JR
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Sorry about the rush job on this but the article needed to be edited anyway right?
Wrist max bend back position> The wrist starts to open incidentally after the elbow is retarding when getting near straight. This is the time you wanna resist the straightening of the wrist to hand shaking position. That plays with loading the tendons plyometrically. Once the wrist can't fight at all against the incidental opening caused by body positions and prior body motions you want to add to the wrist opening speed actively. Then you retard the wrist again when you wanna hit. So it's resist, add to actively and resist the wrist extension. The final resisting of the wrist opening launches the disc pivot. When you need to give your full effort to pinch on to the disc. Before this you want to keep the grip very very mild almost dropping the disc light. There should be no tensioning up of the muscles compared to not having a disc in your hand arm hanging limp.The first resisting times the onset of the wrist opening late enough to make the wrist snap occur as fast as possible giving the greatest speed and spin addition to the disc. Active opening needs to be super fast and short only a few inches of wrist movement. The wrist should be down from hand shaking position at the latest during the hit. When it should start getting down depends on the muscle strength, limberness and ability of the thrower to keep the muscles loose for added arm speed. The later you can push the wrist down consistently keeping the muscles loose the more powerful the wrist down motion is. That is needed for countering the tendency of the wrist muscles to raise the wrist during opening. The wrist is easier to keep down anywhere else than wrist straight. I've tried to use grippers with a wrist neutral and wrist down at hand shaking position and wrist down is horrible! You need hugely more power there and the muscles tension up noticeably more. Ideally you'd want to avoid that by opening the wrist right of hand shaking position and pushing the wrist down only after the wrist is past the hand shaking position. The timing is tricky indeed and that may be impossible to learn for most so don't pop a vessel if that's too difficult to achieve. Solution number true is brute force muscle training.
Wrist max bend back position> The wrist starts to open incidentally after the elbow is retarding when getting near straight. This is the time you wanna resist the straightening of the wrist to hand shaking position. That plays with loading the tendons plyometrically. Once the wrist can't fight at all against the incidental opening caused by body positions and prior body motions you want to add to the wrist opening speed actively. Then you retard the wrist again when you wanna hit. So it's resist, add to actively and resist the wrist extension. The final resisting of the wrist opening launches the disc pivot. When you need to give your full effort to pinch on to the disc. Before this you want to keep the grip very very mild almost dropping the disc light. There should be no tensioning up of the muscles compared to not having a disc in your hand arm hanging limp.The first resisting times the onset of the wrist opening late enough to make the wrist snap occur as fast as possible giving the greatest speed and spin addition to the disc. Active opening needs to be super fast and short only a few inches of wrist movement. The wrist should be down from hand shaking position at the latest during the hit. When it should start getting down depends on the muscle strength, limberness and ability of the thrower to keep the muscles loose for added arm speed. The later you can push the wrist down consistently keeping the muscles loose the more powerful the wrist down motion is. That is needed for countering the tendency of the wrist muscles to raise the wrist during opening. The wrist is easier to keep down anywhere else than wrist straight. I've tried to use grippers with a wrist neutral and wrist down at hand shaking position and wrist down is horrible! You need hugely more power there and the muscles tension up noticeably more. Ideally you'd want to avoid that by opening the wrist right of hand shaking position and pushing the wrist down only after the wrist is past the hand shaking position. The timing is tricky indeed and that may be impossible to learn for most so don't pop a vessel if that's too difficult to achieve. Solution number true is brute force muscle training.
