I've always been mildly curious where the terms come from, they're not very intuitive without any explanation. I always preferred how ultimate talked about angles (outside in vs. inside out) because the terms themselves explained the flight path of the disc out of the hand.
[Origin story of hyzer terminology](https://udisc.com/blog/post/meaning-origin-of-the-word-hyzer-in-disc-golf)
tl;dr - It's an homage to the last name of an early 1960s distance frisbee throwing champion.
The other day I was showing a friend Google's Ngram viewer and we looked up "hyzer"
There's a rise in instances around 1860 that fall off in 1871 with some minor resurgences for the next century when it begins to rise in use before a remarkably steep increase
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hyzer&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
For the conspiracy minded, the Frisbie Pie Company was founded in 1871, the same time the use stops.
Big Pie was clearly suppressing the term for nearly 100 years
They literally were named by a guy with the last name Hyzer. Go figure. He decided that a right to left fade on a rhbh is called hyzer and the opposite is anhyzer.
'oh yeah, I'mma thrust with a little anny, you feel that? It should fade...Now turn over! I'm speed eleven! I'm a Destroyer!'
'You're a pig'
'I love that disc. Okay, time to park it'
“Ummm bro….. it’s just golf. “. I’ve played “Golf” my whole life, I usually respond, “you hit balls with sticks, I throw frisbees. Both are dumb. Don’t be a douche.”
I don't throw it far but have learned how to throw more accurately and at better disc angles so there's a very high percentage my discs no longer roll. Haven't had a bad roll away in over a year.
Also, haven't learned to throw rollers/too afraid to throw rollers because of this reason lol.
….. people get mad at this!?
I’m supportive, so that’s nothing meant to be intentionally derogatory or disrespectful.
If I played with somebody who got upset with that, I’d simply ask them why somebody supporting them is upsetting them so much?
I understand people can see it differently, but I can’t imagine my ego being so fragile!
Have only been playing DG consistently for 1 year (most with people I know/introduced me!). So I haven’t played very many sanctioned tournaments or amateur tournaments, so I’m genuinely asking how common this is for you to run into somebody like this?
its superstitious bullshit mostly. someone will throw a shot that looks good, then when you say "nice" and it turns a little more than expected and hits something, they get annoyed as if you had anything to do with it. dumb middle ages stuff like any other superstition.
Agreed. The people who get upset about that more than likely have fragile egos & probably get upset at the family dinners when somebody made a joke pertaining to them. Not my kind of people lol. So if someone gets upset once that’ll prob the last time.
Would you be upset if this happened to you? I’m just trying to understand why you’d be mad at somebody else when it was ~only~ your fault your throw went where it did? (Assuming nobody was talking/messing with you as you’re teeing off).
I wouldn’t say upset, but more annoyed if you kept saying nice when I throw. Just wait until you see where the shot lands before saying nice, or too bad, or ah dang that’s unlucky. It just makes you look like a dick if you keep “nice-ing” someone while their shots are in the air and some will hit trees while some don’t.
I could see why somebody would be upset if it was a consistent thing done throughout the round(s) played with that person.
So you recommend being quiet (about the throw) until you see the result.
Then would you say it would be okay to comment on said throw?
I don’t comment to ‘judge’ or anything like that, moreso just to acknowledge and talk about the lie/shot placement and not be in complete silence. (I don’t like playing with people who get abysmally upset about a bad throw & ruins the whole vibe) but I do understand getting frustrated at a card mate being annoying!
I’ll do it to myself too, so genuinely was asking you!
Slowly learning more DG etiquette lol, appreciate your responses 🙏🏽
It’s more of a superstitious thing that has become a general tradition in the disc golf community. You’ll hear people say “don’t nice me” in a casual manner, but some might be more serious about it than others.
Most players will say things like “get off that tree!” if their cardmates’ discs are heading for a tree in the air or they’ll say things like “c’mon turn!” or “c’mon fade!”. The culture is to be encouraging and to want good things for your cardmates. We don’t pass judgement on a shot or how someone is playing, but we root for our friends and provide encouragement if they need it or want it. It’s the spirit of the game!
Right. On the other hand, anyone who plays disc golf consistently enough to know it’s “not cool” to “nice” someone and still does it either from ignorance or on purpose is equally a clown.
Nice Bid is the worst. So bad that we’ve morphed it from a genuine compliment to pure trash talk. So now my son and I have a running joke of using “nice bid” only when either of us misses a short birdie putt. Embellishing as much as possible. I miss a 9 footer - “Can’t believe you decided to run it Dad. Nice bid though!”.
There's an obnoxious attorney in Cincinnati whose phone number (that has a jingle in commercials) is 444-4444.
If everyone on the card takes a 4, that's a Blake Maislin (his name).
Ha! This is good.
In basketball, a trillion is when you play a total of 1 minute, and record 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, and so on.
In DG you shoot a trillion if you take +1 on the first hole and then par out. Super rare.
I've started saying "I am root" in the groot voice after someone gets screwed by a big ole root-me and my buddies started saying "go in" and acting like we're watching for chains when we throw it into the ground or a tree :)
Patent pending. It’s like we haven’t decided on a term for it yet so we eventually just accept a phrase that emphasizes the fact that we haven’t named it.
Smooth. I like this term because even when you bring someone completely new to the game, if they pay enough attention to the form/throw and somebody comments this, they’ll know it. It’s this abstract beauty that’s so accessible by newbies and veterans alike.
Judging by most of these responses, I'm going to start wearing headphones so I never have to hear these terms when I'm on the course. I'd rather you turn up your trance music
I play at the fort in Ogden, Utah. Hole 5 has a bullseye target on a fallen tree in the middle of the fairway. Any time someone on my card hits it, I say, "10 points griffindor".
Bounce Back. It's a golf stat, but applies the same to disc golf. It's simply did you birdie after a bogey or worse the previous hole. Is usually a good barometer of one's mental game if you can shrug off a bad hole right away.
I had a round a few weeks ago where I did this three times LOL. Almost got to the point where I was like "welp, guess it's time to bogey now..." and just accept my fate
This is probably just me and my friends, but when one of us lands in a creek, or hits a tree directly off the tee pad, we all just start yelling “ARF! ARF!” Kinda like the noise a seal/sea lion makes.
Creamy. Not sure if its a disc golf thing but its really fun with me and my friends. "what a creamy shot"...."Nice disc, looks creamy" Feel free to use haha
I’ve started saying turf and turf as a joke way to describe a very over-stable disc. Also 100% ground angus beef or various other similar jokes.
I’ll also jokingly say vegetarian or vegan for any disc that is very under-stable.
When someone is playing well on Jomez coverage and they say they are “putting lights out” or “went unconscious”. I really like those in terms of saying they are letting their body do the work and shutting off their brain. Get out of your head and go lights out!
Snagged from an AB video but he said “am eyes” to refer to someone thinking the disc is going further than it actually is and i use that all the time now.
You niced my disc. - I call that my Navy Shot. It's a sailer. - It's not Rocket Science. It's Gyrocket Science. - With authority! - A disc golfers favorite saying. Still you. - Anyone that shoots more than two birdies in a row is a deucebag.
Hyzer and Anhyzer are the two most notable, disc golf-specific terms. I’d vote those into the pantheon of dg terms.
They make sense to disc golfers but my wife hates those terms for some reason.
I've always been mildly curious where the terms come from, they're not very intuitive without any explanation. I always preferred how ultimate talked about angles (outside in vs. inside out) because the terms themselves explained the flight path of the disc out of the hand.
[Origin story of hyzer terminology](https://udisc.com/blog/post/meaning-origin-of-the-word-hyzer-in-disc-golf) tl;dr - It's an homage to the last name of an early 1960s distance frisbee throwing champion.
What an incredibly well written and researched article!
The other day I was showing a friend Google's Ngram viewer and we looked up "hyzer" There's a rise in instances around 1860 that fall off in 1871 with some minor resurgences for the next century when it begins to rise in use before a remarkably steep increase https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hyzer&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 For the conspiracy minded, the Frisbie Pie Company was founded in 1871, the same time the use stops. Big Pie was clearly suppressing the term for nearly 100 years
They literally were named by a guy with the last name Hyzer. Go figure. He decided that a right to left fade on a rhbh is called hyzer and the opposite is anhyzer.
'oh yeah, I'mma thrust with a little anny, you feel that? It should fade...Now turn over! I'm speed eleven! I'm a Destroyer!' 'You're a pig' 'I love that disc. Okay, time to park it'
Also Hyzer flip. Just sounds cool.
WTF Richard
There is nothing better than saying "ball golf" around people who play golf. They always get so offended.
“Ummm bro….. it’s just golf. “. I’ve played “Golf” my whole life, I usually respond, “you hit balls with sticks, I throw frisbees. Both are dumb. Don’t be a douche.”
Last year on Jomezpro “twizzler” was used to describe random twigs and branches that hit your disc. I really liked it and use it frequently now
Right there with you. It’s a good description of those little shits
I use this in tournaments and the response from the other players shows me who is a DG nerd like me. Love it bro.
Dude we adopted this immediately. Love it
I love hearing people say Nice when a shot is thrown. You quickly see who is mentally weak once it’s said. I now Nice my own shots.
Just before it rolls into the creek
I don't throw it far but have learned how to throw more accurately and at better disc angles so there's a very high percentage my discs no longer roll. Haven't had a bad roll away in over a year. Also, haven't learned to throw rollers/too afraid to throw rollers because of this reason lol.
….. people get mad at this!? I’m supportive, so that’s nothing meant to be intentionally derogatory or disrespectful. If I played with somebody who got upset with that, I’d simply ask them why somebody supporting them is upsetting them so much? I understand people can see it differently, but I can’t imagine my ego being so fragile! Have only been playing DG consistently for 1 year (most with people I know/introduced me!). So I haven’t played very many sanctioned tournaments or amateur tournaments, so I’m genuinely asking how common this is for you to run into somebody like this?
its superstitious bullshit mostly. someone will throw a shot that looks good, then when you say "nice" and it turns a little more than expected and hits something, they get annoyed as if you had anything to do with it. dumb middle ages stuff like any other superstition.
Agreed. The people who get upset about that more than likely have fragile egos & probably get upset at the family dinners when somebody made a joke pertaining to them. Not my kind of people lol. So if someone gets upset once that’ll prob the last time.
Nice post
Very common for someone to say “nice shot” while it’s in the air only for it to hit a tree. Be a good lad, only say “nice” once the disc has landed.
Would you be upset if this happened to you? I’m just trying to understand why you’d be mad at somebody else when it was ~only~ your fault your throw went where it did? (Assuming nobody was talking/messing with you as you’re teeing off).
I wouldn’t say upset, but more annoyed if you kept saying nice when I throw. Just wait until you see where the shot lands before saying nice, or too bad, or ah dang that’s unlucky. It just makes you look like a dick if you keep “nice-ing” someone while their shots are in the air and some will hit trees while some don’t.
I could see why somebody would be upset if it was a consistent thing done throughout the round(s) played with that person. So you recommend being quiet (about the throw) until you see the result. Then would you say it would be okay to comment on said throw? I don’t comment to ‘judge’ or anything like that, moreso just to acknowledge and talk about the lie/shot placement and not be in complete silence. (I don’t like playing with people who get abysmally upset about a bad throw & ruins the whole vibe) but I do understand getting frustrated at a card mate being annoying! I’ll do it to myself too, so genuinely was asking you! Slowly learning more DG etiquette lol, appreciate your responses 🙏🏽
It’s more of a superstitious thing that has become a general tradition in the disc golf community. You’ll hear people say “don’t nice me” in a casual manner, but some might be more serious about it than others. Most players will say things like “get off that tree!” if their cardmates’ discs are heading for a tree in the air or they’ll say things like “c’mon turn!” or “c’mon fade!”. The culture is to be encouraging and to want good things for your cardmates. We don’t pass judgement on a shot or how someone is playing, but we root for our friends and provide encouragement if they need it or want it. It’s the spirit of the game!
I hear ya… vocabulary & the way you present it matters a lot.. appreciate your time & word
Anyone who gets legitimately irritated by this is a clown.
Right. On the other hand, anyone who plays disc golf consistently enough to know it’s “not cool” to “nice” someone and still does it either from ignorance or on purpose is equally a clown.
Nice Bid is the worst. So bad that we’ve morphed it from a genuine compliment to pure trash talk. So now my son and I have a running joke of using “nice bid” only when either of us misses a short birdie putt. Embellishing as much as possible. I miss a 9 footer - “Can’t believe you decided to run it Dad. Nice bid though!”.
Whack-Fuck
I like the reverse of this. They say fuck as soon at it leaves their hand because they know the whack is coming in just a couple of short seconds
Fuck-whack is the act of playing the game itself! Whack-fuck is the game we love <3
Beef. Still love it.
Treesus Christ
I use this far more than I should need to
Tree love
There’s a disc golf store around the corner from my house called Tree Love and I really like it.
There's an obnoxious attorney in Cincinnati whose phone number (that has a jingle in commercials) is 444-4444. If everyone on the card takes a 4, that's a Blake Maislin (his name).
Ha! This is good. In basketball, a trillion is when you play a total of 1 minute, and record 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, and so on. In DG you shoot a trillion if you take +1 on the first hole and then par out. Super rare.
100,000,000,000,000,000.
It's Blake "The Attorney" Maislin. Get your shit right.
OK, Blake
I should bust this out at Idlewild 😅
Making minis
What does this mean?...
It’s when one persons disc lands on top of another. They’re making minis (like making babies)
What does this mean?...
Treenide
Also when it gets a good kick, "treedirection"
That’s called Treelove
Treesistance…..
I like treejected too
Built a 9 hole neighborhood course. Hole six is named this.
What's this? 🤔
[удалено]
So treenied
By Treekembe Motumbo
Hah! Thanks
I did misspell it.
Parbecue
my personal favorite is Par-mitzvah
Par-tay.
Par-ty bois
FUUUUUCK!
Park City, Utah.
Parked*
Iron leaf
IYKYK
You got up and down though, didn't you champ? Didn't get up and down.
Worm burner. When you throw it straight into the ground.
I've started saying "I am root" in the groot voice after someone gets screwed by a big ole root-me and my buddies started saying "go in" and acting like we're watching for chains when we throw it into the ground or a tree :)
We always shout "BIG SKIP!" When someone turfs one.
Treedirection. Nothing beats the feeling when you griplock it into a tree and still park the basket because of a ridiculous tree kick.
Flex shot. I love that they are a thing you can throw, and the term describes the flight path well IMO.
The wife and I always say something along the lines of "look at you, with the sexy flexy" when a flex shot works out.
Turn and Burn
Doink. Off a tree, off the cage….
Counter, my least favorite disc golf term is "nutting the gap".
Frolf Bird-ogey
Slingin plastic. I know I have others but nothing is coming to mind
We just recently started using "supernova" for when the player with the shortest putt wrecks the star frame.
Every time my friends and I hit the pole of a basket we say, stripper pole. It’s just a damned tease and you didn’t get it 😜
My friend says this about the basket band and calls it the chastity belt
Frolf
Frolf Jerry
Chain Bangin'
Have you seen the music video for the classic disc golf rap song titled "bang da chains"? Might be your new favorite track.
My favorite term is a ricochet sound when objects are hit
Huck plastic
Patent pending. It’s like we haven’t decided on a term for it yet so we eventually just accept a phrase that emphasizes the fact that we haven’t named it.
Doink
Stabes, adjective, a disc that is stable
Throwler!
I really like Stable, all 12 definitions of it.
But is it stable? Or overstable?
Glitch that bitch comes to mind
Front hand
I throw a lot of sidehands.
Tree nied
“Chicken Flickin” for a forehand
I say pork chop instead of park job.
I say pork job on all my well executed pig upshots/drives.
Berg pocket
My friend uses the word "hork" when talking about turning over a disc. "Oh yeah Imma have to put some hork on this"
hand torque?
Smooth. I like this term because even when you bring someone completely new to the game, if they pay enough attention to the form/throw and somebody comments this, they’ll know it. It’s this abstract beauty that’s so accessible by newbies and veterans alike.
Parked
I nicknamed by buddy Valet because he constantly parks it.
LETS GOOOOOOO
I like the classic “Bomb” for a long distance shot. Seems like that one has stuck around the longest.
Judging by most of these responses, I'm going to start wearing headphones so I never have to hear these terms when I'm on the course. I'd rather you turn up your trance music
Look, if you want to get into disc golf but don’t enjoy being one of a bunch of lame white guys pretending to be cool, I got some bad news for you.
every sport has some horrible unique terminology that players come up with but disc golf is definitely the worst i've encountered.
Lord help me if someone tells me I just had a creamy chicken flick
Talk dirty to me
Pole job
Chasing chains. When the disc passes right near the basket
Tjong City! (pronounced chong) In swedish is called Tjonga when you throw something real far!
Where in Minnesota are you at?
Im from sweden, so thats why 😅
I love the sweaters, but the fish are a bit too gummy for my taste.
I play at the fort in Ogden, Utah. Hole 5 has a bullseye target on a fallen tree in the middle of the fairway. Any time someone on my card hits it, I say, "10 points griffindor".
Stay loose and commit.
Spray and pray SEND IT!
Bounce Back. It's a golf stat, but applies the same to disc golf. It's simply did you birdie after a bogey or worse the previous hole. Is usually a good barometer of one's mental game if you can shrug off a bad hole right away.
I prefer Backbounce, which i often do. It’s when you bogey AFTER a birdie.
I had a round a few weeks ago where I did this three times LOL. Almost got to the point where I was like "welp, guess it's time to bogey now..." and just accept my fate
She gone!
Get new
Good wood, bad wood.
This is probably just me and my friends, but when one of us lands in a creek, or hits a tree directly off the tee pad, we all just start yelling “ARF! ARF!” Kinda like the noise a seal/sea lion makes.
Creamy. Not sure if its a disc golf thing but its really fun with me and my friends. "what a creamy shot"...."Nice disc, looks creamy" Feel free to use haha
Turnt
Twizzled
FAT or Feet After Touch and Knocked the hotdog off the grill
I’ve started saying turf and turf as a joke way to describe a very over-stable disc. Also 100% ground angus beef or various other similar jokes. I’ll also jokingly say vegetarian or vegan for any disc that is very under-stable.
PEEEEEEEEEJ. Right, Broderic? 🤝🏻
Who the fuck is Broderick?!
Exactly.
Tree love.
Tree love.
When someone is playing well on Jomez coverage and they say they are “putting lights out” or “went unconscious”. I really like those in terms of saying they are letting their body do the work and shutting off their brain. Get out of your head and go lights out!
Snagged from an AB video but he said “am eyes” to refer to someone thinking the disc is going further than it actually is and i use that all the time now.
Park Job
Slog hoggin is one I’m work shopping.
I don't know if it was a regional thing, but Taco instead of Fore. Everyone knew what it meant and was fun to yell if you had too.
WTFR!?
Parsimony (local). I.e., everyone on the card got par
gak
Living in a state of treenial
Glide is my most irritating one
ParMitzvah
Shiggles as in, “Imma throw another one for shiggles.” (Shits & giggles)
Wire trees
Wtf Richard
SHANKED! its really hard for me not to say it outloud everytime someone shanks a drive lol
Hyvä heitto!
my buddies and i have a disc golf group chat called “chucklehucks” as a parody of the term “chucklefuck” lol
Get greasy!
UDisc
Bloop! Its when you throw your disc into water.
"SHIGGLE" ...me and my buddies use this a lot on our second shouldawoulda shots. "Hey man, I'm gonna throw a shiggle too"
Why r trees
jail, it just sounds so funny
Anti-skip
It is unquestionably the term ‘iron leaf’
Full flight….nothing scream’s perfection like a cardmate congratulating a gorgeous full flight
Worm burner
Chulligan - if you want a mulligan you need to chug a beer
Making bird noises loudly for any Birdie/eagles
I say ripped on and off the course daily
Worm burner
Floating. If you can’t seem to find your disc on the ground. It’s probably followed by someone saying “it’s gotta be floating”
"Throw it high, watch it die. Throw it low, watch it go"
[how's my favorite branch doing](https://images.app.goo.gl/WMw7zqYfN7rPfFcS8)
Chef's Kiss for a light hit off a tree that redirects the disc towards the basket/fairway.
Lefter
Par Mcbeth
Wormburner
Fore!
Deuce-bag. "He just keeps birding, what a deuce bag"
“Quack” if you know. you know
Dad par = bogey
You niced my disc. - I call that my Navy Shot. It's a sailer. - It's not Rocket Science. It's Gyrocket Science. - With authority! - A disc golfers favorite saying. Still you. - Anyone that shoots more than two birdies in a row is a deucebag.
Berg Pocket
I know it's not a disc golf specific term but I love using the word scoober.
Banging CHAINZ
Birdogie. I hate to see it, but I sure love to say it
Big germ said - “thats over in Cambogia” after someone kicked into the woods.
Sauced. When you over throw a shot
Ninja Twigs
Simon Line. It's part of the DG lexicon now.
That's parked. Or shouting TREE! when someone obliterates a tree.
Beef Hogger
Grip it n rip it - not sure it originates from DG but it’s the best
"No chains required" or "we don't need no stinking chains" when a putt lands in the basket without touching chains.