Anyone care to compare this with Tiger's "hip snap" technique?
If baseball hitters don't pivot on/from their back leg/foot when they are hitting, then what would you call it?
Pushing off. It's more clear in a throw.
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If baseball hitters don't pivot on/from their back leg/foot when they are hitting, then what would you call it?
Anyone care to compare this with Tiger's "hip snap" technique?
Jamie Diaz said:A specific move in Woods' golf swing wasn't doing him any good, either. Just past impact with longer clubs, Woods regularly snapped his left knee into hyperextension. Woods considered the move a key source of distance, and as a small-boned person of 6-feet-2--who still has a 29½-inch waist and weighs 178 pounds--it was an important one as he competed against bigger men like Singh, Els and Mickelson. In his book How I Play Golf, Woods writes that he would exaggerate the move "when I need an extra 20 yards."
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/jaime_diaz_truthabouttiger_gd0501
Who is "we"?
I think this might just be a waste of time...
When I actively 'throw with the left side' and push my left shoulder through - I don't even really feel what my right arm is doing. At the same time, my distance doesn't suffer at all and my accuracy is better.
Pushing off. It's more clear in a throw.
I grew up playing baseball all the way up to high school. I had good success in hitting the ball with power while thinking about the traditional "squash the bug." It was never detrimental to my hitting. That's why I asked about the correlation between the back leg in baseball and the throw in disc golf.
, I tried to get more consistent throws with this new thumb placement, and it worked
Thank you!
Hey I'm a big fan of this nugget, can you elaborate on the thumb placement a la McBeth further from the rim?
At that moment I remembered, that I once noticed a kind of disc tilting when watching slow-motion drives by Simon Lizotte, and also some other players. At that time I was still wondering why they do that. In my idea of a perfect throw, the disc is on one level, from the last point of reaching back to the release of the disc. That seemed logical to me. I also mean to have heard something similar in a clinic of Feldberg on youtube. Now I think, that seems to be right for approaches or throws that are not done with full power, but not necessarily for max distance drives. When reaching back he tilts the disc with the front up. By front I mean the part of the disc he's holding in his hand. I don't know if this is just an in-between step for me, until my overall timing with this gets better. But by tilting the disc, I can pass my left shoulder with the disc even when the left shoulder accelerates fast and get a much bigger acceleration on the disc itself. I also notice that I can get the disc closer to my chest and I think this way I can generate a more effective power-pocket.
Here are pictures of Austin Turner who is already reaching back with this kind of disc angle. I chose Austin for this pic because that's the kind of way I'm experimenting with it right now.
I am really thankful for this thread. It may not be the right hint for everyone, but it was some kind of breakthrough for me. Surely this is only the beginning and my throws with this kind of technique adjustment are a bit too inconsistent at the moment, but I think with proper training this will take my game to another level.
Thank you!
Try it. You can swing your left side around your fixed right side faster than you can get your right side out of the way. And with a great deal more power and ease. Try it!!!
Yeah, that would work, you would want your rear foot to be angled like 120-135 degrees pointed away from target for that rather than 90.I'm curious how this translates... Squashing the bug (crushing can) with front foot. Would the rear foot cone drill work for disc golf?
Only thing missing is that the body/trail side has to stop rotating to fully release/extend the arm/disc like the Olympic hammer thrower or tennis player.So I have been itching to get out and throw with this technique, and coupled with Sidewinder's one armed hammer throw video, I think the logic here is that this release style is kind of like how a hurricane or spiral galaxy is formed, and also much like how a trebuchet releases... a lot of angular acceleration driven by the lower moment of inertia core (and trailing arm brought in) to accelerate (as the OP put it "faster than you can get the lead side out of the way) which then unwinds the lead arm and the disc comes out much like the end of a bullwhip. (I'm guessing that's what all the "whip" posts were referencing? Sorry, I'm still learning a lot of these technical terms used here)
Meanwhile, some (sounds like they are wrong by conventional wisdom now) ideas tried to teach people to pull linearly to induce torque on the disc (like a piston driving a crankshaft). But that would then ignore the tangential speed that could be added if the whole body were rotating. Makes me think of the Leveraxe, the axe which turns translational motion into rotational motion upon impact to split the log as it strikes. .
Anyway, am I missing anything here? Because everything about this idea from the OP seems to make a whole lot of sense.