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Regarding "compressed like a spring", are you referring to the brace leg being like a linear spring, or the body being like a torsional spring, or both? Regarding "move leg to leg in balance", should I always feel like I'm in control of my body's momentum, or should the final 3 steps feel like...

I have traditionally felt very much like I've been reaching out in front with my front foot and then following it with my body, so your comment about the front foot "leading" makes sense. I think that, in an attempt to be in control of my body positioning, I've been subconsciously slowing down...

I have questions about brace *timing* 1) Should the brace be doing its maximum level of work at the very start of the forward swing, or should the maximum feeling of force in the brace leg instead sync up with some later point in the swing? 2) When does it feel like the brace is...

What are your thoughts on the interactions that I described between the lead femur and the hips? To summarize: Once the brace is established, the primary contributor to rotational energy in the throw is the horizontal force that the lead femur applies on the lead hip socket, acting in a...

So the goal isn't to "hop" per se, but when the plant leg pump is done correctly, do you feel weightless, or in other words as if there is very little pressure between your plant foot and the ground, when the plant foot pivots forward directly after you release the disc?

Oops, looks like Brychanus ninja'd me

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along and answer, but I'll give a preliminary response since this line of thought is something that I've struggled with with various body parts. I think that "is it active or is it relaxed" is a false dichotomy. There is a taut/tense/springy kind...

I might see some very subtle evidences of the pogo effect that you're talking about in those GG videos that you shared. Hard for me to picture the muscle activations at play there though. Do you think that the exaggerated hop off of the front leg in the throw at 14 minutes and 12 seconds in...

There's the axiom in athletic training that, due to how ingrained and deceptive our improper muscle memories can be, over-correcting a technique and then dialing back the over-correction is often easier than trying to slowly correct the technique. In that vein, for players (like myself) whose...

Also, question about the base of the kinetic chain: When the plant foot starts to spin, is that a sign that the body has finished using ground-reaction forces to add energy to the shot? To elaborate on the source of my question: I think that the spinning out of the front foot might be the...

1) Would you say that the power of your shot roughly correlates with the speed at which your hips come through? 2) What do the hips (maybe specifically the hip sockets/the joints with the femurs) feel like during the plant and throw? Do they feel soft and loose, with the hips easily turning...

That is a pretty impressive credential! I'll have to look for more of his videos

When would you say that the pressure board should shift forward? Clay Ballard (in that ball golf video) says that the pressure board should tilt forward when backswing is not quite completed. Are you saying that that translates pretty directly to disc golf?

I don't know anything about this Michael Strauss guy, but the pressure board strikes me as a very informative and elegant training tool. Should pretty clearly reveal problems with weight shift timing. Does anyone know if this Strauss guy knows his stuff? Can he throw 450ft+, or is he one of...

I won't claim to be an expert by any stretch. I've been trying to break the 400ft barrier for years. However, I've recently shifted my conception of the brace leg and the weight transfer/hips, and I feel like it may go somewhere. I've felt that way about other "breakthroughs" before which...