Warped Discs

[ehfeinberg]

Just a PSA to everyone,

Every Ultimate players worst nightmare is warping their discs! When a disc is warped, the disc is no longer circular and the rim is no longer flat. This will cause the disk to wobble in flight. A warped disc will also not fly strait.

Discs become warped when they hit a hard surface (a wall, a goal, a robot driving over it). In Ultimate this usually never happens because we play on grass. Unless you knife the disc or fall on it (which Ultimate players would never do), it is hard to warp a disc. However, in Ultimate Assault where every missed shot goes strait into a hard back board, I would not be surprised if most if not all discs become warped over the course of a few matches.

Sadly, this is unavoidable and everyone is just going to have to deal with it. I wish the GDC made rules to prevent teams from intentionally warping discs, but it would still not prevent all the warping of discs.

If you do find that your disc becomes warped, a simple way to unwarp a disc is by placing it on a flat surface and taping the edge of the disc lightly in a circle. If when you tap the disc you find it makes a noise and wobbles, you have found where the disc is warped. You can then bend the disc in the same place you found the warp to attempt to unwarp the disc. Although you can never completely unwarp a disc, by doing this you can greatly improve how long your discs will last before you have to retire them.

Because the discs for Ultimate Assault are 180 grams, not 175, like a normal regulation disc, you can't just go to the store and buy any old disc. (Although the 5 gram difference doesn't seem like much, there is a considerable difference in how the two discs fly).

With 100 something discs on the field at a time, I wouldn't be surprised if they burn through well over 400 discs per competition. It's a shame that they are all junk Whammo discs so they are not even worth taking home.