Brandon Whitehead's Disc Golf Blog

Choosing exclusivity without a sponsorship? You're gonna have a bad time! Reference:  You're Gonna Have a Bad Time - SOUTH PARK I used to exclusively bag  Innova  discs. Innova was and is everywhere. I could find Innova in almost all of the sports stores near me which made it very convenient to find and replace discs as needed. But recently that has changed, and it has changed for the better! No longer am I limiting myself to ONE company for no good reason! I'm not sponsored by Innova and I don't need to be a walking advertisement for them without receiving some form of compensation (even if my current bag has their logo slapped right on the front of it ). Don't get me wrong, I still love a lot of their molds and plastics but in the world of disc golf, there are SOOOOO many companies , so why limit myself to only one when I have no valid reason to do so? After having that epiphany (far too late in my career), I switched from bagging molds created by ONE company (I...

Today, I had the idea to perform some fieldwork. I wanted to review the stabilities of my backup discs. The idea was to go out, throw the discs as consistently as possible and write down their aggregate stability I observed from their flights. Then I could label the discs with the goal being that I have a rough idea of how it should fly when I grab one off the shelf. Here's how I went about my fieldwork during today's session: There was a consistent wind but not too strong so I was able to position myself to experiment with 4 different wind conditions (Headwind, Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left, Tailwind) Based on the behavior of the discs thrown in the 4 wind conditions, I "aggregated" the flight into an "overall stability rating" (Very US, US, Neutral, OS, Very OS). Throw 2 types of "consistent" throws (standard 70% backhand and standard 50% forehand on my "natural release" (slight hyzer) into the winds and record the outcome Note that m...