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Game tips — Play in the wind
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In addition to the natural obstacles, like trees or water, the wind could be an equally important factor to master on a hole. A common view among beginners is that you can’t make a controllable shot in strong winds. That is not true. Through training, experience of how discs fly and by learning to choose a suitable disc for the shot, you will be able to perform an almost as controlled shot in strong headwind as you would in calm conditions.
Headwind means that the disc is slowed down and that its capacity to lift increases (the disc rises more than when it’s calm). The disc will fly more understable in headwind. Tailwind has the opposite effect on the disc’s flight, as the disc will not be slowed down as much and its ability to lift is inferior. The disc will fly more overstable in tailwind.
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If the disc is tilted in a positive angle (nose up) in tailwind, the disc will lose altitude quickly. The same positive angle in headwind will make the disc rise quickly. A negative angle in tailwind means that the disc will rise, and consequently, it will be pressed towards the ground when released in headwind.
The basic principle is simple: If the bottom side of the disc gets exposed to wind, the disc will be pressed forcefully towards the opposite direction. For instance; if the disc is thrown in a hyzer angle by a right handed backhand thrower (left side of the disc is tilted down) in right to left crosswind, the disc will fly more to the left than if there had been no wind. It would rise a little more as well. If instead the top of the disc gets exposed to the wind, the disc would only be pressed moderately towards the opposite direction. If the same hyzer throw from the example above would have been made in left to right crosswind instead of right to left crosswind, the top of the disc would have been hit by winds, making the disc land just slightly more to the right than if there hadn’t been any wind. The disc would also drop a little. A disc released flat would be minimally affected by a 90-degree crosswind.
When throwing in headwind, it’s important to achieve the cleanest possible release, i.e. with minimal flutter. In tailwind flutter is no big deal. In strong headwinds in particular, flutter will make the disc lose both speed and stability and will turn over. If you use an overstable disc and give it some flutter, it will be able to stabilize itself better than an understable disc, which in turn needs a cleaner release in headwind. When throwing in strong winds it is also important to give the disc a lot of spin, which helps stabilizing the flight.
/ Jonas Löf, translated by Jonas Lindberg
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