Sadistic starter pack

[Everett Evans]

I was in Dick's the other day and saw they had a so-so selection of Innova plus Strokesavers, plus a few three-packs for beginners (Leopard, Shark, Aviar, I think). It got me thinking "If I could create the worst possible starter pack for a noob, what would it have in it?". So here are my suggestions for "driver", "midrange" and "putt/approach"...

Driver - 180g Ram
Midrange - 160g Optimizer
Putt/approach - 160g Zephyr

 

[agent_peebody]

groove, nike's "wheel" disc, polecat

 

[elnino]

No for beginners this would be the best.

max weight XXX
max weight whippet X
and a 10 M brick

 

[sidewinder22]

No for beginners this would be the best.

max weight XXX
max weight whippet X
and a 10 M brick

Ding, ding, ding! I think I've actually seen that setup before on the course. LOL :doh:

 

[Pink Elephant]

Driver: Domey Star Destroyer 175 (Stable as hell, and impossible to throw for someone without a gun. But flight chart numbers indicate it should fly different which would frustrate the heck out of them)

Midrange: #2 hyzer (Too overstable, and a Lightning disc, so it must suck right?)

Putter: Blowfly (Useless as an actual putter, just useless)

 

[ChaseTheAce]

Zephyrs are awesome. what are you talking about?

 

[imoser_me]

The discraft starter pack:

175g Z-Flick
180g ESP FLX Drone
174g ESP Zone

If I started with these discs, I probably would have quit. Now I love these discs.

 

[rocthecourse]

The Halex 3 disc set FTW. The plastic is crap, the midrange and driver are basically the same disc, and as soon as you throw much over 150 ft. the driver gets flippy. The only fun thing is that once you can throw over 300 ft. you can backhand a barrel roll(it flips all the way over) with the driver.
http://www.fleetfarm.com/catalog/pr...eral-sports/outdoor-games/halex-disc-golf-set

 

[agent_peebody]

Weight: approximately 1.1 pounds

i love the precision of that company...

 

[Carolina Crushers]

2 votes for the halex 3pc set.

 

[Valktastic]

One free frisbee with a domino's pizza logo on it for all shots . . . Oh wait. That is what the group in front of us was using today.

 

[tstack10]

Driver- obvious groove
Mid- any lightening disc
Putter- turbo putt

 

[Valktastic]

2 votes for the halex 3pc set.

The Halex set would have been an upgrade. I found one of those Halex discs in a ditch and threw it into the middle of a lake.

 

[SomeChump]

I threw a max weight polecat today. Slow, straight. Interesting. Felt easy to nail 30 footers with it. Bad rap there I think. Dunno, maybe just lucky.

 

[agent_peebody]

forgot about that turbo putter...here it is if anyone doesn't know what it is

http://www.gottagogottathrow.com/discgolf/quest-turbo-putter-p-1309.html

 

[lokirising]

Epic, Polecat and Arrow

 

[Everett Evans]

The Zephyr is a great catch disc, accuracy, etc., but you ever putt with one? Chains don't like stiff, blunt, big diameter and light.

 

[tstack10]

The Zephyr is a great catch disc, accuracy, etc., but you ever putt with one? Chains don't like stiff, blunt, big diameter and light.

Epic

 

[cfair]

The Halex 3 disc set FTW. The plastic is crap, the midrange and driver are basically the same disc, and as soon as you throw much over 150 ft. the driver gets flippy. The only fun thing is that once you can throw over 300 ft. you can backhand a barrel roll(it flips all the way over) with the driver.
http://www.fleetfarm.com/catalog/pr...eral-sports/outdoor-games/halex-disc-golf-set

Friend of mine had these. She bought them cause they were cheap thinking, "hey I can play with Chris now". They are so freaking hard and the lip/dept of the disc is 1/8th of an inch. So hard to grip. She left the driver on the course and let he dog chew up the putter. For as hard as they are (and they are hard) one would have no problem making the discs unusable. I actually doubt they would sustain many tree hits despite being hard as... hard as... I really don't know what to compare it too...

 

[ArcheType]

Third vote here for the halex set, I actually found that driver just sitting on the ground at a course. Not lost, just sitting. Someone didn't even care enough to throw it in a lake.

Edit: hilarious coincidence to the post above me.