lostDoughnut
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If you posted in this website, thank you
If you posted form reviews, thank you
seabass, thank you
blake_t , thank you
hub, thank you
(and im sure there are many others too)
This was myself at the beginning of the year. This was The throw that got me addicted, the turn in flight, so cool to watch. But that form tho, lol.
https://imgur.com/LjiZnk1
This is my farthest standstill. (460, valkery , decline hill throws help give you a boost, tailwind, grip lock, rounded. note how the wind picked it up on the release, i totally got lucky on that throw)
https://imgur.com/1qSmk6u
300 avg when throwing 20 putters , standstill (still need form improvements)
https://imgur.com/h83h6im
How did i get to where i am? Tons of videos, tons of research, understanding that I make mistakes and need to learn from that , watching other form review posts as I have similar issues that others do. completely doing standstills, im still doing standstills and havnt incorporated an xstep. i tried at the beginning to incorporate an xstep but i was learning too slow.
I also didnt measure any of my throws. I only started to measure my distance about a month ago. To me what told me if i was doing something wrong was by throwing putters. the flight of the putter would tell me what was going on. Then when the disc flew wrong i looked at my form. this took tons of practice and tons of videos to then see what i was doing wrong. There was a catch, yes the disc could be thrown on a good flight and my form was still off. I kept that in mind the entire time to make sure i was open to things i might be missing
How did i tell what was wrong. I couldnt review more than one movement at a time. otherwise its simply too much to look at. Some days i would focus on my plant foot, one day my trail leg, one day my off hand, one day the height in which i reach out (or my backswing height).
https://imgur.com/Uat6AX9
Ive been using a video editor to review my form. normally i have two windows opened. one is VLC the other is windows media player. I have two open so i can compare a good throw to a bad throw. however getting them to sync up is difficult. i tried tons of different video editors (all free ones) and finally stumbled apon one that i was able to figure out with help of youtube videos. VSDC is a free editor that i like, i am on pc too.
I was then able to go frame by frame with the videos synced up to see the small movements that i needed to fine tune.
https://imgur.com/w1qioil
I do have tons of video of my progression. im learning how to video edit and i might try and post them on youtube.
At this point you might be wondering what the secret sauce is? for me the first video that started it all was the bedo drill video. That taught me to or led me to just practice one thing. Start at a standstill and slowly add a little bit more. Issue with the bedo drill video for me was when you are really trying to fine tune some movements some descriptions of that movement is simply not there. That led me to this thread
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/dgr/...&t=16139&sid=a65ecc6af14b034b26f4ea6d54e8470d
The next thing was knowing that some videos can be wrong. Its not that they are wrong on purpose but information gets better over time so we learn a more updated movement. Also for one type of movement i would watch like 5 videos of that one movement. I would never just watch one video. If i watched 5 videos i would see a pattern amongst the 5 videos. If i just watch one video that one video might be missing one small detail that another video brings up. That one small detail might be what i was missing.
The hard part about researching data is what to search for. When i googled i always had dgcoursereview in the texbox and usually a thread would pop up. Some of my searches would be
'disc golf swim move disc golf review'
'wrist pronating going into hit disc golf disc golf review'
'disc golf keeping wrist below elbow disc golf review'
'understanding weight shift disc golf review'
'trailing leg disc golf review'
Information that helped me research was knowing what part of my body was I focusing on that day. At the very least i could google individual body parts and then add 'dgcoursereview' at the end and tons of threads would pop up. Eventually one of the threads would have some pertaining information and then they would have better definitions of what I needed to improve apon. Then I would take the words from that thread, type them into google and my researching would get more focused, more accurate.
For example. when you google right leg disc golf review this pops up
https://www.google.com/search?q=rig...i160j33i299.2400j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
from all those links go through them individual and eventually a bunch of things should strike your interest if you are trying to figure out what to do with your plant leg. Take some phrases from the links and start another google search.
My research to practice ratio is something like. I would research for like 4 hours and then practice for 1 hour. That ratio gets lower some days then others it goes up because you learn how your body moves. You will need to relearn some movements.
by now i kinda forgot what this post was about :wall:. basically this sport is awesome and i really want to spread what i found out to others and be able to pass on the enjoyment of seeing a disc fly
If you posted form reviews, thank you
seabass, thank you
blake_t , thank you
hub, thank you
(and im sure there are many others too)
This was myself at the beginning of the year. This was The throw that got me addicted, the turn in flight, so cool to watch. But that form tho, lol.
https://imgur.com/LjiZnk1
This is my farthest standstill. (460, valkery , decline hill throws help give you a boost, tailwind, grip lock, rounded. note how the wind picked it up on the release, i totally got lucky on that throw)
https://imgur.com/1qSmk6u
300 avg when throwing 20 putters , standstill (still need form improvements)
https://imgur.com/h83h6im
How did i get to where i am? Tons of videos, tons of research, understanding that I make mistakes and need to learn from that , watching other form review posts as I have similar issues that others do. completely doing standstills, im still doing standstills and havnt incorporated an xstep. i tried at the beginning to incorporate an xstep but i was learning too slow.
I also didnt measure any of my throws. I only started to measure my distance about a month ago. To me what told me if i was doing something wrong was by throwing putters. the flight of the putter would tell me what was going on. Then when the disc flew wrong i looked at my form. this took tons of practice and tons of videos to then see what i was doing wrong. There was a catch, yes the disc could be thrown on a good flight and my form was still off. I kept that in mind the entire time to make sure i was open to things i might be missing
How did i tell what was wrong. I couldnt review more than one movement at a time. otherwise its simply too much to look at. Some days i would focus on my plant foot, one day my trail leg, one day my off hand, one day the height in which i reach out (or my backswing height).
https://imgur.com/Uat6AX9
Ive been using a video editor to review my form. normally i have two windows opened. one is VLC the other is windows media player. I have two open so i can compare a good throw to a bad throw. however getting them to sync up is difficult. i tried tons of different video editors (all free ones) and finally stumbled apon one that i was able to figure out with help of youtube videos. VSDC is a free editor that i like, i am on pc too.
I was then able to go frame by frame with the videos synced up to see the small movements that i needed to fine tune.
https://imgur.com/w1qioil
I do have tons of video of my progression. im learning how to video edit and i might try and post them on youtube.
At this point you might be wondering what the secret sauce is? for me the first video that started it all was the bedo drill video. That taught me to or led me to just practice one thing. Start at a standstill and slowly add a little bit more. Issue with the bedo drill video for me was when you are really trying to fine tune some movements some descriptions of that movement is simply not there. That led me to this thread
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/dgr/...&t=16139&sid=a65ecc6af14b034b26f4ea6d54e8470d
The next thing was knowing that some videos can be wrong. Its not that they are wrong on purpose but information gets better over time so we learn a more updated movement. Also for one type of movement i would watch like 5 videos of that one movement. I would never just watch one video. If i watched 5 videos i would see a pattern amongst the 5 videos. If i just watch one video that one video might be missing one small detail that another video brings up. That one small detail might be what i was missing.
The hard part about researching data is what to search for. When i googled i always had dgcoursereview in the texbox and usually a thread would pop up. Some of my searches would be
'disc golf swim move disc golf review'
'wrist pronating going into hit disc golf disc golf review'
'disc golf keeping wrist below elbow disc golf review'
'understanding weight shift disc golf review'
'trailing leg disc golf review'
Information that helped me research was knowing what part of my body was I focusing on that day. At the very least i could google individual body parts and then add 'dgcoursereview' at the end and tons of threads would pop up. Eventually one of the threads would have some pertaining information and then they would have better definitions of what I needed to improve apon. Then I would take the words from that thread, type them into google and my researching would get more focused, more accurate.
For example. when you google right leg disc golf review this pops up
https://www.google.com/search?q=rig...i160j33i299.2400j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
from all those links go through them individual and eventually a bunch of things should strike your interest if you are trying to figure out what to do with your plant leg. Take some phrases from the links and start another google search.
My research to practice ratio is something like. I would research for like 4 hours and then practice for 1 hour. That ratio gets lower some days then others it goes up because you learn how your body moves. You will need to relearn some movements.
by now i kinda forgot what this post was about :wall:. basically this sport is awesome and i really want to spread what i found out to others and be able to pass on the enjoyment of seeing a disc fly
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