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So, it turns out that the Falcon is hard to print. Very hard to print. It was fun to design, but that was only the first half of the challenge. In fact, my basic approach to printing small golf discs that works for all six of my other discs failed on the falcon. The bumps…

I’ve been playing with small golf discs for a while now, and one thing is pretty obvious: if you don’t impart enough spin any disc is understable. When the spin is too low, the disc tumbles and doesn’t fly. It follows a chaotic but essentially ballistic flight, like a rock. Only forward motion allows the…

Part of my plan to roll out small disc golf is to send some discs to different people, organizations and companies. I have a list and have been collecting contact information. I probably can’t get publicly available contact information for most players so I will send the discs to their sponsors, packaged for some of…

I’d made a few short videos to demonstrate some of the grips and throws. They’re on the “Throwing Small Golf Discs” page. They’re silent and only a few seconds long but you can see me grimace in one of them – the shoulder forehand. Today I made a video almost 15 minutes in length. It’s…

I’ve been able to print useful small golf discs for a while and they work well. So, I’m ready for the next phases of my effort to make small disc golf a thing that many people enjoy. For that to happen I will need to send a couple of discs to lots of different people…

After I had made a thrower that worked I discovered that even at its best it was nowhere nearly as intuitive or easy to use as just tossing the discs by hand. It was most poignant when I was trying to lay up instead of making a shot from a distance. A layup shot requires…

The Creative Commons CC0 license is a powerful tool for controlling how an idea can be used. I decided to use the CC0 license because I needed the power it offers to achieve my goals. What is the power of giving up your copyright, you might ask? To understand that I have to begin by…

I love disc golf. I have played it since the 80s when I played Delaveaga Disc Golf Course on weekends with friends, long before it had chain baskets. The pins were just green 4x4s with white stripes. I still have discs I used on that course. I played less and less over time because it…