I played with a Yikun ambassador in Pennsylvania for awhile and got to try a lot of their lineup. They are on their way to a full line up but some isolated molds are really nice! The Gui and Xing are both excellent, low glide putters that feel phenomenal in their base (Tiger) blend. The Zheng is a modestly overstable mid with the increased diameter you mentioned in this video. It handles torque way better than I would expect of the size. The She Gong (fantastic name for a bomber 13 speed) is a dumb flippy driver that absolutely crushes for 380-400 foot arms. Pretty much every driver they make is flippier than advertised. You're spot on with the wide diameter point though, the extra diameter gives a silly amount of extra glide, but typically makes the disc a bit touchier with angles and off-axis torque.
The she gong is insane!! I picked it up with the intent of it being a bit flipper than 02 and was pleasantly surprised. The flatter ones are flippy flippy, but find one with some dome around max weight and it's the first disc I had reach 450 ft with a flat backhand. Truly remarkable disc. That and the hammer are two molds of theirs I'll swear by now!
How do you do fellow Gui enjoyer lol. Have to agree with pretty much everything you said on these. I got like 8 molds off Discount Disc Golf on a clearance for 35 bucks or something ridiculous like that and the Gui was by far and away the best of them. I don't have the power for the She Gong but I picked that up too and its a really pretty plastic. I didn't get the Zheng, how would you say it compares to an Emac Truth? I love mine but it's getting a bit flippy on me and I'd like to replace it with something cheaper if I can.
If you consider doing a second video with these, I highly highly recommend the hammer and crossbow in tiger plastic, the Fu Sang and She Gong in glaze plastic, and the kui in either tiger or soflex, all of those discs are so much fun and remind me how much fun this sport is, while also being actually fun discs. She gong is a MASSIVE bomber, Fu sang is a nice envy style putter but deeper, hammer is my personal favourite disc ever, kinda to me what the pig was to Ricky Wysocki, can be thrown like a mid, can be thrown like a putter, works great as an approach disc forehand and backhand, and oh baby once you get one worked in it's just the greatest disc of all time
@@anthonyjunior810 and now every time you absolutely bomb that thing you gotta say "she gong!!!" (She gone!) I'm known as the yikun whisperer in my league
I putt and approach with the Hammer Chui. Shallower than most discs. It starts off as 3 in stability then beats down to a 1 in stability. I wish they offered it in other plastics and in lighter 155-165 weight range.
@@ryansuter4424 I thought about putting with it but rather a smooth putter, but yes you're right it's a great disc that beats down into that amazing 01 approach disc. And they make the teal colour ones in about 167-169 weights but that's the lowest I've seen
You truly MUST try the Yikun GUI! It is both my main putter and one of my favorite throwing putters. It is like a little less stable envy, a true do it all discs and the best disc Yikun makes.
@@veilforge Thats not what I heard/read a while back, and Duraflex colors/feel and the injection point is different from all the other ones :o Interesting :)
Discs becoming flippy super quickly is such a mystery to me. The only way I've ever changed the flight of a disc was to throw it into a wall as hard as I can 30 times. Otherwise, I just get a really scraped up overstable disc *shrug*
I bag 2 yikun discs in the dragon plastic. it feels awsome, i have the QI and the View. both as roller and granade discs and some timess slow hyzer to turn discs
Infinite put out another Yikun review video titled The Disc Golf Brand you haven’t heard about/Underated discs. The reviewer said he threw the discs in the past and gives disc recommendations.
I've never bought one, but have found a couple yikun discs and tried them, and they were all decent. They felt a bit weird and were all at least a little understable, but they flew nicely
@@BodanzaDiscGolf Right on I’ll give that a go. But I’ve got to say I’m really digging that rounded flight plate on the sphinx. Btw I had my farthest throw on flat ground with it! yesterday I got just over 400ft straight now a narrow fairway and she stayed in bounds
first throw: throwing disc flat, downhill, into a head left to right (of course it flips more than throwing a hyzer at the sky), second throw was a certified yank job, thats why it flipped, once its on annhyzer the tailwind is able to get on top of the flight plate and push the disc down. Not the discs fault
Got almost the whole Viking Disc Lineup. Of Yikuns own molds i got the Kui, Gui, Da'e, Jun and Hu. The Gui is nice very similar to the Sensei and Knife, Hu is a very flippy domey glidey 9-speed, tossed it 350' but needs no headwind else roller for me. The Da'e is sooo sharp and OS (Like the Prodigy D1/Reverb) for me. Jun should be very nice with a little more power... Similar to Ragnarök and Mentor but more stable. All of the three just mentioned are similar to the Scorch in shape. ^_^
I love the Jun. I don't throw far but apparenty very torquy (however you spell it) it flies great but perfectly straight with a forward fade to about 350-375 for me. reminds me of a longer teebird by flight well for my throw anyway.
I just love the GUI, it is my putting putter and main throwing putter. I agree it is very similar to a Sensei, but just feels a bit more premium (less sharp edges and that pattern variation on the bottom) and is a bit more stable. I can also recommend the Yikun Daé as an ultra overstable windfighting distance driver (in some plastics it is like a PD2 stability or more).
I throw several Yikun molds. I gotta be honest, if you can get em on sale you can fill out a 20 disc bag for sub 100 bucks its pretty wild. The Gui putter is probably their best low speed mold. Their mid selection leaves a lot to be desired and some of their drivers could use better numbers but they fly great once you figure them out. My favorite from them is probably the Tortoise Shell Twin Swords and the Zhu which is a super light 7 speed that floats. The Hou Yi BOMBED for me but I ripped probably my best forehand ever on it into a tree like 20ft off the tee and it has been an inconsistent flyer ever since :(
The Kui 99% an extra domey Magician holding them beside eachother is very overstable for the feel, midrange driver, so that slot is ok, but flippy REAL mids might be a tad harder, seems Shu is almost the only one aviable since the overmolds went rare from my understanding. :S
Yikun Shu is a unique disc. Shallow like a fairway but rim width of an approach. If you feel more comfortable throwing 6-8 speeds it’s a great understable compliment to the zone where it’s tough to find shallow mids
I cannot figure my Shu out lol. I need to just throw with it more, you ever have a disc that you get for like a specific shot but that specific shot isn't that common so when you finally get to that hole you screw it up because you just haven't thrown the disc? Thats the Shu for me lol.
@@jjhill001 If you don't have a forehand, the shu is my goto disk for shots that fade right but don't burn over within 225 feet. Granted my drives are 300 or so, to give you an idea of arm speed. I prefer their champ transparent plastic for that extra bit of stability. So 4-speed wise, I can throw two different shu's, and two different zones, and get a pretty good mix of flights in the sub 225 range with only a couple molds.
@@bashildy I have similar distance, but I'm probably 70% forehand dominant player so maybe that's probably the main reason I never pull it out except for those shots where a backhand turnover is more optimal.
I got the JUN as a random disc when i bought from infinite once and i can't lie i love it. Mine is in the phoenix plastic and i liked it so much i got the kui in dragon plastic. It's not as good but you should give the JUN a shot if you haven't
I throw the JUN as well, flies weird for me but I’m learning to like it. It’s pretty straight or even a little flippy out of the hand but when it loses speed at the end of the flight it spikes on hyzer.
Interesting. Mine flies pretty straight for the most part has some turn but doesn't turn over but the fade is forward pushing. On a hyzer it does have a nice flight though holds the line well then spikes down
So far only Yikun and molds made for Discmania made by Yikun are good rom what I have felt. I have seen one other brand being a Chinese owned like a brand where they had a Pluto putter, Saturn Midrange, and Mercury a fairway/speed 9 driver discs and plastic was worse then older Baseline (yes name of plastic) Wham-O discs rom 2000's touchline series in how plastic in these Cheap Chinese discs using planets would warp easier then any disc Besides some disc made by short lived Disc Kings from the UK in 2008--2009.
Not all of them no. Ive been eyeing that gray fractal looking Zone-ish disc on infinite. Funny you said it looks like fractal, that was my first thought. Makes mebwonder if prodigy outsourced that to china like their discs they made with Kevin and Isaac.
I would recommend the hammer if you have ever felt a disc with a thumbtrack and kinda liked it. It's a great approach disc out of yikun, they're dirt cheap too, so you can throw them without feeling too bad if you lose one!
@@ryansuter4424 yea that's what got me to thinking about it. They already have other discs made by Yikun and all of a sudden both of them have plastic that look similar coming out.
When reviewing discs you should actually get to know the discs if you’re going to compete with them while you review them. You should throw them in different wind directions.
By chance is that the Jiao? It's a disc I bought for a lady in our league it's becoming one of her best discs! If there is one thing I'll give yikuns driver lineup, if they make some lighter molds they could really dominate the female disc market!
@owenmcdonald5806 yea I think so, I meant to say flippiest disc autocorrect strikes again. And I agree it's the disc I give to people on their first time out with me because literally anyone can make it fly.
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I played with a Yikun ambassador in Pennsylvania for awhile and got to try a lot of their lineup. They are on their way to a full line up but some isolated molds are really nice!
The Gui and Xing are both excellent, low glide putters that feel phenomenal in their base (Tiger) blend.
The Zheng is a modestly overstable mid with the increased diameter you mentioned in this video. It handles torque way better than I would expect of the size.
The She Gong (fantastic name for a bomber 13 speed) is a dumb flippy driver that absolutely crushes for 380-400 foot arms.
Pretty much every driver they make is flippier than advertised. You're spot on with the wide diameter point though, the extra diameter gives a silly amount of extra glide, but typically makes the disc a bit touchier with angles and off-axis torque.
The she gong is insane!! I picked it up with the intent of it being a bit flipper than 02 and was pleasantly surprised. The flatter ones are flippy flippy, but find one with some dome around max weight and it's the first disc I had reach 450 ft with a flat backhand. Truly remarkable disc. That and the hammer are two molds of theirs I'll swear by now!
How do you do fellow Gui enjoyer lol. Have to agree with pretty much everything you said on these. I got like 8 molds off Discount Disc Golf on a clearance for 35 bucks or something ridiculous like that and the Gui was by far and away the best of them. I don't have the power for the She Gong but I picked that up too and its a really pretty plastic. I didn't get the Zheng, how would you say it compares to an Emac Truth? I love mine but it's getting a bit flippy on me and I'd like to replace it with something cheaper if I can.
If you consider doing a second video with these, I highly highly recommend the hammer and crossbow in tiger plastic, the Fu Sang and She Gong in glaze plastic, and the kui in either tiger or soflex, all of those discs are so much fun and remind me how much fun this sport is, while also being actually fun discs. She gong is a MASSIVE bomber, Fu sang is a nice envy style putter but deeper, hammer is my personal favourite disc ever, kinda to me what the pig was to Ricky Wysocki, can be thrown like a mid, can be thrown like a putter, works great as an approach disc forehand and backhand, and oh baby once you get one worked in it's just the greatest disc of all time
I bagged the she gong as a joke and then it instantly became my furthest flying disc
@@anthonyjunior810 and now every time you absolutely bomb that thing you gotta say "she gong!!!" (She gone!) I'm known as the yikun whisperer in my league
I putt and approach with the Hammer Chui. Shallower than most discs. It starts off as 3 in stability then beats down to a 1 in stability. I wish they offered it in other plastics and in lighter 155-165 weight range.
@@ryansuter4424 I thought about putting with it but rather a smooth putter, but yes you're right it's a great disc that beats down into that amazing 01 approach disc. And they make the teal colour ones in about 167-169 weights but that's the lowest I've seen
@@ryansuter4424 also I've seen teasers for a Pheonix hammer so keep an eye out!
Gotta say man, your form looks fantastic. Cool to watch over the past year or two as you refined it! Passes the pro eye test
I appreciate that!
You truly MUST try the Yikun GUI! It is both my main putter and one of my favorite throwing putters. It is like a little less stable envy, a true do it all discs and the best disc Yikun makes.
Yikun makes discmanias active line, or at least they used to
Still do, and they do Viking Discs as well from my knowledge ;)
As well as prodigy discs..
@@veilforge Thats not what I heard/read a while back, and Duraflex colors/feel and the injection point is different from all the other ones :o Interesting :)
@@Iliyena87 Discmania discontinued their active line I believe
Discs becoming flippy super quickly is such a mystery to me. The only way I've ever changed the flight of a disc was to throw it into a wall as hard as I can 30 times. Otherwise, I just get a really scraped up overstable disc *shrug*
Yeah this is the first one to ever have that big of a switch for me that wasn’t a tacod base plastic!
cheaper plastic is my guess
I bag 2 yikun discs in the dragon plastic. it feels awsome, i have the QI and the View. both as roller and granade discs and some timess slow hyzer to turn discs
i have been wauting for this for a while. you need the whole lineup
39 molds + 3 lids :P
As team captain of Yikun I can definitely say the discs from Yikun are phenomenal.
Infinite put out another Yikun review video titled The Disc Golf Brand you haven’t heard about/Underated discs. The reviewer said he threw the discs in the past and gives disc recommendations.
I like them and yikun plastic feels amazing. Tiger is the best feeling plastic in the market imo.
I've never bought one, but have found a couple yikun discs and tried them, and they were all decent. They felt a bit weird and were all at least a little understable, but they flew nicely
On the third hole where the disc rolled you used the plastic that you said was more flippy.
Will you be coming out with a higher speed version of your Sphinx disc? I love the design would be sweet to see one with a wide rim
no, but that would likely be like an i blend roman or something if you're looking for that stability but faster
@@BodanzaDiscGolf Right on I’ll give that a go. But I’ve got to say I’m really digging that rounded flight plate on the sphinx. Btw I had my farthest throw on flat ground with it! yesterday I got just over 400ft straight now a narrow fairway and she stayed in bounds
@@JensenAzotea 😲😲🔥🔥 that’s awesome!! Glad you’re loving it
first throw: throwing disc flat, downhill, into a head left to right (of course it flips more than throwing a hyzer at the sky), second throw was a certified yank job, thats why it flipped, once its on annhyzer the tailwind is able to get on top of the flight plate and push the disc down. Not the discs fault
I love the brand. They manufacturer their own Discs and they are an OEM for some other manufacturers.
Got almost the whole Viking Disc Lineup. Of Yikuns own molds i got the Kui, Gui, Da'e, Jun and Hu.
The Gui is nice very similar to the Sensei and Knife, Hu is a very flippy domey glidey 9-speed, tossed it 350' but needs no headwind else roller for me. The Da'e is sooo sharp and OS (Like the Prodigy D1/Reverb) for me. Jun should be very nice with a little more power... Similar to Ragnarök and Mentor but more stable. All of the three just mentioned are similar to the Scorch in shape. ^_^
I love the Jun. I don't throw far but apparenty very torquy (however you spell it) it flies great but perfectly straight with a forward fade to about 350-375 for me. reminds me of a longer teebird by flight well for my throw anyway.
Disc mania Sensei is made in China by Yikun
@@ryansuter4424 Yup
I just love the GUI, it is my putting putter and main throwing putter. I agree it is very similar to a Sensei, but just feels a bit more premium (less sharp edges and that pattern variation on the bottom) and is a bit more stable.
I can also recommend the Yikun Daé as an ultra overstable windfighting distance driver (in some plastics it is like a PD2 stability or more).
I throw several Yikun molds. I gotta be honest, if you can get em on sale you can fill out a 20 disc bag for sub 100 bucks its pretty wild. The Gui putter is probably their best low speed mold. Their mid selection leaves a lot to be desired and some of their drivers could use better numbers but they fly great once you figure them out. My favorite from them is probably the Tortoise Shell Twin Swords and the Zhu which is a super light 7 speed that floats. The Hou Yi BOMBED for me but I ripped probably my best forehand ever on it into a tree like 20ft off the tee and it has been an inconsistent flyer ever since :(
The Kui 99% an extra domey Magician holding them beside eachother is very overstable for the feel, midrange driver, so that slot is ok, but flippy REAL mids might be a tad harder, seems Shu is almost the only one aviable since the overmolds went rare from my understanding. :S
Yikun Shu is a unique disc. Shallow like a fairway but rim width of an approach. If you feel more comfortable throwing 6-8 speeds it’s a great understable compliment to the zone where it’s tough to find shallow mids
I cannot figure my Shu out lol. I need to just throw with it more, you ever have a disc that you get for like a specific shot but that specific shot isn't that common so when you finally get to that hole you screw it up because you just haven't thrown the disc? Thats the Shu for me lol.
@@jjhill001 If you don't have a forehand, the shu is my goto disk for shots that fade right but don't burn over within 225 feet. Granted my drives are 300 or so, to give you an idea of arm speed. I prefer their champ transparent plastic for that extra bit of stability. So 4-speed wise, I can throw two different shu's, and two different zones, and get a pretty good mix of flights in the sub 225 range with only a couple molds.
@@bashildy I have similar distance, but I'm probably 70% forehand dominant player so maybe that's probably the main reason I never pull it out except for those shots where a backhand turnover is more optimal.
I got the JUN as a random disc when i bought from infinite once and i can't lie i love it. Mine is in the phoenix plastic and i liked it so much i got the kui in dragon plastic. It's not as good but you should give the JUN a shot if you haven't
I throw the JUN as well, flies weird for me but I’m learning to like it. It’s pretty straight or even a little flippy out of the hand but when it loses speed at the end of the flight it spikes on hyzer.
Interesting. Mine flies pretty straight for the most part has some turn but doesn't turn over but the fade is forward pushing. On a hyzer it does have a nice flight though holds the line well then spikes down
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Divergent discs next?
I filmed with them back in Feb 2023, I'll link below if youtube will let me! Was a while ago tho so could def revisit
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@@BodanzaDiscGolf thanks
So far only Yikun and molds made for Discmania made by Yikun are good rom what I have felt. I have seen one other brand being a Chinese owned like a brand where they had a Pluto putter, Saturn Midrange, and Mercury a fairway/speed 9 driver discs and plastic was worse then older Baseline (yes name of plastic) Wham-O discs rom 2000's touchline series in how plastic in these Cheap Chinese discs using planets would warp easier then any disc Besides some disc made by short lived Disc Kings from the UK in 2008--2009.
Not all of them no. Ive been eyeing that gray fractal looking Zone-ish disc on infinite. Funny you said it looks like fractal, that was my first thought. Makes mebwonder if prodigy outsourced that to china like their discs they made with Kevin and Isaac.
I would recommend the hammer if you have ever felt a disc with a thumbtrack and kinda liked it. It's a great approach disc out of yikun, they're dirt cheap too, so you can throw them without feeling too bad if you lose one!
I do know that Prodigy’s active line is made by Yikun. Not sure about the fracture discs.
@@ryansuter4424 yea that's what got me to thinking about it. They already have other discs made by Yikun and all of a sudden both of them have plastic that look similar coming out.
@@owenmcdonald5806 I use the sokibomb slammer so yea I don't mind a thumbtrack on approach discs. I'll give it a look
When reviewing discs you should actually get to know the discs if you’re going to compete with them while you review them. You should throw them in different wind directions.
I have a yikun that is rated 6 5 -1.5 2 and it is the floppies disc in the entire universe, instantly rolls out of the hand it's fun for the memes
By chance is that the Jiao? It's a disc I bought for a lady in our league it's becoming one of her best discs! If there is one thing I'll give yikuns driver lineup, if they make some lighter molds they could really dominate the female disc market!
@owenmcdonald5806 yea I think so, I meant to say flippiest disc autocorrect strikes again. And I agree it's the disc I give to people on their first time out with me because literally anyone can make it fly.
No one hyping up the Zheng is crazy. Itd such a good emac truth like mid.
Ooh sounds sick! Would love to try it out if I review more yikun!
Weird! I clicked on the title Do Chinese Discs Just Suck? And then it changed to I tried competing w/only Chinese discs Big Mistake.
Negativity in the title.
Second
You seem like such a nuisance to play with. 🤣
lol maybe, I do my best not to be! Luckily most of these guys were my friends!
@@BodanzaDiscGolf No shade at all! 🥏🔥🤣
to answer the title, pretty much everything chinese sucks