The deceleration of a large fia disc from 20krpm to 0 during an impact is mind boggling. Something wull break, preferably the opponent :-)

Its spin up times that are the important thing with feathers now. Feather anenas arnt pearticularly big, and it takes a very short time for your opponenet to be on you. Im tempted to try and design something to kick start the disc up to about 1krpm in a second or so. Any thoughts on such a design? I machined some suitable clutches today at work for a client, and they got me thinking about some kind of air or spring powered device to give the disc an initial power burst right on the activate, and then disengage and let the motor do the rest. Am I being silly? Thoughts?

Eddy :-)