Go Throw with Matt Bell | DGA Athlete
Watch on YouTubeMatt Bell shares his expertise on the newest discs from DGA in this informative and engaging video. The Hellfire is one of the top contenders, showcasing its stability and ability to fly straight until it's needed to fade. Matt puts the disc through its paces at an impressive 368-foot hole, known for being one of the most technical par-4s on the planet. With overstable tendencies at the end, the Hellfire is a great choice for players looking to add some extra distance and control to their game. Watch as Matt discusses the finer points of disc golf, including putting techniques with the Mercies and Pipeline putters, and shares his insights on how to master the Hellfire's unique flight pattern.
Video Transcript
that's pretty good that might be very let's go one more okay last one I will stick with the first one feel good about it I'll make it from there the Hellfire yeah it's one of the newest discs from DGA and for however stable it is you can get it to fly it really straight till you need that fade at the end okay one more just like steady head would you steady get approved right there always want to take the stickers off first make it pdj illegal all right hold two possibly one of the most technical 368 foot holes on the planet I think that was the one I think I was it let's go make a putt undertow on the board let's go get that Barry does that hell fire again it's crazy for now like overstable it is at the end it goes really straight for a while until you want it to fade it's like when you pick up a Firebird and you're like alright I just need you to fly a little bit further than normal and then have that fade it's got a little wider rim I don't know the speed on it but I'd have to say it's at least at 10 it's over yeah breaker breaker breaker 1-9 breaker I like it yeah yeah I bet it makes it easier to hit that gap right there just play the skip keep it in the rim okay last one dead-center cage hits that's not a bad place to miss yeah I've been pub with the mercies for too long they have so much more glide I'm definitely looking forward though like when I do get this putter up that little bit more can be a whole lot easier yeah just that little yeah a little extra commitment I haven't tried to force one of these hurricanes over yet think it's time see what happens here right back home the line of play and we got a fighter pamper tamper tamper temper I feel like if I play this a whole bunch of times at the right wind I could get a roller pretty close yeah I want to throw the pipeline take its time one more Yeah right in that little ditch back there right about 357 yeah I'm really diggin how that one flush it's gonna be a workhorse the first one I threw the pipeline it was like in 2015 or 16 I want to say at the San Francisco Safari and Shasta Chris smoked all of us with that disc he's throwing it through the woods it's very technical course like the first few holes were plates and he just threw it like a mid-range on everything and smashed us we didn't have a chance I did it jumped out yeah you said I'd hit the root and flared out where do you like to play at around here okay gotcha yeah this is a good course to to really get better I feel like you know even more than yeah even more than hunter and it'll teach you that kind of like resolve that you need to get through some rounds you know not let things get to you like you get to see it all out here on this course so I was managing a pizza place in Santa Cruz and this guy Jeremy from Fresno he moved to Santa Cruz and started working there and we had these little frisbees in the pizza shop and we have all these surfboards hanging and off the walls and stuff and we started playing catch and he noticed me like throwing them up around surfboards and stuff and throwing flicks and so he asked me if I'd ever play disc golf before and I hadn't even heard of it and so he's like I gotta take you and took me up to De La the next day yeah gave me a Valkyrie and a challenger still remember those two discs and guys went to work I was always really good at throwing frisbees just playing competitive catch with my brothers and friendly stuff plenty of uh yeah I played a lot of sports you know growing up I tried to play like football and baseball and and all the you know basketball but then I ended up getting into cross-country skiing in high school and was 13th in the state and that my junior year and then my senior year high school I'd only ever seen track on the Olympics like her d'Alene and stuff like that and I went to track me like halfway through the season and saw the hurdlers and I looked at my buddy and I was like yeah I think I can beat these guys and I showed up at track practice the next day and then about two and a half three months later I won the section championships my senior year I ran a 15 one in the 110 hurdles and then I could have gone to college and do it and I've done that but I always wanted to surf so I moved to Santa Cruz and surfing my brains out for a few years until I found disc golf yeah played just about every day since then yeah that was August 2009 when he took me up to de la so yeah yeah I like taking the back hand on this one see if I can get it close well backdoor action can't tell but there's a 40 mile an hour headwind right now thousand ready to play it is super long I think I'm gonna try and roll this hurricane I hope it rolls I'm try I shall wait for him to get down there all right rock and roll Bobby coming after life do it with the undertow - flippy oh all right I got one more hurricane the old flex limited edition oh yeah with the slip let's try one more without the slip do-do-do-do-do oh good okay Steph Curry I'll play with one guy here was like my first round playing here I went was for a flex start in this guy our car you like hit the trees he's kind of back where I was and then he threw one into the bushes down by the creek and they threw like a sidearm out I came around and canden for a three that was the most grand belief you he said you couldn't even see the basket he was just trying to lay it up and it goes in for the three where is it down oh okay so you just try to skip one in there we're here that's pretty gangster don't tempt me tempted I want to try this quake out for size higher would have been money I'll try that flex more hand for you noop that's not my shot for this hole it's got to be the Hellfire like it big downside like it I shot a don't tell anybody but I shot 49 yesterday at blackhawk with my DJ this took everybody's cache made a quick pity I think I got caught learned by a stick he didn't tell me ask worried but he told me I got him yeah oh come on it's nice when it's just outside the circle yeah little stepper the steadies that he had this is a stone steady that I got for winning the enduro Bowl for the third year in a row over there de la so finally gets a putt with my trophy disc yeah nice and then a pretty torn between that and this this midnight flyer number four they both are so good I don't know which one to use yet they came out with a bead list version of these stone studies this year which I haven't gotten my hands yet but we'll be getting some soon here real quick and my instincts tell me that's what I'll be putting with once I got those that's what we're looking for had to go when in for the champ yeah Oh hold on okay we're going again maybe it's Banzai uh-huh well I did what I was supposed to do that disc is not supposed to flip all right let me try one more some silly might work though the little force over oh alright one more yeah boom they're fans of DJ I guess I didn't think another chance but I had to try out for the disc this hole was made for right here Kurt that's awesome the second endurable i wrote i won during the second round i was on a little bit of a tear and so I threw a lefty shot on hole 12 and a lot of the kitchen hall and then made like a 45 footer for the birdie so technically I'm a hundred percent lefty getting on the board for 67 huh okay one more go roller the other side all right all right JB if you're listening this one's for you I like it a lot well about 12 feet shy of rattling the chains a little bit I would have been nice to stick that one after the JB shout out 2011 masters world champion and he's been playing for DJ as long as I can remember also happens to be my favorite disc golfer oh I was like the third time I've gained out of this basket from this distance those are my putts right they're going unconventional here for the fans straighten it out trying to a sixteen to early here oh come on now I know that thing does have a nice little stand up get that extra distance almost got flat yeah I love puting that style with those discs yeah for some reason that putter is really good with that style like who's them alright going with the stone steady here for the ACE nope one more and then the breaker is going in little closer closer find it come on last one here stretch another foot higher that might have done it it's over yeah thanks the thing was chain seeking stressed tempest on for size I left no disks left behind gotta catch them all okay last one hair go for the trick but nope go on air shot pipeline roller discuss bandit up oh yeah all right get yourself a reef there 169