Just the Tip – Practice With the Locals

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As you know from any of my social media accounts, I’m here!!!  After months of anticipation and 9 hours of driving, I rolled into Emporia late Saturday night.  The place isn’t exactly hopping yet, but I am here a lot earlier than most plan to be here.  I have a good reason, though.  I hate … Read more

Road to the GBO – ZERO Days to Go!!!

After 4 months of writing updates, daily practice, constant day dreaming, and posting incessantly on social media about my preparation for the GBO, the big day is here!  I get in the car and head for Emporia later on today! When I started this journey, I had one goal.  I wanted to roll into Emporia … Read more

Are Lower Scores in Your Future? Ask the Seer.

  The room was dark and smelled of incense.  This was not the cheesy incense your college roommates used to use to cover up the fact that there was a 3 month old pizza under the couch.  This was the aroma of mystery itself.  Walking further into the room, a sense of something ancient overwhelmed … Read more

Wisdom Wednesday – Trading Your Days

Stop and think about that for a very long minute. We were given a finite number of days to live.  Regardless of how you view life, you cannot deny that you are only here for a limited amount of time.  We are all worm food at some point. Time is actually our only true wealth in … Read more

Road to the GBO – Why Are You on the Road?

In one week, just 7 days, I’ll be packing the car and heading to Emporia, Kansas for the 13th annual Glass Blown Open. If you’ve been following along on Facebook, you’ve noticed that I’ve been struggling with my performance lately.  Not only have I not been improving as of late, I’ve actually gone backwards in … Read more

Wisdom Wednesday – Take Things As They Are

I still think Bruce Lee would have been one hell of a disc golfer.  It’s amazing how knowing how to be a master of one thing translates directly to knowing how to become a master at many things.  So many of the tenets and principles are the same in all things and carry over from … Read more

Just the Tip – Cold Practice

Several hundred reps at the practice basket.  Another couple hundred drives in the field.  Pretty common recommendations for practice, right?  Read this blog or a number of others and you’ll see this type of practice regimen prescribed repeatedly. Then one day you say, “All right, I give in!  I’m finally going to commit to that … Read more

Road to the GBO – Taking the Field Out of Field Work

Field Work

When interviewers ask Simon Lizotte how he learned to throw as far as he does, his answer is daily field work.  When Paul McBeth makes a video on how he practices, he shows you his field work.  When people write in to the Disc Golf Answer Man podcast and ask how to get better, you … Read more

Wisdom Wednesday – There Are Two Things

How far have you come? How far have you come in your life?  In your career?  In your schooling?  In your relationships?  In your disc golf game? Our brains have a funny way of moving the goals posts on us and it  happens on a pretty regular basis.  You work and work and work for … Read more

Just the Tip – Pick a Target

In a previous tip, we talked about seeing the line.  Actually looking, in your mind’s eye, for the flight line you want your disc to take.  While that works well, there’s an additional aiming aid that, when combined with seeing your line, will have you shooting lights out in tight quarters before you know it. … Read more