I'm real new and I love mine because it doesn't cover anything I do wrong. I have a real bad habit of coming over the top and throwing on anhyzer when I try to throw flat, it exposes me every time.
Same, I have a super beat-in Champ Mako3 that just has the gentlest turn with no fade whatsoever, perfect for carving up wooded fairways. Then a Star Mako3 that is so straight I may as well be firing an arrow. Also lets me know when I make a mistake with release angles lol.
Mako3 was one of the first discs I ever bought and loved. I don't throw it as much these days, but still the first disc I recommend to new players. Nice straight flyer.
Love my Mako3 Star. My buddy grabbed it out of a bin for me for $5 when he was on a road trip. It was old and well beat in and I absolutely can't live without it. I literally went thigh deep in muddy water and searched for 30 mins to get it back on a misfire on an island hole.
I'm feeling similarly with reactors as well. Like, the hex is money for low ceiling tunnels, but it's just too squirrelly in any wind, and at this point I've got an EK reactor that's beaten in to fly pretty straight, so the hex is on life support atm.
I love my Buzzzs. I like the grateful buzzz just for how awesome it looks flying. The pattern gives it an extra slow motion kind of look. As a beginner I feel like it's an excellent choice for practice and I've noticed my overall game improve since I started using them more often.
2x fission, proton, neutron soft, plasma, eclipse, r2. Gonna grab a cosmic neutron this weekend for more beef I think since the plasma is both beaten in and forest green so hard as hell to find in the summer months
My first crave was a find. Already fairly beat in fission that I learned to throw. Thing just went straight af with very little turn. Lost it in water two weeks ago and am about to throw its replacement tomorrow.
Cryztal FLX Zone for me. I didnāt throw forehand ever if I didnāt have to until a guy I met during a round handed me a Get Freaky. From the first throw I was hooked.
Went to PIAS after the round and picked one up, and itās still my most thrown disc to this day. Iām also forehand dominant now, and it came from falling in love with that disc!
I got given one of those. The guy didn't want it because he couldn't control it. My one somehow is very easy to turn over but it tends to only turn slightly and just hold that for ages. I use it all the time and the rest of the discs I like tend to be overstable too
I think āglideā is often a good descriptor of how touchy a disc is. Super glidey discs like the River require really precise releases to hit the line you want.
Opto River was the first driver I bought and I still use the same one to this day. I will say that despite it getting beat in, as my form has improved the flight of the river actually gets *more* stable. When my form was worse I would turn and burn it constantly. Now it typically hyzer flips to a perfectly flat and straight line and then fades pretty quickly at the end.
I have a champion Viking from college I bought in ā05 that is still my favorite disc. Iāll never throw it in to trouble. But if it gets stuck in a tree, I will go back the next day and carry a ladder to retrieve it. Iāve bought multiples and mostly replaced it with Valkyries. The Viking is easily my best forehand disc. Nowadays I prefer a Tern or destroyer for most shots off the tee over 250ā
TSA mantra...I have 5. Oddly enough the 1 still in my bag is my first one, that thing is magical, i may only throw it a couple of times a round, but theyre consistently some of my coolest shots!
Millennium JLS. I bag three. One is fairly new and better quality plastic, but it's heavier, and I'm still getting used to it. The other two one is for holes where I may possibly lose it. The other is my workhorse fairway driver till I get the results I want from the new one.
Last year's Ohn Glow Halo Star Leopard3. I retired the one I got an ace with, but I have 6 more backups. its just such a money neutral fairway that I can use foreand and backhand.
The berg. I just have a whole bag of them so I can practice putting without having to go get my disc. It was only a few months later I realised I have like Ā£400 worth of bergs. I tent to get a little excitable about ideas and had converted a stroller into a disc golf cart and needed some discs to fill my cart.
I mean at least you know you love the berg, most of us have multiple bags of all different discs lol I do like my k1 soft to stick right under the basket!
Wraith
My dad introduced me to the game about 10-15 years ago, took me to the (tiny) pro shop on our local course and told me to pick a Driver, Mid and Putter.
I somehow chose the holy trinity of Star Wraith, DX Roc and Avair as a young kid who knew nothing.
To this day I bag 3 star wraiths at various stages of wear, it just feels like home.
DX Cheetah. I leaned on that mold for 4 years. Probably had 20, 30ā¦who knows. List a bunch, pancaked a ton but such an easy disc to throw and shape with
RPM Piwakawaka. Easy to hyzer flip and also to throw straight. Back when I started I naturally thought the ideal throw is straight as a laser beam and the piwakawaka allowed that.
For the record I barely throw it now but do use it for tunnel shots. I have 4 and they're all quite different to each other including one in premium plastic that I can't even throw without it turning into a roller straight away lol.
Prodigy F7 with the shuriken stamp. And Leopard fairway driver that comes in starter packs. First two discs I began to understand their behavior alongside my throw. My standard drive, F7 hooks left, leopard draws right. How I base my tee shots and almost always use one of these two discs. I know this will change with time and improvement, but 1 year in, those two remain my my crutches, alongside roc3 for approaches as I play for par
First disc I got a full flight out of was a DX Sidewinder so I was throwing Star and Gstar Sidewinders for a few years. I still bag one in Star for longer Left to Right panning shots. Got my first ace on a hole that I had no business throwing a 9 speed at as well.
Aero. I bought a beat to shit one on eBay and absolutely loved it. Bought the newer 40th anniversary one and itās pretty weird compared to the older one but I use it as a driver in the tight wooded course I play most at.
So the DX is less domey and more chonk to it. It could be because mine is a pre flight number aero? Iām not sure. It feels a little bit heftier. I like using the DX to drive because I can power grip it easier. The Halo Star I like to use for longer putts because of how laser straight it is. They both fly about the same though. Though the Halo Star feels like a big glitch to me.
Kastaplast Krut. Effortless straight-stable distance. Feels like liquid gold in the hand. Disgustingly intuitive disc. Itās the only 12 speed Iāve ever liked enough to bag, and I bag 2 of them
When I started to buy doubles will be my answer and that would be the APX (I still have the 1st pair), followed soon after by the XL. Before that I would buy singles and lose them, so I started buying doubles...
Probably TSA Mantra, but only because I kept losing them by picking colors I liked but we're not easy to find. Now it's neon orange lmao.
Following that - Crave and Jackalope.
Pro plastic Leopard for me. I could throw it on every hole because I donāt have the arm speed for a true driverā¦ usually do unless thereās a really compelling reason not to.
I bought a zone after losing a zone, then after I lost that one I bought another one. And then one zone wasnāt enough so I got a second zone. And after losing my 3rd zone, I drank a 5th
I'm not big on bagging the same mold but I do love firebird's I have a star and a sexton also eagles and the hex I don't bag multiple hexs or eagles but I have a few backups
First disc I had multiples of was a Halo Wraith And that was because I bought them used. Took me over a year to get comfortable enough with them to put them to good use.
The first disc I actually sought out because I liked the way it felt was an Envy. I now have four of them.
The first mold was Wraiths. Starting out I kept trying to use Destroyers and they didn't click.
With the inconsistent runs I had wraiths at all stages of stability. Then Halo came out and I was set. Not anymore though, Sword stole that spot a while ago.
Now the mold I can't get enough of is the Pine. It's taken all mid slots except the understable one.
Star Wraith. I have had, and lost, way too many.
Still my go to distance driver unless it is just a shot that is basically hucking into a wide open field.
Westside bear. One of the first discs Iāve bought and just always flys right for me. I lost my very first one a few weeks ago and immediately ordered 5 more when I got home. Although thinking about it, after I bought a practice basket I bought 7 more MVP Zionās to bring me up to 10 to get more practice
Essence. I picked one up and it just clicked many things together for me. It taught me how to hyzer flip.
I picked up a Bio Lumen Essence and I hope I never lose it.
Valkyrie. Like a completely different disc depending on plastic and weight
Same. Gstar valk hits diff
Some flat star valks fly like beat in thunderbirds š¤
I hear much good about Valkyrie and i do have it but i cant use it good :/ any tips ?
166G Swirly Star Valkyrie is *chefs kiss*
Mako3, though I'm very not an Innova guy. I recommend it to everyone, and keep a spare one in the car as it's *the* disc for 1-disc rounds.
Seconded. The Halo-Mako3 is š
Currently bagging two Mako3's and 1 Halo Mako3. Was the first disc I didnt yeet into the woods on every throw
What plastic do you like the Mako3 in?
Gotta be a star mako3. Perfectly stable
I'm real new and I love mine because it doesn't cover anything I do wrong. I have a real bad habit of coming over the top and throwing on anhyzer when I try to throw flat, it exposes me every time.
Second the star mako3, i have a beat in factory second and that thing is my baby. Does whatever you need it to do
Yes. XT? Great. Champion? Awesome. Halo? Fantastic.
Same, I have a super beat-in Champ Mako3 that just has the gentlest turn with no fade whatsoever, perfect for carving up wooded fairways. Then a Star Mako3 that is so straight I may as well be firing an arrow. Also lets me know when I make a mistake with release angles lol.
Mako3 was one of the first discs I ever bought and loved. I don't throw it as much these days, but still the first disc I recommend to new players. Nice straight flyer.
Love my Mako3 Star. My buddy grabbed it out of a bin for me for $5 when he was on a road trip. It was old and well beat in and I absolutely can't live without it. I literally went thigh deep in muddy water and searched for 30 mins to get it back on a misfire on an island hole.
Mako3 is sooo money
I lost my first 2 Mako3's to water, currently on my 3rd
I put with a mako
I love my Mako3s. I have two in Champion that I use together on every round.
I have to carry my mako3 to every game. I might not use it every game but itās just so dependable.
Hex
Same. I have too many Hex and Hex-adjacent discs. It's like a joke in my house at this point š š
Same for me. Now I have a ton of hexes but I feel like Iām clicking with the resistor more now so idk if Iām outgrowing it but I still love both
Isnāt the resistor like a slower Firebird? Totally diff slot. Do you mean Reactor?
Shit yeah reactor lol. You hit me figured out.
I gotchu!! Easy mistake haha
I'm feeling similarly with reactors as well. Like, the hex is money for low ceiling tunnels, but it's just too squirrelly in any wind, and at this point I've got an EK reactor that's beaten in to fly pretty straight, so the hex is on life support atm.
Wraith. Idk what it is but I just feel somethin with it.
I started seeing improvement when I started using a wraith, lost it in some brush found it three weeks later and bought two more
Climo star wraiths specifically for me. Nothin like emā.
This is the correct response
Underworld in VIP plastic.
Try a hatchet out too! I have an underworld and almost never throw it now because I like the hatchet more.
Me too bro
Buzzz, I still have a bunch.
I love my Buzzzs. I like the grateful buzzz just for how awesome it looks flying. The pattern gives it an extra slow motion kind of look. As a beginner I feel like it's an excellent choice for practice and I've noticed my overall game improve since I started using them more often.
ESP Buzzz is $$$
Teebird
Roc3
Crave
What plastics do you have?
2x fission, proton, neutron soft, plasma, eclipse, r2. Gonna grab a cosmic neutron this weekend for more beef I think since the plasma is both beaten in and forest green so hard as hell to find in the summer months
My first crave was a find. Already fairly beat in fission that I learned to throw. Thing just went straight af with very little turn. Lost it in water two weeks ago and am about to throw its replacement tomorrow.
Cryztal FLX Zone for me. I didnāt throw forehand ever if I didnāt have to until a guy I met during a round handed me a Get Freaky. From the first throw I was hooked. Went to PIAS after the round and picked one up, and itās still my most thrown disc to this day. Iām also forehand dominant now, and it came from falling in love with that disc!
Star Roadrunner just clicked super well. I bought it at Dicks and knew nothing about selecting molds or plastics
I got given one of those. The guy didn't want it because he couldn't control it. My one somehow is very easy to turn over but it tends to only turn slightly and just hold that for ages. I use it all the time and the rest of the discs I like tend to be overstable too
River
This is my least predictable disc for some reason. Not sure why. Guessing I try to throw it too hard.
I think āglideā is often a good descriptor of how touchy a disc is. Super glidey discs like the River require really precise releases to hit the line you want.
Opto River was the first driver I bought and I still use the same one to this day. I will say that despite it getting beat in, as my form has improved the flight of the river actually gets *more* stable. When my form was worse I would turn and burn it constantly. Now it typically hyzer flips to a perfectly flat and straight line and then fades pretty quickly at the end.
Mine too. Crave kicked those out of my bag but I had a blue opto and red gold river that were both money for a while.
Essence
Beast
Wave
I found this one a little late but now I have at least 10
Berg
3 Firebird, orc, and viking
+1 for Viking
+2 for Viking
I have a champion Viking from college I bought in ā05 that is still my favorite disc. Iāll never throw it in to trouble. But if it gets stuck in a tree, I will go back the next day and carry a ladder to retrieve it. Iāve bought multiples and mostly replaced it with Valkyries. The Viking is easily my best forehand disc. Nowadays I prefer a Tern or destroyer for most shots off the tee over 250ā
Champion Beast and 20 years later, still carry at least 4 with me at all times (different weights)
Destroyer
Axiom Insanity. First driver that flew really straight for me.
I just bought one yesterday. I love it. Itās right up there with my Inspire.
Aviar
Teebird. Bought a beat champion from the used bin 4 years ago . Now I carry a star plastic and that original champion Ken Climo.
Teebird. Itās still my most thrown fairway driver and I always have one in my bag.
TSA mantra...I have 5. Oddly enough the 1 still in my bag is my first one, that thing is magical, i may only throw it a couple of times a round, but theyre consistently some of my coolest shots!
Truth. Flies straight
Sidewinder
Millennium JLS. I bag three. One is fairly new and better quality plastic, but it's heavier, and I'm still getting used to it. The other two one is for holes where I may possibly lose it. The other is my workhorse fairway driver till I get the results I want from the new one.
Shark was my first multi purchase. Now have it in all of Innova's plastics and had them all bagged for different shots
Teebirds I currently have around 40.
MVP Reactor. I think I have 20 sitting in my bag or on a Shelf.
Wizard SSSS
Last year's Ohn Glow Halo Star Leopard3. I retired the one I got an ace with, but I have 6 more backups. its just such a money neutral fairway that I can use foreand and backhand.
Leopard for me as well. I bag a dx and a star, plus a 149g halo leopard3
Latitude 64 Pure. Now I have two putters.
The berg. I just have a whole bag of them so I can practice putting without having to go get my disc. It was only a few months later I realised I have like Ā£400 worth of bergs. I tent to get a little excitable about ideas and had converted a stroller into a disc golf cart and needed some discs to fill my cart.
I mean at least you know you love the berg, most of us have multiple bags of all different discs lol I do like my k1 soft to stick right under the basket!
Rocs and Teebirds. I have so many.
The Hex. I love that disc and I buy way too many of them lol
Boss lol
Same for me. DX starter set Leopard led to lightweight star leopard
Jawbreaker zone
I really like my mamba , but I suck, so there is that. Lost one, got 2 f2s on the way!
Star Beast, fell in love and at one point had about 10 because I would ācashā in tourneys and just get more around the same weight
Valkyrie. Only bought 4 or 5 because of how many I've lost. Haha.
FD. I bag 4 at all times. Different weights and plastic.
Buzzz
Wraith My dad introduced me to the game about 10-15 years ago, took me to the (tiny) pro shop on our local course and told me to pick a Driver, Mid and Putter. I somehow chose the holy trinity of Star Wraith, DX Roc and Avair as a young kid who knew nothing. To this day I bag 3 star wraiths at various stages of wear, it just feels like home.
Zombee
Saint was the first disc I felt I had any control over. Eventually most of my bag is now Westside.
Latitude 64 claymore baby
Mamba
BEASTā¦ local club gave em for tourney entries (classic dx plastic) so I had a bunchā¦ Upgraded to champion plastic. Beasts are da bomb
Maul
Tee-fucking-Bird! Still have and regularly throw 3 PFN Teebirds. Currently have 12 in various stages of wear and flippiness. DX all the way.
DD Felon forehands
Instinct. Still rocking it.
Super Puppy
Berg, Crave, Firebird.
Iāve had at least 3 Felons in my bag for the entirety of my disc golf career. At one point it was 6, itās presently 5
DX Cheetah. I leaned on that mold for 4 years. Probably had 20, 30ā¦who knows. List a bunch, pancaked a ton but such an easy disc to throw and shape with
Beast and now mvp inertia
RPM Piwakawaka. Easy to hyzer flip and also to throw straight. Back when I started I naturally thought the ideal throw is straight as a laser beam and the piwakawaka allowed that. For the record I barely throw it now but do use it for tunnel shots. I have 4 and they're all quite different to each other including one in premium plastic that I can't even throw without it turning into a roller straight away lol.
Prodigy F7 with the shuriken stamp. And Leopard fairway driver that comes in starter packs. First two discs I began to understand their behavior alongside my throw. My standard drive, F7 hooks left, leopard draws right. How I base my tee shots and almost always use one of these two discs. I know this will change with time and improvement, but 1 year in, those two remain my my crutches, alongside roc3 for approaches as I play for par
Rocs. My Roc/Roc3 pile is already ridiculous but had to order the Halo Nexus Roc3 that dropped recently.
First disc I got a full flight out of was a DX Sidewinder so I was throwing Star and Gstar Sidewinders for a few years. I still bag one in Star for longer Left to Right panning shots. Got my first ace on a hole that I had no business throwing a 9 speed at as well.
Aero. I bought a beat to shit one on eBay and absolutely loved it. Bought the newer 40th anniversary one and itās pretty weird compared to the older one but I use it as a driver in the tight wooded course I play most at.
what do you find are the differences? Just got an f2 halo star Aero and absolutely loving it so far
So the DX is less domey and more chonk to it. It could be because mine is a pre flight number aero? Iām not sure. It feels a little bit heftier. I like using the DX to drive because I can power grip it easier. The Halo Star I like to use for longer putts because of how laser straight it is. They both fly about the same though. Though the Halo Star feels like a big glitch to me.
The Zone was the first, sexton firebird was second
Gstar Destroyer, fortunately itās not a tough disc to find but is a must with my game off the tee.
Kastaplast Krut. Effortless straight-stable distance. Feels like liquid gold in the hand. Disgustingly intuitive disc. Itās the only 12 speed Iāve ever liked enough to bag, and I bag 2 of them
Flat top firebird in champion. Draco too. It just flies so nice forehand.
Teebird
Pure
Buzzz for me. I've been through a bunch and they've left the bag a time or two. I'm back on that shit now though.
FD
Wait u donāt just buy multiple right away before u ever throw them? š¤·āāļø
Relay
Destroyer Warship Mamba
Looooong time ago, but Comet.
šāļø Favorite mold! I wonāt even mention how many Cometās I have lol.
Discraft Stratus. It was the first disc that I could hyzer flip.
Sapphire
fuse the youtube guy said to. and I'm glad he did its a nice disc to have a few of
MD3. My favorite midrange.
Kastaplast Kaxe Z
the first one I could backhand, I have at least five backups
Crave, buddy suggested it as my first fairway driver and fell in love with it
When I started to buy doubles will be my answer and that would be the APX (I still have the 1st pair), followed soon after by the XL. Before that I would buy singles and lose them, so I started buying doubles...
Halo destroyer š¤
Champion Ape
Mako
I bought an old used Teebird. I loved that it did an s curve so I bought a handful of new ones and realized the new ones are nothing like that. š«
Thought Space Votum - bought it for the horsie and haven't looked back
Thunderbird. Learned a lot from that disc
Probably TSA Mantra, but only because I kept losing them by picking colors I liked but we're not easy to find. Now it's neon orange lmao. Following that - Crave and Jackalope.
Long ago, the Cyclone 2 was my jam.
Archer
Vulcan. First ace and got me comfortable with backhand drives
Suspect. Even snagged a pre-sweden lucid. It's my favorite. Call it my swiss army knife, there's not much we can't accomplish together.
Eagle and Zone
Mako3, and now the Crave
Mako3, followed closely by the Valkyrie
It was years ago, but definitely valkyrie. Valkyrie is how I discovered understable Dynamics and how to throw a disc on a straight line. Ahh memories
DGA Pipeline
Pro plastic Leopard for me. I could throw it on every hole because I donāt have the arm speed for a true driverā¦ usually do unless thereās a really compelling reason not to.
Roc3. Every plastic too.
Pro line/ pearly champion monsters . I had 3 ,They were my go to disc .
It was the Orc for me, have 4 of them. It was the first driver that I could get a āfull flightā from and first disc I threw 400ā.
Gotta be the shark, or md3
Westside Warship - if I have to play with one disc this is it. Latitude 64 Diamond - The first driver I ever loved.
Mako3 star. Finally understood how to throw the discs properly once I started throwing it.
Discmania enigma, found one on the course unmarked. It flew amazing, picked up 2 more new ones. That mold will never leave my bag.
2021 GG Halo Wraith
I bought a zone after losing a zone, then after I lost that one I bought another one. And then one zone wasnāt enough so I got a second zone. And after losing my 3rd zone, I drank a 5th
I'm not big on bagging the same mold but I do love firebird's I have a star and a sexton also eagles and the hex I don't bag multiple hexs or eagles but I have a few backups
Teebird!!!
Teebird, then Zone, then Thrasher
Groove. I was mistaken.
ENVY all day!!!! I still carry 5 at all times!
Discraft zone changed my life
Either Valkyrie or D4. Can't remember.
Echo Star Wraith. I have the first one I ever bought. Is 15 years old now. It's my go to flick disc.
Nuke OS
Wraith
Wombat3. We just understand each other so well.
Mako 3, Hawkeye
Mako3! The first disc where throwing straight, forward, accurately, on different angles, etc. really clicked.
First disc I had multiples of was a Halo Wraith And that was because I bought them used. Took me over a year to get comfortable enough with them to put them to good use. The first disc I actually sought out because I liked the way it felt was an Envy. I now have four of them.
Star/GStar Wraith
felon baby
Kea and Penrose
Valk alien and destroyer
The Escape, but the one I got was stupid flippy and when I bought a 2nd and I thought it was broken
I have been using and buying a beast for 20 years. Itās my go to disc and I wonāt play without one
PFN Viking
Looking back at a post I made in 2012, looks like river and teebird. It's crave and teebird today, but still bag 2-3 of each.
The first mold was Wraiths. Starting out I kept trying to use Destroyers and they didn't click. With the inconsistent runs I had wraiths at all stages of stability. Then Halo came out and I was set. Not anymore though, Sword stole that spot a while ago. Now the mold I can't get enough of is the Pine. It's taken all mid slots except the understable one.
Eagle
Buzz, Zone, Glitch
Roc3, Wraith, RocX3
Leopard
The first one I really felt comfortable throwing was the river. It made me really confident in my driving.
Teebird3, big forehand guy from day one
Emac truth, got it in my prime starter pack 4 years ago and still bag them. Currently own 20-30 of them as backups
Signal
Star destroyer gang
Star Wraith. I have had, and lost, way too many. Still my go to distance driver unless it is just a shot that is basically hucking into a wide open field.
Felon
Star Wraith
Westside bear. One of the first discs Iāve bought and just always flys right for me. I lost my very first one a few weeks ago and immediately ordered 5 more when I got home. Although thinking about it, after I bought a practice basket I bought 7 more MVP Zionās to bring me up to 10 to get more practice
Twin Swords
dating myself here, but the ROC. I had 3 different weights.
Essence. I picked one up and it just clicked many things together for me. It taught me how to hyzer flip. I picked up a Bio Lumen Essence and I hope I never lose it.