Words from the Hippie

The Iron Lion is the local disc golf shop. It is a tiny store full of lots of discs. The prices are reasonable, Walmart's are a little better, but Walmart doesn't have the selection or the Hippie. The hippie is what I call the owner of the Iron Lion, he has dreads down to his waste and sells a line of clothes called hippie golf wear. He knows a ton about discs and is really interesting to talk to. Here are two things he's told us. 1# West Lake disc golf course (located here in Davenport) is one of the best courses in the country and the hippie has personally lost over 55 frisbees there in the 2 or so years since it was made (water hazzards galore). 2# Special class is awesome. Its the only disc golf the hippie has played in the last three weeks. Special class is played with frisbees that look more normal, i.e. the zephyr by innova. They don't go as far, are harder to control, and harder to stay in the basket.
I like other courses here better than westlake, but maybe that is because I am not a pro calliber player, I don't think super class sounds more fun, but hey, it could be. These are the words of the hippie.

RX Pro Boss

I went to pick my sidewinder up from the Iron Lion (which is named after a Bob Marley song) on Monday and couldn't resist purchasing an RX pro Boss. RX Pro is the new plastic Innova came out with this year. They are able to make discs much lighter with it, it is supposed to be pretty durable and grippy. It is more flexible than the other plastics. The main reason I got it is that if you get a Boss in under 150 g it can float. Someday I'll post a bunch of pictures of the water shots here and you will understand why a floating disc is so handy here. My disc is 150 g and bright orange so as to be easily spotted, so far I love it. Before I've had to switch from throwing a Wraith or a Boss to throwing a dragon on water holes. The Dragon flies a lot different than the other drivers. Now I swich from a boss to a boss, very nice. I think the RX pro might have further distance then my normal boss, but the wind tosses it around like nothing. If you are throwing around water I highly recomend you get one, it will save you so many discs.

The Prodigal Sidewinder

My Sidewinder has been missing for a few months. I don't know how I lost it. It either fell out of my bag or I forgot to pick it up after a throw because it simply vanished one day. Maybe it ran away because I didn't use it enough. I got a call a few days ago from a nice fellow who had found my disc on hole 7 of Camden 2. I've never played that far into Camden 2, so apparantly someone else has been playing with my disc and lost it also. The finder dropped it off at the local disc golf shop here, the Iron Lion, so I am going to pick it up tomorrow.

New Personal Best

I beat my old best score at Camden with some amazing puts a while ago. I was sinking all of them, but I've gone since and my magic putting did not continue on those days. I finished the course 5 under par and found a leopard, a fairway driver.

another coat of arms hyzer dragon

Disc Catching Dragon

Here is another version of the coat of arms idea

HyzerDragons Coat of Arms

The red version

Camden

We got lost looking for a brand new course this morning and decided to play Camden (the course we were looking for, Camden 2, shares the parking lot with the first Camden. We were a few feet from it, but couldn't see it. It hasn't officially opened yet, but it is playable). Camden starts out with some really easy par 4 shots that you should be able to birdie. They are nice open shots on the grass, but with big elevation changes that make it more interesting than your average grassy park play. After about 5 holes you head into the woods. The trees and bushes are your enemies here and can hide your discs. Somebody cut the tops of some saprolings off, but left about 8" of sharpened spikes I tripped on and scratched my shins up a bit, but I survived. You stay in the woods for some tricky shots, but not too hard, until the last three holes which are back out on the green. It's a good course. Bret, one of the guys I went with, says it is his new favorite in the area (he got a -9 so he was pleased). I ended with -3, a new personal best at this course.
We tried the first 4 holes at Camden 2 when we finished. It is a tough course completely in the woods. Think Corbin with big ravines, tighter trees, more underbrush, awesome bridges, and 600' + shots. I'll tell you more about it when I play the whole thing.

Middle Park

We played the first 9 holes at Middle Park today. Dang it can be a tough course. My best score there is -1, today I got a lot higher. I like how many hills there are. They had the baskets all in different locations than I am used to (each basket has three locations). They have moved most of them into the most difficult positions; probably because of the Women's Tournament coming up. Half the course on a grassy park, and the back 9 is in the woods, kind of like Corbin.

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Advice from Ken Climo

I read this back when I was buying my first discs, its what made me decide to get Breta a TeeBird. If the winningest guy uses them then they must be good. I thought you might enjoy his advice on driving, it is making more sense to me now then the first time I read it. http://www.kenclimo.com/howto_drive.htm