Bradley Williams In The Bag 2024

Bradley Williams has been throwing Innova discs for over 8 years – Let’s just say, the man knows his way around a Destroyer. With his smooth technique and emphasis on finesse over raw power, casual players can learn a lot from what BWilly is baggin’. Find out what discs this Innova legend is throwing in 2024. Also hear about the most beautiful place the Tour has taken Bradley, the craziest ace story of his career, and more.

00:00 Putters
01:44 Favorite place you’ve traveled to for disc golf?
02:49 Mid-Ranges
03:56 Hobbies other than disc golf?
04:31 Fairway Drivers
06:25 Favorite tour memories
08:46 Distance Drivers
10:14 How much does your bag evolve?
10:35 Utility Drivers
11:50 Anything extra in the bag?
13:38 What does the support from fans mean to you?
14:52 Thank you

Hey, I’m Bradley Williams. I’ve been playing for Innova Discs for 8 years. My bag has changed a lot over the years, but this is my 2024 bag. Let’s get into it. Alright, so we’re going to start off with the putter grouping. I have seven putters total, five of them are Fireflies. They’re all in the Nexus plastic. I always keep a set of the same color for putting to distinguish them. So, I’ve got some fresh Nexus Fireflies. They’re a little concave and sticky. This is what I’m putting with currently. Then we’ve got three Fireflies. These are all orange coincidentally, which is nice, and they’re just in three different levels of stability. I have the Star one for the maximum amount of fade. Then I’ve got two Nexus here. These are just ones neutral and one’s not, one’s understable. So, we got two of those that covers most of the upshot I’ll be doing out there on the course. Then I have got two utility putters. I’ve got the Pig here. This is in some sort of Nexus Blizzard Halo, overstable forehand disc mainly. It’s always good to have a forehand disc that doesn’t go too far. Next and last, we have the XT Xero. This one’s 168g and this is just for when it’s almost in putting range but you can’t really get a putt. You want to do like a nose-up throw, so it’s like a little chance to try to get a birdie when I’m out of position. A little throwing chance. It’s always kind of fun to have a throw and catch putter that you can goof around sometimes and make shots with. It’s really cool. So, the most recent awesome place that Disc Golf has brought me to that’s not a Disc Golf course was the Trondheim region in Norway. We were there during the summer and it’s this kind of area that’s around this vast lake. You travel around the lake in between mountain ranges and then you go through this valley that just the way that it looks, the rock face and the gray that it is and the way the light bounces off the stone, it looks fake. It looks like Norway crafted it just so they could drive the tourist industry up. It almost doesn’t look real. I think they probably have a factory where they make rocks, that’s my theory. But if you continue on in this belief, you can take this winding road to the top where you have this perfect clear stream that just pours out of the mountain and cascades down it. You can just walk in it, take pictures, hang out. There’s a little rest area kind of place and that has got to be one of the most interesting places that Disc Golf has brought me to. Yeah, I’m a big fan of mid-ranges personally. There’s been times in my career where I’ve bagged up to seven mids, but that was sort of yesteryear when the courses were a bit shorter. Now that the courses are longer, the bag’s mostly full of drivers. But since we’re on mids, my favorite all-time mid is the Mako. I’ve got it in two different types of plastic. This one’s like a metal flake glow plastic. This one I’ve had for a while. It’s gone from being stable to now understable. Then, Halo Makos. This is a Halo Mako3. This is max weight. Sometimes these things are very stable. They almost fly like Rocs without a bead and they don’t have a ton of hard fade, but they do fly straight which is really good. Then this is a Champion RocX3. This is for short sidearms or long turnover flex shots and it’s pretty good to have something that can go into the wind in case you get a surprisingly windy day out there. This one we found at the factory store. Calvin and I took pretty much the whole box of them I think between the two of us, so that was pretty fun. So usually, I like to have my computer with me when we tour. And whenever we have Wi-Fi or something and I have some free time, I like to play games. It’s one way that I connect with friends who are from out of state. You don’t see them that much because the tour occupies a good part of the year. So, playing video games is a cool way to connect. It’s also how I connect with my brother. He’s a video game player. So, if I’m just chilling and I have nothing else productive to do, I will definitely be playing a computer game on my laptop. Alright, here we are. This is the middle of the bag. This is the fairway distance class. This is something you can use for the in-between distances. I usually just rely on the TeeBird mold, either just regular TeeBird or TeeBird3 sometimes. And these vary depending on if I see something cool or I lose one. So, we’ve got this. This is like a Champion TeeBird that’s got a cool dye on it. This one’s more overstable to neutral. Then we’ve got all the way the other end of the spectrum. We have a very flat, soft 171g TeeBird3 in Star plastic. This is pretty straight brand new but then it gets understable quickly. It’s always fun to have a really touchy, easy to flip TeeBird in the bag. Kind of like it flies like a Leopard or a stable Leopard, I would say. Then this is kind of a cool trick actually with TeeBirds. You can go down in weight quite a bit. So, you can. This one’s 167g. I’ve seen 165, 164 brand new metal flake TeeBirds. And because of the lightweight, it’s easier to get the disc going out of your hand, but it also has the stability of a TeeBird somewhat. So, it makes it an interesting choice out there to have a lightweight TeeBird. If you haven’t tried to go lightweight on TeeBirds, even if you’re a power thrower, you should try it. It’s kind of fun. And then last, we have the overstable class. These are Dracos. Sometimes I rock Champion Firebirds when I can find good sets. In this situation, I couldn’t find any good ones, so Calvin loaned me or I guess he just gave me these Dracos. So, these are from Calvin. We appreciate having some overstable discs in my bag and these have been used for all kinds of shots. They’re really fun. I had so many really cool memories actually. And I mean one of the coolest memories that I just recently thought about, so I’ll just share it now because sometimes memories come and go and you kind of re-remember them for what they are. So, I was playing and this isn’t like a spectacular Disc Golf Pro Tour event or anything. I was playing a doubles round before an A-Tier with a friend of mine. And we had gotten to a new temporary hole that was a little over 400ft and it had an obscure wide shot you had to take to avoid most of the trees. So, you had to throw a very big hyzer. And we were kind of guessing what disc we should throw and it was my turn. So, I threw it first and it looked pretty good. And then the disc just went dead center into the chains for an ace. And then it cut through. So, everyone was like, "Oh dude, I cannot believe you just aced it." And then it spits out and we’re all just like, "No!" And everyone’s kind of shuffling around expressing whatever they’re feeling. And then the card’s trying to settle back down because my teammate still has to throw. And he goes, "So what should I throw? Should I throw this Boss?" And I was like, "Dude, just copy the same line I just threw. You saw it, just throw the same shot." And he threw it and it was almost identical looking. And we were like, "No way, it looks the same." And then it went around the tree and then it crashed into the chains and he stuck the ace. And it was like, "What?" You know, like it was unbelievable because of the distance. Like if we were playing a 200ft hole or a 180ft hole and two people threw putters back to back and you aced or chained out both, it’s like, "Okay yeah, I get that. That’s still pretty cool." But the fact that it was well over 400ft and you had to throw this epic wide shot, it was just like, "Wow, dude, it’s so crazy." And we ended up winning the doubles match because of that stroke actually. So, it was even better. It was like that ace was very impactful. So, that was a really cool one. Currently, I only have two Wraiths. It kind of makes me sad. I wish there was more room in my bag to have more. But it gets heavy carrying all those discs. Sometimes you don’t want to. So, I have an understable Halo Wraith and I have an overstable one. This one’s wearing in. I’ve had it for like two seasons already but it’s still stable. I’m hoping that it lasts for a long time because I don’t have a direct backup for it. This is a Garrett Gurthie run and this one, if you, I mean you probably know this, this is very overstable for the Wraith. And then this one is more neutral to understable. Here’s the corrected version of the video transcript: Okay, so I have three Destroyers in my bag. They’re in the classic three different stability class. We got the most overstable one, we got a two-line AJ. This is like a relic from the past. This one doesn’t see much action, but when it’s very windy, I’ll use it to throw over some water or something or some OB. This one’s always nice to have in your bag. Then I’ve got my main primary Destroyer. This is a 172g Calvin. This is probably from a season or two ago and this one gets most of the work on the course for me. Then I’ve got a Halo Destroyer here. This one’s got some interesting Blizzard type stuff in the rim, so it’s not the most overstable, but it’s kind of like a flip-up Destroyer if it’s windy. And then when it’s calm, it’s more of just a straight to stable Destroyer. So it’s kind of fun to have this one. I use this for sidearms and distance shots. Like if I go to a course and I see a disc in the woods that has no name on it and it looks cool, I might put it in my bag. Like, who knows? If someone’s in the parking lot that has a disc like, "Brad, have you tried this disc?" I might put it right in my bag and just try it on the first hole of the tournament. Right, that’s kind of how reckless I am out there. We’re still in the driver class, but this is sort of like my hybrid utility driver section. We have a prototype Racer. This one is only for hyzer flips or get out of jail sidearms. It’s a 12-speed disc, but it’s easy to throw. That’s how I would describe it. So I’ve been using it for just niche situations. Then I’ve got two Roadrunners. This one I just bought yesterday from the local Nashville Disc Golf store and I used it to whoop up on Calvin in our Roadrunner only challenge because he thinks it’s a TL. Then I’ve got this super lightweight Star Roadrunner and this is like your get out of jail roller disc. It’s basically a paper plate but in disc form. And then this is like a Slab. It’s like a knockoff Max. It’s sort of like an understable Max. It’s more like an 11-time Firebird but faster. I got this at a budget battle with Jeremy Koling and he was like, "Oh, my Slab’s in there." And I was like, "Okay, I’ll take that." So here I am, I’ve got the Slab. Sometimes I use it actually, which is funny because I didn’t expect to have this disc, but now I do. And that actually is my entire bag. Okay, yeah, so we’re going to take a look at the utility items that I keep always in my bag for tournament play. It’s sort of the staples of playing Disc Golf as a primary hobby or even a job at this point. So the first thing is a rangefinder. These aren’t necessarily used all the time, but sometimes with the terrain, baskets can look closer than they are. And having just the rangefinder tells you, "Oh well, it’s actually 390ft, not 250ft." It’s kind of cool to have. So, a rangefinder is definitely one. Pretty much everyone on tour is covering themselves in chalk before they putt, especially the ones who win a lot. So I’m just hopping on the bandwagon at the moment. I’ve got a chalk bag and sometimes for a pick-me-up, I just cover my whole body in chalk. You always need a mini marker. This one says "Boom" on it and it’s flexible. I usually go for things that are soft so I don’t hurt myself. So this one’s nice and squishy. And I got this playing GK Pro Skins. That was kind of fun. I always keep a decent pair of fingernail clippers, like sharp ones. I don’t want dull ones because they might bend your nail and that would suck. So these were pretty good actually. I would recommend getting these. These are probably one of the most important things to have in my bag, to clip those fingernails. And then I’ve got Sharpies for when fans forget to bring their Sharpie. And I’m like, "Don’t worry, I’ve got one for you." And they’re like, "Oh, you think of everything, Bradley. You’re the best." And I’m like, "Here’s the Sharpie. I got it right here." And other than that, you know, a towel of some sort goes a long way out there, plus hydration. So some sort of water bottle, that’s about it. Though I’ve been playing for a long time, I’ve been on the road now for the past three seasons full-time. And one of the ways that I get support from you guys is comments and messages on my socials. Like, I have YouTube and Instagram that I’m somewhat active in. You know, every time you guys meet me after the rounds for autographs and say, "Hey Brad, can you sign this disc?" It’s kind of special to play a round of Disc Golf and then be met and greeted like, you know, just shown appreciation. It feels nice. Also with Innova, we’ve been doing Tour series discs for a long time and it’s kind of an opportunity for players to pick unique plastics or molds that we think the fans might like. So that’s always really cool to work on the art and you know, just offer discs that are a little bit different, a little bit more unique for people to pick up. Because part of playing Disc Golf is to have cool discs in your bag. You know, like a few discs being sold every week or every month, it’s like a trickle income. It helps with all kinds of stuff like fuel and food and just, it just kind of helps the tour go along. And I think a lot of players rely on that sort of support to just make certain ends meet or just make Disc Golf as a more viable option. I’ve been playing for Innova Discs for 8 years and I’d like to thank them for their support and their belief. We’ve really grown as a team and it’s been pretty cool to be a part of the Innova story this far. Look forward to more seasons to come. [Music] [Music] The end.