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Introducing Above Ground Level Discs

January 13, 2021 Ted Hegemann 132 comments

Disc Golf Manufacturer Spotlight

Infinite Discs carries a large selection of brands and we wanted to introduce you to some of the brands and molds that you might not be as familiar with. Each week we will spotlight a different company and tell you a little more about them. We’ll start with a California brand, Above Ground Level Discs. And we will give you a chance to win some AGL stuff!

AGL Discs

Above Ground Level discs (AGL) is a family run California-based disc golf company that currently operates in San Jose. According to their website, the name comes from the company’s policy of viewing the sport from “the 10,000 foot level”. The company formed in 2011 by Josh Jones and Sam Cooper, and has been operating under the name Above Ground Level since 2016. Sam also started the disc golf apparel company, ChainBang Disc Golf.

Filling Disc Golf Needs

From the beginning, the people at AGL have worked hard to design discs that fill the needs of disc golfers. Using modeling and testing, they have created an ever growing list of molds to cover the range of shots and conditions faced by users. AGL also works to provide the most durable plastics possible, giving a longer life to its molds. Early on, AGL adopted the policy of naming molds after trees, and also including a corresponding seed with every disc purchased. That policy and practice continues today.

The Cypress, AGL’s First Disc

The inaugural mold for AGL is the now-discontinued high speed driver, the Cypress. The name honors disc golf enthusiast and course designer, Stancil Johnson, and the course he designed in Seaside, California. The initial design of the mold was a very overstable disc. It was later retooled to make the mold more usable for a variety of skill levels. In early 2020, the Cedar was released, with flight numbers similar to the Cypress.

After the Cypress, two putters were released, the Madrone and Manzanita. The Madrone, with a flight similar to the new Infinite Alpaca, along with the overstable midrange, the Magnolia, continue to be the most popular discs they sell. As for which mold holds the number one spot, that title changes frequently between the two molds. The Sycamore, a fairly straight control driver, was approved in 2019. It has a flight similar to a TL.

Also released last year is the speed 9 control driver, the Locust. The new mold received great reviews from testers and early buyers. AGL has plans for a high speed driver that has some understability to it. After that release, they will look at increasing their offering of additional understable discs.

In addition to the Locust and the Cedar, two additional putters were approved in 2020, the Baobab and the Ponderosa. The Baobab is a beadless, overstable putter that would be great for headwind shots and big arms. The Ponderosa is a little slower than the Baobab, and slightly flippy. Great for tailwinds or hyzer-flip shots.

AGL Plastics

Their most popular plastic is the Hemp blend, which is both grippy and environmentally friendly. Nearly as popular as Hemp plastic is their premium Alpine plastic. It is reminiscent of the old CE plastic that is popular due to its durability and feel. AGL also offers Woodland Blend, a base plastic that has a variety of firmness.

Supporting the Pros and Disc Golf

Above Ground Level is proud to sponsor dozens of players round the world, up to and including professionals. On the FPO side, they sponsor Amy Lewis and Marissa Kula. Their men’s pros include Michael Henson and Hayden Kujala. A search of these players on YouTube will show a number of tournaments with some of their pro players. AGL also helped to sponsor a couple courses.

One of the exciting parts of the sport for AGL is the growth that disc golf is currently seeing. With the increased exposure from companies like CBS sports and many professionally produces YouTube videos, our accessible touring pros, and courses popping up all around the world, it’s a great time to be involved in disc golf.

Growing Disc Golf for Women and Youth

Two areas of growth that are of high importance to AGL is additional focus on the women and the youth side of disc golf. In addition to sponsoring female players, AGL sponsors female-focused events and will be sponsoring the 2021 USWDGC. It helps that one of the owners has an 8-year-old daughter who plays and looks up to the female players she gets to watch. She also helps out in the business! Their plan for the youth and new players is to work with schools to help them install baskets and teach disc golf fundamentals.

AGL and the Environment

Disc golf isn’t the only thing that the folks at Above Ground Level Discs care about. They also like to take care of the environment. In addition to naming all of their molds after tree, AGL also includes a tree seed with every disc purchased from them. The seed corresponds with the name of the mold. Order a Sycamore in Alpine plastic from them, you’ll get a Sycamore seed with your purchase. Some of their customers have sprouted their seeds into saplings and planted them on their local courses.

Top Selling Discs for Above Ground Level Discs

Taking a look at the sales of Above Ground Level Discs at Infinite, it looks like the Ponderosa is the top selling AGL disc of 2020. The Ponderosa is a straight to understable putter that is currently available in Woodland and Woodland Hemp Blend plastics. The Ponderosa accounted for nearly 18% of all AGL molds that Infinite sells. It just edged out the next four molds, the Baobab, Locust, Cedar, and Sycamore. Those four molds made up around 15% each of sales. All things considered, that’s a pretty even amount of sales for the top mold.

Win some AGL Swag!

To promote AGL, Infinite Discs would like to give some swag to some random people who answer the question below. Head to Infinite (link below) and check out our listing of AGL molds. Then let us know: Which AGL mold would you be the most interested in trying? Want something beefy, like the Cedar? Or maybe a straight putter, like the Madrone. Comment below to be entered in the drawing.

We’ll select a few random responses and ship out some AGL merch. Check back in a week when we post the next disc golf manufacturer, and we’ll list the winners.

See Infinite’s selection of AGL discs here:

https://infinitediscs.com/category/Above-Ground-Level

Check out AGL’s website here:

https://www.agldiscs.com/

Here is a link to ChanBang Disc Golf

https://www.chainbangofficial.com/

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New Night Round Accessories

January 13, 2021 Keith Barker Leave a comment

We have recently added some new Night Round Accessories onto our site. The majority of these items are coming from Vibe Disc Golf. This is a newer company, aiming to bring some good quality gear that you can use out on the course. The initial gear revolves mainly around glow round necessities.

Flash Lights

Vibe DP1X

This is a dual purpose flashlight that comes with a rechargeable battery. You can use the UV light to recharge your glow discs and you can use the normal light to help you navigate the course. By holding the button you change the brightness of the white light to match your needs. This is available now on our website for $28.49, get yours at this link.

Vibe BK2X

Vibe provides a multifunctional flashlight to help light up the disc catchers. This has two lights on it, an LED white light and a red/white bar light. It also features a magnetic end. Enabling you to stick it to the basket and chose the light you want to use to make the basket visible. This flash light is also rechargeable. You can purchase this light for $26.49 by clicking here.

Vibe UV1X

This UV light has an adjustable brightness to it, increasing the strength of the light and the speed to which you can charge your glow discs. This powerful light comes equipped with a mini usb port for recharging. It will also fit nicely in your hand. You can purchase the UV light for $23.99 by clicking here.

Infinite Discs Mini UV Light

This mini UV light is a great little light to take on your night rounds to charge your glow discs and to find them in the fairway. This will fit into most bags. Making it easy to bring along on those night rounds. This requires 3 AAA batteries to operate it, batteries are included. This is available for $7.99 by clicking here.

Mini Markers

Vibe Resin Minis

Vibe Disc Golf also has released some resin minis. They’re hand made of a clear resin material, with a unique blend of colors injected or formed inside it. Giving each mini a different swirl, pattern, or burst of color. These are durable and meant to be used during your game as your mini. You can purchase glow mini for $13.99 here, or a non-glow mini for $12.99 here.

Focus Friday Puzzle Edition & Giveaway

January 8, 2021 Keith Barker One comment

Happy Friday all! This week will be a little different than others, as we’ll focus on all puzzles. To make it even more interesting, we’ll do a giveaway to accompany this Focus Friday.

The Giveaway

The entry for this giveaway begins today and will continue till January 31. There will be five winners who will receive a $15 gift card. To enter this, you will simply need to share a picture of you doing the Hye8Dye 500 Piece puzzle on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the #InfiniteDiscsPuzzle. Have fun with this, and show us your puzzle skills!

The Discount Code

While it is too cold to play outside all day long, use the promo code to get yourself a disc golf puzzle. A puzzle also makes for a great gift for those who love disc golf. It’ll be almost as good as playing golf outside. The discount code FOCUSPUZZLE will give you 20% off all puzzles. Make sure to get the Hye8Dye puzzle so that you can get a chance to win a $15 gift card.

You can select the Hye8Dye 500 piece puzzle by clicking here and the Infinite Discs 500 piece puzzle here. Once everything you want is in your cart, you can apply the discount code FOCUSPUZZLE and get 20% off all puzzles in your cart.

Note: After placing your discs in the shopping cart and before checking out, click on the “Discount Code” box under the shopping cart and enter that code. Then proceed to checkout.

Trying To Find The Discs You Want in 2021

January 4, 2021 Alan 3 comments

My time playing disc golf has been defined by things that have changed. Course basket locations change, my form as a player has gone through many changes, and even the discs themselves have physically changed when I slam them into trees off the tee-box.

Although some of the changes we have seen during 2020 have been awful, there have been many positives for disc golf. PDGA memberships, discs sold, and interest in the sport are at an all-time high. The PDGA reports that memberships are up above 15% from the previous year and tour events are up over 15% worldwide (with a 12.91% increase in the USA, and at least a 20% growth in Europe, Canada, Africa/Asia, and Latin America). And I’ve been told that not everyone in that 15% growth is a former Ultimate Frisbee player, despite what you may be hearing out there.

Unfortunately, some of the changes haven’t been great for disc golfers. Higher interest in the sport means courses are seeing more traffic, tournaments are seeing larger waitlists, and it has become tougher to find new discs due to production and stock issues.

On the topic of finding new discs, it feels like this could be an easier problem to solve. The PDGA has strict technical standards for all disc manufacturers, so there are only a finite number of possible combinations in making discs.

If there are only a limited number of configurations allowed, then there must be discs that I would love out there that I haven’t tried to throw yet. It also means, there should be multiple options to replace my favorite lost, out of stock, or out of production disc.

In disc golf, sometimes great results happen due to skill, and sometimes they happen due to sheer luck. I need all the luck I can out on the course, so I will defer to the data in answering this question.

Using data from the Infinite Blog, I wanted to see what brands/discs were popular, and what other discs could be considered.

Let’s first look at what disc types make the Top 20 most often from the past 3 months.

Interesting to note that Control Drivers make the list the fewest number of times. Though I don’t have much arm speed or skill in general, I noticed that I also bag more distance drivers than control drivers.

Now let’s see which brands show up the most in the Top 20 data.

The big brands make up most sales, but we see some other great, smaller brands too. Now let’s see which individual discs appear most on the Top 20 data we are examining.

So, given today’s out of stock issues and the rise of some great new brands, I wanted to identify which discs are just as worth throwing as the most popular discs using disc dimensions provided by the PDGA, flight numbers provided by manufacturers, and all other data I could find.

It was eye opening to see how many similar options were out there from both big and small brands. The below table shows some of my findings.

	Disc	Similar Alternative 1	Similar Alternative 2	Similar Alternative 3
Distance Driver	Destroyer	Discraft Surge	Axiom Discs Defy	MVP Photon
Control Driver	Sphinx	Discraft Heat	Westside Discs Underworld	Legacy Mongoose
Control Driver	FD	Latitude 64 River	Gateway Assassin	Kastaplast Falk
Mid Range	Buzzz	Innova Colt	Axiom Theory	DGA Squall
Putt & Approach	Zone	Dynamic Discs Suspect	MVP Entropy	Infinite Discs Ruin
Putt & Approach	Aviar	Discmania Link	Yikun Discs Claws	Infinite Discs Alpaca

If you’re interested in seeing alternatives for other discs, I’ve compiled this research into a web tool. This is a great tool to help you find discs golf discs similar to your favorites when they are sold out. Check it out here: www.TryDiscs.com

The quest to find my perfect disc is still ongoing. I may never get there but the journey of throwing and trying new discs is most of the fun.

This is a guest post submitted by Hasan Iqbal

Author Bio:

Hasan grew up in Georgia and has become obsessed with disc golf since he started playing in 2018. Hasan attended Georgia State University and the University of Delaware and is now working as a data scientist. In his spare time, Hasan has been working on Try Discs to help disc golfers find their next favorite disc. He can regularly be found on the wonderful courses around metro Atlanta with his dog, Scooby.

Focus Friday – Gateway Voodoo

January 1, 2021 Keith Barker 3 comments

Happy New Years, may 2021 be a great year! To start the year off, well look to Gateway’s Voodoo and have a Focus Friday sale on it. Over the weekend you can buy all Voodoos at 10% off by using the discount code: FOCUSVOODOO.

The feel of the Voodoo is pretty typical to putters, a very rounded edge with a deep rim. Also, it has a microbead that isn’t too noticeable. Based on your reviews, this makes a great disc as a throwing putter or as your putter. Driving with it, will lead to a nice straight flight path with a little fade at the end. Or if you want, you could throw it with a nice hyzerflip. This is also a great putter if you want something very straight with little to no fade at the end. Regardless of your use, now is a great time to get more these, or to try it out. With the promo code you can get them all at a 10% discount.

Do you use this for approach shots or putting?

You can select your disc by clicking here. Simply add as many Voodoos to your shopping cart as you want, then BEFORE you click to checkout, look below the shopping cart. Right below the shopping cart is a box for Discount Codes. Click there and paste the code, FOCUSVOODOO, into the box. Then proceed to checkout and you’ll get the discount.

Here is a screenshot to help you out, though it doesn’t necessarily show a Photon in the cart – it’s just a generic visual to help you find the discount code box:

We hope that you love throwing the Voodoo. If you’ve thrown the disc, feel free to share what you think of this putt & approach disc. Thanks!

STAY TUNED for our next Focus Friday for another chance to try a featured disc at a nice discounted price!

Black Friday 2020 – 2.0

December 10, 2020 Todd Durrant 3 comments

Looking for Black Friday deals for 2021? Click this link!

We had several special edition discs arranged for our Black Friday sale which didn’t reach us in time for the big day. So, we’ve put together a Black Friday 2.0 sale this year to features those special editions and cool restocks that came in late. Here’s what we’ve got for you, along with the direct links to the discs. These discs will drop on our website in the early AM hours on Friday, December 11th.

SOLAR STAR DESTROYERS WILL APPEAR HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/featured/solar-destroyer

FLYING SHARKS WILL APPEAR HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/additional/flying-shark

PARACHUTE PENGUIN DISCS WILL APPEAR HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/featured/parachute-penguin

PATRICK BROWN GLOW SLAB WILL APPEAR HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/additional/patrick-brown

ZOE ANDYKE SPHINX DISCS WILL APPEAR HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/featured/zoe-andyke-signature-edition

YOU WILL FIND THE COMIC BOOK DISCS HERE

https://infinitediscs.com/featured/comic-book-series

NOTE: There are two alternate endings on this comic book stamp– the make “YAS!” and the miss “NO!”

YOU WILL FIND THESE JUDGES WITH THE COMIC BOOK SERIES HERE (filter by brand)

https://infinitediscs.com/featured/comic-book-series

We hope that you enjoy these fun discs that were missing from the original Black Friday sale. Plus, we have more items on sale that you can find HERE

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT IS ON SALE

https://infinitediscs.com/What-On-Sale

Thanks!

2020 Christmas Gift Ideas for Disc Golfers

December 5, 2020 Todd Durrant 62 comments

Every year at Infinite Discs, we put together a unique, fun list of gift ideas for disc golfers. Let’s take a look at the 2020 holiday ideas that we feel would please any disc golfer. This is your 2020 Disc Golf Gift Guide!

Discs!

Of course, no disc golfer will turn down more discs for the holidays. But where do you start if you don’t know which specific discs they need? Opt for something fun to throw, collectible, or even holiday-themed. Whether they use it or keep it as a memento, they’ll appreciate it.

Special Edition Discs — Limited edition or signature discs supporting pro players are always a hit. In 2020, these became rare, selling out quickly. Infinite Discs offers a great selection of Pro Tour Championship Discs that are both functional and collectible.

Browse Limited Edition Discs Here

Holiday Edition Discs — From spooky Halloween themes to festive holiday designs, several manufacturers release special holiday discs each year.

Check out the Holiday Selection Here or Browse Halloween Stamps Here.

Large Gift Items

Zuca All Terrain Cart — A premium choice for disc golfers who want to carry a lot of discs in style and comfort.

Explore other options like the MVP Rover Cart or browse Cart Accessories Here.

Mid-Range Budget Items

Infinite Disc Slinger Bag — A versatile, budget-friendly bag perfect for beginners or quick rounds.

Upgrade to the Deluxe Disc Slinger Bag for enhanced durability and capacity.

Stocking Stuffers

Flight Towel — A dual-purpose towel and warm-up tool that’s both practical and fun for disc golfers.

Disc Dots — Help players improve their putting focus with these fun and functional practice aids.

Gift Cards

E-Gift Cards — Deliver a code via email for online purchases.

Physical Gift Cards — A tangible option to include in stockings or gift boxes.

We Want Your Input

Have other gift ideas for disc golfers? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

Black Friday Deals Week 2020

November 25, 2020 Todd Durrant 11 comments

This post was written for our disc golf deals of 2020. Use this link to find Black Friday Disc Golf Deals of 2021.

It is time for the Infinite Discs annual Black Friday Week of Disc Golf Deals!

It has been a challenge this year to put together a sale because of the scarcity of discs from many of the largest manufacturers. Because of that scarcity, there won’t be sweeping discounts across entire brands (it’s hard to discount something that we don’t have or can’t restock). But we’ve managed to pull together some exclusive stamps and special releases and runs to keep the week exciting.

Before jumping into the ad and the links, here are a couple important things to note:

RELEASE “DROP” TIMES

We always get asked what time the special releases will “drop” on the Infinite Discs website. In the past, we’ve announced those drop times, but this year is different. Because we have had so many issues with our website locking up or completely crashing during drop times, we are randomly spreading out those times through the early AM hours. In this way, the featured discs will simply be available when you wake up in the morning on the day of the sale. We know that this may be less predictable, but we believe it is the only way to avoid those extremely frustrating crashes and freezes that are caused by several hundred people trying to load several hundred disc photos all at the same moment.

Thanks for understanding. We honestly feel like everybody will have a more comfortable shopping experience with the un-announced drop times this year.

WHAT IS DISCOUNTED EACH DAY?

We’ve mentioned that there will not be sweeping discounts across entire brands. While there will be some brands that are discounted on their featured days, on some of the days there will be select disc models on sale. In order to easily find what is automatically discounted at any given moment, simply CLICK HERE which takes you to this link:

infinitediscs.com/What-On-Sale

Feel free to bookmark that link. It will not only be handy during this sale, but anytime in the future that you want to see what is on sale. We almost always have specific discs or accessories on sale, and that’s an easy way to find them.

DO I NEED ANY CODES?

Discount codes will not be utilized during this Black Friday sale. You will not need to worry about finding and pasting codes to take advantage of any sale items. As mentioned above, you’ll be able to see what is on sale and those prices will already be active without needing to worry about codes.

SHIPPING TIMES

Our crew will be working hard for the next week to try and stay on top of the orders. We will even have graveyard shifts working to get orders out the door. However, we do expect order volume to be high this year and request your patience if your order takes a couple of extra days to process and ship. Also keep in mind that USPS, UPS, FedEx, and all shippers expect this to be the largest online shopping year in history, by a longshot, due to Covid-19 concerns. They will understandably be slower to deliver packages during the holiday season than the norm.

Thanks for your patience.