What generation are we?

[brettricewku]

What generation in the life of disc golf are we? I think we are the third. Generation 1 included lids and ultimate discs that were taken from passing to aiming at targets. Generation 2 was the move from these lids to beveled edged pieces of plastics that traveled farther. Generation 3 is the the development of warp speed drivers and the birth of companies.

What do you think?

What will start the next generation?

 

[Tiny]

Next generation: Over saturation of discs (not necessarily a bad thing for players or big companies)

 

[ohtobediscing]

The next generation is already here: the coagulation of noobs into roving groups of disc nerds.

 

[BENFTS]

As someone who played then didn't for years only to pick it back up again the change was amazing. Perhaps we can begin to define generations by periods of development in the game, PDGA, TV coverage, and international competition

 

[bholy08]

We are the grandchildren. Too young to remember; too self-confident to care.

 

[Mabuku1]

The next generation is already here: the coagulation of noobs into roving groups of disc nerds.

haha. you just described the birth of disc golf.

 

[RUSSELL]

as an answer to the op's question: i am 1st generation.

 

[Steve West]

Well, I'm the first generation, I guess. I first tried to throw a Frisbee in a basket in 1962.

 

[KMoneyWinthropGold]

I think we're still in the 3rd Generation. It seems that each company wants to come out with the "fastest disc on the market" or the "farthest flying disc" etc. Still in that phase where these high tech drivers are reinventing the game in more ways than one. I've only played for about 3 years and am definitely a member of the 3rd generation. I think that the 4th generation would come about once Disc Golf goes "mainstream", not in a NBA or NFL way but in a monetary way when it can be profitable (Maybe even have a Free Agency and Collective Bargaining and whatnot hahah) In any case, we're definitely coming to a new era in Disc Golf.

 

[Swisher Streets]

I honestly believe disc golf will never be televised on a nationwide tv station. Maybe a clip here or there but I doubt there will ever be an hour time slot set aside to show the final 9 of worlds. Anytime I tell people I disc golf competitively they always laugh, don't see that changing drastically anytime soon. Realistically it's not that fun to watch unless you're into it and there's a pretty small market as far as potential advertisers.

 

[Jay Dub]

I played for two years with nothing but lids around 1980. About 6-7 years later I found golf discs. I've been throwing plastic for about 42 years. I can't remember a time I was not throwing a disc of some kind.

I miss tossing lids, most people aren't interested anymore.

Nice thread!

 

[Grungedude42]

I played for two years with nothing but lids around 1980. About 6-7 years later I found golf discs. I've been throwing plastic for about 42 years. I can't remember a time I was not throwing a disc of some kind.

I miss tossing lids, most people aren't interested anymore.

Nice thread!

I may have born in '81, but I'd still try out an ultrastar round, just because.

 

[Toro71]

I'm masters age, noob stage.

Played maybe 10 rounds in the mid 90's with a Shark and an XD. Never took, I had almost no frisbee background at all.

Got reintroduced and hooked about 3 years ago. Almost no discing experience and so many choices out there, now including 2 piece discs.

I'm generation 3.0-3.2

 

[thrembo]

I played for two years with nothing but lids around 1980. About 6-7 years later I found golf discs. I've been throwing plastic for about 42 years. I can't remember a time I was not throwing a disc of some kind.

I miss tossing lids, most people aren't interested anymore.

Nice thread!

I'll throw some lids with you Jay Dub. Next time I come up, I'll bring my Wham-os and we'll hit Winton Woods lol.

 

[Jay Dub]

I'll throw some lids with you Jay Dub. Next time I come up, I'll bring my Wham-os and we'll hit Winton Woods lol.

I mean too play toss and catch with the lids, but if you want to play a round at Winton with them I'm up for that also. :thmbup:

Didn't you come to town this past holiday?

 

[Sadjo]

The current generation is more likely the 2nd generation. Each change doesnt make a generation.

I consider old school to be anything made before high speed drivers. The other day someone asked if i'd be willing to sell some of my old school plastic. I thought they wanted some of my old Aces or Hammers....maybe an original Scorpion. No, they we talking about going through my stashes of CE, which I still think of as new school.

 

[ru4por]

I grew up in a time where just tossing a lid back and forth working on tricks and generally just wasting summer days away was a part of our youth. There was a transition to golf discs. I don't know if that is really how it works anymore. I would guess there are at least one generation of golfers who have never thrown a lid.

 

[DavidSauls]

The current generation is more likely the 2nd generation. Each change doesnt make a generation.

I consider old school to be anything made before high speed drivers. The other day someone asked if i'd be willing to sell some of my old school plastic. I thought they wanted some of my old Aces or Hammers....maybe an original Scorpion. No, they we talking about going through my stashes of CE, which I still think of as new school.

Generally speaking, I don't see any real threshholds to separate generations of disc golf.

Discwise, I don't go back to the introduction of the beveled edge. The threshhold in my life was premium plastic; I go back to the DX-only (and other manufacturer's equivalent). I guess it was Millenium, then Champion Edition that changed the disc world a bit.

Personally, I think of the generations as (1) the players who were playing before I started, (2) the players who were starting out about the same time as I was, over a couple of year period, and (3) everyone who came later. That is, 1974-1995, 1995-2000, 2001-2013 and beyond. But that's strictly a personal perspective.

 

[Sadjo]

The first might be those with PDGA numbers between 001-999, the second with number between 1,000-9,999. The third is current. Fourth will start when we hit 100,000 members. If you're not a member, you belong with the generation of PDGA number that correlate to when you started becoming 'serious' with Disc Golf.

 

[Okie-J]

LIDS to 1st legit Discs - Gen1
DX days until Millennium stuff hit - Gen2
Innova and Discraft mold and premium plastic revolution - Gen4
Current explosion of DG companies and newbs - Gen5