In My Bag with 13-time Disc Golf World Champion Ken Climo

[@raku5219]

Would love to see the 2023 update on Ken's bag. 🌟

[@Jcgowing]

Kenny is the shit. I met him at his home course, Cliff Stephens Park, in Clearwater, Florida back in 1998. He was gracious enough to be my partner in a round of best shot. Needless to say we won and I will never forget that winter because I'm from Michigan.

[@dosguirissinguia794]

Did you play any of your shots that round?

[@savagemilkman8383]

someone get that man a glass of water

[@austinbach9450]

You kidding me?! Those asmr mouth noises are what's bringing me back here in the first place.

[@user-ek8kr3yc9c]

😂🌝

[@nunyabusiness3082]

He's stoned. Cotton 👄

[@hypomaniactv]

Hahahaha

[@carbonconnection2480]

Lil cotton mouth, he will be fine 😁

[@Halftontone]

“This is my money disc I love this for control.” Fucking legendary. Hear it in the intro to throwback ITB’s

[@johnnydarter]

I’m getting chills watching this. The man is a LEGEND of the sport & put disc golf on the map. Damn the discs he has in his bag....what’s the value of them all? He’s got some classic hard to find ones

[@ilikebacon.6483]

i have all for sale

[@driftking7636]

Ken Climo has some pretty seasoned discs. A couple of them are almost 10 years old.

[@spoada]

Some of the “go to” disks are 13-14 years old. Very good discs. Kc pro teebird is amaizing from 220-320 feet and approaches with partial power throws.

[@mandobrownie]

Still amazes me to hear the Champ say that a Star Destroyer is too much disc for him. It's actually really inspiring for me because I know I can stay throwing at most 11 speed discs and still be great if I work at it.

[@DP-yu4rr]

no THOS special one destroyer. .every destroyer is different

[@MattNemmers]

How KC keeps track of all his KC Pro Rocs I'll never know....

[@jacksonpalmer8955]

its which number world championship series, the overstable (ironically) is the 8x, the flat is a 12x, and the understable is an 11x. new one is super overstable, obviously.

[@mrtony1985]

His discs are all so worn. Sure he knows just by feel.

[@trainwreck9770]

Fuckin Barsby at the beginning lmao

[@HiFiAwardTour]

Thanks for taking the time to do this Champ

[@spoada]

Just cracked my beloved kc pro teebird on a tred today, it just like the one he had exactly. That was the most amaizing control, long approach, short drive, birdie making, nice skipping disk. Used it in every pick up and tournament game i have ever played. Very sad loss, i almost feel like i should bury it.

[@warrior071223]

by far favorite in the bag.. keeping it simple and sticking to what you know while trying a couple new disc's.

[@jjdttn]

pretty awesome that 5 years later barsby's champ impression includes a 1x of his own

[@RascalRoscoe]

I think it's great that his bag breaks the mold a bit of typical Innova throwers. Throwing Wraiths as his go-to driver and the man has a Condor and Sonic in his bag. I found that really interesting.

[@macheteddie]

great in the bag. i love how he really explains each disc

[@TehNewHathcock]

Had to watch the OG after rewatching the “iron leaf.” Never disappoints. Long live Kenny.

[@widetrackerinkazoo6559]

Still using my trusty 11x CE Cheetah to every course and event. Also have a 10x Wall hanger signed by Climo himself! Been lovin the sport since 1997!

[@calebdyer6332]

I've been going back through a bunch of these old ITBs. It's so interest how bag building philosophy has changed.

[@HonduDan]

The Champ! I have that same, orange CE TeeBird, used to be my go to fairway/woods driver. Too scared to throw it now but it is, as Ken said, a money disc. Neat to see him talk about the Tern 10 years.

[@bcp5296d]

Almost all of those discs are very rare. Love it.

[@HonduDan]

Man, I get a very nostalgic feeling when I see Climo's signature on a disc. Takes me back to my first non DX disc, a 10x KC Pro TeeBird and thinking, "alright, my game is about to improve exponentially". I don't think getting that disc really helped my game, but mentally it made me feel better about my game. That was probably 2003 when I got that disc, I still throw it in every single game I play. The Champ, the Jordan of Disc Golf!

[@stevehill5018]

Champ! Please return to the tour!! You are greatly missed!

[@thelegendarye2430]

Steve Hill I’m sure he wants to. His back is preventing that from happening. I hope it happens too. But probably won’t unfortunately.

[@someweirdguy101]

Would love to see another KC In-The-Bag 5+ years later. However, I have a sneaking suspicion not much will have changed.

[@discgolflife]

2022 my money go to wraiths are both 12x star plastic, 169g and 174g! Epic disc!!! Ken's the GOAT! Straight up legend!!!!

[@CurSpider]

Love that the champ has a tee bird with the Newport news park stamp.

[@cjreseland]

Alright, now have Barsby do an impression of this.

[@PixsoulVGM]

lmao this intro goes so unnecessarily hard. love it

[@holychiodos]

The pandemic music at the end gave me some heavy flashbacks.

[@travisfinucane]

WTF do you know about a pandemic in 2017...

[@holychiodos]

@@travisfinucane You never heard of time travel? But really it's a sped up version of the music from a game called "Pandemic 2" on addicting games.

[@nunyabusiness3082]

Do you even pandemic bro?😷😁

[@29HanburyStreet]

I came looking for this comment lmao

[@driftking7636]

Pretty cool specialty discs.

[@hatorihanzo92]

That Condor+Sonic combo is pretty neat haha

[@Jesterian]

That's absolutely where he stores his weed.

[@looksee8192]

this intro is so 2013 i love it

[@carletoncandis5977]

Met him at the Augusta Classic , my first road tournament, a real classy guy.

[@SJ987672890D]

greatness....

[@martingriggs6362]

World open titles = 12, World masters titles(+40) = 3, Total = 15. More than anyone in history. That's why he is The Champ.

[@jonny8736]

One of my favorite discs To use

[@MatiasMaximus11SIX]

Old or young, my DX Condor has never let me down. Just nailed a Birdie from 120' out at Milo McIver. Solid, solid disc. Condors for life!

[@FCdrums]

climo tossing pre number wraiths in the water?!?! must be nice to be the CHAMP

[@stratedge]

I'm leaving this video with the impression he throws mostly rollers...

[@vincentwagner9233]

stratedge couldn’t disagree more; watch the whole video....

[@Tokeletheon]

Couldn't agree more. After his Rocs, seems like over half of his discs are rollers. Still, probably the greatest ITB ever...

[@cocorkiller2322]

You never seen climo throw?? Thats a disc sin..

[@Astronaut76]

World record backhand throw is about 1200ft and the world record roller is 2100ft

[@elephantricity]

I wonder how Innova feels about their pros using older runs of discs like the KC Roc. A lot of 10x and 11x. Same with Aviar's. I feel like McBeth is the only one who uses the newest run of most molds he throws.

[@blargy7283]

Alex Padilla Probably won't matter to them because in the end it's still their product. Many of those older runs were great discs, why not use them if you can still find them? :-)

[@daltonmckellips4283]

Mcbeth likes the new stable plastics. These old school guys are used to throwing flip shots because back in the day you had to. Now they have all these new overstable discs out.

[@reidkemp]

The older rocs were way better

[@fribazor]

Wow those teebirds!! I do want!

[@bbwrenn]

It's a double stamp, or x-out. You see a lot of champion whippets and other discs like this, they often find their way to the innova pros because although they can't be sold for much in stores, they fly just as well as a non-x-out.

[@maxwelldlee]

The Goat

[@acehole9100]

This was basically my bag forever.

[@aleph618]

Glad to see even The Champ has a water disc.

[@thndrlngs]

The fucking GOAT! P McB is a fucking boss, but he still has a ways to go to be KC level of boss. Constantly amazed at the things Ken can make a disc do, and it all just looks so effortless. The man is the Disc Whisperer.

[@Austin_In_Chains]

I really think Climo would make a great commentator these days.

[@AllstarTb21]

:D

[@droan999]

"hallways" awesome

[@mrtony1985]

Look at how worn in his discs are! That's the sign of a true artist who knows his craft.

[@nlicare18]

No eagles or whippets?

[@cjreseland]

Rolling with the Condor!

[@SirCharles1993]

the editing in this video makes me giggle, just minor errors of disc arrangement and stuff like that. How many times did you have to redo this video to get it right?

[@markadkins9290]

The GOAT!

[@SirCharles1993]

Anyone notice about when he is introducing his teebirds how the order changes a couple times?

[@carletoncandis5977]

Ken Climo is the face of Innova -Champion Discs

[@jamalydude]

lilbuddha that would be a negative now chief, McBeth is the face of Discraft now

[@thelegendarye2430]

@@jamalydude now it's my man Sexton

[@christophersuswal9544]

Or Wysocki

[@stephenfrancais]

Amazing how you can date all of his Rocs by the championship count they have.

[@Notimp0rtant523]

The outro music is the same for the video game Pandemic 2

[@Wetlawnmulch]

I wonder how many dx plastic discs the champ went through during his time.

[@sixstrinngmunky]

When do we get the Barry Schultz in the bag :D

[@ferretdance03]

Innova Supersonic. Light weight, but in my opinion floaty lid-esque discs really shine at lighter weights.

[@ferretdance03]

Supersonic is the same mold as a Sonic, in lightweight star plastic. The Superstar is the larger diameter version.

[@johnmoore3930]

So which molds are the Teebirds ? The CE would be a TL the Champ would be TB and the Pro ?

[@FullOfSomething]

He's AWESOME!

[@rjwalker4153]

I do a lot of rollers, because it's the only shot I'm good at and my only shot that goes a long ways. I wasn't proud of it, but I feel better knowing that Ken Climo did rollers too ! If it was good enough for him, it's certainly good enough for me !

[@spartacu205]

um just wondering, when hes naming off his drivers, and gets to the green one he calls an eco star katana I'm pretty sure it says both upside down and right side up that its a midrage star mako

[@lemonadegrave]

You're not wrong, but the disc itself, the mould, is a Katana. When Innova stamped it in the factory, they messed it up, so instead of junking (recycling back into the vat-o-plastic) they slam a bunch of zany stamps on it, and sell it for a buck less.

[@jockofthebush]

He has a Gatorade bottle in his bag, I'm curious why he doesn't AT LEAST take a sip during this video. Seems like the perfect play here with that lie he has.

[@coasternut3091]

I'm new to the sport. Is a Champion Boss 13 5 0 3 any good?

[@navoditc]

Boss in champion or star plastic is really overstable disc. I do not recommend it for beginners at all. Star Boss is my go to Forehand shot disc though. I can throw it upto 350 ft, but I have been playing for 2 years. If you need a distance then you might wanna try a dx wraith or dx beast in a range of 165 to 170 gm. I do not recommend these both discs for you in champion plastic though.

[@cappew22]

Jordan May Yeah what above said, stay away from discs with a lot of fade if your just starting out. If you're set on getting a driver, I'd recommend a Star Vulcan or a Tern, you get a lot of distance out of those with minimal effort! At least in my experience! Good luck.

[@jamesbrowne5496]

Jordan May Holy crap, unless you're one of those crazy natural athletes, a Boss is probably in the top 10 worst discs you could start with. That first number is the speed - you don't need anything higher than a 5 starting out. Midranges and putters are your friends until you learn how to throw. The last number is the fade - you want this to be 0. That will keep the disc flying straight at the end of the flight when most discs tend to crash hard and ruin a beginner's game. Because Innova is the most available brand most places, here are some discs to get you started: Nova, Classic Aviar, Dart, Aero, Mako, Foxbat These are all solid, straight flying discs, and a lot of them you can get in cheap plastic for under $10 (if they don't work out for you, no big deal). Once you feel like you're ripping through these and need some more speed, you can start considering some drivers. I made the mistake of trying drivers to begin with and spent over a year cursing my game. I stepped it down to the slow speed discs (that went just as far because I was so green) and learned how to throw. Then I moved back up and my game has changed tremendously since then. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, don't go crazy with equipment. When you find the right disc for you in your range, get a bunch of them. Some will break in for specialty shots, some will fly true until you die, and some will float away in the river. But don't think that 100 different molds is going to change your game. A few solid molds that are all subtly different is the way to go.

[@navoditc]

J Browne man, you mentioned a lot putt and approach disc for beginners and none of the fairway drivers. I would say, leopard and valkyrie are great beginner discs. Two aviar putt and approach, a mako, a foxbat, a leopard, and a valkyrie would be a great starter disc set.

[@jamesbrowne5496]

Umesh Chaudhari Oh absolutely - I was just offering a starting point. Valkyrie is my utility disc and I have 3 right now. I'll forever have them in my bag. But if you think back to when you were super-new, you're not throwing a Valkyrie any further than a Polecat. For someone who's never thrown anything but a wham-o, starting low-speed/no-fade and taking a couple months to move up to a Leopard, Cheetah, or TB can save a lot of $$$. No disc will hurt your bag, but too many newbies think they need to compensate their lack of skill with warp speed, which is of course the opposite approach. I went with a friend last month who brought his roommate for his first trip out. My friend let him throw a Destroyer all day and pretty much convinced him it was the best disc he had. So what does the roommate do? Buys a Destroyer, a Boss, and a TDevil, all Champ, just trying to emulate what he had seen my friend throw because they went really far. IMO, bad waste of money and a sacrifice of some serious fundamentals. That's why I would recommend starting with one of the tiny discs and making it a one-disc game for a couple months.

[@Oh1geo]

Champ! Keep smoking if you want. As long as you keep smokin' the youngsters on the course. You're the best, Champ!

[@leemiera84]

get this guy a glass of water.

[@gerrett108]

Terminally Chill lol, your not worthy to have a comment for this Champ..... all respect. Learn to give it

[@englishcat19]

john chisholm that's right, Ken is a good friend of my cousin in America, my cousin says Ken would give you anything, he's a generous and great guy

[@englishcat19]

@@macdaddyp8437 they’ll have to live with it then. The champ is the champ.

[@discgolfninja9679]

im comming for ya champ!

[@ptbfrch]

Ken Climo - Still the best there ever was. Inspiring.

[@CrookyMonstar]

"Hits the nubs, rolls 40 feet down the hill" I guess he shoulda used the sonic lol

[@saksikasi]

What do pros do when they lose or remove a beat up disc from their bag in order to replace that disc? Do they get a new disc and try to beat it up as quickly as possible?

[@Shane7492]

Magistro If they have 4 or 5 of the same disc with different stabilities, and they're all being thrown and getting beat in, they just get a new overstable one, and the other ones switch positions, if that makes sense. No need to beat in a new disc when you already have other discs that are almost beat in enough.

[@thyringmaster]

weird a friend gave me a championship valkrie factory second i cant get it to helix i got it once but i have a disc we call the chew toy its a old valkrye just a starter disc that it really really beat up and has dog bite holes in it and i can launch it like a monster and really controll it it baffels my friends and anyone who looks at the disc

[@reesegolf4521]

I just want to get my man some chapstick

[@JTPro81]

What is the red one in the fairway section? He skips it.

[@jvtc]

Must have thrown a lot of rollers back in the day. Goddamn.

[@sixstrinngmunky]

They are just that old, they have been in the bag for YEARS!

[@MikusRighteous27]

Can't believe he doesn't have any eagles or a kc pro teebird :/

[@g0ing2n0where]

Now i feel like I have to try a Tern

[@gerrett108]

g0ing2f4st they are Awesome, also Daedelus gstar

[@user-zo6dj1kk3v]

Whoa, wait, what about the minis??

[@Saizer55555]

A boss is a perfect disc

[@LeoFINuTube]

Im new also, can anyone explain why i cant throw dx skeeter 55-11 175g, but i can throw champion shark3 5402 172g. Im confused, i bought shark3 first, then i was thinking maybe i should go for beginner friendly disc and i bought dx skeeter. Problem is, i cant even get good grip from skeeter, it doesnt feel good on my hand no matter how i try put my fingers and secondly, its rlly hard to throw straight. Just ridiculous hard to get any control for my throws with it. I can throw shark3 with 3 results: 1. it flyes straigth and in the end fades to the left so i miss my target little bit 2.my throw fails little bit to the right but shark3 fights back so it doesnt allow itself to turn too much right but tryes to turn to the left and final fade to the left makes situation even better for me (usually lands where i wanted) then 3. if i throw rlly bad, it goes to the right side but still it fights much better than skeeter. If i throw skeeter bad, good god, its like beast, it just flyes god knows where, very very badly to the right side, "out of screen". These are my only 2 disc so far and i alrdy leave skeeter home cus its not fun to throw, cant control it, cant get good grip of it. just makes me wonder why innovas site says its beginner friendly, fuck it, its not.

[@familydinner1]

I would try to sell it or trade it for something else. It sounds like "it doesn't feel good in my hand" is the main reason it isn't working for you. It is still a beginner disc but if you can't get past the feel then it isn't worth trying to love it. You can't fit a square peg into a round hole.

[@jball149]

LeoTheBattleheart aim right

[@MrJstreetcar]

Its a miss-stamp, pretty cool lol. Local PIAS has a miss stamped Star Eagle with the DX Cobra on it.

[@caseysmith544]

My Uncle uses as his putter a Spider with a oops double stamp one one way the other 180% the opposite direction. I have a Star Shark new late 2016 No Flight Numbers that got double stamped exactly on top of its self or has a extra deep stamping to how deep the stamp is.

[@selkiemoony]

no gator??

[@DuhBlueDream]

shelly Sharpe Park?

[@flumm0x]

disc golf wisdom at its best, although I couldn't watch him lick his lips one more time, wanted to throw a carmex through my screen.

[@derekexplosion]

the champ

[@CenzoVD]

12+1 time world champ.

[@Chris.Davies]

The old guys love the Condor. Hall of Famer Bob Gentil (8505) swears by his Condor. Disclaimer: I am an old guy. :P

[@pentonoliver4109]

He said "Eco Katana" which means recycled plastic. @DaddyStank

[@TheBossDiscGolfer]

Somebody tell me. Is Climo a 13 or 12 time champion now. If he's 13 I've got to get my 12x back.

[@hyzercreek]

15

[@LH-jm3xw]

I throw rollers around 400 ft damn

[@moofassa0351344]

I wonder if the champ throws rollers…

[@ViolatorZ06]

Pretty sure Ken is full of terry’s turbo crystals!

[@JTPro81]

I want to know why they skip over the red fairway driver.

[@ttrcyttrcy1662]

They also cut out the the word "4" when he says "I have ( ) TeeBirds."

[@basketball91579]

I wonder what weight his sonic is

[@pentonoliver4109]

He said "Eco Katana" which means it's recycled plastic @DaddyStank

[@scrimmins7]

I wish I had any clue what he was talking about.

[@blakevanhouten1672]

why does his tee birds look like he took a sander to the tops of them???

[@touchingzen]

it's a katana with a star mako double stamp.... not a mako