Lazer Kitty!

With Winter coming on, and a few “Dates” upcoming, I thought now’s the time to reflect on my game, and the game overall. Let’s begin.

 

My Prettys

Most of you know of my exploits earlier this year, so Ww won’t get into it too much. Suffice to say, I have learned a lot, and my abilities are very much improved, and I learned a few things I didn’t expect to. Watched a lot of how to videos on the YT, like, but what got me was the Pro tournaments, the best in the world, the hardest courses. I thought, how do they even do that? Through those trees? Over that lake? Yes, and a whole lot more. Jomez Pro

What also caught my eye were the amount of errant shots, tree hits, water dunks, and quadruple bogeys they all made, shit happens, even to the best. It was then I realized it was the shot, not the game that was important; no shot, no game, yes? The next thing you know, I was teleported from BhC Arizona to a place in Central Michigan………

/insert Wayne’s World ,Bidddleee oop,Bidddleee oop,Bidddleee oop, here

When I arrived the last thing on my mind was Disc, however my sister immediately took me past the local course. Hooray? When we got back to her house, I took stock of what I had with me, (I left a $600 bag of discs behind in AZ) and had enough to get started, pretty much from scratch, OK. My eyes popped out when I saw the number of courses close to me, and set out for adventure, which you have also seen. More on that later.

After playing the courses in central Michigan, trees and bushes, tall grass and full blown forest, I learned two very important things. First  that it’s a good thing to try out and learn all those “pro” shots, you need to turn past that tree to make a bid for Birdie, just do it! For example. Second and most important to me was this, I needed to get away from the easy, wide open courses, and I needed to get away from my teachers, all good people, and some good teachers, but it was time for Grasshopper to jump.

Once I worked on my form alone, I could analyze and adjust. Videoing yourself helps.

And form, form, form, consistency is what we want, but one can’t just adopt another player’s style, you must develop your own, and I think I’m finally there. I play with 19 discs in my bag.

19? Why yes

And I know how every one flies, but!  5 of them are twins, meaning the same mold, different plastic. Do I need all of them to play? No, you could play with one disc if you wanted to, sometimes I’ll grab a driver and a Midrange and go scramble, but I like choices.

Flight planes

Steeper and deeper

Notice the increased wedge as the discs go from slow to fast? This has nothing to do with how fast you throw it, but how fast you spin the disc. Fast is good, but if you’re not spinning the disc fast enough, it won’t behave the way it should, sometimes this is good, but not if you don’t mean for it to, bad things happen….

Plastics and design

When I started it was DX plastic all the way, cheap, and they would break in really well, for a while. This was fine on open field, low impact courses, but hell on tree courses. DX is grippy and stable, til it gets ground to crap from impact and grinding on the ground.

I found these pretty, translucent discs and started buying them, pricey, but hey I had the cash, then I found out they were really durable, and unaffected by tree hits, this is the Champion line, by Innova.

Jellybeans!

 

Destroyers, DX and GStar plastic

I still have and use DX, but not around trees, and I use MvP overmolded, 2 plastic Putters,

Go to putter

as well as a few midranges, just to mix it up, this complicates things, just the way I like it, this is a Thinking Man’s sport, and harder than ball golf, IMO.

It took some time, but I now have a well rounded, fully usable game, that will take me forward, and I might live my life, in Peace.

It doesn’t matter what shape you are, or are in, this is the finest low impact sport you will ever play, go Spin that Shit! Throw Plastic at People!

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“Let’s not worry about the luggage, Darlin”