A little about

John Flynn

New England native and resident John Flynn has compiled an enviable résumé with the ubiquitous Australian symbol, the returning boomerang.

He’s won several craftsmanship awards for his hand-made boomerangs, specializing in natural elbow and strip-laminated models. In a competitive career spanning over four decades, he won four world championships as a member of the U.S. Boomerang Team, one national overall championship, and set or tied 13 individual event world records – six being in the Fast Catch event - earning recognition from the Guinness Book of Records and Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd feature, two times each. More recently, he competed as a guest member of the Australian team at the 2016 and 2024 World Boomerang Championships.

He has presented and demonstrated for schools and professional groups, including at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and served over a decade on the United States Boomerang Association Board of Directors as its Treasurer or President. He hosted over 25 sanctioned USBA contests, including the 2005 U.S. National Championships.

50 Important Boomerangs and the fastcatchpress.com website represent a culmination, to date, of John Flynn’s journey with these fascinating devices and his desire to share these experiences with others.

He is also the grandson of wildlife and outdoors author, filmmaker, and photographer Albert Dixon Simmons, whose archive he oversees and which will be expanded upon at this website.

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