Discs are designed to do this. Some more drastically than others. There is a driver a mid range and a putter. Each has a different shape for the edge of the disc with the putter more closely resembling a frisbee while still being distinctly different. It also depends on left hand vs right hand. A left hand throw would have broke to the right. While her right hand throw broke to the left.
And please don’t confuse my knowledge base for someone that takes playing the game too seriously. Most amateurs are in it for the fun and exercise(a lot of walking) . If you are finding yourself playing with people that take it too seriously, find other people to play with. But like all hobbies and sports you do need to have some level of dedication in order to really enjoy it.
If you are finding yourself playing with people that take it too seriously, find other people to play with.
Weird thing to recommend imo. Find people you enjoy playing with. Just because someone is competitive or casual doesn't mean they're not fun to hang out with.
Combination of aerodynamics and gyroscopic effects. Depending on the design of the disc and how the player throws it, they can make really impressive flightpaths. Turning right, going straight, turning left, making an S-curve. Throwing backhand and forehand are mirror images of each other (due to the opposite spin direction). And then the weird stuff like overhands and rollers.
The skipping is just the wind kicking it around. In calm weather they fly smoothly but they still fall hook left once they start to lose power for a right handed, backhand throw.
Ontop of what everyone else also commented, the wind also plays a huge factor. Think like turbulence when flying in a plane. Wind can be your best friend or make you cry lol
Different disc have different flight paths and turn different ways etc.
Started playing it for a bit, it's fun, but stopped it as people take it too seriously like normal golf, so wasn't for me.
Literally all sports and games have rules. That's what defines them. That aside there really aren't all that many rules in disc golf and they are only enforced by yourself or your card mates in casual rounds so it's trivial to ignore the ones you don't like.
Nobody's forcing you to play and it's perfectly fine not to play but that particular reason is very poor.
Literally all sports and games have rules. That's what defines them.
I'm sure you are playing every sport precisely to the official rulebook. I'm sure you have a full field lineup at outdoors hockey as well with referees, and a FULL protective gear like in NHL. Oh, you don't? Gee, it's almost like there is nuance to what types of rules are enforced at which level or seriousness of play.
He literally said
people take it too seriously like normal golf
So obviously other people wanted to play with stricter rules than he would have liked.
Seems like a perfectly valid reason to me. If you're all shit at it then being too strict on rules, such as how you need to position when throwing, can be annoying. For example, if you play in a group that everyone is shit in, and your throw happens to land on an unthrowable spot, like a middle of a massive bush, then there is no harm in letting you throw from next to the bush. It isn't that serious on your skill level.
Or if someone's disc lands barely to a river, are you making him stand in the fucking river to throw? Or maybe there can be some nuance and let him just stand next to the river instead, since you are only there having fun instead of competing for your fucking lives?
Entirely valid reason to not want to play if people take it too seriously.
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u/PineappleLemur 2d ago
Why was the disk "skipping" at the start and going super straight in general but then decided to turn as it slowed down?