Welcome to a quirky and “crumbly” tale of Frisbie’s Pies, where pie tins and frisbees joined in a wild dance from 1871 to 1958. Hang on as we dive into the story of how play and work at a pie factory influenced legendary frisbee moments!
Frisbie Who?
The stage is set. It’s 1871, and the Frisbie Pie Company is ready to conquer the world – or at least people’s stomachs. But hold on a moment! How did pie tins from a pie factory become a new trend among students? The story goes that the clever minds at Yale and Dartmouth, instead of just eating the pies, threw the pie tins during their breaks. Legend has it that a roar of “Frisbie” filled the air as they sailed through the room. A kind of euphoric pie tin disco, if you ask me!
The Great Frisbee Mystery
Now, here’s where things get interesting. While Yale and Dartmouth claim to be frisbee pioneers, there are also other universities, bakers, and truck drivers boasting about tossing the first frisbees. Who is the true master of the flying pie tin universe? Maybe it was all a grand conspiracy, a collective imagination created by Wham-O as part of their brilliant marketing strategy. Myths or not, one thing is for sure: Everyone loved throwing frisbees!
Frisbie’s Farewell
All good things must come to an end, and so did the Frisbie Pie Company in 1958 when the pie world kneaded its final dough. But fear not, for the frisbee’s adventure had only just begun. Wham-O stepped onto the stage, acquiring the rights to the “Frisbee” trademark, and the rest is history – or legend, depending on who you ask.
Frisbee Galore
Frisbie Pies come in more varieties than you can imagine! From 6-hole and 12-hole to small letters, large letters, F-letter, and deposit editions – it’s like a frisbee menu where you can choose your favorite slice of legendary airy history. But you’ll need a hefty wallet if you want to get your hands on one – for the old originals have become quite valuable over time.
So, the next time you toss a frisbee and shout “Frisbie” with a smile, remember that you are part of a crazy, fun, and “crumbly” tale that started with pie tins and ended up conquering the skies. Throw with joy and let the legend continue!
Frisbie Pies come in several different variations: 6-hole, 12-hole, small letters, large letters, F-letter, and deposit editions.
A disc golf putting league provides an engaging and community-oriented competition that focuses specifically on improving the putting game within the disc golf world. Disc golf and Frisbee enthusiasts gather regularly to participate in this type of league that not only improves skills but also strengthens the social bond within the disc golf community.
During a “typical” disc golf putting league session, several putting stations are set up where participants are responsible for hitting accurate putts from varying distances. Participants earn points based on the accuracy of their putts, and this competitive structure creates an atmosphere of both competition and fun.
Disc golf putting leagues are often held on a regular schedule, creating a routine for participants and allowing them to see a constant improvement in their putting game over time. This is an ideal opportunity for disc golf enthusiasts to enjoy the sport and refine their techniques in a relaxed atmosphere.
With a focus on disc golf, these putting leagues represent not only a way to improve technical skills, but also an opportunity to explore the many aspects of the sport of Frisbee. Participants can share their passion for disc golf and Frisbee, strengthen their connections within the community and build a deeper love for the sport, all while honing their throwing and putting skills in a fun and social way.
At Discimport we host our own putting league every Wednesday from 19-21, and you can read more about it right here!
In week 33 2023, probably Denmark’s largest gathering of disc golf players took place. It happened in connection with Discgolf Vest organizing an AM DM. The vision was to gather the largest amateur field for a tournament on Danish soil, and we must say we succeeded. Over 330 amateur players were registered for the AM DM this year, which was only made possible by Discgolf Vest thought outside the box. How do you gather so many players and still manage to hold the tournament over only 3 days? This can only be done with the help of an incredible number of volunteers, coordination, overview and the use of multiple lanes at once. A total of 3 courses were in use over the long weekend. The Skibild-Nøvling course is a park course in the middle of a residential neighborhood. The course is mentally demanding, as virtually every hole offers opportunities for birdies. Discgolf Vest has, through an incredibly close collaboration with the locals, created a small oasis of a course that challenges even seasoned players. If your approach shot or putts don’t sit on the day, it’s easy to fall way back in the overall standings. Videbæk is a lane between city and highway. Here they have succeeded in creating a technically difficult course. Here, a couple of rounds from yellow are rated at 930, which undoubtedly makes it one of the more difficult courses in Jutland. Here’s the rough – rough. Here, too, there has been close collaboration with the locals to create a course unlike any other. Here you need to master virtually every kind of shot to get to the top of the scorecard. The last course in play for this year’s AM DM was Momhøje. A nature course that is familiar to most people. It requires the long arm to be brought along to do it really well. At the same time, there’s plenty of forest to tease your mental game. Wind is always a factor on some of the long holes and when putting. To accommodate as many people as possible, almost all rows were opened up. The ranks that were invited were the following: MJ15, MJ18, MA50, MA40, FA3, FA1, MA4, MA3, MA2 and MA1 and as something new, the Deaf DM was held together with. To accommodate all the players, local accommodation options in Vorgod-Barde were considered. This is also where the center of the tournament was located. Here, a large tent was set up for communal gatherings and a party on Saturday evening. There was also an opportunity right next door to set up tents and caravans for a communal camp. For the more leisurely, there were AirBNB, hotels and holiday homes in the local area, and they were booked up.
To help create an experience, various activities were planned that started early in the week and continued throughout the tournament, such as clinic with Martin & Kristian Spliid, par golf tournament and trilogy tournament. In collaboration with the sponsors, player packages were made for all players. These packages consisted of an umbrella, 2 discs, sports bag and a towel all from Latitude 64. During the tournament there were ace prizes, and on Friday and Saturday there were closes to pin for yellow and white tees. To make such a big tournament run smoothly, many hands are needed, and that’s where volunteers come in. The many volunteers have been indispensable. For the tournament, arrangements were made with people from other clubs who could help out as TDs on the different courses. The locals from Discgolf West provided a lot of spotters, and on Friday, volunteers joined in and offered their services as spotters. The local associations were also massively represented. In Momhøje, FDF scouts had a stall selling food and drinks. At the same time, they were responsible for making the pre-ordered sandwiches. In Skibild-Nøvling, their local association was responsible for a stall. Here they grilled food, and there was also the opportunity to buy drinks and sweets. There was a lot of curiosity about the event. The locals got to talk to several players, as well as take a tour of the pitch to see how the players, for example, play. tackled the challenges. In Videbæk, a hot dog stand was set up to cater for the hungry mouths that came to play. Again, the locals were curious about what was going on and asked about the game with interest. Discimport was present with a large pop-up shop, where they were welcoming and knowledgeable enough to help everyone from beginners to seasoned veterans. People could satisfy their cravings for new discs or replenish after a favorite disc might have been lost. To emphasize how much the local community supported this DM event, Discgolf West managed to get 2. Deputy Mayor of Herning, Karlo Brondbjerg, to welcome you on Friday on the pitch in Momhøje. Karlo even plays disc golf with his son from time to time. He shared his enthusiasm for the sport and the importance of more courts, plus what this means for the local community. At the same time as Karlo, Erik Viborg, Chairman of Culture in Ringkøbing Skjern Municipality, was in Videbæk for the opening. Throughout the week, good spirits, smiles and joy were evident from players, organizers, volunteers and locals alike. Many ended the event by expressing the positive vibe and a desire for something in the future. Maybe it can be done again, who knows what the many enthusiasts in the sport will come up with? Exciting if there are ideas and desire in other clubs to take Am-Dm further – perhaps in a new direction.
The disc golf subcommittee of DFSU is looking forward to the gathering of club presidents on the 19th. November in Momhøje (see email to club presidents from Dennis Thygesen)
Last but not least, the winners of the different rows.
MA15 1 place went to Mads Haljær A shared 2nd place went to Lina Taagaard and William Faarborg.
MA18 1 place went to Jeppe Nordstrøm hansen 2 plate for Isaac Plagborg 3rd place to Nikolaj Jensen
MA50 1 place went to Peder Klink 2 place to Sune Schrold 3 place to Steen Teudt
MA40 1 place went to Johan Selander 2nd place to Martin Terkelsen And a shared 3rd place for Jacob Lykke and Tommy Plagborg
FA3 1 place went to Liv Jensen 2 place to Winnie Holdt
3rd place to Christina Simonia Straarup
FA1 1 place went to Gitte Maria Jørgensen 2 place to Kassandra Fog Wichmann 3 place to Sidsel Kubsch
MA4 1 place went to Søren Jacobsen 2 place to Casper Skjold Buhrkall 3 plate for Andreas Møller Nielsen
MA3 1 place went to Nicholai Güldner 2 place to Joakim Groevdal And a shared 3rd place for Øjvind fredsgård Larsen and Jeppe strange
MA2 1 place went to Frederik Sølvsten 2 records for Jonas Petterson And a shared 3rd place for Nicolai Thygesen Bayer and Frederik Meyer olesen
MA1 1 place went to Frederik Palsbjørn 2 place to Troels Rene Rasmussen 3rd place to Jeppe Damgaard
Deaf DM 1st place went to Emil Mitko Trillingsgaard Stabel 2 place to Christian Klim 3rd place to Ulrik Mjelva
I had just closed the store and was working on the day’s closing procedure when the phone rang. It was a guy named Andreas, he lived in Lyngby and had started playing disc golf a month ago. He actually called to ask if we knew anything about a pop-up course that was supposed to be located in Ermelunden (Gentofte), to which I replied that it was probably a pop-up tournament once. It seems that there had been plans for a permanent track at one point, but that something went wrong and it didn’t materialize.
After a little talk about the area around Lyngby and the surrounding courses, which I had helped to establish, he asked about a Facebook ad we at Discimport had running about personal training. We talked a bit about how we teach, Andreas interrupts and asks how much it costs and when I can “give” such a one-hour lesson…… “Can you do it tomorrow”? (It’s usually the case that people just have to look in the calendar and then they return with suggestions for dates), Andreas just wanted to get started quickly….. We met the next day at Lyngby Stadium, also known as the seaside resort.
The big focus of the day was his forehand, which he was having problems with. We started, as we always do, by videoing his current form on the forehand, it was 41 meters and somewhat unstable in its flight. So we threw ourselves into some exercises and a more theoretical review of the pre throw itself. We went through everything from the grip, balance, angles and his lack of runup on the forehand. After about 60 minutes, we videoed Andreas again, this time the length was 108 meters, and in a perfectly low and straight S-curve.
Andreas was happy, yes we both were……. For us at Discimport, it’s important that it works.
See the results here
Find out more about our personalized training here
A Common Misconception. You have probably heard this claim before, that flattop drivers are more overstable and that domey discs are more understable. This however is not exactly true! In my experience, flatter discs tend to do everything more extreme, fade harder and if they turn over – they do it fast and hard, whereas a disc with more dome on top seems to be more moderate in their ability to turn and fade. But that is just my experience with flat vs domey drivers.
To the left: Special Edition Lucid Evader. – To the right: VIP Underworld
So What Is Actually Determining If A Disc Is More Under Or Overstable? Here is an example with two discs from my bag, both speed 7 fairway drivers. The Evader is my straight flier and will turn a little when thrown hard, but that is nothing compared to my underworld that I use for rollers. If we look at the profile of the two drivers the biggest difference here is the height of the parting line or as I like to call it – the height of the ¨wing¨ of the disc. Drivers with a lower wing tend to turn more since the wind moves over, rather than under the disc and pushes on the top of the nose of the disc, which makes it turn over.
To the left: Special Edition Lucid Evader. – To the right: VIP Underworld
How To Apply It Luckily for us we don’t have to compare different molds to determine weather over or understable, for that we got the flight numbers! But where this knowledge really becomes useful is when we start comparing the height of the wing of drivers in the same mold – to help us predict if the disc is more or less stable than another in the same mold.
To the left: Handeye stamped Fuzion Raider – To the right: Fuzion Raider Stockrun.
My main distance driver is the Raider from Dynamic Disc, it is one of the most underrated distance drivers out there! I love the feel in my hand, the way the disc cuts through the air and the reliable flight I seem to achieve with it. So naturally I bag more than one of these incredible distance drivers – actually I have 3 in my bag and they all fly differently from each other.
It is very difficult to make every disc identical – especially with drivers there seems to be some difference in flight from disc to disc, even within drivers of the same mold and plastic!
To the left: Handeye stamped Fuzion Raider – To the right: Fuzion Raider Stockrun.
I used that to my advantage when picking out my distance drivers. I went to our store in Sydhavnen where I found all our Raiders and put them next to each other and compared the height of the wing on each one of them and the result? First I picked out the one with the lowest wing and as expected it was slightly understable and hyzer flipped from the first throw. From there I picked out the one with the highest wing I could find and finally one that fit in between – and voilá! I now have the exact distance driver lineup that I was looking for! 3 disc of the mold that I enjoy so much, in 3 different stability variations, from hyzerflip to headwind fighter.
I have now used this method for quite a while, both for myself and with our customers. The results tend to be that I no longer get surprised by a disc that was supposed to be understable but wasn’t or the other way around.
So if you are looking for a backup for your favorite driver or looking to find one that is a little more or less stable than the one you have in the same mold? Bring it along next time you visit one of our stores and then let’s have a look and see if we can find the perfect driver in your favorite mold!
