There are many of us that dream about being a top touring pro, do you ever feel like the world is having an effect on that dream? Or that maybe that you have met a person that has encouraged you in such an awsome manner that you will never forget them. Maybe a king dressed up as a peasent or a garbage man that realy has a phd in nuclear physics. if so pls tell

It only takes one thing to become a top pro...Motivation. If you can stay motivated and stick with it and put in the work, there is no way you can fail. The only time you fail is when you quit trying.

It only takes one thing to become a top pro...Motivation. If you can stay motivated and stick with it and put in the work, there is no way you can fail. The only time you fail is when you quit trying.


While the optimism there is very uplifting, there needs to be some sort of innate talent to foster and develop. I GUARANTEE my wife would have NO chance of ever becoming a top pro and that goes for my best friend... they just don't have the innate physical ability for a good disc golf throw. I am just barely physically capable to make my throwing not look painful. Could I become a top pro with total devotion? I don't know, I would like to think so, but I am not for sure. Could anyone though? That's WAY too far of a stretch.

It only takes one thing to become a top pro...Motivation. If you can stay motivated and stick with it and put in the work, there is no way you can fail. The only time you fail is when you quit trying.



The other side of this coin is sacrafice. To be totally devoted to one thing means the sacrafice of many others. Most top pros at some time or another have walked away from school, jobs, relationships, etc. to achieve their disc golf goals. I have respect for anyone who posesses the drive to make such tough decisions, but for myself I need and want more out of life. I also want to be a great disc golfer. This is why I am most amazed by people such as Larry Labond. He owns a business, has a family, started and runs the increasingly ambitious Kalamazoo disc golf scene, and finished 12th at Worlds after not touring all year. In the scheme of things, it does not matter all that much how successful a golfer you are if you suck at life. Balance is paramount.

if you dedicate yourself to practicing every waking hour, i think anyone can become a top pro.

Larry Labond is an interesting sort. He does seem to posses a great deal of skill by not really puting as much time and effort as some. If he were to concentrate 100% on disc golf, he'd probably be pretty darn good. But he is probably leading a much happier life with DG as a hobby.

look at scott martin. imagine if that guy didnt have a full time "real" job............

look at scott martin. imagine if that guy didnt have a full time "real" job............



Same with Walt Snoop Haney. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

maybe i will get better when i graduate and get a full time real job. and have less time to play.

More time = beTTer play
Some people are just gifted with the ability to pick up where they left off last time they played.

well some of us do have to worry about making a living.....i play the game for sheer enjoyment....it gives me something to do...and if i get better i get better......congrats to those that can play and thats all they do...that and play on the computer...but everyone has gotta do what they gotta do.....i wanna be a millionaire.....can you get there being a professional disc golfer???

Only if I hit the loTTery while I am Playing disc golf. For now.

I hate money. I want to be a top pro disc golfer because its fun, theres plenty of other ways to get money for example a sugar mama would be nice smile!

I had aspirations of being a pro player about 3 years ago. NOW, I just go with the flow, and maybe thats what I needed to do all along...

I DO wanna start competing again just cuz its fun and to see where I stand. My head just gets in the way of some of my dreams....

This statement, imo, is entirely true. Motivation is all it takes to do anything. There are tons of different factors that will determine how much motivation it will take to do something though. But if you have infinite motivation, I'd definitely say you could overcome any of those factors. And like someone said, most people aren't going to have enough motivation to give up on the balance of those factors that provide happyness in order to reach significant pro status. Talent is a factor that makes it so you need less motivation though, you can learn and improve easier and faster with talent. Time and money is a factor that would cause problems, unless one is poor and unemployed, then I guess it would be an investement.

In conlcusion, I think people understand what it takes to be pro, just don't quite organize the thought process behind it.

This statement, imo, is entirely true. Motivation is all it takes to do anything. There are tons of different factors that will determine how much motivation it will take to do something though. But if you have infinite motivation, I'd definitely say you could overcome any of those factors. And like someone said, most people aren't going to have enough motivation to give up on the balance of those factors that provide happyness in order to reach significant pro status. Talent is a factor that makes it so you need less motivation though, you can learn and improve easier and faster with talent. Time and money is a factor that would cause problems, unless one is poor and unemployed, then I guess it would be an investement.

In conlcusion, I think people understand what it takes to be pro, just don't quite organize the thought process behind it.


If that is true, then why do some people who devote their entire lives to things such as gymnastics or weight lifting never achieve olympic or pro status?

Maybe they have a negative attitude.

Devoting ones life to something is not close to the same thing as infinite motivation.

I don't know the whole story of any of the people to whom you are reffering. Chances are some did not have enough motivation to make sacrafices enabling them to attain there goal. And it probably was for the better.

I suppose infinite motivation isn't everything though. If you decide you want to do something, and are determined to do whatever it takes to do it, but then a second later the universe implodes on itself, that motivation didn't do much good did it?

However, I do not think what I said earlier was without merit. I'd say 99 percent of failures on any task is due to lack of motivation. Once again, for many of the tasks that were not accomplished, it could have been for the better, the sacrafices needed to be made in order for the task to be accomplished could have been unreasonable.

JUTS DO IT (NIKE)

Never listen to anyone who tells you that you cannot do something. My goal is to start playing open in May. There are people who say just because of my PDGA rating I should not even be in advanced. I don't listen to them, and you should not either. Personally I do not have the time to become a top pro, if the only way to be top pro is compete every weekend and practice every day for 5 hours. I have time to practice 3 times a week for 2 hours and 6 hours a day on weekends. I will be happy with the success that this much practice brings me.

Only listen to motivating people but do not let it get to your head, every once in a while you need to come back to reality.

Believe in yourself

nelle !
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