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Celebrating Community Impact: Chief Kitsap Academy Disc Golf Course and Project 3.2 with the Paul McBeth Foundation
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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Dad, mom's making a disc golf course.
Speaker 2:Good evening everybody. My name is Baron Old Coyote. My ancestral name is Tamal Toll. I'm one of the cultural arts teachers here at CKA. The song that we're going to share this evening is the Floor Blessing Song, and I'm joined by my cousin, larry and Angelina. She's one of the staff member here as well. You know it goes good for this event, the grand opening. Thank you to Jenny, thank you to her family, thank you to everyone who had a helping hand in making this a reality. You know it's really exciting. Exciting Not only for us, the staff, the students, but for the community. You know all of the disc golfers out there, you know I've been really taking a liking to it. So thank you guys, no problem.
Speaker 3:You are listening to the intentional discolfer podcast, a very special live recorded out here at the opening of Chief Kitsap Academy's new disc 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 the intentional disc golfers, along with our kids who are out there playing the course, and our distinguished guests are out here as well. I'm hoping to catch Paul before he takes out Fadda here and maybe have him say a little blurb. This has been an amazing experience building this course and being a part of every part of it. It's been awesome to see how this comes together and it actually came together really quickly. Very, very honored to be a part of this project.
Speaker 4:Thank you, guys all for coming to the opening of the Chief Kitsap Academy disc golf course. Thank you, guys. Thank you to the Paul Macbeth Foundation for donating all the baskets, the designs, the tea pads, the discs and all of the hard work. Thank you to Paul Wright for designing our course and all of the hard work, and for Monty as well for all of his time donated and Brandon for all of your time donated. Thank you to Junior for maintaining the grounds It is lovely today And thank you to Greg for all of your hard work. Thank you to the Suquamish Tribal Council for making this possible. And, miss Irene, would you like to declare us as open?
Speaker 5:Welcome everyone. Thank you, irene Carper, suquamish Tribal Secretary, and please consider this course open.
Speaker 4:Who would like to be on the first card out?
Speaker 6:Jenny, awesome, wants to throw the first one.
Speaker 3: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 live recording the intentional disc golfer podcast out here at Chief Kitsap Academy, go Bears With the one and only vice principal and intentional disc golfer. Her name is Jenny Say. Hi, jenny.
Speaker 7:Hi, jenny.
Speaker 3:And I am one of your hosts. Your other host, Brandon. If you appreciate what you're listening to here, please like, subscribe, share, tell your friends and become an intentional disc golfer yourself. Jenny.
Speaker 8:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Today is a special day for you. You've worked very hard for this.
Speaker 7:Kind of.
Speaker 3:This has been a dream for several years now. What has this experience like been for you?
Speaker 7:Well, it wasn't my dream to do this. So when I was hired they said they wanted a disc golf course and I said, well, i play disc golf. So I can't remember how it happened, but I got in touch with the West Sound Disc Golf Association, got me in touch with Paul Wright, the six time world amateur champion and also my neighbor, and got in touch with the Paul McBeth Foundation. And here we are. You know, it happened really quickly, like started in January, had them come out and look at the course and the property and figure out where we want to put the course and whether it was worthwhile. And then April came along and Paul was able to come out here design the course. We got the baskets and discs all within the past two months and just finished the pads this past weekend or past Friday last week before it rained. The pads are all done and now we're looking forward to, hopefully, an 18 hole.
Speaker 3:Yep, and that those chains you hear in the background is actually the first card coming off of the first course, first round, since the course has been officially opened. Early here you heard a great blessing by the Suquamish Tribal Song and Dance team.
Speaker 7:So that's actually the schools, the schools, schools. Song and dance, but with Barron's cousin.
Speaker 3:So it was, it was the it was all the.
Speaker 7:I think you say his name was Larry.
Speaker 3:No, but who's Baron?
Speaker 7:Oh, baron's, our cultural arts and carving teacher, baron Old Coyote. And then Angelina Sosa is one of our Ed specs, and then Barron's cousin, larry.
Speaker 3:Barron's cousin, larry, how's it going out there? Awesome. Glad you're enjoying it.
Speaker 7:It's going to be nicknamed the awesome course, awesome course.
Speaker 3:So what can you say you've learned from this? or what gave you this idea of putting in the disc golf course, aside from them saying we wanted one? I mean, what was your plan for this course when you put it in?
Speaker 7:That there would be one Like. So one of the best parts was when Paul first got the course laid out and I was working with a kiddo who's got some extra score me needed to go blow off some steam. I'm like, hey, you want to go throw? And he's like What? So I grabbed some discs off my wall and went out there and, you know, made it through hole. One lost a disc first, throw out there, stayed out there for two weeks but I got it back And so being able to have the kids out here playing every day and there's some kids that have been going through some rough stuff and they've found a enjoyment with playing disc golf And then actually today. So today I got to hand out the discs, all the donated discs to students today, and they're like Wait, these are ours, we get to keep them. And then they came back and they're like I lost mine. I was like Sorry, no disc left behind. So they're like I need a stick. So I pull my disc grabber somebody should have donated sticks.
Speaker 7:Oh yeah, we got sticks, I have my disc grabber, But having them so excited to go out and play, and then at the end of the school, the Jeff who's our language arts history teacher, extraordinaire L Jeff. I think he goes by L Jeff senior Jeff senior.
Speaker 3:Jeff.
Speaker 7:And from third building comes running down with his three discs. He's like Come on, guys, we're going to go play, come on. They're like Come on, you have to throw the first one. So we all went out and I only played hole one with them because I was busy setting this up. But you know, it's going to add a lot that we there's a lot of times where the kids haven't had anything to do in class because it's end of the year And they get to go out and play disc golf. They don't know what to do during lunch. Instead of hanging outside, they just play right here in the bowl. The five that we can see and is that what you guys call?
Speaker 3:it? now is the bowl.
Speaker 7:I call it the bowl.
Speaker 3:The bowl.
Speaker 7:Like you can play the bowl.
Speaker 3:That's cool, yeah, so how many discs would you say have been donated to this project? If you had to guess, there's a lot.
Speaker 7:I know there was the Paul McBeth Foundation said they do 250 and our collection what You think? we pulled out a hundred discs.
Speaker 3:Oh, easily a hundred.
Speaker 7:So there's 350. And then I got roughly a hundred more from Matt and Nicole at 360.
Speaker 3:Yeah, shout out for 360 disc golf, for supporting us, not only the podcast, but also the Achieve Kids App Academy opening the disc golf course.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So 360 is the best pro shop you could ask for, biggest in the Pacific Northwest. Okay, so if you had to do this all over again, what would you?
Speaker 7:I mean, what am I going? What am I going to do when we put in the 18 hole disc? golf course, what are you going to do when you put in the 18 hole course.
Speaker 3:Cat's out of the bag, oh boy.
Speaker 7:Yeah, we'll see. Well, the 18 hole is going to be differently. Differently, the 18 hole is going to be different. This one's mostly out in the open, in the field, where you just want to hook things. The next one, if we do put it in, is going to be off in the woods, so it's going to be a very wooded course.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a deep circle. One putt Love that They're coming off the course, Jenny. So if you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently? What did you learn? What are you gonna do in the new world?
Speaker 7:Well, we're not even done yet. Like we're not done with this because we still need to do the T-pad signs And we're talking about doing a story or something in Leschutziid, which is the traditional Salish language.
Speaker 3:That's awesome.
Speaker 7:You're gonna ask him questions?
Speaker 3:Yeah, let's take a quick break here. You guys want to say a little blurb on the podcast? All right, yep, go ahead and put it up. nice and close.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I can hear you loud and clear, all right, a lot of Moodle PDJ 219, 314.
Speaker 6:It's a pretty nice course. I think I shot a course record two down for this round. Thanks to all the sponsors. It's a little challenging because of all the seeds that get stuck to your socks.
Speaker 7:So tall boots are a must.
Speaker 6: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 the trees.
Speaker 7:Yeah, and Paul says that he was very deliberate. You can't actually hit the highway.
Speaker 3:So I had a kid try today. The theory is that once you're good enough to hit the highway, you'll be good enough to not hit the highway.
Speaker 6:All right, I think we should have a Wombo-Combo Bainbridge Battle Point as the front nine.
Speaker 3:That's kind of cool.
Speaker 7:Every little U-Disk challenge there.
Speaker 6:There you go. I don't know what to call it though.
Speaker 3:Maybe if they did a tournament they'd do the front nine over on Bainbridge at.
Speaker 6:Battle Point.
Speaker 3:And then after lunch come over here and do the back nine here, Or vice versa.
Speaker 6:I think down there it appears pretty nice There's more people becoming off the island than going on.
Speaker 3:That's a good idea.
Speaker 7:It kind of depends, though, on the wind, because there's a lot of wind that comes up from the sound right here too, so I keep having to play with the wind.
Speaker 3:You're on the podcast man. You're a celebrity now.
Speaker 6:How can we find you?
Speaker 3:next, me Next.
Speaker 6:I'm doing throw pink Saturday And fairgrounds.
Speaker 7:Yeah, we'll see you there.
Speaker 5:You're on MPO right.
Speaker 7:No, still MA2 next year. We'll see you back here at sponsorship. I don't know, you might be the end of the season.
Speaker 3:You're going to be at MA2 the right year going. We'll see. You're playing really well. It's impressive.
Speaker 6:You've been a lot of fun to watch. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be playing here A thousand rated category There you go.
Speaker 6:That was the bag in and out Nice. Thanks for having me, thanks for all the work you all put in and put in the event And to the staff and faculty that initial song and opening was pretty awesome Yeah it was Great.
Speaker 7:Thanks, Ed. One thing that I really want to do is I want to design the next course. I wasn't able to be here this time.
Speaker 3:So you want to go to Uganda.
Speaker 7:No.
Speaker 3:It's Uganda. Anyways, you went to Uganda.
Speaker 7:Anyways, that's one part that I would like to be involved in, because my uncle designs golf courses, so it would be really cool to be able to design disc golf courses.
Speaker 3:Wouldn't that be an epic collab to get your uncle and Paul together and design a disc golf course.
Speaker 7:No, maybe, i don't know. He retired from it and my other uncle runs it now.
Speaker 3:I know, but just as a fun project I haven't come out here and be like, hey, we're going to design a thousand rated course out here, bring all of it.
Speaker 7:How about he?
Speaker 3:design one over in Long Island. Yeah, all the champions.
Speaker 8:Yes.
Speaker 3:Alright, this is super cool. We are watching the designer and coordinator of the course And the main workers.
Speaker 7:The main workers.
Speaker 3:The second car, the second car coming off. They are on hole nine. We should be hearing some chains real soon. Is Michelle on the?
Speaker 7:card with them. Yeah, Michelle is on the card. So one of the things that we are debating about with this course is because we really wanted to honor the land and the medicine that comes from being out in the woods and being out in nature and just being here on the Soquamish lands. So we are debating what we are going to put on the signs And Mr Hank Mr Hank Hayden he had a really good idea to tell the story of Sky-Kai.
Speaker 3:So who is Hank Hayden?
Speaker 7:He is one of our teachers, science teachers And the D&D club master President. He is the DM. He is running a zombie dark crystal line next year.
Speaker 3:That sounds kind of cool Yeah the kids really enjoyed dark crystal, that's pretty cool, there is a first disc. What?
Speaker 7:are we a circle one?
Speaker 3:Oh, I play here.
Speaker 7: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: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 events coming up. We got throw pink coming up. Cool fundraiser for what is breast cancer research through disc golf, Throw pink.
Speaker 7:I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'm not sure. Well, that is what the little pink ribbon thing is. It is breast cancer, right? Yeah, So I think throw pink is breast cancer.
Speaker 7:That makes sense. Women's disc golf championships opened up and there is a few spots still left. I really want to go.
Speaker 3:Oh, the ones in North Carolina.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I really want to go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you were a performance last year, you got invited to the national amateurs for FA4?.
Speaker 7:Huh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they asked you to come to national amateurs for FA4.
Speaker 7:No, they didn't. I think it is because I am a woman, i have a PDGA number and I am already certified.
Speaker 3:So you have to be certified.
Speaker 7:So I think they just went through their sheet and went bloop, bloop, bloop.
Speaker 3:You have to be certified to go to the world's. It is not world's, it is nationals. What is it? Is it even the right phone?
Speaker 7:Oh, here they are, coming off of the course dun dun dun. United States women's disc golf championships.
Speaker 3:So we got Monty, greg and Paul right and Michelle coming off the course And Pam And Pam Paul right's wife. I have met her before. That is cool to have her out.
Speaker 7:One of my former teacher people.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 3:She was your teacher.
Speaker 7:Not teacher, but para.
Speaker 3:Oh gotcha, that's very cool. So those chains that you hear in the background, that is hole nine Paul right is staring us down as we speak. What would you call him? What would you call him famous? Would you call him infamous?
Speaker 7:Call him a neighbor.
Speaker 3:Call him a neighbor. Yeah, they're gonna go around again.
Speaker 7:It looks like yeah, oh man, good enough, they're gonna do it again.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Well, i guess it's good enough for 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?
Speaker 3:left. Did you get any chains? All right, they're pretty good microphones, but they're not that good. Eduardo, stepping up to the box, dude, a nice pushing a hyzer line around the willow that is gonna be in the circle friends. So Cassie, stepping up to the box, looks like she's sporting some of that lone star plastic and her rainbow socks, and a nice backhand right down the pipe That's gonna be on the fairway. Nice shot, nice shot. Mint disc. We have a standstill And we're on the left hand side, but I rolled out.
Speaker 3:We're in good shape there. We're gonna have a look at it. Have a good round, All right. So tell our listeners who you are and what you do and what you do a number if you got one, and what you think of the course.
Speaker 8:Sure, this is Michelle. I'm from Kingston and I play casual disc golf And just finished the course. Think it's a lot of fun. I love how close it is to where I live, mm-hmm, and I like that it's open to the public and accessible and All pretty straightforward lines. I think it was designed really well. I did end up in the tree on hole two and, and there's a way in And I saw.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 8:Make a little opening for one way out that little hyzer Forehand flick to get out of the hole in the tree. But other than that it was a lot of fun good, glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 7:You can come out here when you don't have enough time for a full 18.
Speaker 8:Just come out here and get it And right it's only. I think it was like 18 minutes from the house, nice, so what was?
Speaker 3:your favorite hole.
Speaker 8:What was this one coming into the trees?
Speaker 7:for four. I liked four. That's the one I've dubbed the pretty one. Yeah, I like that, Yeah that's pretty cool.
Speaker 8:It feels very whole 17 add or whole 17 budpell. Yeah, oh yeah yeah, good hole Yeah.
Speaker 3:We miss the Pell.
Speaker 7:Get to do the pop-up? Yeah, really.
Speaker 8:The challenges are really fun. I really like the pop-up events. The glow rounds are so much fun there. This could be a fun opportunity for a glow.
Speaker 7:I think there's a few too many bunny holes for a safe glow around, but We'll see. Maybe we can like do phosphorescent lights on the grass something.
Speaker 3:I see you have a discrafter. Where'd you get that fancy discrafter from?
Speaker 8:this was by far the best players pack Item I have received in the 52 tournaments that I've played in so glad you like it.
Speaker 7:Big fan, big fan have gotten a lot.
Speaker 8:Even today. I got a couple people like what?
Speaker 3:is that. I'm like well, it's the new towel. It's a shami towel.
Speaker 8:It's the new towel.
Speaker 3:Yep go calling from discrafter. Has he sponsors this show actually? and it sponsors Sponsored the sirens of the springs for you guys. Yeah that's where I got it. So yeah, we're reppin, reppin, calling definitely that was awesome. So you can get those at discrafter commas DIC RAPTOR com. Discrafter the world's best disc cleaning tool For our listeners out there. Why don't you tell everybody who you are, what you do? Do you have a pdga number? not yet. Well, you're gonna get one, all right all right, i'm Baron old coyote.
Speaker 2:I'm one of the staff members here at chief kids app academy. I work with the song and dance group quite a bit and teach carving glasses to high school.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Do you have any big plans for the course out here?
Speaker 2:It's pretty fun. Now, you know, i was only probably my fifth time out ish, so I'm still getting the hang of things. It's. It's really fun. I'm really taking a like and do it, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 7:You're gonna help me have the kids design toppers for the baskets to yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, can you talk about that for a?
Speaker 7:minute. So we'll probably like I I don't know how we're gonna name the holes yet, but like carve something that represents that hole, that helps represent the community, and so like I don't know, maybe an orca or a flower or whatever, whatever comes to mind as a topper. I've seen there's a disc Golf course down in southern Washington and they have a carved Cartman on top of one of their baskets.
Speaker 2:Yeah that'll be a really cool project for for me and the kids to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look forward to that. How are the kids taken to it?
Speaker 2:A lot of them are really liking it. Most of them are really liking it. There's a couple few that I have gone through a few times that are really good. One of the students his name's Waylon, i think you do like a 28 the other day.
Speaker 6:29 good for him Yeah he was killing it.
Speaker 2:It's been really fun. It's good bonding experience. Um, my cousin Larry's been into it for a long time. He said he's been playing for about five years now And always been trying to get me out here So that we finally have it so close to home. Yeah it's fun. Oh, the sport, yeah, i can have him out here. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3:So how did you play today?
Speaker 2:Oh, i did okay. We didn't really keep score, um, i did okay a couple parts is good for me.
Speaker 3:Did you come back with all your discs?
Speaker 2:Yeah, That's a plus.
Speaker 3:All right. Well, do you have anything else for us?
Speaker 2:Um, no, just appreciate you guys. Thank you guys so much for this. This is, this has been quite the experience so far And I can't wait to see, see how it grows. You know, to see the students take, take a liking to it, and you know there's been talks of a team and Different things already among the students, so I just look forward to seeing it grow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we truly believe that disc golf Changes lives and grow the sport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. It's crazy how popular it is these days. It's Yeah, it's awesome All right.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Baron. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you guys.
Speaker 3: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:In the past history. Third I think for me yeah.
Speaker 3:So what'd you guys think of it? How'd it go?
Speaker 1:It was really fun. I liked it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, i almost tied with Mariah.
Speaker 8:She beat me by one.
Speaker 3:Oh man, she almost beat me, you by one, huh.
Speaker 8:No, she did beat me, she beat you I won.
Speaker 3:Okay, gotcha, you're gonna have to go and play again.
Speaker 7:I'm not playing again. Right the second.
Speaker 3:I'll play again. You got a score to settle.
Speaker 1:I'll play again later.
Speaker 3:James, how'd you do out there?
Speaker 1:Um, well, i only played the first hole, really. Um, my favorite part about this course probably is the fact that, from where we are, which is Just in front of the first tee box if you turn around, if it's a nice sunny day, warm sunny day like this, in there's not a lot of clouds, you can see the Brothers the Brothers Mountains in the Olympic range. Yeah, and you can see Water I don't know what kind of water, that's Puget Sound and you can see Puget Sound and it just looks like it's beautiful.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a gorgeous location. Yeah, and cheers to much more disc golf out here at this location There's something a burbling my favorite part of this course is that There are plants here that I've never seen before what's? what's your favorite plant? What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1:Oh, What's the tree called the?
Speaker 3:the giant one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's either.
Speaker 3:I think that's a giant sequoia a sequoia or a California redwood.
Speaker 1:Um, there are also some like of Some exotic, rare plants that can only be found here, like yeah, cuz, hold on.
Speaker 3:We got a tee and off. Oh Yeah, t enough. He's Lining it up. Looks like a backhand shot, a little overstable. It's the nice kind of. Kind of hold up hyzer line, but he looks to be in circle one. That's a nice throw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but anyways, apparently, if I'm getting this right, mom, you can hear this. The lady who owned this before Wanted it to look like Ireland, i believe Scotland, and so she got a bunch of plants from Scotland and, i think, yeah, from all over the world.
Speaker 3:What's your favorite hole?
Speaker 1:Oh, here my favorite hole. My favorite hole is Oh, they're all amazing. My favorite holes hole nine like hole nine.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, nice run to finish it off, yeah.
Speaker 1:Mine is The one over there five.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the one where you go between the two big trees.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i like four and five, four and five.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think those are everybody's favorites down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're just cool, so pretty and stuff.
Speaker 3: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 tell us.
Speaker 1:Kaylee, what about your weird fact of the?
Speaker 3:day. Oh yeah, What about your weird fact? That's your job.
Speaker 8:Do you know about CEO syndrome?
Speaker 3:What's CEO syndrome?
Speaker 1:It's when you strive to be so perfect that, yeah, it just kind of makes you sick. I have a weird fact that's better than that.
Speaker 3:Sounds like athlete's foot. Is there anything close to that?
Speaker 8:Nah, you just strive to be so perfect that it kind of drives you a little bit insane.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 3:Oh, you haven't seen that. but the guy I'm better called Saul, like the lawyer guy had the closes because he's allergic to sunlight and had to turn off all his electricity because it was going to give him cancer and stuff. It was weird.
Speaker 1:That's weird, but anyways. Did you know that turtles can breathe out of their butts when they hibernate? Yes, did you know that water has memories?
Speaker 3:Did you know? Leave it to James to bring in a butt joke.
Speaker 1:Did you know that mom once hit a squirrel with her disc when she was playing?
Speaker 3: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 up here. Okay, okay, all right. So we got Mariah here just coming off the course. Mariah, how'd you play? I?
Speaker 5:played very well. It was a very tight game between me and my sister Kaylee, and I won by one.
Speaker 3:By one.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Nice, what discs did you take with you? Because I don't know. you took three discs.
Speaker 5:I took my Sphinx and I took mywhat is it called My rock and my ome.
Speaker 3:All right, excellent, excellent. And what's your favorite hole?
Speaker 5:On this course. I would say it would have had to be hole eight.
Speaker 3:You like hole eight, the best, huh.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you like to really bomb, don't you?
Speaker 5:Well.
Speaker 3:You like to throw hard?
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:It was better too, because it was a longer hole and I felt like I had a really good shot on that one Excellent.
Speaker 3:Excellent. So what do you think of the course, just in general.
Speaker 5:It's awesome. It's very well designed and there's a lot of open space. Do you wish you went to school here? Yes, honestly, just to play disc golf, most likely. Yes, awesome.
Speaker 3:All right. Well, thanks for that, mariah. I really appreciate it. Bc Construction Services is dedicated to growing the sport of disc golf, from sponsoring tournaments and events to volunteering with the Paul McBeth Foundation. When you hire BC Construction Services for your project, you are supporting growing the sport that we love. A free quote now by contacting them at bcconstructionnwcom Or at 360-271-3441. That is 271-3441. Serving the greater Kitsap and Eastern Jefferson County area. The intentional disc golf podcast, brandon, jenny and we are sitting here with Paul Wright. The legend just came off the course that he built for the Chief Kitsap Academy. Paul, tell everybody about yourself.
Speaker 9:Well, i am here because I work for the Paul McBeth Foundation and we wanted to put courses in at Indigenous communities and had one right in my backyard and wow, what a beautiful course, what a beautiful spot to put a course, and the grand opening tonight was fantastic.
Speaker 7:It's just unfortunate that the kids that were here during the day like, because now it's to the point where it's like, oh, we have a disc golf course at school, We don't have to come to the event in the evening, but seeing them so excited to get their discs earlier today and out there playing like it was really cool.
Speaker 9:Yeah, i was telling the guys when we were part way through the first round earlier tonight that it's like, man, i wish I would have had a disc golf course on my school property.
Speaker 3:I didn't know where I would have been before school and after school.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Yeah, and this one has enough challenge. I think it's going to stay interesting for the kids for a long time, and yet it's not so difficult. I think there's a few blackberry areas that I was able to find tonight that probably need to be cleared out.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, i got a few scratches on my arms. That's one of my. I'm going to work on the blackberry bushes because I've got my yeah you have either a new kitty or new one, blackberry bushes. Got the blackberry bushes.
Speaker 3:So can you tell us a little bit about the Paul McBeth Foundation and what you do for them, and just kind of quick little about that?
Speaker 9:Sure. Well, first of all, i want to put in a shameless plug for being in the Builders Club. Builders Club is a commitment to a donation each month and that's how we support, along with donations from all of the disc manufacturers and basket manufacturers and Ledgestone, and we have a lot of really good donors, but really it's built on the backs of disc golfers that want to see the sport grow and spread into countries around the world. I have been fortunate enough to travel a lot. I've been to Guatemala, columbia, nicaragua, montenegro, uganda, kenya, spain and also in the United States.
Speaker 3:So those spots that you see for the Paul McBeth Foundation on DGN, those are probably some of your projects.
Speaker 9:Absolutely Yeah, and I play different roles in each of them. Typically, i'm going out to scout the properties when we get people that we review a lot of applications for people that want to put courses in and we have some pretty strict criteria that we want to meet, and so when we get one that looks good, we want to send somebody in and see if the space is right. You know, our number one concern is safety, so we don't want to be. People might think they have a really great spot for a course, but the course may be too many other things going on in the space that they have available. Or because a lot of these people don't really understand what disc golf is, they just see an opportunity to create inexpensive sports for their kids and we think that that's a big part of what we're trying to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, it takes all types, doesn't it? from the very, very basic just go out and flicking discs to professional, competitive and world champions.
Speaker 9:Yeah, we're really looking to build courses that fit with beginners, but we also don't want to build them so simply that people get bored with them For sure.
Speaker 7:No, i don't have a question. You don't have anything to say, just a snake.
Speaker 9:Yeah, In some of these countries they have no access to discs, so the only discs they're going to get are the ones that we are able to provide them or somebody they know may provide them discs. So very important part of designing a Paul McBeth Foundation course is to not have places where they can lose discs. I mean, I know we've all lost discs over buildings and in strange areas, but we don't set up next to ponds.
Speaker 3:I lost one in the fairway about three weeks ago.
Speaker 7:I think we've all experienced that. Actually, there's a disc on top of that roof right now because a student threw it up there Did they.
Speaker 9:I actually have two that I found on this last round that I played that are in my bag that belonged to somebody. Awesome, i found them when I was looking for my own disc.
Speaker 4:Oh, there you go. I know That's the funniest It's not usually how it goes. Yeah, it's always like oh, I found your disc. Oh, I'm so sorry for you. I know where you were.
Speaker 9:Well, I think they probably were in there today when people knew they could just walk right up and grab more discs.
Speaker 7:So they probably didn't spend much time. I told them they couldn't. I was like no, these are your only discs.
Speaker 3:Sorry. So what you were saying there, Paul, just speaks to how incredibly special this opportunity and being able to have this course here, put in with the foundation and with you who's friend and neighbor It really is an honor to be able to be a part of this project.
Speaker 9:Well, i know it is. For me, being able to build one in my backyard is just, you know, a dream come true and it met all of the criteria we were looking for. And Jenny been just great to work with, and everybody at the school. When I was out scouting, people were coming out and asking what they were doing and you know, there wasn't one you'd expect maybe one kid would Would have. I know I would have had some kind of a wisecrack or something, but these kids were all so excited They were like that is so cool. Yeah, and and you just see that attitude is very pervasive here- Yeah, the kids are pretty excited about their disc golf course.
Speaker 7:At first you know, of course, teenagers, no, i'm not gonna do it. And then they're coming up to me. They're like dude, miss, jenny, i just had an even round. So wow, yeah wow, that's great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're already shooting, even rounds. We got some young prodigies out there.
Speaker 7:Yeah, that's Waylon well we had.
Speaker 9:We had a great opening ceremony tonight. I think, the the Indigenous song that was sung was just a great way to kick things off and just beautiful.
Speaker 7:Yep, yeah, yeah, barry does a good job.
Speaker 9:We had some sort of a bird thing going on.
Speaker 7:I don't know birds.
Speaker 9:It was just right over the top of us, that was.
Speaker 3:Phenomenal. It's kind of like one of those special moments that just kind of like, for whatever reason, speaks to you. Yeah, when I came, walking up.
Speaker 9:Everybody was looking up in the air and I was thinking, no, no, the course is down. And as soon as I saw what they were looking at, i whipped out my camera because I wanted to get a picture of it. I haven't been able to look at it and see If I captured it, but it was.
Speaker 3:It was quite a sight to see so now that, now that the course is Closer to being finished, I mean we're still waiting on some t-signs and Basket markers which the kids are gonna work on. but what do you?
Speaker 2:think of the course.
Speaker 3:How do you, how do you feel about your own work?
Speaker 9:Yeah, that was earlier the guy from from The, the press for the communications department communications.
Speaker 9:But thank you. Yeah, he asked me the same thing How would you rate this course and where does it rate in the county? I said but you don't ask. All of my, all of my creations are a tie. I'm gonna let the people decide. And I think that Each course has to stand on its own. What was the purpose of putting it in? What are you trying to accomplish with it? and it could, this could be a Really highly rated Learning course, and I think it is. I think it forces people. It's got, it's such an interesting piece of property So that we have up hills, downhill, side hills and left and right turn.
Speaker 3:Well, it's got enough liberty that you can try different things like I mean hole one You can try to do. You know that nice hyzer, flip right in. You know straight down the pipe. You can do that long roundabout pushing hyzer, you know off to the right side. You can even take the really ridiculous line up over the backyard of the school there and try to. You'll come in from the other side. I mean there's a lot of ways and it's like that kind of on every single hole.
Speaker 9: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 the top criteria, and that is it's really fun.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it is fun. Course It's a lot of fun And that's one of the nice things about it is that it's challenging enough for, like, the kids that have a hard time focusing, but it's also easy enough that, like, the teachers are willing to go out and play.
Speaker 9:Well, i love the story that you told when, when I was designing and first putting things in and putting the baskets in prior to Having the teapots in, where you said you had a kid that was really struggling with Just keeping it together. Yep and you said why don't you go out? Here's a couple discs, go out and throw some discs. And he went on in the course and played, came in a half hour later and was Just good to go.
Speaker 7:Yep and I had some kids the other day. They're like can we go get discs? I get calls all the time at work. Hey, can we go grab discs, because they go out here and during lunch They play the bowl is what I'm calling it, and they can. They can just go play the bowl during lunch. And then they're like hey, we don't have anything to do in class, So can we go get some discs.
Speaker 9:Yeah, that's one of the things that we talked about prior to design, that I think We accomplished with this design, and that is we have that bowl area where you can kind of keep your eye on the kids. They can play. There's there's five holes that that they can play and you can just look out the window and see that they're down there. If they play, if they start on on one, then they go down through the woods and Which is really fun. Yeah, but maybe not appropriate when the kids are are just struggling And then they need to go out and and throw a little energy off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, didn't you have a day, jenny, when you lost one of your classes And you had to call them and find out where they were?
Speaker 7:No, i, i knew they were out on the course. I just needed to reach one of the kids and I'm like, hey, which hole are you on? And they're like we're on hole four, because that was before they were labeled.
Speaker 3:Oh gotcha.
Speaker 7:And so it was really easy. It was like okay, I know where you are come, I need the kid.
Speaker 9:Yeah, another thing I am really excited about is to to see the art work that's gonna be done for the tops of the baskets, for the numbers, the Indigenous art that is all around the campus is just so beautiful And I can't wait to. It's just gonna be. The pictures are gonna be phenomenal with the mountains in the background and As beautiful as it is here. To add that to the mix is gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 7:Yeah, really looking forward to it.
Speaker 9:We're still incredibly.
Speaker 7:I don't know if I told you, but Mr Hank suggested that we tell the story of sky-kai, which is the story of how the sun came back to the people, and that the sun is the discs And that as you go through down through the woods and then you end up coming back up here to the people, you're bringing the sun back to the people.
Speaker 9:I can't wait. Yeah, I think that's what we're going with a great idea.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think, i think the focus of this too, was that the it was the healing power of nature and being out in it and you know whether you're, you know whether you're an indigenous person or even you know just. You know somebody that out in the woods, like you, find your mindfulness, you find your happy spot. You know it humbles, you, makes you feel grateful and You know disc golf is definitely a humbling sport.
Speaker 9:Well, and we, we have both said it all three of us have said it tonight We all feel gratitude through working together and creating good, healthy Exercise yeah it's. Everybody needs that and yet everybody can do it, even if you're not the bodybuilder or the soccer player or the yeah so.
Speaker 7:So one of the kids today, she Um, they came from Morocco, their family, she has risk problems, but it's not her dominant hand. She's like why am I getting discs? I'm like you can still play. Like, just because you can't use one hand, you can just get your discs. And so she picked out discs. She's like, okay, well, we've seen.
Speaker 3:We've both seen plenty of people out there that have had some sort of shoulder problem Or an elbow problem and they just switch hands. And they learn how to throw with the other hand and it's, it's amazing.
Speaker 7: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:Yeah, he was kind of a good time. Yeah, he was a great time these sidearms crazy.
Speaker 9:Yeah, you know, i just got back from Uganda and, um, i was out visiting a very remote Um tribe of pygmy people and The the smiles and the laughter were just the same tonight as they were there. It's just, i'm constantly marvel at how this sport Just grabs anybody who comes to it. You just just didn't know whether people would relate to it because they've never seen anything like it before, and And I just I heard the same laughter tonight, i saw the same smiles. It was just very gratifying.
Speaker 3:Well, like back when disc golf was first kind of getting its legs, i mean, it was kind of. It was almost a joke what you're a fralfer Like you're gonna throw a frisbee at. What a stick like, come on, you know. But now it's developed into this like Amazing thing. It's no longer a joke, it's no longer A you know one of these fringe things. It's mainstream, it's popular and everybody that I have ever played it with Whether they've played it or not regularly, it has loved it.
Speaker 9:Yeah, i mean, i've heard people say is it a game or a sport? Well, we definitely know that it's a sport.
Speaker 3:It's a true, false question True, yeah, it's a sport.
Speaker 9:You know, i was a firefighter and firefighters can be cruel to each other and I I was Back when I was playing competitively. I would go in after a big tournament and you know the guys at the fire department. One guy says He said how'd you do in your tournament this week? And I said I want it. And he goes how'd you do in the three-legged race? Getting no respect at all.
Speaker 7:I think it's funny here, because they're like So, when the teachers were playing this afternoon, they're like you're gonna throw first because I'm the pro, right, i'm the, i'm the school pro. like I'm still in f a4, f a3.
Speaker 3:I know when they need discs they go to her office. Yeah, i know, right, i can tell they've used them because they're crooked?
Speaker 7:They're not, but uh no, being able to even just teach them, show them They're like. So, wait, how do you do this? How do you do that? Wait, i thought there was just one frisbee. Wait, there's drivers, there's mids, there's putters. It's just like golf.
Speaker 9:Yeah, there are a lot of layers to this game.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 9:Yeah, there are this sport.
Speaker 3:I would say. I would say that there's even more Layers to this sport than there is ball golf. Good, ball golf is left right down the middle. Try to square and come around and Yeah everybody has to use similar, the same ball. It's difficult, it's difficult, i think. I think that disc golf is. It has a lot more knowledge base to it.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I think there are a lot more things that can go wrong.
Speaker 3:How many of those wrong things have you found Just today Are you talking about?
Speaker 9:Oh sure, yeah, No, i've played more in the last couple weeks when I was in Uganda than I have In quite a while. I've been just so busy building and traveling and, and you know, seeing another side to the sport that I'm really happy. I mean, i miss, i miss being able to play consistently and things. But That, that emptiness of not being able to to throw as accurately as I was used to Is, is definitely filled by the joy of seeing people learn the game for the first time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's amazing. All right, well, we're gonna wrap it up here. Thank you, paul, for sitting down and just chatting with us And we look forward to having you on pretty soon here and part of our decoding the course series.
Speaker 9:Sounds great Looking forward to it.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, well, thank you Yeah.
Speaker 3:Paul. Thank you, paul. We'll be in contact soon, all right, all right, thank you.
