2018-12-30 New Discs I've got three new discs, which I took to the Wiley course today. The discs are: 1) Pro Valkyrie, 175g: A backup for my new main driver, the Star Valkyrie. 2) Proline Hellfire, 175g: A second really overstable disc, be- sides my Felon. 3) Star Wedge, 175g: A hugely beautiful X-out misprint, which I just had to get. I played one round with two separate disc sets at the same time, and a second round with only one disc set. First I played Pro Valk + Star Wedge vs. Hellfire + JB Zone. The Valk+Wedge set played really well. Only on hole 2 I did turn the Valk over on the forehand drive (west wind). The other three forehand drives were fine. Hole 8 I parked with a backhand hyzer for the only birdie. The rest of the holes were pretty easy pars. The Wedge provided great approaches and jumper layups, besides: it putted really well. It's understability did not show up, although there was quite a bit of wind. This set scored -1 (26). The Hellfire+Zone set struggled hard. Hole 1 and 2 became bogeys because of horrible FH approaches. (The extra rule was to throw all Zone approaches forehand -- that sucked!) The short hole 5 also resulted in a bogey, after an approach and missing a 5m putt. On hole 6 I hit trees three times, getting another bogey. On the long hole 9 I needed two upshots. This made +5 (32) in the end. Afterwards I went for another round with the Felon and my main P3 putter. I thought that the windy weather would suite the Felon, and, as I can throw it quite far on the field, I would play pret- ty well with it on the course as well. Let's see: Hole 1 was all standard. On hole 2 I slipped on the teepad, resulting in a hor- rible forehand, which made it not even halfway to the basket. Had a bad upshot and had to settle with a bogey (on a birdie hole!). Hole 3 was rather a delight as I tickled the chains on my 10m upshot -> easy par. Forehand drive on hole 4, went too tight, un- fortunately missed the 7m putt. P3 drive on hole 5, missed the long putt. Hole 6 with a forehand drive too tight, made a huge mistake on the layup, hit a tree becoming a bad roll, had to set- tle with a bogey. Hole 7 another forehand drive, hit the first tree, made a great upshot, drop-in par. Hole 8 backhand hyzer, again too tight, made a par. Hole 9 ... now it's getting in- teresting: Instead of a flat or even slightly anhyzer release I -- for whatever reasons -- released the disc with hyzer. The wind got underneath and pushed it left. The result was rather good in these conditions. I went for a thumber approach (which I often do on this hole) with the Felon. For whatever reasons, I threw it too low and hit the low bushes just 10m ahead. From there I tried a jumper layup with the P3. To avoid the next bushes I threw it high. This caught the wind, which blew it past the basket. The long putt only tickled the chains right. Then I had a short putt for a double bogey. Phew! That made it a +4 (31). (It should be noted that my test drive on hole 9 with my P3 on 80% power flew on a straight line farther than the Felon drive, which was on 95% power!) To conclude: - I played one good round and two bad ones. - The overstable drivers are a problem, even in the wind. All hyzers and forehands were too tight. This I need to fix. - Forehand approaches were horrible. (Actually, that's the reason why I forced me to play them.) - On hole 2 I'll go back to putter drives. The driver forehands didn't pay out. - My putting has become much better since I started to use a more spin putt from the belly instead of the more push putt in Ricky's reach low style. - The Pro Valkyrie was well usable right away. It goes into my bag directly ... alongside of the Star Valkyrie, pushing the Roadrunner out, I think. - The Hellfire didn't impress me that much. The Felon is better in every aspect (from my current impression). But at least I have a second really overstable disc now. (Also, I wanted to have a disc from DGA.) - The Star Wedge did impress me! It's not understable as I thought. It flies a bit less stable than my D P3s, but still held up well in the wind. I could approach and putt with it depend- ably. The disc felt at once as if I would have played with it for months already. :-) http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke