First Round of 2025
I got a call from my buddy the other day asking if I wanted to hit the disc golf course. Unfortunately, I had a meeting I had to stay at work late for that night, but I told him to reach out to me the next week. Well, this is the next week and last night I finally got to hit one of the local courses for my first round of 2025.
I wasn't really sure how things were going to go since I suffered my shoulder injury in late summer of 2024. Like the moron I am, I let it go for a couple of months before I finally reached out to someone for some help with it. I had been suffering in pain for too long and I knew I wanted to play disc golf again this summer. After playing more rounds than I can remember last summer, the idea of not being able to play at all this year was a wake up call for me.
After several months of physical therapy, my shoulder was doing better, but I wouldn't really know how well until I hit the course and tossed some discs.
I'll be the first to admit, I was pretty nervous. What if I hurt my shoulder again and went back to square one? What if I couldn't throw as well as I used to? There were a lot of what-if's that were keeping me from jumping back into a sport that I love.
In fact, my buddy had already been playing about a round a week for most of the year, he just didn't bother reaching out to me because he wasn't sure where I was at with my shoulder. He told me last night, that he thought my disc golf career was going to be over based on my description of the shoulder injury.
I had a feeling I would either throw really well or throw really poorly. I didn't see there being much of an in between for my first round of the year. Thankfully, all of those fears were unfounded as I ended up having a pretty decent round. My friend finished ten over par and I was just one ahead of him at eleven over par. It's not the best I have ever thrown at this course, but for not playing in something like six months or more, it wasn't too bad.
I had some really good drives and thankfully this morning my shoulder isn't feeling too bad after playing that full round of 18 last night. My goal this year is to work on my footwork to hopefully get some more distance on my throws. My buddy is thinking about entering some tournaments this year, but even after 25 years of playing, I still don't think I am ready for that kind of action.
Maybe next year...
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Have you found it helpful to gradually ease back into training with light technical movements before playing a full 18 holes? And what advice would you give to anyone who is also recovering from Incredibox and wants to get back into the sport?