A beat in passion is a thing of beauty. Little flip up and very slow drift to the right (rhbh) finish straight and soft. Like a good seasoned Buzz but 75-100 feet longer.
I also stratify my throwing discs by speed. 3/5/7/9/11 is my rule of thumb. More recently I've started using rim width as a modifier. So 3 speed with 1.0cm rim thickness. 5 speed with 1.4cm rim. 7-speed with 1.7cm rim. 10-11 speed with 2.0cm rim.
I absolutely love my passion. It’s one of my most used discs because I know what it will do every. Single. Time. Its an amazing disc and surprised I don’t have backups.
Hey bodanza, if you are ever in NorCal I’d love to show you Skull Mountain. Ron “skull” brown (PDGA 7760) owns it but historically Charlie Callahan created it while he lived there. Charlie, along with skull, is one of the fathers of disc golf. :)
The passion’s rim profile is perfect for me because I have a fat callus from work on my first pad off the palm that fills the rim perfectly. I have never thought to throw it on forehand though… **runs out to practice in field**
So glad you finally did a review on the passion. Honestly, I really do think if you gave it a solid run for about a month you would continue to throw it
Awesome video. The Infinite dynasty is another disc in this range, it supposedly uses the hold discmania CD2 (which became the CD1) mold. I don't think brody pays attention to flight numbers - especially speed. When asked about the athena he basically felt it was redundant stability wise with his vultures and they went about the same distance, so there was no reason to add it. I think the passion is just flippier on the same continuum that the vulture is on.
My two first run passions are beautiful, they both find their way to straight which makes them wonderful for high flex shots and stopping the rollers, but also hyzer flips if you really rip it. Honestly one of my favorite discs
I bag a beat in ESP Passion that hyzer-flips to straight, lands straight- and Swirly Z Passion that is holding true to the flight type you see here. Holds up in wind, super reliable and forgiving. You can't deny when the thing keeps proving itself over and over again that it is indeed always a Passion.
Crazy to see the passion fade tbh. Elevation is something I haven’t played in which definitely makes the passion more stable. Brand new here in Texas that thing flips up and goes dead straight or thrown flat it drifts right the whole way
I carry 7 & 8 speeds (9 speed as well with a Felon) then 10 &11speeds. I use my Stags as my long fairway, cause they fly forever dead straight. I usually don't throw my Stag unless it's over 320ft, if it's less than that I'll go with a Maverick or Explorer for distance control.
I always hated on the feel of the passion, but now I love it. I bag 2 of them for straight shots, with a Teebird and a pair of firebirds for OS, and a cicada for US stuff.
The passion is great but its a weird one because the rim is not a typical 8 speed width, just by eyeball it looks closer to a 6 or 7 speed. The entire disc diameter is wider like a typical mid range size and it also has that really blunt nose edge. I think all of those reasons is why its able to fly really straight without much right or left movement but calling it an 8 speed seems like a stretch, not sure it really matters though.
Theory: the bead/lip by the parting line edge of the wing deflects some air that would normally hit the bottom concave part of the wing making it less stable than it otherwise would be. You could just make the bottom wing less concave but this moves a touch more mass to the outside of the disc for more gyro 🤔. Probably all pretty insignificant and mostly makes for a bizarre hand feel.
I reach for the passion when I want to minimize any kind of ground play. For back hand I use fan out my middle and ring finger and pinch them on the flight plate. I cant use a normal power grip
Do you ever throw Mint discs? Man I love my Alpha… might change your mind about the 8 speeds lol. Two discs that will NEVER leave my bag are the Mint Alpha and the Mint Goat 🤙
Suggestion, always throw the discs first that aren't the main theme of the video and it gives you a practice throw so you do more justice to the one you are trying to show off or test.
Played that course in May of 2022. There must have been 100 people out that day, discs were flying in all directions. It was crazy. And the most boring course I’ve ever played, was there for work and only had time to get one round in with the 3 discs I packed in suitcase:
Almost every video Bodanza made with the Buzzz he scored better with the Buzzz than the other molds. He doesn’t like the feel of the buzzz for some reason🤷🏽♂️. If he would find himself a flat top buzzz I bet he would like the feel a lot more. Same with this video, he scored quite a bit better throwing the passion for the first time than his CD1, but he won’t bag it.🤷🏽♂️ Just put a DD stamp on the passion and buzzz Anthony, then you’ll bag it.🤣
lolol, I think it's partially because of focus, but I also literally bag no DD right now 🤣🤣 Don't know how that stamp would help much, I have molds that fly the same for me but fit my bag already
@@BodanzaDiscGolf I’m just busting your balls man. In the end we’re gonna throw what feels better in our hands, well at least most of the time. WTF, you took down SIMON!!! That was a once in a lifetime moment and you did it bro!! Congrats!
I picked up Becca Cox Paige and Alyssa up with Nate at a sexton challenge in anchorage 2019. There was a discussion in the parking lot about names for Paige’s four molds discreet was giving her. I remember bringing up the name passion. I’ve always wondered if she picked it or already had it planned. I’ve got one always up in the front of the van
@@ApplesRgudsorry, didn’t see the notification for this reply until now. Until recently I throw it in almost every video. Unfortunately lost it, need to find a new one
C line FD is kinda beef at altitude as far as straight fairways go and mine isn't beating in much. Passion might be very similar flight wise to s line FD if I had to guess? Hand feel very different though.
ahh yeah, forgot about that! I guess my 3,5,7,9,12 was more talking about speeds where I have neutral discs, vs a 5,8,10,13 bag where he'd have neutral discs, utlity/overstable can be a different story but I def overlooked that!
Denver really needs to pay professional designers to build these golf courses, I wonder if the park’s people are representing our best interests. 10 par 4, 4 par 5, and let god sort out the rest
The passion just seems like marketing. When Paige was with DD she threw the convict all over the place. The convict is a fairly stable fairway. Then discraft is like well make you the passion and each year she has been trying to get more stable runs. And she has flipped many many passions into the tres ruining a lot of tournaments just to sell a disc that really doesn’t fit her game and was not even really the kind of disc she usually throws but you got to market something to women right? It’s basically like the escape. It is a super awesome disc. Great for us amateurs, even intermediate players don’t really throw it cause it is too flippy. Pros aren’t throwing an escape or a vortex. They put their names on them but they are just marketed to the ams.
She also threw the Fierce quite a bit, and that essentially doesn't fade, and too often even her Cryztal Fierce would just turn and burn for her. And the thing is, when she was on DD, she was quite a prolific putter thrower. But she threw a Marshal as a more stable throwing putter. She doesn't really have that now. Lunas are mostly dead straight and don't really have a 3 fade, but is more stable than Fierces. And other discs like the Ringer and DGA Breaker would be great stable putter options for her to consider. The Sol and Zone don't really fill that spot.
I’m sorry Anthony your just wrong….. Ok fine I can’t just leave without telling u why. You have NOT tried Calvin’s new Vela and u might want to! It’s what his 10year old eagles are and what we wish our eagles did. Do a review there aren’t any good ones out yet! Your the man❤️
7 and 8 speeds are categorized as fairways, 9 speeds are “distance drivers” so comparing a 7 speed strike would be a better comparison to the passion. 6 speeds are in their own world
Stock is all plastics WITHOUT special stamps and blends by the manufacturer just for those runs. Like a Firebird in DX, G★,★,Champion is a Stock disc but in both Baseplastic (DX) and Premium (The others). But the Nate Sexton Firebird is special blend with special stamps in limited runs. Commemorative discs are another breed, they are imo often just a special colored stock run pushed hard during a limited time with a unique stamp/added text. So The ESP is a Premium often choosen for Stock discs, but its also the preferred one for the Tour Series that might have extra handpicked colors and maybe even plasticblends with a special stamp. Indeed.
@@GeoffDerksen If your not layering a mold in different stabilities, try to keep it stock, will let you get replacements cheaper. But if you like a player get their stuff, sometimes directly from the actual player, might just be a stock run with a different variation of stamps often for less known players. I am a big proponent for used discs also, love testing "new stuff" :P
