On my golf site, we have a "My Swings" forum where people will post video of their swings, get feedback, and keep posting in a single thread there in order to see progress over time (and not have 15 threads with the same person's motion, typically with the same flaws over and over again, etc.).
So I'm starting one here, and I'll just keep posting in this thread as I go along. Please help, and I'll keep trying to take the advice I get and apply it and posting new videos.
Below is video of me throwing indoors at our golf academy. It's 120 FPS. I can go 240 FPS which we'll commonly do for golf swings, but unless I hear otherwise I'll assume 120 is good for throwing discs.
This video shows my grip and then a series of throws from face-on and down the line as well. I'm trying to release them all pretty flat or perhaps slightly wing down. TRYING being an operative word!
I'm VERY new to disc golf but as a golf professional I'm VERY interested in proper form and developing my technique early without having a bunch of flaws. I'm easily in the upper 25% of golfers for distance, so I'd at least like to be average when it comes to disc golf distance. I'm 34, have strong legs and square shoulders but a comparatively weak upper body . No major injuries except dislocating my right shoulder when I was 21 (it still feels a little funny, not much but barely, if I throw a baseball or football overhand).
My pinkies bend in towards each other (it's more common than you might think). The bones are missing the "lip" on the inner edge so they've always bent in like this. My X-Rays were in the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after I was born. Anyway, that affects my grip a little as sometimes the pinkie will want to "tuck" under the ring finger.
I work through a few stages in this video, from a drill that I'm trying to feel to a no-step through to an x-step throw. Here it is:
I've numbered the throws in the left-hand side of my library there so if you see something in one of the throws please feel free to point it out by number.
I've not been playing that long but I typically play a shot that will turn right first and then fade at the end. I'm sure I probably have OAT like crazy and probably every other newbie mistake.
Distance right now is 250-275' or so with something like a Champ Teebird. That's not great, but it's not terrible and I think I can learn to throw farther consistently.
So please let me know what you'd work on first. I'm just looking for the top couple of priority items - not a laundry list of things to work on. I'd like to take it one step at a time - clean up the top priority or top two priority things, then move on to the next step after checking in to see how it looks. Working on one thing will often cause changes in something else, not to mention simply be "too much" all at once.
Please also tell me if I'm doing anything well at all, so I can keep making sure I do those things, if they exist.
P.S. We've also had tremendous success with students working indoors, because they work on building the correct motion rather than trying to make the ball (disc) fly where they want it to go. I believe the same will hold true for me as I learn to improve my DG throwing motion. If I get the correct motion down, my throws will be better.
So I'm starting one here, and I'll just keep posting in this thread as I go along. Please help, and I'll keep trying to take the advice I get and apply it and posting new videos.
Below is video of me throwing indoors at our golf academy. It's 120 FPS. I can go 240 FPS which we'll commonly do for golf swings, but unless I hear otherwise I'll assume 120 is good for throwing discs.
This video shows my grip and then a series of throws from face-on and down the line as well. I'm trying to release them all pretty flat or perhaps slightly wing down. TRYING being an operative word!
I'm VERY new to disc golf but as a golf professional I'm VERY interested in proper form and developing my technique early without having a bunch of flaws. I'm easily in the upper 25% of golfers for distance, so I'd at least like to be average when it comes to disc golf distance. I'm 34, have strong legs and square shoulders but a comparatively weak upper body . No major injuries except dislocating my right shoulder when I was 21 (it still feels a little funny, not much but barely, if I throw a baseball or football overhand).
My pinkies bend in towards each other (it's more common than you might think). The bones are missing the "lip" on the inner edge so they've always bent in like this. My X-Rays were in the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after I was born. Anyway, that affects my grip a little as sometimes the pinkie will want to "tuck" under the ring finger.
I work through a few stages in this video, from a drill that I'm trying to feel to a no-step through to an x-step throw. Here it is:
I've numbered the throws in the left-hand side of my library there so if you see something in one of the throws please feel free to point it out by number.
I've not been playing that long but I typically play a shot that will turn right first and then fade at the end. I'm sure I probably have OAT like crazy and probably every other newbie mistake.
Distance right now is 250-275' or so with something like a Champ Teebird. That's not great, but it's not terrible and I think I can learn to throw farther consistently.
So please let me know what you'd work on first. I'm just looking for the top couple of priority items - not a laundry list of things to work on. I'd like to take it one step at a time - clean up the top priority or top two priority things, then move on to the next step after checking in to see how it looks. Working on one thing will often cause changes in something else, not to mention simply be "too much" all at once.
Please also tell me if I'm doing anything well at all, so I can keep making sure I do those things, if they exist.
P.S. We've also had tremendous success with students working indoors, because they work on building the correct motion rather than trying to make the ball (disc) fly where they want it to go. I believe the same will hold true for me as I learn to improve my DG throwing motion. If I get the correct motion down, my throws will be better.