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Net throwing has its place.
When you're focusing on honing in and muscle memorizing form changes it's better.
But I think one of the challenges for people is discipline while using it.
They see they have a form problem, make the change, throw into the net 20 or 30 times, check it and see they were making the change then stop.
Next day they go out onto the course and... they are confused as to why it didn't stick.
Well, its because you did it 20 or 30 times and stopped. That's not enough time to drive the autopilot memory.
Net practice allows you to focus purely on form and take the worries out of finding discs, looking for discs, the flight of the disc any of those things.
Net practice works good with field practice as well.
Take that net throw after 100 or so throws of feeling confident in it, go in a field and see what is going on. Is it good? Bad? Make your adjustments and hit the net again focusing down those adjustments. Put the reps in, make it your standard. And when it comes to the course, the discipline is so hard. We forget what were doing.
This is also why I'm not a huge fan of "field work only" to practice throws, and if you're going to practice "field work" like stuff, you should do it on the course by yourself, throw 2 or 3 drives per hole, build a bag that complements this ability with multiples. That way were taking practice time and building it into course play. Because field work doesn't translate to course play, just like net work doesn't also necessarily transfer to course play.
This is why you see practice rounds with pro players, they are cutting the camera, but they are putting 2 or 3 times every time.
But it's all discipline and its hard.
I've had a harder time with disc golf than any previous sport for some reason. My putt from 6 years ago will randomly pop into my putting style, and I've been using my current putting style for 4 years now and put in 1000's of more strokes with my current putting style. But for some reason that old one I started with years ago likes to appear and my putting goes sooo bad.
And when it comes to form stuff, this applies too. Yesterday started out my first drive with just outstanding form. Second drive. really happy with my form. 3rd drive, good form, started muscling. and it just progressively got worse till I spent 5 or 6 holes trying to focus the basics back into play.
Took 14 holes for my putt to even come out correctly like I like to putt.
The amount of work you have to do in disc golf to stay good is outright insane. If you dont put in the time daily, its SO hard to maintain any level of competency in disc golf.
You gotta putt daily. 10 mins at least. Focus in on the form.
You can do the same easily with a net on throwing too. Spending time focusing in your form for 10-15 minutes too. Hit another putting session for 10 mins when you're done.
I, unfortunately, am lazy and dont do this. So I suck at playing. I can do amazing things, but.. overall consistency of golf is atrocious.
When you're focusing on honing in and muscle memorizing form changes it's better.
But I think one of the challenges for people is discipline while using it.
They see they have a form problem, make the change, throw into the net 20 or 30 times, check it and see they were making the change then stop.
Next day they go out onto the course and... they are confused as to why it didn't stick.
Well, its because you did it 20 or 30 times and stopped. That's not enough time to drive the autopilot memory.
Net practice allows you to focus purely on form and take the worries out of finding discs, looking for discs, the flight of the disc any of those things.
Net practice works good with field practice as well.
Take that net throw after 100 or so throws of feeling confident in it, go in a field and see what is going on. Is it good? Bad? Make your adjustments and hit the net again focusing down those adjustments. Put the reps in, make it your standard. And when it comes to the course, the discipline is so hard. We forget what were doing.
This is also why I'm not a huge fan of "field work only" to practice throws, and if you're going to practice "field work" like stuff, you should do it on the course by yourself, throw 2 or 3 drives per hole, build a bag that complements this ability with multiples. That way were taking practice time and building it into course play. Because field work doesn't translate to course play, just like net work doesn't also necessarily transfer to course play.
This is why you see practice rounds with pro players, they are cutting the camera, but they are putting 2 or 3 times every time.
But it's all discipline and its hard.
I've had a harder time with disc golf than any previous sport for some reason. My putt from 6 years ago will randomly pop into my putting style, and I've been using my current putting style for 4 years now and put in 1000's of more strokes with my current putting style. But for some reason that old one I started with years ago likes to appear and my putting goes sooo bad.
And when it comes to form stuff, this applies too. Yesterday started out my first drive with just outstanding form. Second drive. really happy with my form. 3rd drive, good form, started muscling. and it just progressively got worse till I spent 5 or 6 holes trying to focus the basics back into play.
Took 14 holes for my putt to even come out correctly like I like to putt.
The amount of work you have to do in disc golf to stay good is outright insane. If you dont put in the time daily, its SO hard to maintain any level of competency in disc golf.
You gotta putt daily. 10 mins at least. Focus in on the form.
You can do the same easily with a net on throwing too. Spending time focusing in your form for 10-15 minutes too. Hit another putting session for 10 mins when you're done.
I, unfortunately, am lazy and dont do this. So I suck at playing. I can do amazing things, but.. overall consistency of golf is atrocious.