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I am hoping this will fix many of the issues people are having with their form. I am going to go as far as to claim that many of the drills here do not work unless you get some mass in to your swing.
HUB and SW22 have demonstrated many times how easy it is to feel the brace and swing effortlessly when using a heavy object like a brick or a hammer. Now the problem comes when you pick up a light disc and try to do the same thing.
You keep your arm loose as normal and swing the disc back and forth, try to pendelum the swing like a hammer but since there is not enough weight, your body has no need to brace the swing.
If the swing itself does not make your body brace the shot, you cannot do this artificially, no matter how many drills you do. Without a proper brace, you are not going to throw effortlessly.
You can try to do Bradleys swing arcs, one leg drills, bottle drills etc. but I am pretty certain (open for discussion) they will not yield results, unless you are able to do a proper dingle arm.
What is a proper dingle arm?
Sidewinders dingle arm video is a pretty good place to start, but there is a huge difference in swinging your loose arm with your lats and just keeping your arm muscles loose.
If you dingle arm using your lats, suddenly your arm feels like a big ol' baseball bat and you absolutely have to brace it. Your body _will_ move out of the way (clear the hips).
So basically you are swinging the whole mass of your arm and you can accelerate it and it is just like swinging a baseball bat, except your arm is the bat.
Then there is the case of weak dingle arm, where you flap your arms around with loose muscles and that is exactly what is sounds like, flapping.
If you are flapping, your arms will feel very light but you are unable to generate any force or brace the shot.
If you are doing it the right way, the arm feels very relaxed but heavy and your whole body reacts to the swing.
Quick demonstration doing the one leg drill.
You can clearly see that there is no "mass" when I am just flapping my arms around and when I swing "the bat" I can barely stay balanced because there is so much force and mass flying around.
Here in their prethrows Simon & Co swinging the bat.
If you just flap your arm, it will never get to that behind position where Simons right arm finishes, but since he is swinging it with his lats, it´s very heavy and just flops behind him as the momentum dissipates
Here you can actually see McBeths lats firing as he throws, arm is there just for the ride.
https://youtu.be/RkPwHUVInes?t=14
How to do it:
Sidewinders door frame drills actually stretch your lats nicely and when you let go of the door frame that´s essentially you swinging your arm with your lats.
You can place your left hand on to your side and feel the muscle activating as you slowly swing your arm around, when doing it wrong you are most likely feeling your shoulder poking your ear.
Toss a hammer.
Please discuss.
I am hoping this will fix many of the issues people are having with their form. I am going to go as far as to claim that many of the drills here do not work unless you get some mass in to your swing.
HUB and SW22 have demonstrated many times how easy it is to feel the brace and swing effortlessly when using a heavy object like a brick or a hammer. Now the problem comes when you pick up a light disc and try to do the same thing.
You keep your arm loose as normal and swing the disc back and forth, try to pendelum the swing like a hammer but since there is not enough weight, your body has no need to brace the swing.
If the swing itself does not make your body brace the shot, you cannot do this artificially, no matter how many drills you do. Without a proper brace, you are not going to throw effortlessly.
You can try to do Bradleys swing arcs, one leg drills, bottle drills etc. but I am pretty certain (open for discussion) they will not yield results, unless you are able to do a proper dingle arm.
What is a proper dingle arm?
Sidewinders dingle arm video is a pretty good place to start, but there is a huge difference in swinging your loose arm with your lats and just keeping your arm muscles loose.
If you dingle arm using your lats, suddenly your arm feels like a big ol' baseball bat and you absolutely have to brace it. Your body _will_ move out of the way (clear the hips).
So basically you are swinging the whole mass of your arm and you can accelerate it and it is just like swinging a baseball bat, except your arm is the bat.
Then there is the case of weak dingle arm, where you flap your arms around with loose muscles and that is exactly what is sounds like, flapping.
If you are flapping, your arms will feel very light but you are unable to generate any force or brace the shot.
If you are doing it the right way, the arm feels very relaxed but heavy and your whole body reacts to the swing.
Quick demonstration doing the one leg drill.
You can clearly see that there is no "mass" when I am just flapping my arms around and when I swing "the bat" I can barely stay balanced because there is so much force and mass flying around.
Here in their prethrows Simon & Co swinging the bat.
If you just flap your arm, it will never get to that behind position where Simons right arm finishes, but since he is swinging it with his lats, it´s very heavy and just flops behind him as the momentum dissipates
Here you can actually see McBeths lats firing as he throws, arm is there just for the ride.
https://youtu.be/RkPwHUVInes?t=14
How to do it:
Sidewinders door frame drills actually stretch your lats nicely and when you let go of the door frame that´s essentially you swinging your arm with your lats.
You can place your left hand on to your side and feel the muscle activating as you slowly swing your arm around, when doing it wrong you are most likely feeling your shoulder poking your ear.
Toss a hammer.
Please discuss.
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