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Recent content by DavidSauls

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    Championship Level Course Designers/Builders Help

    You might start at DGCDwiki, or message Chuck Kennedy, for a start.
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    Cicada [the bug] Report Card

    Field report: After 13 years underground, our cicadas have a LOT to say.
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    Why does the PDGA think I'm a woman?

    I fat-fingered a few TD reports, back before online registrations became the norm. Was once surprised to see a player from Japan had played our little C-tier in South Carolina, and wondered how I missed him at the actual event.
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    Advice in Georgia and Carolina

    I'm tired now, just from reading that course list. I assume your visit coincided with this spell of great spring weather, too.
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    Where are you going in 2024?

    If the eclipse gets clouded out, but you play some good new courses, at least you got in what would have been a good vacation. As opposed to those who are spending thousands of dollars and traveling just to see the eclipse. I had originally planned to head for south Texas, but events scuttled...
  6. Course Preview: Stoney Hill (Garnet Layout)

    Course Preview: Stoney Hill (Garnet Layout)

    Drone footage of Garnet layout
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    How to measure elevation change?

    Which brings to mind a thought. We have two holes on our course that are, essentially, level. That is, the tee is at about the same elevation as the basket. But one goes steeply uphill, runs level, then back downhill. The other is a downhill drive, a good ways along the low area, then to a...
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    How to measure elevation change?

    I like leaving it to the player's judgment, myself. "316 feet on the sign. Is that the equivalent of 222', or 405'? Let me take my best guess...."
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    Old Farts Only 40+ (no kids allowed)

    When I don't feel depressed enough at the distance I lost over the decades, I remember the discs I was throwing in the 1990s. Today's better discs and plastics are masking an even greater decline.
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    How to measure elevation change?

    I'd start with asking just how accurate those signs really are. But they might be. I understand that there are commercial-grade GPS devices that are very accurate. We hired a contractor to build a pond for us, and he laid it out with some sort of device, not surveyor's tools.
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    On the road to recovery....

    And the life I live now's an extra life I can waste as I please on whom I please. So if you see me celebrate two birthdays, And give myself out of two different ages, One of them five years younger than I look-... --Robert Frost
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    On the road to recovery....

    Man. I've been out 3 1/2 months, and am eagerly looking forward to throwing a little, soon. I can't imagine how good it must feel to throw after that ordeal, and all that time.
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    Water discs question

    Sounds like you'll be getting a lot more kayaking practice than disc golf practice. Plus, practice with discs you wouldn't otherwise throw, is of limited use. But, hey, if you're having fun... My experience is that I once had a Dragon, and it was one of the worst discs I ever threw. I've had...
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    It may seem harsh, but when I see somebody reach for their Mamba I cringe a little

    Or perhaps it's just about the smugness of mocking someone's disc choices. I've come to think that there are so many models, because there are so many arms, and every disc is the right disc for someone. As for the Mamba, I and what's left of my old arm had one that was one of my go-to drivers...
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    It may seem harsh, but when I see somebody reach for their Mamba I cringe a little

    Mambas are flippy? Not to my arm, they're not!
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