Determining The Stability of My Backup Discs

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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:

  1. 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)
  2. 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).
  3. 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 my fieldwork could be simplified and none of this "aggregation" would need to be done if it was a truly "calm day" (no wind). But when do we ever have one of those in MN!

Here's a snippet of some of the results I gathered!


I found this to be a reasonably effective way of getting fieldwork done for the purpose I intended. I was  able to document the stability of my backup discs so I can grab and go when I know I need to fill a missing slot in my bag. Go out and give this a try for yourself and see if it can help you too!

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