For my first year of disc golf, I avoided understable discs like they were defective. Someone at a shop told me they were “flippy” \u2014 said it like it was a bad thing \u2014 and I internalized that. Flippy sounded unreliable. Flippy sounded like a disc that wouldn’t do what I wanted. I wanted stable, […]
Understanding Understable Discs (And Why I Wish I’d Started With Them) Read More »
Every beginner does the same thing. They walk into a disc golf shop \u2014 or worse, start browsing online \u2014 see 47 different discs with flight numbers that don’t mean anything yet, panic, and either buy way too much or ask some guy at the counter who sells them a 15-disc starter set they absolutely
The Only 3 Discs You Need to Start (I’m Serious, Just 3) Read More »
I remember staring at my first disc \u2014 an Innova something, I forget what \u2014 trying to make sense of the numbers printed on it. 9/5/-1/2. What did that mean? The guy at the shop explained it but I retained maybe 20% of what he said. Something about speed and fade and turn and I
Flight Numbers Explained: What Those Four Numbers Actually Mean Read More »
