Recent content by iacas

Turns out your back foot contributes very little to the throw from the end of the reach-back to the release. It helps you keep your balance and acts as a counterweight, but it doesn't contribute much "thrust" to the throw. It can't. Think about it. It's coming off the ground or on its tip-toes...

I think you've got it backward. Consider a basket that was so big almost anyone could hit it from 50'. There would be no separation in putting. Everyone would get 1s any time they were within 50'. The smaller you make the basket, the more you separate the good putters from the bad putters...

And with a lower PDGA # than I have! :) I had my wife and daughter's name embroidered on their pink Nutsacs as well. Nifty.

I believe 80-180 feet is the distance John Houck defined as "2.0 throws for an average pro." That means they're mostly laying up for the easy putt, too. It's in one of his "boring" zones, the other being about 0-20' from the basket (1.0 throws).

Ditto. If it's gonna rip out of your hand, it's gonna rip out of your hand.

You mean the Spin, right? The Signal is the fairway disc.

I responded regarding the shape of your curve. In DG it's probably going to be flatter at first, and then rise more slowly.

I wasn't certain that the cited 50/50 range was a true statistic based on thousands of putts, or tens of thousands. PGA Tour pros don't three-putt too often either, FWIW. Of course. It also affects the zone from 100 to 180' out, as Houck says, which results in basically 2.0 throws for top...

At what rate? Where's their true 50/50 distance? I posted above about the "excitement" or "impressive" parts of golf and disc golf. The exciting part should be truly parking a disc by the basket, OR holing a loooong putt. Right now that "long putt" distance is close to 60', and "parking it" is...

If you have a Mac, I recommend (duh!) http://analyzrgolf.com/. :-) "They" have been known to give out discounted copies of the software to amateur disc golf analysts, too.

All of them. To those who have said a smaller basket (or whatever that makes putting more difficult) would decrease excitement, I don't agree. I don't think there's any real reason why you should think that, either. When a PGA Tour player sticks a shot to a few feet, that's exciting. Or when...

Except it doesn't look like that. :) See the URL: https://cl.ly/3h0d2N2s3V2F I'm curious what the curves would look like for disc golf. P.S. I know you were mostly joking around. Ha ha. :)

It's just a matter of how much emphasis you want to place on putting. In golf, stats show us that driving and approach shots account for about 65% of the separation between any two groups of players (i.e. if you have scratch golfers that average 74 and 10 handicappers that average 84, 6.5...

@timg, Is there a page that lists the benefits of getting the app over just using the mobile version of the site?

I suppose. I just figured the odds of hitting that one little spot are pretty slim. And I saw a player tear a chunk out of a soft putter once when it caught on a metal piece on the inside of the basket (it was an elevated basket, which didn't help). He now takes every disc out very carefully. ;-)