# "No Flip Toss" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604 "2008-03-17T01:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/1 "2008-03-17T01:48:20Z")
This is a sign on an outdoor tennis court I walk by every week. The sign is posted on the very tall chain link fence that surrounds the courts. I realize it’s some kind of game they want to prevent kids from playing, but I’ve never heard of it. Anyone have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/2 "2008-03-17T02:12:41Z")
[Flip Toss](http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/12216772/Flip_Toss_Game_Set.html), but I have no idea if this is what the sign refers to. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/3 "2008-03-17T02:13:18Z")
[Flip Toss World Championships](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=305226144952963291&q=Flip+Toss&total=171&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/4 "2008-03-17T02:18:02Z")
[Flip toss.](http://goldensonbd.trustpass.alibaba.com/product/12255012/Flip_Toss_Game_Set/showimg.html) (Damn, I thought I was first.) ---
**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/5 "2008-03-17T02:43:13Z")
Huh, I always thought that was just cheap jai alai. I used to see them in the very small toy section of grocery stores and stuff. Good to know 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/6 "2008-03-17T14:15:37Z")
That video doesn’t show the full potential of the game though. The ball is a wiffle type ball so when you throw it from the holder with force the spin makes it curve. With practice you could play catch around a tree. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/7 "2008-03-18T00:23:05Z")
Thanks! But I still don’t get why they can’t play there–unless the park district doesn’t want anyone but tennis players using the courts. There are other signs that say no inline skates, skateboards etc. Flip toss seems innocuous… ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/8 "2008-03-18T02:46:40Z")
Maybe some kids were playing flip toss like in **blondebear** ’s link, but over the net, and it was bothering the tennis players in the next court. (Maybe one of the tennis players has connections, or just put the sign up on his own.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/9 "2008-03-18T12:31:28Z")
Tennis people tend to think their version of hitting a ball back and forth, and by extension they themselves, are superior, and that others should take their seriousness seriously. Stop laughing! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/10 "2008-03-18T14:40:35Z")
Wow…I never knew those had a name or a World Championship! Now there was a sport I could have excelled in… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/11 "2008-03-18T21:36:03Z")
Funny. I tried to get my GF interested in these this weekend when I saw them for sale. I thought they would be fun on the beach. Said she wouldn’t be caught dead playing. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/12 "2008-03-19T03:13:12Z")
These flip toss things are really just a cheap-o version of Wham-0’s [Trac-Ball](http://www.virtualtoychest.com/tracball/tracball.html). There are some amusing Trac-Ball videos out there, but none display the pure essence of the sport as well as the Flip Toss kids from Oz. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-flip-toss/441604/13 "2008-03-19T03:31:12Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] These flip toss things are really just a cheap-o version of Wham-0’s [Trac-Ball](http://www.virtualtoychest.com/tracball/tracball.html). There are some amusing Trac-Ball videos out there, but none display the pure essence of the sport as well as the Flip Toss kids from Oz. [/QUOTE] The Wham-O Trac-Ball is the one I remember.