It's probably the easiest way to introduce yourself to snap. What you're trying to do is get the feel for manipulating the weight of the opposite edge of the disc. You'll know what I mean when you feel it. When I got that feel my focus changed from what was happening at my index finger to what the weight of the disc felt like at the hit. It's both an incredibly subtle difference and incredibly important concept.
I tried it a bit last night and the first two were a bit odd with the fake grip. The sidearm grip and the real grip though seemed to be helpful. I'm still not sure I'm doing it right, though. I'll keep at it
What I have been working on though is what I'm calling the slow hit, or at least thats what I think it is. When I was out this weekend watching the pros I was trying to pay attention the their upshots because thats a part of my game that needs work. What I saw them doing was basically a truncated reachback with follow through and basically roll the disc out of the hand with a ton of spin on it and it would just go. I'm not sure I really explained that right but if you see them throw, or any better player, you know what I mean. Anyway I've been doing that and my upshots were instantly better. More distance, more distance control, more accuracy everything.
Last night I was thinking while practicing putts in the yard, but what they are really doing is just a slow motion throw and a slow hit at the end. When I do it slow I can really spin the back of the disc around and really feel what's going on. I even got a little too aggressive with it and hit my fence a couple times and threw one into neighbors yard once. It doesn't take much at all to get the disc to go. This may all sound totally obvious to all of you and now me even writing it it kinda does, but seeing that and doing that may have helped a lot.
So I'm thinking maybe it could be beneficial to go out the the field and practice slow, really concentrate on the hit at the end. So just work with putters say 20 feet or so, then some longer upshots. Slow steady and really get the spin at the end from swapping the ends of the disc not really worrying about anything else. Once your getting that, slowly add speed. Once that is good, throw 5 or 10 a little faster, then faster, then faster etc until you get up to a full speed throw, by that time you should really be feeling the hit and the disc should be going. I really think it could work. To the point I'm almost thinking about starting a new thread about it.
Does anybody do this? Seems like it should be such a simple concept but I've never seen any instruction that suggested this....unless I've got it all wrong...
