It's a jungle out there... There are numerous different golf discs on the market and they all have different flight characteristics.

This is a brief guide to help you through the hazards of spending your hard earned money on a disc that hopefully suits your abilities and needs.

Discraft and Innova are the biggest manufacturers of golf discs. Other companys are Lightning, Millennium and Gateway. So far, this guide covers discs from Innova, Discraft and Millennium.
 

Discraft, Innova and Millennium are three of the biggest manufacturers.

All opinions are what I personally think of the discs, so there's no info on discs that I haven't tried out. Don't take this list as a bible - it only inflicts what I think of the discs.
 

I've played disc golf for over 20 years and have a fairly good distance in my throws, so the discs I rate understable to stable might behave overstable if you're still in the beginning of your disc career and hasn't yet reached the sufficient arm speed to make some discs turn over.

If all discs seem to behave overstable when you throw them, it might be a good idea to try lighter discs (Maybe even down to 150 grams). I normally use discs in the 165-175 gram range.
 

Terms used to describe the flight of the discs:
Overstable - a disc that turns left when thrown flat with a right handed backhand throw

Stable - a disc that goes straight when thrown flat with a right handed backhand throw.

Understable - a disc that turns right when thrown flat with a right handed backhand throw.

Sometimes this is referred to as a stability scale. Where an overstable disc has a positive value, a stable neutral flyer has zero and un understable disc has a negative value. If someone says that a disc is more stable than another, this usually means that it is more to the overstable side of the scale.

Dome - the top side of the disc. A disc that has a flat top has a low dome. A more pronounced convex shape is called high dome, or "domey".

Rim - the edge of the discs.

Hyzer - The outer edge of the disc is tilted towards the ground to make the disc turn left when thrown with a right handed backhand throw.

Anhyzer - The outer edge of the disc is tilted upwards to produce a curve from left to right when thrown with a right handed backhand throw.

Fade - All discs will fade to the left (for a right handed backhand thrower) when they run out of speed. "Fade" is a measure how hard a disc falls of to the left.

Glide - A disc that keeps good forward speed long in the flight path, even in the fade phase is considered to have good glide.

Candy - The super durable somewhat transparent plastic used in Discraft's (Elite-Z) and Innova's (Champion) top lines of discs. Candy plastic discs are generally far more overstable than their cheaper plastic counterparts, especially at the end of the flight where they usually fade hard.

 area46 Discraft disc guide
 area46 Innova disc guide
 area46 Millennium disc guide
 Discraft's own site
 Innova's own site
 Millennium's own site
 Gateway's own site
 DGA's own site
 Lightning's own site