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Can ANTHONY BARELA & I Shoot a PERFECT ROUND?!?
Join Anthony Barela and me in a quest for a perfect round. Every shot counts as we battle through this epic disc golf course!
Watch on YouTubeJoin Anthony Barela and his playing partner as they take on the Beast at Pro Tour Plus events in Waco. In their latest episode, the duo discusses their strategy for shooting a perfect round, including their expectations for scoring. Anthony is looking to secure his first top 50 finish at Wake Up, but admits to having a poor track record at the course, having scored as low as 650 last year. With new terrain and challenging holes, can they overcome their inexperience to achieve their goal? Tune in to hear their conversation about doubles play, course navigation, and the importance of warming up for a successful round.
Podcast Transcript
let's talk to threads today all right what's up threads we're at pry presents Waco just called Pro Tour plus event we got AB game game in m today we're back out here at the Beast the wooded is track for Waco and I'm playing with my Nemesis we're going to have to play off for the nickname at some point but for now we're going to be friends and play some doubles how's it going Champion how does it feel first event of the Year Champion it's weird to hear now but it feels great I'm ready to go did we just call you champ every single time we reference you now like they did at uscgc not yet okay I haven't been here in 3 years St man guy roasted me Anthony is looking for his first top 50 finish at wake up I saw that drove 16 hours straight yesterday yesterday uh and I just sleep in the same room as cupcake a lot of snore of all time trying to shoot a perfect round out here together is that the goal while we just get some practicing uh I'm not very good at this course so maybe we're going for like a 6 or 700 6 or 700 his new whole 16 cool stupid that's what I've heard oh you don't even need my shot oh Circle one is you didn't get oh is that a zone that was a Zone flight if I have ever seen one do we have a team name for today AB squared that's what was in my head too we're good perfect I need to throw some warm-up putts are you ripping base plasticy Mac truths over here you caught me breach a contract dude what are you thinking I need a this to fill that slot this your rock no that's not me oh what are people doing I don't know someone left their Rock three out here spin it buddy so how does it feel that step Mando says you're searching for your top 50 at wake up I mean they're not wrong I have a pretty horrible track record here I think the first year I came here I I got a 650 a.m te time and I was warming up in the dark oh my God and I've never done that before and I was doomed from the beginning and then yeah I haven't been out here in 3 years but we got a new course Lake Waco I'm excited to play that one and hopefully I can top 50 this week my bag is like slowly I didn't know what I needed so I brought like that bag was full and now there's like eight empty slots cuz I just like kept pulling out stuff and like I don't need this I don't need this I don't need this I got some empty slots I kept losing this at Fountain Hills oh no have you played out there yeah I played there I played there like when I was doing my form stuff with Drew so felt Walky but all right ready do you have any like game plans coming into this from your past experience or you trying to create that today I'm just going to try to have zero expectations this week yeah like anything better than top 50 will be a win for me honestly oh stop flipping sneaky what disc was that an emperor I'm going to try to go inside I don't think there's OB left right I don't see it oh no are you ever trying to to this one you think you could um I don't think so no maybe with the right wind yeah I just tried to get over to the left side I think from what I remember these right now are the shots that I really need to dial in before tomorrow cuz these approaches you're going to have some they're very dependent on like how discs are flying at this elevation they just Glide a lot more than in Denver so that'll work huh I'll just try to make it I guess oo Drop In There Baby come on oh come on one shot dud have you gotten any of your chess.com zones yet no not yet they did a pre-order I should be getting one of them this week I think by Friday at least sweet nail it yep that was Zone okay so here's the real question I know You' talked about the trophy and stuff before you're getting it engraved and everything have you seen what the engraving is going to look like no I haven't seen any of that yet but I'm supposed to get a cool custom like chest pieces and then like an engravement on it whatever that will be that's sweet but we'll see you chess guy I did play a little I played a little bit in high school I just redownload the app right before the tournament and then the CEO actually offered me a free membership so that was pretty cool so now I've been playing a lot I feel like today is just trying to like goat us into thinking it's going to be like this for the weekend the weather here's perfect here's perfect no wind weather is it going to be windy I don't know I haven't seen I every time I check the forecast it changes slightly I'm too scared to check the weather do you watch all Julie's Brad versus Bruiser videos he puts out of course dude those are some gems in disc yeah we've been staying with Brad we toured with them all last year too I don't actually suck I promise I'm just stiff you know I was worried that you did suck so I'm glad you you can tell I haven't thrown a good shot yet how do you feel about Cuts in tournaments I know this one's got a cut after three you like it yeah I like cuts it just gives you something to play for before going in the final round too for me like it's like if I can make the cut I had a good tournament you know it builds that pressure for 2 days instead of just one and it makes the final rounds flow a lot easier 320 whole three straight ahead SL up the hill kind of fast screen I don't know how it's going to skip in all this de but we'll try a scepter two inside get there though oh I don't remember what to do here that's Circle two I think I used to go Hiser I don't remember that so much angle yeah too much long I released God today that's bad no way you're thinking about doing turn it maybe you think so if I keep early releasing everything maybe I'm telling you I can only throw dead straight flat shots zdo it's weird all right we got to make this to stay perfect either way our seven down is still intact like you said so we're good oh good Pace terrible execution that's all right oh you grip loed it pretty grippy out here it's all slimy good news is we can get seven though whole four four 441 ft pretty dink Heiser dink Heiser sidearm you're not birding this hole you're probably going to lose a stroke on half the field is this the hole I'm thinking of I think this is a hole I think you're thinking of hole seven the one that people can get with a sidearm oh that's not this hole I don't know I've seen big number oh with the cliff to the right yeah okay never mind yeah it is you're right thougher d Kaiser you're right on that this is why you never got 50th bro yep how'd you know no no oh no well this Ho's actually pretty hard so you can par it you're the best player ever you just don't mess up the best lowest rated player in the tournament probably it's your turn Zone doing Zone stuff I like that yeah you come in proximity of another AB all your powers Get Zapped I know you're stealing it all I'm the ab vampire luckily the circle like you can see those Circle tassels it's not hard to give yourself like a 40 footer yeah it's only like all I'll lead it off since you're the anchor today all right that's still a part honestly do you like that that flex line instead of trying to throw an anheiser backand uh yeah it's the ceiling's so low I don't think it's worth it to even try a backand oh gosh it's all right that was at least we get to take one of mine I got to Le this one off yep I need to feel this pressure right now all right why you keep leaking man I don't think I'm opening up my hand nice whole five 264 ft take out your straightest mid-range and just pump it hard and make sure you commit do not miss left cuz you will bogey money 20 28 footer is there a reason that everyone's throwing mids on this hole inste Putters um I've just noticed a lot of people are throwing those mids yeah I just feel like um it's easier to control a mid-range for the low ceiling and skip it up that dirt path that's pretty much what I'm trying to do oh that's left here try this one ooh a little better that's the guy okay we got that one so we missed two through five so down yeah I think I'm going to throw a four hand on this one and hope to give you a good position that's pretty good I think it's probably going to be like 35 short short that's it Go in oh man I like that little turnover here's where the Luna landed oops you need me yep huh I just kicked it and missed did we just par no all right we'll we'll take that gimme yeah yeah thank you I'll give it to you do you have any goals now that you've taken one down about how you want this year to kind of pan out for you winds wise tournament wise are you satisfied already and now it's just kind of gravy on top and everyone should be scared I mean I want to win some more but main thing I've always wanted was a major or World title so I'm always going to be working towards that and another goal I set was to be top five in points by the end of the season oh sweet so I have a few goals I don't know it was crazy to win the first event yeah pretty dominantly too I know Ricky is scary on 17 oh I couldn't I almost pooped myself I think I poop myself through the screen for you this is the hole I was thinking of yep it doesn't even look anything like the other one are you going for this one all day with your with your forehand probably I need my sidearm is like weird right now I don't know what's wrong with me do you want me to kind of just pitch one out there or you want to go first you go for it too okay do you have a side yeah I I got down into the bowl and scubber and one for Eagle on a practice round all right and now I'm going to be better cuz Ganon made this beauty so that's what I've been doing this whole whole time I've been leaking It Wide it's all right oh it's stable I think you're up and down yeah yeah easy up and down wow here's that's where your uh back hand back hand got to yeah oh my gosh that pretty good that's so cool no uhoh come on all right you guys are going to be point at the basket I'm just going to toss it in real fast yeah we might need you to throw one I thought I threw it pretty Prett good and I got this thing how did you get anywhere close kind of like that huh there we go let's go still got the birdie that's good grab my you forget one yeah you can't like get down to the right there's no be anywhere or just throw back in how are you thinking playing this one I'm going to throw a back in why I've just thrown this whole good like half of a Time total so yeah just try that right Gap what yeah oh you're him there you probably 30 footer we'll take it what do you think about a course like this being on tour still know it's kind of like old nostalgic does have some like a lot of sub 250t holes so I'm interested in your opinion especially as someone who's throws the farthest golf lines in the world yeah I I like it I think it's good to have one of these every so often I still wish the memorial was on tour and it's kind of a shorter course like this yeah but we'll see if the game goes out of it I don't think it really should cuz coming in and throwing these soft putter shots is always really fun yeah it's super technical especially when you go to the golf course and you're like oh I never have to throw not hard and you come here you're like what the heck oh wow look who weing yeah I it's going to be juice see I can't throw a short how far are you throwing now um probably golf lines I feel confident up to probably 460 470 maybe okay wow it's only cuz Julie's here let me stack him let's go that's why they call us AB squared you know exactly how do we catch them we're throwing a billion shots yeah I don't know they're pretty slow players all right hole nine Brad is currently being bruised that is what is happening on The Fairway I don't know he's kind of built for these kind of holes he is the little here the one of these yep it's more like this 519 par 4 oh yeah's got it this one's tough you really I'm I'm think I'm happy with the four in this hole there's a couple holes that I'm like happy with the four and if I give myself a look off the t-shot fine but like throw a t-shot and then take where it takes and uh try to get down into that bowl and then from the buard you got to easy pitch up but to get down there you got to hit this Gap yeah oh that is clean oh of course one here too right it's just AIG she's won all of them that yeah we'll take that what are we two under I think one one under I think it yeah that's going to be a football if I'm play with you just kidding that was my pitch out so you could run it you know I wasn't even trying to get up there I appreciate it yeah of course oh that's a putt oh no what is going on are you hitting my camera no I'll move it back just in case I'm going to leave series champ now man you don't have to be nervous all right yeah I mean I'm not nervous about that I'm nervous about the putts from today yeah I'll lock in for you right here this is a tough putt yeah I'm not even going to get to the basket well don't say that oh D I was about to grab that out all right hole 10 5 91 one of my favorite holes in the course just a really beautiful Gap to get you started you kind of want to be see Brad down there you lose caddy you want to be kind of where Drew is if not a little bit inside left right down there and you're loving it I think we're going to have to go for eagle here by we do you mean you uh we're a team yeah yeah yeah he'll put it right where Brad is and then I'll go for it last time I played here I was throwing Ina the dark days the dark days you throw in them yeah I don't think I have any in my bag what are you talking about single in in here anything looks like this is Ina no that's infinite bro they sound the same but they're different that's a good this sh emper you're right dang I'm going to go home you got to leave that in I like it don't skip too hard oh my gosh that might be a butt I think we got to look dude you're an incredible human thank you all right I'll practice my shot for tomorrow that's perfect uh yep okay it he just groaned about having a 70 footer on this hole I thought I was hoping it'd be C2 I mean 85 let's I mean I'll be honest it's 85 but like come on 75 sure wow nice run oh my God no dang Oh I thought that was in me too that would been awes dang it oh I'll take that one that would have been such a cool too I know what's the flippi thing that you bag probably my Undertaker it's pretty flippy I'm always intrigued by like what the farthest run people bag is their flippi disc and like seeing how flippy it actually is what about me here throw it my flippi is like a sphinx these are my two flippi this a buzz or Buzz SS Buzz it's pretty much a buzz SS though it kind of feels like it it feels like it's been rounded over for ages yeah I'm feeling pretty dialed right now never mind kick all right yeah I need I need this pressure you know that's what I like no thought skip up the hill just told going up that right side is good oh he loves it sorry no it is good though that was that was nice this should fly that same exact way whoa look at that late flip yeah you can shake it and still goes good yeah see they're pretty flippy that's crazy oh look at this Paul uari crazy that's money dve is going in my bag you're going to like that disc actually get it this the worst putter ever oh I keep liking it right side little Yankee there you go second guys are way better yeah we're really good second people that's like that's AB squar haved literally drift more easy par got a right to left kind of pushing in it didn't like to turn much oh not clear oh that's so inside yeah bro not everything's about you bro all right I'm so glad that didn't hit you I'm also so glad it didn't hit my camera I know no dang oh my gosh we cannot make these Circle two putts all right we're coming out the woods we should not miss any of these holes there's actually a couple Eagle potentials we got this one he can get if it's the right wind I might even be able to give us a we've missed five we missed five yep all right then we're at your seven down so we need to get at least one more yeah at least par out and we'll be pumped and happy for that yeah very very happy actually you getting this one please say yes uh yep Venom oo he my baby what's your new two series man it is also a Venom jawbreaker Z Flex Dam pretty overstable pretty gummy I love them for sidearms here we'll have you throw right now you're really struggling with the sun huh I just sweat so much little too high it NOS up it's a birdie though guaranteed birdie this Gap looks bigger than last time maybe you're just better than last year I don't know maybe I wish we could play this whole 18 times in a row you did it you did it yes it be a putt good shot a don't give me your disc you like hitting trees with them I love it dude it's my favorite pastime right now you like H him with your this too that sounded weird that sound really weird sound like I broke it just aimed right at that tree for no reason that's smooth oh wow that's the layup stay in the area ding dong it's all right this is my time love second player wait player two's got it though yeah this one's in guaranteed every time nope come on we are broke it well it's still a birdie though so that's good but I want to get one Eagle though just one we can get 15 maybe we're joined on this hole by uh Mandy specifically triple Mandy yep we're going to go a little fux done we got that we got we got that we got that we got that I'm so bad oh I didn't turn it enough it's still down there that's closer than mine are you broken I think so that dropped give me a real reason mine stay up and yours dropped all right good that's a good one to get a three on you know you want to get you want to take a part on that hole yeah exactly you know that way you can get a two on the next one and keep everyone wondering if you're good or bad at this one feed your card tomorrow yes sir do you like being on feature cards you think it gives you a little extra little pop uh yeah I do the adrenaline definitely makes me focus more and throw cooler shots I guess like I can I can throw probably 3 m hour harder if I'm on like a future card D so I can like throw shots that I never even thrown in practice it's kind of crazy do you like have to account for that when you're walking up you're like okay I'm going to have to be throwing harder so what do I do yeah I do sometimes it's just yeah it's a weird feeling you're going to start getting that feeling soon when they start putting you on the future cards in like four years no I think I brought it yes sir you ready that's sweet oh yeah I got it for Christmas shout out to my mom and dad best Christmas gift I've ever gotten can't stop playing with it you hit 90 no I hate 89 though oh my gosh with a light nuke you think the disc like weight has something to do with the m per hour the lighter it is faster it goes 100% yeah I'm going to see I don't know what the world record is but I want to break it do you do any like training or around that and trying to increase speed or I do some explosive drills and like some like agility with footwork and stuff like that I think footwork plays into distance a lot more than people think cuz I can almost do like a full Sprint into my runup and that's how I generate so much more momentum and Power yeah are we going to are you going to help us to Eagle this guy I'm going to try you going to go over that tree I hope you can go over that tree I would love to see that I don't know I'm going to try it why not I might be able to reach Brad but I don't think I can I got one probably I no I think I got one like down by where he is and this is a good one are you going throw this hard I'm going to try to all right we're going to give you I think you can throw 71 72 hope so we'll see all right 65 get back dude that's still there can you get me one oh yeah just point it like right at that second blacking this side and hold it down okay 76 oh I didn't throw it low enough yeah that thing's pretty overstable you going over the tree yep I'm going to try 74 no was it that's what it says are you serious did you PP that thing yeah this thing's broken it says 74 it might have got your arm I was pointing a little closer to you all right let's get an 80 ball 78 oh no that's gone oh no dude you almost nailed that Porsche that went like 650 oh oh my gosh that a little flippy I need a new one that was nuts 64 yeah it's probably a little off that was a bad throw though fine I don't know what it would have got though that's so weird I threw it better than the other ones yeah you find it no I make this so that we don't have to check again oh here it is oh nice W it's like perfectly High yeah did you make it just right this is what I needed 100 footer birdie now we got a ace one to get the eagle unless you want an eagle 17 I could try B he was so mad at this CU he just gave it to me Ian I'll take it but like it's not as scary once you get up there that should I even throw I don't know if I got all the way back it kind of didn't let it push to the left hard drop die I don't really want to oh no I won't on this hole you want to try it I mean I I trust myself but I don't don't want to lose it in case I do playing it safe yeah short I was like let me just let me hug the tree line cuz I'm not losing that D I like it I like the confidence yeah I was way short these things feel good they're so Gummy all right you're not even going to have to put this all right yeah no chance well that will be kind of cuts in pretty close on the edges over here we're just Tri there's so much crap on this green I've rolled my ankle like four times already I don't feel like throwing my arm out today that's fair probably not the day before tournament yeah not great but still play that's right in the sweet spot right I think so I wanted I wanted to skip and just kind of hit some dirt wait so that's how it's supposed to fly yeah you threw it good on the last one yeah I just threw it safe I threw it like a baby who didn't want to lose your disc yeah thank you oh that's interesting Leo oh you're trying the new guy yeah let's see the new let's see the new I think you like it that was all right it's all right it's actually in a great spot it's all right the rim is so big for my hands really yeah look at look at my hands keep oh yeah oh bye-bye disc what's upit are you getting there I think so I think that's perfect oh little short yeah that's probably a dumb Point throw this Venom side I'm try this Raptor side he's just showing how puny my sidearm is right now that's the most overstable cap R I've ever seen it looks like it it's like oh yeah both of those look crazy this is where you want to be is it looks like it where would you rather be a little further down by the Rocks I don't know I don't know what to do here well I threw my scepter which is like my fire so now I have fd1 which is seven speed but still it's pretty overing so bite oh yeah it bite pretty good I ever corrected I think I think I'm in circle too uh-oh that's really bad this one is tough it might be like a stable like a Kratos backhand down cuz of the wind I can't backhand through there wait that's parked it's also scary yeah you can go right under that Branch yeah yeah you got a couple extra feet above that you need to worry about I can throw a all right s retrievable that was mean to me should have made you do that you're good oh God you're going in yeah I might have to also no I'll go in for you you sure oh yeah I don't know where it is though it looks pretty deep though where are actual shots shanked so mine was better than I thought it was actually oh yeah oh we're all right I don't think my shoe situation is pdj legal but no it's fine what did that go straight through just on the left side like bounc on the edge for a second oh nice good correction I'm making this one don't worry please or you're going to have to grab this out of the lake wee left to right wind slight Hiser nice now it drops I see your Kratos really yes where do we we have a big stick oh I see it now one of these could work pick your poison funny thing is I'm in here and you're at the shore we have the same reach there's no way that stick's going to grab that out of there you're getting wet it'll dry off fast it's going it's starting oh you just shoved it down well it's time no don't do that I should have just taking them off thank you so much yeah I'll give you a hat how about that good trade oh yeah you like those dad hat kind of things I hate them you hate them okay yeah perfect you got a new one let's go hey good thing about this one is I got a new water nuke yeah you you actually should throw that here what's that you should throw that disc here I'll try 468 straight head one pray for me AB all right pring that's so good see yeah I know you can do it sitot I like that get there going in the water I'm already wet no I got it I got it dude don't get wet gosh nuke some my shot um just pump it hard on a sler I'm not throw sand you think I throw sander mhm it should flip up well it maybe flat oh you were right I'm dumb I threw my I threw it on my forehead and forgot I don't have a forehand wasn't that's still down there though yeah it came oh should I lose Paul's disc yeah throw it that thing's gone if you make this putt I'll get it really yep for real yeah it's not that deep even past the reads you think I don't think so I'm a good swimmer yeah there's no shot you get that this is pretty good honestly 45 footer come on oh baby same exact spot that's even worse all right I'll still grab for you you're good what do you think we shot four down probably two under yeah pretty good we played pretty solid here go snip me hat I'll grab your D I don't think you're going to be able to get that man you don't have to how much you going to bet I'll bet you a hat a second one sure what kind of hat do you want like that but black or white at least try I'm literally just about to go back to the Airbnb so OB dude thanks for being on the channel today man yeah of course any final thoughts and words things that people can snag from you to support your yeah team.com we got this new like kind of practice shirt coming out wanted something a little more casual and uh shout out to bodanza for carrying the YouTube scene and you're a lot better than I thought you were going to be so thanks man let's go good luck this week we'll play off hey if you want we can play off for the name at Lake Waco just straight up score run oh yeah all right let me know all right I will let you know if I find this disc I get three Strokes okay deal what a shot Katrina oh get up thereo ab said I get three Strokes if I can find his disc we're playing Lake Waco play off for the nickname so oh yeah I need all the help I can get oh don't be in there too long think you're right by the weeds I'm going to make it slow and dramatic is that wide rim feels like a putter oh yeah yeah please don't say that a really overstable putter like a really fast overstable putter yes oh my God how much money do you want I want three Strokes today all right that's fine I mean I hope that can be enough but I trust you'll play pretty well there you might have just saved my career I'll take your earnings this weekend I don't know that one hey should I try to set up a tea time for around 3:00 yeah Aaron Aaron wants to play too we can do all of us yeah we can do all us we'll probably film most of us some extra ones appreciate you man yeah I'll see you at three