re: Who is into Disc Golf?

Is there beer involved?

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I didn't make the trip their, but my group said it was an unforgiving course.

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Parc des Families can be unforgiving, especially from the championship tees. Still, the great thing about PdF and almost all Houk-designed courses is that all the tees present reasonable challenges and interesting lines whereas so many short tees on most courses are just afterthoughts that require players without a lot of distance to either flail on long holes or play a poorly designed course from the short tees.

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Some people get caught up in the discs. You can't correct bad form with a disc. Like any sport you need good fundamentals as a foundation.

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The best thing for mechanics IMO is YT videos. Over the last decade the proper throw mechanics have been distilled down to one basic form (although some pros have unusual form but almost none of the young ones). If anyone is thinking of getting serious spend the time to get the mechanics down it took me a long time to do that after I had played a couple of years without any instruction.

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Best starting disc is the Innova Leopard.

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IMO the best beginner disc to buy along with a putter is the Innova Mako 3. It is a 5 speed with 0 turn and 0 fade. That means when you get the throw right it has a laser beam straight flight and finishes straight as well. This means anything other than a dead straight flight means you mechanics are off (assuming you are trying to throw straight) and it makes it easy to diagnose your mistakes because of that. Depending on whether I am using my cart or backpack I have 2-3 of them with me at all times. They are an excellent midrange for tunnel shots.

I got off of work early today and thought I’d go play a round. First drive goes into a tree then straight into a small but deep ditch/creek that there was no fishing it out of.

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not a big fan of highland

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Highland was such a perfect course before Katrina. It was well balanced between open spaces and difficult throws, and had a couple great downhill throws. I haven't been there in probably 10 years or more, but it was such a shame after Katrina how they kept changing the course, removing holes, etc.

I've played at many courses in other areas, and highland was easily the best, pre-Katrina.

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Same, I come from a baseball background and can sling it forehand. Backhand, not so much.

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This is wild to me. I’ve thrown a baseball probably hundreds of thousands of times by now, but it never came close to translating to throwing a disc forehand. I’ve tried and it just feels so weird, zero strength or control. Backhanded just seems so more natural, but I did play a decent amount of tennis in high school and college (for fun, nowhere near competitively) and used a 1-handed backhand. Played a shite-ton of ping pong, which also probably helped. But I just never thought the forehanded throwers were doing it because it felt more natural. I just assumed it was to shape the flight of the disk differently. Huh.

Anyway, I haven’t played much in 15-20 years, but when I was actually in shape years ago, I’d go to a local course when it wasn’t busy and play 36, running to each shot. Was always a pretty good workout and a whole lot more fun than running at a track or on a treadmill. There’s a ton of different ways to enjoy playing. My kids have loved it the few times we’ve been.

Then there’s always the super competitive guy/leagues on just ridiculous courses. Any of y’all ever played Lazzarre in West Monroe? I had a buddy who was really good and played competitively all over. Took me there once. The Ouachita River ate 3 of my drives on the 1st 9, so I had to play the rest of day with just my putter. Shot (threw?) like 50 over. Good times.

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Or, I try to do too much with it and snap and the finish and it dives left low and hard.

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This is what I'm doing. I'm going to work more on my rotation and follow through. I believe I'm putting too much arm swing and rolling the wrist.

The thing is that when I snap one to the left I know exactly what I did wrong. In my golfing days I had a tendency to hit a duck hook once in a while so this is nothing new for me.

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Seems like one of the first things these young kids coming up on tour are doing is just throwing as hard as they can into nets hundreds and hundreds of times to work on distance and speed.

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When you do set up your phone and take slow-motion videos. They are painful to watch at first but they will clearly show you where you are going wrong. The first time I did it I realized I wasn't reaching back nearly as far as I thought I was.

Speaking of practice my favorite place for field work is as Falancher. I haul a chair in with my discs and setup under the big oak that covers the #8 basket and as long as you don't throw over about 450' it is a nice clearing. I take the dogs with me and they have a ball while we are there. You also have the #6 and #8 basket right there for putting practice.