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Re: compression: wheel vs wall

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Originally Posted by eklaw View Post
Has your team experimented with having a compressible wheel vs wall? What did you find? In theory it shouldn't effect contact length.
I was speaking with a mentor from another team. they had done extensive testing with wheel types. They found that a soft pneumatic tire, partially deflated, achieved the best "grab" on the Frisbee. He described the performance as" when the disk goes through the pinch-point, the tire wraps around the edge; compresses to conform to the Frisbee shape.

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