May 27, 2008
Visitors From Across The Country, and The World
The word is starting to spread about the Association for the Advancement of Disc Golf, and we are getting readers from all over the US and as far away as Australia. As Tim and I have mentioned before, our main goal with the creation of our website area is a diverse community area with multiple ways for our members to brainstorm, collaborate, chat, hang out and help grow the sport of disc golf.
We are working on a couple of different platforms, and hope to do our first membership drive by early July. What we really would like is to hear from those of you who are visiting the site about what you hope to see in the world of AADG.
Some ideas may be social networking applications, creation of local AADG chapter clubs, forum capabilities, etc. Please let us know what you think. Feel free to email me at Brian@aadgonline.com. Thanks in advance for your help.
(Oh, and any of you Australia disc golfer’s looking at this site, please send us some pics of your courses down under, we’ll be sure to post them on the blog!)
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bc @ 9:30 am
I just moved to Spain from Ohio. After disovering that there are no disc golf courses here (at least in Madrid) I decided to try to petition the city to install a course. By the way, I think it would be perfect in this Spain. The natural landscape (sparse trees and grass) seems made for the sport.
I have downloaded a course development guide from the Disc Golf Association website. It has a lot of good advice. I am currently translating the main points into a sort of “cover letter” that I can email to the city.
My idea is to contact the city of Madrid, and also get a online petition going, and linking to it on various expat websites. Any advice/experience in promoting the sport, especially in countries that do not know of it?
Regards,
Brian
TimC @ 8:41 am
Hi Brian, thanks for visiting our site, and good job on trying to spread the sport to new frontiers. I’ve never tried proposing a course in an area that has no existing courses before, let alone a foreign country. I don’t know how parks departments are different in Spain, but it sounds like you’re on the right track. The PDGA of course, is a good resource to use, at the very least they have some informational pamphlets you could hand out. I would also try to get in touch with some of the European disc golf clubs to see if they could offer any advice. I would suggest the British Disc Golf Association (http://www.bdga.org.uk/), Germany’s Hyzernauts (http://hyzernauts.de/0_html/index_news.html), and Discmania, which is sort of Innova’s European partner (http://www.discmania.net/page/home). Hope that helps you a bit, and please stay in touch to let us know how things progress!
Tim