Recent content by MikeR

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    Hands down, best disc golf day EVER!

    Congrats on the aces. I've had 2 aces on the same hole with the same disc, but it was a few weeks apart (can't recall, but one of them might not even have had any witnesses). You musta been STOKED after that one. I seem to be in an ace drought lately, but at least my consistency is really...
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    I need a new midrange disc..

    I've never had that problem with a Roc unless it was getting beat, and I drive em over 300' fairly often. Thrown properly, it goes pretty much dead straight with a bit of fade at the end. Throw it too much nose up and you get a shorter throw and more fade/dive at the end. That said, I'm also...
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    How many courses since 1975?

    A real "good old days" thread should include talk about made up courses with trees and fire hydrants as targets. Nowadays they have special disc golf reserves where they send you if they see you playing just anywhere.
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    [Mids] Midrange Tips

    While this is one way to get the effect you want, I think you could argue equally for having a roc and a stratus as even a newish roc doesn't do a bad job on straight shots (unless they are so short you should use a putter). Or a Roc and an Aero and you could just flick the roc instead of...
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    House and land for sale next to two world class courses

    A house on 47 acres for $300k? Wow. Around here you'd be looking at at least a couple million.Almost worth buying and then renting out and save it for a retirement property. What's the house like?
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    What disc do you use for long, narrow, straight, tunnel type fairways?

    Ssshhhh. Don't tell them about the Aero. It's a secret disc from the distant past who's straightness should not be known to the general public. That said, I'll use an Aero, Roc or Eclipse most usually or I might take a chance on my strange Archangel that, despite it's HSS rating appears to be...
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    Discnation?

    We're ok for plastic overall - there is at least one e-tailer in Fla that ships here and even with shipping it's cheap enough. A few locals keep a trunk full of discs to sell. As to courses, there's a fair bit of variety, but not a lot of big arm courses. Within an hour drive of my house...
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    Ratings Website for Discs

    The thing is, if you have what you call a noodle arm, you should really mostly stick to lower speed discs as the higher speed discs won't perform the way they should until you get the technique to throw them. By the way, the best thing in the world for me was to start throwing rocs regularly as...
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    Ratings Website for Discs

    What we need is something like DGR, but keeps being updated and adding reviews. I really liked their system and it became useful when you had more than 10 people commenting on a disc as you could get a feel for what kind of player was having what kind of results for each disc and in each type...
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    Discnation?

    I've always wanted to order from there, but under shipping policies: "At this time we do not offer shipping to Canada or to any country other than the United States." The real tough thing for us here in BC is that it seems there's a not very efficient distribution system. Markups are crazy...
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    How do you carry dinks with you?

    I carry about a litre in my bag. However, it's lost the little thinger that tightens the draw string so I've lost a couple of bottles in the last few weeks. Need..... new.... system.....
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    Best disc for loaner program

    Aero or Eclipse. Excellent beginners discs (and I still use an Aero for a lot of under 250' shots after 25 years of using them).
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    2010 Amateur World Championships

    Sounds like a lot of fun. Hope I can make one some day.
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    Congrats, Steve Mawdsley!

    Steve's from Cortes Island (in between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia). Myself, I'm from Courtenay, which is on Vancouver Island. The Disc Golf community in this area is pretty small, so you know almost all of the players from Nanaimo on North and probably most from...
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    Review by MikeR in course Fir Meadows DGC

    3.50 star(s) Very interesting course This course has a great variety of types of hole, from a few fairly open 250' aceable par 3s up to the monster 690' par 5 tunnel at 14. Uphill holes, downhill, wooded, open, tight fairways lined with woods, this course has a lot of different types of play. Each T area...
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