hugheshilton
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Give me a disc and 5 minutes... you will get it back flying beat no problem so I hope that's not their issue lol. shouldnt take THAT long to learn and fit a disc into your bag.
edit: if its a solid product.
This attitude was actually point of my previous post. If you are a professional playing in the upper echelons of any sport and I tell you you're going to have to switch out your equipment piece by piece with brand new equipment as its being tested/released over the course of a year and a half, but I still expect you to win tournaments against the best players out there, what do you think I would say? Heck no! No matter how good the new equipment is, it takes time for someone at that level of play to work it into their game. Especially in a game like disc golf, where how your discs mesh with your throwing is basically the entire game.
Maybe someone like Will Schustrick is able to do it more quickly because he basically had a bunch of the discs molded to his own specifications so they fly just like he wants them to, but other players lower on the Prodigy roster don't have that luxury. Prodigy released 17 new discs this year, basically almost their entire lineup in a 12 month period. You can't just say a certain beat Destroyer in my bag is replaceable with a D1/D2/D3/D4. Every disc flies a little differently and it will take a while for me to beat in new discs and figure out where they fit for every shot I'm going to throw.
And of course the entire argument is silly and pointless because I still don't see what the great fascination is with whether every Prodigy sponsored player throws all Prodigy or not. I'm pretty sure all of them throw some Prodigy and most likely all of them are working in other Prodigy discs over time. Their timeline on when/if they get to an all-Prodigy bag is between them and their contract with the company. Why does it matter?
Oh and for those comparing this to other sports, I know of very few sports where a player/team is only sponsored by one company for all their equipment (ball golf included). If disc golf is really going to grow up, it needs players to be sponsored by multiple disc companies and probably multiple non-disc companies as well in order to make a decent living and attract more talent to the game. Someday, they'll probably all be throwing mixed bags; at least I hope so!