How a Lincoln enterprise helped put golf frisbees within the palms of Nebraska Metropolis college students – Lincoln Journal Star
Kelsey Slauson (left) and Terry Twaddell, co-owners of Zen Llama, work within the disc golf retailer on Tuesday within the School View neighborhood. The enterprise helped Mitch Chapin collect sufficient discs to assist the Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty supply a piece in PE educating college students the way to play.
Terry Twaddell (left) and Kelsey Slauson, co-owners of Zen Llama, pose for a portrait of their disc golf retailer within the School View neighborhood. The enterprise and its clients helped Mitch Chapin collect sufficient discs to assist the Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty supply a piece in PE educating college students the way to play.
The story of Mitch Chapin’s devotion to disc golf begins within the depths of a YouTube rabbit gap.
On a cold winter day in 2017, after hours of watching content material with little thought of the place he began, Chapin stumbled throughout movies of individuals hurling neon frisbees into baskets with chains. Knowledgeable athlete named Paul McBeth informed the story of how he made this uncommon outside exercise his profession. The game, Chapin realized, is named disc golf, and he was immediately hooked.
Also referred to as frisbee golf or frolf, disc golf rapidly became extra than simply an web fascination or passion for Chapin.
“I’ve by no means been so passionate approximately something in my life,” Chapin mentioned. “It’s a good looking sport. You go on the market and watch a disc fly … it simply feels proper.”
His love for the game has grown right into a want to get discs into the palms of Nebraska’s youngsters.
A full-time substitute trainer with Nebraska Metropolis Public Colleges, Chapin satisfied the highschool there to combine disc golf into its PE curriculum. The problem, nevertheless, was that neither Chapin nor the varsity district had sufficient discs to show the children the way to play. So, Chapin started sending emails and making cellphone calls.
First, Chapin started asking across the frolf group in Nebraska Metropolis to see if he may scrounge sufficient discs. Although he was in a position to purchase a number of, it wasn’t practically sufficient for the complete highschool. He then started to hunt help from the Lincoln frisbee golf group.
Fortunately for Chapin, Terry Twaddell, co-owner of Zen Llama, Lincoln’s solely frisbee golf retailer, answered his plea for assist.
Twaddell mentioned the store has flourished since its genesis in March 2021 because of the town’s lively disc golf group.
“It’s rising by the day, actually, as a result of it’s a sport that actually anyone can do, and it’s meant to be performed in teams,” Twaddell mentioned. “It’s simple sufficient to throw a disc, however it’s difficult sufficient to maintain folks coming again.”
Chapin echoed the sentiment that the game has grown exponentially for the reason that pandemic.
“Due to COVID, it has exploded,” Chapin mentioned. “It’s doubled within the final 10 years, and it’s doubled on high of that since COVID as a result of it’s a socially distanced sport that enables lots of people to get exterior when they’re feeling confined.”
Mitch Chapin (from left), Zen Llama co-owners Kelsey Slauson and Terry Twaddell present the donation field arrange on the frisbee golf store in Lincoln looking for donations for Chapin’s challenge to assemble discs so Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty may train frolfing in PE.
On Dec. 8, Chapin arrange a cardboard field in Zen Llama with an image of himself and his daughter and a observe asking for disc golfers to contemplate donating outdated discs. Twaddell posted an image of the field on Zen Llama’s social media pages, which he mentioned garnered consideration from native and nonlocal frisbee golfers alike. Twaddell mentioned even out-of-state disc golfers started sending discs.
By Dec. 17, Chapin had greater than 100 discs — greater than sufficient for Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty to start out frolfing.
Now in a position to implement frisbee golf into the PE curriculum, Chapin mentioned he couldn’t be extra grateful to the Lincoln disc golf group for his or her assist. He additionally mentioned he’s grateful for Twaddell and Kelsey Slauson, co-owner of Zen Llama, for his or her kindness.
“Zen Llama … actually took us to the moon with the generosity of the Lincoln folks,” Chapin mentioned.
Although Chapin has loads of discs for Nebraska Metropolis, he nonetheless desires of getting discs into the palms of extra youngsters. He is now shifting his consideration to Lincoln’s youngsters, and he’s taken with getting Lincoln Public Colleges on board together with his frolf agenda.
Chapin continues to gather donations for his future training pursuits. As well as, Nebraska Metropolis Parks and Recreation is within the last phases of unveiling a brand new 9-hole frisbee golf course that he advocated for and helped construct.
Chapin mentioned he’s devoted to reaching youngsters with the game as a result of he’s liked watching it remodel from a sport solely for the aged to a classy exercise.
“It’s getting taken absent from the older hippies as a result of youthful individuals are stepping into it,” Chapin mentioned. “I believe a part of the wonder is attending to play with a number of generations. My son is 8 years outdated, and we will exit and play with my 60-year-old dad, and all of us have an excellent time.”
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Mitch Chapin (from left), Zen Llama co-owners Kelsey Slauson and Terry Twaddell present the donation field arrange on the frisbee golf store in Lincoln looking for donations for Chapin’s challenge to assemble discs so Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty may train frolfing in PE.
Kelsey Slauson (left) and Terry Twaddell, co-owners of Zen Llama, work within the disc golf retailer on Tuesday within the School View neighborhood. The enterprise helped Mitch Chapin collect sufficient discs to assist the Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty supply a piece in PE educating college students the way to play.
Terry Twaddell (left) and Kelsey Slauson, co-owners of Zen Llama, pose for a portrait of their disc golf retailer within the School View neighborhood. The enterprise and its clients helped Mitch Chapin collect sufficient discs to assist the Nebraska Metropolis Excessive Faculty supply a piece in PE educating college students the way to play.
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