I'm thinking about playing a round tomorrow from the silvers at Beaver--Hex only.
The world needs this, I should do it.
Hey so I did this. Played 21 with the full bag and 21 laying curses.
I did shoot a better round with the Hex, but that doesn't tell the full story. Bottom line--did I learn more about the disc, do I still want to bag it and think of it as a staple disc, and what does it do well / not well?
I still want to bag it. I am in radical minimization mode and want as few molds as possible. If this is our engagement period, I'm not calling off the wedding.
Did I learn more about the disc? I learned that I don't like to throw it on uphill FH flex lines. The disc didn't misbehave, but it's more along the lines of 'nailing angle with compounding difficulties is difficult'. That is, throwing uphill for me on FH naturally leads to more anny releases, just how my mechanics revert. Plus uphill takes more juice to send it. Then trying to hit a gap on a flex line, which--while hard--isn't the hardest thing, just gets that much harder when the two factors combine.
I learned that I love the Hex touch FH for laser beam shots, but not beyond about 250'.
I learned that if I send it on a huge hyzer spike in the wind, it won't fly like a Firebird (who knew?)
I learned that, in general, I'd much rather throw BH than FH toward uphill pins with it.
I learned that it really doesn't turn unless you give it slight anny on release. It tends to 'catch' at wings-level on ~275-300' throws.
I learned that I should just go brainless and throw it--it's an intuitive disc. You know how sometimes you just kinda throw on a line, often a mild hyzer, and it works and seems real natural? Lots of discs are like that, this is also like that.
I learned that it handles mild object impedance/deflection well. On one hole it went through some small pine branches and didn't get weird afterwards. Not sure this is a special thing, but I guess I was a little impressed it stayed so true. On another hole it grazed bark and finished at the pin. Again, maybe all discs would do that, but it was cool somehow.
I learned I can trust it on a steep FH hyzer line that needs to cover a lot of ground going from left to right. Until I threw it and it flew so naturally, I wasn't actually sure how it would behave. I used to throw a Pig or FB on this hole. The first round I threw an Envy.
I learned I don't want to putt with it, even though it feels good enough in the hand to consider it. Had a couple dead in the basket that popped out. Wouldn't have happened with a putter.
Yeah, I'm not going to call off the marriage yet. Besides one hole for which the Hex isn't a big enough stick to reach it, the disc gave me a chance to birdie every hole. I wouldn't want to blast a FH with it except maybe a massive anny FH, but I'd rather Tursas that. I need to do more in the wind tho--in gnarly wind. There was some wind today, up to 10-15 gusts here and there but mainly benign and didn't get any counter-indicative data--nothing wonky happened, so either Hex was ok or it wasn't bad wind.
) all with a little dome. My cosmic relay is flat and it's my "relay os", I dumped the crave, my domey volts are next then light se neutron teslas at 158ish, or a fission 164 tesla big dome. Any flat tesla I have is a pig, plasma especially might as well throw a tilt!
