown as a left handed boomerang as well
Dude, Just THROW the Damn Thing already, GEEEEz
I bought this to throw around with my daughter before I realized it only works as intended for right handed throwers, which we're not. It's a shame it doesn't come in a left-handed model.
Its ambidextrous
@@boredincan No, right-handed. Trying to throw it with the left hand so that it returns to you requires a bizarre, awkward throwing technique. You can't just freely throw it with your left hand as you can with your right hand.
Alan, out of interest did you invent the circular aerobie as well? Well done on your success by the way. I use to own a whizzback albeit it was a bluebird product
I invented the Bluebird Whizzback and licensed that design, first to Wham-O which they sold as the Whamorang, then later to Bluebird. Bluebird also made Aerobie rings under license from me.
a1257 no way, that’s fascinating. The Whizzback was my favourite looking product of the three. I actually tried to buy one last night on EBay, the seller had three used ones but I missed them. I hope you have one of each on the walls at home!
fantastic product, but only if it is made in Palo Alto.....I recently bought two of these boomerangs that were made in China from a company called Spinmaster and these boomerangs do not fly as well as the ones that were made in the USA...They look the same but do not fly back to you the same.....I owned 10 of these boomerangs that were made in the USA and all of them flew great....The packaging on the box says you can throw them left-handed which is not true even the Alan Adler say in his video that it can only be thrown right-handed...If possible get one made the USA
how do you find one in US, I've heard the same thing ones made in china dont work
I think the Chinese molded Orbiter can be tuned. The tips should be bent upward slightly. It's best for the Orbiter to lie flat near the end of the Orbit, just before you catch it. Bend them up more to accelerate that tendency to lie flat. Bend the down more to retard that tendency.
Did Whamo ever make a left-handed aerobie?
Could you make left hand version😢
It doesn't work! Help me
Do you find it best to play with yourself as well
Did you get out of junior high school yet?
I lost one on the roof of a gazebo at my local park. Had to get it down... let's just say, cops may have been called on a man moving tables and climbing on a roof... but I got it back! Haven't gotten my $10 out of it yet! Haha. I just can't get that angle right!
dont give up
musiccisum69 I finally got It! But the funny thing is, my 5 year old daughter got it to somewhat return on her first throw! Haha.
Jose Drummond, a professor of Environmental Science in Brazil, was introduced to the Orbiter while attending University of Wisconsin. He found it on a roof. He went on to set a record of over 700 consecutive catches without a miss.
We know that. Our problem is not so much getting it to return 700 times as it is getting it back once.
I can throw this straighter than a football, thing flies absolutely vertical like 10 ft high, then hits the ground running!
I appreciated his instructions but I wish they were over examples of throwing it wrong and throwing it correctly
He doesn't want to chase it and can only afford one demonstartor model.
they hurt a bit if hits you in head.
I may have to get one of these cause I can't find anyone to throw the Aerobie Pro (which I prefer) with me.
I was just thinking that same thing.
A genius
does the same apply for left handed throws?
I have a left handed friend who has trouble with this thing
I guess the point you are trying to make is that you have friends.
What is the diameter of the circle if you give it a moderate toss at the right angle and elevation?
About 70 to 90 feet.
Alan
Triangle doesn't fly like the aerobie
I'm left handed its hard to throw left hand ☹
a tale from my nitwit file one day I went to a parking lot of a stadium near where I work there were ZERO cars in the parking lot so I threw the Orbiter as it was coming back a woman drove over from the other side of the stadium not sure how she saw it but she got scared and almost crashed into the medial strip at the exit if she had crashed I am sure the cops would have worked me over for being a nitwit
I tried this with my AeroPress but it never came back.
Maybe you're using too coarse a grind!! LOL
Alan
Wait.... Is he the college professor?! :0
I taught engineering part time for many years.
so this if only for right-handers?????
Hello Aimmie,
Left-handers hold a right-handed boomerang in their left hand, elbow bent, and the boomerang above their right shoulder and leaning to the right about 30 degrees from vertical. Then throw straight ahead, at constant height and maintaining the 30 degree angle at release. Boomerang seller / maker Ted Bailey is left handed and can make left or right handed boomerangs, but he told me he prefers to throw as described above, with a right-handed rang.
That sounds very awkward.
Someone tell this guy he's pronouncing it incorrectly
Sux there isn't a lefty model
Omg just throw the damn thing
dude...speed it up
Alan we should work together on a project.
Please send a snail mail letter to me at AeroPress, Inc in Palo Alto. The address is in the website.
Victor Poulin Hi I like your channel
As well as boomerangs I have a passion to throwing boomerangs
@@tinaberg2332 บกบกพกลกถกลก
Really?
No.I've been throwing frisbees for over 35 years and thus have not inconsiderable experience. I cannot get this thing to work, and have to say that the printed instructions, as well as the intstruction on this video, are no help at all. In fact, it ranks as the most annoying and overrated flying toy I've ever used. Also, this video is particularly bothersome because it has such little advice on how to throw, and no demonstration of how not to throw, which would be more useful than sandbagging about how well it works. Perhaps the designer might try again and spend a lot more time to make a better video, which would reflect the enormous amount of time the users of this orbiter put in to figure out how to make it work. For that matter, those commenters who wax rhapsodic about its virtues could also make an instructional video themselves. It would be much appreciated.
I have one of these things too and its useless if you don't trim it, you have to bend the ends up and it will actually start acting like a boomerang, hope this helps!
Hi Max,
I'm sorry you're having difficulty. But the Orbiter throw is the same as a boomerang throw. So perhaps you can learn from other boomerang teachers. Or, we could meet in the San Francisco Area for a lesson.
Hahahah....Yeah! I'll be there!
I was hoping for a throw and catch in a single take following the talk. Disappointed.
Are you saying us lefties can't use this?
All boomerang are "handed". But you can throw a right handed boomerang with your left hand as follows. Hold it in your left hand and draw back with your forearm diagonally across your chest and the boomerang next to your right ear and leaning 30 degrees right of vertical. Then swing your arm forward to throw. Ted Bailey has won contests with this throw.
See my instructions for lefties in my reply to Aimee.
Can you make one that floats? I've lost a dozen of these at the beach already.
It can be done with wood. But plastics that are light enough to float, bend so easily that they won't keep their tune. Try making an Orbiter out of 1/8" plywood.
Your thing doesnt work at all. It breaks the laws of fysic
Go Brazil!
THROW IT!!!
THIS is why the Aeropress is so horribly underdeveloped as a product line - Alan is still busy doing Aerobee demonstrations in 2016 instead of improving and building upon his largest success to date. Now that Hasbro owns everything but the Aeropress you'd think we'd see more than just the Aeropress Go model. Thumb twiddler.
After x thousand years the guy invented a new coffee machine that you love but you say he's useless??? that seems way harsh.
@@TheLarryBrown except I never said those words. Weird that you felt like you had to create a strawman argument in order to make your comment. Interpreting my comments as an attack takes a real big stretch, so you just went ahead and just made shit up whole cloth. Nice work, twat.
A lot of theory but no action.