PDGA 118144

Goes by Nuclear Blobfish on UDisc and can huck discs way better than your run-of-the-mill blobfish. He was also a fanboy of Daredevil Discs long before joining Team Daredevil Discs. It happened one cool summer afternoon when he was looking for an understable putter online and the description for the Woodchuck sounded intriguing. That disc changed his whole perspective on the short game and got him to start trying out other Daredevil molds. The Timberwolf revolutionized his fairway driver control, the Mammoth became the first OS fairway driver that he connected with, and he turned heads by using the unorthodox Ogopogo instead of an OS midrange to take advantage of the dead flop that Elastic Performance plastic generates. He was super geeked out to get to test the Hellbender prototypes this past summer and now considers the Memphre and Killer Whale to be bag staples. 

His all-time favorite plastic blend is Daredevil’s Flex Performance. Not surprisingly, his go-to drivers are the Timberwolf, Mammoth, and (rarely) the Merlin. The Hellbender Memphre is his favorite forehand approach disc.

He considers himself to be a RHBH player, but in the past year, his focus on the forehand has changed a lot of his shot selection and has saved many trees from an inadvertent pruning. Off the tee nowadays, he’s just as apt to flick a hyzerflip Timberwolf as he is to rip a backhand (also hyzerflipped) Timberwolf. He has an odd quirk in his game: he got rid of his X-step and plays exclusively from standstill. He initially did this because he kept missing his mark and didn’t want to get called on a foot fault. He continued developing his style because he’s a physics teacher and is convinced that throwing from a standstill is like pitching from the stretch, and that good form out of a standstill will pay off without the risk of falling like Kevin Jones on his memorable ace. Lgdfg not getting any younger and while he has been known to play a tournament in a sling a month after getting shoulder surgery on his non-throwing arm, he’d rather NOT have to do that again.

He thinks every new arm should try throwing a caribou. One of the toughest early hurdles for new throwers is generating snap, and that’s especially difficult with a weak grip. The Grip Performance plastic makes the caribou pretty much the easiest midrange for beginners to pick up and throw for appreciable distance. He often hands out caribous to new players.

He’s pictured here with his trusty Memphre and with Kesha, the ridiculously dyed Timberwolf.