DG Superstitions

[Jimb]

In your cutest "love my puppy or kitten voice..."

Good disc... that's such a good little disc. You do love Daddy don't you! Do you want to try the chains again?

Way too little sleep and way too much caffeine apparently!

 

[practiceputts81]

After finishing the hole, if theres time i will take a few practice putts (hence my username) to boost my confidence, and i always slap the chains before moving on to the next hole.

 

[sub ceroh]

After finishing the hole, if theres time i will take a few practice putts (hence my username) to boost my confidence, and i always slap the chains before moving on to the next hole.

I am a chain slapper too.

 

[Marty McFly]

I always put my right shoe and sock on first. Then the left follows, but never ever is first.

 

[zenbot]

Asking for someone's score before they've holed out.

 

[CwAlbino]

I don't like to know my score during tournament, I just play and get the score at the end. I'm not sure if that's superstition or just not wanting to pressure myself.

 

[ThePatrick]

Asking for someone's score before they've holed out.

I hate that one. I have lost many a putt to some one asking "Everybody got a three right?" Inevitably I step up and dink.

 

[Adaven]

whenever I pick up a good throw I slap the disc against my right leg. Its like a pat on the back.

 

[Geraldo]

Asking for someone's score before they've holed out.

this can drive people crazy but I have to keep doing it. I also keep my putter out(constantly spinning it on my index finger)until i get to the next tee, only then can I put it up.

 

[billnchristy]

Something silly I will do with a new disc or a disc that has "gotten bad habits" is to slap it around the chains a little bit to remind it where it is supposed to go.

I have also found the leg slapping thing to work pretty good with the putter.

 

[zenbot]

After finishing the hole, if theres time i will take a few practice putts (hence my username) to boost my confidence, and i always slap the chains before moving on to the next hole.

Those could count against you in a tournament.

 

[Neophyte]

Something silly I will do with a new disc or a disc that has "gotten bad habits" is to slap it around the chains a little bit to remind it where it is supposed to go.

I have also found the leg slapping thing to work pretty good with the putter.

"Thats a bad disc, bad disc, you know what you did..." or

"That's your home. What are you too good for your home?"

 

[Roc1Time]

We refer to that as "nice-ing" a disc. I.e. "Nice shot".

Sometimes if you "nice" a disc really well you can get it to go all the way into the water.

There are people I play with that always get mad when they get niced, as if niceing them changed the way they threw the disc

 

[CwAlbino]

first ace, gotta finish the round

There are people I play with that always get mad when they get niced, as if niceing them changed the way they threw the disc

I've never heard of niced, but I can see where people get that sometimes. However there are so many times where "niceing" would just show that it has no effect on the flight of the disc. I watched a friend of mine throw an ace on hole one at my home course. We were just about to leave and since hole one was by the parking lot we threw that hole real quick. He tossed his eagle with a nice flick anhyzer, then turned around to talk to the rest of us, not even watching where it was going. Another friend says, "nice toss". It got 3/4 down the fairway and my mouth just dropped, "Matt, Matt, Matt, MATT!!!!". He turns around just in time to see it fall in the bottom of the basket, no chains, and his first ace ever. Call it a superstition but we had to play another round, regardless of the fact we were intending on leaving.

 

[mashnut]

We always kid about people nicing each other, but nobody I play with actually gets mad about it. It's more of a joking excuse for a bad throw.

 

[Roc1Time]

Ya its funny to see someone get mad about it but it does happen down here, and now its more of a joke because we know who those people are and nothing is more fun then doing it on EVERY shot

 

[mashnut]

Yeah, I can imagine doing that to someone who's uptight about it being a lot of fun. In a tournament this weekend, a guy on my card one of the rounds was a really angry guy, and got even angrier whenever the third guy on the card and I would laugh about one of our own poor shots or give each other a hard time. Needless to say, we weren't going to stop having a good time just because he wanted us to be as angry as he was, and he came very close to melting down near the end of the round. Apparently his second round was even worse...

 

[magictenor1]

Ya its funny to see someone get mad about it but it does happen down here, and now its more of a joke because we know who those people are and nothing is more fun then doing it on EVERY shot

Yea,I could see that being a blast. I am competitive but you have to have fun out there.

 

[jroll]

i read a good chunk of this post yesterday thinking I had no disc superstitions. Well I do after playing a round. I found the two thing I do are on the teebox. When I first get on to the teebox i scrape my shoes on the tee like I have mud on my shoes. this happens everytime even if the course is dry and the bottom of my shoes are super clean. the second is once I get ready to tee off I spin the disc in my hand until my grip feels right. I can't seem to just grab and throw I have to feel out my grip first

 

[Camgolfer]

i read a good chunk of this post yesterday thinking I had no disc superstitions. Well I do after playing a round. I found the two thing I do are on the teebox. When I first get on to the teebox i scrape my shoes on the tee like I have mud on my shoes. this happens everytime even if the course is dry and the bottom of my shoes are super clean. the second is once I get ready to tee off I spin the disc in my hand until my grip feels right. I can't seem to just grab and throw I have to feel out my grip first

I'll be watching you on Saturday to see if these things happen....