It's awesome that he looks up to the guys he ends up playing against. Great attitude and an awesome player. Glad he's a part of the sport I love so much.
im kind of new to the game but ive really been studying the discs because i felt that if i understood how the discs fly i could really speed up my improvement. i love these in the bag vids. keep em coming Spin. They have helped me a ton and this summer when i buy a bunch of discs these videos are where i will be going to help with my decisions.
Tyler Shumaker Depending on how new you are you I would just buy putters and low mid range discs, if you watch his flying circus video he mentions it as well, the best way to learn and improve your game is to throw short discs that will force you to improve form line and distance. If you meant "new" as a relative term to some other guys you play with, then pick some of these up!
Well I've only been playing for three months. But I practice like crazy and I have a decent amount of raw power. I've progressed really nicely for the time I've been playing. I've found that I really enjoy throwing pretty stable discs even if I don't get full max distance. I enjoy throwing a disc (like a firebird, or or a gator midrange) that I know I can throw as hard as I want and it will have very minimal turn.
Tyler Shumaker Not to say this won't work out, but I did something really similar when I first started (and mind you I haven't been playing for super long either, only about 1-2 years), but switching to an understable disc, or a short disc like a putter or mid really helped me out. At first it will be painful, with an overstable driver like a firebird you can release on a large variety of angles and release points and it will still generally turn out okay, try this with your putter and it'll end up in the weeds. Throwing something that punishes you for releasing it incorrectly will help improve form and consistency a lot. If you don't want to try that approach that's fine as well, but it helped my performance dramatically, even though at first it was a painful transition. Anyway that's just my 2 cents, but I've heard a lot of people make that same argument including Simon Lizotte :). Best of luck to you whatever route you may choose.
Tyler Shumaker My explanation may have been a little hard to understand I don't think I described it too well, but the theory of putter only rounds / understable discs early is kind of as follow. If you release a highly overstable disc 10 degrees off line to the right, it's still going to fade back and you may only end up 5 feet further from the basket, but if the disc goes in a straight line, or flips because you grip locked it, you're going to end up WAY further off line, showing your form flaws and exposing you to your mistakes, so that you can correct them, as well as opening the possibility of rollers, anhyzer shots, and too some extent tomahawks as well
Charles Holland Really? For me, they're the easiest to understand. The lettering is just an abbreviation of what it is ex; P putter, FD fairway driver, PD power driver. And the numbers increase as stability increases ex; PD2 more overstable than the PD, FD2 more overstable than the FD. I love this system, very simple and organized compared to other companies' model names like Trespass, or Leopard, or Harp, that tell you nothing about the disc.
