Episodes

  • S2E10 - Local to Regional Clubs: SFDGC and NEFA

    S2E10 - Local to Regional Clubs: SFDGC and NEFA
    Mar 30 2022
    Local clubs are the lifeblood of disc golf, and the examples of NEFA and SFDGC from the regional to course level show just how strong the foundation of the sport is. Steve Hartwell, PDGA #2465 and founder of the New England Flying Disc Association shares how NEFA
    almost made itself obsolete, and Ross Hammond, PDGA #9510 shares the impact of the San
    Francisco Disc Golf Club on the sport as a whole.

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    52 mins
  • S2E9 - Long-Running Tournaments Redux: The American Flying Disc Open

    S2E9 - Long-Running Tournaments Redux: The American Flying Disc Open
    Mar 16 2022
    This is the one where Dan “Stork” Roddick won a car in 1974. Jim Palmeri, PDGA #23, takes us through the early history of the American Flying Disc Open, possibly the earliest disc golf-focused event that still runs today as the Rochester Flying Disc Open.

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    37 mins
  • S2E8 - Course Design Pt. II: What Makes a Good Course? w/ Leonard Muise

    S2E8 - Course Design Pt. II: What Makes a Good Course? w/ Leonard Muise
    Mar 2 2022
    Part I gave us the evolution of course design through the lens of John Houck and Dee Leekha. For Part II, we talk more with Dee about why designing courses is important, and with one of their students, Leonard Muise, PDGA #3974 about the grittier details of making a course work.

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    51 mins
  • S2E7 - Course Design Pt. I: John Houck's Evolution

    S2E7 - Course Design Pt. I: John Houck's Evolution
    Feb 16 2022
    Without course designers, there would be no disc golf courses, and without courses, there would be no disc golf. Like many aspects of disc golf there are countless people out doing the work and a few out-front pushing things forward. John Houck, PDGA #1688 and the #1 course designer in the world, and Divya “Dee” Leekha, PDGA #38087, tell us how design evolved and has started becoming a profession in which you can make a living.

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    47 mins
  • S2E6 - Memorial Tournaments: The People and Their Legacies

    S2E6 - Memorial Tournaments: The People and Their Legacies
    Feb 2 2022
    If you follow professional disc golf, you know about the Memorial Chamionship in Arizona, but do you know the people being memorialized? Roots of Flight talks with Flying Disc Museum curator and Arizona disc golf organizer 1980-1990, Mike “Hubie” Hughes, PDGA #1438 and his successor, Dan Ginnelly, PDGA #3591 about the origins of the Memorial Championship, the Shelley Sharpe Memorial, and the Brent Hambrick Memorial.

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    39 mins
  • S2E5 - Disc Golf Retailers: Setting Up Shop

    S2E5 - Disc Golf Retailers: Setting Up Shop
    Jan 19 2022
    Disc golf stores are more than just a place to buy your discs. Tom Monroe and Snapper Pierson of the first two episodes are joined by Dan Mangone to give us a fuller picture of the impact disc golf store owners have on the community by providing several valuable services.

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    41 mins
  • S2E4 - Differing Disc Disciplines: The Branches of the Frisbee Family Tree

    S2E4 - Differing Disc Disciplines: The Branches of the Frisbee Family Tree
    Jan 5 2022
    Early in the life of disc sports, disc golf wasn’t the only game in town. Juliana Korver, PDGA #7483, takes us through her experience with the current overall flying disc disciplines, and shows us how similar to and different from disc golf they are.

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    42 mins
  • S2E3 - Codification of Disc Golf Rules: Beyond Bolf

    S2E3 - Codification of Disc Golf Rules: Beyond Bolf
    Dec 22 2021
    Disc golf took on traditional golf rules and had a bit of a head start on the other Frisbee disciplines, but the way specialized rules developed to adapt play for golf discs was not always easy. We hear from Hall of Famers Dan “Stork” Roddick PDGA #003 and Ted Smethers #1159 who guided the way as the heads of the International Frisbee Association and the PDGA, respectively.

    More on the history of the PDGA Rules: https://www.pdga.com/rules/history

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    38 mins