avecigrec
Well-Known Member
So you dudes who play a lot. Two-part question.
1. How do you decide what weight to thirow/how do you decide when it’s time to move up weight?
2. How do you decide on new discs? Do you just buy blind and if they’re a nightmare you just chalk it up to sunk cost? Something else I’m missing?
For myself, most of the discs I initially picked up were max weight and I eventually started finding lower weights of some of my favourites - often bagging both (ie: when I'm playing with my full bag I have a max weight Sexton Firebird and a 160ish Star Firebird - the lighter one for bigger distances and the SexyBird for tighter corners) Maybe not the best way to go about it, but when I first fell into disc golf I was snapping up discs the way I do records these days...
Which leads to my #2 answer being a decent bit of blind buying for sure. I bought a LOT of discs on a Canadian Facebook auction site, where I picked up a bunch for cheap and some that I really wanted for less cheap! As a result, I have a ton of unused/barely used discs in my closet these days, but it was a good way to work through a lot and find what I liked. There are very few disc sellers where I'm at - most being private citizens who buy wholesale and distribute - so there's not a lot of opportunity to try a hands-on approach to exploring discs. When I was still up in Nanaimo and playing League, most of the members of the club were pretty open to letting folks check out their discs if there was a mold someone was curious about - but actually buying and trying them was the most consistent way to check things out.
These days*, I'm much more dialed in on what I want or need, so disc purchases have slowed to back-up copies of my most used discs and the occasional trying of different plastics or a different brand's version of same/similar discs.
*"These days," is a bit of a misnomer, since I haven't been out much at all during the past 2 years, but up until that point I was out as often as I could be.