Improve Your Disc Golf Game – Dave Feldberg LEVEL Clinic

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Dave Feldberg, 2008 PDGA World Champion and one of the best disc golf teachers, was in Utah last week where he gave this clinic. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate, so instead of doing the clinic at the beautiful Mulligan’s Creekside Disc Golf Course, he had to do it in a storage shed.

In this clinic, Dave teaches his LEVEL acronym that can help you improve your disc golf game and be more successful in life.

L – Learn. Learn why a disc does what it does and take the time to understand why. Learn the rules so you are practicing the right way. Learn the proper technique, even if it’s uncomfortable.
E – Evaluate. Once you have learned, evaluate where you are. Figure out where you want to go with the game to decide what you want to do.
V – Verify. Once you have the skills, verify that what you are doing is correct. Play in tournaments to make sure that what you are learning is translating to the results you want.
E – Execute. Execution can be the hardest part. Most disc golfers experience performance anxiety that changes the normal energy. Find a way to get over performance anxiety because it will hold you back.
L – Learn again. You can never learn too much. To continue to progress you need to continue learning. Continual learning will help you be good at things.

Dave gives advice of how to position your body to make a continual line that will give you the most consistent hyzer, anhyzer and straight throws. He also teaches proper footwork to help get your body in position to make these shots. Dave stresses the importance of keeping your chin tucked and your head down to maximize your power and control.

If you like the coaching given by Dave, support him by purchasing his tour series discs.

Website Security Compromise – Site Now Secure

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Post Updated September, 26th

It has come to our attention that InfiniteDiscs.com was likely hacked some time in August, and that some customer credit card information entered in our direct credit card checkout was intercepted and shared with a third party.

Our monthly Trustwave PCI Security scan notified us on September, 10th that our site needed a security patch upgrade due to a “Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability.”

At the time we received the notification of this vulnerability, we did not see any evidence that any customer card information had been compromised. However, it was brought to our attention today that several customers have found fraudulent charges on their accounts over the past few days. We suspect that customers who made orders in August and the beginning of September could have had their cards compromised. If you made an order during this time period, please check your credit card statements to make sure that you were not victim to any fraudulent charges.

Website Is Now Secure

This security patch was installed on Tuesday the 19th, and the vulnerability has been resolved. Our Trustwave Scan shows that our site is PCI compliant.

 

In addition, to ensure that everything is clean and no customer information is at risk, we also had our web hosting company scan to make sure that there are no malicious files on our server. This scan found no signs of malicious scripts.

Card Info Now Entered at Authorize.net

Since the breach, we have also changed our checkout process so that card information will never again be entered on our URL to eliminate the risk of a future cross site scripting hack. All credit card information is now entered directly on our Merchant processing domains Authorize.net or PayPal.com. Infinite Discs does not, and has never collected or stored any customer credit card information. You can be confident that your credit card purchases through InfiniteDiscs.com will be secure.

 

The Joy of the Mystery Disc

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There is a growing niche within the disc golf market that loves a pleasant surprise. This has become apparent with mystery boxes and mystery disc programs popping up from different retailers. Infinite Discs has been a leader in the mystery disc market and have now added a new program, alongside their longer-running programs that have grown over the last few years, like the Deals Box and the VIP Club…

The Mystery Disc – Anytime You Want It!

Other disc sellers have joined the trend in selling mystery disc packages. One popular subscription program features a mystery disc plus mystery disc golf swag for $24.99 per month and has been received with open arms by hundreds of disc golf lovers who simply want to try something new without having to think about it. These usually aren’t custom stamped discs, yet still provide the element of surprise to the subscriber. The arrival of a monthly package in the mail is usually cause for excitement.

INFINITE DISCS is happy to introduce a way that customers can get a mystery disc anytime they want! This new program removes the subscription approach and is designed for those who simply want to try a new disc that is a complete surprise to them, but at an affordable price. Infinite Discs now has a Mystery Disc listed on the website, for those who want to buy one, or two, or more as part of their shopping trip. These are not necessarily custom stamped, or limited editions (though some mystery discs may have tournament or special stamps), but they are guaranteed to be premium plastic and high quality discs. Each Mystery Disc is only $12.

But here is an even easier way to get a mystery disc: If you just happen to be shopping the Infinite Discs website, you’ll also see an option during checkout that allows you to add a mystery disc to your package for only $12 extra, on top of your existing order. Plus, you can select to add mystery disc golf swag for another $8 in order to receive any item or combination of accessory items that amount to a value higher than $8. If you click to add one of each, then you’ll be paying only $20 for a mystery disc and mystery swag, and the best part is that you can do it whenever you want. If you don’t necessarily need a monthly surprise, then simply click to add a little mystery to your package every once in a while, when you’re in the mood. Don’t want to spend too much when you can’t afford to? Just be impulsive when you happen to have the extra money and you want a little surprise.

If you only want the mystery swag, which could include anything from a t-shirt in your specified size, a sportsack, towel, keychains, hats, etc. then you can just add it to your cart and check out.

Infinite Discs is always looking for ways to give our customers what they want at an affordable price, and in ways that are convenient to them.

Looking for Deals?

Infinite Discs has had the Deals Box as a product on our website for more than two years now, and it has steadily risen in demand. The boxes sell out quickly whenever a few more are added to inventory. At a price of $67.88, it’s a great deal considering that at least 6 of the 7 discs are guaranteed to be premium plastic blends (the putter can be a softer blend), with a mix of a putter, mid-ranges, plus both overstable and understable drivers. That’s less than $10 per disc. However, there is an element of surprise– either celebratory or disappointment when the box is opened, because the discs are a complete mystery to the buyer!

Some shoppers love the idea of trying out a bunch of randomly selected discs, even if a few are misprints or tournaments stamps, so they don’t really care what is inside the box. Other players are more selective in what they throw, so they run the risk of opening the box and finding discs that they don’t necessarily prefer or need. That’s the risk of a mystery box. But something keeps prompting shoppers to put these Deals Boxes in their cart. This product has remained the best-selling, non-specific disc product on the Infinite Discs website, and has sold far more than any other package set or disc golf starter set that we stock.

The VIP Club

In the spring of 2016, Infinite Discs launched its VIP Club, which is a subscription program that sends a unique, collectible, and completely unannounced disc to subscribers every month. Every month a shiny envelope arrives in the mail that contains a mystery disc. There are only enough discs made for the existing club members, making them instantly collectible and rare because the stamp design, and sometimes even the plastic blend, is unique for the club. Additional small items are usually thrown in the package with the disc, just for fun, like towels, minis, stickers, and other accessories. The opening of the shiny package each month is cause for great anticipation among VIP Club members who rush to post photos online and show-off their special editions. The support for the club has been wonderful, giving collectors and mystery disc lovers a monthly fix and something new to try from different disc makers.

However, the VIP Club isn’t for everybody. Some people really don’t want to spend $19.99 every month for the thrill of a mystery disc that may or may not be something they need. Yet still, there are club members who are very brand-specific in their tastes, but who subscribe because they know that their disc will most likely have a higher resale value than what they paid, when sold to somebody in the right collector market. Some subscribers are signed up for two each month, just because they want one to hang on the wall, and one to throw. Plus, VIP Club members have access to the VIP Club Store which features other uniquely stamped discs from time to time.

All of these programs and products are designed for those players and disc collectors who love the thrill of the unexpected.

New Checkout Upgrade Options

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We have made some changes to our site to make it easier for customers to select different shipping upgrades. These enable you to get your order how you want it, when you want it, or add some additional products to your order at a bargain price.

On the first page of the shopping cart, you will notice that four different upgrade options appear.

  • Priority Upgrade – This option bumps your order to the beginning of our pulling queue (we ship almost 200 packages every day) and upgrades your shipping from first class to USPS Priority Mail 2-3 delivery. Medium size packages between one and ten pounds will usually be shipped by Priority mail, even without paying for the priority upgrade.
  • Ship in a Box – Most of our smaller packages (orders of less than five discs) ship in poly bubble mailer bags. This upgrade option gives you the additional protection of a cardboard box. This upgrade is especially valuable for customers who live in apartment complexes or homes with small mailboxes where mail carriers try to bend and cram a package in the mailbox.
  • Mystery Disc – The mystery disc option is new and gives you a premium plastic disc at a bargain price, and with no additional shipping charge. This is a great way to try new discs.
  • Mystery Swag – Like the mystery disc, mystery swag gives you a bonus surprise with your order. Mystery swag may include shirts, hats, towels, socks, mini discs, decals, stickers, lights, water bottles, or a variety of other accessories. The mystery swag you receive will always have a value exceeding $10.

The shipping option upgrades are currently only available for customers in the lower 48 states.

 

How to Search for Newly Added Discs on Infinite Discs Website

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Infinite Discs has been growing at a very fast pace over the last couple of years, and with that growth comes the challenge of keeping up with the website development and building the features that our customers want.

One of the features that has been requested in the past and finally made available to our customers is the NEWLY ADDED DISCS search link. On your computer browser, open the Infinite Discs website, and then look on the right sidebar of the first page to find the link for Newly Added Discs.  Or on your phone browser, simply scroll down until you see the boxed menu for Featured Discs and you’ll see the Newly Added Discs link there.

Infinite Discs has a lot of customers who are disc enthusiasts, and they want to get the best-looking discs, or the discs that meet very specific specifications, before other shoppers find them. They have asked for a way to see what we’re photographing and adding into our inventory in real time. That is now possible!

We’re not yet at the point where we’re adding inventory 24-hours-per-day, but we are usually adding new inventory onto the website during business hours on weekdays. With the Newly Added Discs link you can search for those fresh additions in almost anyway you’d like. Either refresh the page from time to time to see what else has been added in, or select a time period that you’d like to search, along with other specific queries to narrow down your search.

You can select to search for the last 7 Days, 10 Days, 15 Days, 20 Days, or 30 Days. Just to warn you, searching the discs added in the last 30 discs could pull up well over 8,000 results. If you want to search back further than that, you might as well search the entire website using the Advanced Disc Search feature, which is an excellent way to narrow down searches of the entire online inventory. Keep in mind that using the Newly Added Discs link will narrow your search to discs entered into inventory within the last 30 days (or fewer) so it will not automatically search the store entire inventory.

You can also narrow your disc search by brand, by disc model, or within a weight range, or a combination of all of those factors. Let’s say that I want to see which P2 putters by Discmania are still available from those entered in the last 30 days, but I only want max weight (175g) discs. I can select to search 30 Days, Discmania brand, P2 Psycho as the model, and 175g as my minimum weight. Suddenly, those discs appear and I can add them to my cart simply by scrolling through and clicking the “Add to Cart” button by the discs I want.

Be the first to find the treasures that used to take more effort and time! Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily! Or just sit and refresh the screen while we work to add new discs into our inventory.

Here is a tutorial video that will walk you through the process.
We always welcome your feedback!

Technical Difficulties at Infinite Discs and Solutions

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Having issues using our site recently? You aren’t alone!

Here at Infinite Discs, we work hard to keep our site up to date and running as smooth as possible. Over the past few years we have expanded and improved our site to become what we believe is the best disc golf website in the world. With over 32,000 discs in inventory and pictures of every disc in stock, we are the ultimate disc golf store. We also offer helpful resources for shoppers including advanced disc search, inventory alerts, product reviews, and much more! We are also there to help with the rest of your disc golf experience with Infinite Courses and Infinite Tournaments. We offer player profiles that allow you to track your scores and stats to improve your disc golf game. And this is just scratching the surface! We love disc golf, and we love making it better for everyone.

Of course, maintaining the top disc golf website and keeping it secure is no easy task, and unfortunately, we now and then run into technical hiccups that prevent our site from functioning properly. We have recently identified a couple that have been particularly bothersome, so we just wanted to write up a quick post to identify these hiccups, so when you encounter them on the site you will know how to respond. Here are our two breakdowns

The Internet Explorer Phenomenon

Have you already gone through the breakup with IE? Had the difficult and awkward, “It’s not you…well actually, it is kind of you, and not me” conversation? If you have, keep scrolling, because this error is only going to affect Internet Explorer users.

So here is a breakdown of this pesky error that has been inflicting our site for a while now. When a prospective customer using IE tries to purchase a disc via credit or debit card on our site, most of the time it processes the order correctly with no issues. But occasionally, the customer will see an error saying that their card info was incorrect and they need to try again. Then, a few things happen from here depending on the customer. If they are hooked into their email, they will see their payment receipt email, so they move on thinking the order must have gone through. Or, they keep trying, getting the same result until for some reason after the 2nd-10th time, the order goes through correctly. Then, things get interesting when they look at their bank statement to find that they have been charged for every attempted payment on the site. Obviously, this is not a pleasant discovery that usually results in an email to us.

So here is what happens on our end. When this error occurs, basically there is a miscommunication between our payment system and our inventory system, resulting in a captured payment, but an incomplete order. So for those who see their payment receipt and don’t try to pay again, their order is stuck in our pending orders, and the order is never shipped even though they were charged. Usually these customers contact us within a few days and we can manually take the discs they ordered out of our inventory and ship the order out. However, sometimes the discs they ordered are sold within the next few days because our system did not take them out of online inventory. In those cases, we either find replacements or just cancel and refund the order.

Now for those who are charged multiple times until the order goes through, we try to check our payment info every day for duplicate charges. We don’t always catch them, but when we do we make sure to void the extra payments before the payments actually settle. Sometimes customers stop trying after a few attempts, so they are charged multiple times without a completed order like those in the first scenario.

Long story short, this error really is an easy fix once we are made aware of it. Once the payment is made, we can manually move the order from pending orders to new orders in our system and get the discs taken out of our inventory and shipped out. We have worked with our developers to try and fix this error, but no solution has been able to be found yet because of a lack of support from the folks at IE.

So the solution?? The easiest solution is to upgrade to Google Chrome or Firefox. We have found these browsers allow for optimal performance from our site. But if you need to make your orders from an older work computer, or you have fully committed to a life with IE, just let us know right away when you see this error. Again, most of the time, it works just fine. But if you get an error message saying your card info wasn’t correct, don’t try to pay again. Just shoot us an email or give us a call right away, and we can fix it all manually very easily. Or, you can also select the pay with PayPal option when using IE. You don’t have to have a PayPal account, but you can just use PayPal’s servers to run your credit or debit card.

Now for our next issue…

The Frozen Payment Page

This is a pretty new hiccup that occurred when we upgraded our firewall and web security. It has been found inflicting all internet browsers. Here is how this one goes. The customer goes to make a purchase on our site. They type in all their credit or debit card info, and then click on the green “Proceed with Card” button. And then…nothing happens. No error page, no loading screen, no response at all! The same thing also occurs when trying to register for tournaments.

What causes this? We aren’t exactly sure, but we believe that it has something to do with web browsers trying to connect to our site through the old version of our firewall rather than the new active firewall.

After tinkering around, we found the solution—clearing and updating the browser cache.
We have found that if people update their browser cache, and on some devices reset the computer (the classic, “turn it off and then turn it on again” solution), they are able to proceed with the payment just fine. Now, say you are trying to make an order super fast for a hot new release before it sells out, like maybe the new Tour Series Metal Flake TeeBird3, and you don’t have time to clear the cache and reset your computer. Then, like with the IE error, you can select the pay with PayPal option. Again, no PayPal account is needed. You can just use the PayPal server to process your credit or debit card payment. After doing this, I would then suggest you clear your cache and reset your computer so you are set to go for next time.

Conclusion

I know, I know, these errors are such a pain! It is a frustrating experience for everyone involved (especially us). But we want all our customers to read this post so they can be in the know on the current technical difficulties that we are battling. We hope that these are just temporary issues that will be fixed as we continue to grow and improve our website and your Infinite Discs experience. So share this with your friends so they know what’s going on! And thank you all for your support! We hope to continue to be a positive force to grow disc golf and make it more enjoyable for everyone involved!

Putter Wars 2017 – Summer Update

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PUTTER WARS…

At the end of April 2017 we took a look at how putter sales at Infinite Discs were panning out. The disc golf season was still young at the time, but we could already see which putters had momentum behind them.

Now it is time to follow-up and see if that momentum has carried through the summer months. This update covers through the end of July 2017.

At the end of April, the top four spots were held by the Discmania P2 at #1, the Innova Aviar at #2, the Gateway Wizard at #3, and the Dynamic Discs Judge at #4. Interestingly, those top four spots have not changed since the spring, though the sales have accelerated, leaving a larger gap between those leaders. For example, the quantity difference between the P2 and the forth place Judge is now a 57% difference!

Here is a chart of the top 10 putters according to numbers sold through Infinite Discs:

As you can see, the discs that are chasing the top four include three of the popular approach discs, like the Innova Nova, the Westside Harp, and the top-10 newcomer Innova Aviar3. In fact, the Aviar3 joined the race as a new disc this year and has moved up two spots since the last Putter Wars update.

The Streamline Pilot, which started the year as a hot new release, has dropped from the top 10, while the Latitude 64 Dagger has moved into the 10th spot. Rounding out the chart, we can see the Latitude 64 Pure holding strong in 8th place, and the MVP Atom holding on in 9th place.

The two honorable mentions that didn’t quite make the top 10, but that are still strong sellers are the Streamline Pilot and the Dynamic Discs Warden.

We will keep you updated as we head into the home stretch, just before the final, end-of-year holiday sales kick in. Until then, will anybody be able to catch the P2? 

Ricky Wysocki Disc Golf Clinic for Infinite Discs – Pro Tips

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On Memorial Day 2017, Infinite Discs was honored to have Ricky Wysocki come to our home town and join with the locals in a tournament at the Cache County Fairgrounds. Ricky is a class act and really treated the local players well, addressing everybody with respect and a contagiously cheerful, positive attitude. After the tournament was over, Ricky took the time to give a disc golf clinic and answered questions for the group of players who were anxious to hear from him.

These are three videos covering that clinic.

The first video covers Ricky’s answers mostly concerning putting and grip.

The second video covers Ricky’s answers about throwing rollers.

The third video covers answers to questions about Ricky’s infamous sidearm throws.

We really look forward to seeing Ricky again in the future. We feel very lucky that he has taken the time for a couple of years to visit the players of Cache Valley. It’s always fun to not only watch, but play with and learn from a professional.

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