Sky-Styler 1980 Disc-Covering The World Europe White w/ Red Metallic

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This Custom Sky-Styler from Discraft Products is from a special Gail McColl collection provided by Discraft to the Freestyle Flying Disc Players Association. Discraft offered us the opportunity to list and sell perhaps the largest collection of Sky-Stylers ever. These discs are in excellent condition and offer and beautiful piece of art or an awesome unique jam disc. Many of these discs are from the 80's and are the earliest custom prints and stock models that Discraft offered. Some of the plastic colors have not been available for years. So this is a nice chance to get some of these visually stunning discs out into routines and demonstrations for an enhanced presentation. This is also a chance to see and own some of the history of early freestyle and overall events.

I don’t recall who I had design this, or how many colors of hot stamp were created.

In 1980 I was just out of college (where I was founding captain of the Brown University Ultimate Team). I spent two of my college years in Europe and Frisbee event organizer, and out of that designed tours and tournaments and helped build national players associations. Disc Covering the World was created while I was in Europe. By 1980 I had moved to Davis, California (originally to attend law school, but the DCW business took off and I never did attend). Instead, I helped organize tournaments in London and Belgium, and visited others in Sweden. The “Europe 1980” must have been more of a commemorative disc for the season than for any one event.

And the hyphen between Disc and Covering is a REALLY interesting point, as I never used that when writing the company name: Disc Covering the World, but must have not landed rock-solid on that decision yet, and when the artwork was created I approved it with the hyphen…never to be used again!

The Discraft Sky-Styler is by far the most popular freestyle disc in the world. The Sky-Styler flies straight and stable, and has an extra deep rim for easy rim delays and smooth body rolls. Comes in a variety of great colors. Exact weights of the discs vary from time to time but this is the disc used by world champions for the past 40 plus years.