Contents
  1. Overview
  2. Flight characteristics
  3. Recommended uses
  4. Plastics & variants
  5. History
  6. Notable throwers
  7. Similar discs

The MVP Tangent is a 4-speed stable midrange. With published flight numbers of 4 / 4 / -0.5 / 0.5, it is most often described as suited for straight midrange placement shots, gentle turnovers that hold their angle.

Overview

The MVP Tangent is a 12 mm-class midrange rated 4/4/-0.5/0.5, which MVP labels “Stable-Understable.”[2] It is one of MVP's overmold GYRO designs, pairing a heavier outer rim with a lighter inner core, and its near-neutral numbers make it a straight-to-slightly-turning placement disc rather than a distance mid. Those flight numbers are reproduced identically by independent sites.[2][6] One caveat worth knowing: an early All Things Disc Golf review re-rated it “at 4, 4, -2, 1” on Innova's scale — a subjective conversion, not a competing manufacturer spec.[4]

Flight characteristics

Flight numbers: manufacturer vs. community
SourceSpeedGlide TurnFade
MVP (mfg) 4 4 -0.5 0.5 Published spec
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Flight numbers describe the published behavior of the disc when thrown at its design speed. Real-world flight varies with plastic, weight, age, and thrower power. The community-averaged numbers above reflect crowd-sourced observations from real throws — typically slightly more understable than the manufacturer's published values, which is the most consistent pattern across nearly every commercial mold.

The Tangent is at its best on straight midrange placement shots and gentle turnovers where you need the disc to hold the angle you gave it rather than fight back.[2][4] Its 0.5 fade means it will not hook out at the end of a wooded line, and the 2.1 cm domey profile gives it more glide than the speed rating suggests. MVP's own “Tangent in the Bag” table lists Tyler Schrock throwing a 175 g Neutron at 200–300 ft — squarely a control disc, not a distance one.[2]

Best for:

  • Straight midrange placement shots
  • Gentle turnovers that hold their angle
  • Short controlled approaches under 250 ft
  • Wooded lines where the disc must not fade out early

Plastics & variants

The Tangent is available in the following plastic blends from MVP:[2]

Neutron, Proton, Plasma, Eclipse

Plastic blend significantly affects flight character. Premium plastics like Champion, Z, or C-Line generally fly more overstable when fresh and hold their stability over time. Base plastics like DX, Pro, or Active beat in faster and become more understable workhorses with use.

History

The PDGA approved the Tangent on February 22, 2013 under certification number 13-15.[1] It reached retail on Friday, March 8, 2013, initially in Neutron plastic only; Proton and Eclipse Proton runs followed at the end of April 2013.[4][5] The Tangent is now out of production. MVP retired it in its August 29, 2019 announcement “MVP's Plan for 2020 and the Future of our Lineup,” which listed it among fifteen discontinued molds under the 12 mm midrange class — MVP explained that the roughly decade-old core mold behind most of its midranges was incompatible with newly installed in-house molding equipment.[3] MVP's product page for the disc remains live as an archive. Note that MVP publishes a single 170–178 g range for the mold rather than per-plastic weight ranges; retailer weight brackets outside that range are stocking categories, not MVP specifications.[2]

Notable throwers

Tyler Schrock

Similar discs

References & further reading

Sources

Content on this page has been cross-checked against the following sources. Numbered citations in the prose above link to the matching entry here.

  1. Tangent from MVP Disc Sports — PDGA Equipment Certification (approved 2013-02-22, cert 13-15)
  2. Tangent — MVP Disc Sports official product page
  3. MVP's Plan for 2020 and the Future of our Lineup (2019-08-29) — MVP Disc Sports
  4. MVP Disc Sports Tangent Review — All Things Disc Golf
  5. Product Review: MVP Tangent (2013-03-06) — Rattling Chains
  6. MVP Tangent — Disc Golf Dojo

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