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so are you throwing primarily FH? what's your distance? what about BH?
so are you throwing primarily FH? what's your distance? what about BH?
I can make a flippy disc hyzer.
Primarily backhand. I throw a FH tee shot if necessary, under 240. I've got maybe 50 ft more than that backhand. Most of my drivers (for me) have about the same distance potential with different shapes and different characteristics in the wind and different ground play. We have consistent wind—Lake Erie/Niagara River. I'm about 240 with a putter, but I need some height to get there.
If I get a 500 foot hole in three I'm pretty chuffed.
so what do you think is missing from your arsenal? beside distance
One thing to not overlook is how a well hyzered understable disc will penetrate further on the hyzer than a stable disc, it doesn't fall as fast.
Of course my bag is under to stable mostly BH/30% FH. An understable putter or mid is really useful me.
Just turned 50. Love me some premium plastic Underworlds! For me they flip up and go straight for days getting me to that magical 300' number sometimes as an MA-50 guy. 168g seems to be the magical number for me for drivers. I like max weight mids and putters, though. Other flippy stuff is great, like Z-Heats (or beat ESP Heats for really big turnovers), and I'm good with ESP Avenger SS's (correct plural spelling there?) on my most powerful RHFH shots, flipping up to flat, gliding, and fading right.
I was in a tourney at Brewer Park (mostly open) and got my ass handed to me by a 63-year-old in distance, like 50' or more. Coach Craig, if anybody knows him. We tied for the event because I was perfect in C1 and my upshots were very good all day. But I decided I wanted to try flippy fast stuff if I'm going to compete against the best MA-50 type players and have had some success with a 165 MVP Orbital, a 168 Streamline Jet, and just got a 170 Axiom Vanish that I got to 300' with a forehand last night!! That's getting somewhat close to what I did with max weight Whippets, X-Clones and Banshees (oh, my) 25 years ago. Another 50 feet and (a) I'll be where I was in 1998, and (b) my arm will fly off with the Disc and flop around on the ground like a fish out of water...
Man I loved me some (original) whippets and x-clones back then.
I carried a lighter weight 164 Whippet for decades as my tomahawk Disc. I don't do overhand baseball-type stuff anymore, but that pinkish/maroonish one was in my bag from like '97 to 2012.
Once the Banshee came out the only Whippet I threw was a 9X KC one.
The X-Clone was the first Disc I could forehand past 300' after Mark Ellis helped me. Three tree hits, though, and it was time for a new one.
Give me a Z-Heat and a VIP Sparkle Underworld these days...
Not to assume your financial situation but if you can afford a couple new discs it never hurts to try something really US. Maybe order up a couple DX lightweight sidewinders if you like that mold.
Floaty, slow turnover. High longer turnover (works OK with Sidewinder/Buzz)
I've got no roller shot, but again my older Sidewinder is getting closer.
I'm hoping I can beat in one of these Star Hawkeye's to be this disc. Maybe I need something with a bit more turn out of the box