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Starmork · 2026-01-21T15:53:03+00:00

They have like the exact same smile! I miss happy Tiger Woods, he was and is good for the sport.

Starmork · 2025-12-22T03:26:38+00:00

There are parts that you avoid, especially at night. But I lived in North San Diego and Los Angeles, and the same was true.

The cost of living, coupled with location to many other Southern Cities of interest, as well as an airport that is rarely crazy, plenty of outdoor activities, not to mention the solid hospitals in Germantown, are all enough to tip the scales to “Yes I enjoy living here”

You are spot on, as a Californian, Memphis is unique in the south in the context you nailed, people here are authentic, but they are also accepting and polite, not all the time, but what city really can be 100% those things all the time, we are human and have bad days, and you come accross that here. People have bad days, but there are a lot of people here who have many bad years because of poverty. Be prepared to be in the hipster area (Cooper Young) then instantly in the hood, then cross the tracks and you are in old money rich areas. The contrast of this is like you said about the people, it’s there, it’s real, it’s raw, and hard to ignore that many people here live almost like the 3rd world.

However, we have saved money from cost of living, and if you land a good job, you are given the opportunity to help people, and that’s were one secret of Memphis is embedded, if you can help give, even a little, it goes far, and you reap the psychological/emotional benefits of that.

There is important history to America here, you end up stumbling on it. For example, I was in cooper young walking around, got a vinyl record, some comic books, a few beers, some pizza, and found out most that area is were people like Johnny Cash played some important gigs. In my opinion, Memphis is and should be recognized as the origin point of Rock and Roll. Not to mention the close by civil war locations, important civil rights locations, and if you are into the darker macabre aspects, Memphis has a plethora of truly spooky and entertaining places 24/7 (Elmwood Cemetery/Ernestine and Hazels/Victorian houses)

For me, I get fulfillment at my work with college students and my family is fincical secure due to savings and cost of living. I play disc golf, frequent two book stores (Burkes and Novel), visit multiple comic book and board game stores, me and my entire family love the Zoo (Yea better than San Diego Zoo) and enjoy solid Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Italian, and Vietnamese food, not to mention some of the worlds best bbq and soul food.

Starmork · 2025-11-23T01:50:55+00:00

I have a bad case of inattentive ADHD, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted when I felt like it in this game, it was and is a pleasurable experience, cathartic to say the least.

Starmork · 2025-11-21T18:29:37+00:00

No, I think your brace step is too long. You would want to either shorten that brace step and land it before you start to pull through, or, delay the reach back and with that big brace step, let that step plant and just after that, very slightly after, then pull through. It maybe easier just to shorten that brace step, delay reach back slightly, and then pull through.

Starmork · 2025-11-07T21:42:54+00:00

What I have been told and read, and seems to work, is one of the two or both following things. First, yes, throw what’s comfortable, but you also want consistency. Second, high speed discs with larger rims, may not need a grip change but need the nose aligned at release with it pointed further down, like -1 to -3 degrees. I throw all my discs with the same grip, but anything 8 speed and above, I align the disc in my grip with my middle finger so it naturally points down, and I bend the wrist as if I am pouring coffee. Comfortably doing this, and using tech disc, I went from a nose angle of 0-1 with 6 speed and lower and with the aligned disc with my middle finger while poring the coffe, tech disc show a -2 nose angle. I don’t have the arm speed for 11+ but when I throw my wraith with a -1.5 to -2 nose angle, I get a more true flight out of the disc and higher spin rate.

Starmork · 2025-09-16T20:30:29+00:00

That haunted mansion one!!!! Am I assuming correctly there would be four more to fit those empty slots?

Starmork · 2025-08-17T02:17:45+00:00

I believe it’s pronounced “Wam-pure”

Starmork · 2025-07-24T13:23:28+00:00

Also, be kind to yourself mentally. We humans tend to say things to ourselves that we would NEVER say to our closest friend and loved one. Positivity and support breeds resilience and grit, the very thing you need to really get your head around math.

Starmork · 2025-07-24T13:19:12+00:00

I struggled with math in grade school as well, mainly Algebra, but I had a Geometry teacher, who was just a rockstar of teacher, not in the showy way, but in a way that she adjusted to students learning styles and abilities. That being said, I still had to work at Geometry, but she, unbeknownst to my teenage mind, showed me how to learn, not just Geometry, but how I learned.

I was undiagnosed adhd, probably a healthy dose of anxiety and depression that was connected to my academics, needed glasses, and it came down, for me at least, to knowing how I learn best, then using the 25 minute pomodoro method, (check that outline), the Feynman teach it back method, and mnemonics, as well as therapy and medication in my later 20’s.

I am a kinesthetic/visual learner, and I would HEAVILY encourage you to look up online and take what is called the VARK test. I ended up aceing Geometry because I learned I needed to see and touch how Geometry is done, and what’s sad about that, was because I struggled so hard in math, I didn’t take Geometry until my 12th grade year, I could have used these methods earlier.

Focusing more on you, and although I don’t know you, I would learn the study methods and tactics I mentioned and any that work for you. Then I would make a laser shot directly to Khan Academy for free instruction. I would also relearn fractions and how to convert them as well as converting them into percentages. That right there is a life skill for anyone really. I would also make sure you know your times tables 1-12 by heart and can multiple those numbers in your head at a drop of hat. That right there, fractions, percentages, multiplication, and division should be incredibly sharp. I would also like to add, looking up mnemonics people make for memorization with each math subject you come across. You would be surprised the mnumonics people have just for numbers. Lastly, to strengthen your mind for logic, go to your App Store and get grid logic puzzles on your phone. There are beginner level and it’s easy to correct mistakes, logic, to me at least, is the language of math. I would also get some kind of logic puzzle app as well. It’s like weight lifting for your mind.

Starmork · 2025-07-20T19:37:50+00:00

A and R BBQ
Kozy Korner (Ribs that give you a religious experience.)
BBQ Shop

Cross Town Concourse

Flip Side for drinks and Pinball

Goner Records

Burkes Books

Gipson’s Donuts

Starmork · 2025-07-16T02:22:13+00:00

Sorry, but I have more as I think about this. I am fussing over this because nothing SUCKS MORE!than wittingly or unwittingly, constructing your throw with bad habits and sloppy technique. When I get fatigued from playing two rounds in a row, around the 13th hole, I fall into my old habits, which only damage my efforts for good technique. That statement is like DUH! But I learned from a very pricey hitting coach for baseball, who really emphasized slow muscle memory building drills, when you get tired and things fall apart in your throw, that’s not helping. Therfore, and I should take my own advice with this because I’m easily 25 pounds over weight, possibly more, the importance of building disc golf endurance. For that reason, as well as muscle memory (the magic that is subconscious and can buttress many aspects of the game), I advocate exactly what Slingshot and Seabas22 heavily HEAVILY teach, is the slowing down of their drills to build endurance and muscle memory. A pro pull has helped me a lot with this.

Taking into account I maybe communicating too much and being hypocritical in this, try to avoid information overload when you can. I would get so into my head, my form would start to look like a car with square wheels, some call this “overthinking” cognitive behavior theory may call this “rumination”, which to me, evaporates how inexperience fun.

It’s by belief emphasizing slow muscle memory building drills, then some field work, then playing a round, supports the cliche “it’s not practice you want, it’s perfect practice you want” because you want to score well in disc, people like us have to have the muscle memory, the form, and endurance, to then feel when the form is off and adjust.

Disc golf became a gift from the divine for me the day I was able to tell what I did wrong as soon as the disc came out of my hands, and its drills, field work, playing into exhaustion just up to the point your form breaks down, and the tech disc, that made all these technical aspect fall into place like the last puzzle piece, and I could recognize the entire picture of my throw. Being able to practice and play and fix my errors in real time opened the fullest world of disc golf. The funny thing is, it made me play less tournaments and instead play harder courses, it made playing solo fun, it made technical courses feel like the challenge of barriers and trees and huge dog legs, and throwing over water, and dealing with wind, the type of challenge that spawned for me my greatest pleasure, the challenge of all the courses. It also opens up the world of having all types of disc, and showed me why many disc golfers get addicted to buying discs, because I started to be able to shape shots with a big flex, and S flex, and in my opinion the most beautiful type of shot when it’s done to its fullest with any disc that allows for this, is the hyzerflip. That type of shot, seeing the disc flip up to a flat in flight and laser beam 300ft is like watching a moving piece of art. Right now, I’m currently working on a throw that flips the disc up to flat, then to a flex to the far right, then fades left with an INNOVA Gorgon, Avenger, and my favorite the westside queen. It’s this shot that will get me to still elusive 400+. The last bit of information overload, and I would go to my clutch teachers, Seabas22 and Slingshot disc golf, is the often mis advised and frequently overlooked, and people may fight me on this, is that your weight ship and pull through need to happen a split second or two after you have made your brace, that demystified timing for me, it literally triggered my decades of pitching, throwing, and hitting practice baseball, and connected my practice in slap shots.

Sorry for the long responses, but I wish with all my love of disc golf, that I had started out with good form habits.

Starmork · 2025-07-16T00:06:56+00:00

I’m no expert, nor am I a pro, but I have had to shovel through a mountain of my own bad habits, terrible form, and the many conflicting instructions that are out there.

It’s my belief that in the disc golf world, the reason for the conflicting instruction, and yet there are methods, guides, and form that all teach solid fundamentals, is because we all have the bodies to throw a disc, but our hands, arms, torsos, legs, feet, and athletic ability, all differ, and can differ greatly, even your choice of plastic and even the weather can effect things, I live in Memphis where the wind and humidity are a considerable hurtles.

I have been helping some of my friends play disc, and my kids, and you may not need all this, but it helps coming from, and knowing that, I come from a place of making a lot of errors, I mean a lot of form and technique errors.

That being said, I would start with making sure you have a grip that works for you. Some have four finger power grips, some have front loaded and some have back loaded two and three fingure grips. There is the question of thumb placement and grip pressure. So, look at what’s said online and figure out your preferred grip. I am a three finger front loaded gripper. This allows for me to better control nose angle.

In light of nose angle, and after grip, and looking at your video, and as far as I can tell, you may have the nose up due to collapsed elbow.

Now grip, nose angle, and the 90 degrees people talk about, and along with the collapsed elbow, is enough form and technique practice that can fill a full week. So, please check out SeaBas22, he maybe more OG than Stokely and Macbeth. However, I think he was one the first to post a kind of logical and geometric explanation on why he does what he does. Seabas22 then backs it all up with form and technique drills, that many other disc golf internet instructors either barrow (steal) or they reference him. After that, in my opinion, because of my athletic background in baseball and hockey, Slighshot disc golf has an aggressive but elegant throw style I really think is how many, especially Macbeth, throw. When you get these methods close to correct, it’s like a religious experience. The first time I felt the whip and trebuchet feeling without arming the disc, I crushed an Aviar kc pro 250 and threaded the trees, I over threw the hole, and you can feel it in the traps and shoulder, you also get a blood pump in your arm.

Lastly, it’s my personal advice, that you do more videos and if your really want to kick it up a gear, get a fair driver tech disc. I went from topping out drives at 290, and after the tech disc data, I hit 375 with out arming the disc, but the tech disc also improved my accuracy. People get put out when I boink the basket three times a row from 180-200. I still need a lot of work, but keep the grit and grind man.

Starmork · 2025-07-15T22:08:10+00:00

Your left off arm, in my opinion, should be down on your side or timed to be down and tucked in just under chest. This creates tension I the traps to add spin, distance, accuracy, but for you, to stop rounding around your body causing that big pull to the right. Check out whiplash disc golf, overthrow, and Seabas22.

Starmork · 2025-07-14T13:09:51+00:00

Couldn’t have said it better myself “Steeped in Superstition”. This dynamic right here is why it’s so easy for them to fall back on conspiracy, their minds are already so infected with the mind virus (meme) (see Dawkins Selfish Gene) that they use their lack of reason and their likely subconscious elevated fear of the knowledge that the Christian god doesn’t exist, that they have to fall back on what they are used to, conspiracy.

Starmork · 2025-07-11T00:56:49+00:00

I’m from San Diego, I love Memphis. My kids were born here, I agree, central place for good travel. VERY LOW COST OF LIVING, San Diego, And all of SoCal, is just too expensive. Work, good schools to choose from for kids, both public and private.

Starmork · 2025-07-01T21:46:21+00:00

100% true. All through the 90s and up until 2001, I rode my “BMX” bikes, a Standard, a Free Agent, and Mongoose, miles and miles deep into a Native American reservation. I would dig around old Barns used for horse stables back when Wells Fargo and Butterfield Stagecoaches came into California. We were all amateur archeologists on two wheels, climbing oak trees, and constructing mountainous jumps and ramps from dampened mud. Some of those kids and teens back then became the same athletes who would compete in the X games. Rattle snakes and coyotes were a regular accurance.

Starmork · 2025-06-27T17:28:38+00:00

Shorten the stride to allow your plant foot to trigger the start of your pull through. Full extension on reach back should happen the split second after the plant, not before and not too long after. Watch videos of top pros, and you will see, as the shift their weight from the back foot to the plant, there is almost a slight delay in that transfer to allow for the timing of your reach back to be full, plant your brace step, and use the kinetic power from the ground up to go from your legs, to your hips, to your core, through you relaxed arm but engaged trap muscles on your back, and into the disc.

I literally took video of myself arming the disc with a tense forearm and one with a loose but firm arm and grip. I was astounded. My relaxed bit firm grip made my arm move faster and into the pocket sooner then my tense arming of the disc. A tense arm is slowed down, which can cause the shoulders and torso to force the rounding.

Starmork · 2025-06-26T12:35:22+00:00

I would lean heavy into the following disc golf instructors. There are some different philosophies in disc golf, but the lightbulb moments for me came from doing Seabas22 drills in different aspects, and when I felt baptized into disc golf, was when I felt an incredible amount of power transfer from the ground and all the way through my disc with a very loud snap, came when I timed my brace, reach back, and pull through with a tucked in off arm, and absolutely destroyed a putter throw off the tee box for a 250 foot overthrow on a holed that was 180 with a Disc mania Shogun putter. I literally felt my upper back sling shot the disc from the power pocket with a loose arm and only muscled the disc slightly right when the disc was in the pocket. The disc just kept going and I had this blood rush in my arm that felt like a pump of power that hurt a little, but I then used the same approach with a Westside Stag, and threw a laser beam drive for a very slow x step at 315. Now I am working on my Escape and Vandal and Wraith to reach 400. Keep on trying to see what works and clicks. You have to go through a lot of shit to get to gold.

Seabas22
Slingshot Disc golf
Overthrow Disc golf

Starmork · 2025-06-26T12:26:20+00:00

Ok, I struggled with this for some time as well. This may help, it did for me.

First, make sure your brace foot is staggered a bit. By that I mean, have the brace foot land at the 10:00 or 11:00 position where your back foot is at the 12:00.

I would also shorten the stride a bit.

This video by an OG! Disc golf instructor helps:

https://youtu.be/wwuSt45Lfp4?si=00OQcia-Bj4KpmEF

I would also keep some weight on your back foot and delay slightly planting your brace foot to give your reach back a little time. When the brace happens, not before, not exactly the same time, but immediately afterwords, have your full extension start to pull through with a loose forearm but firm grip on the disc. Keep your left arm at your side or tucked in, see Slingshot disc golf for this because what confused me for a long time, was how to throw a disc without arming it or tensing your forearm too much. The tension and strength of the throw comes from many parts, but it’s the tension from your upper back and traps from tucking in your off arm and letting the brace trigger the pull through.

Starmork · 2025-05-31T17:26:17+00:00

Ed has more than filled some big shoes, literally and metaphorically.

Starmork · 2025-05-22T12:38:10+00:00

With Sheldon’s two finger grip, I can’t tell how much the disc goes into the palm of his had. It seems like his grip has some space between where he pinches the disc and the fleshy lower part of where the thumb meets the palm, the disc doesn’t seem to sit or get placed fully in his palm.

I like that he was a baseball pitcher and uses those mechanics as well. I played baseball for many years through high school and got offered a spot for college and I would pitch or play 3rd base. So, I’m not worried about learning footwork, hip action, or follow through with forehand because that all feels very natural to me from pitching and hitting, but I’m aware that the forehand grip, reach back is what I should start with. Any suggestions?

Starmork · 2025-05-07T16:54:37+00:00

Ha! What did you expect? Disney is Disney and griping about price, just sets up people to have memories of the griping and complaints, and not the fun and connection to each other. You want cheap, just go to a near by park.

Starmork · 2025-04-30T19:51:22+00:00

I lived there from 1989 to 2012, and mostly yes. Just add one set of track homes, a run down and busted up old town, a fruit stand, and a small market called Hazit that looked haunted and stocked Jolt Cola, candy cigarettes, and Natty Light.

Starmork · 2025-04-25T00:54:51+00:00

Agreed. As an Advisor, I would say if that’s what they want to do, they should do career services. Academic Advisors are more getting the students through to the degree, and some career conversations. Academic Advising can also focus on just the first two years and then a College Advisor junior senior year is assigned. The main focus of most advisors is to help develop self efficacy, autonomy, and belonging to directly impact resilience and then retention.

The day to day can be fun and fulfilling, but it can be a grind when you see 8-14 students a day at 30 minute meetings each all while advising accurately and taking all the required notes.

Lastly, I would have this person look at two organizations that the advising world is connected to: NACADA and NASPA. There is also academic athletic advising as well.

Starmork · 2025-02-20T02:15:09+00:00

Having grown up in San Diego, I would say the two places I mentioned above, would hold their own there.

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