2019-02-21 Bag Considerations I have to rebuild my bag. The field work over the last months changed things quite a bit. I got more distance, which made the Valkyrie a usable disc for me now. I learned to make use of understable discs, which brought a new shot to my arsenal: the turnover. I experimented with skip shots. I have to reconsider my bag, because the only-Teebirds approach (baseline and premium) lacks discs for those new shots. None of my Teebirds flies like the Leopard does (the Leo is the understable disc I can work with the best). If I want to have the turnover shot in my bag (in a driver) then I have to bag the Leo. For skip shots the Felon served me best. It is more overstable than the premium plastic Teebirds. Almost all players out there bag one really overstable disc. Thus I probably want to bag the Felon. For distance the Valkyries served me well. They fly more accurate than pumping out the DX Teebirds to the same distance. Hence, the Valks do not sacrifice accuracy for the increased distance. That's why I should bag them. The pair of Star and Pro matches well, too. The premium plastic Teebirds are set for straight-to-fade shots. They are so similar that I consider the second one only to be a backup. Thus I've got: - Pro Valk: max D, straight - Star Valk: more stable, straight - ES/Ch TB: straight-to-fade - Lucid Felon: OS utility The DX Leo, I'm not sure about. Do I need or want that disc for a single type of shot? Because all other shots, I've covered with other discs. Or should I use it for more shots, then I should leave another disc out ... Furthermore, it's the only understable disc in my bag, currently. Still I've got the straight DX Teebirds. The Valks have taken over most of their lines. DX Teebirds have one thing to offer over the Valkyries: they are slower and fly straight at slower speeds. But the Leo is even more so, thus, if I bag the Leo, it could cover all the way up the Valks, I think. Pushing the DX Teebirds out ...? Maybe that's the way: Valks (straight, all lines) plus premium Teebirds (straight-to-fade) as my main drivers. They have proven to be a great pair already, as I played some of my most success- ful rounds with that pair. Then the Felon for more OS stuff and the Leo for more US stuff and for slower straight shots. Seems to be reasonable. That much about drivers. On the slower side, I have my P3s of course. The do most of the work. I have a Zone for out-of-trouble stuff and short OS shots. That much is set. The open question is the Comet. Just recently I wrote that it's back in the bag. I'm not so sure anymore. The reason is that it is so much different than all the other discs I bag. You really have to get into the Comet -- no problem when you're doing one disc rounds, but throwing the Comet and my other discs mixed, I have problems being slow and smooth with the Comet. (Maybe I should be smooth with all of my discs, but well ...) I fear a bit that I cannot throw the Comet as it needs when I play with all the other discs. Thus I might leave it out. It overlaps with the P3 and the Leo ... line-wise not flight-wise. ;-) We'll see. Maybe I only need to improve switching better to the Comet. This results in 9 discs: 6 drivers (2 VL, 2 TB, Leo, Felon) and 3 putters (2 P3, Zone). I could easily drop three of them: 1 VL, 1 TB, Leo, without los- ing much. I could then drop also the Felon to get down to five discs. Eventually, the minimal bag would be: Valk, TB, P3. These three discs will be used most out of the full bag. (Drives are usually half-half between straight and straight-to-fade drivers.) Leo, Felon and Zone are only for special cases. The second TB is only a backup (I could spare if I have the Felon). And the second P3 is only for convenience and as a backup, of course. With this bag I have all kinds of shots available. (I don't throw rollers, yet.) http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke