2K, or not 2K?

That is the question.

Actually, it’s not because I just ordered a 2K discus to start using in training, and I’m really looking forward to its arrival. I ordered an inexpensive low-spin model thinking that I had no hope of making a perimeter weighted model fly at all. Plus, why waste the extra money on a training discus? I figure that using it might provide a number of benefits:

1) The extra weight will slow me down, and give me more time to concentrate on hitting good positions.
2) The extra weight will make hitting good positions an absolute must, or it just won’t go very far.
3) It should help strengthen some discus-specific muscles.
4) I won’t have to walk as far to retrieve it!

We’ll see how it goes. Actually, I already have an old beat up 2K rubber discus that I did some standing throws with last night (when I found it, it appeared to have been run over by a mower). It was kind of halfway dark when I was throwing so I couldn’t see exactly where it was landing, but it appeared that a couple went out around 100’. Damn, it felt heavy. I’m a little apprehensive about trying full throws with the thing for fear that body parts might start falling off!

The other day I was looking at the rankings listings over the last several years, with an eye on seeing what happens to guys when they move up in age from 49 to 50, and shift from the 2K to the 1.5K implement. There’s a lot of variation in the results, but it appears that people can gain up to 30 feet of distance (8-9 meters). So…one would think that if I could get to the point that I can throw the 2K 120’, I ought to be able to throw the 1.5K 150’. That’s my theory anyway, and I’m sticking to it.