Who listens to Music while throwing?

[JNichols]

I am curious... I tried this once a couple weeks back. Bought a cheap MP3 players just to take and have on while playing. I thought it might be distracting, but it actually seemed to keep me more focused by keeping my mind off of things I didn't need to be thinking about, but normally would.

AND... By "Who listens to music while throwing", I mean who uses earbuds/headphones while they throw. I gotta admit, I am kinda against walking a course blaring music over a portable speaker. Seems rude to me, but to each their own....

 

[JC17393]

Any time I'm playing by myself, I've usually got my earbuds in. I've played many tournaments listening to music (and occasionally a baseball/football game) with a single earbud. Like you suggest, I've used it mainly to distract me from the random thoughts in my head that I'd rather not be thinking about on the course.

 

[Pbmercil]

I like doing it in fieldwork a lot, and I'll play solo rounds this way occasionally. I've yet to try it in a tournement, but I've been meaning to.

 

[@iDiscGolf]

Always! Either headphones solo or Bluetooth with peeps.

 

[Billy K2]

I've tried it once, and wasn't a huge fan of it. I think it's good if you listen with earbuds/headphones, but blaring loud music through a speaker is just disrespectful.

 

[ZAMson]

"Who listens to music while they throw?... EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!" - disc golf bluetooth speaker industry representatives

 

[ru4por]

Not a fan. Music is a passion and the backbeat to my entire life, but I play disc golf to get away from it. Disc golf is also a passion, because it provides a different beat. Nature is the allure for me and it is rarely enhanced by music. I don't need any help keeping my head in the game.

 

[brentjacobs]

I do not but a player on my card in a recent tourney got a courtesy warning because he wasn't able to hear anyone else with his music on. He was 50+ feet past another players lie and just walked up and played. The other player was about to throw when he saw the guy and said something, then earbud guy's buddies on the card started yelling at him but he heard nothing. He was pretty embarassed when he realized and appologized.

 

[mike.sepulveda.73]

Music is a huge part if my life but it would be distracting on the course. I enjoy the social aspect of the game (as long as I can tolerate the card mates) and the music would likely throw off the rhythm of my throws.

That's not to say that I am against someone playing music through a speaker on the course just as long as it's in good taste.

 

[@iDiscGolf]

I (we) typically use it for background ambience if you will

Disc golf groups typically aren't on top of each other, at minimum 200' on a short course from tee to basket so the music shouldn't be loud enough to travel that far (annoyingly). If so that's an issue and not good etiquette. Or, if someone you play with dosent want music then yes it can be annoying. It should be a group consensus.

 

[JNichols]

Not a fan. Music is a passion and the backbeat to my entire life, but I play disc golf to get away from it. Disc golf is also a passion, because it provides a different beat. Nature is the allure for me and it is rarely enhanced by music. I don't need any help keeping my head in the game.

This is cool to hear. Are you a musician? I am a life long musician and that is part of the reason I bring this up. EVERYTHING revolves around music for me. BUT, I am very OCD, too. Disc golf is a getaway, of sorts, for my brain, but music is kinda like my drug. My brain associates everything to rhythm. Which is why I out off trying an MP3 player while I play. But, the music seems to keep my OCD/Anxiety ridden brain at ease while discing, just like it does with everything else... Anyway, sorry. Just a cool point you brought up, ru4por. :clap:

 

[ru4por]

This is cool to hear. Are you a musician? I am a life long musician and that is part of the reason I bring this up. EVERYTHING revolves around music for me. BUT, I am very OCD, too. Disc golf is a getaway, of sorts, for my brain, but music is kinda like my drug. My brain associates everything to rhythm. Which is why I out off trying an MP3 player while I play. But, the music seems to keep my OCD/Anxiety ridden brain at ease while discing, just like it does with everything else... Anyway, sorry. Just a cool point you brought up, ru4por. :clap:

No apologizing for your opinion, man. Not a musician...per se. Play around with lots of instruments, but just have music on for nearly everything I do. Disc golf is honestly one of the few things I don't really enjoy tunes with. Everyone is different. I do get what you are saying though.

 

[grotto]

I don't, I actually find it distracting and I like to hear what's around me.

Couple of times there were little kids playing in the wooded part of the course (Public park course) I wouldn't have known they were there if I hadn't heard them. Besides, I actually like the sounds of the woods.

 

[araytx]

I have a tendency to be too talkative in tournaments (so I've been told/warned), plus I'm a bit ADD, so I do listen to music in competitive tournaments, so as to relax me between throws and as we're walking up the course.

 

[corin_brown]

This old chestnut?

I do sometimes wear buds when I practice (solo rounds, putting practice, field work, reconnaissance, etc.) Definitely practice better when I'm not, though. But maybe I'd quit my session sooner if I wasn't listening to music or pods? Definitely don't during tournaments, though.

As for people who blast THEIR music on the course over their ghetto, jury-rigged porta-PA rig? An 18-inch long rat with suppurating sores > dude who broadcasts his music on the course I also happen to be playing on > dude who asks if anyone on the card minds if he broadcasts his music during a tournament round > dude who, assuming that everyone else on the card was just waiting for that person to show up so now that they're listening to Sublime songs they would never choose to listen to ever they can finally relax and REALLY compete and give themselves the BEST chance to win, just decides that he's gonna broadcast his music during a tournament round no matter what, without asking anyone if they're cool with it or not > getting AIDS > spit-outs.

 

[Jowie]

I almost always bring a Bluetooth speaker with me when I am playing. But, I have the volume very low and turn it off completely if anyone else is around.

I don't like using headphones. I like being more aware of my surroundings.

The right music can really help! The wrong...not so much.

 

[paranoid70]

Sleeping and playing disc golf are about the only times that I am not listening to music.

 

[jeremyhilss]

I love music and love to play it, but metal just doesnt seem to mesh w my calm rounds of disc...

 

[disctildeath]

Yeah I usually do if I'm by myself, or know the people I'm with and there is agreement on the selection. You can do the speaker thing if you keep it tasteful, I have a cheap mp3 player and one of those 5 dollar chargeable bomb speakers you see by the register in the impulse section, stick it in a Styrofoam cup so it gives it some depth and focus and you can hear your tunes but it won't really carry enough to bother other holes.

 

[Mr. Butlertron]

I like my disc golf the way I like all my outdoor activities, sans music.