How do you get 500+ throws??????

[superium]

^I agree, when I got my first boss and threw that for a few weeks it made everything else seems so much easier to throw.

 

[craftsman]

I know you can throw further than me but your suggestion seems like the kind of a$$ backwards advice that contributed to everything I'm correcting now.
Though I find it nessecary to expand your distance, everyone says form is the key, not doing whatever it takes to get high speed drivers out there.

 

[SearchingForDistance]

I know you can throw further than me but your suggestion seems like the kind of a$$ backwards advice that contributed to everything I'm correcting now.
Though I find it nessecary to expand your distance, everyone says form is the key, not doing whatever it takes to get high speed drivers out there.

//A SMOOTH FORM IS THE KEY BUT YOU CAN GET IT FASTER THEN YOU THINK//
throwing more overstable discs makes you use a more smooth form which would help when your are throwing longer distances with more understable discs.

In the beginning I only used power to get my discs going but now when i am starting to get a more smooth form i can get the same distances with less effort.

I started going for distance last year and this is my second year competing in this sport and I have managed to get a very smooth form during that time which is capable to give me the extra length of 200 feet to my original throws.

I can throw 450 ft as maximum at all time whenever i want but I think in 2 years from now if i continue to practice like I do I will be able to throw over 600ft.

 

[gkeberhart]

what personally improved my distance was driving a lot with mid-ranges, i worked on being able to utilize them on holes in the 300ft range, as i continued to get better at that i started working with some of my slower drivers and learning their flight path for the most distance. in about 6 months i went from 350 tops to about 450 when i throw my boss. i can put my Wraith, Destroyer and Assasin all at about 400 when I need that distance

 

[SearchingForDistance]

My longest throws are still around 500 ft but those throws are rare.But soon i will probably throw even longer.

 

[sillybizz]

How to get 500+ throws, buy 500+ discs.

 

[gkeberhart]

How to get 500+ throws, buy 500+ discs.

thanks, I now have nostrils that are burned by the hot coffee that came through them and a really sticky keyboard

 

[sillybizz]

I'll be here all week folks, tip your waitresses.

 

[Scoot_er]

My longest throws are still around 500 ft but those throws are rare.But soon i will probably throw even longer.

Not if you stick with your current thinking.........maybe if you throw a putter for a while you will be able to get your drivers over 500ft but throwing overstable won't help any.

 

[craftsman]

Do the discs spin the same in Sweden?
I think searchinfor was blessed with form so oat was never a factor. I on the other hand applied his theory and it failed due to me using whatever it took to make em go kinda straight.

 

[SearchingForDistance]

Not if you stick with your current thinking.........maybe if you throw a putter for a while you will be able to get your drivers over 500ft but throwing overstable won't help any.

My current thinking made me gain 300 ft in 3 years so i think i will stick to my training.Not that I only threw overstable but I started from the beginning the year of 2004 to only throw putters and then i got my first driver which where a Champion Orc 175g in the year of 2007.So then I only had a driver that was overstable for me but I threw it alot and trained hard with my quite overstable disc.The year of 2008 I saw the light and i knew what I wanted and that year I played like never before and I started to compete for my first time and then I had the chance to learn from others and them from me while we where competing.

Throwing putters would not help me to throw so much longer because when I started to play I only threw with a putter for 3 years before i got my hands on a driver.
I can throw my DX Birdie out to 300 ft and my Q-mega out to 350ft constantly.
My next step is to get my form more fluid so I can give the discs more speed.

 

[Scoot_er]

My current thinking made me gain 300 ft in 3 years so i think i will stick to my training.Not that I only threw overstable but I started from the beginning the year of 2004 to only throw putters and then i got my first driver which where a Champion Orc 175g in the year of 2007.So then I only had a driver that was overstable for me but I threw it alot and trained hard with my quite overstable disc.The year of 2008 I saw the light and i knew what I wanted and that year I played like never before and I started to compete for my first time and then I had the chance to learn from others and them from me while we where competing.

Throwing putters would not help me to throw so much longer because when I started to play I only threw with a putter for 3 years before i got my hands on a driver.
I can throw my DX Birdie out to 300 ft and my Q-mega out to 350ft constantly.
My next step is to get my form more fluid so I can give the discs more speed.

Whatever..................I gained 500ft since my 1st round!!! Its true I only threw like 50ft my 1st round.

All I am saying is that I am still throwing farther than you and I am not nearly the biggest thrower around and just throwing overstable plastic will not smooth out your form like a putter would once you learn to manipulate nose angles and spin.

Just because you are throwing farther now it doesn't mean you have been going about it the right way and anyway turning over a stable disc for distance brings more consistent results but less D potential than a hyzerflip with a slightly understable disc.

You sound like someone that has everything figured out............Go get a Z Xtreme and learn to throw it straight and by your thinking you will throw 1000ft easy. Now if you go out and throw a lot of putters you will learn to apply more spin to a disc and putters force you to eliminate OAT and any other form of unclean release.

 

[NothinButChing]

I get a wilcat n valk to go over 300

 

[Scoot_er]

I get a wilcat n valk to go over 300

And he's only been playing like 8 months! I bet that is 200ft farther than when he started..........and by that reasoning he is progressing so fast we need to do what he does. lol

I started when I was 11 so the 50ft thing needs an * but I love the Swede's reasoning on how he is right since he throws farther than 3 years ago.

 

[Lewis]

I don't throw over 400ft like several of you are claiming, but I wish y'all would be more gentle with each other. I figure it's the practice more than the disc itself that makes you improve your form. But then again I never had much OAT to contend with either. I just think I don't put enough spin on the disc to generate much over 400' of driving distance.

In other words, there's a lot more to developing distance than developing a clean release.

 

[Scoot_er]

I don't throw over 400ft like several of you are claiming, but I wish y'all would be more gentle with each other. I figure it's the practice more than the disc itself that makes you improve your form. But then again I never had much OAT to contend with either. I just think I don't put enough spin on the disc to generate much over 400' of driving distance.

In other words, there's a lot more to developing distance than developing a clean release.

ummmm yea but stepping up in stabilities will do nothing more than make your form intolerant to making a disc fly how it is supposed to. If you go out and start using a Champ Firebird until you can throw it like a Leopard that doesn't mean us learned something it actually means you broke something.

Granted most big throwers use overstable plastic but he is going about it the wrong way and most of the guys I know would agree. Only guy at USDGC distance who kinda had this approach was Bratten but that was only because a few years back the only disc he could throw without flipping was a Predator and he used Tsunamis for max D. Even he knows he can get more D with Surge but just doesn't use them in the rounds too often.

All the other guys throw somewhat flippy discs (I consider Destroyers in this) and before that threw Wraiths but they didn't get the big D but becoming a Torque Monkey with a Firebird................


OK NOW THAT I THINK OF IT............Devan Owens became a Big thrower by being a Torque Monkey like you by turning Spirits over which are more overstable than any Inoova of Discraft Disc.

 

[Lewis]

OK NOW THAT I THINK OF IT............Devan Owens became a Big thrower by being a Torque Monkey like you by turning Spirits over which are more overstable than any Inoova of Discraft Disc.

Wait was the "torque monkey" comment aimed at me or the guy that started the thread? I'm not trying to endorse one method over another. I'm just arguing that when you diagnose someone's problems and prescribe a solution before you've seen how they actually throw, your advice might not be helpful. One-size-fits-all teaching leaves a lot of students behind.

 

[cc0049]

Now if you go out and throw a lot of putters you will learn to apply more spin to a disc and putters force you to eliminate OAT and any other form of unclean release.

That makes sense to me, and it's good to hear that from you.

 

[Scoot_er]

Wait was the "torque monkey" comment aimed at me or the guy that started the thread? I'm not trying to endorse one method over another. I'm just arguing that when you diagnose someone's problems and prescribe a solution before you've seen how they actually throw, your advice might not be helpful. One-size-fits-all teaching leaves a lot of students behind.

It was referring to the Swede who is throwing overstable stuff to "train". I used to flip over Firebirds for a few months when I was 13 but that wasn't because I was doing something right it was actually because I was a Torque Monkey and it wasn't until I started using mids and putters for driving that I learned how to throw drivers better.

Trying to be a Gorilla doesn't help you gain Distance which is why there are plenty of Teenagers who can throw over 450ft.

 

[sidewinder22]

Torque Monkey! Awesome...new vocab word.