My Actifit Report Card: November 17 2019

It was very rainy again today but I did manage to get out when it let up a bit and play some disc golf. I used three discs the Mamba and Shryke for drivers and an AviarX3 that I borrowed from my son for the putter.

I was taking two throws for each basket and taking the best position to play from. On almost all the baskets the Mamba ended up going farther and landing in a better spot. The Shryke is kind of at the upper end of what I can really throw well at the is point.

The Mamba is almost a bit to flippy for me though and I need to remember not to throw it too hard. Sometimes it can get away from me in the wind.

Here's a picture of what I think is the signature basket on the disc golf course I played today. It is slightly downhill from the tee pad with a basket around 335 feet away. The trees and road on the right make it difficult to throw. Lots of times the wind is going from left to right and if it gets under the disc it can carry it well out of bounds into some thorny underbrush.

I threw both driver discs and they finished off to the left a bit but the Mamba went a bit farther and didn't drift as far left. This disc is one of the first discs that I learned to throw any significant distance. I think it is a really nice beginner disc. I still like playing with it but I have to watch that I don't flip it over and turn it into a roller with too much power.

I was being careful today and not getting much of a run up because I was worried a bit about the new grass they were trying to put in. You can see from the picture below that someone else wasn't too worried about the grass and drove right through it. As near as I can figure the gate might have been locked and caused someone some problems. I've had that happen to me around here in a different park but I didn't drive across the grass.

The picture below is where the Mamba disc landed on this basket. I ended up making the putt from here and was really happy. The over-stable putter I borrowed flies really nicely at this distance and is a lot like the putter I lost in some leaves recently. I paced off the distance and it was 34 paces so maybe a hundred feet?

Here's a picture showing where the two driver discs landed on the next basket. The Mamba was in a better spot here too. I almost made the putt and I'm pretty sure I would have if I was using one of my own putters. The kind of plastic on a putter makes a difference and the putter just slide around the wet basket and popped out.

Next on my purchase list is some replacements for a couple of discs that I've lost recently, and (one I gave away.) For my arm speed the Wraith and the Tern work a lot better. They are kind of a priority but a new long distance throwing putter is in the mix too.

Thanks for reading! I always value your support and comments. The pictures were taken by me with my Galaxy S9+. Text and graphics copyright lightsplasher & litesplasher. Affiliated with Infinite Discs

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