Just as a disclaimer, please don't expect proper grammar and punctuation in this blog post, or any other future blog posts. I'll do my best with the spelling, but everything else is up in the air. Run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, numbered lists, and bullet points are all very good friends of mine, you will meet all of them very soon.
My last blog post was on April 25th, 2020.
I'd say quite a bit has happened since then.
The world has since gone into a panic, then started to come out of it, and now we're somewhere in the middle.
Actually, it has always been like that.
Once again, my procrastination has led to me being gone for over two and a half years.
I'd like to say that I'll finally keep in under control this time.
But that would be a lie.
All I can do, is the best that I can.
With that being said, it feels good to blog again!
It's December 11th, 2022.
The first snowfall of the year is happening as we speak.
Looks like I picked a good week to go on vacation.
Now of course I picked this week back in November of 2021, so there was no foresight involved.
I just like to get paid to not be at work every now and again.
Now as much as I'd like to say that winter is now officially upon us, I live in New England.
If you live in New England, you know what that means.
If you don't like in New England, I'll tell you what that means.
It means that you can experience all four seasons in a single day, and it could happen any day of the year.
Now the calendar says it's officially winter on December 21st, but New England plays by its own set of rules.
With that being said, I like winter.
I like the snow.
I like the cold.
I like the fact that all of the annoying bugs go away.
No more humidity.
Less people on the disc golf course.
These are all good things.
Speaking of disc golf, it has now become one of my new hobbies.
Most of the time, I love it.
Some of the time, I hate it.
Coincidentally, I seem to hate it whenever I hit a tree.
Or a rock.
Or some other hazard on the course.
Or when I want the disc to go one way, and it goes the other way instead.
That's when I hate it.
Otherwise, I love it!
But in all seriousness, I really do enjoy it.
I've been playing for just over a year now.
I still have a long way to go, but I have also made MASSIVE improvements to my game over the last year.
To me, one of the best things about disc golf is how easy it is to get started.
You just needs some discs, and course.
There's plenty of courses all over the place, and most of them are free to play.
Now on the outside looking in, it doesn't look THAT difficult.
You're probably thinking to yourself "It's just throwing a frisbee at a basket, how hard could it be?"
Trust me, I thought the same thing when I first started.
And then I played for the first time.
And I was humbled, quickly.
There's so many little nuances that go into disc golf.
First you need to learn how to throw the disc properly.
No, you don't throw it like you would throw a regular frisbee.
If you throw it like that, it's going to immediately go up, to the left, and then crash down.
If you're a lefty, it's going to do what I just described, except it's going to the right.
That's where your form comes in.
Once you get your form down, then you need to choose the right disc.
There are THOUSANDS of discs.
Every disc has it's own set of stats.
Overstable.
Stable.
Understable.
Weight.
Rim.
Type of plastic.
Let's compare it to regular golf.
In regular golf, you have a bag of golf clubs, and a golf ball.
Depending on what type of shot you need, you select the appropriate club for the situation, and then you swing your club accordingly.
Maybe you need a Driver, or a Pitching Wedge, or a Putter.
With disc golf, the discs themselves are like the golf clubs.
There's Distance Drivers, Fairway Drivers, Mid Range, and Putters.
All of these discs are for different scenarios, just like the different golf clubs are.
But then you also have to take into account how you're going to throw the disc.
Backhand.
Forehand.
Tomahawk.
Thumber.
Grenade.
Hyzer.
Anhyzer.
Flat.
S-Curve.
Flex.
Hyzer Flip.
Those are all different throws, for different situations.
And as I said before, with the THOUSANDS of discs out there, with different weights, and styles, and types of plastic that they are made out of, you could to the SAME THROW with two different discs, and get two COMPLETELY different outcomes.
Discs that are brand new out of the box will fly differently than they will after months of usage.
So many factors to consider, and it's that "mental math" where your trying to make subtle changes on the fly that I love about the game.
The discs hitting the chains for a birdie will never not be a satisfying sound!
So needless to say, I love disc golf!
I also love bowling.
I've been bowling for about 3 and a half years now, and it seems as if I've hit a wall of sorts.
I feel like unless I start taking some lessons, that I've gone as far as I can do just "doing it onw my own"
The bowling alley that I frequent the most has a "Summer Pass" every June that's good until Labor Day.
For a one time fee of $60, you can bowl three free games every single day.
For me, that's an absolute STEAL.
I was bowling 4-5 days a week.
Right now I'm sitting at a 157 average, and that's with 220 games played.
I'm also a bit of an "unconventional bowler", because I don't use my thumb.
When I first got into it, my friend was a two handed bowler, so when I was first learning how to hook the ball, I was throwing like he was.
Two handed bowlers don't use the thumb hole either.
Eventually, my two handed setup evolved into a one handed throw, and it has been that way ever since!
But once I learned to to hook the ball, I was all in.
Now I have my own shoes, three balls, a bag, the cleaning towels, all of it.
I love it.
I'll be bowling and playing disc golf for as long as I possibly can!
As much as I'd like to keep going, I need to ease myself back into these blog posts, but I promise it won't be two and a half years between posts!
Most likely.
Until next time!
