If you’re expecting something life-changing with this, click away right now …
Cause you’re not gonna get it.
However, if your experience with potentially lost discs is anything like mine, it’ll help.
I’m a high-strung dude. I’m far from fitting the go-with-the-flow outlook on life so commonly associated with our tie-dye, hippie-friendly sport. As such, when I’m required to spend more than 30 seconds looking for a disc in the woods, I lose my mother-freaking mind – it’s ugly.
Here’s how the drama usually unfolds …
Off the tee, like a putz, I spray my disc in an unintended direction – straight into a patch of poison oak, if I’m lucky. Still, I’m none the wiser as to where the bloody thing’s gone. Again, if required to spend longer than a half-minute looking for the frisbee, I have a mini panic attack. There’s often a silent prayer offered, followed by a personal cursing of Ed Headrick’s name.
From there, I’m looking at one of two outcomes:
- Outcome No. 1 – I find it – I’m ultra-relieved and pleasant.
- Outcome No. 2 – I lose it – I’m angry and a pain in the butt.
Here’s something I read on a forum last year, though …
It stuck with me:
“Your disc probably went where you think it did.”
Now that might seem like stoopid-simple advice, but mere seconds into a half-hour search, I’m Alex Jones with a KC Pro Aviar. Any and all conspiracy theories as to the whereabouts of my missing disc are on the table. And internally, I’m open to entertaining the dumber ones:
- “I bet that hyzer popped and rolled a good 150 feet uphill in the opposite direction.”
- “Yeah, it might’ve been a shank-job, but don’t be surprised if I’m under the pin.”
- “No doubt a rogue squirrel done ran off with my disc – that ish was tracking.”
Unlikely.
First, dedicate serious time to where you THINK the disc went …
Then, slowly work outwards from there.
Could the forces of Mother Nature have combined to make your quest for disc retrieval a living nightmare? Yes, it’s possible – anything is possible. And if you keep at disc golf long enough, you’ll experience a “discappearance” a time or two – I’m talking straight Amelia Earhart stuff.
But again …
Unlikely.
Keep your cool; let logic prevail. Based on what you know about the course, your game and your discs, focus the bulk of your disc-tracking efforts on where the disc PROBABLY went …
Most of the time, it won’t be there – but it’ll be nearby.
Happy hunting.
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