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Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Sports fans watch football, hockey, golf and various other sports especially at this time of the year.
It’s perfect
for the holiday’s! People gather around their televisions and eat and consume all kinds of beverages and enjoy the company of family and friends. But, there’s a way to have fun and work off those additional 10 pounds you just gained while re- laxing. There is? Yep... It’s Frisbee Golf! “Hike it & Loose it(weight) while having fun! I have to say, as the publisher of the Upbeat Times, I am a huge fan of Frisbee and Fris- bee Golf. I’ve been playing since I was a young child on the Christmas tree farm in Sebastopol. In fact, my grandmother worked for Kirkhill Rubber Company in Los Angeles for many years, a place that pro- duced numerous rubber iems....but I’m pretty sure, not Frisbees. But on occasion she would bring us kids gifts from Los Angeles and one of would be a new frisbee. A Wham
-O! I was hooked from day one. My little brother Chris & I would play for hours, creating tricks and seeing how many times we could ‘bump’ the frisbee off our knuck- les. My record was 18 distinct bumps while the Frisbee was still spinning! A few years into my sixth grade school year I was re- ally into it. With a few good friends I created a Frisbee football team called the Flying Farfala Frisbee Freaks. We even had T-shirts made up( I still have mine!) We got a lot of people involved and played other recess teams and had a lot of fun. Fast forward to high school & beyond and I meet new
Holiday GUIDE #2 Have You Ever Played Frisbee? You’ll Love It!
friends while living on my own and fin-
ishing high school in Santa Rosa and working at vari- ous restaurants to make a liv- ing. What did many of my new friends like to do as a sport after we finished work? Fris- bee!
It was every- where! In fact, one of
my friends had family mem- bers that made a 18 hole frisbee golf course on their property near
Anderson, California. During holi- days we camped and played frisbee golf continuously with as many as 20 family members of all ages. My friend and I were the champs, breaking records for under-par scores, just like you would playing golf...(I still have not had an under par golf game, but maybe soon!) Well here it is, fall of 2016 and I receive this telephone call from a gentleman by the name of Tom McRann who worked for Wham-O’s International Fris- bee Association, and as it turns out Tom was also responsible for Frisbee growth as sport and recreation in the Far Western U.S. We talked for a short time and I told him I’d like to let the Upbeat audience know that he is an official Frisbee Golf and Frisbee instructor. How cool is that!
by Paul A. Doyle
of Santa Rosa Parks and Recre- ation. In the catalog he has the class description which reads:
The best part about Fris- bee and Frisbee Golf is the fact that it is a sport for all ages. His teaches classes for the City
LEARN TO PLAY FRISBEE DISC GOLF FRISBEE GOLF IS AN ESTAB- LISHED SPORT AND RECRE- ATION THAT IS EASY, FUN AND GREAT EXERCISE. YOU CAN THROW/FLY A FRISBEE FAR, WITH ACCURACY. ALL YOU NEED IS A GOOD DISC (FRISBEE) AND A GOOD SUP- PORTIVE COACH. LEARN TO DRIVE, PUTT AND SCORE WITH CONFIDENCE. BACK- HAND, FOREHAND EVEN UPSIDE DOWN THROWS! NON-COMPETITIVE, WATCH YOURSELF IMPROVE WITH EACH TOSS. ONCE YOU KNOW THE COURSE, PLAY ANYTIME WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. FRISBEE GOLF IS A NEW FUN WAY TO GET
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