Jeffrey Homburg
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The slides for my closing keynote speech at the 2023 Flying Disc Museum's Disc Collector's Conference, Masters Worlds, Flagstaff, are available for download here.
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Yes, we knew those were the general trends, but what surprised me, is that these data trends are so strong for the averages each year, not the extreme limits for the discs. I smoothed the data with polynomial regression to best model the long-term trends and make them easy to see.View attachment 327414
Thats the most interesting part. Kinda confirms what we already suspected but interesting to see it in data.
This is the first time I posted disc golf research at ResearchGate, but it seemed fitting to do so help it reach a wider audience. This link being posted here will help as well. If you like graphs like those, then you may like these as well: https://www.pdga.com/files/scatterp...nships_for_pre-2021_pdga-approved_discs_0.pdfI hadnt thought the day would come I would download researchgate pdfs on a frisbee golf website but here we are
Not to me, the most interesting thing to me how many new brands there over that stretch and just how many new disc models there are (we recently passed 1,900 approved discs and ~300 new discs will be approved by the end of the year). There were 28 new companies with approved equipment last year and there are 27 new ones so far this year. Disc golf is becoming more and more global, with many of the new brands located outside of the US.IMO the most interesting change from 2020 to 2023/24 figures will be the percentage of discs manufactured by Lone Star. I'd think they would go from 0 to at least 10-15% of the market. Yikun may drop, didn't both Prodigy and Dicmania pull their mold production from them recently?
That definitely bodes well for the future of disc golf. If you build it, they will come, and if make discs as well, they will come faster!Was also great to see the variety of non-traditional discin' countries like the Philippines, Japan, Czech Republic getting involved in production. Ten years ago it cost a fortune to ship discs to Manila.
Did I miss the huge, peer reviewed study that concluded that putting was too easy?Develop the goddamned directional baskets already!!
We don't have to use the Dr. Dolf version, but it is a great solution to the problem of putting that is too easy.
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Do we need a peer reviewed study?Did I miss the huge, peer reviewed study that concluded that putting was too easy?
Do we need a peer reviewed study?
Use your off hand.....problem solved, it's legal and nobody is likely to complain. Win, win, win. ...............................Putting is too easy though