Top Five Disc Golf ACE Shots

For your viewing pleasure, the Top Five Disc Golf ACE Shots.

Another short video of Historic Aces and Ace Runs.

SpinTV TIPS: Tunnelshots Avery Jenkins

Avery Jenkins provides tips on throwing tunnel shots for Spin TV.

Disc Golf Drive Clinic with Jay "Yeti" Reading at Disc Nation

Jay "Yeti" Reading is an Iowa native now residing in Texas provides an impromptu Driving Clinic at Disc Nation when the Pro who was supposed to do the clinic no showed. Some worthwhile discussion and demo by another pro, Zach J., assisting him.

Stafford Lake Disc Golf Course

Here's a sweet little video by uncoveredmoose on Youtube of one person and their trek to, through and leaving Stafford Lake Disc Golf Course in or near Novato, CA. Looks like a nice course to visit and play.

Enjoy!

Disc Golf Tutorial on Disc Golf Throwing Accuracy

Here's a Disc Golf Tutorial on Disc Golf Throwing Accuracy and throwing/shot strategies from Monkeysee.com.

Tips To Improving Your Sidearm

These Tips To Improving Your Sidearm come from All Things Disc Golf's blog. A familiar player, Sarah Hokum, is featured on this post. You may remember her from previous videos posted. Sarah's one of the top-rated women of Disc Golf.

Read and learn at All Things Disc Golf!

How to find and stay in ‘The Zone’: Disc Golf in a Vacuum, Part 2

Gettin' in the Flow or Playin' in the Zone...something I'm constantly challenged by. NOT just in disc golf but all areas of my life it seems. Enough of that. Click on How to find and stay in ‘The Zone’: Disc Golf in a Vacuum, Part 2 found at All Things Disc Golf. Plenty of more good thoughts on the game by playing and staying in the Zone!

Disc Golf in a Vacuum, The Epiphany Part 1

Click The Epiphany Part 1 to read The School of Disc Golf's post on this topic which tells the story of the beginning of Playing Disc Golf in a Vacuum.

Stay tuned tomorrow for How to find and stay in ‘The Zone’: Disc Golf in a Vacuum, Part 2.

The Zen of Disc Golf or Playing In The Zone

"Playing in the zone" is a saying you hear quite often. It usually refers to extraordinary play or performance. Artists probably consider being "in touch with their Muse" the same as "being in the Zone." In Disc golf, as in other sports and areas of life, being in the zone can be elusive or difficult to accomplish for an extended period of time. And, that period of time can be of any length of time, too!

Being in the zone or the Zen of anything, to me, refers to being one with whatever I'm trying to accomplish whether it be drawing, playing music, or throwing a golf disc well. It's that feeling of total immersion where I lose my self. It's selflessness. It is a constant quest and challenge.

One other way of thinking of playing in the zone is playing in a vacuum or, as expressed in Zen, empty mind. "This refers to playing disc golf with a single objective that exists in complete isolation in the mind of a disc golfer: planning and executing the flight path of a flying disc." This quoted statement is at the heart of The School of Disc Golf's philosophical concept at the center their teachings on the mental approach to the game of disc golf.

Further thoughts presented on Playing In a Vacuum by The School of Disc Golf are as follows:

■ When playing Disc Golf in a Vacuum, there is no score, no round, no tournaments . . . there aren’t even holes. There is no last throw or next throw, at least in the conscious mind. There is only the present moment, and the challenge with which one is presented. In the present. In a total and complete vacuum.

■ When playing Disc Golf in a Vacuum, results are gauged and gratification earned by achieving the desired flight path. The context of golf is a unit of measurement to be applied at the end of the round.

■ Paradoxically, by learning to play Disc Golf in a Vacuum we free our minds of performance anxiety and can shoot our best scoring rounds of golf.

■ Most importantly, playing Disc Golf in a Vacuum produces a more substantial and lasting kind of enjoyment and gratification. It is practically impossible to not have fun! Controlling the disc is its own reward, and falling short of that objective presents the opportunity to learn and grow.

Stay tuned tomorrow for Disc Golf in a Vacuum, The Epiphany Parts 1 & 2.

Disc Golf - Beyond Winning and Losing

Here's a video by The Guardians of Recreation that is a bit over done yet entertaining and harbors some basic life truths all at the same time. Not to mention many of the bad shots remind me of my bad shots!

It is to LAUGH!!! And these guys, macrodetaos on youtube, are definitely having fun producing their videos as well as disc golf.

Here's The Guardian of Recreation Credo

Stress wears us down, until we have no energy left for anything except passive consumption. Consumption pervades our culture - through television, magazines, music, news, politics and drugs... everything that we do not create with our own thoughts and actions - but consume from some external source. A passive life is a life poorly lived.

Creative energy is the most potent and pleasurable force on this planet. Without creativity, nothing can begin, change or improve. Our species is ripe for re-creation.

We re-create ourselves when we play. Play is any creative activity that alleviates physical and mental stress.

Step one... turn off your TV and begin to re-create.

The Guardians believe that an equitable balance of work and play will reduce passivity and generate feelings of joy, freedom and enthusiasm. The resulting increase of creative energy will save the universe.

I have to say, I do agree with their credo wholeheartedly. Enjoy!

Driving with Feldberg and Shusterick

These videos were posted late last year shortly after I came encountered them. Then, the other day, while playing a round with Félix he mentioned his field work where he is developing a powerful, big gun, hyzer and the advice he garnered from Shusterick's video on Driving. Shusterick's video promotes driving from a stand still position until one gets the mechanics of the throw down. It's good advice and, as Ken Climo says, this game's got a lot of little intricacies related to how one throws and the body movement.

Shusterick covers several points well in his video; working on the lower body, weight shift, practicing in a field, the reach back, keeping the disc close to the body with a little lean over the disc or the pull through, practice driving from a stand still position, and the involvement of the hip. Feldberg's video primarily focuses on involving the hip as crucial in facilitating distance.

Something Will doesn't speak about but is clearly evident in the video is how his fore foot goes from toes to heel to toes. He doesn't mention this as it appears to happen naturally just by good form. I've seen and heard this point brought up in a previous video. It may Feldberg's.

I thought putting these two videos on the same post would be good comparison from two different top players. Both explain their positions well. Hope these help you out like they're helping me out in my pursuit of getting better driving-wise.

First Feldberg's video

Dave Feldberg 2013 Video Tip #1 from Fenton Creative Video on Vimeo.

Now Shusterick's

Understanding How Discs Fly

Here's an entertaining and very informative video for beginners that explains how discs work. It's designed for beginners who have no clue why discs fly the way they don't want them to. The plan is to help reduce frustration, play more better and have more fun. By the Guardians of Recreation.

There's lots of good information on discs from flight chart and numbering system explanation, disc selection, disc weight, overstable vs. stable vs. understable, anhyzer and hyzer angles, and disc flight in windless and windy situations. Plus, the video's background provides good contrast with the discs being thrown making the voiceover easy to follow the discs flight path.