Ever wondered what it takes to design and build a top-notch disc golf course that's accessible to all? Join us as we celebrate the grand opening of the Chief Kitsap Academy disc golf course, designed by six-time amateur world champion Paul Wright and generously donated by the Paul Macbeth Foundation. We chat with staff, students, and the Suquamish Tribal Council about the incredible impact this course has had on the community.
We explore Paul Wright's role in the Paul McBeth Foundation, as they work to build disc golf courses in communities around the world. Learn how they create courses that are both accessible to beginners and challenging for experienced players. We discuss the healing power of nature and the significance of the Chief Kitsap Academy disc golf course in providing a safe, fun place for kids and community members to play.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dad, mom's making a disc golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good evening everybody.
My name is Baron Old Coyote.
My ancestral name is Tamal Toll.
I'm one of the cultural artsteachers here at CKA.
The song that we're going toshare this evening is the Floor
Blessing Song, and I'm joined bymy cousin, larry and Angelina.
She's one of the staff memberhere as well.
You know it goes good for thisevent, the grand opening.
(00:24):
Thank you to Jenny, thank youto her family, thank you to
everyone who had a helping handin making this a reality.
You know it's really exciting.
Exciting Not only for us, thestaff, the students, but for the
community.
You know all of the discgolfers out there, you know I've
been really taking a liking toit.
So thank you guys, no problem.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You are listening to the intentional discolfer
podcast, a very special liverecorded out here at the opening
of Chief Kitsap Academy's newdisc golf course, brought to you
by the Paul Macbeth Foundation,designed by Paul Wright, the
six-time amateur world champion.
Me and Jenny, we are theintentional disc golfers, along
with our kids who are out thereplaying the course, and our
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distinguished guests are outhere as well.
I'm hoping to catch Paul beforehe takes out Fadda here and
maybe have him say a littleblurb.
This has been an amazingexperience building this course
and being a part of every partof it.
It's been awesome to see howthis comes together and it
actually came together reallyquickly.
(04:59):
Very, very honored to be a partof this project.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Thank you, guys all for coming to the opening of the
Chief Kitsap Academy disc golfcourse.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you to the Paul MacbethFoundation for donating all the
baskets, the designs, the teapads, the discs and all of the
hard work.
Thank you to Paul Wright fordesigning our course and all of
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the hard work, and for Monty aswell for all of his time donated
and Brandon for all of yourtime donated.
Thank you to Junior formaintaining the grounds It is
lovely today And thank you toGreg for all of your hard work.
(05:46):
Thank you to the SuquamishTribal Council for making this
possible.
And, miss Irene, would you liketo declare us as open?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Welcome everyone.
Thank you, irene Carper,suquamish Tribal Secretary, and
please consider this course open.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Who would like to be on the first card out?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Jenny, awesome, wants to throw the first one.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Jenny Awesome on the tea pad.
Quiet in the gallery.
Please Quiet in the gallery.
Thank you, there it is.
That's a good one.
So we are out here liverecording the intentional disc
golfer podcast out here at ChiefKitsap Academy, go Bears With
(06:43):
the one and only vice principaland intentional disc golfer.
Her name is Jenny Say.
Hi, jenny.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Hi, jenny.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And I am one of your hosts.
Your other host, Brandon.
If you appreciate what you'relistening to here, please like,
subscribe, share, tell yourfriends and become an
intentional disc golfer yourself.
Jenny.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Today is a special day for you.
You've worked very hard forthis.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This has been a dream for several years now.
What has this experience likebeen for you?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well, it wasn't my dream to do this.
So when I was hired they saidthey wanted a disc golf course
and I said, well, i play discgolf.
So I can't remember how ithappened, but I got in touch
with the West Sound Disc GolfAssociation, got me in touch
with Paul Wright, the six timeworld amateur champion and also
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my neighbor, and got in touchwith the Paul McBeth Foundation.
And here we are.
You know, it happened reallyquickly, like started in January
, had them come out and look atthe course and the property and
figure out where we want to putthe course and whether it was
worthwhile.
And then April came along andPaul was able to come out here
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design the course.
We got the baskets and discsall within the past two months
and just finished the pads thispast weekend or past Friday last
week before it rained.
The pads are all done and nowwe're looking forward to,
hopefully, an 18 hole.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yep, and that those chains you hear in the
background is actually the firstcard coming off of the first
course, first round, since thecourse has been officially
opened.
Early here you heard a greatblessing by the Suquamish Tribal
Song and Dance team.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
So that's actually the schools, the schools,
schools.
Song and dance, but withBarron's cousin.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
So it was, it was the it was all the.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I think you say his name was Larry.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, but who's Baron?
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Oh, baron's, our cultural arts and carving
teacher, baron Old Coyote.
And then Angelina Sosa is oneof our Ed specs, and then
Barron's cousin, larry.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Barron's cousin, larry, how's it going out there?
Awesome.
Glad you're enjoying it.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
It's going to be nicknamed the awesome course,
awesome course.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So what can you say you've learned from this?
or what gave you this idea ofputting in the disc golf course,
aside from them saying wewanted one?
I mean, what was your plan forthis course when you put it in?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
That there would be one Like.
So one of the best parts waswhen Paul first got the course
laid out and I was working witha kiddo who's got some extra
score me needed to go blow offsome steam.
I'm like, hey, you want to gothrow?
And he's like What?
So I grabbed some discs off mywall and went out there and, you
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know, made it through hole.
One lost a disc first, throwout there, stayed out there for
two weeks but I got it back Andso being able to have the kids
out here playing every day andthere's some kids that have been
going through some rough stuffand they've found a enjoyment
(10:18):
with playing disc golf And thenactually today.
So today I got to hand out thediscs, all the donated discs to
students today, and they're likeWait, these are ours, we get to
keep them.
And then they came back andthey're like I lost mine.
I was like Sorry, no disc leftbehind.
So they're like I need a stick.
So I pull my disc grabbersomebody should have donated
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sticks.
Oh yeah, we got sticks, I havemy disc grabber, But having them
so excited to go out and play,and then at the end of the
school, the Jeff who's ourlanguage arts history teacher,
extraordinaire L Jeff.
I think he goes by L Jeffsenior Jeff senior.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Jeff.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
And from third building comes running down with
his three discs.
He's like Come on, guys, we'regoing to go play, come on.
They're like Come on, you haveto throw the first one.
So we all went out and I onlyplayed hole one with them
because I was busy setting thisup.
But you know, it's going to adda lot that we there's a lot of
times where the kids haven't hadanything to do in class because
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it's end of the year And theyget to go out and play disc golf
.
They don't know what to doduring lunch.
Instead of hanging outside,they just play right here in the
bowl.
The five that we can see and isthat what you guys call?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
it?
now is the bowl.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I call it the bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The bowl.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Like you can play the bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's cool, yeah, so how many discs would you say
have been donated to thisproject?
If you had to guess, there's alot.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
I know there was the Paul McBeth Foundation said they
do 250 and our collection whatYou think?
we pulled out a hundred discs.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, easily a hundred.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
So there's 350.
And then I got roughly ahundred more from Matt and
Nicole at 360.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, shout out for 360 disc golf, for supporting us
, not only the podcast, but alsothe Achieve Kids App Academy
opening the disc golf course.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So 360 is the best pro shop you could ask for,
biggest in the Pacific Northwest.
Okay, so if you had to do thisall over again, what would you?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I mean, what am I going?
What am I going to do when weput in the 18 hole disc?
golf course, what are you goingto do when you put in the 18
hole course.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Cat's out of the bag, oh boy.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yeah, we'll see.
Well, the 18 hole is going tobe differently.
Differently, the 18 hole isgoing to be different.
This one's mostly out in theopen, in the field, where you
just want to hook things.
The next one, if we do put itin, is going to be off in the
woods, so it's going to be avery wooded course.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh, that's a deep circle.
One putt Love that They'recoming off the course, Jenny.
So if you had to do it all overagain, what would you do
differently?
What did you learn?
What are you gonna do in thenew world?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Well, we're not even done yet.
Like we're not done with thisbecause we still need to do the
T-pad signs And we're talkingabout doing a story or something
in Leschutziid, which is thetraditional Salish language.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
You're gonna ask him questions?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, let's take a quick break here.
You guys want to say a littleblurb on the podcast?
All right, yep, go ahead andput it up.
nice and close.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I can hear you loud and clear, all right, a lot of
Moodle PDJ 219, 314.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
It's a pretty nice course.
I think I shot a course recordtwo down for this round.
Thanks to all the sponsors.
It's a little challengingbecause of all the seeds that
get stuck to your socks.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
So tall boots are a must.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
But some good technical holes.
Not a lot of forehand lines,but you don't need those too
many.
But watch out for the highway.
on what's that hole?
Five, four, four through thetrees.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Yeah, and Paul says that he was very deliberate.
You can't actually hit thehighway.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So I had a kid try today.
The theory is that once you'regood enough to hit the highway,
you'll be good enough to not hitthe highway.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
All right, I think we should have a Wombo-Combo
Bainbridge Battle Point as thefront nine.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Every little U-Disk challenge there.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
There you go.
I don't know what to call itthough.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Maybe if they did a tournament they'd do the front
nine over on Bainbridge at.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Battle Point.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And then after lunch come over here and do the back
nine here, Or vice versa.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I think down there it appears pretty nice There's
more people becoming off theisland than going on.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
It kind of depends, though, on the wind, because
there's a lot of wind that comesup from the sound right here
too, so I keep having to playwith the wind.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You're on the podcast man.
You're a celebrity now.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
How can we find you?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
next, me Next.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
I'm doing throw pink Saturday And fairgrounds.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yeah, we'll see you there.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You're on MPO right.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
No, still MA2 next year.
We'll see you back here atsponsorship.
I don't know, you might be theend of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You're going to be at MA2 the right year going.
We'll see.
You're playing really well.
It's impressive.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You've been a lot of fun to watch.
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm going to be playing here A thousand rated
category There you go.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
That was the bag in and out Nice.
Thanks for having me, thanksfor all the work you all put in
and put in the event And to thestaff and faculty that initial
song and opening was prettyawesome Yeah it was Great.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Thanks, Ed.
One thing that I really want todo is I want to design the next
course.
I wasn't able to be here thistime.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So you want to go to Uganda.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's Uganda.
Anyways, you went to Uganda.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Anyways, that's one part that I would like to be
involved in, because my uncledesigns golf courses, so it
would be really cool to be ableto design disc golf courses.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wouldn't that be an epic collab to get your uncle
and Paul together and design adisc golf course.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
No, maybe, i don't know.
He retired from it and my otheruncle runs it now.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I know, but just as a fun project I haven't come out
here and be like, hey, we'regoing to design a thousand rated
course out here, bring all ofit.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
How about he?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
design one over in Long Island.
Yeah, all the champions.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Alright, this is super cool.
We are watching the designerand coordinator of the course
And the main workers.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
The main workers.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
The second car, the second car coming off.
They are on hole nine.
We should be hearing somechains real soon.
Is Michelle on the?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
card with them.
Yeah, Michelle is on the card.
So one of the things that weare debating about with this
course is because we reallywanted to honor the land and the
medicine that comes from beingout in the woods and being out
in nature and just being here onthe Soquamish lands.
So we are debating what we aregoing to put on the signs And Mr
(17:57):
Hank Mr Hank Hayden he had areally good idea to tell the
story of Sky-Kai.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
So who is Hank Hayden ?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
He is one of our teachers, science teachers And
the D&D club master President.
He is the DM.
He is running a zombie darkcrystal line next year.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That sounds kind of cool Yeah the kids really
enjoyed dark crystal, that'spretty cool, there is a first
disc.
What?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
are we a circle one?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Oh, I play here.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah, so it ended up to be a beautiful day.
It is like 10 degrees warmer,at least, than it was supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
What is it like 80 right now.
Yeah, 80.
Yeah, it is pretty 80.
It is supposed to be 70.
It is supposed to be 70.
So let's talk about eventscoming up.
We got throw pink coming up.
Cool fundraiser for what isbreast cancer research through
disc golf, Throw pink.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm not sure.
Well, that is what the littlepink ribbon thing is.
It is breast cancer, right?
Yeah, So I think throw pink isbreast cancer.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
That makes sense.
Women's disc golf championshipsopened up and there is a few
spots still left.
I really want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, the ones in North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Yeah, I really want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, because you were a performance last year,
you got invited to the nationalamateurs for FA4?
.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, they asked you to come to national amateurs for
FA4.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
No, they didn't.
I think it is because I am awoman, i have a PDGA number and
I am already certified.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So you have to be certified.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
So I think they just went through their sheet and
went bloop, bloop, bloop.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You have to be certified to go to the world's.
It is not world's, it isnationals.
What is it?
Is it even the right phone?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh, here they are, coming off of the course dun dun
dun.
United States women's disc golfchampionships.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So we got Monty, greg and Paul right and Michelle
coming off the course And PamAnd Pam Paul right's wife.
I have met her before.
That is cool to have her out.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
One of my former teacher people.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Really.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
She was your teacher.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Not teacher, but para .
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh gotcha, that's very cool.
So those chains that you hearin the background, that is hole
nine Paul right is staring usdown as we speak.
What would you call him?
What would you call him famous?
Would you call him infamous?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Call him a neighbor.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Call him a neighbor.
Yeah, they're gonna go aroundagain.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
It looks like yeah, oh man, good enough, they're
gonna do it again.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thank you.
Well, i guess it's good enoughfor a second round, so they're
going for it.
When that's a bomb off the tee,that looks real good is that
our first ace Little?
left.
Did you get any chains?
All right, they're pretty goodmicrophones, but they're not
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that good.
Eduardo, stepping up to the box, dude, a nice pushing a hyzer
line around the willow that isgonna be in the circle friends.
So Cassie, stepping up to thebox, looks like she's sporting
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some of that lone star plasticand her rainbow socks, and a
nice backhand right down thepipe That's gonna be on the
fairway.
Nice shot, nice shot.
Mint disc.
We have a standstill And we'reon the left hand side, but I
rolled out.
We're in good shape there.
We're gonna have a look at it.
Have a good round, All right.
(22:04):
So tell our listeners who youare and what you do and what you
do a number if you got one, andwhat you think of the course.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Sure, this is Michelle.
I'm from Kingston and I playcasual disc golf And just
finished the course.
Think it's a lot of fun.
I love how close it is to whereI live, mm-hmm, and I like that
it's open to the public andaccessible and All pretty
straightforward lines.
I think it was designed reallywell.
(22:34):
I did end up in the tree onhole two and, and there's a way
in And I saw.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
No.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Make a little opening for one way out that little
hyzer Forehand flick to get outof the hole in the tree.
But other than that it was alot of fun good, glad you
enjoyed it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You can come out here when you don't have enough time
for a full 18.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Just come out here and get it And right it's only.
I think it was like 18 minutesfrom the house, nice, so what
was?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
your favorite hole.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
What was this one coming into the trees?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
for four.
I liked four.
That's the one I've dubbed thepretty one.
Yeah, I like that, Yeah that'spretty cool.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It feels very whole 17 add or whole 17 budpell.
Yeah, oh yeah yeah, good holeYeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
We miss the Pell.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Get to do the pop-up?
Yeah, really.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
The challenges are really fun.
I really like the pop-up events.
The glow rounds are so much funthere.
This could be a fun opportunityfor a glow.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
I think there's a few too many bunny holes for a safe
glow around, but We'll see.
Maybe we can like dophosphorescent lights on the
grass something.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
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Where'd you get that fancydiscrafter from?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
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received in the 52 tournamentsthat I've played in so glad you
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Speaker 7 (24:08):
Big fan, big fan have gotten a lot.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Even today.
I got a couple people like what?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
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I'm like well, it's the newtowel.
It's a shami towel.
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It's the new towel.
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Why don't you tell everybodywho you are, what you do?
Do you have a pdga number?
not yet.
Well, you're gonna get one, allright all right, i'm Baron old
(25:00):
coyote.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'm one of the staff members here at chief kids app
academy.
I work with the song and dancegroup quite a bit and teach
carving glasses to high school.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Awesome.
Do you have any big plans forthe course out here?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's pretty fun.
Now, you know, i was onlyprobably my fifth time out ish,
so I'm still getting the hang ofthings.
It's.
It's really fun.
I'm really taking a like and doit, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You're gonna help me have the kids design toppers for
the baskets to yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, can you talk about that for a?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
minute.
So we'll probably like I Idon't know how we're gonna name
the holes yet, but like carvesomething that represents that
hole, that helps represent thecommunity, and so like I don't
know, maybe an orca or a floweror whatever, whatever comes to
mind as a topper.
I've seen there's a disc Golfcourse down in southern
Washington and they have acarved Cartman on top of one of
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their baskets.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah that'll be a really cool project for for me
and the kids to do.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, look forward to that.
How are the kids taken to it?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
A lot of them are really liking it.
Most of them are really likingit.
There's a couple few that Ihave gone through a few times
that are really good.
One of the students his name'sWaylon, i think you do like a 28
the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
29 good for him Yeah he was killing it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's been really fun.
It's good bonding experience.
Um, my cousin Larry's been intoit for a long time.
He said he's been playing forabout five years now And always
been trying to get me out hereSo that we finally have it so
close to home.
Yeah it's fun.
Oh, the sport, yeah, i can havehim out here.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So how did you play today?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh, i did okay.
We didn't really keep score, um, i did okay a couple parts is
good for me.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Did you come back with all your discs?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, That's a plus.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
All right.
Well, do you have anything elsefor us?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Um, no, just appreciate you guys.
Thank you guys so much for this.
This is, this has been quitethe experience so far And I
can't wait to see, see how itgrows.
You know, to see the studentstake, take a liking to it, and
you know there's been talks of ateam and Different things
already among the students, so Ijust look forward to seeing it
grow.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, we truly believe that disc golf Changes
lives and grow the sport.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, definitely.
It's crazy how popular it isthese days.
It's Yeah, it's awesome Allright.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thank you, Baron.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
All right and sitting down with me right now.
We got Kaylee and James.
This is what their third,fourth time around the course
today.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
In the past history.
Third I think for me yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So what'd you guys think of it?
How'd it go?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It was really fun.
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, yeah, i almost tied with Mariah.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
She beat me by one.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh man, she almost beat me, you by one, huh.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
No, she did beat me, she beat you I won.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, gotcha, you're gonna have to go and play again.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
I'm not playing again .
Right the second.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'll play again.
You got a score to settle.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'll play again later .
Speaker 3 (27:57):
James, how'd you do out there?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Um, well, i only played the first hole, really.
Um, my favorite part about thiscourse probably is the fact
that, from where we are, whichis Just in front of the first
tee box if you turn around, ifit's a nice sunny day, warm
sunny day like this, in there'snot a lot of clouds, you can see
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the Brothers the BrothersMountains in the Olympic range.
Yeah, and you can see Water Idon't know what kind of water,
that's Puget Sound and you cansee Puget Sound and it just
looks like it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah, it's a gorgeous location.
Yeah, and cheers to much moredisc golf out here at this
location There's something aburbling my favorite part of
this course is that There areplants here that I've never seen
before what's?
what's your favorite plant?
What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh, What's the tree called the?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
the giant one.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, it's either.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I think that's a giant sequoia a sequoia or a
California redwood.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Um, there are also some like of Some exotic, rare
plants that can only be foundhere, like yeah, cuz, hold on.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got a tee and off.
Oh Yeah, t enough.
He's Lining it up.
Looks like a backhand shot, alittle overstable.
It's the nice kind of.
Kind of hold up hyzer line, buthe looks to be in circle one.
That's a nice throw.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, but anyways, apparently, if I'm getting this
right, mom, you can hear this.
The lady who owned this beforeWanted it to look like Ireland,
i believe Scotland, and so shegot a bunch of plants from
Scotland and, i think, yeah,from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
What's your favorite hole?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh, here my favorite hole.
My favorite hole is Oh, they'reall amazing.
My favorite holes hole ninelike hole nine.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, okay, nice run to finish it off, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Mine is The one over there five.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, the one where you go between the two big trees
.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, i like four and five, four and five.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I think those are everybody's favorites down
there.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, they're just cool, so pretty and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Awesome, well, hey, thanks guys for the chit chat,
appreciate it.
You got anything else for us,kaylee?
No, you heard it.
Kaylee has nothing else to tellus.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Kaylee, what about your weird fact of the?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
day.
Oh yeah, What about your weirdfact?
That's your job.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Do you know about CEO syndrome?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
What's CEO syndrome?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's when you strive to be so perfect that, yeah, it
just kind of makes you sick.
I have a weird fact that'sbetter than that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Sounds like athlete's foot.
Is there anything close to that?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Nah, you just strive to be so perfect that it kind of
drives you a little bit insane.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh, you haven't seen that.
but the guy I'm better calledSaul, like the lawyer guy had
the closes because he's allergicto sunlight and had to turn off
all his electricity because itwas going to give him cancer and
stuff.
It was weird.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That's weird, but anyways.
Did you know that turtles canbreathe out of their butts when
they hibernate?
Yes, did you know that waterhas memories?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Did you know?
Leave it to James to bring in abutt joke.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Did you know that mom once hit a squirrel with her
disc when she was playing?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Mom has hit a squirrel with her disc.
Yeah, several times.
All right, guys.
Well, thanks for the chit chat.
I think we're going to wrap uphere.
Okay, okay, all right.
So we got Mariah here justcoming off the course.
Mariah, how'd you play?
I?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
played very well.
It was a very tight gamebetween me and my sister Kaylee,
and I won by one.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
By one.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Nice, what discs did you take with you?
Because I don't know.
you took three discs.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I took my Sphinx and I took mywhat is it called My
rock and my ome.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
All right, excellent, excellent.
And what's your favorite hole?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
On this course.
I would say it would have hadto be hole eight.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You like hole eight, the best, huh.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, you like to really bomb, don't you?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Well.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
You like to throw hard?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
It was better too, because it was a longer hole and
I felt like I had a really goodshot on that one Excellent.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Excellent.
So what do you think of thecourse, just in general.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It's awesome.
It's very well designed andthere's a lot of open space.
Do you wish you went to schoolhere?
Yes, honestly, just to playdisc golf, most likely.
Yes, awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right.
Well, thanks for that, mariah.
I really appreciate it.
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The intentional disc golfpodcast, brandon, jenny and we
are sitting here with PaulWright.
The legend just came off thecourse that he built for the
Chief Kitsap Academy.
Paul, tell everybody aboutyourself.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Well, i am here because I work for the Paul
McBeth Foundation and we wantedto put courses in at Indigenous
communities and had one right inmy backyard and wow, what a
beautiful course, what abeautiful spot to put a course,
and the grand opening tonightwas fantastic.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
It's just unfortunate that the kids that were here
during the day like, because nowit's to the point where it's
like, oh, we have a disc golfcourse at school, We don't have
to come to the event in theevening, but seeing them so
excited to get their discsearlier today and out there
playing like it was really cool.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Yeah, i was telling the guys when we were part way
through the first round earliertonight that it's like, man, i
wish I would have had a discgolf course on my school
property.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I didn't know where I would have been before school
and after school.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
Yeah.
Yeah, and this one has enoughchallenge.
I think it's going to stayinteresting for the kids for a
long time, and yet it's not sodifficult.
I think there's a fewblackberry areas that I was able
to find tonight that probablyneed to be cleared out.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Yeah, yeah, i got a few scratches on my arms.
That's one of my.
I'm going to work on theblackberry bushes because I've
got my yeah you have either anew kitty or new one, blackberry
bushes.
Got the blackberry bushes.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
So can you tell us a little bit about the Paul McBeth
Foundation and what you do forthem, and just kind of quick
little about that?
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Sure.
Well, first of all, i want toput in a shameless plug for
being in the Builders Club.
Builders Club is a commitmentto a donation each month and
that's how we support, alongwith donations from all of the
disc manufacturers and basketmanufacturers and Ledgestone,
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and we have a lot of really gooddonors, but really it's built
on the backs of disc golfersthat want to see the sport grow
and spread into countries aroundthe world.
I have been fortunate enough totravel a lot.
I've been to Guatemala,columbia, nicaragua, montenegro,
uganda, kenya, spain and alsoin the United States.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So those spots that you see for the Paul McBeth
Foundation on DGN, those areprobably some of your projects.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Absolutely Yeah, and I play different roles in each
of them.
Typically, i'm going out toscout the properties when we get
people that we review a lot ofapplications for people that
want to put courses in and wehave some pretty strict criteria
that we want to meet, and sowhen we get one that looks good,
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we want to send somebody in andsee if the space is right.
You know, our number oneconcern is safety, so we don't
want to be.
People might think they have areally great spot for a course,
but the course may be too manyother things going on in the
space that they have available.
Or because a lot of thesepeople don't really understand
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what disc golf is, they just seean opportunity to create
inexpensive sports for theirkids and we think that that's a
big part of what we're trying todo.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, Well, it takes all types, doesn't it?
from the very, very basic justgo out and flicking discs to
professional, competitive andworld champions.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, we're really looking to build courses that
fit with beginners, but we alsodon't want to build them so
simply that people get boredwith them For sure.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
No, i don't have a question.
You don't have anything to say,just a snake.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Yeah, In some of these countries they have no
access to discs, so the onlydiscs they're going to get are
the ones that we are able toprovide them or somebody they
know may provide them discs.
So very important part ofdesigning a Paul McBeth
Foundation course is to not haveplaces where they can lose
discs.
I mean, I know we've all lostdiscs over buildings and in
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strange areas, but we don't setup next to ponds.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I lost one in the fairway about three weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
I think we've all experienced that.
Actually, there's a disc on topof that roof right now because
a student threw it up there Didthey.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
I actually have two that I found on this last round
that I played that are in my bagthat belonged to somebody.
Awesome, i found them when Iwas looking for my own disc.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Oh, there you go.
I know That's the funniest It'snot usually how it goes.
Yeah, it's always like oh, Ifound your disc.
Oh, I'm so sorry for you.
I know where you were.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Well, I think they probably were in there today
when people knew they could justwalk right up and grab more
discs.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
So they probably didn't spend much time.
I told them they couldn't.
I was like no, these are youronly discs.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Sorry.
So what you were saying there,Paul, just speaks to how
incredibly special thisopportunity and being able to
have this course here, put inwith the foundation and with you
who's friend and neighbor Itreally is an honor to be able to
be a part of this project.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
Well, i know it is.
For me, being able to build onein my backyard is just, you
know, a dream come true and itmet all of the criteria we were
looking for.
And Jenny been just great towork with, and everybody at the
school.
When I was out scouting, peoplewere coming out and asking what
they were doing and you know,there wasn't one you'd expect
maybe one kid would Would have.
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I know I would have had somekind of a wisecrack or something
, but these kids were all soexcited They were like that is
so cool.
Yeah, and and you just see thatattitude is very pervasive
here- Yeah, the kids are prettyexcited about their disc golf
course.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
At first you know, of course, teenagers, no, i'm not
gonna do it.
And then they're coming up tome.
They're like dude, miss, jenny,i just had an even round.
So wow, yeah wow, that's great.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, they're already shooting, even rounds.
We got some young prodigies outthere.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
Yeah, that's Waylon well we had.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
We had a great opening ceremony tonight.
I think, the the Indigenoussong that was sung was just a
great way to kick things off andjust beautiful.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
Yep, yeah, yeah, barry does a good job.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
We had some sort of a bird thing going on.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
I don't know birds.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
It was just right over the top of us, that was.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Phenomenal.
It's kind of like one of thosespecial moments that just kind
of like, for whatever reason,speaks to you.
Yeah, when I came, walking up.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Everybody was looking up in the air and I was
thinking, no, no, the course isdown.
And as soon as I saw what theywere looking at, i whipped out
my camera because I wanted toget a picture of it.
I haven't been able to look atit and see If I captured it, but
it was.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
It was quite a sight to see so now that, now that the
course is Closer to beingfinished, I mean we're still
waiting on some t-signs andBasket markers which the kids
are gonna work on.
but what do you?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
think of the course.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
How do you, how do you feel about your own work?
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Yeah, that was earlier the guy from from The,
the press for the communicationsdepartment communications.
But thank you.
Yeah, he asked me the samething How would you rate this
course and where does it rate inthe county?
I said but you don't ask.
All of my, all of my creationsare a tie.
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I'm gonna let the people decide.
And I think that Each coursehas to stand on its own.
What was the purpose of puttingit in?
What are you trying toaccomplish with it?
and it could, this could be aReally highly rated Learning
course, and I think it is.
I think it forces people.
It's got, it's such aninteresting piece of property So
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that we have up hills, downhill, side hills and left and right
turn.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Well, it's got enough liberty that you can try
different things like I meanhole one You can try to do.
You know that nice hyzer, flipright in.
You know straight down the pipe.
You can do that long roundaboutpushing hyzer, you know off to
the right side.
You can even take the reallyridiculous line up over the
backyard of the school there andtry to.
You'll come in from the otherside.
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I mean there's a lot of waysand it's like that kind of on
every single hole.
Speaker 9 (42:55):
Yeah, it's one of those where you can throw it and
then say I meant to do that.
Yeah, i think good mistakes,right, yeah, yeah, no, it's.
It certainly meets one of thetop criteria, and that is it's
really fun.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Yeah, it is fun.
Course It's a lot of fun Andthat's one of the nice things
about it is that it'schallenging enough for, like,
the kids that have a hard timefocusing, but it's also easy
enough that, like, the teachersare willing to go out and play.
Speaker 9 (43:24):
Well, i love the story that you told when, when I
was designing and first puttingthings in and putting the
baskets in prior to Having theteapots in, where you said you
had a kid that was reallystruggling with Just keeping it
together.
Yep and you said why don't yougo out?
Here's a couple discs, go outand throw some discs.
And he went on in the courseand played, came in a half hour
later and was Just good to go.
Speaker 7 (43:45):
Yep and I had some kids the other day.
They're like can we go getdiscs?
I get calls all the time atwork.
Hey, can we go grab discs,because they go out here and
during lunch They play the bowlis what I'm calling it, and they
can.
They can just go play the bowlduring lunch.
And then they're like hey, wedon't have anything to do in
class, So can we go get somediscs.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
Yeah, that's one of the things that we talked about
prior to design, that I think Weaccomplished with this design,
and that is we have that bowlarea where you can kind of keep
your eye on the kids.
They can play.
There's there's five holes thatthat they can play and you can
just look out the window and seethat they're down there.
If they play, if they start onon one, then they go down
through the woods and Which isreally fun.
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Yeah, but maybe not appropriatewhen the kids are are just
struggling And then they need togo out and and throw a little
energy off.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, didn't you have a day, jenny, when you lost one
of your classes And you had tocall them and find out where
they were?
Speaker 7 (44:39):
No, i, i knew they were out on the course.
I just needed to reach one ofthe kids and I'm like, hey,
which hole are you on?
And they're like we're on holefour, because that was before
they were labeled.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Oh gotcha.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
And so it was really easy.
It was like okay, I know whereyou are come, I need the kid.
Speaker 9 (44:55):
Yeah, another thing I am really excited about is to
to see the art work that's gonnabe done for the tops of the
baskets, for the numbers, theIndigenous art that is all
around the campus is just sobeautiful And I can't wait to.
It's just gonna be.
The pictures are gonna bephenomenal with the mountains in
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the background and As beautifulas it is here.
To add that to the mix is gonnabe fantastic.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
Yeah, really looking forward to it.
Speaker 9 (45:26):
We're still incredibly.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
I don't know if I told you, but Mr Hank suggested
that we tell the story ofsky-kai, which is the story of
how the sun came back to thepeople, and that the sun is the
discs And that as you go throughdown through the woods and then
you end up coming back up hereto the people, you're bringing
the sun back to the people.
Speaker 9 (45:47):
I can't wait.
Yeah, I think that's what we'regoing with a great idea.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, and I think, i think the focus of this too, was
that the it was the healingpower of nature and being out in
it and you know whether you're,you know whether you're an
indigenous person or even youknow just.
You know somebody that out inthe woods, like you, find your
mindfulness, you find your happyspot.
You know it humbles, you, makesyou feel grateful and You know
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disc golf is definitely ahumbling sport.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Well, and we, we have both said it all three of us
have said it tonight We all feelgratitude through working
together and creating good,healthy Exercise yeah it's.
Everybody needs that and yeteverybody can do it, even if
you're not the bodybuilder orthe soccer player or the yeah so
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.
Speaker 7 (46:38):
So one of the kids today, she Um, they came from
Morocco, their family, she hasrisk problems, but it's not her
dominant hand.
She's like why am I gettingdiscs?
I'm like you can still play.
Like, just because you can'tuse one hand, you can just get
your discs.
And so she picked out discs.
She's like, okay, well, we'veseen.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
We've both seen plenty of people out there that
have had some sort of shoulderproblem Or an elbow problem and
they just switch hands.
And they learn how to throwwith the other hand and it's,
it's amazing.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
That's like.
Joel was out there, my brother,he injured his Forearm and he
he can't really hold the disc,but by the end we played rain
shadow.
He was just flipping.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, he was kind of a good time.
Yeah, he was a great time thesesidearms crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
Yeah, you know, i just got back from Uganda and,
um, i was out visiting a veryremote Um tribe of pygmy people
and The the smiles and thelaughter were just the same
tonight as they were there.
It's just, i'm constantlymarvel at how this sport Just
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grabs anybody who comes to it.
You just just didn't knowwhether people would relate to
it because they've never seenanything like it before, and And
I just I heard the samelaughter tonight, i saw the same
smiles.
It was just very gratifying.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Well, like back when disc golf was first kind of
getting its legs, i mean, it waskind of.
It was almost a joke whatyou're a fralfer Like you're
gonna throw a frisbee at.
What a stick like, come on, youknow.
But now it's developed intothis like Amazing thing.
It's no longer a joke, it's nolonger A you know one of these
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fringe things.
It's mainstream, it's popularand everybody that I have ever
played it with Whether they'veplayed it or not regularly, it
has loved it.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
Yeah, i mean, i've heard people say is it a game or
a sport?
Well, we definitely know thatit's a sport.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
It's a true, false question True, yeah, it's a
sport.
Speaker 9 (48:43):
You know, i was a firefighter and firefighters can
be cruel to each other and I Iwas Back when I was playing
competitively.
I would go in after a bigtournament and you know the guys
at the fire department.
One guy says He said how'd youdo in your tournament this week?
And I said I want it.
And he goes how'd you do in thethree-legged race?
Getting no respect at all.
Speaker 7 (49:11):
I think it's funny here, because they're like So,
when the teachers were playingthis afternoon, they're like
you're gonna throw first becauseI'm the pro, right, i'm the,
i'm the school pro.
like I'm still in f a4, f a3.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I know when they need discs they go to her office.
Yeah, i know, right, i can tellthey've used them because
they're crooked?
Speaker 7 (49:29):
They're not, but uh no, being able to even just
teach them, show them They'relike.
So, wait, how do you do this?
How do you do that?
Wait, i thought there was justone frisbee.
Wait, there's drivers, there'smids, there's putters.
It's just like golf.
Speaker 9 (49:42):
Yeah, there are a lot of layers to this game.
Speaker 7 (49:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:46):
Yeah, there are this sport.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
I would say.
I would say that there's evenmore Layers to this sport than
there is ball golf.
Good, ball golf is left rightdown the middle.
Try to square and come aroundand Yeah everybody has to use
similar, the same ball.
It's difficult, it's difficult,i think.
I think that disc golf is.
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It has a lot more knowledgebase to it.
Speaker 9 (50:14):
Yeah, I think there are a lot more things that can
go wrong.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
How many of those wrong things have you found Just
today Are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (50:25):
Oh sure, yeah, No, i've played more in the last
couple weeks when I was inUganda than I have In quite a
while.
I've been just so busy buildingand traveling and, and you know
, seeing another side to thesport that I'm really happy.
I mean, i miss, i miss beingable to play consistently and
things.
But That, that emptiness of notbeing able to to throw as
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accurately as I was used to Is,is definitely filled by the joy
of seeing people learn the gamefor the first time.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Yeah, that's amazing.
All right, well, we're gonnawrap it up here.
Thank you, paul, for sittingdown and just chatting with us
And we look forward to havingyou on pretty soon here and part
of our decoding the courseseries.
Speaker 9 (51:10):
Sounds great Looking forward to it.
Speaker 7 (51:11):
Yeah, yeah, well, thank you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
Paul.
Thank you, paul.
We'll be in contact soon, allright, all right, thank you.
Dad, mom's making a disc golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good evening everybody.
My name is Baron Old Coyote.
My ancestral name is Tamal Toll.
I'm one of the cultural artsteachers here at CKA.
The song that we're going toshare this evening is the Floor
Blessing Song, and I'm joined bymy cousin, larry and Angelina.
She's one of the staff memberhere as well.
You know it goes good for thisevent, the grand opening.
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Thank you to Jenny, thank youto her family, thank you to
everyone who had a helping handin making this a reality.
You know it's really exciting.
Exciting Not only for us, thestaff, the students, but for the
community.
You know all of the discgolfers out there, you know I've
been really taking a liking toit.
So thank you guys, no problem.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You are listening to the intentional discolfer
podcast, a very special liverecorded out here at the opening
of Chief Kitsap Academy's newdisc golf course, brought to you
by the Paul Macbeth Foundation,designed by Paul Wright, the
six-time amateur world champion.
Me and Jenny, we are theintentional disc golfers, along
with our kids who are out thereplaying the course, and our
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distinguished guests are outhere as well.
I'm hoping to catch Paul beforehe takes out Fadda here and
maybe have him say a littleblurb.
This has been an amazingexperience building this course
and being a part of every partof it.
It's been awesome to see howthis comes together and it
actually came together reallyquickly.
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Very, very honored to be a partof this project.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Thank you, guys all for coming to the opening of the
Chief Kitsap Academy disc golfcourse.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you to the Paul MacbethFoundation for donating all the
baskets, the designs, the teapads, the discs and all of the
hard work.
Thank you to Paul Wright fordesigning our course and all of
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the hard work, and for Monty aswell for all of his time donated
and Brandon for all of yourtime donated.
Thank you to Junior formaintaining the grounds It is
lovely today And thank you toGreg for all of your hard work.
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Thank you to the SuquamishTribal Council for making this
possible.
And, miss Irene, would you liketo declare us as open?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Welcome everyone.
Thank you, irene Carper,suquamish Tribal Secretary, and
please consider this course open.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Who would like to be on the first card out?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Jenny, awesome, wants to throw the first one.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Jenny Awesome on the tea pad.
Quiet in the gallery.
Please Quiet in the gallery.
Thank you, there it is.
That's a good one.
So we are out here liverecording the intentional disc
golfer podcast out here at ChiefKitsap Academy, go Bears With
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the one and only vice principaland intentional disc golfer.
Her name is Jenny Say.
Hi, jenny.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Hi, jenny.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And I am one of your hosts.
Your other host, Brandon.
If you appreciate what you'relistening to here, please like,
subscribe, share, tell yourfriends and become an
intentional disc golfer yourself.
Jenny.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Today is a special day for you.
You've worked very hard forthis.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This has been a dream for several years now.
What has this experience likebeen for you?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well, it wasn't my dream to do this.
So when I was hired they saidthey wanted a disc golf course
and I said, well, i play discgolf.
So I can't remember how ithappened, but I got in touch
with the West Sound Disc GolfAssociation, got me in touch
with Paul Wright, the six timeworld amateur champion and also
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my neighbor, and got in touchwith the Paul McBeth Foundation.
And here we are.
You know, it happened reallyquickly, like started in January
, had them come out and look atthe course and the property and
figure out where we want to putthe course and whether it was
worthwhile.
And then April came along andPaul was able to come out here
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design the course.
We got the baskets and discsall within the past two months
and just finished the pads thispast weekend or past Friday last
week before it rained.
The pads are all done and nowwe're looking forward to,
hopefully, an 18 hole.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yep, and that those chains you hear in the
background is actually the firstcard coming off of the first
course, first round, since thecourse has been officially
opened.
Early here you heard a greatblessing by the Suquamish Tribal
Song and Dance team.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
So that's actually the schools, the schools,
schools.
Song and dance, but withBarron's cousin.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
So it was, it was the it was all the.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I think you say his name was Larry.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, but who's Baron?
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Oh, baron's, our cultural arts and carving
teacher, baron Old Coyote.
And then Angelina Sosa is oneof our Ed specs, and then
Barron's cousin, larry.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Barron's cousin, larry, how's it going out there?
Awesome.
Glad you're enjoying it.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
It's going to be nicknamed the awesome course,
awesome course.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So what can you say you've learned from this?
or what gave you this idea ofputting in the disc golf course,
aside from them saying wewanted one?
I mean, what was your plan forthis course when you put it in?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
That there would be one Like.
So one of the best parts waswhen Paul first got the course
laid out and I was working witha kiddo who's got some extra
score me needed to go blow offsome steam.
I'm like, hey, you want to gothrow?
And he's like What?
So I grabbed some discs off mywall and went out there and, you
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know, made it through hole.
One lost a disc first, throwout there, stayed out there for
two weeks but I got it back Andso being able to have the kids
out here playing every day andthere's some kids that have been
going through some rough stuffand they've found a enjoyment
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with playing disc golf And thenactually today.
So today I got to hand out thediscs, all the donated discs to
students today, and they're likeWait, these are ours, we get to
keep them.
And then they came back andthey're like I lost mine.
I was like Sorry, no disc leftbehind.
So they're like I need a stick.
So I pull my disc grabbersomebody should have donated
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sticks.
Oh yeah, we got sticks, I havemy disc grabber, But having them
so excited to go out and play,and then at the end of the
school, the Jeff who's ourlanguage arts history teacher,
extraordinaire L Jeff.
I think he goes by L Jeffsenior Jeff senior.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Jeff.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
And from third building comes running down with
his three discs.
He's like Come on, guys, we'regoing to go play, come on.
They're like Come on, you haveto throw the first one.
So we all went out and I onlyplayed hole one with them
because I was busy setting thisup.
But you know, it's going to adda lot that we there's a lot of
times where the kids haven't hadanything to do in class because
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it's end of the year And theyget to go out and play disc golf
.
They don't know what to doduring lunch.
Instead of hanging outside,they just play right here in the
bowl.
The five that we can see and isthat what you guys call?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
it?
now is the bowl.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I call it the bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The bowl.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Like you can play the bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's cool, yeah, so how many discs would you say
have been donated to thisproject?
If you had to guess, there's alot.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
I know there was the Paul McBeth Foundation said they
do 250 and our collection whatYou think?
we pulled out a hundred discs.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, easily a hundred.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
So there's 350.
And then I got roughly ahundred more from Matt and
Nicole at 360.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, shout out for 360 disc golf, for supporting us
, not only the podcast, but alsothe Achieve Kids App Academy
opening the disc golf course.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So 360 is the best pro shop you could ask for,
biggest in the Pacific Northwest.
Okay, so if you had to do thisall over again, what would you?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I mean, what am I going?
What am I going to do when weput in the 18 hole disc?
golf course, what are you goingto do when you put in the 18
hole course.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Cat's out of the bag, oh boy.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yeah, we'll see.
Well, the 18 hole is going tobe differently.
Differently, the 18 hole isgoing to be different.
This one's mostly out in theopen, in the field, where you
just want to hook things.
The next one, if we do put itin, is going to be off in the
woods, so it's going to be avery wooded course.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh, that's a deep circle.
One putt Love that They'recoming off the course, Jenny.
So if you had to do it all overagain, what would you do
differently?
What did you learn?
What are you gonna do in thenew world?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Well, we're not even done yet.
Like we're not done with thisbecause we still need to do the
T-pad signs And we're talkingabout doing a story or something
in Leschutziid, which is thetraditional Salish language.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
You're gonna ask him questions?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, let's take a quick break here.
You guys want to say a littleblurb on the podcast?
All right, yep, go ahead andput it up.
nice and close.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I can hear you loud and clear, all right, a lot of
Moodle PDJ 219, 314.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
It's a pretty nice course.
I think I shot a course recordtwo down for this round.
Thanks to all the sponsors.
It's a little challengingbecause of all the seeds that
get stuck to your socks.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
So tall boots are a must.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
But some good technical holes.
Not a lot of forehand lines,but you don't need those too
many.
But watch out for the highway.
on what's that hole?
Five, four, four through thetrees.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Yeah, and Paul says that he was very deliberate.
You can't actually hit thehighway.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So I had a kid try today.
The theory is that once you'regood enough to hit the highway,
you'll be good enough to not hitthe highway.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
All right, I think we should have a Wombo-Combo
Bainbridge Battle Point as thefront nine.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Every little U-Disk challenge there.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
There you go.
I don't know what to call itthough.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Maybe if they did a tournament they'd do the front
nine over on Bainbridge at.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Battle Point.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And then after lunch come over here and do the back
nine here, Or vice versa.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I think down there it appears pretty nice There's
more people becoming off theisland than going on.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
It kind of depends, though, on the wind, because
there's a lot of wind that comesup from the sound right here
too, so I keep having to playwith the wind.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You're on the podcast man.
You're a celebrity now.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
How can we find you?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
next, me Next.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
I'm doing throw pink Saturday And fairgrounds.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yeah, we'll see you there.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You're on MPO right.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
No, still MA2 next year.
We'll see you back here atsponsorship.
I don't know, you might be theend of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You're going to be at MA2 the right year going.
We'll see.
You're playing really well.
It's impressive.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You've been a lot of fun to watch.
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm going to be playing here A thousand rated
category There you go.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
That was the bag in and out Nice.
Thanks for having me, thanksfor all the work you all put in
and put in the event And to thestaff and faculty that initial
song and opening was prettyawesome Yeah it was Great.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Thanks, Ed.
One thing that I really want todo is I want to design the next
course.
I wasn't able to be here thistime.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So you want to go to Uganda.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's Uganda.
Anyways, you went to Uganda.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Anyways, that's one part that I would like to be
involved in, because my uncledesigns golf courses, so it
would be really cool to be ableto design disc golf courses.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wouldn't that be an epic collab to get your uncle
and Paul together and design adisc golf course.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
No, maybe, i don't know.
He retired from it and my otheruncle runs it now.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I know, but just as a fun project I haven't come out
here and be like, hey, we'regoing to design a thousand rated
course out here, bring all ofit.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
How about he?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
design one over in Long Island.
Yeah, all the champions.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Alright, this is super cool.
We are watching the designerand coordinator of the course
And the main workers.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
The main workers.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
The second car, the second car coming off.
They are on hole nine.
We should be hearing somechains real soon.
Is Michelle on the?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
card with them.
Yeah, Michelle is on the card.
So one of the things that weare debating about with this
course is because we reallywanted to honor the land and the
medicine that comes from beingout in the woods and being out
in nature and just being here onthe Soquamish lands.
So we are debating what we aregoing to put on the signs And Mr
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Hank Mr Hank Hayden he had areally good idea to tell the
story of Sky-Kai.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
So who is Hank Hayden ?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
He is one of our teachers, science teachers And
the D&D club master President.
He is the DM.
He is running a zombie darkcrystal line next year.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That sounds kind of cool Yeah the kids really
enjoyed dark crystal, that'spretty cool, there is a first
disc.
What?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
are we a circle one?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Oh, I play here.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah, so it ended up to be a beautiful day.
It is like 10 degrees warmer,at least, than it was supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
What is it like 80 right now.
Yeah, 80.
Yeah, it is pretty 80.
It is supposed to be 70.
It is supposed to be 70.
So let's talk about eventscoming up.
We got throw pink coming up.
Cool fundraiser for what isbreast cancer research through
disc golf, Throw pink.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm not sure.
Well, that is what the littlepink ribbon thing is.
It is breast cancer, right?
Yeah, So I think throw pink isbreast cancer.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
That makes sense.
Women's disc golf championshipsopened up and there is a few
spots still left.
I really want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, the ones in North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Yeah, I really want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, because you were a performance last year,
you got invited to the nationalamateurs for FA4?
.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, they asked you to come to national amateurs for
FA4.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
No, they didn't.
I think it is because I am awoman, i have a PDGA number and
I am already certified.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So you have to be certified.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
So I think they just went through their sheet and
went bloop, bloop, bloop.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You have to be certified to go to the world's.
It is not world's, it isnationals.
What is it?
Is it even the right phone?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh, here they are, coming off of the course dun dun
dun.
United States women's disc golfchampionships.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So we got Monty, greg and Paul right and Michelle
coming off the course And PamAnd Pam Paul right's wife.
I have met her before.
That is cool to have her out.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
One of my former teacher people.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Really.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
She was your teacher.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Not teacher, but para .
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh gotcha, that's very cool.
So those chains that you hearin the background, that is hole
nine Paul right is staring usdown as we speak.
What would you call him?
What would you call him famous?
Would you call him infamous?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Call him a neighbor.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Call him a neighbor.
Yeah, they're gonna go aroundagain.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
It looks like yeah, oh man, good enough, they're
gonna do it again.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thank you.
Well, i guess it's good enoughfor a second round, so they're
going for it.
When that's a bomb off the tee,that looks real good is that
our first ace Little?
left.
Did you get any chains?
All right, they're pretty goodmicrophones, but they're not
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that good.
Eduardo, stepping up to the box, dude, a nice pushing a hyzer
line around the willow that isgonna be in the circle friends.
So Cassie, stepping up to thebox, looks like she's sporting
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some of that lone star plasticand her rainbow socks, and a
nice backhand right down thepipe That's gonna be on the
fairway.
Nice shot, nice shot.
Mint disc.
We have a standstill And we'reon the left hand side, but I
rolled out.
We're in good shape there.
We're gonna have a look at it.
Have a good round, All right.
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So tell our listeners who youare and what you do and what you
do a number if you got one, andwhat you think of the course.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Sure, this is Michelle.
I'm from Kingston and I playcasual disc golf And just
finished the course.
Think it's a lot of fun.
I love how close it is to whereI live, mm-hmm, and I like that
it's open to the public andaccessible and All pretty
straightforward lines.
I think it was designed reallywell.
(22:34):
I did end up in the tree onhole two and, and there's a way
in And I saw.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
No.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Make a little opening for one way out that little
hyzer Forehand flick to get outof the hole in the tree.
But other than that it was alot of fun good, glad you
enjoyed it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You can come out here when you don't have enough time
for a full 18.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Just come out here and get it And right it's only.
I think it was like 18 minutesfrom the house, nice, so what
was?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
your favorite hole.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
What was this one coming into the trees?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
for four.
I liked four.
That's the one I've dubbed thepretty one.
Yeah, I like that, Yeah that'spretty cool.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It feels very whole 17 add or whole 17 budpell.
Yeah, oh yeah yeah, good holeYeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
We miss the Pell.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Get to do the pop-up?
Yeah, really.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
The challenges are really fun.
I really like the pop-up events.
The glow rounds are so much funthere.
This could be a fun opportunityfor a glow.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
I think there's a few too many bunny holes for a safe
glow around, but We'll see.
Maybe we can like dophosphorescent lights on the
grass something.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I see you have a discrafter.
Where'd you get that fancydiscrafter from?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
this was by far the best players pack Item I have
received in the 52 tournamentsthat I've played in so glad you
like it.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Big fan, big fan have gotten a lot.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Even today.
I got a couple people like what?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
is that.
I'm like well, it's the newtowel.
It's a shami towel.
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It's the new towel.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
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Why don't you tell everybodywho you are, what you do?
Do you have a pdga number?
not yet.
Well, you're gonna get one, allright all right, i'm Baron old
(25:00):
coyote.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'm one of the staff members here at chief kids app
academy.
I work with the song and dancegroup quite a bit and teach
carving glasses to high school.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Awesome.
Do you have any big plans forthe course out here?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's pretty fun.
Now, you know, i was onlyprobably my fifth time out ish,
so I'm still getting the hang ofthings.
It's.
It's really fun.
I'm really taking a like and doit, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You're gonna help me have the kids design toppers for
the baskets to yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, can you talk about that for a?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
minute.
So we'll probably like I Idon't know how we're gonna name
the holes yet, but like carvesomething that represents that
hole, that helps represent thecommunity, and so like I don't
know, maybe an orca or a floweror whatever, whatever comes to
mind as a topper.
I've seen there's a disc Golfcourse down in southern
Washington and they have acarved Cartman on top of one of
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their baskets.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah that'll be a really cool project for for me
and the kids to do.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, look forward to that.
How are the kids taken to it?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
A lot of them are really liking it.
Most of them are really likingit.
There's a couple few that Ihave gone through a few times
that are really good.
One of the students his name'sWaylon, i think you do like a 28
the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
29 good for him Yeah he was killing it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's been really fun.
It's good bonding experience.
Um, my cousin Larry's been intoit for a long time.
He said he's been playing forabout five years now And always
been trying to get me out hereSo that we finally have it so
close to home.
Yeah it's fun.
Oh, the sport, yeah, i can havehim out here.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So how did you play today?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh, i did okay.
We didn't really keep score, um, i did okay a couple parts is
good for me.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Did you come back with all your discs?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, That's a plus.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
All right.
Well, do you have anything elsefor us?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Um, no, just appreciate you guys.
Thank you guys so much for this.
This is, this has been quitethe experience so far And I
can't wait to see, see how itgrows.
You know, to see the studentstake, take a liking to it, and
you know there's been talks of ateam and Different things
already among the students, so Ijust look forward to seeing it
grow.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yeah, we truly believe that disc golf Changes
lives and grow the sport.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, definitely.
It's crazy how popular it isthese days.
It's Yeah, it's awesome Allright.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thank you, Baron.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
All right and sitting down with me right now.
We got Kaylee and James.
This is what their third,fourth time around the course
today.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
In the past history.
Third I think for me yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So what'd you guys think of it?
How'd it go?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It was really fun.
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, yeah, i almost tied with Mariah.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
She beat me by one.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh man, she almost beat me, you by one, huh.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
No, she did beat me, she beat you I won.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, gotcha, you're gonna have to go and play again.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
I'm not playing again .
Right the second.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'll play again.
You got a score to settle.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'll play again later .
Speaker 3 (27:57):
James, how'd you do out there?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Um, well, i only played the first hole, really.
Um, my favorite part about thiscourse probably is the fact
that, from where we are, whichis Just in front of the first
tee box if you turn around, ifit's a nice sunny day, warm
sunny day like this, in there'snot a lot of clouds, you can see
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the Brothers the BrothersMountains in the Olympic range.
Yeah, and you can see Water Idon't know what kind of water,
that's Puget Sound and you cansee Puget Sound and it just
looks like it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah, it's a gorgeous location.
Yeah, and cheers to much moredisc golf out here at this
location There's something aburbling my favorite part of
this course is that There areplants here that I've never seen
before what's?
what's your favorite plant?
What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh, What's the tree called the?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
the giant one.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, it's either.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I think that's a giant sequoia a sequoia or a
California redwood.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Um, there are also some like of Some exotic, rare
plants that can only be foundhere, like yeah, cuz, hold on.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got a tee and off.
Oh Yeah, t enough.
He's Lining it up.
Looks like a backhand shot, alittle overstable.
It's the nice kind of.
Kind of hold up hyzer line, buthe looks to be in circle one.
That's a nice throw.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, but anyways, apparently, if I'm getting this
right, mom, you can hear this.
The lady who owned this beforeWanted it to look like Ireland,
i believe Scotland, and so shegot a bunch of plants from
Scotland and, i think, yeah,from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
What's your favorite hole?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh, here my favorite hole.
My favorite hole is Oh, they'reall amazing.
My favorite holes hole ninelike hole nine.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, okay, nice run to finish it off, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Mine is The one over there five.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, the one where you go between the two big trees
.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, i like four and five, four and five.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I think those are everybody's favorites down
there.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, they're just cool, so pretty and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Awesome, well, hey, thanks guys for the chit chat,
appreciate it.
You got anything else for us,kaylee?
No, you heard it.
Kaylee has nothing else to tellus.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Kaylee, what about your weird fact of the?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
day.
Oh yeah, What about your weirdfact?
That's your job.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Do you know about CEO syndrome?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
What's CEO syndrome?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's when you strive to be so perfect that, yeah, it
just kind of makes you sick.
I have a weird fact that'sbetter than that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Sounds like athlete's foot.
Is there anything close to that?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Nah, you just strive to be so perfect that it kind of
drives you a little bit insane.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh, you haven't seen that.
but the guy I'm better calledSaul, like the lawyer guy had
the closes because he's allergicto sunlight and had to turn off
all his electricity because itwas going to give him cancer and
stuff.
It was weird.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That's weird, but anyways.
Did you know that turtles canbreathe out of their butts when
they hibernate?
Yes, did you know that waterhas memories?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Did you know?
Leave it to James to bring in abutt joke.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Did you know that mom once hit a squirrel with her
disc when she was playing?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Mom has hit a squirrel with her disc.
Yeah, several times.
All right, guys.
Well, thanks for the chit chat.
I think we're going to wrap uphere.
Okay, okay, all right.
So we got Mariah here justcoming off the course.
Mariah, how'd you play?
I?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
played very well.
It was a very tight gamebetween me and my sister Kaylee,
and I won by one.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
By one.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Nice, what discs did you take with you?
Because I don't know.
you took three discs.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I took my Sphinx and I took mywhat is it called My
rock and my ome.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
All right, excellent, excellent.
And what's your favorite hole?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
On this course.
I would say it would have hadto be hole eight.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You like hole eight, the best, huh.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, you like to really bomb, don't you?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Well.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
You like to throw hard?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
It was better too, because it was a longer hole and
I felt like I had a really goodshot on that one Excellent.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Excellent.
So what do you think of thecourse, just in general.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It's awesome.
It's very well designed andthere's a lot of open space.
Do you wish you went to schoolhere?
Yes, honestly, just to playdisc golf, most likely.
Yes, awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right.
Well, thanks for that, mariah.
I really appreciate it.
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The intentional disc golfpodcast, brandon, jenny and we
are sitting here with PaulWright.
The legend just came off thecourse that he built for the
Chief Kitsap Academy.
Paul, tell everybody aboutyourself.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Well, i am here because I work for the Paul
McBeth Foundation and we wantedto put courses in at Indigenous
communities and had one right inmy backyard and wow, what a
beautiful course, what abeautiful spot to put a course,
and the grand opening tonightwas fantastic.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
It's just unfortunate that the kids that were here
during the day like, because nowit's to the point where it's
like, oh, we have a disc golfcourse at school, We don't have
to come to the event in theevening, but seeing them so
excited to get their discsearlier today and out there
playing like it was really cool.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Yeah, i was telling the guys when we were part way
through the first round earliertonight that it's like, man, i
wish I would have had a discgolf course on my school
property.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I didn't know where I would have been before school
and after school.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
Yeah.
Yeah, and this one has enoughchallenge.
I think it's going to stayinteresting for the kids for a
long time, and yet it's not sodifficult.
I think there's a fewblackberry areas that I was able
to find tonight that probablyneed to be cleared out.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Yeah, yeah, i got a few scratches on my arms.
That's one of my.
I'm going to work on theblackberry bushes because I've
got my yeah you have either anew kitty or new one, blackberry
bushes.
Got the blackberry bushes.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
So can you tell us a little bit about the Paul McBeth
Foundation and what you do forthem, and just kind of quick
little about that?
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Sure.
Well, first of all, i want toput in a shameless plug for
being in the Builders Club.
Builders Club is a commitmentto a donation each month and
that's how we support, alongwith donations from all of the
disc manufacturers and basketmanufacturers and Ledgestone,
(36:32):
and we have a lot of really gooddonors, but really it's built
on the backs of disc golfersthat want to see the sport grow
and spread into countries aroundthe world.
I have been fortunate enough totravel a lot.
I've been to Guatemala,columbia, nicaragua, montenegro,
uganda, kenya, spain and alsoin the United States.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So those spots that you see for the Paul McBeth
Foundation on DGN, those areprobably some of your projects.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Absolutely Yeah, and I play different roles in each
of them.
Typically, i'm going out toscout the properties when we get
people that we review a lot ofapplications for people that
want to put courses in and wehave some pretty strict criteria
that we want to meet, and sowhen we get one that looks good,
(37:31):
we want to send somebody in andsee if the space is right.
You know, our number oneconcern is safety, so we don't
want to be.
People might think they have areally great spot for a course,
but the course may be too manyother things going on in the
space that they have available.
Or because a lot of thesepeople don't really understand
(37:51):
what disc golf is, they just seean opportunity to create
inexpensive sports for theirkids and we think that that's a
big part of what we're trying todo.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, Well, it takes all types, doesn't it?
from the very, very basic justgo out and flicking discs to
professional, competitive andworld champions.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, we're really looking to build courses that
fit with beginners, but we alsodon't want to build them so
simply that people get boredwith them For sure.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
No, i don't have a question.
You don't have anything to say,just a snake.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Yeah, In some of these countries they have no
access to discs, so the onlydiscs they're going to get are
the ones that we are able toprovide them or somebody they
know may provide them discs.
So very important part ofdesigning a Paul McBeth
Foundation course is to not haveplaces where they can lose
discs.
I mean, I know we've all lostdiscs over buildings and in
(38:46):
strange areas, but we don't setup next to ponds.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I lost one in the fairway about three weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
I think we've all experienced that.
Actually, there's a disc on topof that roof right now because
a student threw it up there Didthey.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
I actually have two that I found on this last round
that I played that are in my bagthat belonged to somebody.
Awesome, i found them when Iwas looking for my own disc.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Oh, there you go.
I know That's the funniest It'snot usually how it goes.
Yeah, it's always like oh, Ifound your disc.
Oh, I'm so sorry for you.
I know where you were.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Well, I think they probably were in there today
when people knew they could justwalk right up and grab more
discs.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
So they probably didn't spend much time.
I told them they couldn't.
I was like no, these are youronly discs.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Sorry.
So what you were saying there,Paul, just speaks to how
incredibly special thisopportunity and being able to
have this course here, put inwith the foundation and with you
who's friend and neighbor Itreally is an honor to be able to
be a part of this project.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
Well, i know it is.
For me, being able to build onein my backyard is just, you
know, a dream come true and itmet all of the criteria we were
looking for.
And Jenny been just great towork with, and everybody at the
school.
When I was out scouting, peoplewere coming out and asking what
they were doing and you know,there wasn't one you'd expect
maybe one kid would Would have.
(40:08):
I know I would have had somekind of a wisecrack or something
, but these kids were all soexcited They were like that is
so cool.
Yeah, and and you just see thatattitude is very pervasive
here- Yeah, the kids are prettyexcited about their disc golf
course.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
At first you know, of course, teenagers, no, i'm not
gonna do it.
And then they're coming up tome.
They're like dude, miss, jenny,i just had an even round.
So wow, yeah wow, that's great.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, they're already shooting, even rounds.
We got some young prodigies outthere.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
Yeah, that's Waylon well we had.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
We had a great opening ceremony tonight.
I think, the the Indigenoussong that was sung was just a
great way to kick things off andjust beautiful.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
Yep, yeah, yeah, barry does a good job.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
We had some sort of a bird thing going on.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
I don't know birds.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
It was just right over the top of us, that was.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Phenomenal.
It's kind of like one of thosespecial moments that just kind
of like, for whatever reason,speaks to you.
Yeah, when I came, walking up.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Everybody was looking up in the air and I was
thinking, no, no, the course isdown.
And as soon as I saw what theywere looking at, i whipped out
my camera because I wanted toget a picture of it.
I haven't been able to look atit and see If I captured it, but
it was.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
It was quite a sight to see so now that, now that the
course is Closer to beingfinished, I mean we're still
waiting on some t-signs andBasket markers which the kids
are gonna work on.
but what do you?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
think of the course.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
How do you, how do you feel about your own work?
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Yeah, that was earlier the guy from from The,
the press for the communicationsdepartment communications.
But thank you.
Yeah, he asked me the samething How would you rate this
course and where does it rate inthe county?
I said but you don't ask.
All of my, all of my creationsare a tie.
(42:04):
I'm gonna let the people decide.
And I think that Each coursehas to stand on its own.
What was the purpose of puttingit in?
What are you trying toaccomplish with it?
and it could, this could be aReally highly rated Learning
course, and I think it is.
I think it forces people.
It's got, it's such aninteresting piece of property So
(42:26):
that we have up hills, downhill, side hills and left and right
turn.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Well, it's got enough liberty that you can try
different things like I meanhole one You can try to do.
You know that nice hyzer, flipright in.
You know straight down the pipe.
You can do that long roundaboutpushing hyzer, you know off to
the right side.
You can even take the reallyridiculous line up over the
backyard of the school there andtry to.
You'll come in from the otherside.
(42:51):
I mean there's a lot of waysand it's like that kind of on
every single hole.
Speaker 9 (42:55):
Yeah, it's one of those where you can throw it and
then say I meant to do that.
Yeah, i think good mistakes,right, yeah, yeah, no, it's.
It certainly meets one of thetop criteria, and that is it's
really fun.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Yeah, it is fun.
Course It's a lot of fun Andthat's one of the nice things
about it is that it'schallenging enough for, like,
the kids that have a hard timefocusing, but it's also easy
enough that, like, the teachersare willing to go out and play.
Speaker 9 (43:24):
Well, i love the story that you told when, when I
was designing and first puttingthings in and putting the
baskets in prior to Having theteapots in, where you said you
had a kid that was reallystruggling with Just keeping it
together.
Yep and you said why don't yougo out?
Here's a couple discs, go outand throw some discs.
And he went on in the courseand played, came in a half hour
later and was Just good to go.
Speaker 7 (43:45):
Yep and I had some kids the other day.
They're like can we go getdiscs?
I get calls all the time atwork.
Hey, can we go grab discs,because they go out here and
during lunch They play the bowlis what I'm calling it, and they
can.
They can just go play the bowlduring lunch.
And then they're like hey, wedon't have anything to do in
class, So can we go get somediscs.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
Yeah, that's one of the things that we talked about
prior to design, that I think Weaccomplished with this design,
and that is we have that bowlarea where you can kind of keep
your eye on the kids.
They can play.
There's there's five holes thatthat they can play and you can
just look out the window and seethat they're down there.
If they play, if they start onon one, then they go down
through the woods and Which isreally fun.
(44:24):
Yeah, but maybe not appropriatewhen the kids are are just
struggling And then they need togo out and and throw a little
energy off.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, didn't you have a day, jenny, when you lost one
of your classes And you had tocall them and find out where
they were?
Speaker 7 (44:39):
No, i, i knew they were out on the course.
I just needed to reach one ofthe kids and I'm like, hey,
which hole are you on?
And they're like we're on holefour, because that was before
they were labeled.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Oh gotcha.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
And so it was really easy.
It was like okay, I know whereyou are come, I need the kid.
Speaker 9 (44:55):
Yeah, another thing I am really excited about is to
to see the art work that's gonnabe done for the tops of the
baskets, for the numbers, theIndigenous art that is all
around the campus is just sobeautiful And I can't wait to.
It's just gonna be.
The pictures are gonna bephenomenal with the mountains in
(45:18):
the background and As beautifulas it is here.
To add that to the mix is gonnabe fantastic.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
Yeah, really looking forward to it.
Speaker 9 (45:26):
We're still incredibly.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
I don't know if I told you, but Mr Hank suggested
that we tell the story ofsky-kai, which is the story of
how the sun came back to thepeople, and that the sun is the
discs And that as you go throughdown through the woods and then
you end up coming back up hereto the people, you're bringing
the sun back to the people.
Speaker 9 (45:47):
I can't wait.
Yeah, I think that's what we'regoing with a great idea.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, and I think, i think the focus of this too, was
that the it was the healingpower of nature and being out in
it and you know whether you're,you know whether you're an
indigenous person or even youknow just.
You know somebody that out inthe woods, like you, find your
mindfulness, you find your happyspot.
You know it humbles, you, makesyou feel grateful and You know
(46:14):
disc golf is definitely ahumbling sport.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Well, and we, we have both said it all three of us
have said it tonight We all feelgratitude through working
together and creating good,healthy Exercise yeah it's.
Everybody needs that and yeteverybody can do it, even if
you're not the bodybuilder orthe soccer player or the yeah so
(46:38):
.
Speaker 7 (46:38):
So one of the kids today, she Um, they came from
Morocco, their family, she hasrisk problems, but it's not her
dominant hand.
She's like why am I gettingdiscs?
I'm like you can still play.
Like, just because you can'tuse one hand, you can just get
your discs.
And so she picked out discs.
She's like, okay, well, we'veseen.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
We've both seen plenty of people out there that
have had some sort of shoulderproblem Or an elbow problem and
they just switch hands.
And they learn how to throwwith the other hand and it's,
it's amazing.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
That's like.
Joel was out there, my brother,he injured his Forearm and he
he can't really hold the disc,but by the end we played rain
shadow.
He was just flipping.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, he was kind of a good time.
Yeah, he was a great time thesesidearms crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
Yeah, you know, i just got back from Uganda and,
um, i was out visiting a veryremote Um tribe of pygmy people
and The the smiles and thelaughter were just the same
tonight as they were there.
It's just, i'm constantlymarvel at how this sport Just
(47:47):
grabs anybody who comes to it.
You just just didn't knowwhether people would relate to
it because they've never seenanything like it before, and And
I just I heard the samelaughter tonight, i saw the same
smiles.
It was just very gratifying.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Well, like back when disc golf was first kind of
getting its legs, i mean, it waskind of.
It was almost a joke whatyou're a fralfer Like you're
gonna throw a frisbee at.
What a stick like, come on, youknow.
But now it's developed intothis like Amazing thing.
It's no longer a joke, it's nolonger A you know one of these
(48:24):
fringe things.
It's mainstream, it's popularand everybody that I have ever
played it with Whether they'veplayed it or not regularly, it
has loved it.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
Yeah, i mean, i've heard people say is it a game or
a sport?
Well, we definitely know thatit's a sport.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
It's a true, false question True, yeah, it's a
sport.
Speaker 9 (48:43):
You know, i was a firefighter and firefighters can
be cruel to each other and I Iwas Back when I was playing
competitively.
I would go in after a bigtournament and you know the guys
at the fire department.
One guy says He said how'd youdo in your tournament this week?
And I said I want it.
And he goes how'd you do in thethree-legged race?
Getting no respect at all.
Speaker 7 (49:11):
I think it's funny here, because they're like So,
when the teachers were playingthis afternoon, they're like
you're gonna throw first becauseI'm the pro, right, i'm the,
i'm the school pro.
like I'm still in f a4, f a3.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I know when they need discs they go to her office.
Yeah, i know, right, i can tellthey've used them because
they're crooked?
Speaker 7 (49:29):
They're not, but uh no, being able to even just
teach them, show them They'relike.
So, wait, how do you do this?
How do you do that?
Wait, i thought there was justone frisbee.
Wait, there's drivers, there'smids, there's putters.
It's just like golf.
Speaker 9 (49:42):
Yeah, there are a lot of layers to this game.
Speaker 7 (49:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:46):
Yeah, there are this sport.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
I would say.
I would say that there's evenmore Layers to this sport than
there is ball golf.
Good, ball golf is left rightdown the middle.
Try to square and come aroundand Yeah everybody has to use
similar, the same ball.
It's difficult, it's difficult,i think.
I think that disc golf is.
(50:09):
It has a lot more knowledgebase to it.
Speaker 9 (50:14):
Yeah, I think there are a lot more things that can
go wrong.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
How many of those wrong things have you found Just
today Are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (50:25):
Oh sure, yeah, No, i've played more in the last
couple weeks when I was inUganda than I have In quite a
while.
I've been just so busy buildingand traveling and, and you know
, seeing another side to thesport that I'm really happy.
I mean, i miss, i miss beingable to play consistently and
things.
But That, that emptiness of notbeing able to to throw as
(50:49):
accurately as I was used to Is,is definitely filled by the joy
of seeing people learn the gamefor the first time.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Yeah, that's amazing.
All right, well, we're gonnawrap it up here.
Thank you, paul, for sittingdown and just chatting with us
And we look forward to havingyou on pretty soon here and part
of our decoding the courseseries.
Speaker 9 (51:10):
Sounds great Looking forward to it.
Speaker 7 (51:11):
Yeah, yeah, well, thank you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
Paul.
Thank you, paul.
We'll be in contact soon, allright, all right, thank you.
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