This statement does not adequately address beer. :|Nothing is better for your game than the occasional one- or two-disc rounds.
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This statement does not adequately address beer. :|Nothing is better for your game than the occasional one- or two-disc rounds.
Back in the day a 5,000' course was a monster. The only water hazards you ran across were creeks where you could retrieve your disc. Nobody flicked. You could throw a Roc and an Aviar and never wish you had anything else.
Those days are gone. The holes are longer. The courses are better and require more shots. Playing most courses now with one disc is unrealistic and would be no fun. If I had to play with one disc, I'd quit. :|
This statement does not adequately address beer. :|
Generalizing. Did people forehand? Yes. Ken Westerfield threw forehand. Jeff Homburg had a nasty Frisbee sidearm. CR Willey threw crazy stuff. My partner in doubles at White Birch took forehand putts with a Super Puppy (missed them all, BTW. :| ) It just wasn't nearly as common as you see now. Like nowhere near as common.If my dad had played back then he would have forehand thrown the disc because he did that with Wham-O Freebies and toy discs since he was 5 or so in the 1960's. In fact my dad had to learn backhand to putt with a disc, his first round was forehand putting.
I would use a disc that until mid 2000's was called a multipurpose disc in DX by Innova, the Shark but mine is Star plastic.
I have seen only one other disc that was called a multipurpose disc on this thread so far.
I'd at least need one more driver to flick. I'm terrible at flicks and need something OS to cover how horrible I am at it. So I could possibly get by with four. I'd rather have five. :|
If I am limited to two, ain't no way I am carrying a putter. Not on the courses I play.
I just asked because ive heard that a lot of the old timers used to use just one or two disc to play,compared to todays players that carry a backpack full of disc.
I can play pretty much any course with five. Maybe four, but definitely five. Anything less than that is a stretch. Asking one disc to handle all non-putter shots would require a pretty boring course IMO.
Which is generally what happens. You get to an old pitch 'n putt and decide to one disc or two disc to add more challenge into a course that really is an example of why we used to get away with playing with only an Aviar and Roc back in the day. The use fits on the short courses. Do it on a modern course and it's torture for no reason.
It does need to literally have "Multi purpose" on the stamp for you to use it for multiple purposes.
Meh. I'm already a mold minimalist. I throw neutralish discs that I can hit a variety of lines with. I follow the "slowest disc that will get there" rule and try to stretch my putter and mid shots. I keep my game as stripped down and simple as I can get it. If you already do all of that stuff, there isn't much to be gained with an artificial limit of one or two discs. I already know I need four and I know which four. If I could leave any of the four of them home and not have a significant drop in the shots I can execute, I'd already be doing that.
I putt with my disc upside down all the time when I'm putting into a strong wind. Some old hippie/Ultimate dude who permanently looked like an extra in a Cheech & Chong movie showed me that decades ago. I've always been surprised how few people use that trick.Lately I'd use a champ Roc3. I really like how they fly and the past few years I've been messing around with putting with my disc upside down. I've gotten pretty good at it. The champ Roc3 works great for that also.
I putt with my disc upside down all the time when I'm putting into a strong wind. Some old hippie/Ultimate dude who permanently looked like an extra in a Cheech & Chong movie showed me that decades ago. I've always been surprised how few people use that trick.