SD86
Banned
Do you even disc golf?
Almost every day.
My home course is in a park that also has a popular and well used playground for children. The police patrol the area pretty heavily.
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Do you even disc golf?
?:doh::doh::doh:
If youre the manufacturer, if you make a 1 disc and its overstable, then the 2 will be a little less overstable, and so on.....so if youre making the disc and not just pulling things out your B hole youll never have a moment where theres something in between......1-2-3-4-5-6-7-etc. Yes, both Discmania with FD FD2 FD3 or MD MD2 MD3 MD4 and prodigy has some consistency issues, but.....the makers of the disc should be in prototype phase long enough to know that the next disc is the next number over....there would never ever BE a need for decimals.....only discraft makes every disc completely random and with decimal stability ratings. the problem I have with discraft is they have fairway drivers, but none share any similarities of size, diameter, rim width, depth, they are all their own entity and may work together but are a completely different feel......back on track. If a company does it correctly, a numbering and lettering system is flawless
I know every company/manufacturer has their own naming system for discs. Some are animal names, some are science terms, some are just verbs and adjectives, some are on a numbering system.
What do you think? What do you like? What do you dislike? Do you reallllly care? :| opcorn:
I know every company/manufacturer has their own naming system for discs. Some are animal names, some are science terms, some are just verbs and adjectives, some are on a numbering system.
What do you think? What do you like? What do you dislike? Do you reallllly care? :|
Do you even disc golf?
Just because it's being legalized currently does not mean it is harmless. But, I won't get into that argument. I have been approached by several non disc golfers trying to buy weed off of me because I had a bag of discs with me. And while it's not everyone who has said it, I've been told more than once that I must also smoke since I play. For the less bold, more socially polite people, how many of those do you think are thinking it?
I dislike when companies name a mold that is very similar name-wise to a mold that already exists by another company. For example : Wrath vs Wraith, Aviator vs Aviar, and especially P2 vs PA2. Quit being lazy, you guys. You're making it harder for lazy people, like me, to differentiate between molds. Retoolings that keep the same name are on my dislike list to.
Do you even disc golf?
I disagree. There are many instances where the flight numbers overlap some, or a ton, within a companies line up. You need look no farther than Innovas disc charts for example. Its just not that clean cut. By the number scale, they should have a x100 something.
Also, you're assuming that they produce discs in order of stability. What if a company has three drivers to start, names them d1 d2 and d3 for example. In order of stability even. Then lets say they get crazy and mold a wildly understable disc. They cant call it d1, but what if its way more understable than d1. Oh lets call it U1. Well, is a U1 more or less stable then D1?
Its nice in theory, but doesn't actually work out.
For the most part, the underlined above, although I will rephrase one: Having plastic types that are ALSO numbered pushes this issue way over the edge for me.My feelings are conflicted. The analytical part of me should like logical number and letter systems like Discmania and Prodigy. However, I feel the least drawn to Prodigy plastic in part because of the numbering system. I can never remember which direction the numbers go. I can ballpark the speed based on D, F, M, PA, but the numbers just throw me off entirely. Having plastic types that are ALSO numbered only exacerbates this issue.
Using names rather than numbers makes it easier to remember, especially when there is a good association that works as a mnemonic device. I won't forget that a Roadrunner makes a good roller disc, because a "roadrunner" running on the ground makes sense, as does a "Sidewinder" and a "Mamba." "Pig," "Hawg," and "Rhyno" all sound like overstable putters. "Destroyer" sounds like a driver that goes really far. A "Tern" turns. With all of these, you could give a player just the name of the disc, and they could probably guess how the disc is intended to fly. Great disc names correlate flight properties with an appropriate title. Not so great disc names, such as the when Discmania had names in addition to the letter number system, tend to make no sense. I would never guess that a "Psycho" or a "Maniac" is a putter. I wouldn't be able to guess that a "Craze" is a Control driver.
Silly as it is, I am subconsciously more likely to buy a disc if the name makes sense. I don't go out my way to avoid Prodigy plastic, but I confess that I haven't bought a single one of their discs in large part because I can never remember what the heck each individual disc does and the small trouble of looking it up forms enough of a barrier to deter me. And that's speaking as someone who currently plays disc golf 4-5 days a week and has been playing off an on for the better part of a decade. Now imagine how complicated that letter and number system is for a n00b who has never thrown a disc before? Of course the new player is more likely to spring for the "Beast," "Boss," "Nuke," or "Destroyer. I'm sure with about 2 minutes of effort I could learn Prodigy's system and memorize it, but I don't want to have to do that. Just give me a dang four numbered system and a name that correlates with the disc's flight pattern and I'm set.
Names are a huge part of marketing. As others have mentioned, they can draw or repel certain customers. I love throwing Teebirds in part because the stock car my dad used to race was an old Ford Teebird. Is that a silly reason to like a disc? Absolutely, but it was enough of a reason for me to buy the teebird as one of my first discs when I hardly knew the difference between a driver and a putter. Add that positive association on top of it being an incredible mold, and it's my favorite disc that I bag and own the most of. By profession I'm United Methodist Pastor, so I'll never throw a Vibram four20 or a Discraft Roach because a pastor throwing a drug named disc is just kind of weird and is a bad look for me. But for others, who probably make up a larger share of the disc golf consumers than people like me, a disc name that makes them go "haha, weed!" is actually a really good selling point.
Harmless? Get real! Cars have been legal most, if not all, of their existence, and they aren't harmless. And don't get me started on the argument that x number of voters voted in favor of _______ makes it okay. (So, you think that both Obama and Trump were/are harmless and okay because ___ number of states "legalized" him?)29 states have legalized weed for either medicinal or recreational use with 10 or so more on the verge this year. The stuff is harmless. And we think that there is this large stigma of disc golf being just a pastime of pot smoking hippies...but that's just a complex only disc golfers have about our tiny little niche. Everyone I've told about disc golf, has had no preconceived notions about it.
Again, the real problem with the Crank and the Roach is the cartoon ape and the disgusting pest. Both are fantastic discs, though.
Just because it's being legalized currently does not mean it is harmless. But, I won't get into that argument. I have been approached by several non disc golfers trying to buy weed off of me because I had a bag of discs with me. And while it's not everyone who has said it, I've been told more than once that I must also smoke since I play. For the less bold, more socially polite people, how many of those do you think are thinking it?
Very 1st time on a California course I was hit up for some weed. I have smelled it frequently, and have seen it being smoked. Can it be vaped? I'm guessing so from what I've seen while playing.... I envy SD86 his safe dgc. I miss Eastern Iowa and Kansas City!No one's ever approached me to buy drugs (and had better not). I can also say I've never smelled marijuana being smoked while I've been playing on the course. Maybe the newer, cleaner looking pros are helping get filthy drugs away from the game.
Harmless? Get real! Cars have been legal most, if not all, of their existence, and they aren't harmless. And don't get me started on the argument that x number of voters voted in favor of _______ makes it okay..... I envy SD86 his safe dgc. I miss Eastern Iowa and Kansas City!
I envy SD86 his safe dgc. I miss Eastern Iowa and Kansas City!
I know every company/manufacturer has their own naming system for discs. Some are animal names, some are science terms, some are just verbs and adjectives, some are on a numbering system.
What do you think? What do you like? What do you dislike? Do you reallllly care? :| opcorn:
The name has little to do w/my selection of discs; it's how they feel and fly that sells me. Names are just marketing. I'd like to see a disc named turd: "parked it w/my turd"
The name has little to do w/my selection of discs; it's how they feel and fly that sells me. Names are just marketing. I'd like to see a disc named turd: "parked it w/my turd"