Ever consider quitting?

[simplepmart]

Probably the most genuine, honest, authentic thread I have ever seen on this site. I found it inspiring to read how everyone handles their own unique experience of dg frustration (to the point of sometimes wondering if they should quit) and subsequently how they reconciled their "crisis" & moved forward. Well played. :hfive:

I will also consider the Christian Mingle idea as a solution to every single problem I face in the future. Thank you Christian Mingle.:thmbup:

 

[Shamis]

I get bummed when I realize that I've only managed to increase my max distance by about 100 feet since I started playing. But whenever I get annoyed that I can't throw far, I just go practice putting. I can always get better at putting, and it takes more strokes off my game than adding a few more feet to my drives.

 

[DannyThunders]

I get bummed when I realize that I've only managed to increase my max distance by about 100 feet since I started playing. But whenever I get annoyed that I can't throw far, I just go practice putting. I can always get better at putting, and it takes more strokes off my game than adding a few more feet to my drives.

I practice putting nightly but i seem to get better then worse, 1 step forward 2 steps back. I feel like being good at driving would be very helpful, if you put the disc under the basket you won't need to putt.

 

[Uncle Dougie]

Probably the most genuine, honest, authentic thread I have ever seen on this site. I found it inspiring to read how everyone handles their own unique experience of dg frustration (to the point of sometimes wondering if they should quit) and subsequently how they reconciled their "crisis" & moved forward. Well played. :hfive:

I will also consider the Christian Mingle idea as a solution to every single problem I face in the future. Thank you Christian Mingle.:thmbup:

Kind of like the dg's don't quit support thread. lol

 

[bobmcnelly]

No, even if I'm having a slump in my game, that next good throw reminds you why you play.

 

[Uncle Dougie]

No, even if I'm having a slump in my game, that next good throw reminds you why you play.

:hfive:

Until the next throw goes into the shule. Then its wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[yangs1]

I just had one of these moments last weekend. After a few rounds on Saturday that were super frustrating I was really depressed about it. I get really competive with one particular person I play with on a regular basis and he really wiped up the course with me. Luckily I have a great friend who talked me off the ledge. I'm 44 and play with mostly younger people who are throwing farther every year and I'm at a plateau and will soon be on the downside of it. While the thought of quitting has entered my mind it goes away quickly. One look at a beauty of a drive and it all comes back!

 

[Discette]

If disc golf is no longer fun, you are doing it wrong.

I keep the fun in disc golf by exploring new courses.

Sometimes we all get in a funk. All it takes is one good shot to renew the love. If I am lucky, I get one of those shots every round, and this is ultimately what keeps me coming back. That and exploring new courses and meeting awesome people and being outdoors and competing at events and trying new plastic and......


I will never quit.

 

[ferretdance03]

Only the parts that became dumb and no fun. Frisbee will be in my soul forever, wedged from the inside out for Eagle.

Agreed.

 

[pmatt1969]

Besides, how can you quit? The flight of a well thrown disc as it curves through the air is one of the most beautiful sights in all of sports. I could never give that up.

The only thing better is a well struck golf shot. The ball in the air is better but only because it is smaller and the shots are longer. A 4 iron hit to 6 feet and all is right with the world :thmbup:

 

[DeadEye]

Never, or at least not in the foreseeable future. I love the competition of playing against other players, and trying to best my own records. I am not seeing much distance growth in my game over the past year or two, but my rounds are getting better and better. Not to mention I just co-designed a new course for my home-town that will give our club a completely different challenge than our old pitch-n-putt course. Designing a course was a really fun experience, and being able to play the course and watch other people play the course is really unique.

I can understand how people can get sick of it though. Especially the ones doing lots of tournaments, or running leagues. When our club first started up again it was me and another guy setting it all up, and I let him be the lead guy because he had been around much longer and had more experience. When it came time to vote other members in for other positions in the club I opted out, because I enjoy the game so much I didn't want the fun to be ruined by the stress of running a club. I play for the love of the game and try to stay away from drama or too much stress people create in the game.

 

[DG_Before_Breakfast]

Nope, don't ever think about quitting. Having started playing at the age of 42, I'm not looking to be the World Champ anytime soon.

I am mostly doing it for exercise. The challenge of getting better forces your body to perform, and gives you the motivation to get out there and play as much as you can. I have to get up at 6:30 am and plan complex logistics with my wife and kid to be able to play as much as I do, and still go to work and take care of family business. I even get up early on weekends so I can get 2 more rounds in. I also have made friends, improved relations with old friends, got my Dad and brother into the game, etc.

Things are just beginning for me in DG. I'll probably try to do Tournaments (if I can stand their slow pace), once my daughter is a bit more grown up. I do expect to get better, and have made small incremental improvements consistently. So the future is wide open, and I prefer it that way!

Good luck on finding you motivation, or finding the next thing that inspires you!

 

[jtreadwell]

Never. Cut off my legs, I'll design a disc golf wheelchair. Cut off my arms I'll get new ones made for holding a disc. Blind me and I'll get beepers. Disc or die!

 

[Anon]

When a round or day is going particularly bad I definitely find myself feeling the "screw this, why am I wasting my time chopping around this course" mentality.

Usually that feeling ends by the time the next round starts.

But its definitely there. I think everybody that takes the game relatively seriously goes through these feelings to some degree.

 

[VictorB]

You have to find ways to have fun that aren't just connected to your own skill progression. I love competing, and I've worked at getting better, but I make sure that the reason I'm playing is because I enjoy being out, not because I need to be the best. One of the best ways for me personally to reset is to go somewhere new and play a course I haven't seen before, it reminds me how much I just enjoy being out.

This is kind of the perspective that I take nowadays. I have hardly played at all this year, after knee surgery I really scaled back. I didn't enjoy hanging around our local 'competitive' crowd anymore, too many poor sports. I definitely enjoy my rounds a lot more when I get out to play, which is pretty infrequent.

But have I ever thought about quitting? At times yes, but then I realized that I'm just in a slump, and worked on a different part of my game than just playing rounds (midrange rounds, putter rounds, all sidearm drives, all roller drives, etc)

 

[Hampstead]

Quit? That's just crazy talk.

 

[simpletwist]

I'll quit only when they take that 150g Champion Leopard from my cold, dead hands.

 

[Uncle Dougie]

I'll quit only when they take that 150g Champion Leopard from my cold, dead hands.

:hfive: Nice, I giggled on that one.

 

[Deuces]

Personally:
I hope that I will always be able to play this game casually on my own schedule, but tournament competition no longer appeals to me. As someone that has been rated over 950 for several years now, I do not play anywhere near as much as I once did. Discgolf to me has just about as much significance as going bowling, or playing a game of spades. It is a fun activity, but for me, it's all about the people and new experiences. Playing against opponents that spend 5+ hours a day, 7 days a week on this game is part of what ruined it for me. My hand-eye coordination and the ranking system force me to compete against the top level of amateurs, but their unbalanced lifestyle is not something that I would ever want to emulate. For their sakes, I hope that they are magnificent at this one game, because they are missing out on so much more by devoting so much of themselves to it. Family, friends, career, religion, travel, and growth through new experiences are all much too important to me to ever want to dump so much of myself into just one thing. So I'll pass.


Generally:
I also think that by attaching the word "quit" to the subject, you are getting a lot of false bravado responses. The simple fact of the matter is that it is completely normal for people to become interested in something, learn it to the point of near mastery, then eventually move on to the next thing out of boredom. The hunger for the next new challenge is part of what makes us humans great.

 

[Stardoggy]

I thought about quitting today when I hit a tree 100' in front of me. Then I parked a big downhill shot, that I usually throw a driver on, with a Buzzz. Then, I loved it again.

Quit? No thanks. Plus, my wife would kill me if I quit after all the cash I spent on gear.