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Shifting your weight past your front foot.
could be your reach-back is going from waist high to shoulder high, not straight through on a line. More pressure on the top of the flight plate with your thumb also can help if you are loosey goosey with it.
adjust your thumb location. One cause of nose up shots is putting your thumb near the outer edge of the disc. If you move it closer towards the middle it will make you throw a flat or turnover shot instead of the nose up hyzer. Experiment with this until you are comfortable.
adjust your thumb location. One cause of nose up shots is putting your thumb near the outer edge of the disc. If you move it closer towards the middle it will make you throw a flat or turnover shot instead of the nose up hyzer. Experiment with this until you are comfortable.
I appreciate all the quick replies. My thumb placement when throwing a driver is right where the rim ends (about an inch or so in). To close to the outer edge?
adjust your thumb location. One cause of nose up shots is putting your thumb near the outer edge of the disc. If you move it closer towards the middle it will make you throw a flat or turnover shot instead of the nose up hyzer. Experiment with this until you are comfortable.
Ya, I'm pretty sure chrishysell has it backwards. Moving your thumb towards the middle of the flate plate is how you do an air bounce. Which is basically a super nose up throw. Plus, whenever I keep my thumb on the rim, I rarely have nose up problems.
Every player starts out throwing nose up into the sky for some reason.
The drill I have people do is pick a spot 40' in front of them on the ground and hit it with a full throw. Really, throw your disc at the earth. Once you can do that consistently, aim for a spot 60' out. Hit that with consistency. Then move to 80', and so on until you are throwing level shots by default.
It has much more to do with your arm throwing plane than it does a thumb or anything in your grip.
for realz? I demonstrate this to new players often. I remember KC and a few other pro's demonstrating this in 93 when I started playing to prevent nose up hyzers. It works perfectly for me. I am right handed.
Ya, I'm pretty sure chrishysell has it backwards. Moving your thumb towards the middle of the flate plate is how you do an air bounce. Which is basically a super nose up throw. Plus, whenever I keep my thumb on the rim, I rarely have nose up problems.
Not trying to start an argument, and chrishysell does have way more experience than me. However, for me, thumb on rim = nose down, and thumb on flight plate = nose up.