Recent content by maJsty14

Just a quick update - I've mostly been in the basement and backyard with the practice basket working on putting and approaching, but I have gone out a couple of times in the last two weeks to do some field work. My primary foci have been: - Keeping the upper arm at an obtuse angle from my chest...

Wow - this is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time! One point: - I should have chosen my words more carefully before, I wasn't trying to actively spin the disc per se, but create a pinch point upon which the disc would rotate on its way out of my hand. Essentially, what HeavyDisc explains...

Well, I reckon that explains some of today's throws! :D The moral of this story is that I'm overthinking too many things at once and should just get back to my form work.

Okay, so it's been a week . . . This whole grip issue has got me so flummoxed I can't hardly stand it. Here's where I'm at: - I can find no comfortable grip for throwing putters (tried Roaches in four plastics and a JK Aviar) or now even mids (tried Comets, Cobras, and Rocs). Or, better yet, I...

How much dome is on the Big Z Roach and is it still available?

I'll try that out. Actually, I was planning on it today (after re-watching the Discraft video) when I went out in the field, but it was 37 degrees and 20mph wind, so after fifteen minutes of messing with the Climo grip I bailed. Putters, mids, fairways, and even distance drivers felt pretty good...

One more observation - there's a degree of finger flexibility and strength at play here. I'm a fiddler by trade, and my left index finger is much stronger and more flexible than my right - as in, it can completely close in on itself when I curl it, and my left hand grip strength is miles above...

I don't know if you're referencing the Roach, the Cheetah, or both, but in both pictures I've got the disc in the crease of my hand, ala Climo and Mike C.. By the time my palm wraps around the more blunt nose of the Roach, there's really very little room for my fingers to do much of anything. To...

So will the pendulum shoulder deal with the early release? As it turns out, I had several griplocked/right shank throws today. I just tried a shoulder down reach back in the mirror and it looks more in line with what I've seen of the pros, so that's encouraging. Grip pics...

Managed to squeeze in a very enjoyable hour-and-a-half of field work today, including the longest throw of my short disc golf career! My thoughts: - I made a conscious effort to have my back foot in position and "crush the can" onto it, but my balance was still shifting way far back and I was...

I see that in your one leg throws now - your back foot is already down with the heel up, you just "crush the can" to load it. I think I was both taking the concept of being on one foot from the one leg drill too far and bringing an old bad habit along with me. Once again stoked for field work...

Another form video - as it turns out I couldn't get a throw I felt happy with while the camera was rolling. I'd start overthinking everything and both dig less into my back thigh on the reach back and get more nose up releases. At other points in my field work today I had my longest throws yet...

Brief update: First round after this week's "ah ha" moment (and subsequent field work). Shot 10 under my PB for the course (Lincoln Ridge / Banklick in Northern Kentucky) and was only about 30' behind my cardmates' drives on the wide-open holes. My consistency on the drive wasn't dialed in at...

Wow. I read your post and, being out of the house with no discs, hopped up with a towel and implemented point number one: don't rotate the hips, drive them forward. BOOM! Not a woosh (my standard), not a weak snap (my rare achievement), but a boom. The sensation was as an uncoiling torsion...

Well, I think there's been some improvement, though not enough consistent growth that I feel ready to post more footage. I spend ten to twenty minutes every morning on the drills, and have put in five 1+ hour field sessions. Also, two full rounds. Some observations: - The one foot drill made...