boomerang links

European Boomerang Links: updated on 11 July 2007
World Boomerang Cup 2006
Austria

Andrea Ganzera has posted the Motorang website, with a small, but nice gallery of his boomerangs. Also has downloads, links, FAQs, etc.
Belgium

The Belgian Boomerang Club has an informative and well organized web page with information about throwing in Belgium.
Eric Brasseur has posted a really nice article with scientific comments about Making His First Boomerang.

Fast Herm's Boomerang Pages - Herman Peeters of Belgium created this home page with links and pictures of his boomerang collection. Nicely done.

Bulgaria

Georgi Dimantchev makes a large number of high tech boomerang products, especially MTA & Distance models. Check out Dimana Competition Boomerang web page today.

Denmark

Please visit the home pages of the Danish Boomerang Club (#1) and Danish Boomerang Club (#2)

Jens Krabbe has published his Krabbe Boomerang web page with photographs of the boomerangs from his collection. There is also a page with information about Danish Boomerang Events in both Danish and English.
Ulf Valentin has a wonderful U. V. Lightrangs web page with links to a photo gallery, games and software.

England

Martin Laslett and Mark Holman-Lisney are the webmasters for The British Boomerang Society. This site has a rather good section on how to throw and why boomerangs return. Contact Sean McKenna-Slade for more information about this organization.
Adam MacLaughlin has posted the Extreme-Boomerangs web site with info about UK records, World Records, Profiles of British throwers, boomerang plans and more.
Wicked Vision Ltd in London represents Rangs brand boomerang products. Check out www.rangs.co.uk today.
Susan and Richard Ogilvy make a wonderful line of plywood and strip laminated boomerang products in Scotland. Check out the DAVRO Boomerangs web site today.
Hugh Hunt, a displaced Aussie lecturer at Cambridge University has written a rather nice explanation for why a boomerang returns. This one is really worth visiting.

Amiel Arnaud has published web pages with instructions for making a Cardboard Boomerang and a CD Boomerang.
The Gift Store UK offers a boomerang kit for £16.99 which includes a boomerang, booklet and can of wax in an attractive box.

France

The France Boomerang Association has a FBA Web Page with a calendar of events, links to other French clubs, etc. The editor of the FBA newsletter is Samuel ARNON.
La Pérouse Boomerang Club has a terific new web page with photos of Jacques Thomas and his famous museum collection. There is also a section about Egyptian Boomerangs in English. Many thanx to Maurice Monnot for hosting this page.

The Art Boomerang Club of Paris has posted their club's page with information on club activities, boom plans, links, photos, competition history, etc. Pages are in French and English. The club's internet contact is: Pau-Taion (Pumpkin)
Pierre Kutek has posted a web page depicting his unusual composite boomerangs as well as a page with boom links. This site also has a set of +300 boomplans in a .rar format to download. Check out Pierre's web page showing Georgi Dimantchev's competition boomerangs and a special web page honoring Art & Les Janetzki and their boomerangs. Also, for competition throwers who like to modify their own triFlys, visit Pierre Kutek's triFly web page site.
Laurent Brancaleoni has posted the Boomerang Shop web page where boom manufacturers can post photos and descriptions of their booms for free. Buyers order directly from the web page.
The L'Ami boom web site has lots of information about boomerang history, plans, throwing sticks and more.
Julien Grandjean is the webmaster for Boomland, a French language web site with information about boomerang history, plans, how to make, art, clubs, a glossary and even downloads.

The Cambresis Boomerang Club is Yves Cazè's French language web page with an Avi video of Adam Ruhf's fast-catch throw at the indoor comp at Cambrai. There are also shapes of Axone Booms (by Francois CLOUET of Cambrai).
Boomerang Passion - a huge site where you can discover the boomerang, read instructions about throwing, making (more than 150 plans are available) and decorating. You'll find boomerang news (competitions, records), a directory of 130 sites about boomerang, many free downloads, a newsletter, and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Contact Boomerang Passion

LMI-Fox has a web page with a description of their excellent plastic boomerang products, designed by many of Europe's most talented boomerang manufacturers. These are top performance boomerangs. There is even a plastic lefty. You can also email LMI-Fox Boomerangs to find out more.

Jean-Louis ORGUEIL has a French Boomerang Web Page with lots of information about boomeranging in France.
Damien Germani has posted the Haakon's Web Page with information about boomerangs and snowboards. This site is in French and has plans, theory, history, etc.
Luc CORMIER's has posted a rather informative Boomerang Home Page with lots of great informaiton including Luc's own cartoon gallery.

Boz's Boomerang Pages - Boomerang web page of Froment Laurent. Has lots of boom plans.
Check out the Wig-Wam Boomerang web page, in French of course.

Germany
Deutscher Bumerang Club e.V. - Home page for the DBC German Boom Club in German.

Gerhard Bertling's Boom Page - This is a clever and very well done web site. Gerhard includes an online color catalog of his beautiful strip laminated boomerangs and a page for Bumerang Welt, an excellent German language newsletter. Please check out the Wilhelm Bretfeld Memorial Web Page. Wilhelm Bretfeld is recognized as the father of the MTA boomerang.

Blue*Star Boomerangs is a comprehensive catalog of competition, sports, natural hardwood and beautiful art boomerangs made by Volker Behrens, one of Europe's most innovative boomerang designers. Browse through this wonderful site and decide which models are best for you. This site also has comprehensive throwing and tuning instructions in English. A must web page to visit!
Oli Thienhaus has created the home page for the mighty World Champion Young Guns Boomerang Team.
Stanislaus Plewinski has posted the Harmony-Fly web site with links to different German boomerang clubs, tournament photos and a neat slide show depicting a Gallery of Plewinski Boomerangs.
Sascha Winkler has put up a homepage with Photos from German Boomerang Tournaments.

Redis Bumerang Homepage - A great German web page with lots of links, booms by Fridolin Frost, Eckhard Mawick and Siegfried Stiller. A must to visit. Maintained by Dietmar Reinig.
Gunter Moller has a small but interesting Tapir Boomerang Web Page.

Bruno Moller's Boom Katalog - Bruno Moller's boomerang catalog in German with lots of terrific boomerangs for sale at a great price.

Klaus Dieters Bumerangfibel is Klaus Dieter Franke's comprehensive German language web page with links to tuning tips, physics, boom designs and just about everything you wanted to know about boomerangs.
Joachim Rauser has posted the German language Bumeranginfo website, a nice boomerang web page with links to plans, a gallery, photos and a lot more.
Axel Heckner has posted the German language Bumerangschule website where he sells his molded triblader called the "renner".

Holland

Algemene Boemerang Organisatie Holland is the Dutch language homepage for the Dutch club that hosts one of Europe's finest annual tournaments. You can also email: Peter Hartog or Erik Leferink.
Boemerang NLR is a Dutch webpage maintained by Martijn Koolloos, who works in the National Aerospace Laboratory of Nederland. Of special interest is the Megarang , a 1.20m giant boomerang made in composite carbon / polystyren by Bart Harkema.

Ireland

Mark Fulton has a small but cute web page titled How To Make Boomerangs That Come Back. Mark lives in Northern Ireland.

Italy

Please visit the SIBS Società Italiana Boomerang Sportivo
Costruire e Lanciare Un Boomerang - Home Page for the Italian C.L.U.B. boomerang organization, headed by Maurizio Saba. You can also find the official Italian calendar of tournaments at this site.
The Milano Boomerang Club has tournament results and pictures.
Please visit the Associazione Versilia Boomerang web site where you will find plans, tournament info and throwing instructions.
The Boomerang E Lanci Firenze is a multidisciplinary 3 year project in schools with children, aged 10-13 years.

Latvia
Aivars Brengulis has posted the Brengula Bumerangi web page which includes plans, archaeology and photos of his boomerang products.
Poland
Krzysiek Pietrzak has posted a Polish Boomerang Web Site with links for tuning, plans, history, etc.
The oldest boomerang ever found was in a cave in Oblazowa in southern Poland. Full details about the Polish throwstick, made out of Mammoth Tusk can be found on the Oblazowa Archaeological Summary web site. Click on the link for "Finds" to see the oldest boomerang in the world.

Spain
Victor Munoz is the contact for the Spanish Boomerang Association

Boomerangmania Total is a really neat web site with photos of boomerangs with interesting shapes and art; a facts page and a links page. This page is available in both English and Spanish.

Switzerland

Visit the home page of the Swiss Boomerang Association

B AGGRESSiVE - An excellent web page dedicated to the long distance event. This site was constructed by Lorenz Gubler and Tibor Horvath of Switzerland. It has excellent information about long distance boomerangs: history, records, materials, plans, airfoils, science, boom links, and a photo gallery. Check out their Book about Long Distance Boomerangs.

Frédéric Declercq has published a boomerang page in French titled "Boomerangs Spirit" with: History, How to do and to throw, Fun, Plans, Art Gallery, French Clubs, Records, Rules of Competition, Swiss tournaments, rankings, list of publications, Boom links, etc. You can also buy all the boomerangs and publications made by Didier Bonin.
Subwave Rangs Boomerangs is a German language Swiss website that markets "Rangs Australia" brand boomerangs. Contact Daniel Schulthess for more info.
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