{"id":804,"date":"2021-03-26T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/?p=804"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:25:51","slug":"piwakawaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/piwakawaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Piwakawaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ace, from the gold tee on hole 7 at Raptors Knoll<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Piwakawaka (midrange).<\/strong> I\u2019d put this one in the bag solely for its awesome name! \u201cWhat was that you just threw?\u201d \u201cA Piwakawaka!\u201d It rolls off the tongue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a more serious note, Piwakawaka<\/a> is the M\u0101ori word for the New Zealand Fantail, a smaller bird more appropriate to a midrange disc. The RPM site aptly describes the disc as a reliable straight disc, that will easily hold a line, with a sneaky long glide. I was surprised at how  fast and long the disc flew. Made with a comfortably soft plastic, I was  able to use a fan grip, rather than a power grip. For midrange throws, I much prefer the fan grip for added control, but traditional hard plastics can get a rough edge that scrapes on release. The soft plastic used for the Piwakawaka makes it easy to grip and comfortable to throw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me the flight had more flip to it than the promised straight line, but that is fine with me as I prefer using a flip hyzer line for most of my midrange tosses. The disc runs quite fast, again out distancing most of my current mid-range discs with very little effort. While I am still fine tuning the lines I take with this disc, it\u2019s become my mid-range staple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piwakawaka (midrange). I\u2019d put this one in the bag solely for its awesome name! \u201cWhat was that you just threw?\u201d \u201cA Piwakawaka!\u201d It rolls off the tongue! On a more serious note, Piwakawaka is the M\u0101ori word for the New Zealand Fantail, a smaller bird more appropriate to a midrange disc. The RPM site aptly describes the disc … Continue reading Piwakawaka<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wcGj-cY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discgolfing.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}