This may help with disc selection, these guys put out pretty good vids...
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Like AIM said, sometimes they can be less overstable at lighter weights. I tried a 154g boss since I throw a 168g champ and a 175g star. I found out for me personally, in no wind, I turn the blizzard boss over way too much. I really never got the flight I was looking for out of it. It turned out to be a very understable fast driver that I couldn't use. I'm interested though in maybe trying again and maybe trying some things with it, powering down, hyzer flipping etc, but if I get it to power down, my release velocity slows therefore I'm not doing myself any favor, or gaining any distance by going lighter.
Like AIM said, sometimes they can be less overstable at lighter weights. I tried a 154g boss since I throw a 168g champ and a 175g star. I found out for me personally, in no wind, I turn the blizzard boss over way too much. I really never got the flight I was looking for out of it. It turned out to be a very understable fast driver that I couldn't use. I'm interested though in maybe trying again and maybe trying some things with it, powering down, hyzer flipping etc, but if I get it to power down, my release velocity slows therefore I'm not doing myself any favor, or gaining any distance by going lighter.
I posted elsewhere about my 149g Starlite Boss. Flies farther for me than any other disc, if I hit it right. But it's so touchy and flippy understable that it'll take off and fly dead 90-degrees to the right (RHBH) throw even in calm winds. I was just too inconsistent with it to make it work, so it sits in the box at home.
For newer throwers, as their form improves and (especially for younger people) as their strength and coordination improves, lightweight discs that once worked well for them will begin to be overpowered and/or understable, and they can move up in weight and possibly down in speed.
Finding one's personal "sweet spot", that combination of speed level, weight and form that produces the consistently best results, is one of the fun aspects of disc golf but also one of the most difficult journeys in the development of one's game...
I was thinking that yesterday on the course. Long 600 foot hole, at the tee pad its guarded by trees, a wide tunnel that bleeds out in to a wide open fairway. It's always fun to guess what the disc is going to do once it gets out of the protected area. There's a flag pole that you can sort of read the wind from but it sits back behind the tee and is not always consistent with winds 500ft down the fairway. Even when I felt that I was hitting the disc on the angle it needed, I never felt I was getting any more distance with it. I was getting 350-375 on each throw with both my 169g, 175g and blizzard bosses, occasionally hitting the 400 ft mark at the driving range but that seemed to be more of an oops moment with the star and champ boss.
*Ahem!*
No. Not at the OP's power levels, which are not much lower than mine. If someone could throw a Leopard 300 ft., they should be able to throw a Valk or high-speed driver 375-400 ft. easily.
I don't know why some here keep trying to push this outright myth that a noodle-arm can throw a Leopard 300 ft.... not to mention say throwing a Leopard 300 ft. is the absolute standard before going to a higher speed disc, which I've seen posted on these boards before. It's just a total and complete fallacy.
So sorry, but I just do not believe some can throw a Leopard 300 feet, a full football field in length, but cannot throw higher speed discs significantly farther (meaning several tens of feet), form notwithstanding.
No apology necessary, your willful ignorance is impressive. Please consider that I have better things to do than lie to strangers on the internet.So sorry, but I just do not believe some can throw a Leopard 300 feet, a full football field in length, but cannot throw higher speed discs significantly farther (meaning several tens of feet), form notwithstanding.
Maybe I will just use the extra discs for practice shots to see if I can do better than with my primary discs.
His whole thing is, disc selection is more about the line you need, not the distance you're looking at.