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the jurgen experience wake up in the next city play some disc golf [ __ ] how did you get into that uh oh we were in texas ty's really big in texas really yeah really big in texas we were in texas and i was looking for a way to get outside we had just been to on it and john had given me a kettlebell and i said i'm gonna take this kettlebell with me everywhere i go that'll be my one of my weight loss programs and so we we walked in this we saw we read the kettlebell and we saw disc golf i said hey we should go play disc golf we played like i don't want to say like uh i wanted probably dallas or sugarland and we went out and played and i [ __ ] fell in love with and i used to play in college and we loved it in college and and and i there was not the amount of discs there are now back then and all of a sudden i was like [ __ ] so i put up one disc golf video of us playing and the disc golf community hit me up and they're like they're like hey man excited you're into our sport one all the companies started going let me send you some stuff and then we get like legit discs like innova sent us everything and so i sort of disc crafted all these places and then we started going out the discounts and then professional disc golfers like paige pierce she's like hey you're in pensacola i'm here tonight why don't you come out and play disc golf with me so i was like cool and then we're playing with the greatest disc golf golfers ever and they're giving us tips and we're all getting a lot better like a lot better and that and now it's our group our my group of guys and we're all playing we're all getting better and we have access to the greatest disc golf courses and the greatest disc golfers in the world the philo is this guy that is a genius he came to my greek show i sat with him after the show and just talked to this golf talk forehands and and and it's fun as [ __ ] how many people are playing that why isn't it like a a big sport that it's recognized blowing up right is it yeah it's getting blowing up right now because i had a
friend that my friend john used to play it back in new york in like the 2000 or earl no it was not it was yeah i guess it was like the early 90s it was like 92-ish somewhere around then and i was like what are you doing he's like i'm playing disc golf i was like what the [ __ ] is that and he was explaining it to me it's so much fun first time i ever got drunk 14 or 15 playing disc golf with my brothers who are much older than me and uh one little bottle of the mike's heart it was a jack daniels lynchburg lemonade it was called i remember cause i'm like this stuff's fun yeah and uh i've played my whole life because it was really big in columbus ohio back then and then when i moved to cali that's like the mecca the oldest disc golf course i believe in the world i think it was invented in like pasadena or something like that and uh awesome golf courses there especially that one i remember that one being cool it had like fallen trees that were like leaning against each other right at the driving tee and everything so you have to literally like it's way down there but you have to first whip it through these like massive trees that are right in front of you that literally like one fell on to another so you have to bridge the gap dude you got some beautiful courses where they're like you got to go through this long list of trees you know who really you know what really [ __ ] sparked it dead honestly is i played a [ __ ] couple rounds and i was posted on instagram the first person to reach out was ben askren oh he's a big disc he's got his own course at his house and he's like hey man he built like a 29 a whole course at his house and he's like hey man i got a tournament i'd love for you to play in it you want to come out if you're ever in the area tournament i'm at his house he has a tournament at his house ben askren's [ __ ] legit ben askren is [ __ ] legit and so then i started [ __ ] around you know because i if i ever get like a celebrity ever hits me up i always play with it on
like aaron rodgers or any of those i play with it on instagram a lot so i throw things like yo ben is this legal and [ __ ] around and then as soon as ben started tweeted about me the disc golf community heard about me and and you can tell if someone's really passionate about something or if they're not passionate and i just people would hit me up i'd be like i'd send people my shots i'd give me notes mostly i [ __ ] my arm up doing a backhand so i've been throwing a lot of forehands what do you mean uh i [ __ ] your arm up throwing the golf throwing disc off how does that thing weigh uh 173 ounces is what i'm throwing for my driver 173 ounces is really heavy i think it's 173 ounces it's 173 is the weight grams grams 173 grams oh it's like jesus you know how [ __ ] heavy that is 173 grams a one ounce fishing weight feels like oh yeah that's not it yeah it's but all your numbers your weights are on your thing so like okay if you're throwing into the wind you want to throw a heavier disc if you're going again with the wind you want to throw a lighter disc but i mean i i'm obsessed i could watch disc golf all [ __ ] day so okay so it's set up in trees that's kind of dope too that they don't have to [ __ ] up the environment right like they don't have to you know they don't have to cut all the grass and remove all the trees to make a chorus it actually kind of enhanced so this is i think this is paige is that paige this is uh ben's pro-am so probably i think that's paige pierce it's kind of interesting like why isn't this more popular and what made it more popular again like what was the cause of it like having a resurgence well it's ridiculously popular the people that play it play the hell out of it the courses are packed all the time it's just like not a mainstream what does that mean ridiculously popular type in [ __ ] it up type in uh type in uh best disc golf throws like you'll see guys throwing it 450 feet or yeah yeah feet and don't say numbers be like joe biden no numbers and then i mean this dude look at jomez
so jomas is based out of austin i've hit that guy up they they have a great disc golf channel type in this one's like hole-in-ones yeah oh so you throw it like that i throw it like that oh yeah i can you get addicted i i [ __ ] love this [ __ ] so there's like millions of people playing this you think uh is it on television is it televised no i was gonna do a i was gonna do it i was trying to organize a two bears one cave disc golf tournament and get a million dollar purse you should i'm trying that seems like something you guys would totally be able to do we do it in hawaii the innova's got a great course in hawaii oh yeah bring about all the pros down do a pro am the day before and then do a big tournament these guys are monsters and and we i mean i get access to a lot of things now we got access to a minor league stadium the other night and we and we get done amarillo they hit us up they're like hey man we own the mine league stadium you want to come and play disc golf and we're like in the stadium i travel with my own goal my own [ __ ] goals yeah i travel with it on the bus i have maybe 250 discs on the bus what i have joe wow dude that's cool first of all they've all hooked me up amazingly um mvp discs uh there's so many great discs that uh i've been hooked up with but if if i see a disc golf shop i'd go and drop a [ __ ] you just all in 200 bucks you're all in i'm just going oh i'm looking for every wraith you can possibly have i want every kind of i want every plastic that you have i want the g-star i want the the wraith is my disc it's a great underhand disc and so we set up a disc golf course in a minor league stadium and i was like and we're just going to the [ __ ] top decks throwing from there throwing like 320 feet it's [ __ ] it was so much fun