What this site is
Disc Golf Dojo is a reference for how discs fly. Every PDGA-approved disc has a page carrying its speed, glide, turn and fade, so you can look for the flight you want instead of the name on the plate.
Filter by the shot you are actually trying to throw: a midrange that holds a straight line, a driver that stands up in wind, a putter with enough glide to carry. Brand, type and plastics pages sit around the same numbers, so you can move from a disc to the plastic it is moulded in without losing your place.
The descriptions are written by hand, one disc at a time, in the same voice: what the disc is, what it is for, and — the part usually left out — what it will not do.
The blog has been running since 2016 and still is: gear notes, practice, the mental side, and the occasional plain-English rules explainer. If a disc is missing, every empty search has a button to ask for it. That is how most of them get added.
My relationship with disc golf began before I knew it was an organized sport. In the 1990s my friends and I would take an Ultimate disc, point at a light pole or some other object in the distance, and see who could hit it in the fewest throws.
The first time I threw an actual golf disc was around 2000 or 2001, visiting friends at college near UC Santa Barbara. We played what was probably the Isla Vista Peace Course, which winds through the parks and neighborhoods around the student community.
What stuck with me was how differently the discs flew. They were faster and sharper, and they took lines an Ultimate disc simply couldn’t. It would be several years before disc golf became a regular part of my life, but that never left.
Around 2008 friends started taking me to established courses in Northern California: Stafford Lake in Novato, Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I played on and off for the next decade, started Disc Golf Dojo in 2016, and finally entered the competitive side of the sport in 2020.
Today I play tournaments regularly and captain a Napa team in the NorCal Team Challenge. I’m still fascinated by the thing that caught my attention on that first round: the way different discs fly, and what happens when you learn to make them fly with intention.
— Ryan Milani
