robdeforge
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Have you considered that he's more competitive against himself, than against others?
I feel like your comment is borderline disrespectful towards people who would rather be competitive with themselves.
"In the weight of balance, showing off and actually competing and focusing on winning. is that the prize money in disc golf is not that big of a deal for the top 10 guys. like, we don't play for the prize money. what helps us is the bonuses we get from sponsors, any other sponsor deals like our bags or our shoes, any equipment we use on the course. like all those deals are usually a much bigger deal to us than the thousand or 3 thousand we get for finishing top 3 in a tournament.
so yea, my money I've been winning from tournament prize money has actually been like a very very small piece of my yearly income. so I had to like weight out is for me important to be on the podium, win tournaments, get titles, or is it more important to be the guy that everyone enjoys watching. to be the guy that people talk about. be the guy that the camera crews wanna film and people like commentating about me. just stuff like that that always seemed more appealing to me.
like I noticed very early on that winning and the attention of being the inner and having to do a speech at the end... that kind of stuff, I never liked that. and I always thought I was wrong for not liking that. but everybody is different. but just because i'm a professional athlete doesn't mean I have to do everything I can to win. I take the approach for making the sport look attractive and entertaining and fun to watch."
It's really interesting to me that he's making that in to an either/or proposition.