Dude loves the sport enough he wants to create something with his own time, sweat, and creativity. I love it OP! DEFINITELY make your own bag if you want to. Get creative! I wanted to make my own bag too, and I even have access to a professional sewing machine, but unfortunately I just don't have the time for it. So I bought a Prodiscus 30+ jetpack which most closely fits my needs. But I do wish I could have made my own bag.
Some ideas I thought of were buckles on the back straps. Normally, proper use of a backpack is that you tighten the straps so that the bag is high on your back. But this makes it hard to get your second arm through the strap. So if you add buckles, that lets you unbuckle to get out of the bag, then when you pick it up you can put one strap on and then pull the other strap over your shoulder and buckle it in. This prevents you from having to constantly readjust the straps.
Vertical disc storage will be huge for saving your back.
Some bags (Ranger, Luxury) have putter "holsters". This is a good idea, but I wanted to expand it to other discs I use often, like my approach discs or my drivers that I start most holes with. I was thinking of putting vertical storage along the sides to make things easier to access.
I also wanted a more traditional "all-purpose"/school backpack experience for the extra storage, instead of side pockets that really aren't ideal in my opinion. Basically a full height extra pocket the same size (maybe a bit thinner) as the disc compartment. But you don't want to put it right against your back because then the discs sit out too far and that's not good for your back. So this requires a radical transformation of the bag, where you put your back straps on the same side as your disc access, to keep the discs closest to your body as possible. This would be like your normal book bag where you have your books in the largest compartment closest to your back, then there is an extra, large compartment you can put other things in. Except instead of books you have discs. I was thinking to accomplish this you just need a good internal frame and some extra padding around the disc access so that the discs don't stick into your back uncomfortably.
I think you'll want to box the disc storage pretty well so that any other things in the other compartments don't push into your discs.
I also thought a cell pocket on one of the back straps would keep it handy for entering scores between holes.
Just some thoughts... I was very recently thinking of doing this and I figured out pretty quickly I wouldn't have time to make it so all the ideas may not be fully thought through and polished. But hopefully it helps spark an idea for you that's outside of the box.
I'm gonna play devils advocate here and ask this...
Why are you asking for ideas/suggestions for YOUR own designed bag as the "ideal bag" (in your own words) does not exist yet?
Apparently you should have figured this out when you are attempting a DIY a bag...dont ask a bunch of forum DG nerds what THEY need in a bag. What do YOU need a bag to do?
Do yourself a favor, spend this wasted bag adventure time you have on the course and become a better player rather than a crappy homemade bag attempt'er...
I know this is not helpful but, I do not understand the fascination with DG bags in general. The market is flooded with them in all brands, prices, styles, there has to be something out there that will work for them with out having to make one?
Time is a precious commodity these days...when you get older you will understand .
Or you could just prove an old man wrong, make the ultimate bag...:thmbup: and make me eat a big pile of crow with the feathers as an appetizer .
Somebody get that man a cranberry juice.
I'm piecing together a bag myself. I found a small external frame backpack at a thrift store and stripped it bare. I then attached some mesh metal the length of the backing with 550 cord. I'm replacing the tiny shoulder straps with Molle straps and waist belt to add comfort. The actual layout of the back isn't set in stone and likely never will be.
My goal is have something that is very customizable according to my needs for the specific day. Why have a fixed layout you're stuck with? I'm able to attach and remove small metal baskets to hold discs anywhere on the mesh backing. Other items like a stool or umbrella can easily bungie on anywhere too. I can also get caribiners to hang a bladder or water bottle holders. It's an open air type setup, but rainproofing is as simple as getting a generic hiking rainfly from REI. I have nothing against the bags on the market, I just think I can make something that works well without trading away features that I like. Don't settle if you're not satisfied with what's available out there. Good luck with you bag project.
As the sport has grown, many the top disc golf &#;disc&#; brand are marketing mass-produce bags, made overseas. There are also a few newer brands throwing their offering of disc golf bags into the ring. So with a lot more choices out there, and we thought it would be helpful to highlight the important things to consider when shopping for a disc golf bag.
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1. Your Disc Golf Bag Should be Extremely Durable
Many people don&#;t consider how much abuse a disc golf bag takes during it&#;s lifetime. This isn&#;t like a computer bag or a commuter back pack that you put in your car or sits on the floor of your office at work. Think about every time you pick-up and set-down a Disc golf bag during around of 18. During warm-ups, in between each shot you take on each hole, you&#;ll be swinging this bag onto you back and setting down. Unless your a pro who&#;s bagging a lot of birdies, you are picking up and setting down your bag 100 times during a round.
It&#;s also worth noting that a fully-packed bag, with say, 20-25 discs, water (or maybe a few adult beverages), plus your personal items is likely weighing in at the 16-25 pound range. So that amount of weight is putting some serious torque on all the seams, shoulder straps and components of the the bag. A regular backpack wouldn&#;t hold up to this for very long, and sadly many people who have bought a mass-produced bag from some of the bigger brands end up investing in a Pound bag after their first bag&#;s fabric has torn, the straps have ripped of or the seams have disintegrated after getting wet. We see these types of photos all the time from disc golfers.
The other big consideration here is the elements. A great disc golf bag need to be made and designed to endure all sort of climates and extreme weather. Not only are you picking up and setting your bag down 100 times during a round, you&#;re setting it down on dirt, mud, wet grass etc. Bags made out of cheap materials or constructed with shortcuts are not going to hold up to this kind of kind of abuse that&#;s unavoidable for a disc golf bag. If you really want to nerd out, you can learn more about how we construct our bags and types of fabrics we use. But let&#;s just say, we double stitch all of our seams, where nearly everyone else single stitches. It might even be overkill in some cases, but it&#;s just not a compromise we are willing to make on our bags.
You don&#;t want to make the mistake of compromising durability when you purchase a new disc golf bag.
2. How Many Discs Do You Carry
Okay, so this may seem pretty obvious, but you&#;ll want to put a little thought and research into how many discs you like to carry. This may be dependent on your level of play or whether or not you are traveling and need to check a bag. But when purchasing a new disc golf bag it&#;s important to think ahead. How many discs do you like to carry currently? Do you think that over time you&#;ll find some additional molds or plastics that you&#;ll want to add to your arsenal.
Pound&#;s current line-up of premium disc golf bags works off of a Medium, Large, Extra-Large disc capacity configurations. These will help you understand the right number of discs to carry for your style of play. We don&#;t want you carrying around a bag that&#;s too big, and discs are rattling around and we don&#;t want you with a bag that doesn&#;t have the capacity you like to carry and you have to leave some trusted plastic behind.
Pound Disc Golf Bags
Bag Sizing
Total Disc Capacity
Putter Pocket Capacity
Rufus
Medium
17-19 Discs
3 Discs
Carlton
Medium
15-22 Discs
3 Discs
Octothorpe
Large
28-35 Discs
4-5 Discs
Octo-Haul
Extra Large
32-41 Discs
4-5 Discs
The other consideration is what else you like to carry outside of your go-to discs. Here are a some of the other popular items that many disc golfs like to have in their bag when playing a round:
- Umbrella
- Rangefinder
- & Wallet
- Pencil / Scorecard
- Insulated Beverage Sleeves
- 2L Hydrapak or Water Bottle
- Rainfly
- Additional Layers / Rain gear
- Towels
- League Tags
- Collapsible Stool
The whole line of Pound&#;s American Made disc golf bags has designed functional accommodations for all of these additional items. Make sure your new disc golf bag has solutions for all that you would want to carry on the course.
3. Disc Golf Bags Should be Extremely Comfortable
Comfort is king when it comes to your disc golf bag. Nothing is worse than feeling like you are carrying a piece of carry-on travel luggage on your back during a round of disc golf.
Remember, when we are making these suggestions, it&#;s from the point of view of avid disc golfers. We are out there playing disc golf multiple times a week, just like you, so when we talk about how comfortable a disc golf bag should be, we know what&#;s important.
If you have a chance to try on a bag before you buy it make sure and fill it up with discs so you understand how this will feel on your back. Here are few questions we would ask when assessing the comfort of a disc golf bag.
Questions about Disc Golf Bag Comfort:
- Do it straps cut into your shoulders?
- Does the bag have horrible plastic framing that digs into your back?
- Does it sag down and put unnecessary weight on your lower back?
- Does if feel balanced and connected to your body?
- Is it comfortable when carrying on only one shoulder?
- Are the shoulder straps adjustable?
- Is it balanced when you set the bag down or does it fall over constantly?
- Does the bag have a specific &#;Yoke&#; sizing to properly fit you?
- Are the shoulder straps made out of premium materials?
- Do the shoulder straps also have a sternum strap?
At Pound, we have designed bags that literally answer all of these comfort and fit questions. So if comfort is a priority for you on the disc golf course, you might be ready to make a step up to a Pound disc golf bag. If you&#;re not sure what the difference is, then next time you see someone on the course with a Pound bag, ask if you can try it on. It will take about 5 seconds to see how much of a focus Pound has put on the comfort of our bags. We&#;ve designed and tested countless iterations of our bags to make them the most comfortable disc golf bags on the planet.
Shop Pound&#;s Rufus. The Rufus has smaller yoke, and is designed to fit smaller bodies, including women and children, with a more comfortable carry than than the bigger bags.
4. How to Build a Custom Disc Golf Bag
The idea that you can customize your disc golf bag&#;s colors, components and design is something disc golfers have only dreamed of until Pound Disc Golf rolled out our custom program. Other disc golf bags created by brands like GripEQ, Prodigy, Squatch and Dynamic Discs are mass-produced in overseas factories, so it&#;s obvious why they can&#;t offer customization to their customers.
Pound Disc Golf&#;s custom program is one of a kind. Disc golfers who want to have a one-of-a-kind bag can go in and customize types of fabric, colors and patterns of fabric, color of zippers and components, badge and branding.
This level of customization is only made possible by Pound&#;s manufacturing process, where once custom bags are built online and ordered we hand cut the fabrics and pull all the custom components to create your one-of-a-kind bag. The costs of these bags is typically a bit more than our standard product releases, but disc golfer&#;s understand the additional effort and time it takes to create custom bags.
One that that&#;s worth noting is that all of our bags are build and sewn in utilizing these &#;small batch&#; processes. If you don&#;t order a bag that you&#;ve fully customized, we do create unique color ways and special editions of all of our bags that are approximately 1 of 25 vs. 1 of 1. So even if you don&#;t order a fully custom bag, chances are you are still getting a rare edition of a bag when you order one. Of course, we also carry some more muted or standard color ways for those who want to stay with a classic black or gunmetal gray.
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5. The Best Disc Golf Bags Require Innovation
The best sporting good and outdoor gear companies are constantly iterating on their products to make them better. This is also true of disc golf and disc golf bags. One of the primary ways that a company would get feedback on their product is through user testing and warranty servicing.
For example, if Pound Disc Golf sees a problem that is a common theme in our bags through warranty servicing, we can immediately solve for the problem and the next small batch of bags will already have that solution or adjustment baked into the new design iteration.
Other&#;s disc golf bag brands have a much different model. When it comes to brand like GripEQ, Prodigy, Squatch or Dynamic Discs that are mass-produced in overseas factories they are simply unable to make adjustments that quickly. Rather than applying rapid innovation, they simply replace bag with a manufacturing or design defect with a new bag that will have a tendency to fail the same way the first bag did.
These manufacturers are making bags as cheap as possible at high volume.
This means they have long periods of time before they can institute any design changes. They are also at a massive disadvantage when it comes to customer feedback, because their bags are all marked-up and sold at retail, many of design flaws or manufacturing defects are not communicated back to the companies.
The last point on innovation we&#;d like to bring up is bag design. The dirty secret is that most bags are also designed overseas by the manufacturers and not by people that actually play disc golf. It&#;s simply a numbers and volume game. Sure, some tweaks can be made once you receive a sample from a overseas manufacturer, but most of these are minor and cosmetic.
The Bag Design So Good That Everyone Decided to Take It
"At this point I don&#;t think anyone is disputing that Pound is the best designed bag.&#; It looks like there are a few companies that have decided the same thing."
- Nate Sexton, USDGC Champion
Squatch Disc Golf Bags, and now Prodigy Disc, decided they would help themselves to Pound&#;s bag design, and have it mass-produced overseas. A shortcut that allowed them to circumvent having to bring their own innovation to the table. Their bags are a panel-by-panel ripoff/copy of Pound&#;s bags. So from the outside, they may resemble a Pound Disc Golf Bag, but that&#;s where the similarities end. Their wholesale model requires that the manufacturing process cut corners to lower costs, and it&#;s easy to spot their cheap material choices. There are lot of discussions about it online if you&#;re curious about it.
Someone on reddit recently inquired with Alibaba (an resource for sourcing products overseas) and was quoted $23.80 per bag. Of course in order to get this price, you&#;d need to buy a shipping container full of them (which Squatch had done), but we&#;ve explained why we don&#;t run our business this way.
In fact if you are curious how many of the &#;disc&#; companies source and &#;design&#; their bags you can check out this link here and see why they can offer lower pricing. You&#;ll see a lot of familiar bag silhouettes and you&#;re going to be shocked how crazy the mark up is in the wholesale bag game. You get what you pay for.
6. Pound Disc Golf Bags: One Bag for Life
Let&#;s talk about disc golf bag warranties. Most probably come with a one-year warranty. Meaning if it breaks, tears or falls apart on your within a year, they&#;ll replace it. So you&#;ll get a broken bag replaced with another bag that maybe potentially fall apart the same way the first one did. They are just hoping you forget to register or aren&#;t willing to make take the time to make a warranty request.
We aren&#;t interested in selling an inferior disc golf bag that we replace with another one. At Pound, we make the best made, intuitively designed, toughest disc golf bags on the planet, and if something happens to it, we will repair it for you. Pound Disc Golf is the only brand with an dedicated warranty repair craftsperson. We are taking every step possible to make sure your Pound bag lasts a lifetime and never ends up in a landfill.
Considerations Before Purchasing a New Disc Golf Bag
We hope that this article has been helpful. We&#;ve done everything we can to cover all the considerations and research you may want to do before making what many consider to be the biggest investment they will make in their disc golf habit.
We&#;ve covered the importance of durability and comfort in a disc golf bag. We&#;ve also outlined what you should evaluate with your bag when it comes to disc capacity and other items you may want to have on your during your round of disc golf.
Pick a bag that has been designed by someone who plays regularly. We set out to make the ultimate disc golf bags and now after many designs, iterations and improvements you can own one too. Only Pound offers a custom bag building program. If you&#;re looking to express yourself or customize the colors and every details of the bag, this is for you.
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