Down The Fairway With Ken Climo
Ken Climo, widely regarded as the greatest disc golfer of all time, joins Ken Climo on his popular series Down the Fairway to share insights into his remarkable journey. The conversation delves into Climo's early days, from playing catch with friends in the park to developing a strong throwing technique that would serve him well in the sport. His background as a left-handed baseball player proves to be an advantageous asset when transitioning to disc golf, and he explains how his natural right-handed backhand swing is put to good use on the course. Climo's experiences will appeal to both seasoned players and newcomers looking to improve their game, offering valuable lessons on physical technique, mental strategy, and overcoming obstacles to achieve success at the highest level.
Watch Paul Ulibarri & disc golf legend Ken Climo navigate the course in this thrilling down-the-fairway action. Unique playing styles on display.
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Welcome to this episode of Down the Fairway. Of course, I'm in Florida and I cannot leave without getting you on this series. This series started my whole program with the Power Disc Golf Academy. Been helping a lot of people. In this episode of Down the Fairway, we're going to be asking the greatest player of all time three questions. The first one is when you first started, how did you get good that fast? Then the next sequence of the question is going to be from when you got a little bit better, let's say advance, and you were competing in advance, how did you move up to pro? And uh I think I want to dive more into the mental strategy behind that because physically a lot of people can throw the shots, but it's that winning mentality. In the early going, I had thrown a bunch of beach frisbee already. I had played catch with my buddies, thrown, you know, MTAs out into the wind on the beach and thrown a ton of, you know, whamos and stuff like that. I had I used to actually come down to this park. I have buddies that lived up in the neighborhood. We used to come down to the parking lot here at night. There's a there was a light in the parking lot. We used to play till 2 in the morning, just catch before there was ever a disc golf course here. And I'd say I had a a pretty good idea of how to, you know, generate power on a disc a frisbee because I'd thrown tons of frisbee, tons of beach frisbee. It was all beach frisbee. I had never seen any kind of golf disc or anything up until the point where I had heard about disc golf. And I batted baseball left-handed, which is another key. Oh, wow. For picking up the sport quickly, being a right-handed backhand player. So, batting lefty, you know what? Look, look at this move. What is that? That That's almost exactly a right-handed backhanded disc throw. So, I had that ingrained in me since I was this tall. I played teball all the way up till, you know, I was 15 years old. I played baseball. So, I had my left-handed swing ingrained in me. That's where I got my power. That's where I had my...
