Published by rodney July 31st, 2007
in Disc Golf.
Last weekend we visited Blue Ribbon Pines in East Bethel, MN. I am really impressed by this course! The first part of the course has concrete or tees like you see here on hole number one. Later in the course there aren’t as many concrete tees but there is evidence that they are adding more and continuing to upgrade the course.
Blue Ribbon Pines is well laid out, Timmy Gill and Steve Beckman did a great job in designing this course. There are some great holes that challenge the technical side of your game as well as more open holes where you can put everything behind the disc. Hole #4 just about blew my brain… its a crazy straight shot through an alley of 100 foot tall pine trees. Pictures don’t do it justice… standing on the tee you can hear the trees laugh at your pitiful attempts to get near the basket.
The course was a blast to play and I plan on going back soon!
Published by rodney July 23rd, 2007
in Disc Golf.
I have been playing disc golf casually since 1995 or ‘96. The first course I remember playing was Kaposia in South St Paul. It was early spring with snow hanging around in the shadows. I had no clue what I was doing, but Josh and the gang assured me this was GREAT fun! I stopped counting my score when it reached 25 over par by hole #12. Even with my ridiculously high score I wanted to play again.
Who would have thought throwing a little plastic disc would be so incredibly fun?
A few years ago I noticed that Jer, Josh and Jim were really increasing their level of play. Getting beat was really getting old. I had been throwing side-arm up until last year. I found a vid showing a highly rated disc golfer, Im sorry to say I don’t remember who it was, who threw both side-arm and backhand depending on the situation. I decided last year that I would try to incorporate a backhand throw into my game.
After throwing backhand for a few rounds I was convinced I had ruined my arm forever. I was putting to much power into my throws, on muscles that weren’t ready for that much force. I almost gave up. I took good care of the arm over the winter and this year I started training the arm early. I watched an read anything and everything I could find on the net about grip and throwing styles. I bought the Scott Stokely video series. I was hungry for knowledge on ways to improve my game. I started playing more often and going to an open field to practice.
The practice and training has paid off so far!!! Driving using a backhand throw has increased my range by 30-50 feet on average and I CAN NOW OUT DRIVE JER, who typically was the distance thrower in our group. My confidence on the course has increased now that I can switch up my throws as the situation requires.
I have been a little nuts this year in my purchase of disc golf equipment. I think seeing the positive results from really focusing on my technique has fueled my passion for playing the game. Its somewhat difficult to explain how excited I am about playing disc golf. I absolutely love this game!!!! The other guys have all picked up on the fever this year which just makes me want to keep it going!
Published by rodney July 23rd, 2007
in Blog.
It now seems to be commonplace that I “plan” on writing “more” for my blog with out ever getting to the actual writing of the “more”.
I wanted this blog to have themes or re-occurring themes such as the Interesting Words articles but it just seems like too much work right now to plan things out in that much detail. I need this blog to be fun… not work.
So from now on I am only going to write about things that are exciting to me, things that have my full attention, things that take very little effort to write about.
I’ll give you a little clue as to what you’ll be hearing way to much about in the coming weeks…. Disc Golf.
It begins now.
