treysonagras
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This was my first thought also. Pretty sure from now on I'm going to be putting on my best Buffalo Bill voice, replacing lotion with disc and yelling it at least twice every time I play.
Did not read the article, but it hurts my brain hearing commentators say "They just threw their second DRIVE from the fairway" or "It will take two great DRIVES to get near the basket".
DRIVE = from the TEE ONLY.
I play both so use 'ball golf' when talking about my ball golf rounds, experiences, etc. Disc golfers tend to describe their play as "golf" so there needs to be a differentiation. "Ball golf' works in that aspect. Seems lots of disc golfers really hate that 'ball golf" is the heritage of their own sport. I can say that if disc golf wasn't so anti-ball golf, the rules would make a bunch more sense.I agree with you about "ball golf" (it should realistically just be "golf") but what annoys you about "death putt"?
I sort of agree but tend to think of it as more driven by a sort of inferiority complex rather than hate of the heritage.I play both so use 'ball golf' when talking about my ball golf rounds, experiences, etc. Disc golfers tend to describe their play as "golf" so there needs to be a differentiation. "Ball golf' works in that aspect. Seems lots of disc golfers really hate that 'ball golf" is the heritage of their own sport. I can say that if disc golf wasn't so anti-ball golf, the rules would make a bunch more sense.
I agree that the word stable is misused a lot.
I'd like to see "neutral" replace "stable" because players (mainly newer players) are always using it wrong.
I often hear someone say "that disc is so stable!" when they really mean overstable.
It would be easier if there were 3 flight characteristics for discs. 1. overstable 2. neutral 3. understable. Neutral being straight flying.
Funny thing, but in that video one announcer said (at the end) "Andrew keeps his 3 stroke lead..." I think that we should change "stroke" to "throw" because you stroke a ball with a club but we throw a disc.Jimi and Carl tried, but it never caught on
I know many disc golfers would like the word stable to mean only a neutral flight, but when long time pros use it as synonymous with a flight that is more towards overstable, no matter what kind of flight they were expecting from the disc, I think that ship has sailed.
You will frequently hear pros comment "Man that disc is stable" meaning that it failed to flip, or started to hyzer earlier or harder than they expected. You won't ever here them say that same phrase if they expected the disc to be overstable and it wasn't.
Noobs might use these phrases incorrectly, but "stable" is only rarely used to mean a neutral flight IME.