Addicted

[NateDiscFlip]

So my buddy runs into a friend he has not seen in awhile....the friend had played his first round of disc golf with my buddy. My buddy asks "so...you still playing discgolf", and the friends smirks and responds,"Man, that s*&ts like crack!"

The moral of the story.....You're not alone "Addicted Plastic Tosser"

 

[prerube]

Math Lesson:
1 disc per week at an average price of $12 = $624 in a year

If you put that away with 6.5% interest and added $12 (only bought 3 instead of 4 discs a month)
In 9 years you would have $3,214.04

(a true disc addict is now calculating how many baskets they can buy with 3,214.04)

 

[ZBoazMobster]

I think we found the kid who hides in the bushes stealing drivers.

This week alone, I have lost $100 worth of discs, mostly to marauders. Yesterday, a kid stole my friends 3G phone.

My name is ZBoazMobster, and I too, am an addict. :|

 

[ReedyCreekProduct]

We're all addicted here and the problem is that there isn't a former addict on this site to help pull us out of it. I've been playing for just over a year too and if anything the addiction is getting stronger.

I can help you out. BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, here are my easy steps to avoiding Disc Golf addiction:

1. Be a terrible player.

Throw lousy drives. Miss putts you should make. Never get comfortable with a midrange disc. Never get an ace. You get frustrated and before you know it, you haven't played in 6 months.

2. Drive a lousy, piece of crap car that you don't enjoy being in.

I drive a 1990 Honda Accord that has seen its better days. I don't like riding in it, so I don't go out of my way to drive to a Disc Golf course because the experience of being in my clunky car is so brutal.

3. Find a girlfriend who tolerates a lousy, piece of crap car, AND who has NO APPRECIATION FOR ANY ATHLETIC ENDEAVORS WHATSOEVER.

My girlfriend fits the bill. She CLAIMS she would play a round with me, but I know better. She'd get all irritable after about 3 holes. So any Disc Golf time for me is something that would cut into my valuable time with her, gardening and checking out antiques.

4. Get a salaried job where you have to work about 55-60 hours a week just to do adequately and keep your position, leaving you exhausted and praying for early death on a regular basis.


I've had jobs like this in the past that helped me avoid Disc Golf addiction by leaving no time or energy to sling plastic. Now I have one of those jobs that limits itself to a mere 40 hours a week(Sounds like some Euro-Socialist nonsense), and the Disc Golf addiction is creeping back in.


There you go! That's how to do it. And for the record, I've played 12 courses in 10 years, and bought about 40 discs over that time.

Thanks for reading!

 

[DavidSauls]

I say you can never have too many discs.

Then again, I have a disc golf store, so I'm required to say that.

I say it's too painful fighting the addiction. Come on in and we'll help you get your next fix.

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About once a month, someone comes in with a story like: "My buddies took me to the course this morning and introduced me to disc golf. I need a disc. No, I need discs. And a bag."

Except the guy who saw the baskets in the park, researched it online, and came in to buy discs without ever having played. A pre-addict.

 

[ReedyCreekProduct]

About once a month, someone comes in with a story like: "My buddies took me to the course this morning and introduced me to disc golf. I need a disc. No, I need discs. And a bag."

Oh, and I've played 10 years without ever owning a DG bag. I use grocery bags.

Below-average players who carry $30.00 Disc Golf Bags are posers. I don't wanna be a poser.

However, I WILL say this in support of your pocketbook, Mr. Sauls:

Do you carry portable targets? I think more players should research and buy them. There's nothing more fun than taking one out to the park and creating your own fairways. It's a great way to practice, spread the sport to others, and stay away from crowded courses.

So I support having a 100-200 dollar portable target over having a 30 dollar Disc Carrying Bag.

I'd love to check out your store if I ever hit up Columbia.

 

[ZBoazMobster]

Almost 13 years. Just got my first bag this past X-Mas.

 

[ReedyCreekProduct]

Almost 13 years. Just got my first bag this past X-Mas.

Word. You know what I'm sayin'.

 

[DavidSauls]

ReedyCreekProduct---

I'll have to confess to being non-disc-addicted. I don't own that many. But I'm fine with people who want to buy 100....especially if they buy them from me.

Our store is small---a sideline to our regular business---but it's all Columbia has.

*

I'll confess my addiction isn't to discs, but to disc golf. After 8 years of play, and with shoulder surgery scheduled with no guarantee I'd be able to play agan, my brother convinced me to buy some land with him, move out to the country, and build our own course.

If not an addiction, it's at least a substance abuse problem.

 

[Kwick]

How about I pay you in life lessons?

life lessons (noun): rambling stories of drunken shenanigans that usually end with someone passing out, peeing themself, or setting something on fire but have no real point or conclusion

Give me a call after 8:00PM on any given day (6:00PM on the weekends) and we can start these life lessons any time. We can start with "2002 Nebraska @ PSU tailgate: WHERE'S MY DRINK?!" lesson. A classic.

I'll give the life lessons a shot next saturday. If i'm not impressed we'll see how you paying for my tournies and discs go

 

[bcr123psu]

I'll give the life lessons a shot next saturday. If i'm not impressed we'll see how you paying for my tournies and discs go

 

[sonny]

As addictions go, disc golf has a lot going for it. One of it's greatest appeals is that it's so versatile. It can be a lot of things to a lot of different people - or even the same person. It's not really all that time intensive. Healthier for you than most anything else you could be doing. Play alone or with a buddy. Maybe you like groups. Carry a big bag or just a little one. A quick round hand carrying a few discs is always fun and us old guys (and you newbies) still remember using just one. That's fun stuff. Take a mid and a putter out to most courses around and you can tear them up. And when you have a bag full o discs you can throw a few on the sweet holes. It's all good.

My name is Sonny and I'm addicted too. I'm not ashamed. I will hold my head up high. Wanna play a round?

 

[frolf4444]

i swear i dont hide in bushes and take discs that would be really dumb because i go discin everyday and i just find them in rivers

 

[U_NICED_ME]

I think I'm addicted b/c....

I wake myself up in the middle of the night doing a damn throwing motion!

 

[droppedthenuke]

haha same here i am sixteen and i got around 100 discs either champ, elite z, esp, or star i am addicted and my parents hate it

you can't be addicted if you call it frolf

 

[jrawk]

I am not addicted.



Nope.

I'm way beyond addiction. whatever that is.

 

[eegor]

I've only played 4 different courses this week... so, since I don't play every day... I'm not addicted.

I bought my first bag last summer... now I have too many discs (because I have the ability to carry them).

 

[prerube]

I am not addicted.



Nope.

I'm way beyond addiction. whatever that is.

It's true, I saw him trying to snort a Lat 64 disc, it wasn't pretty

 

[U_NICED_ME]

Lol, I tried to smoke my putter.

 

[billnchristy]

I wake myself up in the middle of the night doing a damn throwing motion!

That just sounds like a good excuse as to why you punched someone in their sleep....honestly honey, I was practicing my drive.