GRHE
Newbie
Hello all. I'm new here but have been reading for a while. Also a relatively new player. I just achieved a benchmark distance this week with a 320' throw with a beat up DX wraith which I was proud of but in the process I learned something besides a new distance.
I've had the feeling for a while that I should disc down a bit and focus on getting more D out of my mid-range discs but I have been finding that, while not maxing out a disc like the wraith, I am still getting more D from it than my cheetah. A startling discovery to myself was that as I have begun throwing my discs faster they were beginning to turn over on me. I had chalked it up to a bad habit of throwing anny but with the breakthrough in distance a few days ago I finally realized that I am overpowering my cheetah. To fill in the blank for me I also just happened across the disc distance chart (a huge help by the way) on another thread and it was written right there in plain sight: Discs which are underpowered tend to act more stable while discs which are overpowered will act more understable than their designed flight characteristics.
I've misunderstood this point until now and happened to see a comment in the recent Nuke 171 thread that seemed to misrepresent this concept so I thought it might be a good one for discussion. I haven't gotten to get back out and give my cheetah some more throws but I'm looking forward to taking some steam off and stretching it out to its proper distance. I've just started to feel some snap and develop some form but it was a good feeling to realize that I am actually throwing some of my discs too hard.
I've had the feeling for a while that I should disc down a bit and focus on getting more D out of my mid-range discs but I have been finding that, while not maxing out a disc like the wraith, I am still getting more D from it than my cheetah. A startling discovery to myself was that as I have begun throwing my discs faster they were beginning to turn over on me. I had chalked it up to a bad habit of throwing anny but with the breakthrough in distance a few days ago I finally realized that I am overpowering my cheetah. To fill in the blank for me I also just happened across the disc distance chart (a huge help by the way) on another thread and it was written right there in plain sight: Discs which are underpowered tend to act more stable while discs which are overpowered will act more understable than their designed flight characteristics.
I've misunderstood this point until now and happened to see a comment in the recent Nuke 171 thread that seemed to misrepresent this concept so I thought it might be a good one for discussion. I haven't gotten to get back out and give my cheetah some more throws but I'm looking forward to taking some steam off and stretching it out to its proper distance. I've just started to feel some snap and develop some form but it was a good feeling to realize that I am actually throwing some of my discs too hard.