tampabay
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Some of it is number fudge, a lot of it is the discs being more understable than the numbers suggest so that when normal players can actually get a full flight, they have way more glide compared to their closest rivals. Also some of it is what you're comparing against...if you try to put a Core/Claymore against a Buzzz, because they are similar in a lot of ways, it is pretty obvious those Lat discs have way more glide, but at the cost of ranging. The River is a very glidey disc, but still the correct Teebird gets similar distance and is more predictable. I thought the Saint was also super glidey but then realized Sidewinders do the same...so in that case I feel marketing got me.
I like a lot of Trilogy discs and in general I feel like they lean a little more towards the glide rather than speed side, like Innova discs tend to...at least out of the box. But if you throw Pro/Gstar or have a beat Innova disc it's not like Lat has some ingredient that the other manufacturer's can't match.
We are digressing...but! I think a lot of the belief that trilogy = glidey is because some of their early molds had a lot of glide. The river has tons of glide, so does the havoc, and those are two of their earlier molds. I feel the same way about the warship as well which was Westside's first midrange iirc. Escape is really glidey, that was one of the pilot's for DD
It may not be as true now for their entire lineup, but I don't think it's fair to say the belief is sheer marketing and fabricated