2020-01-11 Goettingen 1 Back to Goettingen. Today, I've played two rounds with Björn, who I met on the course. We played until dark. It had around 5 C and a slightest bit of wind. I took only two discs from home: A Plasma Insanity (9/5/-2/1.5) and the C-Line P3. If you go with two discs, one should be a putter, one that you are familiar putting with and you can throw at the same time. P3 and Zone are the candidates for me. It's a difficult choice between them. Either you have the normal putting putter (which is a good thing) or you have the better one for drives and approaches. As the Goettingen course has holes that are brutal to the plastic, I rather take premium plastic and a disc I don't usually bag, thus the C-Line P3, which I had chosen last time, too. For the driver, I had the Star Eagle with me last time, but I don't want to mess it up so much, as I think I might want to bag it in the future. (I like the disc, although it hasn't found a place in my bag yet.) You want a versatile driver, it you have only one, thus -- as Garublader would say -- one with turn and fade, not too fast. Nothing too understable or too overstable, nothing too straight ... just a bit of everthing. (You can use your putter as a complement. Hence, if your putter is a Zone, you can go with a straigher driver. If you have a putter without fade, like a Pure, you can go with a more fading driver.) On the Goettingen course, you want premium plastic, and a disc you don't bag. This way I came to the Insanity. I never really got used to it. I only sometimes threw it for field practice, otherwise it sat on the shelf. Now was the time to get it to know better. Two rounds. I started on hole 2 because that's were we met. Hole 2: I made a massive first drive, turning the Insanity over on the slight downhill drive, going way right and beyond. Still saved the par with a good approach and putt. Second round, the drive was better but still lacked hyzer. Took a bogey there, after a missed short putt. Hole 3: Okay with a par on round one. Turned the Insanity over and went over the fence OB, in the second round, for a double bogey 5. Hole 4 (the short one): Backhand P3 drive both rounds, was stopped by the tree bunch. Scored 3 and 4 (missed putt). Hole 5 (the long one): Good drives with the Insanity both rounds. Good (enough for me) approaches, but not enough to get pars. That hole playes like a par 4 for me. (Haven't had a 3 there, yet.) Hole 6: Good drives (Insanity BH) but not enough for birdies. Hole 7 (the puzzling one): That really gave me problems. The only hole I actually missed a very overstable disc for an anny flex. There's a rail in front of the teepad, so you can't release low, but you need to go left. The hyzer is blocked by trees. Scored 4 and 3 after bad drives each. Not horrible but for difficult ap- proaches. Maybe I could try a forehand roller next time ... Hole 8 (the brutal one): Last time I threw the putter forehand, I think. This time the driver forehand, which is the better choice. Still I should throw it farther. Scored 4 and 3. Hole 9: Low forehand hyzer for easy pars. Hole 10 (the terrible hole): Went into the scrubs and then OB, first round, plus problems for a 6! Hit the tree (this time with the P3), threw a horrible forehand from a bad stance way into OB, scored a 5! The hole was easier last time. ;-) Hole 11: Easy par in round one. In round two, it was almost dark. My drive flew high and short into the left trees. After minutes of searching, I found it up in the branches. Got it down with a stick, Then got a bogey. Hole 12: Two pars, both with luck on the drives. First round into the left trees, but rolled back into the fairway. Second round into the right tree, and from there ... who knows. There was no sound of hitting the building or stones. There was hardly any sound of the landing. I had lost it from sight as it went through the branches. After several minutes of searching, I found it well down the fairway. It went right through the tree with it's normal flight. In both rounds I had long birdie putts (20m) which I missed by only a bit. Hole 1: After a good forehand Insanity drive, I three-putted to a bogey in round one. In the second round I did it right and sank the putt for the only birdie in these two rounds. :-) 3 OBs, 3 multiple bogeys, 1 birdie; a hard streak of bogeys, fol- lowing the three-putt on hole 1; the horrible hole 10, but apart from that it were good rounds and fun playing. I really made some good putts, especially on the first few holes. I had good drives. Good upshots (like most of the time). The Insanity got broken in a bit. It now turns noticably ... and often to me surprisingly. Up to now, I would have rated it a -0.5/2 or such, but now it flies by its numbers -2/1.5, kind of like an Eagle but with clearly less fade. It's good to know it better now, but I wonder if I have a place for it. Such a fast (speed 9) unstable disc is not what I like that much. It seems to be a fine disc for distance shots, for me, but still I have the impression that it needs more power to get it on speed than other discs I have. The Pro Valk is easier to throw for max distance; the Star Valk has more accuracy. The Insansity is somehow in- between. Not sure what to do with it. But I think I'll have another opportunity to play here in Goettingen in the coming days, maybe I'll find answers then. http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke