Recent content by FredV

A manufacturer that sells product to a brick and mortar retailer then goes about making it possible for others to compete directly with that retailer is betraying a basic trust that underlies a fundamental business principle. It promises a succession of failed small businesses, while the maker...

4.50 star(s) Exit 140 draws you out of the groove in the pine and hardwood forest that is highway 31 north of Muskegon, Michigan. You look out onto a terrain shaped by the last ice age and a few determined farmers. Untouched by the grower's machines, Flip City adds a few pads and baskets to the trees and...

While the disc brands pulled out of the water may corrolate with the larger study of disc popularity, it may be useful to note that being in the water means that it is a sampling of unsuccessful throws. Pool occupancy and brands analysis can lead to some perverse conclusions: The best brand is...

My rating is 862. If I play an 18 hole course totaling 6500 feet and finish even, I've done very well. When I play a course and end up 6 or 7 under par I probably haven't been made to make golf shots on each hole. A quality course should have no easy birdies for "duffers" like me. A hole that I...

The game is all about the "golf shot" and the consistent putt. A quality drive on a par 3 with a good putt near the circle is a sporting birdie. A long accurate drive then an accurate approach with a good putt on a par 4 is sporting a birdie. A good tee shot, a superior fairway drive, a well...

Our preferences vary. That's why tee-times are done - so the hole order is the same. To have more holes per day, you get what you get with shot-gun. My Division MS1 will often get #1 or #18 because...well..were slow.;-)

That's some firm but friendly advice. My interest in things used in discgolf is not even close to the interest I have in the people that play it. Sport is a metaphor for so many aspects of our culture. When I started these threads I had no illusions that I would be giving voice to a long held...

...and there's another one.

I am not certain that the time will come when your responses to strangers are considerate of more than your personal experiences. When I find that you are willing to reach beyond your experience I will respond again.

That's good to hear. Where I can engage in a discussion where I remain humble, I can avoid being the target of those who regularly take on a role of humiliating others.

At one point in this single effort to get some broad discussion going about an issue that concerned me, I wondered whether I was coming off as a know-it-all...making my points along the way. Then I looked at the small number of post I had versus the number of posts from others who had their...

That's probably some good advice. But, inconsistent manufacturing is part of what drives me here. This has not been a big deal for me for the last 30 some years and it will shortly be no big deal again. This is what we may call an organizational purge, after which I get to do what I can to fix...

Much of what I have said in these posts has been in the role of "devil's advocate", posing questions and expressing views for the purpose of obtaining various opinions about the discs we can legitimately use in competition. Early in my exchanges with colleagues, one said, "I don't care what...

Careful reading of my recent posts will reveal how I came to this level of interest in the rules concerning discs. Careful examination of your own internal struggles would be necessary for the rest of use to guess how you came to confuse these issues with the need for a woman. I can only help...

Araytx, I apologize if I drew you into this discussion in an aggravated state, as a result of my strict portrayal of the rule. It was a “straw man” rhetorical device. You have done an excellent job of showing how people have taken the rule concerning “usage during play” and fairly construed it...