Anyone do any Frisbee (ie Disk Golf?)

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I used to spend quite a bit of time at it. I most enjoyed Freestyle. At the beach, I would spend time "air brushing" when no one was around to join in. "Air brushing" involves hitting the side of the disc in such a way as to both spin it and propel it into the wind. In effect, I would play catch with the wind. The challenge was to see how level I could keep it.

I liked the fact that Frisbee was an anti sport: not commercialized and mainstream. This was back in the 1970's, and 80's. One aspect of Frisbee has become a little more mainstream. Disc Golf courses are getting fairly common. The last time I went to a Disc Golf course, I saw lots of people playing Disc Golf, but not a single instance of freestyle (playing catch in a creative way.)

I'm not sure if this counts, but I loved playing "Frisbie" with my relatives old 78 RPM records when I was a kid. BTW, they were'nt mad when they discovered I liked hurling them at a concrete wall because they had all that music on newer "L.P's" anyway. Infact they would buy me additional 78 records at the Goodwill for a dime apiece if I promised to sweep up all the mess when I was finished.

Learn a little bit about the sport. Disc golf is a sport that has grown very popular since it's invention in the late 60's. George Sappenfield, a Californian, realized that golf would be a lot of fun if played with frisbees, so he set up a course of targets for kids to play on. A year later Sappenfield introduced the game to many other frisbee players. Many of them brought the game back to the U.C. Berkeley. It quickly became popular and they installed a permanent course in 1970. Meanwhile on the East coast standardized targets were created and the game became more serious. Now Disc Golf courses can be found all around the United States and it's easy for anyone to get into the craze.


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[quote="Phillips"]Learn a little bit about the sport. Disc golf is a sport that has grown very popular since it's invention in the late 60's. George Sappenfield, a Californian, realized that golf would be a lot of fun if played with frisbees, so he set up a course of targets for kids to play on. A year later Sappenfield introduced the game to many other frisbee players. Many of them brought the game back to the U.C. Berkeley. It quickly became popular and they installed a permanent course in 1970. Meanwhile on the East coast standardized targets were created and the game became more serious. Now Disc Golf courses can be found all around the United States and it's easy for anyone to get into the craze.


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Thanks for responding. What you posted sounds familiar. Disc sports (Frisbee) was a special interest of mine at one point. I probably read that and forgot the details. One detail I do remember is that Ed Hedrick invented the modern "Pole Hole" that is used in today's Disc Golf courses. Iirc, Sapenfield used targets made of something like chickenwire to form a circle on the ground that made the target. Sappenfield invented it, and Hedrick added a significant part of today's sport. Btw, Fred Morrisey invented the modern "Frisbee." Before him, people threw pie tins (supposedly from the Frisbee bakery.)

I still have quite a collection of discs, but no original Frisbee pie tins.