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Re: Shooter wheel covering

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Originally Posted by fb39ca4 View Post
This will not help with distance because the point of having a compressible material is to increase the time and amount of frisbee in contact with the wheel. If you don't make the wheel compressible, the frisbee will only touch at that one point where it and the wheel are tangent.
I believe the fact that you are also storing energy in the frisbee when you compress it can also have an effect on distance.
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