“I love to run with purpose, meaning I hate the track, but I like to chase things,” Ms. Batchelder said. “I love the fact that when you’re playing, you make hundreds and thousands of little decisions — where the disc is, where your body is — but they happen without thinking.”
Nothing feels as good as a throw well done, disc arcing its way through the air, around players, into the space where your teammate will be. The variables in play—the complex and changing geometry of the players on the field, the attitude and speed of the disc, the angle of release, the wind—combine somehow to give the game graceful fluidity while confronting players with sudden changes.
As we say, when a ball dreams, it’s a disc.
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