If you want my opinion, it's due to the sport having started here in the states. Baseball is worldwide also and you don't see them using yards to measure how far the wall is do you?
Nope, you see them using feet. :|
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If you want my opinion, it's due to the sport having started here in the states. Baseball is worldwide also and you don't see them using yards to measure how far the wall is do you?
Are metric beer bottles labeled in mL?
Why is there no metric time system?
For distance, why are decimeters so neglected? We go from meters down to cm to mm.
I think this...
the 10 meter circle
the 2 meter rule
the 30 cm lie
sounds better than this...
the 32.81 foot circle
the 6.562 foot rule
the 11.81 inch lie
and is easier to remember/measure.
No, that is 122 degrees F. I lived in west Texas for two years and it never got above 110.
My thoughts on changing distances to meters is that meters is not precise enough and we would have to round off to decimal points to get a better idea of how really long the hole is. 100 meters is ~328.084 feet but if you were to convert 329, 330, and 331 feet into meters you would still get a number more than 100 but less then 101.
...I doubt KC or Nate or anyone pulls out the laser range finder on a hole, ever. Unless they are laying out a course.
No, that is 122 degrees F. I lived in west Texas for two years and it never got above 110.
My thoughts on changing distances to meters is that meters is not precise enough and we would have to round off to decimal points to get a better idea of how really long the hole is. 100 meters is ~328.084 feet but if you were to convert 329, 330, and 331 feet into meters you would still get a number more than 100 but less then 101.
I disagree. For sake of simplicity, let's say you get a meter roughly ever 3 feet. Say you are facing four different throws. One that is 300 feet long, one that is 301 feet long, one that is 302 feet long, and one that is 303 feet long. Can you honestly say that you won't try to throw the exact same strenght on all four of these shot?
Once we get closer to the basket, the distance becomes irrelevant as our brain somehow tell our muscles how far we need to throw, which is amazing too.
My point is that we wouldn't loose any «real life» precision using the meter system.
I've only met one total douche nozzle that was adamant about the difference between 182' and 183' from the hole. 100 M = 328-330 101M=331-333 don't be THAT guy who thinks that he's the next Ken Climo. You're not, nor will you ever be able to accurately throw within a foot at that distance. If you could you would be on tour or in a circus as a sideshow freak. I doubt KC or Nate or anyone pulls out the laser range finder on a hole, ever. Unless they are laying out a course.
2nd response of the thread and best one yet.
One day the U.S. will come around and start using metric in schools and phase out the archaic English system. Once they do, we'll all have to convert. They should have adopted the metric system many decades ago.
Back when I was in grade school....(early 70's) we all learned the the conversions because America was going to join the rest of the world in one system........
Guess that didn't happen.....40 years later.....and what next?
Guess they must have hit some major roadblocks in sticking to the system. It's a darn shame too, because by now, we'd have been fully integrated to metric.
....i do know that the metric system is the international method. so if you want anything (or at least most things) to work overseas it needs to be metric. and of course we would like disc golf to be international.
..... i am still baffled as to why we english folk had to make something different in the first place.
It isn't the school systems that do not teach it, it is trying to integrate it into American society.
It would take someone in a high place to change everything to metric.
It isn't the school systems that do not teach it, it is trying to integrate it into American society. I graduated high school in May 2011 and in all science and math classes I took we used metric. We use the customary system so often in our daily lives: our speed limits are in miles per hour, we go to the doctor and get measured in feet not meters and pounds not kilograms, in all sports in America we use feet/yards,
It would take someone in a high place to change everything to metric. It is not the schools that are messing up, no one is at fault. We are so used to customary that we are going to continue to use it until someone forces the change on us and will fork our the cash to change all the road signs and speed limit signs in America from customary -> metric.
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Now we know it was warmer than -15*C (4*F) when Aqualung was eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Why do the British and Austrailians (who have converted to metric) still drive on the left side of the road?Why NOT use the metric system for ANYTHING ?