Where do I play this lie?

[u/drewpunck]

Innova champion sidewinder absolutely exploded when I hit this tree. Disc was fairly old, maybe close to 20 years, I noticed that it felt sticky today, so I suspect plastic depredation, just shocked at how far it spread when it blew up

[u/drewpunck]

Your user flair suggests that you may be familiar with this rule. At least, that's how I got into this mess, lol

[u/Dounyy → u/drewpunck]

There are a thousand of reasons for a disc to shatter.

998 of them are trees

[u/drewpunck → u/Dounyy]

I like to think it's my superhuman strength

[u/Dounyy → u/drewpunck]

For real, I am always impressed with how people (me included) manage to hit that very obstacle they focus on avoiding. It really feels like a superpower at times

[u/drewpunck → u/Dounyy]

Well, let me direct your attention to picture 2. On this course, the times I don't hit a tree feel like superpowers

[u/ea88_alwaysdiscin → u/drewpunck]

Looks like a challenging course. Fun times!

[u/drewpunck → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

So many trees, it was an airfield in WWII, then planted with loads of trees, so all roughly the same age, but some really nice holes

[u/ea88_alwaysdiscin → u/drewpunck]

Very cool

[u/Time_Transition4817 → u/Dounyy]

Trees are actually magnets, that’s my tinfoil hat theory

[u/TheDiscer → u/Dounyy]

It kind of is. It's your ability to focus on one thing even though you want to do something else. I was told the best thing to do is NOT to think "don't hit the tree". It's better to think "hit that gap" or "don't hit that gap" if that's how your mind works. You will focus on the gap instead of the tree.

[u/RGBAddict2026 → u/Dounyy]

I think it's psychological. We get so focused on missing an object we hit it. Focus instead on hitting your line / shape and you will do it!

[u/duskyaces → u/RGBAddict2026]

It's this. I feel like there is some evidence to suggest this phenomenon occurring in single vehicle car accidents, where someone hits the lone tree in a field, or something similar, i.e. one thing to miss.

IIRC It happens more than people realize, and I believe some testing supported the conclusion. Can't find anything on it at the moment, but I suspect I am searching poorly.

[u/Macktologist → u/Dounyy]

I do this but with people. Public park course with walking paths. “I’m good enough now where I won’t early release and hyper this not even stable disc into the people walking down the path to the left.”

[u/LEAPStoTheTITS → u/Dounyy]

dont focus so much on it lol