Recent content by UhhNegative

Oh and I finally figured out the "turn the key" idea and whenever I focus on that I get much more nose down flights, to the point where I probably need to start bagging some more stable discs. I don't have long courses around me, so I pretty much only throw Mantis, CD2, PD, and firebird for...

Hi everyone, this time of year I always seem to get more into disc golf. Took some videos recently of a few throws. I know I'm still doing bad stuff with my rear leg, but I think its better than it used to be. I feel like I turn back far enough, but the video shows that my hips aren't turning...

That throw looked a lot more confident, relaxed, and balanced than what I remember. Nice!

The forearm/disc moving towards the chest is the lag (caused by bending of the elbow). The upper arm doesn't do much lagging at all, it stays mostly at the same angle relative to the shoulders.

Even crazier are guys who throw like this: Josh Anthon

One thing you are doing right: keeping the off-arm nice and tight to the body during the throw. There's ways to do it even better but its not hurting you how you are doing it now. On your x-step you are a little too far leaned back past the rear foot. You want to be a little more upright and...

That's exactly what you want to do. Fake right (brace the weight) and let the rest of the swing come through afterwards.

One thing that will help is letting your front shoulder turn back further before planting. You are starting to pull with your arm before the front leg plants and that is contributing to the rounding. The weight shift in the lower body isn't too bad really, I think you need to stagger the stance...

When I first started throwing a long time ago, it hurt my shoulder so bad. I was using all arm/shoulder muscle to try to throw the disc and could barely throw it 200'. I wouldn't consider myself particularly athletic (to my dismay), I was always much better at speed and power type athletic...

It's not literally a 100% dead arm. You have to do some guiding. The muscles you use to raise and lower your arm aren't really used in "hitting".

Yeah I think that's the confusion. A diagonal stance with a targetward shift is how I think of it now. The diagonal stance gives your hips unrestricted space to turn back, or at least that's how it feels for me when I'm doing it better.

Well, I think SW22 is very slightly shifting back in this gif here. You can see his front knee bending as he turns back and his front toes lift a little bit and at that point he's got weight on the rear side. Then he pushes back onto front side the knee/leg stiffens and extends as he swings. So...

I'll just comment on the timing since the direction of the weight shift is still somewhat of a mystery to me. You've got it right, the apex of the reachback for most of the top pros is usually like split second before the front heel plants. The rear foot doesn't always necessarily leave the...

Yeah I think that looks better in terms of the weight shifting timing and posture. But it's too diagonal of a shift and not enough towards the target. But actually, this is something I still don't really understand really so I'd be interested to hear what SW22 says about it. How I understand...

It's going to feel like the swing is super late to you when you are first adjusting, like you feel like you should be swinging earlier, but you just have to trust it.