Oct 12, 2010

Hippie days are here again

Frisbee golf, FROLF, or "disc golf" as it is now known is back in my life. That makes me a happy hippie!
I remember playing Frisbee everything in 1972, 73, 74 on up.. 1979 was a memorable year in that we had a North American Series of competitions at Wichita State University (where we also had been playing "object oriented" Frisbee golf for a few years). I attended, competed, got the special commemorative 119g Frisbee, t-shirt, etc.

That's also the main year of our Ultimate Frisbee experiences. We played all over southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma with teams from colleges, teams of stoners (like ours) and church groups (which was strange while we were so stoned..). We spent hours practicing freestyle tricks and spinning the Frisbees on our fingers, etc.
Good times.. good times.

I'm ready for times like those to return to my daily life. It took about 35 years but the fun and spark are back. The discs used in disc golf now sort of suck.. but I'll get used to using about 25 discs now as opposed to when the two or three Frisbees we had back in the day seemed to work just fine.

There is even a division called "Super Class" that seems tailor made for us old hippie types.. you can use the old Frisbees as well as some new larger discs that don't fit in to the current disc golf routine.

More on this later also...

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