Eveliina Salonen just won her second world title by 17 strokes, on a 1023-rated performance — the highest-rated round at a World Championship ever thrown! Here’s what she’s throwing!
What’s in it is less surprising than how little of it there is. Twenty-two discs, but only twelve moulds. Seven of those twenty-two are Destroyers.
The putters…
She switched putters this year, from the Aviar to the DX Invader (3 / 2 / 0 / 1). Her reasoning is about fit, not flight: the Invader sits lower in the hand, and that suits her grip better.
For throwing putters she carries three. The AviarX3 (3 / 2 / 0 / 3) is the overstable one — straight with a dependable fade. The other two are Aviar3s, one in Star and one a beat-in Glow Halo Star from her own tour series. Both are worn enough to have gone flippy, and she throws nearly every upshot with them, mostly forehand.
Five midranges, arranged by stability
Her midrange slots go from the overstable end down to the understable.
- Caiman (5.5 / 2 / 0 / 4) — the overstable end. Backhand and forehand, trusted in any wind.
- RocX3 (5 / 4 / 0 / 3.5) — two of them, Champion and Glow Champion. The glow one is the headwind disc.
- Jay (5 / 4 / 0 / 1) — newest mould in the bag, and now her favourite midrange.
- Mako3 (5 / 5 / 0 / 0) — the understable end.
On the Jay: she says it sits lower than the Roc3 and she can throw it full power to 100 metres without it flipping or fading. On the Mako3 she is more emphatic — “every player should carry one,” because you never know when you will need something flippier.
Fairways: three Thunderbirds and a 2014 favourite
Six fairway drivers, and half of them are Thunderbirds (9 / 5 / 0 / 2) in Champion plastic, at three different stages of wear. The oldest is from 2014 and is the disc she says she cannot afford to lose. She will hyzer-flip it and it holds straight seemingly forever.
The rest: a Halo Star Firebird (9 / 3 / 0 / 4) that glides more than most Firebirds do, a Teebird3 (8 / 4 / 0 / 2) she has carried about eight years and which is now genuinely unpredictable, and a Star Roadrunner (9 / 5 / -4 / 1) for spike hyzers that flip up and run.
She is blunt about the Thunderbirds: she gets nearly the same distance from them as from her Destroyers, and they are far easier to throw.
Seven Destroyers, one mould, seven flights
The Destroyer is 12 / 5 / -1 / 3 on paper. In her bag it is seven different discs.
- Halo Star, near new — the beef. Does not go far, will not flip in any headwind.
- Halo Star, five years old — one of the first Halo runs ever made. Still overstable, now with glide.
- Star, oldest — from her first Innova order. Stable.
- Star, her “water disc” — the straightest thing she throws.
- Star, colour faded — the longest. Hyzer-flips without being flippy.
- Star, 168g — the only sub-170 disc in the bag, and the flippiest Star.
- Star, understable — she compares it to the Shryke she used to bag.
This is the most transferable idea in the video. Learning one mould across its whole life is a different skill from learning seven moulds, and it is cheaper. Every disc above is the same page on this site; the difference is weight, plastic run, and hours thrown.
The full bag
Putters — DX Invader, Star AviarX3, Star Aviar3, Glow Halo Star Aviar3
Midranges — Star Caiman, Champion RocX3, Glow Champion RocX3, Champion Jay, Star Mako3
Fairways — Halo Star Firebird, three Champion Thunderbirds, Champion Teebird3, Star Roadrunner
Distance — two Halo Star Destroyers, five Star Destroyers
Also in there: a toy aeroplane from James Proctor, a painted rock from a friend, and two rubber ducks from a spectator.
