I threw frisbees a lot in college as a long haired hippie. Played object golf a few times. Played ultimate from '02-'08. Then got lost in a dissertation and some medical stuff. Took a professor job in Syracuse and a colleague started bugging me to play. In summer 2015, I decided the next academic year was going to be my last year at that job, so I took up the colleague's offer, mostly bc he had been really good to me.
On Aug 1, 2015 we played Green Lakes State Park, a nine-hole just east of Syracuse designed by Steady Ed in 1997. Still has the homemade baskets, if I have my facts straight. I knew nothing about any of those details then. Eric McCabe has a video of him playing the course on YouTube.
My friend gave my some discs but had some trouble teaching me because I'm LHBH. I had some hyzer fade problems with anything with any speed, but I did okay with more lid-like discs bc of my ultimate background. One of the discs was a Star Mako (not 3), and later added a Dart and a DX teebird that I beat into the perfect HV disc.
It was a warm winter in Syracuse with "limited" snow so we played a ton. He said he knew I'd get better fast once he saw me throw that Mako. I've never gotten all that good, but I've improved. I was in a pretty bad place personally when I started playing, so I owe a lot to disc golf. Really helped me get through a bad stretch.
He and I still get together to play 2-3x a year. Cancelled some plans with him due to COVID, damnit. I try to play ever August 1. He found the sport via some Wii game, one day realizing that the actual game, and not just the video version, could be fun.