Recent content by Phil Esra

Blizzard is a lightweight variant of Champion. Starlite is a lightweight variant of Star. G-Star is a variant of Star for cold/wet conditions. I'm guessing your starter pack is in DX (base) plastic if it has an Archangel--I don't think those are made in any other plastic. All else equal...

Nobody throws Trilogy anymore. It's all about Leopards and Meteors now. Pro Tip!

Thanks guys, interesting stuff.

Huh, interesting. Does the X wing bring a higher PLH, or is that a coincidence? Does the X Beast fly like an Orc? Why those particular letters?

Cool, thanks all. I've been using very under stable discs--I'll experiment with some less flippy ones. By the way, is a "cut roller" any roller that curls hard in the fade direction? Just a terminology q.

In my limited experience, I have found rollers to be really touchy. They usually curl sharply one way or the other on the ground before covering much distance, but even when they travel straight for a while, they often finish with an unwanted curl. Any tips? Is this an inherently tricky shot, or...

Why the letters "L" and "X" for the two molds, Beast and Eagle? (Beagle...)

Discs came! You called them 9/10--they are at least that... More like 9.5 : )

Sounds like you like buying discs. Me too. The absolute all-time classic midrange is the Buzzz--I love 'em. A Leopard would also be a good choice--slower than the rest of your drivers, so a good reference point. It should fly pretty differently from the others, assuming the others tend to fly...

Thanks a lot for the post! In particular, this quoted part is a very clear description of one of the trickier, more dynamic parts of the puzzle. This whole backlash thing blew my feeble little mind when I first read about it--which was in one of those old physics threads, a few months ago...

From a strictly evolutionary-psychology perspective, there is no good answer to that question. Mmm, nope, can't quite wrap my little brain around that--I will have to chew on it some more. But it seems possible to me--maybe even likely--that flying discs have been flying incorrectly this whole...

I guess a more basic question is, why does tilting a disc make it turn in that direction? (The stuff above just takes that behavior as a given.) It seems like the answer must be that g.p. isn't an all-or-nothing on-off switch, so you get some combination of nose-up/tilt-left or...

Ah, OK, I reread some of the later posts in one of those two threads (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2250). I see that both ToddL and Wolfman chimed in at different points. To my layperson brain, based on that previous thread, the simplistic answer to "why does a disc turn...

Sorry, I mean "domey" : ) No idea. Do you know? Do they vary it? Is the magic of FAF due to upside down cooling? Oh yeah, that sounds familiar. I don't totally get the grip thing, since putting is so much less "rippy" than driving, but I've never tried to putt in subfreezing weather. Damn...

What a bunch of ringers on all those teams, sheesh : )