slowplastic
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I'm glad people have got a lot out of this, I'm happy to help and wish something like this was around before.
Again though, these are the steps that I went through and not the only order of learning. I had the mentality that "snap" was everything and tried to get that late hold and grip on the disc at the hit, as per DGR instructions. Then SW22 on here is all about ground up and athletic positions. It turns out that the snap gets you 350' pretty reliably (I found), but it's no magic. And it can be inconsistent if it's all you're thinking about. But the more that my body positions are less terrible, the easier it is to have consistency because everything just goes through the proper positions every time, compared to having to get the arm/elbow in the same place during the throw somehow. The way SW22 looks at it teaches how to get to the ideal form by the end, but it was hard for me to think about initially because more things were wacky in my throw than I understood. And I still have things that are wacky or else I'd be throwing 475, and I don't know what they are! But, it's better than before so I'm happy.
Again though, these are the steps that I went through and not the only order of learning. I had the mentality that "snap" was everything and tried to get that late hold and grip on the disc at the hit, as per DGR instructions. Then SW22 on here is all about ground up and athletic positions. It turns out that the snap gets you 350' pretty reliably (I found), but it's no magic. And it can be inconsistent if it's all you're thinking about. But the more that my body positions are less terrible, the easier it is to have consistency because everything just goes through the proper positions every time, compared to having to get the arm/elbow in the same place during the throw somehow. The way SW22 looks at it teaches how to get to the ideal form by the end, but it was hard for me to think about initially because more things were wacky in my throw than I understood. And I still have things that are wacky or else I'd be throwing 475, and I don't know what they are! But, it's better than before so I'm happy.