There was no better timing for this than now. I have junior worlds and I'm like 8th lowest rated in the field with the goal of not coming last. 😂 Thanks for the content Anthony 👏
Playing leagues helped me a ton! I've only been playing for about a year now. My first few months were mostly learning the sport with a friend who plays MA1. By the time we decided to play leagues I felt confident enough to jump into MA3 and skip MA4. I'm winning often enough that I might be forced to jump to MA2 by the end of the year. I play league 4-5 times a week and am currently sitting in 1st place on 4 of them for the season! Videos like this have helped a ton!
7:02 tip #3 love this! Approach shots and having c1 putting on lock is huge for me. As a newer player im not getting those big drives yet, so I need to shave those strokes somewhere.
Thank you for your commitment and time to make videos like this. In my mind, this is the most important message: Commitment and time. Second advice from me: Have fun playing disc golf! Why is "second advice" not my first advice? Because Anthony is at a high-level game. Not professional, but high. Same with these videos. Practice 8 hours a day and just have fun? You can do that when you are a child or a teenager. As an adult, it takes time and commitment. That's not fun all the time, but most of the time. If you are competing against the best, consider how much time and commitment it has taken them to be at that level.
Only made it to Tip #2 so far but I 100% agree with playing better people. I have the luxury of playing with my buddy Aidan Scott a bunch along with our other buddy Trevor Dominy and both of them are either at the 1000 rated level or right below it. Your right sometimes it just doesn’t go your way but anytime I can semi hang with those guys it give me a ton of confidence moving forward that my practice is actually working and I’m improving. Looking forward to finishing this video.
I plan and research and then buy a disc...if it flies like I thought it would, awesome. If not, then it fills another shot shape for me. Sometimes it makes the bag, sometimes it ends up as a good backup disc. Other best case it gets given to a friend or a kid in the park.
26:15 This is something that I have been trying to tell myself to do, to make this easier though I need to get my hands on a smaller bag again, probably just end up buying a small one at my local Wal-Mart. I also have a lot of discs that I think are meant to do pretty close to the same thing.
Great vid & tips! Most tips are things I just started doing a few months ago. Some big ones for me were playing g with people that would push me. I played my first MPO tournament in May - a normally MA2 player. The course fit my game so I figured I’d give it a shot. After round 1 I was in the middle of the pack, but had a big blow up round 2 and dropped to last.😅😂 it showed me that I’m not that far from being competitive in the upper divisions and it gave me confidence to play MA1. Another tip you shared that I just started doing was bagging fewer discs. It helped my mental game so much! Appreciate the hardwork you put in to get content out!
Yaaaaaw. Perfect time for you to drop this video. As I understand it you have learned SO much the last year especially with the continuous form work, strength coach and playing with all those other pros. Thanks for not doing this video too early in your disc golf development, your tips in this video seem really good, and some of those "X tips to make you a better ..." are very misleading!
Agree with the field work tip. For me, field work was great in the beginning to actually understand the characteristic of a disc - for example seeing how low speed discs fade vs high speed, what glide really does, etc. Or if you have a brand new disc and want to understand how it flies. But for actual game play wise? Just playing the dang game is much more effective as well as fun. Ain’t no trees or visual obstacles to take into consideration with field work.
I actually last week bought both the Rotella book you mentioned but also bought Zen Golf by Joseph Parent and that book has been changing my mental game and life tbh. Would highly recommend both books
Hey man, saw you doing field work at village greens. Just wanted to say you made wondervu look easy and it so isn’t. I’m only a month and a half in, but man that course kicked my ass!
A simple tip I have for players is do have more then one use for each disc in bag besides putting putters as then you will need less discs and less weight in bag. If a disc I have in bag is only used for a specific use only and I am not using disc ever or only for one very specific reason, out it comes. Also putting mold can be different from a driving putter. No need to force a Driving putter for your main putting putter if you need a big beaded putter disc or a disc like a Magnet/Hydra in a concave rim for putting if you are one who can't use a big bead on a driving putter.
My two most helpful tips in tournaments that helped me. 1.Play against yourself not the competition. 2. Don’t let a bad hole get in your head, you’re not out of it.
Commit indeed. It's difficult for me to trust the process/training that I have done when I'm playing a round, but I typically do better when I do. It's a strange feeling for sure, I'm working through it.
i actually just decided to move up after my first win in MA4. my rating is 788, but i did a form change and i shot an 855 and than crushed a 923. i dont feel like i should keep playing ma4 after shooting that high after my form change feels like im throwing a lot more consistent
I have been thrown into MA1 in both tournaments I have played due to the small market I live in. I have been playing 10 months, with 5 of those being sub-zero. I finished 2nd to last in both tournaments. My body seemed like it forgot how to putt. On the bright side, if I hit half the putts I normally do in my next tournament, i could be in contention 😅
add more discs slowly! no rush, but see if you find something that disc you love doesn't *suck* at, but might be it's weakness. Try to find something to fill that slot and go on from there!
What do I do if I’m not even good enough to play my local MA-3 division? I get nervous playing around other players I don’t know, and usually play way worse than I would by myself. 😂
Tip#3 at the 2nd putt blurry…..tell me you have adhd without telling me you have adhd 😂. I was telling some guys I was playing with the other day about how I’ll cash those 1st putts and always miss the 2nd one because in my head I’ve already done it and I don’t have to do it again and I just cannot focus up enough to do it twice in a row.
Agree with everything except that you should lower your expectations. I think It's different for everyone, but the trick is not to lower the expectations, it's to handle the feeling of when you don't reach them every time. And if you can do that eventually you will meet them.
I definitely think it’s individual. I think where I could have been a bit more nuanced is that u think expectations for outcomes should be low but expectations of inputs (each shot being an input, each round score being an output for example) can be kept high. to me it’s about staying present and in the process the
5:22 I'll have you know I use my soapbox to get down off my high horse. How dare you suggest that someone lower rated than me has something to teach me...one of my best buddies on the course is one of the most consistent players I know. He's not amazing but I think on our local course he's usually within 2-3 strokes of his average on any given day. I on the other hand swing wildly between my highs and lows as I tend to be very aggressive in my play which on good days works out amazing and on bad ones is just trash. I have a lot to learn from him around control and tempering my attitude and my performance in tournaments has gotten better for having played with him and starting to embrace a little of his more consistent ideology. Sometimes running the eagle is worth it. But more often than not, running the eagle can set you up for bogie where as going for the birdie sets you up for par at worst.
my biggest issue with my forehand is dropping my back shoulder doing exactly what you're saying.. it's SO annoying because every time i do it i'm like.. yup .. wrong lol
a lot of what I understand (could be very wrong) is throw is in to out. Initial problems likely are at torso level, if torso is stable, it may be shoulder level, if shoulder is stable it may be arm... etc. So it could be you're not stabilizing in your core correctly and it's collapsing and causing shoulder drop. Could also totally not be that but an initial thought you may not have heard before. If you can keep your hips level and your torso engaged in rotation, shoulders and arms should fall more into place
Be careful out there bro, that looked like a grizzly cub. That's probably the most dangerous sighting on a mountain because the momma bear is nearby. Sometimes it's not worth it to finish the round. You should probably carry bear mace for future mountain rounds. Keep up the good work, and congrats on being a future dad!
I'll def look into getting some bear mace, I made sure to take it slow and head on a swivel for a good bit, it seemed to me in person it was more adolescent sized but still made sure to stay vigilant. SUPER cool to see, but also got the nerves at an all time high!!
Been bear hunting a couple times. Looked to be about a year old. Definitely old enough to be on his own and it was a black bear so you were safe. So cool to see!
So I did field work for the first time about a week ago and I feel like my game has only gotten worse. Idk why... maybe it's just coincidence but super weird that that harder/more I do the things the pros and youtubers say to do to get better the worse I seem to be getting 😅 not that I was anything special before but starting to feel like I should save my self-esteem and give it up
You shot a 56 at WonderVu your first time? Eagle has the course record at 54 which was 1064 rated, nobody has shot a 55 to my knowledge. Just hitting 60 is a massive accomplishment there. 60 is almost always 1000+ rated depending on the layout.
yeah it was crazy, it's "My first taste of mountain disc golf..." from 11 months ago. Def want to go back and chase that record a bit since I def can see it out there you just have to play SOO clean!
1st tip and I'm already triggered. It was that AviarX3's fault idc if I "shouldn't have thrown that overstable of a disc over a creek on a scoober" it shouldn't have landed in the creek
all great tips, I like the play up tip, I played with the MA2 and Pro guys in a monthly and hot my best score -9 on a course i typically shoot -3, it helped me see i do have more game then I thought i did, and with confidence, dude, I do think i'm better then i am not sure why i'm prideful or i just have a ton of faith in myself, believe you can and you will.
I'm 34 years old. My hope of going pro was gone when I found the game 5 years ago. Calm down, no one cares. My previous best on a course was in a tournament was +8 I just scored +3 the other day. The only difference was the putting, my wife got me a practice basket last year and I used it. It you're old like me, just putt better is the best advice.
I really liked all 10 tips. Number 10i def do for death putts. I tell myself, "it doesn't matter what's behind the basket, bc it's going in the basket." then laugh in death's face while you bang that putt
I agree with the fewer discs tip. I realized that i would have discs in my bag that I really didn't use a lot. Having fewer discs allows you to focus on what you have and be able understand those discs more than worrying about the discs you rarely use (unless they are like utility discs).
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"It's not the disc, it's you."
3 minutes later...
"I should've thrown cheriot" 😁
Nah here was his oops of not being adjusted to a disc, was newer or rather re-added a really overstable mid in bag.
There was no better timing for this than now. I have junior worlds and I'm like 8th lowest rated in the field with the goal of not coming last. 😂
Thanks for the content Anthony 👏
Good luck out there! You've got nothing to loose so enjoy the experience.
Awesome!! Play well out there :)
Playing leagues helped me a ton! I've only been playing for about a year now. My first few months were mostly learning the sport with a friend who plays MA1. By the time we decided to play leagues I felt confident enough to jump into MA3 and skip MA4. I'm winning often enough that I might be forced to jump to MA2 by the end of the year. I play league 4-5 times a week and am currently sitting in 1st place on 4 of them for the season! Videos like this have helped a ton!
Need you grinding cod sir, gotta stop losing in the grand finals
7:02 tip #3 love this! Approach shots and having c1 putting on lock is huge for me. As a newer player im not getting those big drives yet, so I need to shave those strokes somewhere.
Thank you for your commitment and time to make videos like this. In my mind, this is the most important message: Commitment and time.
Second advice from me: Have fun playing disc golf!
Why is "second advice" not my first advice? Because Anthony is at a high-level game. Not professional, but high. Same with these videos.
Practice 8 hours a day and just have fun? You can do that when you are a child or a teenager. As an adult, it takes time and commitment. That's not fun all the time, but most of the time.
If you are competing against the best, consider how much time and commitment it has taken them to be at that level.
Only made it to Tip #2 so far but I 100% agree with playing better people. I have the luxury of playing with my buddy Aidan Scott a bunch along with our other buddy Trevor Dominy and both of them are either at the 1000 rated level or right below it. Your right sometimes it just doesn’t go your way but anytime I can semi hang with those guys it give me a ton of confidence moving forward that my practice is actually working and I’m improving.
Looking forward to finishing this video.
34:56 I’m in my first Bodanza video!! Good to see you out there bro!
Good to see you out there too!!!
Thank you. Blaming the disc has always bothered me. These days people don't keep disc's long enough to even give it a fair chance.
I plan and research and then buy a disc...if it flies like I thought it would, awesome. If not, then it fills another shot shape for me. Sometimes it makes the bag, sometimes it ends up as a good backup disc. Other best case it gets given to a friend or a kid in the park.
One of your best videos bud. Well done. So much earned wisdom.
Great tips and great attitude. Alright I'll finally follow. New to this game but nice video.
Always great to see Bodanza content. Thanks man and keep it up.
Absolutely LOVE both 1 & 10
I liked the video. You seem like the type of dude we all need in our group. Chill and respectful 🙏
😅😅the tee pads sound squeaky 😅😅
26:15 This is something that I have been trying to tell myself to do, to make this easier though I need to get my hands on a smaller bag again, probably just end up buying a small one at my local Wal-Mart.
I also have a lot of discs that I think are meant to do pretty close to the same thing.
if you have a lot of practice putters, fill the dead space with those, get some extra reps in at the ends of rounds!
Great vid & tips! Most tips are things I just started doing a few months ago. Some big ones for me were playing g with people that would push me. I played my first MPO tournament in May - a normally MA2 player. The course fit my game so I figured I’d give it a shot. After round 1 I was in the middle of the pack, but had a big blow up round 2 and dropped to last.😅😂 it showed me that I’m not that far from being competitive in the upper divisions and it gave me confidence to play MA1. Another tip you shared that I just started doing was bagging fewer discs. It helped my mental game so much!
Appreciate the hardwork you put in to get content out!
Yaaaaaw. Perfect time for you to drop this video. As I understand it you have learned SO much the last year especially with the continuous form work, strength coach and playing with all those other pros. Thanks for not doing this video too early in your disc golf development, your tips in this video seem really good, and some of those "X tips to make you a better ..." are very misleading!
Just when i needed him most, He posted! Love the content dude! keep it coming
haha thanks!
Agree with the field work tip. For me, field work was great in the beginning to actually understand the characteristic of a disc - for example seeing how low speed discs fade vs high speed, what glide really does, etc. Or if you have a brand new disc and want to understand how it flies.
But for actual game play wise? Just playing the dang game is much more effective as well as fun. Ain’t no trees or visual obstacles to take into consideration with field work.
literal life savers
best video youve ever made! Love this!
Wow, thanks!
Loved the Mario sound effect on your jump on Hole 5! 😂
😂 thanks
I ordered a random Mana from online and it was surprisingly a Bodanza one. I was very happy, love your content!
no way that's awesome!!!
Great book.
“Zen, and the art of Disc Golf”
I'll have to check it out, thanks!
I actually last week bought both the Rotella book you mentioned but also bought Zen Golf by Joseph Parent and that book has been changing my mental game and life tbh. Would highly recommend both books
I'll def have to look into the Joseph Parent one!
Curious if you’d like the new Discmania MD4. More OS than the old ones, but still holds straight quite a while. Reminds me of a very OS MD3
excited to try it out soon!
Hey man, saw you doing field work at village greens. Just wanted to say you made wondervu look easy and it so isn’t. I’m only a month and a half in, but man that course kicked my ass!
Nice tips. Thanks.
Between watching you, foundation disc golf, and a couple others, i have gotten alot more consistent in the past 6 to 9 months or so.
6-9 nice!
A simple tip I have for players is do have more then one use for each disc in bag besides putting putters as then you will need less discs and less weight in bag. If a disc I have in bag is only used for a specific use only and I am not using disc ever or only for one very specific reason, out it comes.
Also putting mold can be different from a driving putter. No need to force a Driving putter for your main putting putter if you need a big beaded putter disc or a disc like a Magnet/Hydra in a concave rim for putting if you are one who can't use a big bead on a driving putter.
My two most helpful tips in tournaments that helped me.
1.Play against yourself not the competition.
2. Don’t let a bad hole get in your head, you’re not out of it.
Commit indeed. It's difficult for me to trust the process/training that I have done when I'm playing a round, but I typically do better when I do. It's a strange feeling for sure, I'm working through it.
I clicked on this with my Wondervu hat on. LETS GOOOO!!!
Cheers Anthony, great video. You’re really seeming like you’re enjoying yourself out on the course and have your confidence back. Love to see it!
#1 and #7 are underrated
In my experience more experienced players tend to enjoy giving tips to help newer players
How far are you currently throwing forehand?
Yaya you beat me in Vegas we get it lol
i actually just decided to move up after my first win in MA4. my rating is 788, but i did a form change and i shot an 855 and than crushed a 923. i dont feel like i should keep playing ma4 after shooting that high after my form change feels like im throwing a lot more consistent
I have been thrown into MA1 in both tournaments I have played due to the small market I live in. I have been playing 10 months, with 5 of those being sub-zero.
I finished 2nd to last in both tournaments. My body seemed like it forgot how to putt. On the bright side, if I hit half the putts I normally do in my next tournament, i could be in contention 😅
Tough learning experiences always feel rough in the moment but you'll look back on this as a good thing if you keep your head high! you got this!
This one disc I use I pretty much only use is so good for everything but I wanna use my other discs I don’t know how u could help with this but yeah
add more discs slowly! no rush, but see if you find something that disc you love doesn't *suck* at, but might be it's weakness. Try to find something to fill that slot and go on from there!
Try stagger stance for anny putts
This was good
thank you :)
Just aced with the shattered van esp zone while watching this!!!
LETS GO!!!!
@@BodanzaDiscGolf 🤓
What do I do if I’m not even good enough to play my local MA-3 division? I get nervous playing around other players I don’t know, and usually play way worse than I would by myself. 😂
hmm... What is it that you're scared of? I think if you can identify that specifically, you can overcome it
The trick that has worked for me is just keep on putting yourself in these situations and eventually you'll get comfortable.
Start with weekly doubles or something so you don't have to rely on yourself as much and take some pressure off
Sometimes that could be worse, specially if it’s random dubs
Do you still throw the A2?
not too much, it's one of the discs that got phased out but I can see it coming back at some point
Anyone know where I can get that hat??
It’s an old trash panda hat, they may still have some on their site!
@@BodanzaDiscGolf my man 👊🏼
Love that Trash Panda hat
Tip#3 at the 2nd putt blurry…..tell me you have adhd without telling me you have adhd 😂. I was telling some guys I was playing with the other day about how I’ll cash those 1st putts and always miss the 2nd one because in my head I’ve already done it and I don’t have to do it again and I just cannot focus up enough to do it twice in a row.
Agree with everything except that you should lower your expectations. I think It's different for everyone, but the trick is not to lower the expectations, it's to handle the feeling of when you don't reach them every time. And if you can do that eventually you will meet them.
I definitely think it’s individual. I think where I could have been a bit more nuanced is that u think expectations for outcomes should be low but expectations of inputs (each shot being an input, each round score being an output for example) can be kept high. to me it’s about staying present and in the process the
5:22 I'll have you know I use my soapbox to get down off my high horse. How dare you suggest that someone lower rated than me has something to teach me...one of my best buddies on the course is one of the most consistent players I know. He's not amazing but I think on our local course he's usually within 2-3 strokes of his average on any given day. I on the other hand swing wildly between my highs and lows as I tend to be very aggressive in my play which on good days works out amazing and on bad ones is just trash. I have a lot to learn from him around control and tempering my attitude and my performance in tournaments has gotten better for having played with him and starting to embrace a little of his more consistent ideology. Sometimes running the eagle is worth it. But more often than not, running the eagle can set you up for bogie where as going for the birdie sets you up for par at worst.
1. Sees bear in the woods. 2. Continues to golf. That is dedication. I would be out of there.
Tip #1: Always blame elevation
how did I forget this one!
Tip #4 (saving for myself later)
my biggest issue with my forehand is dropping my back shoulder doing exactly what you're saying.. it's SO annoying because every time i do it i'm like.. yup .. wrong lol
a lot of what I understand (could be very wrong) is throw is in to out. Initial problems likely are at torso level, if torso is stable, it may be shoulder level, if shoulder is stable it may be arm... etc.
So it could be you're not stabilizing in your core correctly and it's collapsing and causing shoulder drop. Could also totally not be that but an initial thought you may not have heard before. If you can keep your hips level and your torso engaged in rotation, shoulders and arms should fall more into place
Be careful out there bro, that looked like a grizzly cub. That's probably the most dangerous sighting on a mountain because the momma bear is nearby. Sometimes it's not worth it to finish the round. You should probably carry bear mace for future mountain rounds. Keep up the good work, and congrats on being a future dad!
I'll def look into getting some bear mace, I made sure to take it slow and head on a swivel for a good bit, it seemed to me in person it was more adolescent sized but still made sure to stay vigilant. SUPER cool to see, but also got the nerves at an all time high!!
Been bear hunting a couple times. Looked to be about a year old. Definitely old enough to be on his own and it was a black bear so you were safe. So cool to see!
Come play putter only glow. Definitely that upshot practice.
if only it wasn't glow... I'm kinda a secret glow hater
So I did field work for the first time about a week ago and I feel like my game has only gotten worse. Idk why... maybe it's just coincidence but super weird that that harder/more I do the things the pros and youtubers say to do to get better the worse I seem to be getting 😅 not that I was anything special before but starting to feel like I should save my self-esteem and give it up
You're going to get worse before you get better, especially if you're learning and undoing muscle memory. Happened to me too.
You shot a 56 at WonderVu your first time? Eagle has the course record at 54 which was 1064 rated, nobody has shot a 55 to my knowledge. Just hitting 60 is a massive accomplishment there. 60 is almost always 1000+ rated depending on the layout.
yeah it was crazy, it's "My first taste of mountain disc golf..." from 11 months ago. Def want to go back and chase that record a bit since I def can see it out there you just have to play SOO clean!
1st tip and I'm already triggered. It was that AviarX3's fault idc if I "shouldn't have thrown that overstable of a disc over a creek on a scoober" it shouldn't have landed in the creek
all great tips, I like the play up tip, I played with the MA2 and Pro guys in a monthly and hot my best score -9 on a course i typically shoot -3, it helped me see i do have more game then I thought i did, and with confidence, dude, I do think i'm better then i am not sure why i'm prideful or i just have a ton of faith in myself, believe you can and you will.
So when we playing together haha
I just use the extra discs to give me more weight in the bag so I get more exercise. I only throw 5
big brain moves
Fake it till you make it!
It’s on a ton of Ted Talks!
For tip 2, I criticize myself too much to care if others are criticizing my game lol
I'm 34 years old. My hope of going pro was gone when I found the game 5 years ago. Calm down, no one cares. My previous best on a course was in a tournament was +8 I just scored +3 the other day. The only difference was the putting, my wife got me a practice basket last year and I used it. It you're old like me, just putt better is the best advice.
Haha bob rotella
“Go play some open courses”, those don’t really exist in GA. Trust me I’d love to go play some if they were out there.
fair. I guess you just call that field work then... oof 😅
#10 - Mental fake it until you make it
pretty much lol
Fake it till you make it
Practice approach shots at least as much as you practice putting.
is it just me or is he making his voice deeper
prob just more relaxed in this video lol
I really liked all 10 tips. Number 10i def do for death putts. I tell myself, "it doesn't matter what's behind the basket, bc it's going in the basket." then laugh in death's face while you bang that putt
any minute 1 watchers?
5.... just got home from a round.
i refuse to accept tip # 1
😂 me too sometimes!
I agree with the fewer discs tip. I realized that i would have discs in my bag that I really didn't use a lot. Having fewer discs allows you to focus on what you have and be able understand those discs more than worrying about the discs you rarely use (unless they are like utility discs).