The VERY ODD & INTERESTING history of disc golf (casually explained)

I didn´t think the history of disc golf would be this interesting when I started researching this video. You can find the sources I used below 😀.
I hope you enjoy the video!
/Jonathan
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As every great story this one starts and ends with pies. In 1871 William Frisbie (no joke) started a pie company. And students around the factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut, apparently liked pie. And when they where done with the pies they used to throw the lids around while yelling “Frisbie". Neat, thought William, I can imagine. This throwing of lids went on until 1948 when a plastic version of this flying thing was invented by Walter Frederick Morrison (I know I say "Walter" in the video. I thought that was his name and not Frederick) - The inventor of the frisbee. But at the time it was called flyin’ saucer.
Why “flying saucer” was due to a pilot named Kenneth Albert Arnold who in 1947 said.
Guys. The weirdest thing happened. I saw 9 unusual object flying in the sky. Being a bit of a poet he added.
They flew like...like a fish flapping in the sun. Something like a pie plate that was cut in half with a sort of convex triangle in the rear....or saucer
like. And the media went.
Yeah we´re gonna go with “flying saucer”.
This got a lot of attention. Afterwards many people started reporting that they had seen strange things in the skies. Flying sacers. Smells like monies here... thought a company and the “flying saucer” was born.
But it had a flaw. Thought Ed Headrick, Steady Ed, at Wham-O. This flying toy, now renamed as Pluto Platter, was mainly marketed to kids. And Ed thought it was time for Pluto to grow up. So in 1967 he filed a patten for the Modern frisbee.
(By this time the pie company had shut down. Put a pin in that tho.)
You know, said Ed and his pal GGeorge Sappenfield.This frisbee thing will pair nicely with golf, am I right? I´ll invent a basket as well. Let´s call it “Disc Golf”. Who actually invented disc golf is hard to and answer but Ed is seen as the father of the sport. And as a father you need patience... And a governing body. One of them, also started by Ed, is The Professional Disc Golf Association. Lets do a lot of different things, PDGA said. And they do. One is the thing about the numbers. More of that in a bit. Another thing is the approval of new disc molds. Because even thought the frisbee was good and fun and all there was alot that could be done to make it go further, for example. So in 1983 Dave Dunipace of Innova made the "Eagle" - a disc that was solely created for Disc Golf.
There´s even more that can be done to the frisbee or disc, said Latitude 64 and other companies like Westside discs and Dynamic discs... I think that´s all of the companies ;). As the sport has evolved more and more now you have putters, midranges, fairway drivers, distance drivers, different plastics, different weights etc. To alter to flight and feel of a disc. So you will have a better time on the course. You´ll have a good time with just the one disc but you might want or maybe need different discs to be able to win a tournament.
And to enter many of them you need a number. The PDGA number. And there we find our friend Ed again who has #1. But he´s not alone. As of now there are over 160.000 people who has a number. This can be seen as a recite of the growth of disc golf - although just a snapshot. And the sport has grown a lot the last couple of years. There´s a lot of people that wants and has tried disc golf.
And if this wasn´t to your fancy. You might enjoy some pie then. A man by the name of Dan O´Connor actually re-launced the frispie pie company in 2016. With the original pie recipe from 1871. Nom nom!
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Jonathan becoming frisbee meme... Nice ;)

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Jonathan tells a story so well. That paired with the excellent editing makes any of these videos a great watch!

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100% agree!

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I played disc golf before the baskets. I was invited to play on the first basket course, the opening event. Some old guy was in my group. He was very average. I could many things to complain about the baskets that day. After my 5th or so rant, another player told me to cool it. That old guy was the inventor. Yep, it was Ed. I apologize for my ranting. He said he agreed with many of my points, but their was a patent, and existing orders in the pipeline, so it would be years before anything could change. The baskets today are significantly more reliable and consistent. (Afer 40 years off, I just picked DG back up). Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I am enjoying these videos, greatly.

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Hey Michael, thank you for sharing. This is great. I´m glad you enjoy the videos. Have a nice day! /Jonathan

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"I think that's all of them" 😂

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discraft ?

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@@mts2457 thats not how you spell Innova 😅

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Yes, he forgot discraft and judge. And probably even more.

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You're killing it Jonathan! Great video. this will be the video I share when I want people to know the history.

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Thank you, Joshua. I'm glad you liked it :)

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Great video! Love learning random tidbits of history!

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That "smells like moneys" will be a perfect notification sound for someone

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This was FANTASTIC... So fun... and good information. hmmm, I'm gonna go get some pie.

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Thank you, Chris :)

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Latitude 64, dynamic discs, and westside..and i think that's all of them ...lol love this guy

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Cheers 😃 /jonathan

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I think that’s all of them 😂. I love your videos so much

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Steady Ed made my local course. Such a legend 💯

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I think you can add excellent story-teller to your resumé Jonathan lol. Great video!

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This made me really happy. Thank you, Evan!

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What a fun video! Well done Jonathan 👏.

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Thank you William. I'm glad you like it :)

Learned something new today and had fun doing so, thank you

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Glad you enjoyed it! / Johannes

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And now I know! Thanks for the history!

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Great video!

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Another informative and entertaining video! Love it! I knew he invented the modern basket, but I didn't know Steady Ed started the PDGA and is #1 ... so cool.

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Thank you 😃

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Jonathan...you're finding your place in the DG community quite well. I look forward to more!

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Loved the video :)

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Bought a Diamond and Recoil thanks to your awesome vids introducing me to Lat 64. Keep the instruction series going, please. Looking to get a Fuse next. "Smells like moneys!" Fortunately not monkeys.

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That's great. Yeah I'll make more of those for sure when it's a bit easier to be outside :)

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That's crazy, little town of Crandon on the amateur pdga number list. Live ten minutes away from it. I shouldve waited to get my number! I'm 162242!

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Nice video. Video idea: You challenge Thomas to a round of disc golf and he gives you 8 strokes.

[@Latitude64]

That's a good idea. Thank you :)

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Now we need a video of you throwing pie plates

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*writing it down* 😂

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Wouldn’t that be funny. With Tomas doing the instruction.

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Love the video.

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Information and entertainment. Cool.

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I wish there was a version of Finnkampen in disc golf, we could serve our lovely neighbors some humble pie

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That´d be great! :)

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"Eat Dan's Pie.... not a sponsor" LMFAO

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"... i think that's all of them..." :D #trilogyfamily :D

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Well thank you, sir! 😃

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👍 Now I really tasted delicious disc pie! Tak! 😋

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Yo this is soooooo freaky!!! I just finished a research project on the history of disc golf last week and almost everything he said I used for my project 🤯

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Darn. We could have worked together. Helped each other out :)

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@@Latitude64 Man, that would have been so helpful 😄

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@@cneundog32 And after finishing the project...PIE!!!

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@@onanthebarbarian9883 Omg, I had some raspberry pie after finishing it 😧🤯🤣

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Really want to hear about the history of disc golf in Europe and other places. Did it originate organically in these places or did someone import it from America?

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A video idea: Jonatan (Jonathan? Joonatan?) choosing colours for discs in production and helping around the production line (picking the colours, plastics, molds, choosing stamp colours and applying them). Just some stock discs, nothing fancy, but it would show better how the discs come out of the production line and maybe he'll pick good colours for a run of discs. This might also be an excuse to get some gold burst explorers back in stock. Or clear discs. Or some very close to clear coloured discs. Or extremely bright ones. OOr maybe just Jonatans favourites, anyway more Latitude discs in stock isn't ever a bad thing and at least I'd find this interesting.

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Thanks for the idea. Dont know if they will let me near the machines. But it would be fun 😃. /Its Jonathan. But any spelling works 😂

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Wow! More than 6000 people have joing PDGA since I joined a month ago!

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I love PIE!!!

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I seriously laughed at this video. Well done! /And who doesn't like pie?

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Haha thank you 😃

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Fantastico

[@orion7741]

one note to your history. Dave Dunipace's first disc that he made was actually the Aero not the Eagle. The Eagle was produced in 1999. It was the first disc with a beveled edge to it rather than the rounded edge like frisbees had.

[@Latitude64]

Maybe I got something wrong but heres from innovas site "INNOVA was formed in 1983 to meet the developing equipment needs of disc golfers. In that year, Dave Dunipace created the World’s first disc designed specifically for the sport of Disc Golf. That first disc, the Eagle - U.S. Patent # 4,568,297"

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Theres an old and a new version of the eagle as I understand

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I recall friends playing with Eagles in the late 80s, maybe it was another brand using that same name...

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Wait... what was that "fairway driver" with a royal line stamp..?

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Grace... Sweet disc.

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@@adventureortiz Yeah, I bag a grace, but it's not a fairway driver. I didn't see the text on it at first and thought they teased a new fairway driver :(

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@@leksasdf Yeah... I wouldn't call it a fairway either.

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I'm sorry it's a distance driver. My bad. /Jonathan

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Dave Dunipace is the Dr. Dre of Disc Golf.

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I need that hat! cant find it anywhere...

[@Latitude64]

Will restock them I'm sure in the future :)

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Please do this again but like an episode of Drunk History :D

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Haha thatd be great 😂👍

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Why am I hungry all of a sudden?

[@LondonDiscGolfCommunity]

Did someone say pie?! Where? 🥧 Yum!! 🤤

[@jbryanj80]

Call me crazy but I would love stamps that paid tribute to the history. A pie plate stamp River would be awesome. Moonshine UFO stamp Fuse....oh take my money.

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Watch it in 0.5 speed :D

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I just did. Haha 😂

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Did anyone win the prize competition?

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Yes theres a post about it :)

[@Matte.Sweden]

I was born 1983 when "The Eagle" was born :D Must mean something.....

[@orion7741]

it was not the eagle though, It was the Aero that was the first "disc". The Eagle didnt come along until 1999.

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@@orion7741 aaah, thanks for the info.

[@Latitude64]

That's the new version I'm afraid. The old is from 1983

[@Latitude64]

www.pdga.com/technical-standards/equipment-certification/discs?title=Eagle&field_disc_class_value=All&manufacturer=All

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Done........... with the pie hahaha

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Haha you got that one? It had to be in the video. It just had to 😂

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The casual history of discgolf oddly explained... 😏

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😂👍

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Eat more pies like Dans pies.

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Just eat Dans pies. Please

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Watch Jonathan's videos..... not a sponsor. goodbye.

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😂👍

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First haha

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:(

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:(

[@Latitude64]

Haha well done!

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@@leeviantero8 Next time :)

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@@carlis32 Next time, haha :)

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There a while documentary. What a pointless view grab.

[@Latitude64]

Theres a documentary about DG? I dont understand 🤔 /jonathan

[@samhowl1152]

@@Latitude64 there's a documentary about frisbees in general, including disc golf and the story about the flying saucer. It's here in KZbin. Search "the invisible string"

[@Latitude64]

Cant believe I didn't stumble upon this while researching. Thanks for the tip :).

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No I think the advantage of this video is that its so short that many new incoming players will watch it. Not many new players would watch this whole long documentary. And in general, this video was worth watching just because of Jonathans humour which I really enjoy.

[@Latitude64]

@@Ergosquare That was the idea that I had. Thank you for the kind words :)

[@joeblow2426]

You generally got that right-very good! So when we are referring to a flying disc we are actually saying “frisbie”, and not the Wham-o name with the “ee” spelling. 😀🥏