Form critique please

[Seahawk]

Hello,

Used to play occasionally but have gotten back into it. I've been working for a year trying to become an acceptable player and still haven't made it lol!

I've kind of plateaued. I've decided to stop just going to the course and hoping I get better and instead I'm going to work on my form all summer.

Current situation:
Pretty typical, I max at about 300. Can't throw drivers/fairways very well, I barely get more distance out of them, maybe like 25 more feet. They have strong fade even when understable.

I mostly throw midranges off the tee. I can throw putters/midranges 250-280 pretty consistently.

I would have to say that I feel like my arm strength/speed is ok but that I feel like I almost kind of 'push' the disc down the fairway. I can tell there is some kind of 'sling' and 'snap' that I am missing.

In fact, when I round more on purpose I feel like I get way more power. Feels like I sling it more..
But obviously accuracy goes to hell when I do that.

Video of me:
https://streamable.com/ql20zp

 

[lucasgg]

Lead your wrist with your elbow for as long as you can. Your wrist is too far below your elbow causing you to chicken wing and pivot off your elbow instead of your shoulder/elbow as an aligned joint pair.

https://youtu.be/Mv8TijwSIJ0
https://youtu.be/nED7gcXobEo

Go easy on the Beto drill. Good for learning the elbow first mechanics but easy to introduce injury or bad habit when overused.

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[Seahawk]

Hey thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean about wrist being too far below elbow, to me it seems like they are even to me (attached a photo)? Is it supposed to be above the elbow?

Also looks like an interesting drill to isolate that one part of the movement, I'll give it a try.


Thanks again

 

[lucasgg]

Hey thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean about wrist being too far below elbow, to me it seems like they are even to me (attached a photo)? Is it supposed to be above the elbow?



Also looks like an interesting drill to isolate that one part of the movement, I'll give it a try.





Thanks again



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Sorry wasn't clear, meant the elbow/wrist is too far below the shoulder, bring the elbow/wrist unit closer vertically to the shoulder

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[Seahawk]

Gotcha that makes more sense. I was always curious about that and didn't know whether I was too high or too low. I will try that drill and getting my elbow/wrist up higher and report back.

 

[sidewinder22]

You are planting quite open and your left arm is dragging behind your back, and right elbow is pulling into your body instead of being pulled taut out away from body.

Need to lead more with your elbow out/forward to swing the disc in/out more of center chest, chest more forward tilted over top disc/ground(your chest is leaning back to sky more), and grip the opposite side of the disc from your chest(9 o'clock on disc, 12 is target line/nose). Your grip ends up more closer to the 12 or nose of the disc when at your center, so you are losing a lot of leverage there.
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3440757&postcount=4
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118948