Dumb topic in three, two, one …
Don’t disc golf in jeans.
Don’t let your friends do it, either.
I don’t care if they’ve been in the sport for 15 minutes or 15 years, it’s unacceptable. Jeans are for attending Keith Urban concerts with your girl on Valentine’s Day – not athletics.
From a strategic standpoint, bodily restriction is reason enough to swap out your Wranglers for a pair of joggers. If you can toss over 300 feet, you know how to avoid “arming” the disc.
It’s as simple as involving your hips and core in the throwing process. This is hardly impossible in jeans, but there’s a reason cowboys wear them: They’re tough, rugged and ultra-durable.
They’re great for mounting a horse and staying put.
They’re NOT great for exploring range of motion.
And don’t even get me started on skinny jeans …
Blood flow matters.
Strategy aside, though, the real meat of the matter is how stupid a pair of jeans looks on a disc golf course – superficial, I know. To sport jeans disc golfing is to wear a t-shirt while swimming.
Technically, it’s acceptable. Every time you go swimming, you see somebody rocking a shirt out in the wave pool. But that’s just it: You notice them, because it’s weird. You know, like …
Wearing jeans in disc golf.
You’ll turn heads.
To do so transmits a number of messages to nearby golfers:
- “I crave discomfort.”
- “I’m painfully single.”
- “I’m not afraid of chafing.”
- “I’ve never thrown a frisbee before.”
Pick your poison.
None of the above makes for a good look.
* Note: Show up in a pair of True Religions with a bedazzled bum, and things get worse.
The exception to this rule?
Jean-wearing can instantly become a power-play if you arrive on the scene and proceed to dominate everyone. What your mother told you growing up is true: “Actions speak louder than pants.” For those of us with no talent, however, obnoxious, judgmental words are all we have …
Hence, this article.
Just as the sopping-wet t-shirt protects the unflappable pool-goer from the rays of the sun, jeans are capable of keeping thorns, mosquitos, long grass and poison oak (or ivy) from your legs.
The fact remains the same, though …
On a disc golf course, jeans are for dorks.
Attack the track in something else.
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Sorry bud but I can throw 450′ and sometimes more in jeans. Also, I’d completely go disc golfing with you just to watch you dig a disc out of a thorn bush or a poison ivy patch??
Taylor doesn’t do social or blog comments …
But for what it’s worth?
I’m on your side with this one.
Are you trying to convince me to play in jeans? Cuz it’s working.
What’s your take on jorts????
Funny hearing fashion takes from… Utah.
Woah, woah, woah …
Taylor wrote this – not me.
But I can’t sit here and take bashing on Utah’s fashion just lying down …
I haven’t worn “jorts”in months 😉
All valid points. However, if you have ever been to Jersey. You know that thick thornbushes await every stray disc that you throw off a tree. Then you may want those Levi Toughskin jeans, like the ones that could have saved J.F.K.
Not sure about the J.F.K. reference …
But I’ll need to check out that specific Levi material.
Never heard of it!
Thanks for the tip 🙂
And listen I didn’t just say that to bash on green splatter or Taylor but since I wear jeans for work and most stuff I think they work pretty good and there’s enough good about wearing jeans in disc golf that you can’t just say that jeans are no good for disc golf.
I think Taylor’s bigger, tongue-in-cheek point is that they look stupid …
Obviously, you can throw a disc in them.
(you’re living proof of that)
100% with him on this one no jeans on the course. I’m a shorts guy only. Don’t care how cold or how thick the brush is I’m wearing shorts. I don’t even wear jeans outside of the course. Too heavy and too restrictive for me
What about joggers, TurboJoe?
Or is that not quite your style?
Don’t have any of those either. If it just has to be I may wear a pair of cargos but that’s as good as it gets for me. My neighbor will cut his grass in the 100° Georgia heat in jeans and it just makes me cringe seeing it
Man, that sounds horrible …
The cutting-the-grass part.
I was going to ask if you switch out the shorts for pants when it snows, but I doubt that’s happening in Georgia. Haha.
I exclusively wear jeans and the like to combat thorns and insects. I also dominate my friends and get their stuff out of bushes lol.
Hard to argue with the guy who’s dominating everybody …
That trumps all.
Sounds like you need a pair of stretchy jeans. Jeans are no longer restricted by their rigidity. Catch me playing in some borderline Jeggings, unshaven, several strokes above par.
Nice Jeggings reference, Mike!
Do they make those for men?
(update: I just Googled this, and yes – they do)