Here is my take on these discs…
I originally tried the SOLF after being told how great it was on this board.
At first I thought it was great, but after a few rounds it was becoming obvious to me that the disc was just too squirrelly at high speed and faded way too much to be very long. It was kind of like throwing a beat in DX Eagle DX or a 150 Champ Eagle, it was certainly not the Teebird that I had been promised. Especially comparing this disc to a premium plastic Eagle or Teebird, it was way flippy. It might flip, it might not, but it would fade like a mother which stopped it from being uber long, and it seemed to be trajectory sensitive. I did not see any advantage to living with all of this weird behavior without the glide of the Eagle or the HS consistency of a Teebird.
Also, I was not real impressed with the toughness of the Sirrius plastic. It was tacky and felt awesome, but only marginally better than Pro in the way it beat in. IMHO, the Sirrius has too much Pro type plastic (or soft putter plastic) in the mix for long term good disc wear, especially if you throw pretty hard.
So, I dropped the SOLF completely and went back to Surges, Orcs, Wraiths, etc.
I was throwing domey Surges, Star Orcs and domey ESP Flashes and working with a First Run bar stamp SOLF. This disc was way better than the later SOLF. The plastic was more like STAR and less like Sirrius. I actually liked this disc a lot, it flew like a good Orc and the wing was smaller. The disc showed no real signs of wear just like I see with the good Star discs. This disc was domey, compared to the super flat SOLF's of the later runs, I believe that was *BY FAR* the defining factor of why it was more consistent. This was definitely true for the Surge, Wraith, TRX, and Orc, all of which had super flat early runs and domey later runs. The early flattened runs turn over more and are inconsistent in performance when the wind starts to blow especially (even worse after break in). The later domey runs of these discs are infinitely more consistent in bad conditions, and fade less at the end of the glide. So, they turn over less in HS and fade less in LS, are better in the wind, which means *THEY ARE STRAIGHTER AND GLIDE MORE* (feel free to compare the First Run ESP Surge to the later Surges, or a First Run Star Wraith to a 12x Wraith which behave just as I described).
I tried the MOLF.
In the thin summer air, you could really let the air out of this thing. I threw a few huge high bombs. As the air thickened up, it just got flippy as crap. More flippy than the SOLS which was interesting. BTW, try not to hit any trees…or the ground much…or throw it nose down ever again after you hit a tree real hard. Can you say DX Orc? I set mine on the hood of my truck and it looked like a tortilla chip after a few tree collisions. This disc needs a lot more dome also and the dome could be thickened. With more dome, it would be a better discs IMHO. This disc is great for lower power players BTW. Thrown a little nose up with medium power it is very forgiving and long.
In fact, the SOLF in regular shiny Star plastic (or Destroyer blend even) with a very domey top would be the *best* long range, general purpose, straight flying disc golf disc on the market. No doubt in my mind at all. This disc design is one of the MISSING LINKS of disc design. It has big wing disc performance with a small wing. It just needs a little tweaking…
The other "missing link" is the SOLS. I am constantly impressed by the performance of this disc. I thought I lost one of my SOLS the other day, because I was looking in the wrong spot. Throwing in a very slight downwind open hole I stacked my two Destroyers at about 410'. I looked all over for my SOLS… I looked… then I found it 40 feet past my Destroyers!!! I was not looking PAST my Destroyers (even though I should have known not to underestimate the SOLS). I like the SOLS distance throw better, I just spin snap it hard with a "normal" 20 degree hyser and high, it goes out, turns, glides and fades. If the disc is getting flippy, THROW IT EVEN HIGHER!!! It is really kind of fun…
