I have been bagging a handful of Pro Valks for several years now and it has become my most frequently lost mold due to its speed and understability... it has just the right combination of characteristics that when a throw gets away from me, it tends to reeealy get away
Recently I picked up a new batch of Pro Valks (seems almost miraculous amidst this current crazy disc shortage, but I did find a few) and after throwing, I found that one of them is just beastly--far, far more stable than the others. It is so much more stable that I think I can definitively state that a throw with this disc would never get away from me. I have to crank it at maximum just to get it to turn over at all, and it never turns very far before stable flight takes over. no butter smooth 400 foot hyzerflips out of this thing, it flies more like a Starfire than a Valk
After stopping to do a comparison between my various Valks, I found that the extra stable Valk is actually an entirely different mold! The older Valks have a clear change in bevel angle partway through the wing bevel. The newer one has a more subtle and rounded change in bevel angle, and the bevel angle change occurs much closer to the inside rim of the disc. Also the new Valks have different text molded into the underside of the flight plate, including the word "VALKYRIE" molded near the center
Is there knowledge of this new mold in the wild? Neither Innova nor the online retailers seem to have communicated this difference anywhere. The disc flies so radically different from the Valks I have been bagging that I can't even treat it as the same disc... the discrepancy goes beyond the normally expected variation between runs
Do we have terminology for communicating the difference between these molds? I am interested in acquiring some of the classic Valk molds, these newer ones just can't do the same job
Recently I picked up a new batch of Pro Valks (seems almost miraculous amidst this current crazy disc shortage, but I did find a few) and after throwing, I found that one of them is just beastly--far, far more stable than the others. It is so much more stable that I think I can definitively state that a throw with this disc would never get away from me. I have to crank it at maximum just to get it to turn over at all, and it never turns very far before stable flight takes over. no butter smooth 400 foot hyzerflips out of this thing, it flies more like a Starfire than a Valk
After stopping to do a comparison between my various Valks, I found that the extra stable Valk is actually an entirely different mold! The older Valks have a clear change in bevel angle partway through the wing bevel. The newer one has a more subtle and rounded change in bevel angle, and the bevel angle change occurs much closer to the inside rim of the disc. Also the new Valks have different text molded into the underside of the flight plate, including the word "VALKYRIE" molded near the center
Is there knowledge of this new mold in the wild? Neither Innova nor the online retailers seem to have communicated this difference anywhere. The disc flies so radically different from the Valks I have been bagging that I can't even treat it as the same disc... the discrepancy goes beyond the normally expected variation between runs
Do we have terminology for communicating the difference between these molds? I am interested in acquiring some of the classic Valk molds, these newer ones just can't do the same job