The year before I actually made the jump on Tour, that was kind of my putting my foot in the door with all these tournaments.

You know, I've played MA 1.

I don't think I played MA two, to be honest.

I played MA one a few times but I kind of just immediately jumped to MPO basically as soon as I could.

Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of the Disc Golf Answer Man.

I am Bobby Cool Daddy, Slick Breeze, and this is another special Disc Golf Answer Man interview.

Now we've done a lot of deep diving into some content creators and I still have some people I want to talk to, but I thought now is the time that we need to start to get to know team Dynamic Discs and I thought who better to start with than Mr.

Parker?

Well, who's already good job on you?

Parker already texted me about things he can work on and things he can do for marketing and media.

So I this guy already knows how to play the game of disc golf, of course, and how to play the game of social media and marketing.

But I want to get to know him a little bit more and I thought our listeners would be happy to get to know him as well.

First off, Parker, how are you doing today?

I'm doing fantastic.

I'm in Wisconsin right now and beautiful weather.

Beautiful time to be here.

I'm about to play this tournament so got some time off ready to give this interview and have some fun with it.

Nice, now what part of Wisconsin are you in?

That's a great question.

I know I'm just South of Sheboygan.

I'm in a town right now, I think it's called Cedarville.

That's not where the tournament is happening, but that's just where I am currently.

Nice.

My wife has some family in Wisconsin, so I have to tell her that that I was talking to somebody who was in Wisconsin.

There you go.

So you're there for a tournament.

What tournament are you there for?

And it's called the Mayhem Open.

We play 3 different courses over 2 days, so Saturday, Sunday, and it's a lot.

It's a lot.

I mean, three courses in two days, two rounds in a day, you don't really see that too often, so.

No, that's kind of a yeah, old back in the day they used to do that a lot.

So but before we start recording, you said you literally got there and then got right to the course to start playing.

Is that kind of typically what you do when you get to a tournament?

I mean well this one was different because I came in on Wednesday night and then I got instantly had to get a motel, sleep in it and then drive up to where I'm at now.

But normally I'll get here on like a Sunday and then have a lot of time to practice and and ease into it.

But today I got straight to the courses, played two rounds today and tomorrow I'll probably play 2 again and just to be ready for the tournament.

OK.

While we're on the topic and we'll get into more getting to know you, but now that we're talking already in the tournament, I thought we jump into some strategy stuff because I think you said you'd never played this courses before, am I correct?

Yeah, never played these.

So how what is your, what is your practice routine?

What's kind of going on in your mind when you're getting to a course you've never played before?

But now you've got to, you've got to figure it out What, how do you do that?

What's your setup?

First thing I do is bust out the the good old you disc to get my my directions ready just because a lot of these courses you don't, I mean, it's not obvious where hole one is Even so I'll park in the parking lot and then be like, all right, I see baskets, but no idea where hole 1 is, so I'll get out the map.

It's really good for getting the courses and finding your way around to new courses.

So I always have that out.

But when I'm playing, the mindset is figure out what the heck you're supposed to do.

You know, a lot of these are blind shots.

So when that happens, you have to walk like halfway down the fairway, you know, maybe pick a couple of trees to be like, OK, I want to go in just in front of that one or just around the other one.

And that'll be your line for it.

And after you throw it, you'll get up to the basket and look behind you towards the tee and actually see what your line should be.

Because I think that's something that a lot of people never do, is actually look at the hole in reverse.

And I think that opens up a ton more of just lines in general just to check out on the holes.

But that's basically what I'm doing.

I'm throwing multiple shots, throwing multiple putts at each basket, just kind of feeling everything out on what I should be throwing.

Yeah, I like, I like hearing that.

That's something we give a lot.

That's some advice we give a lot is to walk the course backwards because there could be a tree or something you don't see from the T pad that now all of a sudden you see when you're looking the opposite way.

So I think that's fantastic.

What do you typically like when you are at each hold?

Are you typically throw one to two discs and you got it figured out or you like one of those guys that like to throw a lot of this to throw different shots?

I'm probably a type of guy that's as few as possible, which

could be probably around 3:00 at most if I really need to figure it out.

But usually for courses, you know, they're not pro tour style courses.

They're mostly just like kind of shorter, maybe a little more open types of courses where you know, you're able to just throw, you know, like a 350 foot hyzer shot and it's pretty stock.

So that's what you'll be doing.

You'll throw one shot and you'll move on or a lot of the time it's difficult to even throw multiple shots just because you don't have the same disc in your bag to throw that same shot three times.

So you'd have to go get it and then walk back.

And if you're only comfortable with that disc for that shot, that's that's a lot of walking going to get your disc back and forth if you want to do that.

Yeah, it's a good point.

So you're out practicing, you're looking at different shots, looking behind you.

Do you typically?

I know I've known some players where they literally will write down what they threw.

They like like take hard notes.

Is it more of a mental thing where you try to remember the disk you use on a particular hole?

Yeah, I find it pretty easy to remember on on during my second round today.

I kind of just to be honest, I gave up after like 13 holes and I started just walking the course.

I didn't even throw them just because I've already lost 2 discs at that point.

So I was pretty frustrated.

I found one of them actually just the other one I didn't find but I was there for so long searching for discs.

I even posted on my Instagram story about how crazy my my disc where it was when it landed after the shot that I threw.

So I mean long day, so just skip straight through it.

I got you, I got you.

All right, let's let's kind of roll back a little bit and let's get to know you a little bit more.

So tell me first how you got into disc golf.

Disc golf has been around my entire life.

Basically, I was born into the sport.

My dad was all disc golf, so was my mom.

Basically, my dad was the Hawaii state coordinator for the PDGA.

So we had baskets in our yard.

We had, you know, discs galore basically, and my dad was like helping make all the courses and running all the vents in Hawaii and just kind of being there and, and being for the community along with a lot of the other guys in Hawaii.

It wasn't just him by himself, but you know, I was just basically born into it, you know, all all the way just through my life, just it was always there for me.

Yeah.

What were some of the OR who were some of the big influences for you as you got into disc golf?

Yeah, well, it was weird.

I think I instead of me seeing pros and like learning about pros, it was more like just something fun that I did with my friends and it it stayed that way all the way up until like much later in my disc golf career where I actually started learning pros names and started really following along a little bit with it.

But during the start it was just hanging out, having fun and just really having a good time.

You'll see I didn't play a lot of events in Hawaii because there really wasn't a PDGA.

It was more of a Hawaii Disc Golf Association, which is fake.

So we played a bunch of those and you know, I, I think I have like 2 state titles, which are junior titles, but I was like the only one.

I was just battling like three other kids that were just my friends, you know.

So of course I won those, but those don't count.

You'll never see those on my PDGA.

OK.

So when did you come over here to where you could play more tournaments?

What year was it?

2016 is when I moved to California, and I didn't really even take it serious then.

I was just a skater.

I don't really care about anything, you know?

I was just skating and surfing here and there.

But the water in California is definitely a lot colder than Hawaii, so I wasn't too much of a fan of that.

But I guess it was 20, 18 maybe is when I like started playing a little more tournaments.

I actually just looked at my my stuff last night to see like when did I actually even start making money playing disc golfer.

You know, when did I start playing all these leagues?

And I think it was around 2018 is is what it said, maybe 2019.

But it's just like a sudden jump really.

And.

So, yeah, so back to that you were said you're you're a surfer, skater.

Like what made you want to look into disc golf and get more serious about it?

Well, it wasn't until I moved to Huntington Beach, I was living in Costa Mesa, which is like right next to Huntington Beach.

But I never really, you know, played the disc golf at Huntington Beach.

I was kind of just doing my own stuff and doing other things.

But it was, I guess my friends and the people that run Huntington Beach, they really were just so kind to me.

And it's normally a pay to play course.

They would always let me play for free, you know, if I needed anything, they would give me discs that I think they really saw something in me.

And you know, they really like to have me around.

I'd always go play the leagues at that point.

And my friends, I guess Cupcake was a a big influence in playing disc golf.

He was always like my, my right hand man, you know, if we were playing disc golf.

All right, let's text Cupcake and go play, you know, Huntington Beach or David L Baker or something to go play the leagues.

And there's a few other guys that also kind of pushed me, some locals like Kyle Ekman, and I'm sure you've heard Tommy Ekman's name for Chance.

So the Ekman brothers were always really a big influence on me and the spores that run the disc golf in Huntington Beach, those guys are really solid as well.

So just just the community is really kind of what what brought me to it and making like a little bit of money here and there, you know, that's really cool.

Yeah.

What was the first event that you accepted cash?

Man, I really, I don't even know to be honest.

Yeah, that's a that's a good one.

I really don't know because I think I've played MPO like basically the entire my entire disc golf career.

You know, I've played MA 1.

I don't even think I played MA2 to be honest.

I played MA one a few times, but I kind of just immediately jumped to to MPO basically as soon as I could.

Yeah, that's interesting.

You used to play talk to players where they played amateur for quite a while and then they decided to move pro.

But it is interesting to talk to some of these, some of the younger guys where you make it a much faster trip to the the pro side.

So wait, but when did you actually start, like just actually touring?

What it was it from the get go where you decided to get on the road and go play some of the top fence?

Absolutely not.

I mean, you'll see in my thing I played like maybe one or two each year starting from like 2019 or something.

But you know, I didn't go on tour until 2023.

So I had maybe I played my first event was the San Francisco Safari in 2018 and I played one pro tour event that year and then maybe one or two, you know, like Goat hill or something like an A tier where it's basically a pro tour almost, but you know, just like here and there.

But it wasn't until 2023 that I really made that jump and I actually hit up my friend Jake Brown and I wasn't going to do the tour by myself.

So I, I hit him up and I was like, yo, dude, let's go on tour.

And he was just like, all right, let's go.

So we both got into like all the events and really paid off making that jumps.

And he's so tourists to this day as well, so.

No.

So what is so?

Describe to us what tour life is like?

What?

What's it like to go on tour for disc golf?

I think it differs with each pro.

For me personally, I kind of split my time.

I really enjoy being friends with basically everyone, so I'll sometimes stay in my van at the course or I usually stay with my friends at Airbnb's.

I guess my main crew would probably be like Anthony Borella, Paul Ueberry, Adam Hamis, Jake Brown, Austin Turner.

Those guys are the guys I normally stay with with Airbnb's.

But you know, I, I just enjoy hanging out with everyone.

So a lot of the time Vans van life is pretty fun as well.

OK.

All right.

Let's talk to about some competitive play.

What's your favorite tournament and of course, you've played so far?

Man, it's I don't think anything really beats stepping up to hole one at Maple Hill.

There's really not a better starting hole, I don't think.

Then the Maple Hill hole one with the bleachers right there and the crowd and you're just going to have to unleash this giant drive over the water.

It it's a whole new environment.

It's it's a ton of fun.

Yeah.

Are you more of a wooded golfer or open?

I, I think I tend to perform better in the open, but I, I can't really consider myself either or.

I think I'm at like pretty, pretty good at both.

You know, I'm not great at either, but I think like pretty good at both.

I don't think I'm maybe open just a little bit more, but you know.

All right, So I'm looking at some of your stats here.

2022, you mentioned it was kind of a grind year for you kind of unpacked that for us.

What?

What do you mean by it was a grind gear?

Yeah, 2022 was the year before I actually made the jump on tour.

That was kind of my putting my foot in the door with all these tournaments.

And, you know, I wasn't playing a whole bunch on tour.

I don't know.

Can you count how many there are?

I know there's not a whole lot before or something, but played a ton of A tiers.

You'll see.

I played a lot of events in 2022 just to really see what it was like.

You know, it's in playing all those A tiers, it's like a mini tour.

But you know, I didn't really go too far.

I think Arizona was probably the furthest I went to from California besides maybe, I don't know, I guess that would have to be it.

I don't really think I went anywhere too crazy.

Maybe Colorado, I'm not sure.

But yeah, I mean, just some small stuff really.

You know, I wasn't like driving and staying in cars.

I was just flying out and, you know, staying with friends for the week and then flying home.

It wasn't like I was continuously going out and being away from everything for months at a time, you know?

What would you say was the hardest course that year that you played?

Hardest course that I played that year, That's a tough one.

I'm really not too sure.

I don't even know which events I even really played it.

It had to have been a pro to event, whatever pro to event I played in 2022.

It was probably the hardest event that I played.

OK, well I bet you remember the one you won in 2023, yes?

Yeah, yeah, definitely Remember that one.

So tell me about that.

What was it like playing that that event and then of course going on to win it?

Yeah, I mean, I really like Emporia for what it is.

I went to Worlds the year before as well.

I guess that would probably be the the hardest event, obviously would do Worlds, duh.

I don't know why I didn't think of that.

But going into the place, I have family that lives about two, maybe 1 1/2 hours South of Emporia in Iola, KS.

So I've always really liked just being in Kansas and Emporia.

It's so cool showing up and having the entire town be so much into disc golf, so much invested into it with their signage.

You know, you walk into a, a subway and they're just like, oh, you're here for the tournament and you're like, yeah, that's pretty cool thing.

But Emporia really does it right.

And, you know, just being there, it really feels like a like a pro tour is going to happen there.

And, you know, showing up to that event is no different.

Stayed in a hotel for probably my first time that entire year because I was staying in a a truck and trailer with my tour partner Jake.

And we ended up getting a hotel with AC and it was so nice and it was a lot different.

So got some good rest.

And, you know, I didn't really think of anything that first day.

I didn't really get much practice going into that event.

I think I had one round, maybe one round.

Yeah, it was one round.

And didn't think too much of it and kind of went out there and the course really fits my game, you know, super powerful sidearm and decently powerful backhand.

And with that combination on like an open golfish style course, you know, it's it's going to make for low scores.

So I ended up shooting like I think it was a nine down or something like that round one and just snuck on lead card.

I think it was the last person on lead card.

So it was really cool and I got a bunch of texts from my friends and everything saying, dude, you're going to be on conversation is so cool.

And you know, they're posting about it and.

So that it does that add pressure to you to be know that you're going to be filmed?

I was excited.

No, I love being on camera.

I really wish that we had a little bit more opportunity rather than the top like 10 guys that are always consistently on coverage.

You know, I wish I got another shot at it because you know, I, I always think that I, I play better on camera because I'm more of a showman on camera and I'll do some cooler stuff for you.

I don't know, jump through a tree and like I did round two that time, but after round two, I, I was like, oh, I'm still in it.

This is crazy.

And I think my, my tour partner, Jake, I had to take him to the course every morning because it was his first time on tour.

He was only playing for three years at that point or 2 1/2 years at that point.

So he was still like super new to disc golf and he's playing all these tour events.

So ended up taking him pretty early for his tea time and he would get done and come hang out and watch me play and it was super cool and played that round 3 and no different.

There's something about that weekend just absolutely smashed everyone.

It was so much fun.

What?

Who was on the final round lead card with you?

It was me, Alden Harris, Matty O and Calvin Heinberg, I believe.

Oh, some big guns, huh?

Did that.

Now what does that do?

Now I've had, I've heard the whole theory of when you play with that caliber player, it either intimidates you or it makes you elevate your game.

What?

Where are you on that?

I'll be honest.

And yeah, 2023, my first event, Waco, I played really well the first two rounds.

Going into the final round, I was in like 10th place or something like that.

I don't really remember.

But it was like really good for my first event on tour basically.

And I was nervous.

There is a camera crew right in front of me.

Maybe I was a fourth card or something, but just camera crews, you know, I had all the pros there and I'm like, what am I doing?

I don't know any of these guys.

And one pro that did come up to me was Garrett Girthy actually.

And he he just said like, yo, dude, like Congrats on the good play or something like that.

And that's always stuck with me.

And I, I've always really liked Garrett Girthy just because of that one time he came up to me did had no idea who I was and, you know, congratulated me on some good play.

But you know, I really wasn't nervous after playing with all of these guys for the half of a year at that point.

So I got to know him all pretty well.

And I wasn't really that outgoing my first year on tour as I am now.

But you play with enough people where it's like, you know, everyone's pretty friendly for the most part.

So nothing was really intimidating going into that final round or even playing with those guys that day.

What do you think the differences being making you more outgoing this year as opposed to years before?

You know, it's a great question.

I'm not sure.

I guess just the realization that you're here for a reason.

You know, it's everyone.

Everyone wants to do what you're doing.

You know, there's there's.

Million, not millions.

There's a lot of people that would love to tour.

You know, everyone wants to be in my position going out there each week and competing with the best of the best.

And I get to do it.

So there's just absolutely no way I'm going to stay quiet and, you know, just keep to myself.

So I'm going to, every time I see anyone, you know, I'm always hanging out with people or if you ever see me, just say hi.

You know, people don't really recognize me too much, but once they see like, oh, you're the kid that jumped through the tree, then it's like, yeah, that's awesome.

Super cool, that sounded fun.

Yeah.

So what what is your routine like after the practice?

Are you typically the kind of guy that likes to just play video games or watch TV?

What do you do to unwind when you're not disc golfing?

I mean, every time I go home, I'll go home for like one week basically and like I did this past week and I'll just kind of chill out and hang out by the pool and try and get my tan on a little bit and get rid of the farmer's tan that we get when we're on tour.

And I'll play some video games as well.

I just built a computer from scratch this past week.

So I'm a bit of a gamer as well, Pretty big techie guy so I really enjoy that stuff, but mostly just chilling when I'm not playing disc golf.

Gotcha.

Let's see, let's get some off off the course questions too.

What's the weirdest thing or funniest thing that's ever happened to you during a round?

Oh my goodness.

It happened recently, but I don't even know if I could say we were talking about it was I was on a card with me, Big Germ, Paul Ulibarri and Greg Barsovy at the Discmania challenge and we were talking about some some band names that Barsvy listens to.

In German.

Big Germs said the craziest thing ever.

It was a band name, but it's a fake band name.

Just asking Bartsby if he's ever heard of it.

And I'm not going to repeat it, but it was.

It was hilarious, but I don't think I could say it so definitely.

They were talking this way like during the actual round.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, with those guys, it's it's so much fun.

Those, those three guys are just such a blast to play with and having them all on the same card, I don't even, I don't even think we were playing that good.

It was just like we all just happened to be on the same card and a ton of people were following us.

It was such a good time there at the Discmania Challenge.

Do you find yourself what type?

I guess what type of card do you prefer?

One that likes to talk or one that you rather just kind of just put your head down and play the game.

I think my the most fun I have is when I play with like Silas Schultz and we're always talking to each other.

So I think I'm more of a guy that would like to be on a card that's like talking to each other.

And I think that's not really too common unless you have like your entire card is that way.

Because otherwise, like if one person you know is like really quiet, then you're just kind of like, all right, let's be quiet today.

Whatever.

We don't want to mess him up, but it's rare.

But when it happens, it's so much fun being on that card where everyone's talking and enjoying time.

Yeah, it's always interesting when I'm hanging around players and they look at the the tee times and then they look to see who they're playing with and to get the reaction like, oh, I get to play with him again.

Oh, joy.

You know, it's like, it's almost like you guys start to know your personalities and what kind of round you're going to have.

It's always, always funny to hear so on that.

But do you have any disc golf like pet peeves?

Not really.

I mean, for example, this weekend they're we're playing a course where the benches are literally on the tee pads.

And I guess that's, it can be kind of one of my pet peeves is when someone is like literally just so close to you on the tee box and you can feel their presence.

But I mean, it's like not big at all.

And I'll still throw with him there.

But that's just something that I like that's in my mind that I can think about.

That can be kind of an annoyance.

Yeah.

So you do get, do you get distracted really easy on your drives and your putts?

No, I, I think I'm probably one of the, the more mentally solid people on tour.

You know, if someone's moving in the background, it does not matter.

You know, you could be talking, it does not matter.

I, I guess I've kind of gotten to this point where, you know, my practice card crew is like always talking no matter what, always cracking jokes, always moving.

So kind of got used to it by this point.

Yeah, what's your opinion on cuz I just thought of something off this cuz you you said you're you'd like to be on camera and have fun too.

I, I, I, I feel like you're the kind of guy that appreciates the guys out there taking photos and, and recording video while you're playing.

But I did see something on a camera, which Facebook group it was, but someone posted a picture where you could see a cameraman on the left and the right, right in front of the tee pad right.

And me as the guy that captures it, I try to be as as stealth as I could, you know, when I was out there doing tournament coverage.

But there's sometimes you just got to be there to get the, the great looking action.

And it's, it's kind of a balance between not distracting the player because he has a job to do, but I also have a job to do and also getting you the right, you know, something that looks cool and looks nice as far as a picture or video, but then again, not also disturbing the player.

So what are your thought?

Do you think that maybe sometimes they go overboard the the the media people or are you good with it?

I saw that post.

I know exactly what you're talking about and I think the guy that posted it, I'm going to be in his area next week, so I can't say anything bad.

I'm joking I but I do I do disagree a little bit of about what he said.

I think that none of the pro tour players care.

I don't think that they think that they're in the way as long as they're staying still, because if you're like directly in front of someone and then you move right when they throw, you're an object, you're going to get hit, you know.

But if you're, if you're staying still, you know, if you're in the front but you're not in the airspace where the disc is flying, then I don't think it's too big of an issue.

And I think there is, yeah.

I think the people at home are more important than, you know, the the person that's throwing the disc.

I guess there's, you know, 100, 100,000 people watching online or whatever and there's one person throwing a disc that probably doesn't even care that the cameraman's there.

Yeah, I think it's one of those things, like I said, where you know, the disc, the the player has a job to do, the media guy has a job to do and they have an understanding.

I I've had players ask me to, you know, when I'm behind them and they're going to do a long run up.

I've had, you know, they look back at me and say, hey, can you give me a room?

Sure, no problem.

Or I've been in their line of not necessary.

I try to stay out of their line of sight, but I've had people where I was off to the side and they've asked me, Hey, I'm I'm about to throw that way.

I didn't realize.

Thankfully, I've been doing it long enough.

I can almost tell where they're going to throw.

And then I then based on even the player, I can go, I bet he's going to do a sidearm.

He's going to do this right.

So I try to be not in the in their line, but there's times where I miss, miss guess what they're going to do And they asked me, Hey, I'm about to I'm about to throw that way.

Can you move and it?

What's nice is people know me, they'll literally say, hey, Bobby, I'm I'm getting a throw right there.

So that's always nice.

But one time that I messed up, I can't remember.

I think it was a world.

And do you remember David Feldberg?

It was his girlfriend from way back when.

Anyway, it was me, Robert McCall and Jeremy Ruska when we were walking.

I cannot remember.

I wish I can remember the course, but we were walking a course and we walked over this little bridge and there was a lot of poles everywhere, but we were trying to navigate not being in people's way.

And we happened to stop to watch somebody putt over in front of us.

We're not realizing that the the young lady was putting behind us.

And all of a sudden we realize where we're at.

And I was going to try to move out of the way.

And Robert and Jeremy said, sit still.

So I was like, I stayed real still.

And she goes, can you move?

And I was like, they're like sit still.

And I was like, and she goes fine, don't move and just putz.

Oh, it was not not a good situation.

So yeah, I had.

Something similar to that in Junior Worlds in Emporia, actually at Jones Park.

Yeah.

What was I?

I was 15.

No, wait, what was I?

I don't know.

But I I was super young and I I literally just walked straight across.

I don't you know where the playground is?

Yeah, so there's like where the lake is and then there's those two holes that kind of intercept like, I don't know, but I, I walked right past this basket as this guy's putting and he's like, dude, what the heck.

And I'm like, I, I don't know, dude.

I have no idea what I'm doing bro.

Now, admittedly, I have walked in front of a fairway and like didn't even realize that the people were down the way in the tee pad and they just kind of looked at me and just kind of like, like, what are you doing?

Yeah, I'm like, man, it happens though, for sure.

It does happen.

It does happen.

All right, so tell oh, OK, so we're going to go through your bag real quick, kind of a quick look at your bag.

But tell me though, what's inside your bag that you carry that's like snacks or lucky item?

What's the non disc stuff you put in your bag?

I I have a range Finder, there's the pretty useful if you're playing, you know, of course you haven't played before.

Range Finder for sure.

I have, you know, some dry bags.

Keep my hands chalky and grippy.

Some snacks.

I guess, you know, I'm not huge snacker, but I guess beef jerky would probably be my go to on the course just because, you know, it's easy and fills you up pretty good.

You don't want to be starving on the course.

Gets you some good protein too.

Yep, Yep, Yep.

What else?

Any flavour?

Particular flavour, teriyaki or just regular?

I think I my go to lately has been peppered.

OK, but I think I want to.

No, no, I'm going to stick with peppered or even original, but nothing.

Nothing too crazy.

I don't like to get too crazy with it.

Sure.

All right.

Run us through your bag real quick.

Real quick.

Let's start with drivers.

What do you got?

What's your go to drivers?

Right now, generals, enforcers, basically.

That's pretty much it.

What are you throwing them for?

What?

What kind of flight you trying to get out of them?

My enforcers are way more overstable than my generals.

So for those it's like wind shots or if I need to go like left really quickly or hard or throw a skip shot, enforcers coming out.

But if I just need to throw a long bomber shot or a shot that, you know, needs to fly like a fairway driver but needs to go a little further, then I'll pull out the general because it's been really, really good to me having that disc.

Those are two just easy shot shapes that go with those two.

All right, let's let's club down.

What do you like?

What do you get thrown for your fairways?

Fairways are felon and explorer and bare right now so I got over stable, straight and under stable.

Yeah, Now are you, are you the felon?

Now I my understanding with the felon, I don't obviously throw a felon because I had a weak arm and I can't handle that over stability.

But for the big guns though, I feel like there's like a different levels of felon.

Like there's some that are pretty overstable, some that aren't quite overstable.

Which where are you in that?

I have two right now.

I have one that's Omega overstable.

It's pretty ridiculous.

It doesn't even fly.

It like literally just goes left.

And then I have a little bit of a straighter one, which I only have one of.

I'm going to see.

I'm going to have to send you a message.

See if you can find one in the shop hiding somewhere.

But I was given it two weeks ago by a guy I was staying with and really like that feeling.

So I'm going to see if I can get another one of those.

It's definitely a little bit straighter, but it's reliable.

So that's what I really like.

And then for Explorers, it's kind of just, you know, a straight, straight fairway for me.

I think for a slower arm speeds, it's probably going to be a little more overstable.

But when I'm throwing it hard, it'll just go straight, maybe even bend a little bit for me.

But mostly just a you know what it is just a straight fairway and then I'm not.

Familiar with the bear?

Yeah.

What's that?

What's that all about?

I'm not.

Familiar with that Well, ah man, it's it is such a good disc actually, I don't know who introduced it to me, but every time I throw it just seems to work.

It's crazy.

It's it's supposed to be like I guess a little more under stable than what the one I have is, but mine like I could pump on it on Heiser.

It's going to flip up flat and go straight, maybe bend right or if I throw it flat, it'll just turn over to the right and just keep going right forever.

But it goes so far.

I was really impressed with the bear for sure.

Nice.

All right, let's go mids.

Mids.

I have two in my bag right now.

I have the Parker Walk Truth and then I have the Splatter Justice.

I love the way that Splatter looks on the Justice.

Yeah, I, I got the, I got that one just because it looked really cool and I wanted to do a video with it.

And then I started throwing it and I'm like, dude, this is like the perfect stability.

Yeah.

So I mean, I'm that's, that's such such a bonus when a disc looks that cool and it flies really well, so.

Really.

So you got your tour series Truth.

What?

What's that?

What do you use that for?

Pretty much everything except for super overstable shots.

So the thing I like about the truth in general is just it flies however you throw it and you know, you throw it on Heiser it goes left and Heiser it goes right, you throw it flat, it goes straight.

So it's definitely a super workable disk and that's kind of why I only carry 2 mids is because my 2 mids already do everything.

Yeah.

Has that always been your style as far as having minimal mids or?

You know, not really, I think just with Dynamic Discs, it's been so easy finding, you know, discs that you're just rely on and it's just so easy to pick those two out and just be like, OK, this is all I need.

That's awesome.

There's not a lot of other discs out there that you can find a disc that, you know, even does stuff like that.

So it's I'm pretty happy to, to have chosen that as my tour series.

I'm pretty stoked just because of the way it flies and how well it flies.

Nice.

All right.

So putters, do you have a throwing putter or just straight up just putting putters?

Oh, I got a a few additions right now.

I think I have a premium plastic.

Oh no, it's not.

What is it?

It's brand new.

Someone literally just gave it to me.

It's a flippy putter.

What is it?

Dynamic Discs.

Flippy putter?

Not well, There's the.

Name of putters?

Deputy.

It's a deputy.

OK, OK.

Yeah.

So I got a premium plastic deputy.

It's it's really old, I think, but someone just gave it to me.

Love it.

It's perfect for those like hyzer flip and then really go right.

So have that.

And then the same person also gave me a maiden, which is kind of just a super straight putter, also premium plastic.

And then I throw a harp as well for that, like slightly more over stable slot.

Nice.

And then you're putting with.

The emac Judge, it is literally the best putter I have ever felt in my entire life.

It is insane how well those fly.

Nice.

Very cool.

Now, how often are you the kind of guy that likes to change in and out your discs as far as how they get beat in or you like to just how are you with that as far as in and out of?

Discs.

So I typically I'd like to just keep them all in my bag, but I tend to lose discs more frequently this year than ever.

I don't know why, but I've been throwing those Christmas generals, so like the red and green ones, and they just kind of blend in a little bit.

So I just tend to leave those in the middle of the fairway.

But that's about the only disc that I've really been swapping in and out just because I lose it.

But everything else, it seems to keep stability pretty nicely.

And so the only time I'll swap out is if I throw one in the water or if I just leave it on the course somewhere.

Any particular molds you're testing out or trying out to see how it works?

Are you pretty set for for a while?

I've I've been throwing the heist a bit more actually, and it's I, I kind of want to implement it for like giant turnover shots or maybe even rollers to be honest.

But I need to grab a few more of those for sure to get more testing done because I just gave away my last one, which was cool.

But for that gave away give away.

The guy sent me his address and he lived 5 minute now, probably like 7 minutes from me.

Shut up.

Really.

Literally, that's cool.

And he lived in like this apartment complex that my wife wanted to move into and he like invited us over to, to go check out the place and stuff.

And it was like really cool.

It was awesome how that worked out.

I'm waiting for mine still because I remember you picked my name at the beginning so I couldn't.

Believe it landed on you.

I really couldn't believe that.

I thought you at first I was like, dude, he's just being goofy.

But I was like, no it really no it.

Literally landed on you.

I'm.

That serious?

That's great.

OK so if people don't know if they didn't follow you, he was doing a heist giveaway and then you're using some sort of spin wheel to help choose the people that commented or liked your your post or something?

All you had to do is leave a comment on it.

You didn't even have to tag anyone.

It was so easy to get that win under your belt.

And yeah, threw in the random name generator wheel thing and got three winners because Dynamic Discs actually hooked it up and put two more in there.

So you want to definitely be following me, Want to definitely be following Dynamic Discs because sounds like the giveaways are really good.

Yeah.

All right.

So what are, what's the plans for the rest of the year?

What's the rest of your year look like?

Basically same old same old.

I'm not in Europe right now obviously, although I'm like getting a little bit of FOMO.

I really want to be playing worlds but it just sometimes you just need to get your passport and not everyone has their.

Passport every time you need to get your passport.

Yeah, no, I'm.

I'm pretty bummed I never got that, but it's OK because I mean, I, I'm doing like this little a tier tour now thing and I got to go home to see my wife more frequently now.

So I'll be back in a couple weeks to Arizona again and but for the rest of the year it's basically just grinding touring.

Can't wait for the East Coast stuff because love it.

It is so pretty and I'm hoping to get another wind under the belt here really soon.

I know I'm so close to it.

I'm so close.

I just got to got to do it, got to do it.

Yeah, I'll see you at Idlewild, right in Kentucky.

Yes.

Yeah.

So we'll see how they're going to be doing some more stuff out there.

OK, so now the rest of the year, right.

But what what is what is Parker want to see in the next between now and the next five years?

Are we still in disc golf or we still what are we doing?

Yeah, I mean, I guess it kind of depends on, I guess my performance really, or where I'm at in disc golf, whether it's, you know, social media style or if it's competing.

Because disc golf has been so good to me and it's been part of my family my entire life.

So I mean, I, I'd really love to keep touring and I'd like to get my wife on tour with me as well so she can experience it and just keep doing what I'm doing.

I think I'm doing a great job of talking to people and, and really introducing the sport to a lot of people.

There's even a couple guys today they're playing for their very first time and I told them to throw a disc and they threw it and they're like same disc, same thing, but it's like they only threw it like 30 feet.

It's so it's like, you know, whatever, but it was just, it's cool.

You know, it's like just meet new people, hanging out with everyone, just being being a fun guy to be around.

That's kind of what I I really enjoy being.

You know, do you have, I mean, obviously the the goal is to win every event, right.

But is there anything that drives you as far or, or I guess do you have milestones or anything that you say, OK, once I achieve that, I'm going to keep going.

If I don't achieve that, then I'm going to make a different decision to that.

That question makes sense.

Yes, but yeah, I mean, I have it in my mind.

I'm.

I don't know if I can say it.

No, if you don't want to share it, that's fine.

That's fine.

Yeah, no, I'll keep it to myself.

But there definitely is goals.

There's milestones and we could talk about it off camera for sure, but on camera I'm going to keep it to myself.

But there's definitely goals.

But it's so weird, you know, getting that win on my first year on tour.

So it's like that's everyone's goal, and I did it my first year, so it's like, what's next, you know?

Wow.

That's interesting.

Do you think that that winning so soon, it's on such a big platform?

Is it looking back?

I mean, obviously you love to win, but, and, and it's only been, well, it's been a couple years, but do you think that helped or or maybe it hurt you?

I think that if I didn't get that win, I probably wouldn't be touring.

So I do believe that you can look at it as negative, but overall it's going to be positive because I literally wouldn't even be here, I don't believe, if it wasn't for that win.

Really.

So do you think that, but do you think it put more pressure on you or just gave you more drive to keep going?

Maybe a little bit of both, actually.

Yeah, Right now it's kind of like Parker is the guy that got really lucky and I don't want that to be the the way I'm seen.

So that's another thing that's going to keep me going is I want I, I need that second one.

I'm going to get that second one.

It's just a matter of time and putting it all the all the pieces together.

And I've really been doing a lot of work on my form and just preparing myself for Ledgestone is the next Pro Tour event.

So I'm ready for it.

I'm going to I'm going to take another one down, hopefully this year.

Nice.

I love it.

All right, well, all right, Parker.

Parker, tell me us where people can follow you so they can check out more of your journey.

My main posting stuff is on Instagram, so if you have Instagram, just look at Parker Welk or my tag is disc GOAT.

Do a little bit of YouTube here and there.

I'm definitely going to be doing a lot more YouTube stuff when all of my friends are in one place, you know, during the offseason or maybe even on 2 or a little bit more.

So Parker Welk on YouTube or maybe it's a disco again, I'm not sure.

But yeah, just a couple of places where you can find me posting really good content and having fun while I'm doing it.

For sure all.

Right, so you're going to start a new tradition.

I'm going to steal this from another podcast that I watched, Diary of Aceo, so on.

When I've been asking content creators, I wanted to give them the opportunity to ask me any question they want to ask, right?

But for players, I'm going to do this a little bit different.

I'm going to have you give me the question.

The next player, I'm not even sure who it is going to be, but I want to start it with you.

What question do you have for this next player?

And they're not going to know until the very end.

And then, of course, they'll have to think of a question.

Well I mean how?

How crazy can it get like?

I don't.

It doesn't have to be.

It doesn't have to be like, what's your favorite?

I don't want it to be anything I want it to.

Be something.

I'm not thinking like that.

I'm thinking like.

It could be as crazy as you want it to be.

When is the question going to happen in?

During the interview.

It'll happen at the very end.

I'm going to tell them the same.

I'm going to tell them that, OK, I want you to think of a question, but before that I need you to answer this question that the last person.

Now, of course I'll tell them say who it is, but they won't know the question until the very end.

I mean, is it, is it controversial to to say who's your favorite player to play with and least favorite player to play with on tour?

Who is your let me type it down, favorite and least favorite?

Because now I'm thinking that I'm.

Player to play with, OK, I don't know.

We'll see.

We'll see.

If they enter it, they may have to plead the 5th, I don't know.

They're probably going to skip.

I would assume they're going to skip.

Yeah.

But yeah, do I they're going to ask if they get a pass, do I get a pass?

Yeah.

No, that's all good.

So all right, well, Parker, I appreciate you taking the time in your evening.

I know it's it's tough being on the road and then of course, trying to get your practice in and then get your rest in.

So I'll let you go.

But thank you so much for being on the show and I I know that people are going to see more from you, of course on your Instagram and YouTube channels.

I'll put those in the description of the episode as well so they can click or tap and follow that.

But of course, you and I have already been talking.

We're going to be creating some stuff together.

I'm super excited about getting some plans together for Idlewild.

I don't know if we'll do some practice rounds or some challenge videos.

I think practice rounds because I think that's really going to be the best way for people to get to know you more and get to know what's in your head more.

So we may just set up a practice round where I mic you up and just kind of walk you around like I did with some of the players back in the day.

So I'm excited about that so people can get to know you a bit better.

So, but I'll let you get about your evening.

But I again, I appreciate you being on the show.

Right on.

Thanks, Bobby.

I'll see you later.