2018-11-09 Jumper Layups In the evening, I played a quick round at the Wiley course. I had three discs with me: P3, Sting and Roadrunner. Both drivers are new; I wanted to get used to them and always throw both. But as I met another guy, we joined and I played a normal round, driving four times with the RR, two times with the Sting (and three times with the P3). I played par on all holes. A quick walk-through: Hole 1: This is the only one I drove with both discs. Both landed about ten meters short and ten meters to the right. Still fine drives. (There was a slight tailwind.) Little jumper to the basket. Hole 2: This time I drove with the P3. It was the better choice than the Teebirds I used to throw there. Little jumper near the basket. Hole 3: With the Sting, but got it too high, thus it came in too short. Longer jumper near the basket. Hole 4: Forehand RR, should have given some hyzer, as I did not, it flew straight. Jumper near the basket. Hole 5: P3, drifted a bit right, but pin-height. Jumper near the basket. Hole 6: Forehand RR, hit the first branch. Great P3-approach from a patent-pending stance. Hole 7: Forehand Sting (to try something different), went to straight, again. Longer jumper with a low ceiling near the basket. Hole 8: As I had no disc with good fade, I took the straight route ... with the P3. Flew well but hit a nesting box at a tree after most of the way. Jumper near the basket. Hole 9: Great drive with the RR, behind the bushes (95m)! By far my best drive there. Just too much right. Jumper near the basket. Conclusions: Playing with few discs, again, produced good results, even though the discs are pretty new to me. Playing smooth in the woods reduces tree hits. Especially the Roadrunner does give me more distance. A disc with fade is a must-have. I missed it today. Forehands with understable discs require hyzer ... if you play them for doglegs right, which is the typical case for forehands. Driving more with my P3 is what I should do. The putter has such a different flight, compared to the drivers. That's a good thing. My forehands seldom produce shit. ;-) Hence, don't worry! My game has improved, indeed. On most holes, It was: Drive, jumper layup, short putt. This is nothing I was used to. There was only one long approach, all the rest were jumpers for layups. All puts were from short distance. If the drives get a bit better or if I sink some jumpers, I'm getting birdies! :-) There's consistency showing up. Out of the 29 rounds I've played at Wiley in total during those two years, 10 were par or under. My last 7 rounds were all part of these ten. (But my two rounds under par were earlier.) This means, that I'm avoiding bogeys better than before. I was rather low on birdies lately, but (more important) on bogeys as well. That's good development. My main takeaway from today is the jumper topic. I was able to lay those jumpers up near the basket with consistency, but none of them was near to go in. All of them were layups, none was a run. I lack the technique for those long putts. I don't know how to do it. Actually I lack putting technique in general a bit. I can putt several ways. I can make short putts without thinking. I cannot throw long putts with chances to go in. This is what I need to work on next. Concerning the bag: Next, I want to play with P3, ES TB, Ch RR. That could be a great combination. http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke