[Question] Older Disc Comparison

[K-Razy]

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I started disc golfing a while ago, loved it, and then fell out of it for a while (for 10-15 yrs). Now that I'm back into it there's all these flight numbers associated with the discs, TONS of different manufactures, and all sorts of new courses in my area. It's like a whole new game (and like Christmas!!). I'm slowly figuring out what they all mean, but what I would really like to know is what the numbers would have been on the older discs I have. I know which discs I like, and how they fly. I would like to be able to use them as a place to start as I buy newer dscs.

Thanks in advance!

 

[brutalbrutus]

What discs were you using?...

 

[Brodysseus]

Inbounds

^Fantastic resource for comparing disc flight characteristics.

 

[BuzzzChief]

I like Marshall Street's flight guide for an easy visual comparison of disc flights. You'll still find most older discs on there.

http://www.marshallstreetdiscgolf.com/media/flightguide.html

 

[K-Razy]

What discs were you using?...

A Discraft X-Clone, Discraft (elite?) Xtra, Ching Bomb, and (Discraft?) Cyclone or maybe Cyclone 2. Also a Ching Tank putter. It's soft as hell and I love it. Also an Innova Valkyrie, but they still make those and have the #'s on them now.

I still use all of them, well except the Xtra RIP. Lost it Saturday.

 

[Three Putt]

A Discraft X-Clone, Discraft (elite?) Xtra, Ching Bomb, and (Discraft?) Cyclone or maybe Cyclone 2. Also a Ching Tank putter. It's soft as hell and I love it. Also an Innova Valkyrie, but they still make those and have the #'s on them now.

I still use all of them, well except the Xtra RIP. Lost it Saturday.

The Xtra was closest to an Innova Banshee. The Ching Bomb was run from the Banshee L mold (same mold that the Millennium EXP1 used.) You could maybe look at an Eagle X for that. The Tank is back in production; HyzerBomb makes it now. The Cyclone is still in production. The X-Clone is not in production but again it wasn't that far off from a Banshee when new. If it's old and beat, no telling what it flies like.

Which is cautionary tale #2: If you had a few discs, played a lot and beat them up, no telling what they fly like now. Take a Ching Bomb and beat the snot out of it, and it's not going to fly now anything like it did new. So you might get an Eagle and think "this is nothing like that Bomb."

No offense, but if you had an Xtra, an X-Clone and a Bomb, those were all really close to being the same thing. If you were getting different flights from them, it's probably due to them being beat up. It's really hard to guess what old, beat up discs fly like.

 

[bcr123psu]

I like Marshall Street's flight guide for an easy visual comparison of disc flights. You'll still find most older discs on there.

http://www.marshallstreetdiscgolf.com/media/flightguide.html

inbounds has that too (plus their graphic flight charts):

http://inflightmatrix.com

 

[K-Razy]

Awesome info guys! Thank you very much!
You guys are extremely knowledgeable.

One last quick question: When talking about a disc 'turning over', does that correlate to the speed of the disc; meaning if it's a lower speed and it's thrown very fast will it 'turn over'?

Thanks again, I appreciate it.

 

[mavsfan]

turning over a disc CAN correlate to a lower speed disc thrown "faster" than it's stability speed. However, it can also correlate to release angles, wind conditions, and wear on the disc decreasing stability.

Turning over a disc can happen to a wide margin of conditions