Risk & Reward in Disc Golf Strategy

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Thanks for joining me on Expert Village. One thing that I do really want to talk about is risk and reward. Good courses are designed so that there's typically an easy way to the basket and a little tougher way to the basket. You need to decide which risk you're going to take. Maybe with the wind blowing toward me I want to throw a little bit more of an over stable disc to take advantage of a situation to get to the basket in that particular situation. Or maybe there's a small hole toward the basket that is shorter but there's a real big hole or a big hyzer shot over the top, but it takes a little bit more strength to get there, so there's a risk and reward thing. Risk and reward is actually going to apply many times on the drives. We think of it as the drives mostly. Maybe a roller shot in particular situations you can maximize your distance, but it's a little bit of a risky shot because it might turn and go into the street or something. But also on the putts and on the upshots. Maybe on your putt you want to go for the chains at 100 feet, 60 feet, but if you miss maybe it's downhill and you go flying past it. So there's that risk and reward almost on every shot that you do to some degree. As you become a better player, you'll take a little bit more risks. For example, on the putt, if you do your putt and you sail past, a better player typically has a little bit more confidence...They're going to be able to make that back putt. So they'll go for the chains a little bit more, but as a beginner player the strategy may be to kind of lay up and then take that next shot rather than take an extra, extra, extra shot because you're really going after the basket so much, so there's the risk and reward.

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