Kicking Leaves

In the past week or so the trees here in Michigan have lost most of their leaves. Now is an especially dangerous time for losing discs, even worse than most snowy conditions. Twice I have thrown pretty good looking shots, saw them land not far from the metal thing and almost lost them. The scary thing is they were both hyzer flights but the leaves are so deep they buried anyway.

So I just took out of my bag my three most valued, most irreplaceable discs (of course, the broken in, remote controlled ones). Dang, it hurts to not have the discs you rely the most on. I'm considering pulling out my putters, too. Putters should be safe from loss, shouldn't they?

Do you risk your favorites in the leaves or pull them out?

[Marites Eldred]

What frustrates me is when I am stuck in my head and forget to closely pay attention to the other drives in my group. Then I know where my disc is, but I end up spending a bunch of time helping someone else find a disc that I didn't even see hit the ground. We lost one for a good twenty minutes last week in the middle of an open field and lost a lot of daylight. Makes one realize how daylight savings time was not created with disc golfers in mind.

[Ken Long]

Marites,
At my age...I get "stuck in my head" all the time. I think it's called a Senior Moment. So I don't feel to bad when a young'en confesses that they had one.
It was a pleasure meeting you. I'm sorry your boyfriend fell in the creek.
K.

[Tino "SilverBack" Medina]

the onlytime I pull favorites is on water course (luther britt in Lumberton) We have probably 3 holes where lake or canal water is not an issue. All the other holes, penisula shot, island shot etc. There are creatures in the water so retrieval is not alwasy an issue so I just play with the "sacrificial" discs there. My main discs are bright (neon, flambouyant) enough, I normally sont loose them in leaves.

[Marites Eldred]

I have a kamikaze disc for water hazards as well.

[J. C. Cannon]

mark,
the solution to you particular problem is easy to fix.. i'm almost ashamed that more pros like yourself haven't realized how easy it would be for you to have your caddy carry a back pack gas powered leaf blower.... ta da... problem solved...
now see how easy that was...... LMAO

[Steve]

Tape a string to your disc?

[The FORCE]

Huh?? I keep all my discs in my bag for the simple fact that I trust myself enough to throw it where I can find it. I think this year though I have accumulated some really pretty discs that are very unique. I just got a disc this year I won't be throwing, my Z Buzz with Mark's "Discraft Baby" hot stamp. That is probably the rarest disc in my bag and I would be beside myself if I lost it. The key for me is to put away the camouflage discs and start throwing bright discs.

[Jamie 'gr8rocshot' Ruane]

I like the leaf blower idea.....very efficient!!! ...you could actually modify one to carry your discs/frosty beverages too...just don't rig the drink holder to close to the exhaust....there might be a way to heat up a spare cheeseburger on that side though...

[Paul Novak]

or keep your coffee warm out on the course.

[Ken Long]

Jamie,
Ya...the leaf blower!!! Great ideas Jamie. The back pack kind w/a pull start. Could double as a hand warmer as well for the other players in your group. But...do you have the "falling leaf" phenomenon down at Daytona? Hmmm...I don't recall. (c;

[Jamie 'gr8rocshot' Ruane]

Yep..Gum Trees, Hackberry's, Laural Oaks, Sycamores, Black Walnut, ...Tuscawilla has a variety of leaf droppers

[Paul Novak]

I don't like taking that risk, especially with discs like my Talons, they are hard to replace. My friend lost a go to disc of his in a pile of leaves last week. It was a perfectly good shot, straight out in front of us, drove it in a huge mound of leaves we looked for a good while still never turned it up. I say if you have some other discs to throw just avoid danger of losing your favorites, use them for the season. I prefer light blue discs, and pink discs for this time of year, but my favorite red Z Tracker hasn't been getting any love the past few weeks.