1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,320 Hey everybody, this is Bobby Cool Daddy Slipperies, and 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,760 tonight is a special episode with Bennett. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,720 Now, Bennett works at Dynamic Discs, he works in our Amazon 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,640 fulfillment area, but most importantly, he's our MJ 18 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,520 World Champion. That's right. 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,280 He works at Dynamic Discs, lives in Emporia, KS, and it's an 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,320 interesting story of how he went from losing the World 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Championship in 2019 and then coming back six years later and 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,640 winning the World Championship. So let's learn a little bit more 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,400 about Bennett. How you doing, Bennett? 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,480 I'm doing great. How are you doing, Bobby? 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,680 Doing pretty good. It's been a couple days since 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,360 the big event. Has everything kind of sinked 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:45,800 in? All the families probably said 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,400 congratulations and all that. Stuff. 16 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,440 Yeah, I've gotten so many congratulations from so many 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,200 people and it's it's sinked in a bit more now. 18 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,840 It's really nice. Yeah, in fact, I know I missed 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,160 it today. I'm working from home in 20 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,400 Oklahoma. I missed your little celebration 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,960 at work. I think they said ice cream cake 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,360 was going to be there. Yep, it was ice cream cake. 23 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,160 They had two cakes. One of them had a 24 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,480 congratulations Bennett written on it and frosting stuff, you 25 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,360 know, and the other one had like dinosaurs on it. 26 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,200 And it was, it was kind of strange. 27 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,960 It was like a cake they had leftover or something that they 28 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:22,760 gave them. It was kind of funny. 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,040 Oh, that's hilarious. That's cool. 30 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,760 All right, well, let's jump right into it real quick, just 31 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:29,000 so everybody can get to know you. 32 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,080 Well, first of all, just in case you hadn't heard the news or 33 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,520 been following Dynamic Discs, you're talking to Bennett and he 34 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,360 had won the MJ 18 World Champion. 35 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,520 So you're talking to a world champ right now. 36 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,720 So I'm sure that feels good. But but just so we can know a 37 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,800 little bit more about you, tell us your your disc golf story. 38 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,920 How did you even discover disc golf and how'd you get started 39 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,880 playing? Yeah, I think how I discovered 40 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,720 disc golf was my dad has played for a long time and we always 41 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,160 had a basket in our front yard. And I think really it started 42 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:04,120 with my, I just kind of grabbed some discs from the basket and 43 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,480 started messing around with it when I was outside one time. 44 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,199 And I just fell in love with it from there really just and 45 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,440 started going out to the course a bit more and then that led 46 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,960 into my playing 2019 Junior Worlds. 47 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,520 Yeah. So like, you win, like a lot of 48 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,520 people, they start playing and they fall in love with the sport 49 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:23,840 and they want to play it more and more. 50 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,880 But like, did you, how long did it take for you to initially 51 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,480 say, you know what I want? I want to compete in disc golf 52 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,800 instead of just playing casually. 53 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:38,320 Really, that came much later, like three years later because I 54 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,840 started in 2019, but like I really wanted to get real 55 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,080 competitive with it. When it came to like 2022 was 56 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,960 when that kind of happened. Wait, so you competed in a world 57 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,560 champion in 2019 but you didn't want to get serious competing 58 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,400 until a few days a few years later? 59 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,120 Tell me, Tell me A. Little bit more about that. 60 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,760 It's a little strange, yeah. So, yeah, I played junior worlds 61 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,800 my first year ever playing disc golf and I had played it. 62 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:09,560 I was, they just, they had spots left in the division, MJ 12, and 63 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,960 I got one of those spots and I ended up getting dead last. 64 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,000 But I still had a lot of fun. But after that, when it came to 65 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,840 like the colder time of the year, I stopped playing disc 66 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,800 golf. And I pretty much didn't play 67 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,160 for multiple years up until 20/22 when I had gotten grounded 68 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,400 from playing video games at the time. 69 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,000 And I had started playing disc golf again and I got hooked on 70 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,040 it again. And that's when I wanted to 71 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,000 compete and get better at the sport and push myself to. 72 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,360 OK, so so you got what video games do you like to play? 73 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,720 The only video game I had played really was Fortnite. 74 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,520 That was that's the main one that I've played. 75 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,560 So you got grounded from video games and decided to go play 76 00:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,480 more disc golf. That's good. 77 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,960 Yeah. So OK, so that's interesting. 78 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:09,240 You you got last place in 2019. How did that like, how did that 79 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,800 feel? I mean obviously it didn't feel 80 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,520 good but like what went through your mind after getting a last 81 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,160 place? I don't think I really cared at 82 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,720 the time. You know, it was six years ago 83 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,200 so I don't remember too well, but I don't think I cared too 84 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,600 much about getting last because I didn't have, I wasn't as 85 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,560 competitive about disc golf at the time. 86 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,600 I still really enjoyed the sport. 87 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,160 I still had so much fun playing. I don't. 88 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,720 I don't think I really cared too much though. 89 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,920 Yeah, yeah. All right. 90 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,200 So a few years later, you decided to start really getting 91 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,240 in the the competition side of things. 92 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,880 What what did you start doing? Like, did your practice routine 93 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,240 start changing or what was kind of the mindset there? 94 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,880 Yeah, I really all my practice would just be outside. 95 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,400 I have a great space in my front yard and on my street to be able 96 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,680 to throw in towards my yard. And I would just like go to 97 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,240 different spots and I have like a whole like 6 hole course 98 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,880 pretty much set up like different spots that I have 99 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,080 designated for different holes. And I would just throw and 100 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:17,160 mostly just trying to throw in just throw in from the different 101 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,080 spots. And that's mostly how that how 102 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:27,280 my routine started. Yeah, so, so you started 103 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,240 competing and you started getting a game plan together 104 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,080 doing it. Did you play a lot of 105 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:38,200 tournaments? Yeah, so 2022, I've got 2022. 106 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,600 I played my first tournament back in Kansas City at Bad Rock 107 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,560 Creek. I got 13th in that one out of 108 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,680 I'm not sure how many. I didn't do a great job. 109 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,560 I think at the time I was like 6 something rated from my first 110 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,760 tournament. It was 675 rated. 111 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:01,120 After my first tournament I shot like 800, something like 850 112 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,600 rated. I think 870. 113 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:07,680 I don't know, but that tournament in 2022 was my first 114 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,680 tournament back and then I started playing again in 2020 or 115 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,360 I continued to play in 2023 and four and yeah. 116 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,760 Nice. So how do you feel it's 117 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,120 different when you play in a tournament versus just kind of 118 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,240 casual playing? Do you? 119 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,080 Do you shift anything in your mind or do you or how you play? 120 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,400 It, it definitely changes from tournament to casual play. 121 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,200 If we're like, if I'm going out, just like with a few friends to 122 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,600 play, I'm not focusing too much on how I'm playing. 123 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,280 I'm just, I'm just out having fun with my friends. 124 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,080 I'll usually try some Dumber shots, sometimes try and go big 125 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,360 turnover on some hole or something silly like that. 126 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,400 But in tournament I'm definitely focused up taking the most 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,720 probable lines and focusing on those putts a lot more. 128 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,200 Gotcha. So how long before the World 129 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,120 Championship here in Emporia? How long? 130 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,240 I mean, as soon as they announced it, we're like, I'm 131 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,360 going to compete in it. Like 2019. 132 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,600 Yeah, no for 20 the the this past year. 133 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,480 This year, yeah, yeah. When I heard it was here in 134 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,640 town, I was I right? Then I decided that I was going 135 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:18,880 to play in it. Absolutely. 136 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,960 And then kind of what was your game plan there? 137 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,600 Game plan for the tournament was pretty much to birdie every 138 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,720 hole. I like just my gameplay. 139 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,280 In all my tournaments I play, I play very aggressive and I'm 140 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,160 trying to get most of the holes that I can. 141 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,080 I definitely usually I can recognize the holes that are 142 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,560 more difficult and then I need to play for par. 143 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,600 But this one, there's only like a couple holes that I would 144 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:54,120 usually do that on and lost my train of thought a little it's. 145 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,200 OK, so when you so, OK, so this is going to be it's going to be 146 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,800 which worlds in your home course, right? 147 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,280 So how did your like, practice change? 148 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,680 How do you how does it change for you when you know you're 149 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,560 practicing a a a course that you know is going to be played in 150 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,400 the World Championship? Yeah, after I knew that and like 151 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,240 after my previous tournament before Junior Worlds, I was only 152 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:26,280 was playing Jones East and Champions Landing and I was most 153 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,400 of the time I was going out to play focused rounds and deciding 154 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,080 what shots I was throwing where and trying different shots on 155 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,919 different different discs on different lines. 156 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,760 That's kind of how that went. Yeah. 157 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,320 So take us through round one. I can't remember. 158 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,280 I'm looking up the scores. Where were you after round one? 159 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,400 Round one I was at 3 under and that was I was 4 strokes back of 160 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,600 the leader at that point and I think it was tied. 161 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,360 I'm getting it up here. Yeah. 162 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,600 I was tied 13th and four strokes back the lead. 163 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,920 At that point I was feeling real confident in my game too. 164 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,960 I didn't do great that first round. 165 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,200 I ended up missing. I think I counted like 8 putts 166 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:21,760 that I usually should make, but I did. 167 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,440 I did have some good holes in there too. 168 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,960 I had a stretch of five parties in a row because my throwing 169 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,760 finally warmed up and that's really what got me back into the 170 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,760 tournament in that round. Yeah, so you say you didn't 171 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,880 quite do quite as good as you wanted to. 172 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,520 How does that mess with your your mindset at all? 173 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:44,120 Yeah, In the past it would definitely mess with my mindset 174 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,320 a lot more than it does now. Bad holes, in the past, I would 175 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,920 get down on myself about them and I dwell on the bad things 176 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,800 that happened, a missed putt, a bad throw, tree hit, you know. 177 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,520 But as my game has progressed, my mindset on it has definitely 178 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,800 changed. I'm, I've gotten very good, I 179 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,800 think, at focusing on one shot at a time. 180 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,040 If I have a bad throw or a bad hole, I pretty much completely 181 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,240 forget about it right after and just focus up on the next throw 182 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:18,680 and throwing that how I want it to be. 183 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:20,600 Nice. OK. 184 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,160 Then go going around to it, look like you jumped up about 11 185 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,680 spots, you're in second place. Do you think that was kind of a 186 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:30,720 combination of maybe a different playing on a different course? 187 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,760 Were you more comfortable at Jones East or was that more of 188 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,240 like I've got to make up some ground? 189 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,480 What was kind of your thought there? 190 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,040 Yeah, that was more about just being comfortable on Jones E I'd 191 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,640 say I've gotten more practice in it East and I've always been 192 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,560 better at East than I have Champions landing. 193 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,440 The type of golf that it demands. 194 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,200 I'm better at East than Champions Landing. 195 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,960 Yeah. So let's see, like on you were 196 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,600 four down round one at champions landing. 197 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,400 I think that seen that. No, you're a three down and then 198 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,560 round three you went back to champions landing and you 199 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,560 actually scored A7 down South improved on your score. 200 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:16,840 Talk us through that. Like what? 201 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,480 What was what were some of your? Walk us through some of the 202 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,040 holes where you did a little bit better. 203 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,880 Yeah. So really what happened there 204 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,800 Mostly I think I comparing round one to round 3. 205 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,480 Hole 2 I played actually the same. 206 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,600 I did a lot of it pretty similar. 207 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,280 I didn't bogey 3 and 4. I did that first round I 208 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:46,000 believe, I believe I booked both those holes and round around 1 I 209 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,120 meant sorry. And then round three I went part 210 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,320 birdie. My game was just feeling a lot 211 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,200 better the third round. My backhand was I was missing a 212 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,080 good bit of lines my first round. 213 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,240 Third round I wasn't missing my lines as much and I had changed 214 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,640 something in my putt after round one. 215 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,320 That was what that was the main reason that I started to get 216 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,280 higher up in my scores to better. 217 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,640 What did you change up in your putt? 218 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,880 It's, it was mostly something with my off arm, like the first 219 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,720 day I was like closing my off arm. 220 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:24,480 I'm calling it because that's what it feels like versus what I 221 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:26,800 should have been doing was like opening my hand. 222 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,880 It's it's hard to explain. It's mostly a feeling thing, but 223 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:36,000 changing that caused my putt to be much more powerful, direct 224 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,080 and just released so much better than it was. 225 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,640 What made you? What made you want to change 226 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,440 that? It just didn't feel right round 227 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:49,240 one and really the having my hand open like that was just it 228 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,640 felt a lot better then when it was closed. 229 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,040 Yeah. Was there something that you'd 230 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,200 heard or something that you would that you should try or 231 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,040 just something you were thinking? 232 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,200 Maybe I should try this? It was something that I've like, 233 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:05,080 I've tried in the past, but really it was just feeling just 234 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,600 whatever felt the most natural and that. 235 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,280 And it's something that actually I think Niklas uses his not off 236 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,640 arm a lot. I really like Niklas's putt and 237 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,240 it's cut. My putt is kind of modeled after 238 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:24,560 his, but that's something that I think is why he has such a long 239 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,120 range on his standstill putts and stuff is his off arm. 240 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,400 He really uses his off arm and I think, I think it's definitely 241 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:38,040 something people should try is focusing more on the off arm and 242 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,800 using that somehow. Yeah, so going back to round 3 243 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,440 back at Champs Landing, it looks like hole 9 was one of your gave 244 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,280 you big trouble. You had a A7 on a par 4 and it 245 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,800 and looking at the other scores of the top 1012 people playing, 246 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,880 it looked like that hole gave a lot of people some challenges. 247 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,960 What happened there? Yeah, that one was hole 9. 248 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:08,680 If, for people who don't know, is a 600, it's a 700 foot crazy 249 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,000 dog leg over to the right. You have to hit a tunnel shot 250 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,640 off the tee. There's tight OB on the left and 251 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,280 right. And then the second shot is not 252 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,560 easy either, over to the right and then into a pretty protected 253 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,360 green. So yeah, my drive off the tee, I 254 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:29,600 went OB just straight like I threw a fairway driver on 255 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,880 Heiser. I expected it to flip a little 256 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,680 more. Actually it was more. 257 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,760 I wanted to throw it a little flatter, but I threw it a bit 258 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,440 too much Heiser. It wouldn't be left over the 259 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,280 sidewalk. My second shot I was in bounds. 260 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:49,400 My third I kind of ran the putt and it hit center cage like 261 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,680 flopped down to the ground, stood up and barely roll started 262 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,560 to roll and rolled down to some OB that was hiding around the to 263 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,040 the right. And so I'll be like this much it 264 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,080 was. It was. 265 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:08,880 Yeah, my putt after that, I it was a bad putt. 266 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,160 Hit band kicked to the to the right and then I tapped in for 267 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,560 seven. OK. 268 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,120 But even then you still were at, let's see, round three you had 269 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,280 finished look like tied for second. 270 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:21,760 So there's a three-way tie for second. 271 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,440 Then going into round four we're back at Jones E, the one that 272 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,400 you said you're a little more comfortable with and you had a 273 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,240 good run on for that round for sure. 274 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,720 Yeah, a bunch of pars and birdies. 275 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,320 So that's an excellent. So by then were you feeling 276 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,280 pretty confident? I mean, was like the feeling of, 277 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,560 Oh my gosh, I I could win. This was that starting to kick 278 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,040 in. Absolutely, yeah. 279 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,680 That was, I mean, being on home courses, even after round two, I 280 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,680 knew that if I just played my game and played the best that I 281 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:56,360 could, that I could totally win. But especially after round 4 I 282 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,960 had beat, I had shot the hot round by two strokes in round 4 283 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,960 and if you go back to round two, Round 2 I had done the same 284 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,400 thing when we were at Jones EI shot the hot round by two 285 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,360 strokes. Oh, sure enough. 286 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,320 And I, yeah, I did that in Round 4 again. 287 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,480 And so at that point I was really confident going to the 288 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,400 final round that I would be able to win it. 289 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,960 Yeah, sounds like Jones E Definitely a course that you're 290 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,720 comfortable on for sure, because yeah, you were. 291 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,120 You and Caleb were tied for first after round four. 292 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:32,720 And then we go into the finals and of course, you win it by 5 293 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,680 strokes. Yeah, you win it by 5 strokes. 294 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,640 That's fantastic. So. 295 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,760 But OK, so going into finals, so let's talk about the night 296 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,720 before, right? You know, you've got another 297 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,480 eighteen holes by then. You were only. 298 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,520 No, you were, you were tied. And then the guy behind them was 299 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,080 4 strokes. Noah, Like what? 300 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,520 Walk us through a little bit of what's what what that evening 301 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,680 was like. Yeah, that was very nervy. 302 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:05,079 I was, I was very nervous for the day, for the next day and 303 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,359 super excited too. I I love the competitiveness of 304 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,160 being at the top of the leaderboard and I love being 305 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:17,800 able to fight to the win. And that was super excited about 306 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,960 the final round and. Yeah, yeah. 307 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,720 Any routines that you normally do or did you, did you do 308 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,359 anything to kind of keep your mind off of it or did you study 309 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,480 the course or like, like what was, what was, what were your 310 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,680 activities that evening? Really, I didn't do much. 311 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,760 We ended up, yeah, no, I don't think I do a whole lot of that 312 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,440 stuff most of the time. There have been times where I've 313 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,960 like really thought about the course before the final round, 314 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:46,040 but I didn't do that this time. I do remember we had sushi the 315 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,320 night before, which was, yeah, that was pretty fun. 316 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,400 I don't think I did a whole lot of focusing on disc golf, 317 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,040 though. No any any any pep talk from 318 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,960 your parents or your dad. No, no pep talks really. 319 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,120 From what I remember at least. Yeah, yeah. 320 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,560 OK, so final round, things are looking good. 321 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,960 You're playing well, and of course you really like. 322 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,600 All right, so we're going through the stretch. 323 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,800 Let's go through the last couple of holes. 324 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:15,680 OK? Are you nervous? 325 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,600 Are you excited or you know what? 326 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:23,320 What's going on there? Yeah, at the point of hole 15 I 327 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,680 I've been watching scores the whole round and whole 15. 328 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,960 I had 10 strokes on 2nd place at the time. 329 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,480 Wow. Yeah, that was pretty crazy. 330 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:41,800 That was, I had 10 strokes on 2nd place and I was just super 331 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:47,040 excited because I knew there was, unless I had an insane blow 332 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,280 up, that there was no way that I could that I wouldn't win it at 333 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,080 that point with 10 strokes and three to play. 334 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,680 So yeah, I see on hole 17, looks like you got a double bogey. 335 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,960 Yeah. What was that nerves was that? 336 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,880 Were you just feeling a little too comfortable? 337 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,400 What happened there? I think it was that I was 338 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,440 feeling too comfortable. I think I wasn't at that point. 339 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,960 I wasn't even thinking about my shots. 340 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,280 I was just thinking about getting the trophy. 341 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,560 Yeah, I was kind of thinking, I wasn't really thinking about my 342 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,880 next shot and I had an early release off the drive there into 343 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,400 a big cedar tree, had to pitch out. 344 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,760 Not a great second shot, not a great third. 345 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,320 And I missed a putt, but yeah. And that, that's what caused 346 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,680 six. If I I wish I was focused up 347 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,760 more on those shots, mostly just for my rating. 348 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,800 I wanted to shoot a high right around. 349 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,800 Yeah, but like you said, you're in the moment. 350 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,080 You've got a nice lead, so you know, you can't fault you for 351 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,840 relaxing a little bit and and already in your mind picturing 352 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,640 you getting that trophy and what it's going to be like. 353 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,240 So, so that's cool. Well, that's good. 354 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,000 All right. So I also had some other 355 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,440 questions I wanted. So what? 356 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,000 Well, I guess what's next for you in disc? 357 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,960 Golf. Going pro pretty much is my next 358 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,240 my my next big step. I have one more amateur 359 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,720 tournament before I'm going pro, which is Leadstone playing 360 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:22,800 Leadstone in Illinois in MA One, I'm pretty excited for that. 361 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,880 That's and I've heard a lot about that tournament, how it's 362 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,760 like a super, super big amateur tournament. 363 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,560 And so I really wanted to experience that in the courses 364 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,680 before I went pro. But after that, I'm going to be 365 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,000 playing in Oklahoma and I plan to take cash there and GoPro. 366 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:42,800 What? What event are you going to play 367 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,360 in Oklahoma? I can't quite remember the name 368 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,880 of it, do you? Remember what town it's good 369 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,120 you're going to be in. Tulsa. 370 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,440 It's Tulsa. Oh, you're going to be literally 371 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,120 in my neighborhood where I'm I live. 372 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,960 Yeah. I think I know which is it? 373 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,480 The end of August? I think it's what? 374 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,800 I'm looking at yeah, the Greater Tulsa Open August. 375 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,480 Yeah, yeah, I'll probably be over there. 376 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:03,800 I'll come over and say hi to you. 377 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:04,840 Yeah, I'm gonna. Absolutely. 378 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,960 The place where I used to work Shields is, is helping them out 379 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,720 with some discs. So I want to go up there and go 380 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,320 over there and say hi to people. So that's cool. 381 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,080 That's awesome. So that's going to be the first 382 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,440 one. You are going to take cash if 383 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,800 you get cash and then you're going to officially GoPro. 384 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:21,120 Yep. OK. 385 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,200 But then what's the big plan? Are we talking like getting on 386 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,000 the road? Are we talking, you know, just 387 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,120 playing events that are nearby or what? 388 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,840 What's the big, big plan? Yeah, big plan, overarching plan 389 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,360 that's I'm currently going to Flathills Tech College for 390 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,560 multimedia design. Oh. 391 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,760 Yeah, yeah. And I plan to use all my 392 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,720 knowledge with that for disc golf content on the road. 393 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,120 I planned a tour and be one of the best in the game while also 394 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:53,000 making a good content. I like that who some of the 395 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,360 people you follow right now that you kind of want to that you're 396 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,040 learning from as far as pro and content. 397 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:03,240 Content Anthony Badanza makes a lot of. 398 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,200 I really enjoy his content. He's a great editor and he does 399 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,560 a great job at pacing his videos, I think. 400 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:12,720 And when it comes to the actual disc golf side of it, Gannon 401 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,840 Burr. You like him? 402 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,080 Yeah. Yeah, I love Gannon. 403 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,840 His his dominance and skill is just really awesome. 404 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,240 Yeah, I do like Bonanza. I like his style. 405 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,520 I like his kind of how he just kind of seems like he's just 406 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,000 walking and talking and just bringing you along for. 407 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,640 Is that kind of the style you think you want to do with your 408 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,520 content or? Yeah, I think so. 409 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,120 I think that's type of stuff. I want to do something that 410 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:38,800 feels more genuine and like you're really getting to know 411 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,600 the person. Yeah, yeah. 412 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,040 So have you sat down and thought about the logistics of it all? 413 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,000 Like as far as like driving there, flying the places or 414 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,560 what? Not recently, I haven't a whole 415 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:56,120 lot, but I think we plan to get AB class camper at some point in 416 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,680 the future. A small B class and AC. 417 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,440 I can't remember one of those something and plan to travel 418 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,840 with that for my first year on the road and I plan to tour with 419 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,400 a buddy from Kansas City I think. 420 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,920 Oh nice, that'll be good. As someone who travelled a lot 421 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,880 for disc golf, having a buddy with you, it will be helpful, 422 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,200 especially helping out with driving and and of course, just 423 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,280 having someone to kind of go play around with and go and talk 424 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,440 to for sure. Well, man, it sounds like you 425 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,840 got a lot of this planned out already in your head about what 426 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,200 you want to do what, what's going to be the circuit as far 427 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,360 as what you're going to play? You're just going to go discount 428 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,160 pro tour events or or or just some local a tears or what? 429 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,040 Yeah, I think the plan is the Pro Tour. 430 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,200 I think that's the plan in a couple of years is to play all 431 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,880 the Pro Tour events, or at least most of them. 432 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,040 Play some other A tears and B tears and stuff too, of course. 433 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,480 Yeah. Yeah. 434 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,320 Now, was this the plan all along, whether like, let's say 435 00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:00,680 you had come in like last again, was that still kind of the plan 436 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:01,640 to kind of go on tour? Oh. 437 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,600 Yeah, yeah, Junior Worlds doesn't make a difference much 438 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:12,360 in my in my future. Like if I got last because I 439 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:16,600 played a terrible tournament or something, that it wouldn't 440 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,640 affect me too much. I mean, it would because I got 441 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,680 last. Am I? 442 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 I care a lot about my rating. I'm trying to get to 1000 rated. 443 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,800 That's my goal for this this year. 444 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,840 So that would be that would hurt that of course, but I don't, I 445 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,240 don't think that hurt my spirits or my goals too much. 446 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,680 OK. That's good, that's good. 447 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,880 I just didn't know if like you've been thinking about it 448 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,400 and you're like, man, I won worlds now that I'm really going 449 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,880 to do it, but it sounds like it was all a plan all along. 450 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,600 This was just a nice icing on the cake to get things started 451 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,840 for you. Absolutely. 452 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,680 And one thing we forgot to mention at the beginning is that 453 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,520 you actually work at Dynamic Disks I do you work in the area 454 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,520 where you pack boxes for Amazon? What's it like doing that? 455 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:04,360 Yeah, it's it's fun. It's it's a lot of fun back 456 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,600 there. We don't there's sometimes where 457 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,040 I actually, I have a fairly new Co worker sitting across from me 458 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,440 and so we actually we get to talk a whole lot and he's a lot 459 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,160 of he's a lot of fun to talk to. He does. 460 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,280 He's doing disc golf content as well. 461 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,440 Oh, really? Started. 462 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:20,960 Yeah. Yeah. 463 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:21,680 Kaden. Yeah. 464 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,360 Oh yeah, Kaden. Yeah, yeah, I've talked to him. 465 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,560 OK, cool. Yeah, yeah, he came and talked 466 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,280 about cameras and stuff like that. 467 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,400 So, so wow, this is kind of my world disc golf content. 468 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,640 I know you have some YouTube videos out already. 469 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,120 I've seen a couple of those YouTube videos. 470 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,800 So I'll put it like a little link on the in the description 471 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,160 where people can follow you and check things out. 472 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,360 And then of course on Instagram you do stuff. 473 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,960 So let me ask you this though, so I can kind of learn a little 474 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,720 bit more. What, what is what is disc golf 475 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,280 look like to you as a young player, as someone that's 476 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,600 getting ready to GoPro, what what is disc golf look like to 477 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,800 you? What do you look to to learn 478 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,400 more about disc golf? Where do you go? 479 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:09,160 I think the content side of it, yeah, for me is what I'm, I'm 480 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,600 very interested in, you know, considering that I want to go 481 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,280 into the content side of disc golf. 482 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,440 I want to learn what gets the most views and what people want 483 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,400 to see and some of the other things about that that I can't 484 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,440 really think about at the moment. 485 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,040 Like what? What did what not what? 486 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,080 What's your strategy right now as far as content? 487 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,600 What, how do you, I mean, I know you, I've seen you do somewhere 488 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,360 you kind of like practice around you, talk through what are you 489 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,600 thinking as far as the kind of content you're going to put out? 490 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,480 Yeah. So I think my content for like 491 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,320 if I'm on the when I'm on the Pro Tour is going to be practice 492 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,720 rounds and stuff kind of like what Ezra Aderhold does, similar 493 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,200 to that. And also testing out different 494 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,120 discs, doing challenge videos like that, that I mean, 495 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,440 challenge videos like that that are really fun and entertaining 496 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,000 for the people watching. Yeah, yeah. 497 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:11,560 So how are you going to have you thought about the, Because I 498 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,640 know there's some podcasts I listen to where they're kind of 499 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,400 debating around the pro and the players that have to go out, 500 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,880 they have to practice, then they have to play in the tournament, 501 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,600 then they have to film and then they have to actually edit What 502 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,840 is. Have you already thought that 503 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,160 through as far as how much what the work you're going to have to 504 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,120 put in? I've definitely thought about 505 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:34,640 how much work it'll be before and I, I don't really have a way 506 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,160 to gauge how well I'll be able to handle it with trying to do 507 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,240 disc golf content and editing it and filming and playing. 508 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,000 I think that's one thing about the practice rounds, is that 509 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,000 filming a practice round, you get your practice in and you get 510 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,760 some content and then the off time that you get where you're 511 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,040 not really doing much waiting for a tee time, you know, I 512 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,760 think that's where the video, I think at video editing kind of 513 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,040 comes in and that that waste some time, you know? 514 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,000 Yeah, takes your mind off. Things I would definitely if I 515 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,760 had any advice. I would say keep your initial 516 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,960 stuff very simple. Simple cuts, simple edits, 517 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,120 nothing you know. You don't need the big 518 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,600 fast-paced Mr. B style stuff because that that stuff takes a 519 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,680 lot of time to put together. And a lot. 520 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,880 And you don't want it to become such a thing that it becomes a 521 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,080 burden to you where you can't get out and practice. 522 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,400 And so keeping it simple and just making stuff that brings 523 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:33,920 value to people, I think it'd be great. 524 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,160 Cool. Well, Bennett, I appreciate you 525 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,560 taking the time to kind of let us know a little bit more about 526 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,360 you and your story. And then, of course, Congrats 527 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,200 again on winning the World Championship. 528 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,720 And I'm sure we'll see a lot more from you. 529 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,720 I know that you and I are going to work on some projects while 530 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,000 you're at Dynamic Discs. So I'm excited about that to get 531 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,080 that started. And then of course Kaden work 532 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,040 with him as well to get maybe see what he can do. 533 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,040 So I'm excited. That's really awesome. 534 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,640 I think that's cool. So good job. 535 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,040 Thank you. Thanks. 536 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,280 Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah, absolutely. 537 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,000 All right. Thanks man. 538 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,200 Thank you. Bye.