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TheDiscGolfGuyOctober 19, 2012

The Disc Golf Guy - Vlog #133 - Valarie Jenkins Prepares for the 2012 Players Cup

Join The Disc Golf Guy and three-time women's world champion Valarie Jenkins as they prepare for the 2012 Players Cup Match Play World Championships presented by Vibram. In this vlog, Valarie shares her thoughts on the upcoming women's match play event, which features eight talented players competing in a unique exhibition format. With Katrina and Paige among her competitors, Valarie discusses strategy and tactics for navigating the challenging course, including finding the right fairways and keeping her throws safe. The Disc Golf Guy also chats with Valarie about her experience playing in previous events and what she's looking forward to about this year's competition. Additionally, they take a look at some exciting news from the Disc Nation Superstore, an online retailer of disc golf products with a physical store in Boston.

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Video Transcript

I'm the disc golf guy and this is my video blog we're here at the 2012 match play World Championships presented by Vibram and well there's a whole bunch of stuff going on and I'm joined by our three-time women's world champion and Valerie Jenkins how you doing today doing good so this weekend we are having a first we are having the women play their own we'll say exhibition side of things uh what can we look forward to with that uh it's actually really exciting I'm glad that uh Steve and viam gave us women a chance to uh kind of show our skills out on this course uh last year I think it was just Dez and I that played and so it's nice that there's going to be eight women and we're going to have our own Division and I mean it's going to be a battle um I looked at it a little bit and saw that uh Katrina and Paige are on on one side so I'm glad that they're going to be battling eventually hopefully I'll make it to the end and I only have to battle one of them so so you guys you are not going to be playing quite as many round as the men uh you guys are playing on Saturday morning and then Saturday afternoon uh and there's eight of you as you said um what do you think is going to be the strategy out here this weekend anything in particular I mean match play is definitely different than stroke play do you have any particular strategy in mind it's a difficult of course um I mean it's it's hard to find the lanes if you're not in the right spot on The Fairway so I'm going to try and set myself up in the right spots it's going to be so windy out there so I'm just going to hopefully give myself some clear Fairways to the basket and you know keep it safe and inbound now what they've been seeing as we've been talking is a lot of footage and a lot of action going on over at the dis Nation Superstore their physical location they are the largest online retailer of disc golf products and yet they have a store here in the Boston area uh tell us a little bit if people are...

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