Our cyber week deals continue with Super Saturday featuring Trilogy discs.
What’s On Sale Today
This sale includes the Dynamic Discs, Latitude 64, and Westside brands. Discmania Discs manufactured by Latitude 64 are not considered Trilogy discs and will be on sale on Tuesday, December 2nd.
The Trilogy Day sale is especially significant because this is the only time of the year we are allowed to offer Trilogy discs for sale at prices below MAP (Minimum Advertised Price, which is our normal price). If you are a Trilogy fan, take advantage of today to get all your favorite Dynamic, Latitude, and Westside discs at the lowest prices of the year.
Doorbuster Deals – Premium Plastic Only $9.99!
We have a limited selection of Trilogy discs at Doorbuster prices. These discs are available on a first come-first serve basis and these prices are only while supplies last.
For Super Saturday we introduce the Tournament Burst Westside Maiden — available only through Infinite Discs. This is the first time the Maiden has been available in a premium plastic. There are four different stamp versions of this exclusive run, giving you the opportunity to get exactly what you want from this popular putt and approach disc.
The retired Trident utility driver is back as part of this limited edition release. Our Black Friday edition features the Sea Queen Mermaid stamp and was produced as part of a limited run in a shiny Metallic Opto plastic.
In addition to the exclusive edition Tridents and Maidens, the Roman Bomber stamp will be released on many of the most popular Dynamic, Westside, and Latitude 64 disc molds. There’s no better time to get this new stamp than while they are sale for Super Saturday.
$20 Gift Card for Purchase of Dynamic Discs Bags and Carts
Dynamic Discs makes some of the best and most popular disc golf bags and carts on the market. When you purchase any DD backpack or cart priced over $70 you will automatically receive a $20 InfiniteDiscs.com gift card!
Eligible products for this Black Friday week offer include:
We kick off the Saturday sale with all discs by Dynamic Discs, Westside Discs, and Latitude 64 already discounted on the Infinite Discs website. This includes Trilogy Team series fundraiser discs. You don’t need a promo code– just find those deals and add them to your shopping cart. Aside from some special featured discs, we also have a good number of “doorbuster deals” hidden among the regular inventory so you can search for $9.99 premium plastic discs!
Doorbusters! – $9.99
A limited number of the following discs will be available at the doorbuster price of $9.99 (sort by price to find those listed for $9.99) on Saturday only. Not all of a particular disc or plastic type will be listed as this price, so scroll through the selection to find the deals! But here are some hints…
This is an exclusive run of Glow BT Hard Burst Maidens — this is perhaps the hottest new putter for 2018, and this is the only place you can find this special plastic blend! We have them with a limited edition stamp, as well as a few blank discs if you want to focus on the cool, burst patterns (some colors glow better than others).
This is part 4 of a seven part editorial series of the 1,422 responses from the survey “The State of Disc Golf: 2014”
We acknowledge and emphasize to you that the results here directly reflect the disc golf community who is in some way, shape, or form, involved with disc golf online. We therefore recognize that it would be inaccurate for us to claim that this survey is a proper reflection of the entire disc golf community. The results portray disc golfers who found this survey via Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google+, forums, E-mail, and other means. With over 1,400 respondents the statistical accuracy is high.
This article was one of my favorites to piece together with the survey data that was assembled. It was both fascinating, mind-boggling, and there is an enormous amount of conclusions which can be drawn from this data. For the sake of keeping this straightforward, we’ll share some facts and conclusions which you will likely find interesting as well.
Disc Consumption & Discs Owned
Of the 1403 respondents that have data collected, a rough estimate of 32,886 discs were purchased in 2013, or 23 per respondent. These players collectively have 68,959 discs, or 49.15 on average. This means that 47.68% of discs owned by respondents were purchased this year.
How was this calculated? We took this number by averaging each segment, and placed a number discs owned for players who owned “101+ discs” at 130. Yes, this was a rough guess, but it should suffice for this editorial. We imagine that if given the opportunity, some players in this column would have said they have over 1,000 discs, and others may have only had 105. For fear of over inflating these results, we were modest. If you would like, you may want to increase those numbers a bit.
Another interesting point as shown in the graph is that the darkest areas of the graph tend to be where “New discs this year” and “Total Discs Owned” intersect at equal points. In other words, somebody who purchased 16-20 discs in their first of year play is likely to currently own 16-20 discs. This means that many players tend to gather most discs immediately, and purchasing habits in coming years tends to slow.
Roughly 71% of disc golfers who began acquiring discs this year purchased a minimum of 16 discs. New disc golfers tend to fill their bag right up.
Brands vs Purchases
The survey also asked “what was your favorite brand at the end of 2013?” Here’s a look at those answers vs how many discs consumers purchased.
Please note:
This survey was not promoted or endorsed by any manufacturer or brand, to the best of our knowledge.
Any brand who had less than 1% share, or less than 15 votes were not included in the results here.
Innova’s followers also made the largest portion of disc purchases, thanks to sheer numbers of fans. Many of these fans were purchasing large numbers of discs, however, the Innova fans on a spread of how many discs they were likely to purchase, were not as likely as Prodigy, Legacy, Dynamic Discs, Latitude 64, or Westside fans to purchase a large number of discs.
For example, both Innova and Discraft fans purchased 6-10 discs last year 15% and 23% of the time respectively while Dynamic Discs fans purchased 16-20 discs 21% of the time. As you can see from the graph on the right, the line represent Innova peaks in the 6-10 disc column, whereas the line for Dynamic and Prodigy peak in the 16-20 disc column.
The reasoning behind this may be simple, brands such as Innova and Discraft (while they have vast selection), are not releasing discs as rapidly. For example, if somebody has chosen Prodigy as their favorite brand, they are more likely to purchase Prodigy new releases – and there were 17 new Prodigy discs last year alone. Dynamic Discs, which is manufactured by Latitude 64 (which also manufactures Westside) also has had a number of new releases. But new releases are only part of the puzzle.
Brand Favorites: End of 2012 vs End of 2013
Respondents overwhelmingly chose Innova as the favorite brand at the end of 2012. Keep in mind, this survey was taken at the start of 2014, so Innova may be the easy answer for those with unclear memories. Even still, chosen as the favorite brand 63% of the time when 19 options are present is an overwhelming landslide victory. It wasn’t even close.
Fast forward 1 year and Innova is still the favorite, but it’s an entirely new landscape. At the end of 2013, and with 24 different options, Innova only had a 36% share of the pie, that’s a 27% drop! What changed? For the most part, Scandinavian-made brands became more popular and Prodigy hit shelves. Other brands such as MVP, Vibram, and Legacy also made modest gains.
Good Questions for the 2014 Survey
2.71% of players own less discs at the end of 2013, than the amount of discs which they purchased through the course of 2013. What does that mean? They either took heavy casualties on the course, or they were generous to fellow players. A good follow up question may be, “Do you lose more discs to the course, or by giving them to others?”
“Within a 15 mile radius, which brands are available for you to purchase in a physical store location? (check all that apply)
“How many different discs do you throw regularly?”
“How many different discs do you typically throw during play on an 18 hole course?”
“How many discs do you have in your bag?”
“Do you own a disc golf bag? If so, which style?”
Yes, there are many things we are already looking forward to in our State of Disc Golf: 2014 survey. Let us know what you think and what you would like to see!