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Mark Legg, Head Coach of the Brazilian Boomerang Team: Mark is widely known as one of the world's best competition boomerangs designers and technicians. Mark is currently coaching the Brazilian Boomerang Team. He is ranked 8th in the world, and is the defending Pan-American Champion!

Mark started throwing boomerangs in 1983 at the age of 10. In April of that year Mark's mother bought a boomerang for him from a vendor at the local arts festival in Delaware, Ohio.  As soon as they returned home from the arts festival, Mark took his boomerang to an open field near his home and chucked it into the sky.  After some trial and error, the boomerang circled around, danced across the setting sun, and returned.  That first return flight was the magic moment...Mark hasn't stopped throwing since.

The vendor was Chet Snouffer and, as it turned out, he, his brother Gregg, future wife Carmen and several other friends also used the same field to throw boomerangs. So from the beginning Mark was surrounded by the best throwers in the world (for those who don't know Chet is 12 time national champ and 3 time world champ.  Gregg is 2 time national champ and World Indoor Champion). Mark spent many evenings in that field with those great throwers learning where he learned all the fundamentals of boomerangs science and competition.

Chet often hosted competitions and boomerang making classes for local kids through the Parks and Recreation Department.  Mark attended every event and soon began making and throwing his own boomerangs and at the age of 13 began traveling to competitions with Chet and Gregg Snouffer. By this time Mark had all but moved into Chet's boomerang shop where he spent his free time making new boomerangs and manipulating airfoils to create better flying competition equipment.

After high school Mark took a few years off from the sport but, like a boomerang, returned to boomeranging in 1996. In those years from 1991 to 1996 the sport changed dramatically.  Before 1991 Competition boomerangs were predominantly made of wood and only had two wings.  By 1996 though, almost all competition boomerangs were 3-winged. Throwers and makers were using phenolic, plastics, fiberglass, and carbon fiber. Mark was lost but in awe of all the new shapes, materials, and the flight capabilities of these new boomerangs.  There was so much to learn and understand that Mark's drive to understand the science of flight and to make better boomerangs became unquenchable.  Mark had to catch up with everything!

Over the next several years Mark became acquainted with all the best new boomerang material and manufacturing techniques, as well as changes in the rules and event formats of competition.  Since then Mark has built a reputation for fine craftsmanship, as well as attention to technical detail for competition boomerangs. He is currently a member of the United States Boomerang team, 8th in World, and is the defending America’s Cup Champion, having won in Ito, Brazil in 2005.

BumRangs specializes in Competition level boomerangs. BumRangs produces high quality models for every event; both individual and team, and models for every wind conditions. BumRangs uses only the strongest, most durable materials from around the world. Whether your looking for a 16 second Fast Catch for dead calm conditions or a Wind Pig so you can just get through the events when the tounament date just happened to coincide with an incoming hurricane, BumRangs has you covered.