Recent content by agibson

Are 7-9 pulled? Or just at some distance from 6 and the others? Would be great to add the location of the first basket, and of course a locally known layout, since it sounds like it exists. I teed off from the sidewalk by the bell. And 1-6 basically flowed from there. But, I couldn't find 7-9...

And YouTube probably offers a better replay experience. I'll admit, it's a little cool to be able to pull up a disc golf event on ESPN3. But, it really seems to me that ESPN3's archival experience has gotten worse over the years. (I use it a fair bit for college basketball.) It's probably...

Cool of them to make a set. But, they're not going to be _that_ light, right? 150+ g for the Pearl and Ruby, and 140+ g for the Diamond? Not so much different, at least in weight, than an Innova DX Starter Set. When my kids were little (e.g. 6, 7) going _really_ light, as with a 100 g Polecat...

Rogers Lakewood, Valparaiso, 13th annual is coming up. Not so old, but going strong. Usually below freezing. Sometimes with snow - usually at least a bit of ice. So far we've been light on snow this year, albeit with a few sub-zero days under our belts.

A little googling suggests that N2 is a bit _more_ sensitive to temperature than O2 or air. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Thermal+Expansion Not much more, ideal gas law and all, but 0.2% more sensitive. Nitrogen is pretty common in explosives, at least historically -...

I'll mention it in course conditions too, but I don't suppose i'd allow it to push the course all the way to unplayable. I'd reserve that for something like gate locked, police action, etc. Extreme bugs or poison ivy are definitely something a player has to know about. If you come prepared...

One hole in Livermore, CA, maybe it's the last, has a big bush/thicket as the main fairway obstacle. For at least several days, while I was in town, there was a camp inside of it. I never saw the resident, but at least a sleeping bag, I think a pillow, maybe a few other items. Playing with my...

Our local town parks have an official curfew of 10 PM, which isn't very well publicized. Rogers Lakewood used to have a gate that might get locked on any given night, perhaps around 9:30 PM, perhaps around 10:00 PM, maybe later, maybe never. The off-duty copy tasked with closing up the park...

Now that I notice that it's the first ten-year band, it's a little less interesting.

Interesting to see the second peak in the distribution in the 30's. I saw baskets in Adler Park, Libertyvillle, IL in the late 80's or early 90's, but never played. Playing Ultimate in high school, college, grad school, at some point I had disc golf on my radar as something that would be cool...

For me they're personal mementos. My first was Barsby, when I just stumbled upon him running a clinic at a local course. Almost a random disc (in fact, one of my go-to understable discs), as a memento. I did keep throwing it, and am still a little sad to have lost it in the poison ivy at...

No DG-specific road trips, but I did have a couple of driving trips and picked up a few courses and states along the way. Mostly just course bagging, a nine holer here and there to brake up the drive, or to add a state to the “played” list. New York (this spring) Heckscher Forest DGC...

Looks like an urban legend (one study... debunked, probably successfully?).

Basing it on the performance of the division, instead of on something a skosh more objective like a round rating, seems additionally wrong-headed. All of this might be easier to analyze with rated players. But, it seems like there's a widespread culture of players "playing up" (in some...

At the risk of restarting a conversation that ended long ago (though I don't see the discussion in this thread, flipping through quickly), this thread just crossed my radar. I guess this change, quoted above, went in at some point? (At least a lot more courses than in the past seem to have no...