Trent B
Par Member
I've gotten pretty intimate with the game of disc golf this year. Really caught a bug for it, although I've been playing for about 2 years casually.
When i first picked up a disc this year after not playing all winter everything was pretty rusty. I've improved quite a bit in the past few months by playing 2-4 times a week. Putting is the biggest improvement switching from spin to push. Upshots, still a little inconsistent. Now forehand (RHFH) driving is almost where I can be satisfied with it. One thing about it still gnaws at me. More than half of the time my drives flutter upon release (OAT). It isn't as bad as when I first started this year, it's just a second of small flutter then the disc stabilizes. I can consistently get drives out 250-300' maybe 350' if I get lucky. The flutter is very irritating because I feel like I could be pushing 400' without it.
I use a stacked power grip. The way I've improved recently is moving the pad of my middle finger from the underside of the flight plate into the inside of the rim. This took away the extreme flutter I was getting and made it harder to roll my wrist and burn the disc into the ground.
I've attempted to attach some photos of my grip but I've never added photos on this site so we'll see. One is my old grip, one is my new grip(pad of finger on rim) the difference is subtle but it actually alters the way it sits in my hand too (palm more facing forward instead of up.) And the last photo is the top view of my new grip.
Any advice to eleminate the flutter would be great. Especially from someone who maybe conquered it themselves. I've been thinking of switching to the power grip where the middle finger doesn't change but the pointer finger is bent and scrunched on the rim halfway between middle finger and palm. I think it's the grip mcbeth uses. It just doesn't feel comfortable to do that with my pointer finger, but hey if it will better my chances of getting rid of the flutter for good I'll get used to it. Has this worked for anybody? Thanks for the advice in advance!
When i first picked up a disc this year after not playing all winter everything was pretty rusty. I've improved quite a bit in the past few months by playing 2-4 times a week. Putting is the biggest improvement switching from spin to push. Upshots, still a little inconsistent. Now forehand (RHFH) driving is almost where I can be satisfied with it. One thing about it still gnaws at me. More than half of the time my drives flutter upon release (OAT). It isn't as bad as when I first started this year, it's just a second of small flutter then the disc stabilizes. I can consistently get drives out 250-300' maybe 350' if I get lucky. The flutter is very irritating because I feel like I could be pushing 400' without it.
I use a stacked power grip. The way I've improved recently is moving the pad of my middle finger from the underside of the flight plate into the inside of the rim. This took away the extreme flutter I was getting and made it harder to roll my wrist and burn the disc into the ground.
I've attempted to attach some photos of my grip but I've never added photos on this site so we'll see. One is my old grip, one is my new grip(pad of finger on rim) the difference is subtle but it actually alters the way it sits in my hand too (palm more facing forward instead of up.) And the last photo is the top view of my new grip.
Any advice to eleminate the flutter would be great. Especially from someone who maybe conquered it themselves. I've been thinking of switching to the power grip where the middle finger doesn't change but the pointer finger is bent and scrunched on the rim halfway between middle finger and palm. I think it's the grip mcbeth uses. It just doesn't feel comfortable to do that with my pointer finger, but hey if it will better my chances of getting rid of the flutter for good I'll get used to it. Has this worked for anybody? Thanks for the advice in advance!