Mint Discs Alpha vs Innova Thunderbird vs Discmania PD vs Dynamic Discs Getaway

I’ve (Nathan) been comparing disc flights from above.

I’ve been looking at a lot of Black Zombie discs since they’re local to Austin (where I live) so today I decided to pull out the Alpha from Mint Discs. Chase and I have done a couple of videos of the Alpha already, but this was the obvious first disc to do from Mint.

The Alpha is a pretty great slightly overstable fairway/distance driver hybrid. (they actually refer to it as a “power fairway”) Mint is pretty upfront about the variation is stability between different colors and runs, and tries to educate the community on what to expect from it’s discs. Unfortunately, I just sold of most of my less stable Alphas. I took them out to the field to test them against a Thunderbird (Innova), Getaway (Dynamic Discs), and a PD (Discmania).

The basket is set up somewhere between 380′ – 400′ feet away, I didn’t measure exactly but I know the size of my field. These are all probably 80% power shots with a run up. I’m basically going for result here, trying to land in line with the basket.

For the comparison lines, I normalized the release trajectory so that everything comes out at the same time and at the same angle. Video was taken with the drone parked directly overhead.

175 Innova Star Thunderbird 9 | 5 | 0 | 2

175 DD Lucid Getaway 9 | 5 | -0.5 | 3

175 Discmania S-PD 10 | 4 | 0 | 3

175 Mint Eternal Alpha 8 | 4 | 0 | 2

175 Mint Sublime Alpha 8 | 4 | 0 | 2