Besides Frisbee Exhibitions and disc golf..
raising my two teenage boys.Here is a glimpse of the city park we are creating, from the ground up, for the community!
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Progress Pics (or Slide Show)
This is the architect's design of the 21 acre park, to be dedicated to the flying disc sports, and disc golf in particular
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Forum Conversations
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Blueprints and maps
A recent article about our Frisbee school assembly.
In case you want some history on all this, around 2001 we (founders of motodom.com,) co-founded the Course of DISCovery Education (C.O.D.E.) as a non-profit org with the Gallatin Foundation 501c3, for benefit to the people throughout Gallatin County.
We were then given 21 acres of flat land in the middle of Bozeman, to turn into a city park that is totally dedicated to the flying disc.
Our designs were to include a series of predesigned berms, sculpted out of 10,000+
truckloads of fill dirt and topsoil, donated over 5 years! (IT may be the one and only DISC golf community course in the country that has been built from blueprints -like a typical golf course.) To the delight of the community players.
After we designed it, we approached contractors for the donations of construction and material. When that started to roll in, we submitted a grant application to the City, and they awarded us $75,000 cash for the project in 2002! We then submitted another grant application to FWP, and
they awarded us another $75,000 cash in 2003! Everything else from the land, to the construction, has come in from some large individual donations (totalling $2,600,000)!
By the way, in case you were wondering, we don't take a penny of it. All cash goes to construction and materials -when we can't get it (or part) through in-kind donations.
The pics are always coming in for recent activity. This Fall '07, everything should be wrapped up. Watch for some more dynamic pics in the coming months.
Then, as all of you already know, we will continue with our follow-up C.O.D.E. programs for the schools here. Giving the PE teachers great tools to use in classes, including our exciting Frisbee school assembly, and
Frisbee lesson plans, and Heave H.O.E. throwing instructions on DVD.
These educational tools, combined with a free city disc golf park, will hopefully promote... "better health and social responsibility in youth with flying disc sports," over a lifetime! Something I think the U.S. populace could really use right now.
FYI
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Total Park project= $2,750,000 !
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Land 21 acres = $2,000,000 and growing
Berms = $600,000 in construction and material
Park Fixtures = $150,000 for disc golf course:
baskets and tee pads, picnic benches, parking lot, wells, irrigation, 150 trees and bushes, seed, trails.
Enjoy the pics!
All the top 100 Disc golfers and Ball golfers - men and women.
AND all the PE teachers of Myspace.com!
I am actually an alumni (DJ) of the nationally regarded radio station KGLT. Nationally regarded because of a couple reasons. One, is that it's of the very few stations in the U.S. to play a changing format every 3 hours. It's called free format which includes rock, hip hop, blues, blue grass, country, reggae etc etc. 91.9 KGLT
"Ground Hog's Day," and a close second would be "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
OK, I'll even admit it here. I became hooked on watching the Apprentice, because I come from a business management background. I love to watch for any brilliant "ah ha!" moments from thinking outside the box that helps contestants win a task, which are few and far between! And I like to watch it for the absolute Bozo's they get who think they are hot stuff, but keep trippingover themselves, again, few and far between, but there seems to be one on every season.Last of all, I love to watch anything about Poker, UFC, and anything on the Science and Discovery Channels.
Any books about science, space and astronomy. Plus books about positive thinking.. which can lead one to more beauty and joy.
All Icebowl contestants.
My parents. My good friend Doug Quam who was like a big brother as I was growing up.. ( and heck, I'm still growing up!) And Cary Silberman, who is one of the top disc golf pros in Montana, who's demeanor I admire on and off the disc golf course.