I got my review copy of the Dynamic Discs Convict almost a month ago. Why so long to get the review out? Because as a Dynamic Discs official reviewer, I am required to give my copy away to one of you when I’m done with it. In this case, delaying the review was purely selfish. I want to keep this thing in my bag!

Manufacturer’s Description
Here’s what Dynamic Discs has to say about the Convict:
Before someone becomes a Felon they must be convicted. It is the same in the disc golf world. Dynamic Discs introduces the Convict.
It is a great complement to the Felon with the same feel in the hand but with less stability. The Convict is perfect for those times when you need a straight disc for most of the shot but have to have some stability at the end of the flight. The Convict can also hold the anhyzer you give it before coming back to flat. This disc allows for you to shape your shots to avoid all of the obstacles that are trying to increase your scores.
Throw with conviction. Throw a Convict.
Speed: 9 Glide: 4 Turn: -0.5 Fade: 3
Max Weight: 176g
Inbounds Flight guide
Since DD compares the Convict to the Felon, I thought I’d include the Inbounds flight chart for both of them so you can see a comparison:
Make sure and make the Inbounds Flight Guide part of any disc research you do, it’s the best resource for disc flight information on the web!
After throwing the Convict for a month, I’d say the above chart is accurate for medium strength throwers. If you can throw 300-350, that’s pretty much the flight you can expect.
First Impressions
When I first took the Convict out of the mailer I was immediately struck by how good it felt in my hand. The most notable feature is that it is flat. I’m talking pre Columbus Earth flat. I love flat discs. This was a good start.
The rim is also manageable. You’d expect this from a fairway driver. I prefer not to throw the Nuke style giant rimmed discs. Even at 6’6″ with gigantic hands, I can’t get down with most wide rimmed drivers. The Convict felt great with it’s medium width rim.
As usual, Dynamic delivers what is, in my opinion, some of the best feeling plastic in the game. Both their Lucid and their Fuzion plastics feel great with just the right amount of pliability, grip, and overall feel. This particular disc is in Lucid and has a super sweet Am Worlds fundraiser stamp on it.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a few thousand words worth of pics to give you an idea of how the Convict sets up.
How does it fly?
The Convict flew as good as it felt. Sometimes it takes a while to get a disc dialed in. Not so with the Convict. I was able to get desirable flights out of it right off the bat.
Thrown flat.
Thrown flat, it tilted into a minor turn to the right and just rode there for a while. The first time I saw this I thought it wasn’t going to fight back, but once it slowed down, it fought back hard and faded left a good amount.
It’s end of flight fade was very similar to the Felon. It was almost like they took a Felon in the back room, tied it to a chair, and mercilessly beat the high speed over stability out of it.
I never really dug the Felon all that much. It was just too overstable for my taste. I’ve got friends who love that disc, have aced multiple times with the mold, and think I’m crazy for not liking it. All that said, the Convict has none of the characteristics of the Felon I don’t like and all of them that I do.
The most notable of those is the reliability. No matter how much I turned the disc over, it always came back… Hard. Because of this, it is a driver you can count on.

Anhyzer flight.
Throwing it with some anhyzer meant it flew right for a good portion of its flight. It never turned all the way over or got squirrelly. It just held its right turn until it slowed enough for its fade to kick in.
When the fade starts, the disc turns left. Some discs just fight back to flat and then land smoothly. I did not find the Convict to do that. Once the fade began, it fought pretty hard to go left and it wasn’t a gentle turn.
Hyzer flight.
When thrown with hyzer, the Convict just held the hyzer line all the way to the ground. It did fade harder at the end than it did early in its flight. That meant that when throw with some height, it tended to dig in when landing and not skip much. Thrown low, it skipped a couple of times with a nice flair after the first contact with the ground.
Wind Performance
The Convict is OK into a moderate headwind, but I wouldn’t rely on it into any more than that. While it still fights out into a fade at the end of its flight, a stiff headwind tended to make the disc turn a little too much for my taste.
I suppose this is where the Felon comes in. For grins, I threw the Felon into the same winds that turned the Convict over and was pleased to see the Felon held up well. If you are looking for a fairway driver pair that feel almost identical in the hand, but have a noticeable stability difference, look no further than the Convict and the Felon.
In a tailwind, the Convict did not stay turned near as long into its flight. A strong tailwind caused the Convict to head left pretty quickly and turned it into a reliably overstable disc. A tailwind also cut a lot of distance off of the flight.

Distance.
The Convict is a fairway driver. It has the distance you’d expect from a fairway driver. It does not have the unexpected distance that you’ll find with some of the more domey or glidey fairway drivers (like the DD Escape, for example).
The flat profile of the Convict means it’s not going to surprise you by gliding past your target unexpectedly. That’s one of the things I like about flat discs. On the whole, they tend to be more reliable.
The Convict will have noticeably less D than your big distance discs. Part of that is its flat profile. Part is that when it kicks into its fade, it’s not going much further. It turns left relatively hard which takes away almost any forward fade.
How will it fly for you?
Is your arm a bionically grafted canon?
The Convict will turn over for you. What you will like about it is that unlike a lot of discs that turn over for you, this one will still come back. A lot of big arms have a hard time finding a turnover disc that is reliable.
If you are looking for something you can put some power on, have it cruise right for you, and then still fade out at the end, the Convict is your choice. For your HeMan style arm, it will just turn back to flat for you at the end of the turn.

Do you have the arm of a normal human being?
The majority of this review is written for you. That’s because I too have a normal human being arm. I could push the Convict out to about 325-350 reliably and its turn and fade were very much like the InBounds flight chart above.
Is your arm made of a mix of Play-Doh and strawberry jam?
For you, the Convict will fly more like the InBounds flight chart for the Felon. If you use a lot of anny to make up for your lower power throw, you will find that the Convict stays turned over for you. Still, expect some big fade left at the end of the flight.
For lower arm speeds, the Convict will probably hold up to most winds. It should be a very reliable and consistent fairway driver in your hands. It’s also a disc that will grow with you and stay in your bag as your arm speed increases.
Similar discs.
The Convict is scarily similar to the Trespass. If you are a Trespass thrower and have been looking for its little brother, the Convict is it. The Convict will turn a tad more and has just a bit more fade, but every time I threw it I was comparing it to my favorite Trespasses in the back of my head.

I would also compare the Convict to the Westside Stag. The Stag fades a tad less, but the rest of the flight and its feel in the hand is very similar to the Convict. The Stag might have a bit more glide too.
For you Innova throwers, the Convict would be closest to an Eagle. The Eagle probably turns just a bit more, but the amount of fade is almost identical. For you Discraft folks, think Tracker. The Convict has more glide than the Tracker and goes further with less effort in my opinion.
In Summary
As you can probably tell, I really liked the Convict. A big part of that is how similar it is to the Trespass. The Trespass has been a staple in my bag for quite a while now. The Convict is just a shorter version.
There are not very many discs that I review that make my bag. The Convict will be the second one (the first is the Dynamic Discs Justice – read my review of that disc here). I’ve never been very happy with my stable fairway driver choices.
I’ve had the overstable slot filled with a Latitude 64 Trident. The understable slot is firmly held by the Latitude 64 Fury and the Latitude 64 Vision. I’ve never really had the perfect disc for that middle stability slot. Now I do!
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Manufacturer’s Description
Here’s what Dynamic Discs has to say about the Convict:
Before someone becomes a Felon they must be convicted. It is the same in the disc golf world. Dynamic Discs introduces the Convict.
It is a great complement to the Felon with the same feel in the hand but with less stability. The Convict is perfect for those times when you need a straight disc for most of the shot but have to have some stability at the end of the flight. The Convict can also hold the anhyzer you give it before coming back to flat. This disc allows for you to shape your shots to avoid all of the obstacles that are trying to increase your scores.
Throw with conviction. Throw a Convict.
Speed: 9 Glide: 4 Turn: -0.5 Fade: 3
Max Weight: 176g
Inbounds Flight guide
Since DD compares the Convict to the Felon, I thought I’d include the Inbounds flight chart for both of them so you can see a comparison:
Make sure and make the Inbounds Flight Guide part of any disc research you do, it’s the best resource for disc flight information on the web!
After throwing the Convict for a month, I’d say the above chart is accurate for medium strength throwers. If you can throw 300-350, that’s pretty much the flight you can expect.
First Impressions
When I first took the Convict out of the mailer I was immediately struck by how good it felt in my hand. The most notable feature is that it is flat. I’m talking pre Columbus Earth flat. I love flat discs. This was a good start.
The rim is also manageable. You’d expect this from a fairway driver. I prefer not to throw the Nuke style giant rimmed discs. Even at 6’6″ with gigantic hands, I can’t get down with most wide rimmed drivers. The Convict felt great with it’s medium width rim.
As usual, Dynamic delivers what is, in my opinion, some of the best feeling plastic in the game. Both their Lucid and their Fuzion plastics feel great with just the right amount of pliability, grip, and overall feel. This particular disc is in Lucid and has a super sweet Am Worlds fundraiser stamp on it.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a few thousand words worth of pics to give you an idea of how the Convict sets up.
How does it fly?
The Convict flew as good as it felt. Sometimes it takes a while to get a disc dialed in. Not so with the Convict. I was able to get desirable flights out of it right off the bat.
Thrown flat.
Thrown flat, it tilted into a minor turn to the left and just rode there for a while. The first time I saw this I thought it wasn’t going to fight back, but once it slowed down, it fought back hard and faded right a good amount.
It’s end of flight fade was very similar to the Felon. It was almost like they took a Felon in the back room, tied it to a chair, and mercilessly beat the high speed over stability out of it.
I never really dug the Felon all that much. It was just too overstable for my taste. I’ve got friends who love that disc, have aced multiple times with the mold, and think I’m crazy for not liking it. All that said, the Convict has none of the characteristics of the Felon I don’t like and all of them that I do.
The most notable of those is the reliability. No matter how much I turned the disc over, it always came back… Hard. Because of this, it is a driver you can count on.

Anhyzer flight.
Throwing it with some anhyzer meant it flew left for a good portion of its flight. It never turned all the way over or got squirrelly. It just held its left turn until it slowed enough for its fade to kick in.
When the fade starts, the disc turns right. Some discs just fight back to flat and then land smoothly. I did not find the Convict to do that. Once the fade began, it fought pretty hard to go right and it wasn’t a gentle turn.
Hyzer flight.
When thrown with hyzer, the Convict just held the hyzer line all the way to the ground. It did fade harder at the end than it did early in its flight. That meant that when throw with some height, it tended to dig in when landing and not skip much. Thrown low, it skipped a couple of times with a nice flair after the first contact with the ground.
Wind Performance
The Convict is OK into a moderate headwind, but I wouldn’t rely on it into any more than that. While it still fights out into a fade at the end of its flight, a stiff headwind tended to make the disc turn a little too much for my taste.
I suppose this is where the Felon comes in. For grins, I threw the Felon into the same winds that turned the Convict over and was pleased to see the Felon held up well. If you are looking for a fairway driver pair that feel almost identical in the hand, but have a noticeable stability difference, look no further than the Convict and the Felon.
In a tailwind, the Convict did not stay turned near as long into its flight. A strong tailwind caused the Convict to head left pretty quickly and turned it into a reliably overstable disc. A tailwind also cut a lot of distance off of the flight.

Distance.
The Convict is a fairway driver. It has the distance you’d expect from a fairway driver. It does not have the unexpected distance that you’ll find with some of the more domey or glidey fairway drivers (like the DD Escape, for example).
The flat profile of the Convict means it’s not going to surprise you by gliding past your target unexpectedly. That’s one of the things I like about flat discs. On the whole, they tend to be more reliable.
The Convict will have noticeably less D than your big distance discs. Part of that is its flat profile. Part is that when it kicks into its fade, it’s not going much further. It turns right relatively hard which takes away almost any forward fade.
How will it fly for you?
Is your arm a bionically grafted canon?
The Convict will turn over for you. What you will like about it is that unlike a lot of discs that turn over for you, this one will still come back. A lot of big arms have a hard time finding a turnover disc that is reliable.
If you are looking for something you can put some power on, have it cruise left for you, and then still fade out at the end, the Convict is your choice. For your HeMan style arm, it will just turn back to flat for you at the end of the turn.

Do you have the arm of a normal human being?
The majority of this review is written for you. That’s because I too have a normal human being arm. I could push the Convict out to about 325-350 reliably and its turn and fade were very much like the InBounds flight chart above.
Is your arm made of a mix of Play-Doh and strawberry jam?
For you, the Convict will fly more like the InBounds flight chart for the Felon. If you use a lot of anny to make up for your lower power throw, you will find that the Convict stays turned over for you. Still, expect some big fade right at the end of the flight.
For lower arm speeds, the Convict will probably hold up to most winds. It should be a very reliable and consistent fairway driver in your hands. It’s also a disc that will grow with you and stay in your bag as your arm speed increases.
Similar discs.
The Convict is scarily similar to the Trespass. If you are a Trespass thrower and have been looking for its little brother, the Convict is it. The Convict will turn a tad more and has just a bit more fade, but every time I threw it I was comparing it to my favorite Trespasses in the back of my head.

I would also compare the Convict to the Westside Stag. The Stag fades a tad less, but the rest of the flight and its feel in the hand is very similar to the Convict. The Stag might have a bit more glide too.
For you Innova throwers, the Convict would be closest to an Eagle. The Eagle probably turns just a bit more, but the amount of fade is almost identical. For you Discraft folks, think Tracker. The Convict has more glide than the Tracker and goes further with less effort in my opinion.
In Summary
As you can probably tell, I really liked the Convict. A big part of that is how similar it is to the Trespass. The Trespass has been a staple in my bag for quite a while now. The Convict is just a shorter version.
There are not very many discs that I review that make my bag. The Convict will be the second one (the first is the Dynamic Discs Justice – read my review of that disc here). I’ve never been very happy with my stable fairway driver choices.
I’ve had the overstable slot filled with a Latitude 64 Trident. The understable slot is firmly held by the Latitude 64 Fury and the Latitude 64 Vision. I’ve never really had the perfect disc for that middle stability slot. Now I do!
Win a Dynamic Discs Convict!
Unfortunately for me, but very fortunately for you, I am giving away my review copy you see in the pictures in this review. How do you win? All you have to do is subscribe to this blog by entering your email below. I’ll pick a winner at random from all subscribers on Wednesday September 30 at noon CST.
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How does it compare to prodigy
Honestly I can’t say. I’ve only every thrown one Prodigy disc and it was a D3. I’d say the Convict is nothing like a D3.
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s closest to an F2, but based on what I’m seeing the F2 has a little more turn and a little more fade. That would make the Convict a straighter overall disc than the F2.
Hope that helps!
Great review Tim! In keeping with my fewer molds in the bag are a good thing mentality, I have a quick question I hope you can answer regarding the Convict. Would you say it flies like a beat in Felon? For reference, I throw rhfh and an Escape turns and burns on me. I love the Felon for an overstable fairway and beat in it is longer with a lot less drastic of a fade. I like the shorter Trespass (for me, best driver ever made) analogy but I don’t really need one of those. I apologize for the long winded comment, but I am trying to avoid the disc fever which more often than not results in “this disc flies just like this other one that I already have”. Thanks!
That’s a tough one because I didn’t throw my Felon enough to break it in.
First, I can totally see a forehand player turning over an Escape. If you’ve got some snap on your throw, you will turn over the Convict too. Based on what I know about how discs wear, here’s what I think you’ll find…
When a disc beats in, it tends to lose it’s low speed fade first. After that, it will start to turn a bit easier. The convict, for me, shows similar end of flight fade to the Felon, but more turn early in its flight. Because of that, I think you’d find the Convict to turn over more than a beat Felon and also fade more at the end. That is just an educated guess, though.
I always prefer the beat in version of a disc to using a distinct mold that is less stable. What I might do if I was you is use a Convict as a temporary solution while you beat a Felon in to where you want it. Once that Felon is beat, take the Convict out and hand on to it in case you lose the beat Felon.
I hope that helps and thanks for reading the blog and leaving a comment!
Thanks for the quick response to my comment Tim! You echo my feelings on a beat in version of the original being preferred to a less stable counterpart… It made me think of a scenario where DD offered a beat in Trespass. That would be like meeting my four year old now instead of at birth. I would be missing all of those times he kept me up at night, or didn’t do what I asked him to do when I asked him.
I like how you look at that! I have many, many memories attached to my favorite beat in Trespass. I looked for it for almost 2 hours this summer before finding it (in a tree at eye level, exactly where I saw it go in the woods). It was purely the memories that made me look that long, not the flight. I have other beat Trespasses that fly that way!
The more I throw Dynamic Discs, Westside, and Latitude 64 the more I fall in love with their products. Like you, I have a Felon but find it too overstable. After reading this, I think I need to try out the Convict. Maybe throwing the Convict will help me control the Felon better..I’ve found that to be the case with some of my other discs. When I get similar flight patterns, controlling the understable discs helps me learn their overstable counterparts.
You bring up a great point Nathan. I have definitely been tempted to give the Felon yet another try. It feels perfect in my hand. My problem is that I am in love with the Trident in that slot in my bag. I would have to go from not liking the Felon to being absolutely in love with it for the Trident to get kicked out of the overstable fairway slot. I just don’t see that happening.
If you thought the Felon was a bit too much, try a Trident. And try it long enough to break one in a bit. Or, get a lighter (169-171) gold line Trident. I can’t say enough good things about that disc!
Thanks for reading the blog and leaving a comment, I love it when people participate and I get to talk with you all!