Why I Played a REAL Tournament w/ ONLY 5 DISCS!!!

right now I feel like I'm in a big slump in my disc golf game and so I'm honestly I'm pretty nervous about today's tournament that I'm going to be playing but what's really interesting is it's not I'm not feeling the nerves is I don't have a lot of like nervousness or anxiety inside me it's more like a concrete reality for me now that I need to figure out how to fix that's weird to say every time you leave for a tournament you realize you got to go to the bathroom but I have a three-part goal to try to get myself out of this slump maybe in one day maybe it's going to take longer but I thought a lot about this and talk to some people that I really know and trust and this could be a potential solution first two things I think I really need to work on are one lowering my expectations I've played three tournaments this year One Flex start one one round that basically is a flex start and then wakeo and I think my expectations versus my goals have kind of mismatched I haven't even enumerated them so today the goal is just to cash I know that I've gotten the skills to become better than my rating even though I've been playing terrible averaging I think 970 for the season so far maybe a little bit better literally almost forgot my coffee on my windshield up here goal number two or I guess objective is to listen to the golf is not a game of perfect audiobook Isaac Robinson gave me that big recommendation we'll talk about number three when we get to the course which is about an hour and 10 minutes away it's a little chilly right now going to be in the 30s and 40s for this first round that audio book was pretty killer honestly very validating for like dreams and stuff and I realized by the way he was talking about people who put themselves under pressure or get into situations I just realized how much I was doing that to myself that I didn't even realize before a couple big takeaways obviously goal today is just to cash that's a goal not necessarily even an expectation going to really focus on just like trying to get in the right head space and routine for every shot two main things that I took away were the pay off for a good short shot is much higher than the pay off for a good long shot and so um not taking those short shots for granted especially not like expecting that I'm going to perform those short shots but rather being happy for that and then um need to go from like a training to a trusting mentality I've been in such a big training mentality this offseason I don't think I've ever flipped that switch I didn't really expect to play at Waco I guess I wasn't really planning on starting my tournament season maybe even until now is but I've never really flipped that switch to from training to trusting so I just think about swing thoughts the whole round instead of just clearing my mind and trusting my body to kind of do its best for one final weird thing about this tournament which I don't know if it's going to be good or bad based on this book but I think it's going to be fun for me because so much of what I enjoy in disc golf which is just like doing weird dumb silly things um that make the game a lot more fun for me and like these tournaments have been been so stressful I've decided to do something a little odd this whole tournament I'm going be playing with just five discs I think these are discs that I can play every shot on this course with I went here and played with Joel and Cole earlier this week funnily enough I forgot shoes luckily I brought them yes I did bring them today a Marvel which I'm going to be throwing and pting with just one of them stiff maybe I should have grabbed a Bas bu cuz how cold it is but got to get that out of my head and just trust I can make it we got color Glow Zone with new Texas Swing stamp an ESP blun Chariot do it all mid-range a tour series disc which is going to be coming out here pretty soon and then this neutral super doy super glidey has some finish I BL Emperor going to warm up probably not get too many shots from the round but I'm really excited and I think that this will help you just the mental reset if anything I think I'll have the most fun this tournament and I just need to have a fun tournament to remember that competitive disc golf is fun cuz I put so much pressure on it I need to fix that well you better fix this weather right now I'm I'm just glad it's not snowing man it was supposed to snow today so it's a little more of the thought process behind the five discs only for today's round I meet with someone on kind of a bonly basis this month is just once CU of all of our travel he's like a certified like coach I don't know if it's life coach business coach what I treat him kind of as both in both content and my play it's been like a weird month or two my play has I've just not been living up to what I know I can do and I've realized a lot of that has been I've been trying to force myself to prove that I'm better than I have been before before that's caused me to shoot a 953 rated round which probably was closer to 980 because of a penalty a 947 rated Flex start which I lit that was 2 days ago and I didn't even feel it I couldn't throw a disc like I didn't know what to do and then underperforming at Waco and I realized so much of it is I've just not been enjoying playing disc golf and that's I've gotten tight I've gotten tensed off creativity is something that I really love and really value and appreciate about myself that I am creative that I do these type of things but even with dis golf there is a lot of creativity that comes with the game and creativity constraints and so for Content I'm doing that in some different ways that maybe you'll see throughout videos it's mostly just for me on the back end to like enjoy making it again here the constraint is just the five discs and sometimes I have too many choices and I don't know all my discs well enough anyways so might as well just limit it to four discs plus a Potter which I'll also throw yeah creativity just loves constraints and so I'm going to constraint it and just see if I enjoy that cuz I think I will that's so much of what I love about like Mystery Box videos and Challenge videos and I sometimes I score better than those than just like with my own bag and I'm like why the heck do I do that but I'm have an extra level of focus and I need to find that because I've just been stressing and today I'm just going to enjoy it I've said that other rounds but it feels more real today and I think I have some tools from that golf is not a game a perfect book um that'll be really helpful for that so grateful I had this hourong drive now we got to warm up in this 31° like that I completely re cut like 2 days go more kin and baresque I like a lot more arm less moving parts for now we'll add in more legs figure it out later but loving it so I don't know if this guy's ever heard of not being a psycho with these shorts Jordan you ever heard of like not being insane I'm from Kelly I don't check the weather bro pretty good man how are you round one about to start going down didn't really have much time to work my Thro really focused on putting important for today is to be more confident on the T of 18 than I am on whole one and that's only going to come through accepting all my bat shots and being happy with my good shots B tell that book like yeah you have to have it both ways if you want to be a good golfer like you have to appreciate the good shots and not care about the bat shots and trust that you're better than that so it's interesting mentality I think I air on the opposite side of that almost and that's uh put a lot of Under Pressure all right we got three holes to go par three and then two like 500ish foot par fours so there's some Eagle opportunity my putting has been all right I just missed kind of a 33f footer off the top and made like the 28 foot comeback but that was oh so scary cuz I'm playing all right I'm really I don't know what my score is and that's when I play the best I don't know where I'm at because I'm just taking the next shot so that's like really positive cuz I think I just went on a streak of I genely don't even know how many birdes I think 5 six seven and so I'm playing all right not I don't think I'm playing crazy we got three fun holes left let's try to get some birdies and end on a turkey but just trying to uh not I think about scoring just every shot and my round has been all right and I feel so much more enjoyment playing today so let's make it happen a little for just got the two baby at about 85 ft into a headwind lifted it up there on heer Dro that was this the most casual putt 80t Eagle put I ever made that was sick let's try get another so I unfortunately ended up finishing last hole with a decent shot that I just pulled a little high so not mad about that my up shot I don't think I took enough time to commit to I was so ready to be like oh this is the last shot of the round to get over with that I didn't really visualize it like I had many other shots and so I put it to about 60 ft airball that putt left and then made the comebacker for the par which puts me right now I'm honestly I'm pretty happy it's more people are still out on the course than the rating could potentially go up but as of right now there's five people um on cards and I looks like I'm on lead card Joe Rivier has everybody by Two Strokes if you can see that right there Joe's at 13 and then my buddy Micah myself and then Nicky are at 11 and then Isaac I played with is at 10 that eagle was sick average birdies on the last couple holes which is kind of funny with a an eagle in a par but I started really slow and I don't necessarily even felt that I got a bunch of birdies six birdies in a row uh par 27 birdie eagle part to end 1,2 rated right now which is not bad with five disc made a couple really long putts missed one inside the circle putt overall that first round went pretty solid I'd like the limited amount of disc it really simplifies the game plan I might take this out and and figure it out and just throw this for the second round instead of my eyb number I'm trying to think about like the holes that I threw it on I think this would do just the exact same especially cuz it's going to be windier so I probably would rather have this like gra this for the headwinds and then this for the Tailwinds I think I am going to make that one Swap and that'll be it pretty happy overall to just kind of chill enjoy the round and really take the advice from that book of just playing every shot as every shot really visualizing it and then just letting my body take over I really haven't thought about swing thoughts or score which has been really nice and obviously I'm in contention for the win I'm just trying to cash and so four Above The Cash Line which again I'm still not going to try to think about I'm just going to go out there and try to shoot my best again maybe I'm able to beat Joe but Joe didn't have a phenomenal Round Shot 1023 he's 1036 rated he probably would rather shoot 15 and same with me like I missed a lot of stuff that I definitely could have um done better but I'm stoked that when I didn't think about the score and I just let my play happen it's 1,000 and two with literally five discs going to go grab some food and I get back here for around 2 around 1:00 it'll be fun to play with Joe again I'm just witness greatness and see what it takes to get to that level by experiencing it dang this car's kind of my size it's perfectly for me yeah ratings are not good today that's literally the whole reason I came here if it's windier it'll be better next round just such an easy course a few those shots I knew I was I got it oh nice oh actually yeah I made like a 80 foter it was sick I'm going to talk about a long time what's the Strat for round two guys stay awake stay awake what' you say Circle hope no I've been hiding infinite himself now huh it almost came back in you mentioned earlier I don't know if it it is the good news for me is I can just kind of launch this in here talk about for later kind of like playing with five disc I got so much room for extra stuff see maybe on the course maybe after after who knows I like these Vlog Style videos let me know if you guys do too it's a little bit easier for me it's a little more chill don't have to coordinate as much with other people and these courses are honestly kind of boring so I don't want to like make you sit through 19 Hol of boring disc golf just a couple cool ones if I decide to film otherwise you get the experience and kind of my thought process bye so we're just about halfway through this round I just had a thought that sometimes externalizing is helpful for me what I just noticed is I just missed two putts in a row one was about 20 ft 20 25 uh the other was about 40 ft after making a 30 35 foot nice PT on the first one I didn't uh fix my aim point it was a little low thought it was perfect out of my hand just dropped some happy with that but second one I noticed I started getting into swing thoughts which you do not want I started really thinking okay make sure you pop make sure you do all the s blah blah blah instead is focusing on a chain and hitting it not sure where I am in the tournament I'm playing fine I'm not playing out of my mind I definitely if I make my putts I have a chance to be uping attention for the lead um there's a lot of holes to play so I'm just trying to take every shot as it comes that's just pick a chain link and put it at the chain link I'm so scared I'm going to like yank it but if I'm dialing it on a chain link it's not going to happening oh all right we're back that one shot that you saw was like one of my worst shots of the day and it was what's going to be my Tour series disc that's not as fun L start picking up ratings were better but still ratings were pretty trash this whole tournament I played just shot by shot trusted my pot for the most part I missed a lot of putts which kind of surprised me a lot I felt like I was putting all right it was funny I was playing with Jo and he basically every time that like he open up an opportunity I didn't take it I just didn't walk through the door it was kind of crazy I I would like be on the putting green and I would miss a circle one putt I'm going to real quick run through my UD stats and just see how it was but overall I shot pretty good the ratings everyone is like ratings are kind of trash every single person here I said that the ratings from today like feel 10 to 15 points worse than what actually was rated which is fine ratings are what they are but that being said I ended up in a tie for second place right behind Joe three Strokes missed enough putts to have been in contention with Joe just didn't take them and I'm fine with that today that wasn't the goal today today the goal is just to cash I'm going to make $180 and there's actually something we're going to be doing with that money all right I'm just going to cut this off because well first it's going to be a little extra echoey this is the last video that I'm editing in this office cuz I'm moving to the lair I called it the dungeon and then someone said you got to call it the lair cuz that's more superh heroy and I'm not enough of a bad boy to have a dungeon to be honest with you but basically what I'm going to be doing this year is tracking with you guys not including taxes cuz I'm just going to cover those in tournament winnings if I do end up profiting this year and not including like travel expenses all that stuff most all this is anyways being covered by the channel but I want to just track profit and loss on tournament winnings to give you guys an idea of what it looks like and if we do get profitable we're going to be investing that and I'm just going to have an investment account that's just tournament winnings in puru just to see how high we can grow it over the course of my disc golf career and see if I'm just a personal finance nerd so I like that stuff and I want to bring that to be a part of this channel slightly this is everything that I've already paid for starting at the first like winter series it has the cost plus the PayPal fees because that tournament is $45 PayPal has $2 something fee and then there's also a Disc Golf Scene fee which is there's just so many fees but we're adding all that together cost with PayPal Plus Golf Scene did I cash yes or no cash made $0 so I lost $48 on that tournament and then I went to Waco and I lost $413 at that tournament and then I went to Austin I played the qualifier so we lost $55 I lost 365 at wake not 412 but that's the running total signed up for Austin but because I didn't get in I had to still pay all these fees that aren't refundable so I lost $15 just in the fees and then I played a flex start where I shot terrible lost another $34 so we're $515 down before this tournament where we did end up making $180 but after paying for the tournament it's only $124 27 of profit which brings us down to $398 we'll see what we can do and then we'll probably just put some money in indexes cuz it's safe and maybe a little bit in some fun stuff but just to show you kind of how much I've spent already this year if we add back in this 124 for all the tournaments I've already signed up for we spent $2,275 so that's a decent bit subscribe please that helps out a lot you guys are the reason that I'm able to do this and sign up for all of these without having to worry too much about it but yeah subscribe back to whatever I was saying right now the round two is rated at 1,6 I don't know why this is not run to focus very much 1,6 which is fine it was 1, like8 a second ago round one 1,01 so for the event 1,4 which really felt like I shot 1015 1020 and that's awesome I'll shout out to Ed for the final round he shot 13 down 1037 on the final round 13 which is definitely a number that I could have gotten to I wasn't even thinking about numbers which I think is why I shot better today but this this doesn't feel like full potential but it feels closer and especially doing it all with literally five discs per round is kind of crazy to me like and that's it five discs and I shot 1,4 rated and I miss I miss some butts you guys will see that in a second but really solid disc cannot wait for you guys to get your hands on these really quickly I'm just going to do the thing also I'm just getting to this I missed an eagle putt from 30 ft which is crazy felt like a good putt just miss it off left side and the putting felt really good today um missed a lot of them this round but most of it felt good and a lot of that was like lack of focus and a little bit of a lapse I'm moving tomorrow I'm signing a lease I'm moving over the course of this next week I can't wait to show you what I'm building as my office SL dis golf workout station it's going to it's going to be the best in the game this is nuts I'm glad we got done just in time for this winter storm is coming through had a quick thought so I'm interjecting it and then we'll get back to whatever I was talking about I realized I am not as happy or as sad as I thought I'd be about this round today and I think so much of that is just living in the moment and accepting my shots as they come rather than P having that get all pent up for the end of the round like stinks I didn't win you know I definitely had the opportunity so I missed six Circle one putts in the last round and I lost by three so I mean boom right there just in those not including the throwing I accepted those in the moment and moved on and it's also like I'm not oh great I got second place to Joe and I shot over th rated like just like yeah I'm going to accept it and and I played well and I'm proud of it so interesting finding I shot bogey free this is my first bogey free round of the year maybe even like tag round I don't know but first bogey free tournament as well and there were a lot of opportunities to Bogey and I I didn't letm myself I was I was I'm really happy about that and this is what we're looking at stat wise 67% Circle one putting wow 67% Circle 1 putting 33 in circle 2 though that was pretty good I'm really happy about that 89% Greens in regulation Circle 2 74% greens regulation Circle 1 and only 53% birdies essentially what that means is 74% green regulation Circle one 14 holes I was in circle one on if I missed one Circle one Putt and Putt how I did in circle two I would have Shot 14 down and I would have won because I was three back of Joe and I shot 10 and the putting overall felt pretty good for being 67% so I'm really proud of how this tournament went I'm finally glad I put one together for the year many many more to come this is very early on the season I'm not going to say like oh I'm over it or I'm cured or whatever because that's very like definitive and I'm just trying to take it step by step by step which I did a good job of today let's try to do a good job of that if I have a flex start next week which I don't think think I do but I do have a tournament next Saturday so 6 days from now thanks for this journey let me know if you guys like this style of video and there will be more to come probably because I much prefer it it's a lot of fun and I'll see you and I love you bye