“I know why your drives keep going into the woods on the right on this hole.” “Because this hole hates me?” “No, turn around. You’ll see why right away.” As we walked up the fairway, him to his disc out in the open, me to mine depressingly kicked off into the woods, we both turned … Read more
What’s a NutSac? Have you been trying to make disc golf a little easier and a lot simpler? It’s time to grab your game by the NutSac, lower your scores, and play better disc golf! One of the best things I’ve done for my game this year was to eliminate most of the discs I … Read more
What is disc golf? At first, that might sound like a dumb question. It’s a sport like golf, but instead of using sticks and balls, we use discs and baskets. Easy peasy, on to the next post, right? Wrong. What if I said that there are hundreds of thousands of people out on disc golf … Read more
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Abraham Lincoln didn’t play disc golf. I haven’t done any research or anything, but I’m going to make that call anyway. Despite this fact, his advice here applies incredibly well to our sport. How many times do you step up to a shot and … Read more
Many of us are quite attached to our discs. Ask our significant others and they might say our relationship is a bit too close. Some would even say that we like our discs more than we like them (a possible reason I’m single, I’ll admit). As a friend of my six year old niece might … Read more
Deep, not wide. In my life, one of the rules I’ve set for myself is “Deep, not wide”. This is a simple way to remind myself that I want to be really good at a few things, not mediocre at a bunch of them. It applies in a lot more ways than that, but that’s the … Read more
Play with one new person a week this summer. That’s my goal. The initial reasoning was just to meet as many new people as I could this year. The side benefit has been that I’ve seen a crazy assortment of approaches to the game of disc golf. Today was no different. This morning, I paired up … Read more
If the guys who train snipers for the military have a piece of advice for me on accuracy, I’m not only going to pay attention, I’m going to take that advice. Those guys don’t get second chances. They don’t get to miss. When the stakes are high and lives are on the line, they follow … Read more
I’ve written a lot about the importance of having confidence. I wrote a post about the “confidence circle” last week. I’ve talked about it on my “Mind Over Plastic” segments on the Disc Golf Answer Man podcast. I’ve made motivational memes on Intagram, Facebook, and Twitter directly referencing confidence. What I’ve never done, though, is … Read more
I like to people watch. More specifically, I like to watch people play disc golf. There are as many approaches to the game as there are people playing it. Head out to your home course and look around, you will see some crazy ways to throw a disc. Go out and take a video camera, you … Read more