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Bragging about cubby aces and short hole aces

scarpfish said:
I think people overworship aces in general. I mean, they're nice, but in a scored round, they count all of the equivalent of two birdies.
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That's the way I see it. No doubting they're incredible shots, but ultimately, it's just one stroke better than a deuce. :|

Jesterian said:
An ace is just an overshot drive that happened to hit chains. It's fun to get one, but no reason to brag.
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... more often than not.


New013 said:
I aced your mom
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FWIW - his mom says it never happened. Something about flaccid, lifeless, no Viagra...
 
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Aced a 135 foot hole today. Skip ace with a monster. Signed the number plate even though it was my 2nd shot from the fairway. Suck it haters!
 
Jesterian said:
An ace is just an overshot drive that happened to hit chains. It's fun to get one, but no reason to brag.
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On long holes 300+ yeah your right but almost every course has that 200-250 foot putter hole that is a straight ace run. Even more so if you can throw a hyzer at it so that the disc is coming down at basket length if you get the height wrong your still usually parked.
 
I have 22 aces, all on 1st shot. but if i threw 3, I'd still say I aced it....who cares....its fun dammit....and I would LOVE to see you ace the 170 ft hole I aced....Uphill, trees everywhere, I think an open 300 footer is way easier. So distance means jack squat unless it's 325+ then it's downright awesome. But yeah, I can play a picnic course with all 120-150 footers and chain off and ace holes way easier....an ace IS an ace. No bragging, just fun to talk about and see.

******If you hit that 60 ft putt are you not pumped and excited??????? so 100-150 ft ace? or a 60-80 ft putt.......you tell me. So next time you wanna talk about that 100 ft putt you sank, I'll say "well I aced a 170 ft hole" so......hmmmmmmm. Don't let your undies get all in a bunch. It's Disc Golf, we love to see the disc fly...and land in that basket...at any range
 
Ugh, everyone stop with the false modesty. It's disingenuous and gross.

It doesn't matter if it's 100' or 350'. It doesn't really matter if you have one or one hundred... an ace is cool, and, if you hit one, good for you. There's nothing wrong with being proud of an ace and telling someone (who might actually care) about it. Just don't be a jerk or a braggart, and nobody will fault you for being excited and happy.

I don't have any aces. If one of my friends hit an ace while we were playing and was like, "meh, it's really just an eagle when you think about it," or, "that was a long shot that just happened to go in," I would probably kick them in the nuts. That would never happen, though, because who the hell wouldn't be excited?

Having said that, a cubby ace is not an ace. It's just a cool shot that didn't count for anything.
 
No, no, no..."Cubby Aces" (as I understand them, practice ones not thrown in a standard round) don't count. Otherwise my 10 lifetime aces would have to be around 30 or so. I can remember where, when, and with what Discs my real aces are going back to 1996. Practice aces? Don't we all hit two or three a year? Crap almighty, I hit two 200-footers in my backyard just last year. No way in Hell that counts!

I also don't count two aces I got on 100' holes. That's just stupid. The holes shouldn't exist in the first place.
 
Cubby Aces = practice


Real Aces: One could make the argument that Aces are underappreciated on the scorecard. Much tougher than birdies, but the score doesn't appropriately reward them.
 
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Jesterian said:
An ace is just an overshot drive that happened to hit chains. It's fun to get one, but no reason to brag.
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Not always. Both mine would have left a short putt for 2. 1st was a thumber that lost most of its momentum after glancing off a tree, 2nd was coming in hyzer and crashed chains. The only one I ever threw straight at the chains bounced off the pole and out.
 
BogeyNoMore said:
Cubby Aces = practice

Real Aces: One could make the argument that Aces are underappreciated on the scorecard. Much tougher than birdies, but the score doesn't appropriately reward them.
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One could make the argument, but one could also make the argument that Aces always have a significant luck component. A genuine pro will bird a 300' open hole a significant majority of the time. Skill takes it from par to bird, luck takes it from bird to ace.

Aces are still exciting though, but the distance/difficulty of what gets me excited for someone does scale. A Pro player Aces a 300' open hole, that's nice. A Rec player acing the same hole got just as lucky but the skill exercised to make the drive that gave them the chance at the ace was their personal top performance and that is exciting.
 
Improbably said:
One could make the argument, but one could also make the argument that Aces always have a significant luck component. A genuine pro will bird a 300' open hole a significant majority of the time. Skill takes it from par to bird, luck takes it from bird to ace.
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This is actually a great way to look at it. The skill lies in giving yourself a decent chance at an ace (i.e. putting it in the circle consistently), the luck lies in actually hitting it. Skilled players are more likely to put discs close to the basket, therefore they give themselves more chances to be lucky.
 
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BogeyNoMore said:
This is actually a great way to look at it. The skill lies in giving yourself a decent chance at an ace (i.e. putting it in the circle consistently), the luck lies in actually hitting it. Skilled players are more likely to put discs close to the basket, therefore they give themselves more chances to be lucky.
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I'm flattered you noticed how great my ways of looking at things are.
 
Question: If you are playing weekly doubles and there is an odd number of people, someone plays by themselves and throws 2 shots. If the second shot goes in after seeing how the first one flew, is that an ACE or a CUBBY? IMO, it should count as an ace since both drives are playable. Thoughts?
 
My thought on this thread is...

Why not let people be happy about whatever they are happy about, if they are happy about throwing plastic into chains, just celebrate along with them. Is that really hurting you in any way? It costs you nothing to give a cheer or a high-five, but the benefit to the recipient might be huge. Who knows what kind of bad times they've been suffering, and they really might need that lift.

To bring someone down because whatever they're happy about doesn't meet your personal criteria for happiness is just, well, sociopathic.
 
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