The Official 'Ask Paul McBeth' Thread

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by freshprincebellaire

What is the best advice you can give to a young disc golf player who wants to commit some serious time and effort into becoming pro?

Pretty much what you just said.you have to commit 100% or you'll never be satisfied with your progress. Other than that try to film yourself as much as possible so you can so you can critique yourself.

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by tarel

if you don't want to shell out $ to get a ce leo, the good yellow ones. what in your opinion is the closest to that.

I don't the leopards but if I was to say another disc I would say the C-FD by discmaina or millenium has a champion leopard mold to just not sure the name of it.

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by lemonadestandguy

hey Paul thank you for doing this. great to get to get some advice and see into the mind of the pros. My question is do you change your putting style at all depending on the baskets you are putting on? Of course the newer baskets catch way better but I'm curious what you do when you are playing on the much older courses with baskets with not nearly as many chains and very shallow baskets that just do not catch as well. does it change your approach or the type of putt you throw?

I wouldn't say I change my putt but I may slow it down a bit more. I know if I'm having trouble I'm sure everyone is having the same situation.

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by throwrn

Pretty much just what you are doing now, but with more people who have no idea wft discgolf is. There are about 9000 disc golfers in /r/discgolf, but 2.5 million subscribe to /r/IamA. Lots of famous people have done them, as well as people with strange jobs or hobbies. You basically allow millions of people to ask you anything (or almost anything) you want. check out

http://www.reddit.com/r/IamA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAMAFamousArchive/

or these, in case you are still browsing on your phone
i.reddit.com/r/IamA
i.reddit.com/r/IAMAFamousArchive/


I was actually linked to this thread from /r/discgolf and read through it this evening. I created this account just to ask you to do an AmA on reddit. And also to ask, how do you mark your discs?

Nice, I mark my discs with my name on the top.some I just put a dot on if i'm just testing it out

[Rol6566]

Any reason you pick a hard putter over a softer?

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by prospect

The Lilac City Open in Spokane, Wa is an A-tier. You should check it out, big fun!

I've heard of that and ft.stelly but they seem to be the same weekend as other big A-tiers

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by Rol6566

Any reason you pick a hard putter over a softer?

I haven't picked a putter but I do putt with firm putters because they come out of my hand more consitent.

[g2avity]

How much time do you spend a day on DGCR? Do you browse other forum threads? If so, find any interesting or useful information?

[PMcBeth]

Originally Posted by g2avity

How much time do you spend a day on DGCR? Do you browse other forum threads? If so, find any interesting or useful information?

I used to till this thread way made. I get on in spurts to answer everyones questions mostly. I do occasional browse through.

[TrippinBill]

Originally Posted by PMcBeth

I don't plan on it since I live on the east coast now.

I do change my bag up not my throw. My main driver there is a dx aviar and maybe the occasional roc shot. The elevation allows the slower disc to glide a long ways.

Fair enough, I wouldn't expect you to come across the country for a C-tier.

Do you tee off with a roc on the longer holes of the course like 9 or 14? Do you carry any drivers with you?