What's up Innova fans? Welcome to my "In the Bag" for 2018. Starting off with the bag.
I'm using the Upper Park Designs Rebel. It's great on the back. I toss it on and
I'm up the hill.They carry very easily and ergonomically so I really love this
bag. Thanks to those guys. We'll just get right into it. I've got a lot of discs.
I've got a pretty eclectic mix of what I've been throwing. This isn't all of the
discs that I have. A lot of them are in a bin at home and I kind of swap them out
as, as I see fit. But this is basically what I'm rocking
with right now on the west coast. Start with the putters. This will probably dull
down to 4 KC Aviars and 1 DX Aviar. This is an old one; it's a three ring
so it's a little bit smaller. The mold back in the day - it's just a little bit
less blunt so this is my long-range putter.
These are discs that were, most of them were given to me.
Nice straight Aviar. This is for approach shots. Just something that I can toss
with a touch of hyzer; it will stand right up onto the line. This is my
slightly less stable putter, so I throw this one flat and it'll get a little
bit of turn out of it. These two are my putters. They basically do the same thing,
they just have a little different feel. This one's a little more porous so I can
really get my hands into it on cold days, and this is for a little bit warmer
weather. So Aviar Big Bead, love those. In my utility putter spot, I use a Rhyno.
Typically I don't throw this disc many times backhand. Typically I'll throw this
only forehand and this is just for setup shots or something that I need to set up
on the line straight and get it to fall down. It doesn't glide very
far, so I can hit it a little bit harder on the line and it wants to stop right
there. Into my mid ranges. If you keep up with my game, then you probably know that
I don't use the mid-range as much as a lot of the other players, but I do have a
few in my bag and I'm just really kind of working them in and just focusing on
how they fly. You know, it's all about the angles with the mid ranges so. I take the
Roc. I have three different types today. Have an old-school three ring San Marino
Roc. This is from the nineties. This has a nice stand up to flat and then a hook at
the end. I can also manipulate this one to kind of carry to the right. And just
the way that this mold is kind of just carries the inertia and just wants to follow
wherever you throw it and then slight finish. I also have a beat up one of
these that's used for my slow turnover fades. In the place of the other San
Marino is my buddy Dano's Roc. This is my flippy Roc, so I'll just set this one on
flat and it'll carry over. Main thing with this one is I just try to be smooth
with it; if I overplay it, it wants to turn over, it's a it's a flat topper so
it doesn't have too much glide. But I want to hit it and then just kind of
sear it on the line if you will.
Next is a Luster Champion Roc3 with the Dan Lyons artwork, Roc and skull
that he did. Just an amazing feeling disc right here. This one's actually the
transitional from the plastics. This thing flies nice. I hit it hard and flat
Boom! It'll hold there for basically as far as it can go, and then it hyzers out.
This is a hard one to turn over and it's fairly new. I've had it in the bag about
three months, really enjoying this one.
My utility mid range is a Stingray. This one says 1991 on it.
This was Roger Elliot's Stingray and it's a very very nice disc. I use this for
utility rollers or maybe a weird crazy inside outline. But typically I can throw
this with hyzer and it'll bend over and roll. It's great for shorter rollers or
holes with an interesting shot shape that I can't really move the flick
as far to the right as I need to. Or depending on what the lay of the land is,
it might just be easier to toss a roller down the hill than you know lay a sidearm out and watching it float away.
So this is a really fun disc to use, very
user-friendly. If you haven't checked out a Stingray before, this is one of the
older molds that Innova has made for a long, long time and definitely worth the
pick up. I recommend the DX just because you're gonna really learn how it flies
and you know it's just point and shoot, point shoot. This will follow right where
you, right where you throw it so really fun disc to play with there. Into my
drivers. I've got
two longer fairways which are Thunderbirds. My friend Tom
Embry gave me this first run Thunderbird about two years ago, I think it's two
years ago. Thank you Tom. Great disc. This just sets right up on line. I hit it with
a touch of hyzer, it stands directly and just goes straight as far as I could throw
it. This Thunderbird is the Star Thunderbird. I found like this one's a
lot more overstable than this one here. This is almost like a fast Firebird. I
want to thank Jeff Ashe for giving me this disc and his awesome dyes. So thanks
Jeff. Now we're into my favorite disc, the Eagle. Nope that's not an Eagle, these
four are though. So this is basically the entire spread of the Eagles that I throw.
This is a Champion Edition Eagle, very straight disc. If I release this with
hyzer, it'll stand up straight. Same thing with the flick hyzer stand up
straight and it'll even flip over if I push it hard enough. I've got to be
careful with this one because it will flip. Typically I try to throw it about
80%. The T-bone Eagle. This is such a great disc. This is a KC Pro 10x. For those of
you that don't really know the lineage of the plastics, this was this was before
the Champion Edition Eagles. But this is a very Champion Edition-esque plastic.
Really durable. I've had this in my bag for a year and a half after a trade from
my buddy Jesse. T-bone was a guy I played with when he was still here, a great guy
and I'm honored to throw this disc everywhere I go. I love this thing so
much. Really just a flat shooter. It'll kind of pull up on the line and then
hook back up directly on line, really fun. Here's a 2015 Eagle. These are a flat run
of Champion Eagle. Very nice one. This one just got a little bit more, I think this
has a little bit more girth on the rim than those other two being that it's
newer. But again, very straight disc. This one has a little bit of fade, but I'll
bump up to this one in maybe a windy situation or upwind where I would use
one of those. It's just a little bit more blunt, wants to fly through the, fly
through the air a little slower than those ones so. Onto the brand new one. My
friend Tim just gave me this today. I'm very excited to have this disc in my bag.
It's an 11x Champion Eagle. These are great runs. I mean this is, this is where
it all started for me and playing disc golf. This was the first fast disc that
was on the market at the time. When I was coming up, you were either a Teebird guy
or an Eagle guy so I chose the Eagle. Partly because of the way it feels in my
hand for the sidearm. I love throwing these sidearm, but also backhand too. This one
just has a little bit more you know a little bit more fade than than these
older ones and I can hit it a little bit harder and it'll just hold the line,
whereas those might turn over so thank you Tim. Great disc here. Can't wait to
put that one to use. I have a few more of these, but this is just a really flat top
Firebird. Same speed as the Eagle. I use this for chop hyzers or little sidearm
approaches. I could use the Gator, but the Gator's not in my bag right now. I
just use the Firebird. It kind of cuts the wind a little bit better, so this is
more or less just an approach disc for me. I don't really use this off the tee
too much especially, especially when I have the Eagle you know go and I've got
a nice set of those. This is just for extremely windy situation or just a nice
touch upshot. Firebird, can't go wrong. Alright.
The Roadrunners. This is the Team Champion Series that Innova ran for me
this year. The purple one's got a nice dome on them. These will flip up, fly
straight and then hook up. As I beat it in, I realized as it wears in, its gonna
be able to turn over more and more so I'm starting to be able to use it for a
roller now. I've had it in my bag for about a month. It feel really good. Thank
you to everyone who's picked one up. I'm really enjoying it myself so hope you
are too. This is basically a Roadrunner, but is
called an STD. It's a Discmania disc. I got my first STD in Sweden and it comes
with me everywhere I go. I don't know about the rest of you or where you got
your STDs but I got mine in Europe. This comes with me everywhere. This has been
my main roller for two years. I just love throwing this disc. Flies
great, has a nice turn into a roller, and just overall a really useful disc. You
can do so much with these things. Especially you know, you can you can
flick roll them you can back and roll them. If you bump down the power you can
go to about 60% and really just smooth this up onto the line and almost fly it
like an old-school disc. There's a lot of fast discs on the market. The Roadrunner is
not as fast on the speed gauge, but definitely with the glide you can throw
these a long long way, so love those. So
as you guys know, I like, I moved discs in and out of my bag all the time. So these
are the fast discs that I have right now working in the bag. I've got two bottom
stamped Scorpius. These are made by Innova, released by Millennium so they're in the
family. Basically it's just slightly less stable version of the Destroyer. It's the old
Destroyer mold. I really like that just for me personally, I don't have the power
threshold to stand up a Destroyer as long as I can stand one of these up.
These will really stand and ride for me. I like these bottom stamps with the
white; it's perfect. They just feel great. That's a huge one for me: the feel. I
don't typically go off a color, I just go off a feel, and the white ones felt the
best, so Scorpius. This is an older one. This is more of a pop top version kind
of an SDS Destroyer-esque. This is the old mold and I believe this is one of the early runs.
Weird thing about the dye. It seems like, it seems like the porousness comes
out a little more so this one's got a lot of grip. Uh-huh get it baby! Whoo!
Fore.
Hey these guys want to talk all they want, bet you they won't talk with
their wallet after this round. I have one Destroyer in the bag right now; it's
basically just like the Scorpius. This one came from my friend Tyrell Peters
who's on the Innova Celebrity Team. Thank You Tyrell. This is, this thing's
awesome. It's just a meat hook. It's got a little bit more - I feel like there's more
plastic in the edge of this disc than, than my other ones. Really fun disc to
throw I can depend on it every time. Get it out there with some hyzer, it's
coming back for sure. Hit it flat, it'll fly flat for a little while and then
hyzer. So there's not much turnover with this one and a really great gift. Thank You
Tyrell. Lastly I've got one Star Boss in the bag right now. A lot of times I'll
carry two or three, just depends on which course I play it. Like I said it all
comes down to feel for me, so if I like the Champion feel and it's got a, you
know, if it's a little flatter - typically I like to go with those for those flat
low shots. This Boss has a little bit of dome in it so this one can get up in the
air. What I'll typically do with this is take the line on the inside and then let
it turn over. That way I can get the maximum distance. I can throw about maybe
on average at 30 foot further with the Boss than any other disc. I can throw the
Destroyers and the Scorpius a good ways, but the Boss is definitely my maximum
distance disc. You know only having one in the bag
right now, doesn't mean there won't be four in there at some point. I love this
disc, so. I use it for forehands and backhands again for long power distance.
Anything that I need to bump up and get a little extra speed or maybe sometimes
just even get around that tree, I'll use the Boss just because it goes a little faster.