Fabián OloarteProduct · AI · TeachingContact
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A large disc golf community gathered for a group photograph in a wooded park.

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Building a sport means building the systems around it.

My work in disc golf grew from a simple idea: an accessible sport can become a meaningful market when the community, infrastructure, products, events, and local leadership grow together. That idea took me from player to market development, regional operations, tournament direction, and early-stage founder work.

Why disc golf

From player to market builder

I discovered disc golf in 2014. What fascinated me was how much of golf's challenge could exist in a public park with a fraction of the barriers I associated with traditional golf. I immediately thought the sport could make sense in Mexico and Latin America.

I kept returning to it whenever I could, including regular rounds at Golden Gate Park while living in San Francisco. In 2021, after discovering an active community playing in Mexico, I began playing seriously again and decided to see whether this interest could become professional work.

Instead of waiting for a job opening, I made an unsolicited video proposal: a long-term plan to help a disc-golf company develop Mexico and Latin America. That initiative eventually helped open my path into the industry and to Dynamic Discs.

2021 archival evidence

The pitch that started it

In 2021 I sent this unsolicited proposal to Discmania: a five-year vision for helping develop disc golf in Mexico and Latin America. The company I eventually joined was Dynamic Discs, but this video captures the thesis and initiative that started my professional path into the sport.

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Professional disc-golf work

Three stages of building around the sport

Current founder work first, followed by regional operations and the industry role that turned an early thesis into professional experience.

  1. Shaman Disc Golf

    Co-Founder · Product Strategy & Business Development

    Works across physical products, suppliers, partnerships, wholesale strategy and tournament operations in an early-stage company where product, business, community and field execution overlap.

    Fabián Oloarte holding a disc while directing a tournament group in a wooded park.
    Directing an A-Tier event in Mexico during my Shaman Disc Golf co-founder period.

  2. PDGA Latinoamérica

    Marketing Director

    Combined regional communication with member support, tournament promotion, event operations, course development, equipment distribution and cross-country coordination.

    Fabián Oloarte in a blue PDGA shirt behind a table of colorful tournament awards.
    Directing an A-Tier event during my PDGA Latinoamérica period.
    • 120Registration support helped produce 120 players, 83% of the campaign goal.
    • 1Designed a public-park disc golf course in Querétaro as part of broader regional-development work.

  3. Dynamic Discs

    International Media Director

    Held the official title of International Media Director while working beyond media across Latin American market development, community partnerships, equipment access, player support and disc golf infrastructure.

    Fabián Oloarte seated outdoors beneath a Dynamic Discs basket.
    During my Dynamic Discs period, when the work expanded from media into regional market and ecosystem development.
    • ≈9Helped place or support approximately nine disc golf courses.

Disc golf partnerships

Build the next piece of the disc golf ecosystem.

Open to selected conversations about product, events, infrastructure, regional growth, and partnerships.

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