MVP Fan Page Q&A with the owners of MVP - Highlights
Brad and Chad Richardson, co-founders of MVP, answer user-submitted questions from fans in an exclusive Q&A session. The two pros share their expertise on disc flight testing, including how they assess parameters such as parting line, dome, and rim depth to ensure optimal performance. They also delve into the design process, discussing the challenges of creating new molds and the time it takes to go from concept to production, often taking around a year or more. With over 11 years of playing experience between them, Brad and Chad bring their knowledge to the table, providing valuable insights for MVP fans looking to improve their game.
Join MVP owners for an exclusive Q&A session, discussing their favorite discs, tournament stories, and insights into the world of professional disc golf.
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We're here at MVP with Brad and Chad Richardson. We have 15 pages of user submitted questions - and they're going to try and answer them for you today. First one is from Daniel Herrera. What is your disc flight testing process? Yeah, disc flight testing a lot of it comes from actually before even throwing it. A lot of it is looking at the disc itself, you know... checking the parameters to make sure it's all right with where we want it to be in terms of measurements. We check a lot of things like parting line, dome, rim depth, things like that. To make sure it all looks good and then - from there it comes from our background of throwing discs, we've been playing for 11 years now. So, we'll do a lot of internal testing ourselves between Brad and I and you know - sometimes your feedback - we'll have other people throw them to kind of gauge different power levels and you know kinda look at it that way. Great. Next one is from Nathan. It's got to be difficult perfecting the design, what goes into creating a new mold - and what's the average time to go from idea, to production, to distribution? It takes a long time from concept, to execution. Sometimes over a year. Sometimes if we're quick, then we'll be lucky if we get it in six months. Many times it seems to be the average is one year. Starting with concept and design takes several weeks. Chad kinda talked about the design process - - Yeah it's definitely very challenging. The biggest thing with overmolding, the gyro technology - it presents a lot of hurdles. A lot of it comes down to, since we're doing two stages of molding - We have to mold the first component - we have to predict the shrink parameters of all the materials we're using - and then from there it has to fit the overmold perfectly - and there's very little margin of error when it comes to that. So a lot of precaution with that aspect and then like Brad said - The design process, to ending production is sometimes up to a year. We've gotten a lot better over the years. We're a lot more confident with our turnover time - but uh, it's quite challenging. We're getting pretty good now....
