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I REALLY Tried to HATE This Disc... [Kastaplast Berg Review]
Join [Bodanza Host] as he reviews the Kastaplast Berg driver. Watch his honest assessment of its performance and more.
Watch on YouTubeJoin host as they dive into their honest review of the Castaplast Berg disc golf driver. Originally intended to be a negative experience, the host has a change of heart after putting the disc through its paces at Airport Lakes Park in California. With five holes played and two different Birds - the K1 Glow and the K3 - compared side by side, this episode delves into the pros and cons of this cult favorite disc. The host shares their personal experience with the disc's performance, discussing its unique feel on the back end and tendency to consistently find the basket. With a deep dive into flight dynamics and comparisons to other popular discs, this review offers valuable insights for disc golf enthusiasts looking to try out the Berg or understand why it has gained such a loyal following.
Podcast Transcript
guys I have a confession to make welcome back to the dance disc golf All That Jazz but in my bag right now that was not on purpose actually I've been carrying what the Ferg I'm so sorry I made a video about it earlier welcome back to Bonanza disc golf today I'm going to be throwing one of the most culty discs in the world the castaplast bird like a couple months back and I didn't like it because I was maybe trying to use it wrong but also I still hate how this thing feels on the back end it feels so weird but I've hit metal with it a couple times and I probably honestly just give a little soft run with the birds I hate that I'm using this disc foreign it just likes to go under the basket I kept like Keep It In My Bag I'm gonna throw a second shot just to see everyone loves it so much and we're gonna play five holes here at airport Lakes Park short to short red to Red just going to show you why I think the burg has made my bag and also test between two different birds because I've been playing with both the k1berg this is the K1 glow as well as the k3berg I have a K3 hard in here as well that I just bought as another backup because it was used it was super cheap or something but I don't know this one was used one but we're gonna go with the K3 versus the K1 globurg got five holes here at airport Lake and even though some of these holes are probably going to be slightly out of the range I just want to explain to you why I've now started bagging and kind of almost loving the bird not quite loving can't go all the way with that but almost I'm sorry to everybody I'm sorry to lose from Swanky disc golf but this is a good disc buddy I'm sorry also just for the record if anyone has any connections at cassoplast I would love to talk to them about getting custom discs because I'm planning on doing that a lot but the numbers on the Berg are one one zero two and I found the Plastics do vary this significantly as we'll see which is why we're comparing two birds the K1 glow I found is slightly more overstable kind of similar to just my normal K1 get down going oh but honestly the K1 slightly less stable it's kind of in between these two and that's a slot that I really liked I just lost it somewhere I think I lost it in Atlanta I do not remember where it went so this holds 255 feet I'm just gonna throw it straight we're trying to beat par with the bird honestly I have that K3 hardburg if I can't beat par with either of these discs I'm gonna give the K3 hard away because these ones are staying in my bag for now because they do actually feel slightly different slots I'm not saying that this is the shot that this is supposed to take but you can give runs with the Berg which I'll explain in a second but okay one glow good form throw it hard and far foreign that is like that's gonna get there well actually farther wow that was a solid pull I feel like I need to throw that exact same shot with this because that one holds the line it goes left this one has just the slightest bit of flip to it but it just goes straight whereas that one didn't really go straight it kind of glided very slowly to the left because it only has one Glide and that one Glide it very slowly to the right I wonder if I throw the K1 hard if it'll be different I'm gonna try this is my first shot with this foreign that's the burger that I want in my bag actually so maybe maybe I don't want to not be far because I think the K went hard it might be my favorite of the perks so essentially if you've noticed I played some courses in Indianapolis called boiling acres and hit the cage on that one parked a couple baskets and I just realized when I'm throwing like 2 30 and in backhand honestly kind of I kind of still hate it for backhand I really like it almost exclusively for forehand it's really great on turnovers and it obviously does work on backhand I just am not as comfortable throwing it so hopefully I learned that a little bit more today but on the forehand it just kind of does what you want honestly and it doesn't go far past the basket so even though back over the basket there there's kind of a goalie I'm still kind of going to give this a little bit of a run some people put with the birds Scott Stokely talking about you crazy crazy man and I'm gonna put this instead of forehand it because we're only about 50 feet out but I'm gonna have to throw it really hard luckily though if I do throw it too hard it's not going to go too far past the basket okay let's start really high okay honestly I didn't even get it 260 feet I only got about 250. but this was one we just putt with I hate putting with this disc still made it luckily but it didn't really even go far past the basket even from there the birdie with the K3 hard which we're not actually playing with and now the K1 glow that's what I hate about it it's not Glady at all it wasn't a good putt but don't pop with the Bergs I'm still gonna do it because you know sometimes you just got to be like Scottsdale food it probably has like a foot and a half on me but let's move on to Hole number two don't really show you kind of where these guys shine so k1's got the box honestly this is only this is 200 feet so I think I'm gonna go forehand with the K1 the K1 glow and with the K3 I'm gonna go back in because this one does like to turn a little bit more it is a slightly more beat in so I hope that this beats into just dead straight the K1 glow but for now if I throw it hard and flat I'll have to give it a little height because since these are so not glidy you do have to give them height because they're just going to slowly descend to the ground and the lower you just initially put them the faster they're going to get to the ground so hopefully we can make a good shot here and that's where I'm not the biggest fan of that guy because it's just like I'm not the biggest fan because I'm not the biggest fan of my throws like that just kind of did exactly what I told it to do it didn't really account for much and so I think I just have to get a little more used to that one we're gonna go with the backhand with the K3 go in the basket oh I only parked it dang it the other thing with the K1 that I've noticed the K1 glow is it tends to be like kind of interesting it's it's so not glotty but slightly stable that's not like overstable so it's not going to dump on you but you really have to put it exactly where you want it is not going to help you by going straight at all it's just gonna go on that hyzer forever if you throw it on any sort of hyzer at all so this right here is where I'm feeling like jump hunting this is a little far far but a little forehand flick with the Berg oh gross that's where I threw such a bad shot that I'm still gonna be outside the circle your mouse that was a terrible example uh normally I feel like I can get closer than that but that was really bad the one nice thing that I think even this bird shows first off airplanes but second off is I really missed this shot like bad like the Heiser was way more than needed to be any other disc would probably be in the woods a lot farther away this one did hit the tree which slowed it down but it really wasn't going to go much far past this and this leaves us 45 feet on this hole which is not that bad buckets you're a Berg drop this is where I think I forgot number one rule of berg throw-ins which is you need to still treat them like you're trying to throw it and then don't want it to go past the basket I was kind of like I'll just throw this as hard as I wanted to ask it but it's it's if you still if you throw a heart it's still going to go farther foreign that one was Parky parked and then for the three three more holes definitely gotta get under par but hopefully we can at least want to make one of these throw-ins and uh hopefully Park some more baskets all right this is where once again we're gonna have a little bit different throws it's only 195 feet I feel like I got the most understable most overstable of berg straight ahead of us there so we have to make this curve not really the best bird shot unless we try to just throw this one on hyzer because it's just going to hold that hyzer and get to the ground so try to push this high ceiling and throw it like that and on this bird I think if we throw it on some anhyzer it should be able to do the same probably very slay enhancer because it is going to flip slightly and we don't want it to roll too much K3 is flippier than it was before that was such a bad shot all right now I gotta get up and down for Park but it's a burger so it should be easy okay one glow perfect that is what you want might be slightly far I've realized that I like these discs but they're not like the perfect discs like some people think that they're like they're really not yeah we're gonna play this whole not a cherry pick the next couple there's some dude just like creepily walking in my Fairway one thing I have noticed though is as my arm speed is getting faster and faster like that accounts for every disc including the Burke so like I do still have to have a modicum of touch it's it's just gonna compensate more for it than some other discs well which I really like remember I said about having a modicum of touch did not have that I still I should I should have thrown that on that's the easiest Heiser line ever that was such a I was talking to you I was worried about that dude and now I'm gonna have to get another birdie with that one no I'm gonna throw it in it's a bird that's what you're supposed to do parked it ah I feel like I'm just proving things to myself in this video I really like the Berg but maybe this is gonna be the opposite of my other video where I started being like oh this is interesting and ended being like I hate this and now I'm starting with like oh this is nice and no I'm gonna end it was like oh wait that's the same thing I don't know okay for the birdie and out of the K3 all right two holes left and we need to birdie with at least the K3 I feel like bird people are gonna be so pissed at me because I want to give the burger a little bit of a good name but I am just failing so hard I think what the burger is good for that I've realized is kind of the edge of that range because like even from back there I'm still having to like lay down a lot of touch and I'm probably rather I might even try some backhand throw ones because I have a little more touch with that than my forehand from that distance I think like it's kind of like the 75 to 90 of your range like if I throw it 75 to 90 it's perfect because that last little bit of it is going to get so fast to the ground compared to a glideier disc or a different disc or a faster disc but like when it's we're talking about hey when you're still in that kind of anywhere from 30 to 65 range of power you still have to have more touch because like I could just throw up maybe five percent faster and that's gonna be an extra 15 feet even with the Burke so this is a good learning experience for me because I have not practiced really with the Berg I've just put it in the bag and throwing good shots with it when I've known that they're burnt shots and even like the ones I'm like oh this is a bird show it's like this kind of is but I'm not I'm not trying to run the bird from those distances I'm trying to put it back next to the basket all right I'm glad there's only two holes left because I'm just now remembering like how sketchy just north of the airport this area of Orlando can get with people okay one glow has the box and I think leading it slightly to the right of the basket will give us a chance for it to Ace even trying to throw dude that is so minor to self don't come film at this place again but uh even trying to throw Aces at this like it's still going to be pretty close sit down oh it's actually I was right stay pretty close I threw a little high let's try with this K3 oh baby get lucky oh I hate that disc apparently I'm throwing that thing so bad right now like literally in the middle of this crap oh yeah Pat and penned out of here nice and simple that is really nice just not having to worry about how much touch to give especially when it hits the ground like it just hits and sits so you really don't have to worry about it at that point birdyville and parville there are more holes to play I'm honestly though just gonna replay second holster so these I kind of have to go through some woods and I haven't like seen people like trouncing around through them look like they're waiting for something and I don't want to be the thing that they're waiting for if you know what I mean to make things interesting though I'm gonna make myself throw the opposite lines with these so forehand with the K3 backhand with the K1 glow might learn a thing or two because I have not been throwing these well I do need a birdie with the K3 on this hole no didn't even turn it over as much as I needed to it went straight and flat though I just wanted it to turn like this one and it just did not a little bit of hyzer it should pop up thank you yes oh it's so deep that's pretty solid shot though that's a pretty cool shot well I'm gonna try to go between these trees with a little forehand I went between the trees look at birdie all right everything's under par that makes me happy I'm gonna try to run the basket a couple times since I have these three perks luckily don't have to do a giveaway luckily I don't have to get my camera away involuntarily just go ahead and uh make this on the Yellow Basket real fast because I can those Heights are good definitely didn't just unload the clip and draw no metal except for the one bird shot but I feel like this video is basically just to let you guys know that I am on team Berg if there are teens I feel like it's just Bergen no bird there's not really another disc that wants to compete with this I would love to try the other one speed discs if you think any would be better for me like the armadillo the Polecat Sonic I think is one speed as well I'd say it'd be an interesting disc to try it doesn't 100 make up for having touch you still need touch as displayed today that I didn't have any it does make having touch a little bit easier and just disc golf is all about having the tools that make it easier I know in the first video one of the main things that was a drawback for me is like I want to work on my touch I can't work on my touch and through Berg and maybe there's a time that I graduate from having the Burke but it's also just a different tool you know it's just a different disc it does something that other just don't do so it can be useful to throw especially if you get used to it if you want to see my first bird video that was also a blast check it out right up here otherwise YouTube thinks that you'll like this video the best and I'll see you over there hopefully I'll make a bird shot though because that would be awesome thank you better ah I think I like that case you're hard the best even though it's not the one I bet glad I kept it though because okay one probably honestly I don't know okay love you bye