Shooter Track Material - grippy or slick?

[ctccromer]

I went to Ruckus (the skateboard shop) and bought us a thing of Grip Tape roughly... 1ft by 3 ft? for $7. It worked great for us

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by ctccromer

I went to Ruckus (the skateboard shop) and bought us a thing of Grip Tape roughly... 1ft by 3 ft? for $7. It worked great for us

We considered that, but are extremely concerned about what it will do to the longevity of the frisbees. 'Grinding' the end of them on the tape like that probably isn't a good idea. We're considering some thin die-rubber or something similar.

[jvriezen]

On our linear belt driven shooter, we found slick went further. I believe it is because we got higher velocity and less (but sufficient) spin as the disc slipped against the slick surface. We hope to gear up the belt speed and may need to try again. But then again, we used one other trick that is likely relevant, but that's a trade secret -- haven't seen it in any other shooter videos or descriptions.

[FrankJ]

So coat your rail & bottom plate with your physics professor's frictionless goo. Will the Frisbee just sit there & spin?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

So coat your rail & bottom plate with your physics professor's frictionless goo. Will the Frisbee just sit there & spin?

No. As you stop playing with frisbees and instantly make billions selling the frictionless glue.

[Jibsy]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

So coat your rail & bottom plate with your physics professor's frictionless goo. Will the Frisbee just sit there & spin?

If it's frictionless can it really be considered goo?

[waialua359]

Our shooter does fine from where we want to shoot at various points of the field with a 1/4-wheeled shooter with no grip of any sort on the inside portions of the arc and bottom plate of our shooter.
We chose not to do extensive testing of what ifs because we are happy with the performance of what we have.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Our shooter does fine from where we want to shoot ...
We chose not to do extensive testing of what ifs because we are happy with the performance of what we have.

That is exactly the right reason to stop testing and BUILD IT!!!!

I think a lot of teams are spending extra effort to see how far and how fast they can shoot, when it may not actually fit into their game play strategy. They may even find that accurate long distance shooting is not going to be as easy as they thought. That is, unless their strategy is to forwarding the disks up the field to clear the defensive end or just feed their alliance's shooters.