![]() ![]() So does strolling a course more slowly - plus stopping to throw - still count?Ībsolutely, Dr. Martinez, a sports cardiologist at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J. ![]() Research has shown that walking 30 minutes a day can provide significant physical and emotional benefits and a recent study revealed that even 10 minutes of daily walking may lead to a longer life.Įxperts generally recommend a pace of three miles an hour, enough to be “huffing and puffing as you have a conversation,” said Dr. It’s no secret that walking is great low-impact exercise. “The shot is very lower-body driven,” he said. McBeth, 32, but in fact it’s a little like swinging a baseball bat. Seto said it’s helpful to imagine “you’re elbowing someone and then slapping them.” People assume it’s like throwing a baseball, said Mr. Kamp likens the move to “a kind of lawnmower-starting motion.” Ms. Ganz explained, whereas “disc golf requires a fast whipping action of your arm.” While a backhand is the most popular throw for both, with a Frisbee, it’s “a wrist toss,” Mr. Seto, who has played with people in wheelchairs (many courses are flat), coached players with limited mobility and squeezed in a round at her favorite course a few days before giving birth. Voss said, including “the chance to be more welcoming.” In fact, a huge part of disc golf’s appeal is that “it’s accessible to almost anybody,” said Ms. Still, having a reputation as a laid-back, unpretentious sport has its upsides, Mr. disc golf champion, Paul McBeth, signed a $10 million endorsement deal last year. Voss said, its days of being grouped with “hippie hobbies” like hacky sack feel numbered, as professional players accrue both athletic acclaim and sky-high salaries. While disc golf has always been “a little alternative,” Mr. ![]() Just master that.” It’s open to everyone. “Until you can consistently throw a putter, don’t worry about all the other discs. If it’s not going straight, you’re doing something wrong,” Ms. That’s because it’s the easiest way to assess your technique. If you buy only one disc, make it the putter, said Melba Seto, 37, who mentors new disc golfers in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches clinics for the Women’s Disc Golf League. Drivers are the most aerodynamic, with a flat, sharp edge that helps them hold a high speed for longer. The putter, the slowest-flying disc, has a deep and rounded rim, while a midrange is wider with a narrow rim, which makes it glide longer than a putter. A starter set of discs - which includes a putter for short distances, a driver for long distances, and a midrange for everything in between - runs about $20. Like regular golf - which disc golfers call “ball golf” - the sport is about getting one object inside another object in the fewest number of tries.Īll you need to get started is “a disc, your water bottle and your shoes,” Mr. And - as distractions during a global apocalypse go - it’s very, very fun. You can do it alone or distanced from other players. ![]() Membership grew almost 75 percent between 20, as opposed to its typical yearly growth rate of around 10 to 15 percent, Mr. Disc golf’s popularity, which had been growing steadily since its grass-roots beginnings in the 1960s, has shot up during the pandemic, said Danny Voss, director of marketing for the Professional Disc Golf Association, or P.D.G.A. My second surprise was that I loved it.Īpparently, I’m not the only one. But in a recent bid to spice up our humdrum family walks, I took my kids to a nearby park, which, it turns out, has a disc golf course. I’m great at throwing parties but awful at throwing anything else. Until a few weeks ago, the only thing I knew about disc golf was that I probably wouldn’t like it. ![]()
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