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Gonna throw some discs at some baskets and hopefully if anyone of authority approaches me I can chalk it up to exercise. For those not in the know disc golf is played like ball golf but with a Frisbee like object. There are a few courses around here and they are underutilized by actual disc golf players. They are over-utilized by people drinking goon during the daytime and smoking cigarette butts. One day I'd like to do a Tron cosplay and play some nighttime disc golf with neon targets.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:14
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My son is a fanatic. Special Bag that holds like 15 discs (a lot found), they gamble their discs for each round. I taught him how to throw when he was a young Burt  Good social distance sport too.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:19
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Please, Jim is dead...
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Apr 13, 2020 23:20
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Burt Sexual posted:My son is a fanatic. Special Bag that holds like 15 discs (a lot found), they gamble their discs for each round. I taught him how to throw when he was a young Burt Has it occurred to you that your son is using his love of the sport to smoke copious amounts of marijuana, and his true love of the sport wont blossom until hes in his late 20s. Speaking from personal experience only.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:21
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They've closed the courses here because idiots keep coming in big groups to play.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:22
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The_Continental posted:Has it occurred to you that your son is using his love of the sport to smoke copious amounts of marijuana, and his true love of the sport wont blossom until hes in his late 20s. Speaking from personal experience only. Unlikely, but at least he’s not driving drunk
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Apr 13, 2020 23:24
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Johnny Walker posted:They've closed the courses here because idiots keep coming in big groups to play.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:39
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Stay inside please
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Apr 13, 2020 23:40
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The_Continental posted:Has it occurred to you that your son is using his love of the sport to smoke copious amounts of marijuana, and his true love of the sport wont blossom until hes in his late 20s. Speaking from personal experience only. 1999 is just a big old haze of weed smoke and disc golf for me, it was great. Bonus points because back then and in this area, NOBODY played disc golf except the indie rock stoners (and also, for some reason, literally Metallica when they played here lol) Having seen James Hetfield throw a Frisbee is a trip
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Apr 13, 2020 23:41
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I started to play when I was in high school and it was a great way to break away from my (in retrospect kinda lovely) group of friends. I met people who were much older and way different to me. Its such a good relaxing sport and can be as competitive as you want it to be.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:50
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Seriously though, stay the gently caress inside.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:56
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The_Continental posted:There are a few courses around here and they are underutilized by actual disc golf players. They are over-utilized by people drinking goon during the daytime and smoking cigarette butts. I thought the point of disc golfing was that you drink while you're doing it
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Apr 14, 2020 00:01
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Julius CSAR posted:Seriously though, stay the gently caress inside. I'd rather not. I'm in Australia and my course is located in the back of a sprawling public park. I've only seen one other person there in the 2 years I've been playing the course and they were about 100M away from me. Health.gov.au has qualified exercise as an "essential activity", and this is something I'll be doing solo. Exercise and out of doors activity are a big part of my life and well-being. I've also been unemployed since January and decided to take the leap and start a career change mere weeks before this whole thing reached a head. Stress has been high and this is a good healthy way to decompress while maintaining social distance. Loden Taylor posted:I thought the point of disc golfing was that you drink while you're doing it You can and I have, but as with anything you'll play a lot better sober.
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Apr 14, 2020 00:10
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The_Continental posted:You can and I have, but as with anything you'll play a lot better sober. I find that I actually get better as I loosen up and stop thinking about form so much until somewhere around the back 9 when I'm drunk af and my skill dives off a cliff, so I'm gonna say alcohol and disc golf is a Land of Contrasts
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Apr 14, 2020 00:24
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I used to think that somewhere between 2 and 3 beers was my sweet spot but then I realized I had just been playing for a while and my muscle memory had come back.
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Apr 14, 2020 00:30
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Westside Discs all day.
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Apr 14, 2020 00:41
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I find it's easier to stay 100ft away from everyone else on the disc golf course compared to walking around the neighborhood or on easily accessible trails. That said, you are sharing the baskets with everyone else - you have to be a little aware of where your discs are compared to normal times. Some of the groups I've seen on the course are clearly families, other foursomes are definitely not.
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Apr 14, 2020 01:05
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im appreciating the extremely low bar that qualifies are exercise here
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Apr 14, 2020 01:25
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Thats a fair point, I guess I'll make sure I'm sanitizing my hands while throwing. And again, its really difficult for me to overstate how little the course gets used. This is North Brisbane. Most people have never even heard of disc golf. A foursome is drat near unheard of. AKZ posted:Westside Discs all day. I've never thrown any Westside! I want to give them a shot but as a former Michigan boy I've played with a lot of Discraft. Poohs Packin fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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Apr 14, 2020 01:34
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Chinatown posted:im appreciating the extremely low bar that qualifies are exercise here Chinatown IRL: 
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Apr 14, 2020 01:44
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The_Continental posted:I've never thrown any Westside! I want to give them a shot but as a former Michigan boy I've played with a lot of Discraft. If I remember right I went wraith groove nuke sword and now queen. Had a bunch of randoms mixed in but those were the main ones.
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Apr 14, 2020 01:56
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I miss getting stoned and playing disc golf
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Apr 14, 2020 01:59
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sorry i only play ultimate
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Apr 14, 2020 02:10
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numberoneposter posted:sorry i only play ultimate look at this nerd, just fuckin look at him
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Apr 14, 2020 02:12
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we all got real real high and went over to the disc golf course and it was closed up we done all got real high for nothing
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Apr 14, 2020 02:12
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TheAardvark posted:we all got real real high and went over to the disc golf course and it was closed up same except nobody controlled anything at the local disc golf courses so we did stupid poo poo like play in hurricane winds and laughed like morons (we were definitely morons)
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Apr 14, 2020 02:13
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i live in denver and i tried playing in 50 mph winds once i drove that fucker 600 feet directly behind me. god bless.
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Apr 14, 2020 02:29
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I tried taking my partner out to play because she bought me some discs for christmas. She has barely thrown a frisbee which I thought would probably be to her benefit. It was not. She sliced her first throw directly into a horrible creek that is probably filled with poisonous snakes.
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Apr 14, 2020 02:35
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TheAardvark posted:we all got real real high and went over to the disc golf course and it was closed up Hey buddy unless they got guard dogs that course is fair game.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:02
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Losing your first few discs is part of the authentic experience As is finding other people's lost discs The circle of life. And also of Frisbees
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Apr 14, 2020 03:05
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In that way it is the same as regular golf.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:07
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numberoneposter posted:sorry i only play ultimate look at this freakin badass
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Apr 14, 2020 03:10
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:In that way it is the same as regular golf. Its scored the same. You get a point for each throw or "stroke". You throw from where the disc lies. You are penalized for going out of bounds or ending up in a hazard. There are different discs for different purposes (distance drivers, fairway driers, midrange, approach, putter, etc.) and they all fly differently.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:18
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No drinks carts tho. It's inferior in that regard. Weed is way more acceptable so there is still balance.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:21
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precision posted:Losing your first few discs is part of the authentic experience I found a disc last year with a phone number on it and was able to get it back to the owner's sister. She mailed it to him and he was heading to the Australian Disc Golf Championships the next week. Kinda cool.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:30
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disc golf is good op
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Apr 14, 2020 04:09
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Disc golf dangerous if you practice social distancing. If you're more than 6 feet from people, you might get pegged in the head by a Frisbee.
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Apr 14, 2020 05:00
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How does one 'drink goon'?
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Apr 14, 2020 05:11
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Goon is the Australian term for cheap boxed wine. Alcohol is very expensive here and goon is usually the best "bang for your buck" option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4LQglpbrsw here is a professional documentary about it.
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The_Continental posted:Goon is the Australian term for cheap boxed wine. Alcohol is very expensive here and goon is usually the best "bang for your buck" option. it's like a tooth grater
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