The pandemic brought a huge influx of players to the game, but it also saw major supply chain problems from some companies as well as the formation of many new disc brands.
As of this post, Infinite Discs has 57 Varieties of disc brands on their page:
Daredevil Discs isn't a new face around town, but few casual players (especially new ones) have heard of them, and few local stores carry their models. I hope to use this thread to explain some details about their discs.
What gives me the audacity to pose as a knowledge expert on this brand?
I'm not an expert, but I do exchange emails with the owners kind of regularly and they graciously answer my questions, which I will pass on to you here.
As many of you already know, Daredevil submitted different plastic/mould combinations for PDGA approval as unique discs. This is very different than all? other manufacturers. For example, you can get a buzzz in a wide assortment of plastics. With Daredevil, the disc is specific to the plastic. A timberwolf will always be a flex performance plastic.
Daredevil has 23 models of discs and they use nine moulds to make them:
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Plastics:
Their discs are stamped with either "Elastic Performance", "Grip Performance", "Flex Performance", or "High Performance"
While Elastic, Flex, and High Performance plastic blends have stayed mostly consistent over the years, "Grip Performance" has undergone some changes and actually consists of three subcategories:
Grip Performance (as was originally intended): Rigid grippy rubber compound (Bighorn and Caribou)
Extra Grip Performance: not as rigid, but not as floppy as elastic performance (Polar Bear)
Ultra Performance: a little bit more like Innova Star... it was made because of customer complaints about the Grip Performance getting chewed up too easily on higher speed discs. (Pteranodon, swift fox, big foot, gray jay, and buffalo.)
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There are a lot of discs out there and everyone has their favorite "this is the best disc in the world".
I will say this for Daredevil:
No other manufacturer that I know of makes anything similar to an Ogopogo. It's like... think of a firebird that lands like a blowfly. Absolutely one of the gnarliest discs out there.
The caribou is very easy to snap off. Folks learning to generate snap will find the caribou very rewarding.
Anyway, that's it for this initial post. I just wanted to get this information out there in a yet uncluttered thread.
As of this post, Infinite Discs has 57 Varieties of disc brands on their page:
Daredevil Discs isn't a new face around town, but few casual players (especially new ones) have heard of them, and few local stores carry their models. I hope to use this thread to explain some details about their discs.
What gives me the audacity to pose as a knowledge expert on this brand?
I'm not an expert, but I do exchange emails with the owners kind of regularly and they graciously answer my questions, which I will pass on to you here.
As many of you already know, Daredevil submitted different plastic/mould combinations for PDGA approval as unique discs. This is very different than all? other manufacturers. For example, you can get a buzzz in a wide assortment of plastics. With Daredevil, the disc is specific to the plastic. A timberwolf will always be a flex performance plastic.
Daredevil has 23 models of discs and they use nine moulds to make them:
Mould 1: Beaver, Owl
Mould 2: Woodchuck, Polar Bear, Bighorn
Mould 3: Grizzly, Moose
Mould 4: Caribou, Walrus, Pteranodon
Mould 5: Tmberwolf, Wolverine, Swift-fox
Mould 6: Sabertooth, Mammoth, Buffalo
Mould 7: Ogopogo
Mould 8: Albatross, Merlin, Gray Jay
Mould 9: Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot
Mould 2: Woodchuck, Polar Bear, Bighorn
Mould 3: Grizzly, Moose
Mould 4: Caribou, Walrus, Pteranodon
Mould 5: Tmberwolf, Wolverine, Swift-fox
Mould 6: Sabertooth, Mammoth, Buffalo
Mould 7: Ogopogo
Mould 8: Albatross, Merlin, Gray Jay
Mould 9: Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot
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Plastics:
Their discs are stamped with either "Elastic Performance", "Grip Performance", "Flex Performance", or "High Performance"
While Elastic, Flex, and High Performance plastic blends have stayed mostly consistent over the years, "Grip Performance" has undergone some changes and actually consists of three subcategories:
Grip Performance (as was originally intended): Rigid grippy rubber compound (Bighorn and Caribou)
Extra Grip Performance: not as rigid, but not as floppy as elastic performance (Polar Bear)
Ultra Performance: a little bit more like Innova Star... it was made because of customer complaints about the Grip Performance getting chewed up too easily on higher speed discs. (Pteranodon, swift fox, big foot, gray jay, and buffalo.)
***********
There are a lot of discs out there and everyone has their favorite "this is the best disc in the world".
I will say this for Daredevil:
No other manufacturer that I know of makes anything similar to an Ogopogo. It's like... think of a firebird that lands like a blowfly. Absolutely one of the gnarliest discs out there.
The caribou is very easy to snap off. Folks learning to generate snap will find the caribou very rewarding.
Anyway, that's it for this initial post. I just wanted to get this information out there in a yet uncluttered thread.