Good points. Since the courses where I live, are basically devoid of any non-disc golf traffic, I didn't even think about courses in public parks, where someone out for a run, or a picnic, could potentially be struck by a disc.
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Good points. Since the courses where I live, are basically devoid of any non-disc golf traffic, I didn't even think about courses in public parks, where someone out for a run, or a picnic, could potentially be struck by a disc.
people pay to go WATCH those events so they are there at their own risk and should be paying attention. Kids and families at parks aren't there to watch disc golf they have a rigt to the park just as much as disc golfers.... i guess you need to visit SoCal courses to understand.
It's the "head in the sand" approach.The PDGA has not set standards for course design because they are concerned that it will open them up to liability. Unfortunately not having any set of standards is worse in my opinion because it allows extremely unsafe courses to go in. I also think that having groups of players throw on other groups of players is going to be a huge safety concern in years to come.
It's the "head in the sand" approach.
It also is an area where they couldn't actually enforce any of it. So many of the crappy courses out there are put in by people who wouldn't read those guidelines even if they did exist.
I get upset over it.
That isn't the point, the point is speaking or writing in a community about disc golf where gay people, women, people of any race, or people who have loved ones with disabilities means using your brain before you post. "Retarded" or "gay" are well known to be offensive in the way used and the way you used, which is simply not a very cool thing.
The game thrived with Rocs as drivers. It could do it again, if necessary.
The destroyer would be banned under the proposal so...
Most disc golf courses are put in by parks departments who might get sued if bystanders are hit by a disc. Parks departments would try to make sure the courses meet safety standards so that they will not get sued.
We ain't talkin' 'bout the game! I'm talking about courses designed with high speed drivers in mind. To paraphrase someone wiser than I, high speed drivers fly like a bullet, teebirds and such fly like kites. Right now, if your course doesn't mesh with anything faster than a teebird, can't you just make everyone play with teebird or slower and still have your pdga sanctioning? But if my course depends on the high speed stuff, I won't be able to allow the high speed stuff and get sanctioning, right?
This is the truth. Disc golf went on a DIY path, bypassing parks and recreation to run its own events through local clubs. By doing that, you removed disc golf from anything a parks and recreation professional needed to know about. It is by design; we don't want the local parks and rec department to know how to compete with our local clubs. We want to control programming for ourselves. Because of the exclusion and because the courses are generating no income, there is no reason for a parks and recreation professional to take any sort of interest in disc golf. There is a huge knowledge gap about disc golf in the parks and recreation profession, but it is important to understand that we created and encourage that knowledge gap.If that was the case, those parks departments would actually bring in a consultant who knows how to mitigate safety concerns like they do with many other equipment installations. Right now, a disc golf course is seen as something any parks employee or anyone who's ever picked up a beach frisbee can design, there's just no understanding of the potential safety issues at the parks department level (yet).
Woah, no need to get your undies all bunched up. Besides, there's no such thing as a course that "depends" on anything. All you're talking about is adding a couple strokes per round if "warp speed" drivers are eliminated. No biggie. Let's not sweat the small stuff. Your course, the players, and everything else will be just fine.
Could we do a disc classification and then make certain classes un-useable on courses. Like a tb is a "blue-level" disc, roc "red", boss "gold" and pitch and putts in multi-use areas are "red-level" courses?
There are some very good points being made in this thread. I see it as more of a course design issue as opposed to a disc issue. Would getting hit with a max weight Champ Ape hurt someone more than a Champ Teebird? In the end someone is still getting hit with a disc and the rim width doesn't make that big a difference. It should start with courses designed so that there is a small a chance as possible for a person to get hit with an errant throw.
The game thrived with Rocs as drivers. It could do it again, if necessary.