Playing Tips
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Just the Tip – Go on a Disc Diet
Your bag is fat. I don’t mean p-h-a-t like super groovy and bitchin’ and any other passe term for cool you can come up with to use for comedic effect. I mean it’s big and fat and needs to go on a diet. It’s like the US government, bloated with useless excess. [tweetthis]My #discgolf bag … Read more
Road to the 2015 GBO – Focus
The second putt always goes in. You know what I’m talking about. You miss that first putt, pick up another putter and just fire it at the basket. That second putt always goes in. The same thing happens with lots of other shots. You’re standing in the woods and you hit the first available … Read more
Just the Tip – Bring a Towel, a Real One.
A quote from one of my all time favorite series of books… “A towel, [the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” It’s a damn good thing for a disc golfer too. I’m blown away by how many people don’t carry a towel. For … Read more
Road to the 2015 GBO – Disc Golf Habits
76 Days to Go. Human beings are creatures of habit. The things that we’ve always done tend to be the things that we continue to do. We eat the same meals, usually at the same times. We get up the same time each day and lay our heads on our pillows at the same time … Read more
Just the Tip – Don’t Step on Your Mini
Foot faults. They don’t get called a lot in casual rounds, but they still bug the snot out of me. It’s pretty straight forward, you have 30cm behind the center line of your mini to plant your foot when you throw. I kind of understand how this happens when people are using a run up. … Read more
Road to the 2015 GBO – 83 Days to Go
I mentioned in one of my Facebook updates this week that I am restricting my reading to sports psychology for the duration of my preparation for the GBO. I’m really enjoying that decision and I highly recommend that if you play competitively at all you check out at least one book on the subject. I … Read more
Just the Tip – Visualize One You Already Know
One of the best pieces of tournament advice out there is to not play courses blind. Your tournament round should not be your first round on that course. If it is, you are just asking for trouble. That’s all well and good, but unfortunately, it still happens. It would be great if all the tournaments … Read more
Road to the 2015 GBO – 90 Days to Go
90 days, folks. That’s 3 months. A lot can happen in 3 months. A lot needs to happen. I’ve got every week planned. I’ve got all of the needed steps mapped out. I thought I’d thought of everything. I was wrong. What I didn’t plan for was margin. I didn’t plan for “what if”. I … Read more
Just the Tip – Pre Shot Routine
Baseball players have one before their at bats. Golfers have one before every shot. Quarterbacks have one before they step up and call for a snap. Virtually all professional athletes have a pre shot routine. You should too. You might have heard this before, but the real question is why? What is the benefit? There … Read more